Some of these things seem rather complicated and use materials that aren't easy to obtain.
To provide greater benefit the machine should be able to be manufactured without specialized tools and be able to be built with universally available, preferably recyclable or re-purposed materials. If people can make a living out of making and servicing these toilets then the sanitary and economic (from the created industry) benefit will spread quickly and independently without requiring the oversight of a foreign NGO.
This news story arguably violates US law, and as such the Terms of Service of Slashdot.
Under U.S. Federal Code 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure 2512. Manufacture, distribution, possession, and advertising of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited
.. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person who intentionally [..]
c) places in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication or disseminates by electronic means any advertisement of:
(i) any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications;
I am all for transparency, but this is an indiscriminate privacy violator, and there seems to be little question about the surreptitious primary purpose of this device.
I thought that was the plan, to give the unbelievers as much contraception as they want then overwhelm them by sheer force of numbers. Overcome the heretics by letting them do what they want. That seems like the path the righteous would want to walk, rather than arguing over money. I do realize that the word overcome is possibly misleading and inaccurate if one tends toward innuendo.
Isn't space full of gravitational forces? I assume that the projectile would have a good probability of ending up in an asteroid belt somewhere.
I agree that it would be a lot more boring and technical than it is in the movies. Look at the actual role of bombers in the second world war. Dropping a projectile then relied on the bomber doing some maths to calibrate the equipment, and understanding that maths well enough to make adjustments on the fly. They did miss a lot though.
Anyone considered that hacking an enemy craft and causing an accident would be more common place? You wouldn't want to cause any stock market fluctuations by starting a hot war when you can retain economic stability and still achieve your objectives.
Apple uploads your data to their servers all of the time. Maybe they don't see it as a leak, its a valid method of making an app commercially more feasible.
If apple starts selling marketing information those apps will be gone in a matter of minutes.
p.s. I have 3 macbooks, and iphone, ipod, itv, apple wifi router in my house and I love all of them, just in case you thought i was one of those spiteful anti apple trolls.
Don't worry, the MPAA, RIAA, many large organizations and government officials working hard to get rid of data-sharing AIDS on the Internet as we speak.
Your name is Taco Cowboy in this instance is quite ironic. I realize that it is homage, but still it did make me think that your patents are for things like "bands of rubber" or a "watch wrist" or something.
No disrespect intended, just sharing my giggle.
I 100% agree with you. The intent of these things was to improve the sharing of information, so that people would share information without the fear of getting ripped off. It has gone off the rails completely.
What a silly question. It's not about consistency, morality, or ethics. It's about what they can get away with, how far they can get away with it, and what happens if/when they get caught.
For the sake of clarity morality and ethics are largely about the decisions of what one can get away with, how far one can get away with it and what happens if/when they get caught. Corporate Social Responsibility is about the effort to make moral and ethical decisions into economic decisions by placing a financial cost against the cost of immoral acts on the part of the company. Throwing ones hands in the air and running off is what makes the whole system come crashing down, communicating dissatisfaction with immoral behavior is what makes it work. You may think that no one will hear you screaming, but these companies pay people to vanity search them, they will find your complaint and do something (though maybe not enough) about it.
I liked to take water with me when traveling to destinations where people do not drink the tap water as it is not safe. If you are country hopping and you drink a lot of water then it is painful, and sometimes impossible (e.g. when the plane lands after midnight) to have to seek out bottled water on arrival in a foreign country.
What is more, stewardesses are too busy to provide all of the passengers with enough liquids if they attempt to drink the recommended daily amount of water.
I have had water bought inside the airport taken from me on a pre-boarding inspection, inside the secure area. This theatre is out of control, it is making travel more expensive (I don't imagine those skyrocketing 'taxes' are all to cover fuel) more offensive and more stressful.
When you were young people didn't realize they were dying from the communal water, people died of "natural causes" back then
The important point here is that something that does not physically exist, and the person never had any physical possession of, as the data resided on a server somewhere, that were not obtained in exchange for real world goods, services or currency were considered to have an intrinsic value. This is important because the player did not create the items, but only had them attributed to him through the act of playing the game. It acknowledges that something can have a value even if it cannot be measured in any physical sense, and that depriving one of that value is a form theft.
