When they quiz me on my solid deodorant, solid shampoo, solid soap, and powdered toothpaste (just add water) I politely inform them I can't bring liquids on the plane
Good thing that explosives in solid form do not exist...
That decision, which only holds weight in the EU, comes from a case that is, in my mind, legitimate. Belgium was selling a cow's milk cheese as feta, which is totally wrong. I'm pretty sure 'feta' is semi-generic in the US. But it sure as heck better be a salty, white sheep's milk cheese and not some cow's milk knock off. Blech.
I guess you skipped the part which said "only... in certain regions of Greece will be allowed to be described as feta".
So the "feta" description is owned by Greece. Other countries in the EU cannot produce feta, even if they use milk from sheep.
Wrong. Those are designations of origins. Champagne and Parma are actual places.
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AFAIK, Hummus, falafel, and so forth are generic names for foods traditional to dozens of countries. Nasi lemak means 'rice in cream' and is also not a designation of origin, therefore, attempting to copyright it is ridiculous and no other country is going to honor Malaysia's demands.
I would assume that it would be difficult to sell a commercial solution for scientific purposes unless it is based on already documented and accepted data. Basing your scientific work on calculations made by a commercial solution with homegrown data would make it difficult to openly document your method to other scientists. So why not find the published version of those data instead of lifting them out of software?
But what do I know? I am an engineer, not a scientist.
In my work I do a lot of calculations of water and steam properties, and the available software I know of is strictly using the calculation methods published by IAPWS. So if I wanted to, I could buy the IAPWS documentation and make my own software.
...unless you've got it set to delete all data on your phone after 10 incorrect attempts.
You are assuming that the attacker does not use his own software for extracting and decrypting the data?
That assumption is usually one of the first and most obvious traps people fall into when they try to invent a new protection method.
But perhaps the assumption will hold in this particular case. I don't know if it is possible to extract the encrypted data from an iPhone and decrypt them elsewhere.
Disk encryption, especially mobile and laptop, should be designed specifically to prevent data retrieval when physical possession is obtained by an attacker.
1. How can this be patent worthy? Individual changes to documents to make them traceable have been performed for years - even in anonymous questionnaires...
2. Patented. Good. Perhaps that will prevent others from using this method. If we are really lucky, IBM won't use it either.
And how long before every piece of malware on the planet exploited it
If a piece of malware can exploit an auto update service, that malware is already running. And not just running - it is running with administrator privileges.
If you have malware running on your system with administrator privileges, you have already lost. If that malware wants to download and install more malware, it can do so very easily. It certainly doesn't need an auto update service to accomplish that.
But thinking something like Apt would be a silver bullet for home users is strictly a fantasy. First it would have to be run by MSFT to incorporate the Windows patches as well as third party updates, which would lead to vendors screaming and probably an antitrust investigation [...] So while having a central repository works for Linux, it simply would never work for Windows.
It is obvious that your statement is based on a lack of knowledge of apt.
Apt does not depend on a central repository. Yes, there is a central repository for the distribution's official packages. No, you are not limited to using this repository.
Any software vendor can set up an apt repository, and you can add that repository to/etc/apt/sources.list including keys for signed packages.
In the Windows version, this would mean that an installer for a third-party program could add keys and download information to an update service running on the local PC. MS would not need to be involved at all - but they would need to make an updating routine with an open interface.
If I understand TFS correct: The scrambled password is sent to the user through the same network connection where it is going to be used. So anyone pretending to be the user will also recieve the scrambled password.
The scrambling is worth nothing. If you can see the password using a colored filter, you can also see it using a filter in software.
In Britain's case everyone's too busy hating Europeans (then going on holiday there),
So they hate themselves? Then go on vacation to their own house?
Whoosh? You really don't know the well-known joke about the British definition of Europeans?
To the British, Europeans are people from the European continent. Well perhaps the British doesn't consider this a joke, but the rest of the world does.
This raises the question, then, of how all those "accounting for piracy" taxes (in countries that do it) applied to things like iPods are justified, if there is no legal problem with stuffing as much pirated media on them as you can get your hands on.
Can you give an example of such a country?
I don't know of any countries who put "piracy taxes" on equipment which is able to store music.
I do know of countries who put a tax on such equipment, but the purpose is not to compensate for piracy. The purpose is to compensate for LEGAL copying.
... send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back.
Actually, I remember doing that around 1993-1994 when I did not have a real Internet connection but only some kind of proprietary online portal subscription which included Internet email.
