- free vaccinations
- no insurance coverage for treatment if you are not vaccinated
- fines for not vaccinating your children
That leaves stupidity as the only reason not to get vaccinated. Hopefully the money collected from those fines is then used to do something about the stupidity.
If the fines then become an incentive for parents to not treat their children, there should be child abuse laws for not giving your child required medical care that kick in. You could also reverse it, i.e. a tax deduction for vaccination, in case the psychology works better that way.
Don't let anyone into the limo. The cameras aren't just going to walk themselves in. And just like that, your cameras will be the only working cameras in the limo. Tada.
I'm just kidding, you don't have to do anything. Nobody will want to get into your limo in a few months, and the above solution will materialise on its own.
I had a similar issue, and I'm self-employed, meaning I wasn't just losing time but also money. The problem was massively mitigated when I started using Toggl for time tracking. I became averse to stopping the clock, and would fight distractions and keep working. I still need about 2.5 hours of distractions to work 8 hours, be they lunch, breaks, etc., but it's much easier now.
And use the hosts file trick to break the habit of just opening a new tab and losing 15 minutes.
This is all assuming you like what you're doing. If you don't, you won't be able to fight distractions.
We live in a world where the supply and movement of money are controlled by governments, central banks, money laundering laws, and financial institutions. How can BitCoin survive in this world? Middle men like banks stand to lose a fortune in fees and exchange rates, governments stand to lose a fortune in taxes if they can't track money movement, and the black market stands to gain a silent way to move value. For BitCoin to gain adoption, some major retailers need to start supporting it, but given the above risks, what stops a government from telling companies in its jurisdiction that they can't accept it?
He is in hacker heaven. Look around. I see are a ton of hackers paying him respect and being touched by his story, myself included. I'm pretty sure quite a few people will remember him for quite a while. If that's not life after death, I don't know what is.
Thanks for the commit and for the inspiration, Adrian Hands.
Dude, don't you know that the whole world is shutting down nuclear reactors? Stop wasting precious electricity, and just link to the headlines next time.
Oh crap, I just wasted some too... *tries to delete post*
Undercover does this sort of thing. It transmits network information, screenshots, and pictures from Macs with iSights.
http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/
You are getting up earlier. DST just ensures that everybody else does too. Otherwise, store hours, school hours, etc, will all have moved an hour relative to your work day. And that can be a bitch.
Assuming that a child thread is created to perform the move, why would the parent thread need to be informed at all? The child thread would be responsible for the move in its entirety, i.e. perform the copy, delete, notify, and handle any exceptions.
Not sure what all the noise is about. The security "experts" from penetration testing firm Pure Hacking are twats for blowing this all out of proportion.
So you develop components for closed software with proprietary languages on commercial operating systems, and you're surprised when the powers that be want to control what your components do?
If you lock yourself to a vendor, and that vendor acts against your interests, you're screwed. If the vendor acts against its own interests, as is the case here, you may also get screwed. By locking yourself to that vendor, you've locked yourself to their decisions, as misguided as they may be.
It's obvious that control is more valuable to Microsoft than the developers who work with its systems. Tough. Either deal with it, or get out.
</rant>
Apologies for ranting, but although I understand that some people must develop on the MS platform, I simply cannot understand those who choose to voluntarily. The rant is directed at the latter.
Writing in The International Herald Tribune last year, Rebecca MacKinnon, a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, suggested that North Korea's ban on cellphones was being breached on the black market along China's border.
Here's the referenced article. Bit useless unless you live close to the border, but better than nothing I suppose.
Now you'll be able to download songs from, say, Walmart for 88 cents and play them on your iPod.
Err, no. If that were the case, he would have had to reverse engineer whatever DRM Walmart uses. He reverse engineered FairPlay, which is what Apple uses to encrypt its iTMS content.