Not all CPUs are suitable for overclocking. If they tested a chip at the factory and know that it won't survive if run at a higher voltage or clock speed than it is required too it would be bad practice for them to encourage you to operate the chip in a manner that will make it unstable, which could at best cost a bit of time and money when the chip fails, or worse cost you a massive amount of time when the chip operates poorly and causes intermittent failures or incorrect calculations.
So people from the outside can't see what is on the screen, do they just see black or when you close the blinds are you still in full view of your neighbors?
Viacom owns Time Warner, which owns Warner Brothers. Viacom also owns Paramount Studios, which owned Paramount Animation and hence Felix the Cat production inc. which in 1958 produced a cartoon entitled 'the magic bag'. The pattern and styling of this bag looks to have been heavily borrowed from for the Luis Vuitton style. The felix bag is yellow and black, and the LV bag is green and gold, but it is similar enough that some consumers could be confused as to the creator of the bags. Warner counter sues that the LV 'look' is actually the property of its parent company, LV settles out of court to avoid its prestige product line from being associated with a children's cartoon (arguably created by a convicted pedophile). Problem solved.
Adobe have to be very careful about even recommending that you update these days, as that can lead to problems if not handled correctly.
Adobe is forced to officially advise the need to update, at the same time as spam containing malware laden upgrades are released. Naked Security article about malware spam
They might get a greater hit rate by using the Zero Day to create FUD that increases the number of clicks on the email rather than pushing an exploit on the Zero Day directly.
I believe the government forced the number portability onto the mobile operators in the name of fair competition, so really it is the government's fault....
... or the butler, somehow that guy is involved.
note that the police have the guys on CCTV but no reported crime from the party that lost the cash (the bank) and hence no reason to continue investigating.
I am going to avoid the religious flamebait here, as far as I know there was a deliberate separation of church and state in the US. We should actually talk about the moral standard that you are referencing, which is more or less utilitarian in nature. Can we equate a crashed computer to blowing up a house. I would propose the following scenario.
The wealthy 1% of some country somewhere, highly educated and with malicious intent manipulate the medical information systems in a number of hosptials in the major population centers across your country. Records are switched, details changed etc., due to this mis information there are deaths through mistreatment before the problem is discovered. The health department then demands that all records be double checked to prevent further deaths. The delay and confusion causes another 50 deaths as emergency centers back up and doctors are provided with no patent information, as paper copies of these records just don't exist anymore. News spreads of the deaths in hospitals and people panic, more deaths result as a result of people not seeking medical assistance when they need it. In total the subtle manipulation of data causes about 75 deaths and the destabilization of the health system may cause further deaths for many years. The group responsible openly celebrates their victory and states their intention to do more damage to other countries and to target other public utilities, and do so "until the death". This group lives in a small enclave with 50 people in total.
If you are charged with providing a safe environment, would you respond to this use of malware with aid or with a firmer action ?
What he did isn't legal in Hungary. Under the Hungarian Penal Code - Criminal Conduct for Breaching Computer Systems and Computer Data Section 300/C they have a provision for illegal access.
The thing is that it often doesn't matter where a crime is committed, it is still often still illegal if done with the intent to break the law. The enforcement of the law depends on the will of the justice authority in that country. Even if there is an equivalent crime in the other country it is difficult to get that state's cooperation, as it would interfere with that state's right to enforce the law in their territory as they see fit. In this case it seems that is was easier/cheaper to entice the fellow into the country where the offense was committed and arrest him there.
I second that. the Crystal Singer Series was great.
Thank you for reminding me of the many hours of pleasure that those book brought me.
The dragons were great too, I cant help but think she had a big impact of our modern conception of dragons. I think that even Avatar owes her a debt in that respect.
So in short, They should have invested more capital in development to make it bigger, available in more languages and easier to use, and then charge a hell of a lot less for the product and hope to get their money back?
