Utter twaddle that lets you predictably and boringly rant about fruits and nuts. What part of the *city (and country)* of San Francisco do you not understand? California has very different politics from San Francisco. It's unique. Even there, I suspect this is a trial balloon that's going to get shot right down. People in San Francisco like their pets and they vote.
I'm not sure how the Google stuff works. The SecurID tag is simple a clock wired up to a random number generator. It has a seed that is secret that is shared with the Authentication server (ACE server). As long as the clocks are sync'd then the token/tag will show the same number as generated on the server. Each SecurID token has that seed and also a serial number. Based on some stuff I heard recently through the grapevine, I'd guess that somebody has figured out how to map from the SecurID serial number to the key seed. If the system is properly designed this isn't any such mapping but fatal shortcomings in cryptographic software are nothing new. If you have SecurID in your enterprise then you probably want to grab your salesguy by the throat and tell him they need to fix this *now* at RSA's expense. This may well be the worst IT security breach of the 21st century so far.
What sort of revisionist BS are you spouting? Political attacks are *exactly* the core of the 1st amendment. American's having been slinging dirt deserved and otherwise since the days of Thomas Jefferson who was on the receiving end of quite a bit of it.
The relevant bit of text from the constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." From Wikipedia: Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government. Note the words *no law*? Copyright and ownership do not apply.
That's a great questions. I've seen a fair number of comments lately and a few topics that seem completely overrun by loud overbearing folks whose beliefs make me wonder if they're professional astroturfers.
The definition of republic from Wikipedia is:
A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.[1][2] The term is generally also understood to describe a government where most decisions are made with reference to established laws, rather than the discretion of a head of state, and therefore monarchy is today generally considered to be incompatible with being a republic.
I think that people who say this are interested in changing from universal suffrage to "some significant portion of them". The same sort of people who spout this sort of stuff will often be heard to say that things were better when only those who owned land could vote. That is the presupposition hidden in this meme--disenfranchisement. Since we're quickly moving to a society where the minorities are a majority and where only the bankers and a few rich (white) people own land, this is simply advocating a new form of apartheid through the back door.
For those of you who find liberal or Democrat a dirty word, be aware that college students can guess party affiliation from a head shot 80% of the time. That means that liberal and conservative reflect basic personality traits, and it takes all kinds.
Could we simply start with preventing paranoid schizophrenics getting guns? I know that these folks aren't supposed to get guns already but we seem to do an absolutely lousy job of it as recently witnessed in Az to our collective sorrow and horror.
So in effect because some outside black box not-IT QA organizations (i.e. DoT and NTHSA) can't reproduce the fault you're going to believe them over the people reporting the bug? Instead you're jumping to the conclusion that it's all a conspiracy theory instead of incompetent QA? Silly wabbit. You've obviously never worked in software development, QA or tech support. If you had you'd know that sufficently complicated software systems almost always have real world failure modes that can't be reproduced in the lab--sometimes for years.
I wonder if there's a crack in the EULA that would allow Sony to be prosecuted for unauthorized access to a computer system? It certainly doesn't seem likely to me that anyone who had installed cracks would knowingly authorize Sony to access their system.
I think God might be sending us a low bandwidth message via P=NP and P=!NP papers. The message can theoretically be extracted by assigning 1 to P=NP and 0 to P=!NP then arranging the bits in the chronological order of the papers (or maybe that should it be 0 to P=NP and 1 P=!NP).
The problem is that you can't find "papers" and tech reports which have disappeared down the memory hole and lots of the nutjobs won't have put dates on their offerings. http://www.archive.org/ to the rescue!
Not only are you not a lawyer you don't know much about contracts or publishing rights either. Publishing rights are sold on a country by country basis and format by format basis. If you sell a book to be marketed in the US your publisher has no right to sell it in the UK or Australia unless they negotiate that separately. Same goes for audio books. So those advances are paid for the rights that were negotiated in the contract.
Given that's the case then why would you think a pre-digital paper publishers have the right to publish digitally unless they've negotiated it or you work for a publisher who's interested in spreading FUD? The older contracts don't include those rights. Unless a contract is written specifically to allow future changes then things don't get grandfathered into a contract. They have to be renegotiated.
Did you copy and pasted your boiler plate industry talking points here? The simplest possible search shows that they did indeed have patents in Soviet Russia. Yes, copyrights and patents were established for the common good and they've long since been hijacked in the interests of long term monopoly via regulatory capture. Patents and copyrights were an elegant 18th century solution to a social problem has morphed into the modern day *cause* for a problem with effects similar to those copyright and patent were created to address way back when. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have copyright and patent. I think we just need government by and for people instead of (rich) corporations.