To be fair, your confusion is more than warranted. I think the article is backwards. The author seems to imply that a content provider will purchase FairPlay encryption from DoubleTwist. The only reason for the content provider to do this would be if it were cheaper than purchasing FairPlay encryption from Apple directly. So DoubleTwist's target customer is a content company that wants to DRM its content and also wants to have its DRM'd content work on an iPod.
We all know Apple doesn't license FairPlay decryption in order to protect its lucrative iPod sales. But does anyone know if it licenses FairPlay encryption? RSVP.
Most projects do have scope creep -- 1% per month is typical -- but three or more adjustments due to changing requirements means that the project is already out of control
A project creeps in scope 1% per month? How do you even begin to make this assertion? What is the unit of scope, and how do you measure its creep?
A somewhat tangential, though hopefully helpful, addendum to your post is that OS X's Location feature makes life easier still. Adding wireless network SSIDs to your preferred networks is fine and all, but TCP/IP network settings aren't mated to a wireless network. For example, if you store TCP/IP settings for network1, the TCP/IP settings for network2 will be overwritten. Locations are the solution to this problem, and let you associate a set of layer 3 routing preferences with a layer 2 network. Or you could just use DHCP and get it over with.:)
"To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account."
I hope they'll do something a bit more clever than look at the Purchased playlist. If someone injected track names into their iTunes parsing mechanism, that person could sit back and watch while Microsoft downloads those tracks free of charge. Who needs the headaches of peer-to-peer when Microsoft has such a nice centralised system all ripe for the picking. On the other hand, if they go the opposite route and start looking at user key repositories and other FairPlay goodness, it might be JHymn's lucky day.
Maybe you think being racist and ignorant is funny, but I don't.
Umm, are you blind? Did you see me reference China, Chinese people, or any language spoken in China in my post? Anywhere?
If you're calling me racist and ignorant, then I'd really like to know where you get off putting words in my mouth. All I said is that Kim pronounces Mongolians as Mongorians, which is an example of Engrish. How that implies my views or opinions on Chinese linguistics escapes me. Otherwise, if you're calling South Park racist and ignorant for portraying a Chinese person with a speech anomaly found in other cultures, then you have no grasp of satire or the fact that Tuang Lu Kim embodies multiple nationalities and stereotypes, hence the name.
And before someone lambasts me for making fun of Engrish, I should clarify that I'm amused by all variations of the English language. A good number of my fellow Maltese citizens butcher English, for example, even though it's supposed to be a first language. Only in Malta can you fill your car up with pitlor (petrol), have your football team lose on a pineltri (penalty), and make windows out of enimielju (aluminium). By the way, those aren't Maltese words, those are what many Maltese people think the English words actually are. Oh, and they also think that Hoover, Jablo, Kenwood, and Geyser literally mean a vacuum cleaner, polystrene foam, a cake mixer, and a hot water heater, respectively.
Here's the South Park clip about Mongorians from YouTube.
There's a stigma associated with host-based controllers that trying to rebuild an array with them is tantamount to masochism. I think it comes from the fact that an intelligent controller can rebuild an array through BIOS-only intervention.
Anyone care to shed some light on how rebuilding arrays compares when using intelligent vs host-based controllers?
Although I agree with you, I think you're missing the point. This isn't about a group of consumers saying they want iTunes songs to work on player x. Nor is it about company y, which makes player x, saying Apple should license FairPlay because they want protected AAC to work on their players. This is about Norway saying that to operate in Norway, you have to follow Norwegian law. And that means having licenses that are regulated by Norwegian law, including the inability to disclaim damage liabilities.
The issue of whether Norwegian law requires the songs to be playable on other devices still hasn't been decided. If the ruling goes against Apple, then Apple will have to license FairPlay in order to continue operating iTMS in Norway. The only thing they would be forced to do would be to comply with the law if they choose to operate in Norway. Hardly unreasonable, especially given that every online music retailer would be subject to those same laws.
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The other comments have mentioned that this is click-bait, and since it doesn't even mention Google X, it's not worth the electrons it's printed on.