Actually you are absolutely right. How much money do you think that they hoped to make on the transformer cartoons ? None. They were made to sell toys. This has greater potential to a business than cartoons do, due to the better communication that it allows with the customers. Imagine being able to drop your next potential products into a virtual environment for your customers to interact with. Have them pick the one that is best or make suggestions on how to improve the product before it gets anywhere near the market. The lego game was a direct line to 2 million of their customers, that could have been a massive resource a company that makes its business selling to the imagination of children. Imagine if they gave them bricks online to see what the most common built object was, then sold boxes of bricks to make that object.
I do agree with the comments that it was wrong to not allow family play. That is a massive missed opportunity as is provides many benefits to the customer beyond what they would get for a number of individual accounts. The migration of the game into a shared family activity combined with the parents chaperoning their kids and providing guidance on good etiquette would have improved the product itself. It could be marketed as a safer way to introduce children to online gaming environments. The benefit of lego being seen as a company that nurtures family and creates safe environments would enhance the value of the brand.
That is two ways in which the game could have justified its costs without even looking at the revenue from subscriptions.
Maybe they should opensource the development of it, pay to have it hosted on a cloud somewhere and let all the/.ers jump on and make the improvements that they want to see. Lego host it then they can grab the data that they can feed into their marketing strategy and let the tinkerers handle the content creation issues. The only risk is having weirdos put content in there that is not suitable for kids. If the family group gaming culture is created then the parents could help moderate that.
Maybe he wanted to tell them something along the lines of...
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - El Steve.
But messages like that don't carry much weight, best they hide and wait for college before they start trying to change the world into what they see it should be.
Don't you think it is refreshing to think of normal as retarded ? Make the term "minority" the compliment it should be !
Slashdot Mirror
"Hey, you scratched my anchor !"
Do you think they will be bold enough to sue for damage to their anchor ?
Some of these things seem rather complicated and use materials that aren't easy to obtain.
To provide greater benefit the machine should be able to be manufactured without specialized tools and be able to be built with universally available, preferably recyclable or re-purposed materials. If people can make a living out of making and servicing these toilets then the sanitary and economic (from the created industry) benefit will spread quickly and independently without requiring the oversight of a foreign NGO.
This news story arguably violates US law, and as such the Terms of Service of Slashdot.
.. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person who intentionally [..]
Under U.S. Federal Code 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure 2512. Manufacture, distribution, possession, and advertising of wire, oral, or electronic communication intercepting devices prohibited
c) places in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publication or disseminates by electronic means any advertisement of:
(i) any electronic, mechanical, or other device knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications;
I am all for transparency, but this is an indiscriminate privacy violator, and there seems to be little question about the surreptitious primary purpose of this device.
I thought that was the plan, to give the unbelievers as much contraception as they want then overwhelm them by sheer force of numbers. Overcome the heretics by letting them do what they want. That seems like the path the righteous would want to walk, rather than arguing over money. I do realize that the word overcome is possibly misleading and inaccurate if one tends toward innuendo.
Isn't space full of gravitational forces? I assume that the projectile would have a good probability of ending up in an asteroid belt somewhere.
I agree that it would be a lot more boring and technical than it is in the movies. Look at the actual role of bombers in the second world war. Dropping a projectile then relied on the bomber doing some maths to calibrate the equipment, and understanding that maths well enough to make adjustments on the fly. They did miss a lot though.
Anyone considered that hacking an enemy craft and causing an accident would be more common place? You wouldn't want to cause any stock market fluctuations by starting a hot war when you can retain economic stability and still achieve your objectives.
Remember the Daisy Wheel ? ...
There were those 5 1/4 floppies of ASCII porn being passed around
Apple uploads your data to their servers all of the time. Maybe they don't see it as a leak, its a valid method of making an app commercially more feasible.
If apple starts selling marketing information those apps will be gone in a matter of minutes.
p.s. I have 3 macbooks, and iphone, ipod, itv, apple wifi router in my house and I love all of them, just in case you thought i was one of those spiteful anti apple trolls.