You mean fairy tales like the public letter signed by the presidents of every US scientific organization with any connection to climate research in the nation warning that human induced climate change is a very great danger to the human race just this past October? Or do you mean the fairy tail that 2 studies that were called into question in the last six months have changed the judgement of those same scientists.
The human race, at least the US part of it seems to be in a headlong race to win the Darwin award. I just hope I'm dead before it really starts to crash hard and there's mass starvation and general warfare. I don't expect we'll avoid those either. I figure if there are 100 Million human beings by the end of the 21st century we'll be doing pretty well given the direction things are headed.
Mad cow disease or creutzfeldt jakob disease and kuru or laughing sickiness are prion diseases. Both are caused by eating infected nervous tissue or brains. Apparently prion disease is caused by eating misfolded prions. These misfolded prions apparently get into your nervous systems cause the normal prions in your nervous system to misfold as well.
And how many of those individuals involved in the contract get to pariticipate in the decision of who and when to support how much? Not the stockholders. Certainly not anyone below C level that's for sure.
Now that's the right way to run a participatory democratic republic--turn it over to the CEOs. Control of the government largely by and for corporate (and union) managers.
I was a Vantive user and was involved in rolling out their support application in a tech support shop way back in the day prior to the web really getting rolling. Their original client server technology stored the presentation layer and validation bits of the application in the database and then the client would interpret that downloaded code. It meant that just like AJAX you very rarely had to update your client and the UI was generally snappy. That was in 95 and I think it had been around for a number of years even then. Vantive was bought by Peoplesoft and then swallowed by Oracle, I'm quite surprised that MS wasn't able to get the patent invalidated but maybe they didn't know about Vantive.
Bloom filters like perfect hash functions are fun so I understand your desire to use them. I think I didn't reinvent this architecture. I seem to remember reading a discussion like this one where some google folks sketched out something very like this query's happens in parallel. The bloom filter is in essence a concordance or book index. Instead of a page number you end up with a CPU number. An almost necessary refinement is to insert every word you find on the disk into the filter except words like the since those sorts of words show up in every email or document. Really parallelising things is hard. If it matters for performance you almost always have to do it by developing a parallel algorithm specific to the problem from the beginning instead of relying on the hardware, OS or compiler to do the dirty work for you.
But because they can used to partition the filter accross machines in effect it can be used as index. Each machine that stores a portion of the filter gets all the queries that might apply to it and sends any results up to a machine that dispatches what you might call pre-queries on the bloom filters to the machines where the data and traditional indexes are stored.
If the search vendor implements delete--google doesn't really, and this is the reason why--then you simply recompute the bloom filters when they become sufficiently out of date. That can be determined tracking how many times you get a false positive.
Index lookups are slow for large data sets not because it takes that long to return an individual result but because there are so many queries. Bloom filters allow you to reduce the number of traditional index lookups and to dispatch the ones that have to be computed only to the machines where the data is available.
Bloom filters give constant time probablistic answers to set membership questions in a very space efficient manner. Moreover set union and intersection for the filters can be computed by simple AND and OR operations--also in constant time. The downside is that delete is hard. That union and intersection property means that it's easy to distribute query's over an arbitrary number of machines. Sounds kind of perfect to me for implementing a distributed index for searching, no?
Oh you mean the rolling blackouts that were caused by the crooks at ENRON and their unindicted co-conspirators at the other major power generators up and down the coast in order to jack up rates? The ones who've had not one problem providing California with power regardless of the weather since they've gotten long term contracts at extortionate prices for power since then. The same ones that Gov Shwarzenegger promised to go after during his first campaign and then quietly settle the lawsuits with after his first election.
You either don't live in California, or you've been sleeping. Let's not talk ideology, let's talk history and science. Much more productive and useful unless you happen to run a power company with generators in California or own stock in one.
Good God. All this me, my, mine stuff.
If I'm looking at StreetView, then I'm probably going to be driving down your street soon. I have a camera in my car at all times and I use it when I see something interesting, illegal or embarassing. That's legal. It's a public street. And the image isn't going to be stale either. So what's the difference?
Pretty much everybody already has the right to look at your house, your garden and your face as long as you display them in public. With StreetView you don't have to cope with all of us showing up on your street to exercise that right. That really wouldn't scale if it were a problem, but it's not. Just like the entire world isn't driving down your street to take a look.
If you don't want to be seen by the public then put up a wall or fence and remember that the StreetView public *is* the same public that drives by your house.
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Utter twaddle that lets you predictably and boringly rant about fruits and nuts. What part of the *city (and country)* of San Francisco do you not understand? California has very different politics from San Francisco. It's unique. Even there, I suspect this is a trial balloon that's going to get shot right down. People in San Francisco like their pets and they vote.