Anyways, what a crock of crap to have to have something as silly as a standard port to charge from and then artificially lock it out. That right there is why I'll never buy another Motorola, and I've had plenty throughout my cell phone career. It's either HTC or Nokia from now on.
You will find this on older HTC phones too. I have a SPV C500, which is a HTC Typhoon from before HTC started selling phones in their own name. It has exactly the same behaviour as you described, including the inability to charge from a PC with no Activesync software installed.
However, the most stupid use of mini USB I have ever seen is the Holux GR236 Bluetooth GPS. The mini USB port does not speak USB. It speaks good old serial. So when you connect it to a PC for charging, you will get error messages all the time that the USB device seems to be malfunctioning.
Ironically, if you want it to actually communicate to the PC, you will need a USB-serial adapter with USB connectors in both ends.
To me the author of the article is deliberately confusing public timetables with transmissions showing the position and expected arrival times of a bus.
If the position and expected arrival time is calculated on the fly, that's more of a service than just pure publically available data. [...] If you're able to get as much of this information whenever you want, it then goes beyond fair use too.
On the other hand, I also wonder if custom website presentation is being confused with unauthorized use of data. I would very much like to know how the phone retrieves the data.
Does it retrieve it from the city's public available webpage via a normal http request?
Or does it make unauthorized requests to the web server or some database server behind the city's public web server?
Or does it retrieve it from a server set up by the developer of the iPhone app?
In the first case, I will claim that this is a web browser which has been customized to show only one web page and modify it to make it better suited for the host equipment.
If the owner of the data can forbid that, it may also mean that they can forbid the use of any unapproved web browser on their web page. That is an extremely dangerous path.
It just means that an average NZ woman changes partners (or has more partners at the same time) than an average man.
More partners at the same time: Well, yes. If two women share one man, the count for the female population is +2*2 and the count for the male population is only +2. I don't know if this should be considered a special case of lesbians (which I already mentioned as a possibility in my first post).
Women changing partners more often than men: Did you think a long time before you wrote that? Everytime a woman get a new male partner, there is also a male getting a new female partner. So count is +1 on both sides. (And I have already covered the possibility of lesbians or a larger male population in my first post.)
In the initial release, they always tried to use NAT punchthrough. This includes when it wasn't needed.
And if implemented like in Supreme Commander: The NAT punchthrough would in a lot of cases conflict with proper router forwarding of the game's listening port.
Instead of trying to contact the port you forwarded in the router and had announced to the servers, other clients would ONLY try to contact the source port your router had used for your outbound connection to the server, hoping that your router would also allow inbound traffic from other ip adresses. This is an incredibly fragile connection method which is bound to cause problems on a lot of routers.
There were two of us on the forums trying to explain to GPG why it would never work on all routers unless they implemented some very simple fixes in the game client. Now it seems that they have repeated the same mistake.
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Fine with me. As long as you don't do so for more than 15 minutes.
Good thing that explosives in solid form do not exist...
I guess you skipped the part which said "only ... in certain regions of Greece will be allowed to be described as feta".
So the "feta" description is owned by Greece. Other countries in the EU cannot produce feta, even if they use milk from sheep.
I can think of at least one example of a protected food name which has nothing to do with origin. Feta cheese:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DQA/is_2002_Nov_7/ai_94448045/
I would assume that it would be difficult to sell a commercial solution for scientific purposes unless it is based on already documented and accepted data. Basing your scientific work on calculations made by a commercial solution with homegrown data would make it difficult to openly document your method to other scientists. So why not find the published version of those data instead of lifting them out of software?
But what do I know? I am an engineer, not a scientist.
In my work I do a lot of calculations of water and steam properties, and the available software I know of is strictly using the calculation methods published by IAPWS. So if I wanted to, I could buy the IAPWS documentation and make my own software.
You are assuming that the attacker does not use his own software for extracting and decrypting the data?
That assumption is usually one of the first and most obvious traps people fall into when they try to invent a new protection method.
But perhaps the assumption will hold in this particular case. I don't know if it is possible to extract the encrypted data from an iPhone and decrypt them elsewhere.
For this:
1. How can this be patent worthy? Individual changes to documents to make them traceable have been performed for years - even in anonymous questionnaires...
2. Patented. Good. Perhaps that will prevent others from using this method. If we are really lucky, IBM won't use it either.
If a piece of malware can exploit an auto update service, that malware is already running. And not just running - it is running with administrator privileges.
If you have malware running on your system with administrator privileges, you have already lost. If that malware wants to download and install more malware, it can do so very easily. It certainly doesn't need an auto update service to accomplish that.