But since some /.ers might have fun reading about Google X, I figured I'd post the Wikipedia article.
- free vaccinations
- no insurance coverage for treatment if you are not vaccinated
- fines for not vaccinating your children
That leaves stupidity as the only reason not to get vaccinated. Hopefully the money collected from those fines is then used to do something about the stupidity.
If the fines then become an incentive for parents to not treat their children, there should be child abuse laws for not giving your child required medical care that kick in. You could also reverse it, i.e. a tax deduction for vaccination, in case the psychology works better that way.
Don't let anyone into the limo. The cameras aren't just going to walk themselves in. And just like that, your cameras will be the only working cameras in the limo. Tada.
I'm just kidding, you don't have to do anything. Nobody will want to get into your limo in a few months, and the above solution will materialise on its own.
I had a similar issue, and I'm self-employed, meaning I wasn't just losing time but also money. The problem was massively mitigated when I started using Toggl for time tracking. I became averse to stopping the clock, and would fight distractions and keep working. I still need about 2.5 hours of distractions to work 8 hours, be they lunch, breaks, etc., but it's much easier now.
And use the hosts file trick to break the habit of just opening a new tab and losing 15 minutes.
This is all assuming you like what you're doing. If you don't, you won't be able to fight distractions.
We live in a world where the supply and movement of money are controlled by governments, central banks, money laundering laws, and financial institutions. How can BitCoin survive in this world? Middle men like banks stand to lose a fortune in fees and exchange rates, governments stand to lose a fortune in taxes if they can't track money movement, and the black market stands to gain a silent way to move value. For BitCoin to gain adoption, some major retailers need to start supporting it, but given the above risks, what stops a government from telling companies in its jurisdiction that they can't accept it?
He is in hacker heaven. Look around. I see are a ton of hackers paying him respect and being touched by his story, myself included. I'm pretty sure quite a few people will remember him for quite a while. If that's not life after death, I don't know what is.
Thanks for the commit and for the inspiration, Adrian Hands.
Dude, don't you know that the whole world is shutting down nuclear reactors? Stop wasting precious electricity, and just link to the headlines next time.
Oh crap, I just wasted some too ... *tries to delete post*
PS. Don't kiss your principal.
Undercover does this sort of thing. It transmits network information, screenshots, and pictures from Macs with iSights. http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/
You are getting up earlier. DST just ensures that everybody else does too. Otherwise, store hours, school hours, etc, will all have moved an hour relative to your work day. And that can be a bitch.
Assuming that a child thread is created to perform the move, why would the parent thread need to be informed at all? The child thread would be responsible for the move in its entirety, i.e. perform the copy, delete, notify, and handle any exceptions.
The alert is accessible at http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=7664.
Not sure what all the noise is about. The security "experts" from penetration testing firm Pure Hacking are twats for blowing this all out of proportion.
<rant>
So you develop components for closed software with proprietary languages on commercial operating systems, and you're surprised when the powers that be want to control what your components do?
If you lock yourself to a vendor, and that vendor acts against your interests, you're screwed. If the vendor acts against its own interests, as is the case here, you may also get screwed. By locking yourself to that vendor, you've locked yourself to their decisions, as misguided as they may be.
It's obvious that control is more valuable to Microsoft than the developers who work with its systems. Tough. Either deal with it, or get out.
</rant>
Apologies for ranting, but although I understand that some people must develop on the MS platform, I simply cannot understand those who choose to voluntarily. The rant is directed at the latter.
From the article,
Here's the referenced article. Bit useless unless you live close to the border, but better than nothing I suppose.
%country_trust_level("Albania" => 5, "Andorra" => 6 ... )
...
...
if ($country_trust_level{$RFID->citizenship} < 5) {
run_1984($RFID);
}
Err, no. If that were the case, he would have had to reverse engineer whatever DRM Walmart uses. He reverse engineered FairPlay, which is what Apple uses to encrypt its iTMS content.