Don't worry, the MPAA, RIAA, many large organizations and government officials working hard to get rid of data-sharing AIDS on the Internet as we speak.
Your name is Taco Cowboy in this instance is quite ironic. I realize that it is homage, but still it did make me think that your patents are for things like "bands of rubber" or a "watch wrist" or something.
No disrespect intended, just sharing my giggle.
I 100% agree with you. The intent of these things was to improve the sharing of information, so that people would share information without the fear of getting ripped off. It has gone off the rails completely.
What a silly question. It's not about consistency, morality, or ethics. It's about what they can get away with, how far they can get away with it, and what happens if/when they get caught.
For the sake of clarity morality and ethics are largely about the decisions of what one can get away with, how far one can get away with it and what happens if/when they get caught. Corporate Social Responsibility is about the effort to make moral and ethical decisions into economic decisions by placing a financial cost against the cost of immoral acts on the part of the company. Throwing ones hands in the air and running off is what makes the whole system come crashing down, communicating dissatisfaction with immoral behavior is what makes it work. You may think that no one will hear you screaming, but these companies pay people to vanity search them, they will find your complaint and do something (though maybe not enough) about it.
I liked to take water with me when traveling to destinations where people do not drink the tap water as it is not safe. If you are country hopping and you drink a lot of water then it is painful, and sometimes impossible (e.g. when the plane lands after midnight) to have to seek out bottled water on arrival in a foreign country.
What is more, stewardesses are too busy to provide all of the passengers with enough liquids if they attempt to drink the recommended daily amount of water.
I have had water bought inside the airport taken from me on a pre-boarding inspection, inside the secure area. This theatre is out of control, it is making travel more expensive (I don't imagine those skyrocketing 'taxes' are all to cover fuel) more offensive and more stressful.
When you were young people didn't realize they were dying from the communal water, people died of "natural causes" back then
The important point here is that something that does not physically exist, and the person never had any physical possession of, as the data resided on a server somewhere, that were not obtained in exchange for real world goods, services or currency were considered to have an intrinsic value. This is important because the player did not create the items, but only had them attributed to him through the act of playing the game. It acknowledges that something can have a value even if it cannot be measured in any physical sense, and that depriving one of that value is a form theft.
Not all CPUs are suitable for overclocking. If they tested a chip at the factory and know that it won't survive if run at a higher voltage or clock speed than it is required too it would be bad practice for them to encourage you to operate the chip in a manner that will make it unstable, which could at best cost a bit of time and money when the chip fails, or worse cost you a massive amount of time when the chip operates poorly and causes intermittent failures or incorrect calculations.
So people from the outside can't see what is on the screen, do they just see black or when you close the blinds are you still in full view of your neighbors?
Viacom owns Time Warner, which owns Warner Brothers. Viacom also owns Paramount Studios, which owned Paramount Animation and hence Felix the Cat production inc. which in 1958 produced a cartoon entitled 'the magic bag'. The pattern and styling of this bag looks to have been heavily borrowed from for the Luis Vuitton style. The felix bag is yellow and black, and the LV bag is green and gold, but it is similar enough that some consumers could be confused as to the creator of the bags. Warner counter sues that the LV 'look' is actually the property of its parent company, LV settles out of court to avoid its prestige product line from being associated with a children's cartoon (arguably created by a convicted pedophile). Problem solved.
Insightful ?
Since when has flamebait been insightful? I call shenanigans.
By "they" I meant the Malware writers and general evil types, not Adobe. I know how grey all of this can seem though.
Adobe have to be very careful about even recommending that you update these days, as that can lead to problems if not handled correctly.
Adobe is forced to officially advise the need to update, at the same time as spam containing malware laden upgrades are released. Naked Security article about malware spam
They might get a greater hit rate by using the Zero Day to create FUD that increases the number of clicks on the email rather than pushing an exploit on the Zero Day directly.
I believe the government forced the number portability onto the mobile operators in the name of fair competition, so really it is the government's fault ....