I'm not sure how the Google stuff works. The SecurID tag is simple a clock wired up to a random number generator. It has a seed that is secret that is shared with the Authentication server (ACE server). As long as the clocks are sync'd then the token/tag will show the same number as generated on the server. Each SecurID token has that seed and also a serial number. Based on some stuff I heard recently through the grapevine, I'd guess that somebody has figured out how to map from the SecurID serial number to the key seed. If the system is properly designed this isn't any such mapping but fatal shortcomings in cryptographic software are nothing new. If you have SecurID in your enterprise then you probably want to grab your salesguy by the throat and tell him they need to fix this *now* at RSA's expense. This may well be the worst IT security breach of the 21st century so far.
I don't remember seeing any real spam on Slashdot in forever. This ought to be down modded into oblivion
What sort of revisionist BS are you spouting? Political attacks are *exactly* the core of the 1st amendment. American's having been slinging dirt deserved and otherwise since the days of Thomas Jefferson who was on the receiving end of quite a bit of it. The relevant bit of text from the constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." From Wikipedia: Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), the Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government. Note the words *no law*? Copyright and ownership do not apply.
That's a great questions. I've seen a fair number of comments lately and a few topics that seem completely overrun by loud overbearing folks whose beliefs make me wonder if they're professional astroturfers.
The definition of republic from Wikipedia is: A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.[1][2] The term is generally also understood to describe a government where most decisions are made with reference to established laws, rather than the discretion of a head of state, and therefore monarchy is today generally considered to be incompatible with being a republic. I think that people who say this are interested in changing from universal suffrage to "some significant portion of them". The same sort of people who spout this sort of stuff will often be heard to say that things were better when only those who owned land could vote. That is the presupposition hidden in this meme--disenfranchisement. Since we're quickly moving to a society where the minorities are a majority and where only the bankers and a few rich (white) people own land, this is simply advocating a new form of apartheid through the back door. For those of you who find liberal or Democrat a dirty word, be aware that college students can guess party affiliation from a head shot 80% of the time. That means that liberal and conservative reflect basic personality traits, and it takes all kinds.
Could we simply start with preventing paranoid schizophrenics getting guns? I know that these folks aren't supposed to get guns already but we seem to do an absolutely lousy job of it as recently witnessed in Az to our collective sorrow and horror.
What a load of BS in the summary. http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a3.html
So in effect because some outside black box not-IT QA organizations (i.e. DoT and NTHSA) can't reproduce the fault you're going to believe them over the people reporting the bug? Instead you're jumping to the conclusion that it's all a conspiracy theory instead of incompetent QA? Silly wabbit. You've obviously never worked in software development, QA or tech support. If you had you'd know that sufficently complicated software systems almost always have real world failure modes that can't be reproduced in the lab--sometimes for years.
I wonder if there's a crack in the EULA that would allow Sony to be prosecuted for unauthorized access to a computer system? It certainly doesn't seem likely to me that anyone who had installed cracks would knowingly authorize Sony to access their system.
I think God might be sending us a low bandwidth message via P=NP and P=!NP papers. The message can theoretically be extracted by assigning 1 to P=NP and 0 to P=!NP then arranging the bits in the chronological order of the papers (or maybe that should it be 0 to P=NP and 1 P=!NP). The problem is that you can't find "papers" and tech reports which have disappeared down the memory hole and lots of the nutjobs won't have put dates on their offerings. http://www.archive.org/ to the rescue!
Can you say "Agency Capture"? That and PR which is also on full display here are the American political diseases.
Sheesh. I know that the modern slashdot man is ahisotorical but this is the 2nd time in a week that this PR shite is being shoveled.
Not only are you not a lawyer you don't know much about contracts or publishing rights either. Publishing rights are sold on a country by country basis and format by format basis. If you sell a book to be marketed in the US your publisher has no right to sell it in the UK or Australia unless they negotiate that separately. Same goes for audio books. So those advances are paid for the rights that were negotiated in the contract. Given that's the case then why would you think a pre-digital paper publishers have the right to publish digitally unless they've negotiated it or you work for a publisher who's interested in spreading FUD? The older contracts don't include those rights. Unless a contract is written specifically to allow future changes then things don't get grandfathered into a contract. They have to be renegotiated.
Did you copy and pasted your boiler plate industry talking points here? The simplest possible search shows that they did indeed have patents in Soviet Russia. Yes, copyrights and patents were established for the common good and they've long since been hijacked in the interests of long term monopoly via regulatory capture. Patents and copyrights were an elegant 18th century solution to a social problem has morphed into the modern day *cause* for a problem with effects similar to those copyright and patent were created to address way back when. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have copyright and patent. I think we just need government by and for people instead of (rich) corporations.