To be fair, your confusion is more than warranted. I think the article is backwards. The author seems to imply that a content provider will purchase FairPlay encryption from DoubleTwist. The only reason for the content provider to do this would be if it were cheaper than purchasing FairPlay encryption from Apple directly. So DoubleTwist's target customer is a content company that wants to DRM its content and also wants to have its DRM'd content work on an iPod.
We all know Apple doesn't license FairPlay decryption in order to protect its lucrative iPod sales. But does anyone know if it licenses FairPlay encryption? RSVP.
A project creeps in scope 1% per month? How do you even begin to make this assertion? What is the unit of scope, and how do you measure its creep?
What a load of creep, err, crap.
A somewhat tangential, though hopefully helpful, addendum to your post is that OS X's Location feature makes life easier still. Adding wireless network SSIDs to your preferred networks is fine and all, but TCP/IP network settings aren't mated to a wireless network. For example, if you store TCP/IP settings for network1, the TCP/IP settings for network2 will be overwritten. Locations are the solution to this problem, and let you associate a set of layer 3 routing preferences with a layer 2 network. Or you could just use DHCP and get it over with. :)
From the article...
I hope they'll do something a bit more clever than look at the Purchased playlist. If someone injected track names into their iTunes parsing mechanism, that person could sit back and watch while Microsoft downloads those tracks free of charge. Who needs the headaches of peer-to-peer when Microsoft has such a nice centralised system all ripe for the picking. On the other hand, if they go the opposite route and start looking at user key repositories and other FairPlay goodness, it might be JHymn's lucky day.
Umm, are you blind? Did you see me reference China, Chinese people, or any language spoken in China in my post? Anywhere?
If you're calling me racist and ignorant, then I'd really like to know where you get off putting words in my mouth. All I said is that Kim pronounces Mongolians as Mongorians, which is an example of Engrish. How that implies my views or opinions on Chinese linguistics escapes me. Otherwise, if you're calling South Park racist and ignorant for portraying a Chinese person with a speech anomaly found in other cultures, then you have no grasp of satire or the fact that Tuang Lu Kim embodies multiple nationalities and stereotypes, hence the name.
And no, I have no idea why anybody would want a hot water heater. :)
They're Mongorians!
And before someone lambasts me for making fun of Engrish, I should clarify that I'm amused by all variations of the English language. A good number of my fellow Maltese citizens butcher English, for example, even though it's supposed to be a first language. Only in Malta can you fill your car up with pitlor (petrol), have your football team lose on a pineltri (penalty), and make windows out of enimielju (aluminium). By the way, those aren't Maltese words, those are what many Maltese people think the English words actually are. Oh, and they also think that Hoover, Jablo, Kenwood, and Geyser literally mean a vacuum cleaner, polystrene foam, a cake mixer, and a hot water heater, respectively.
Here's the South Park clip about Mongorians from YouTube.
At 24bpp, a raw image from the CCD without file format overhead would be about 320MB.
In other news, Flickr hires Bram Cohen.
There's a stigma associated with host-based controllers that trying to rebuild an array with them is tantamount to masochism. I think it comes from the fact that an intelligent controller can rebuild an array through BIOS-only intervention.
Anyone care to shed some light on how rebuilding arrays compares when using intelligent vs host-based controllers?
Although I agree with you, I think you're missing the point. This isn't about a group of consumers saying they want iTunes songs to work on player x. Nor is it about company y, which makes player x, saying Apple should license FairPlay because they want protected AAC to work on their players. This is about Norway saying that to operate in Norway, you have to follow Norwegian law. And that means having licenses that are regulated by Norwegian law, including the inability to disclaim damage liabilities.
The issue of whether Norwegian law requires the songs to be playable on other devices still hasn't been decided. If the ruling goes against Apple, then Apple will have to license FairPlay in order to continue operating iTMS in Norway. The only thing they would be forced to do would be to comply with the law if they choose to operate in Norway. Hardly unreasonable, especially given that every online music retailer would be subject to those same laws.