... or the butler, somehow that guy is involved.
note that the police have the guys on CCTV but no reported crime from the party that lost the cash (the bank) and hence no reason to continue investigating.
I am going to avoid the religious flamebait here, as far as I know there was a deliberate separation of church and state in the US. We should actually talk about the moral standard that you are referencing, which is more or less utilitarian in nature. Can we equate a crashed computer to blowing up a house. I would propose the following scenario.
The wealthy 1% of some country somewhere, highly educated and with malicious intent manipulate the medical information systems in a number of hosptials in the major population centers across your country. Records are switched, details changed etc., due to this mis information there are deaths through mistreatment before the problem is discovered. The health department then demands that all records be double checked to prevent further deaths. The delay and confusion causes another 50 deaths as emergency centers back up and doctors are provided with no patent information, as paper copies of these records just don't exist anymore. News spreads of the deaths in hospitals and people panic, more deaths result as a result of people not seeking medical assistance when they need it. In total the subtle manipulation of data causes about 75 deaths and the destabilization of the health system may cause further deaths for many years. The group responsible openly celebrates their victory and states their intention to do more damage to other countries and to target other public utilities, and do so "until the death". This group lives in a small enclave with 50 people in total.
If you are charged with providing a safe environment, would you respond to this use of malware with aid or with a firmer action ?
What he did isn't legal in Hungary. Under the Hungarian Penal Code - Criminal Conduct for Breaching Computer Systems and Computer Data Section 300/C they have a provision for illegal access.
The thing is that it often doesn't matter where a crime is committed, it is still often still illegal if done with the intent to break the law. The enforcement of the law depends on the will of the justice authority in that country. Even if there is an equivalent crime in the other country it is difficult to get that state's cooperation, as it would interfere with that state's right to enforce the law in their territory as they see fit. In this case it seems that is was easier/cheaper to entice the fellow into the country where the offense was committed and arrest him there.
I second that. the Crystal Singer Series was great.
Thank you for reminding me of the many hours of pleasure that those book brought me.
The dragons were great too, I cant help but think she had a big impact of our modern conception of dragons. I think that even Avatar owes her a debt in that respect.
So in short, They should have invested more capital in development to make it bigger, available in more languages and easier to use, and then charge a hell of a lot less for the product and hope to get their money back? /.ers jump on and make the improvements that they want to see. Lego host it then they can grab the data that they can feed into their marketing strategy and let the tinkerers handle the content creation issues. The only risk is having weirdos put content in there that is not suitable for kids. If the family group gaming culture is created then the parents could help moderate that.
Actually you are absolutely right. How much money do you think that they hoped to make on the transformer cartoons ? None. They were made to sell toys. This has greater potential to a business than cartoons do, due to the better communication that it allows with the customers. Imagine being able to drop your next potential products into a virtual environment for your customers to interact with. Have them pick the one that is best or make suggestions on how to improve the product before it gets anywhere near the market. The lego game was a direct line to 2 million of their customers, that could have been a massive resource a company that makes its business selling to the imagination of children. Imagine if they gave them bricks online to see what the most common built object was, then sold boxes of bricks to make that object.
I do agree with the comments that it was wrong to not allow family play. That is a massive missed opportunity as is provides many benefits to the customer beyond what they would get for a number of individual accounts. The migration of the game into a shared family activity combined with the parents chaperoning their kids and providing guidance on good etiquette would have improved the product itself. It could be marketed as a safer way to introduce children to online gaming environments. The benefit of lego being seen as a company that nurtures family and creates safe environments would enhance the value of the brand.
That is two ways in which the game could have justified its costs without even looking at the revenue from subscriptions.
Maybe they should opensource the development of it, pay to have it hosted on a cloud somewhere and let all the
It's not like finding a lovely girl/guy is that hard.
You're new here aren't you :-)
Maybe he wanted to tell them something along the lines of...
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - El Steve.
But messages like that don't carry much weight, best they hide and wait for college before they start trying to change the world into what they see it should be.
Don't you think it is refreshing to think of normal as retarded ? Make the term "minority" the compliment it should be !