You mean fairy tales like the public letter signed by the presidents of every US scientific organization with any connection to climate research in the nation warning that human induced climate change is a very great danger to the human race just this past October? Or do you mean the fairy tail that 2 studies that were called into question in the last six months have changed the judgement of those same scientists. The human race, at least the US part of it seems to be in a headlong race to win the Darwin award. I just hope I'm dead before it really starts to crash hard and there's mass starvation and general warfare. I don't expect we'll avoid those either. I figure if there are 100 Million human beings by the end of the 21st century we'll be doing pretty well given the direction things are headed.
So just how many of those HP workers on strike have any connection to this project? Do you know? Or are you just another foul mouth knee-jerk flamer?
Mad cow disease or creutzfeldt jakob disease and kuru or laughing sickiness are prion diseases. Both are caused by eating infected nervous tissue or brains. Apparently prion disease is caused by eating misfolded prions. These misfolded prions apparently get into your nervous systems cause the normal prions in your nervous system to misfold as well.
And how many of those individuals involved in the contract get to pariticipate in the decision of who and when to support how much? Not the stockholders. Certainly not anyone below C level that's for sure. Now that's the right way to run a participatory democratic republic--turn it over to the CEOs. Control of the government largely by and for corporate (and union) managers.
I was a Vantive user and was involved in rolling out their support application in a tech support shop way back in the day prior to the web really getting rolling. Their original client server technology stored the presentation layer and validation bits of the application in the database and then the client would interpret that downloaded code. It meant that just like AJAX you very rarely had to update your client and the UI was generally snappy. That was in 95 and I think it had been around for a number of years even then. Vantive was bought by Peoplesoft and then swallowed by Oracle, I'm quite surprised that MS wasn't able to get the patent invalidated but maybe they didn't know about Vantive.
Bloom filters like perfect hash functions are fun so I understand your desire to use them. I think I didn't reinvent this architecture. I seem to remember reading a discussion like this one where some google folks sketched out something very like this query's happens in parallel. The bloom filter is in essence a concordance or book index. Instead of a page number you end up with a CPU number. An almost necessary refinement is to insert every word you find on the disk into the filter except words like the since those sorts of words show up in every email or document. Really parallelising things is hard. If it matters for performance you almost always have to do it by developing a parallel algorithm specific to the problem from the beginning instead of relying on the hardware, OS or compiler to do the dirty work for you.
But because they can used to partition the filter accross machines in effect it can be used as index. Each machine that stores a portion of the filter gets all the queries that might apply to it and sends any results up to a machine that dispatches what you might call pre-queries on the bloom filters to the machines where the data and traditional indexes are stored. If the search vendor implements delete--google doesn't really, and this is the reason why--then you simply recompute the bloom filters when they become sufficiently out of date. That can be determined tracking how many times you get a false positive. Index lookups are slow for large data sets not because it takes that long to return an individual result but because there are so many queries. Bloom filters allow you to reduce the number of traditional index lookups and to dispatch the ones that have to be computed only to the machines where the data is available.
Bloom filters give constant time probablistic answers to set membership questions in a very space efficient manner. Moreover set union and intersection for the filters can be computed by simple AND and OR operations--also in constant time. The downside is that delete is hard. That union and intersection property means that it's easy to distribute query's over an arbitrary number of machines. Sounds kind of perfect to me for implementing a distributed index for searching, no?
Oh you mean the rolling blackouts that were caused by the crooks at ENRON and their unindicted co-conspirators at the other major power generators up and down the coast in order to jack up rates? The ones who've had not one problem providing California with power regardless of the weather since they've gotten long term contracts at extortionate prices for power since then. The same ones that Gov Shwarzenegger promised to go after during his first campaign and then quietly settle the lawsuits with after his first election. You either don't live in California, or you've been sleeping. Let's not talk ideology, let's talk history and science. Much more productive and useful unless you happen to run a power company with generators in California or own stock in one.
Good God. All this me, my, mine stuff. If I'm looking at StreetView, then I'm probably going to be driving down your street soon. I have a camera in my car at all times and I use it when I see something interesting, illegal or embarassing. That's legal. It's a public street. And the image isn't going to be stale either. So what's the difference? Pretty much everybody already has the right to look at your house, your garden and your face as long as you display them in public. With StreetView you don't have to cope with all of us showing up on your street to exercise that right. That really wouldn't scale if it were a problem, but it's not. Just like the entire world isn't driving down your street to take a look. If you don't want to be seen by the public then put up a wall or fence and remember that the StreetView public *is* the same public that drives by your house.