It is obvious that your statement is based on a lack of knowledge of apt.
Apt does not depend on a central repository. Yes, there is a central repository for the distribution's official packages. No, you are not limited to using this repository.
Any software vendor can set up an apt repository, and you can add that repository to /etc/apt/sources.list including keys for signed packages.
In the Windows version, this would mean that an installer for a third-party program could add keys and download information to an update service running on the local PC. MS would not need to be involved at all - but they would need to make an updating routine with an open interface.
If I understand TFS correct:
The scrambled password is sent to the user through the same network connection where it is going to be used. So anyone pretending to be the user will also recieve the scrambled password.
The scrambling is worth nothing. If you can see the password using a colored filter, you can also see it using a filter in software.
Whoosh? You really don't know the well-known joke about the British definition of Europeans?
To the British, Europeans are people from the European continent. Well perhaps the British doesn't consider this a joke, but the rest of the world does.
I think the GP was making fun of this.
Can you give an example of such a country?
I don't know of any countries who put "piracy taxes" on equipment which is able to store music.
I do know of countries who put a tax on such equipment, but the purpose is not to compensate for piracy. The purpose is to compensate for LEGAL copying.
You will find this on older HTC phones too. I have a SPV C500, which is a HTC Typhoon from before HTC started selling phones in their own name. It has exactly the same behaviour as you described, including the inability to charge from a PC with no Activesync software installed.
However, the most stupid use of mini USB I have ever seen is the Holux GR236 Bluetooth GPS. The mini USB port does not speak USB. It speaks good old serial. So when you connect it to a PC for charging, you will get error messages all the time that the USB device seems to be malfunctioning.
Ironically, if you want it to actually communicate to the PC, you will need a USB-serial adapter with USB connectors in both ends.
On the other hand, I also wonder if custom website presentation is being confused with unauthorized use of data. I would very much like to know how the phone retrieves the data.
Does it retrieve it from the city's public available webpage via a normal http request?
Or does it make unauthorized requests to the web server or some database server behind the city's public web server?
Or does it retrieve it from a server set up by the developer of the iPhone app?
In the first case, I will claim that this is a web browser which has been customized to show only one web page and modify it to make it better suited for the host equipment.
If the owner of the data can forbid that, it may also mean that they can forbid the use of any unapproved web browser on their web page. That is an extremely dangerous path.
No, I do not assume that.
I "assume" that when SHE finds a new guy, this means that the NEW GUY also finds a new girl (her) - which leads to +1 for both genders.
I don't think I can explain it in any simpler way, so if you still don't understand how this works, I can't help you further.
More partners at the same time:
Well, yes. If two women share one man, the count for the female population is +2*2 and the count for the male population is only +2. I don't know if this should be considered a special case of lesbians (which I already mentioned as a possibility in my first post).
Women changing partners more often than men:
Did you think a long time before you wrote that? Everytime a woman get a new male partner, there is also a male getting a new female partner. So count is +1 on both sides. (And I have already covered the possibility of lesbians or a larger male population in my first post.)
How does that math work?
Are there more lesbians in NZ?
Are there a lower female/male ratio in NZ?
Those are the two only reasons I can imagine.
I have not expressed any personal beliefs on a causation between CO2 and global warming in this thread.
I have merely pointed out that you can't use correlation as a proof of causation. I would have thought that everybody on /. knew that.
Increased, both of them.
Now, over the last decade, what has the number of doping tests in cykling done?
Right, they have increased. This proves that both global warming AND CO2 level is caused by doping tests.
Correlation is not causation.
What happens to that power if you don't use it?
My guess would be that it is sold to another country which then does not have to produce this power using fossile fuels.
So yes, unless your power grid is completely separated from the world (Iceland?), your power consumption will also affect the world's CO2-outlet.
(The above does not mean that I necessarily believe that global warming is caused by CO2.)
And if implemented like in Supreme Commander: The NAT punchthrough would in a lot of cases conflict with proper router forwarding of the game's listening port.
Instead of trying to contact the port you forwarded in the router and had announced to the servers, other clients would ONLY try to contact the source port your router had used for your outbound connection to the server, hoping that your router would also allow inbound traffic from other ip adresses. This is an incredibly fragile connection method which is bound to cause problems on a lot of routers.
There were two of us on the forums trying to explain to GPG why it would never work on all routers unless they implemented some very simple fixes in the game client. Now it seems that they have repeated the same mistake.
Would that be the same as "consuming less than 60 watt"?
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