I'm sending a copy of the internal memos to NBC nightly news right now. The woman I talked to from NBC practically begged me to when I told her how the CNN story had left their contents out of the report.
Compared to the average person, corporations have effectively infinite resources, so of course people aren't defending themselves.
All the same, I wish someone would fight the charge based on the lack of hard evidence. I'm referring to the easily spoofable search results that the RIAA is using as "proof" for its case. All we would need is one positive result and this lawsuit war would be over.
Unfortunately, at least one of these new vulnerabilities has been blown way out of proportion. There are easy methods of fixing the unsafe permissions vulnerability for example... It's caused by third party vendors using customized installers. If they'd use the Mac installer, this wouldn't be an issue.
Likewise, the fix is easy. Try this sucker as a cron job:
diskutil repairpermissions /
But the goals of the X-Prize are specific. A cheaply reusable rocket would allow for more moderately wealthy people taking the greatest vacation of all. As demand goes up competition will flourish, driving prices down further. The more people getting into space, the better - from the human genome's perspective.
Sure, it may flop. But it's a great idea, and it should be pursued aggressively.
Absolutely. I was thinking the exact same thing. How is a 10 person panel (with maybe a hundred staffers assisting) supposed to wade through that type of material?
I wonder how many pages of paper an exabyte of data would take up? We're talking about gigantic masses, here.
Why not figure it out? I'm guessing, based on character counts from Open Office, that you can get about 2kB of data on a single sheet. That's 4kB if you use both sides. And you get around 125 sheets per pound...
So, based on some guesses, it looks like it will take 2,251,799,813,685 pounds of paper to print one exabyte of this data. For all 5 exabytes, we're looking at a wieght 122 times that of the Great Pyramid. Not as much as I'd suspected... but still fun!
Hooray for exponential curves!
It is daunting, though. As an illustration of this, I read that the White House has already turned over 2 million pages of documents relating to 9/11 to the independent investigation panel.
It will only adversely affect their business because they have a business model based on stiffling fair competition. More of these types of decisions would be wonderful.
Unfortunately, I have read that this decision does not set a precedent. IANAL, so I have no idea why.
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I'm sending a copy of the internal memos to NBC nightly news right now. The woman I talked to from NBC practically begged me to when I told her how the CNN story had left their contents out of the report.
Go Democracy! Up with surveyable elections!
Compared to the average person, corporations have effectively infinite resources, so of course people aren't defending themselves.
All the same, I wish someone would fight the charge based on the lack of hard evidence. I'm referring to the easily spoofable search results that the RIAA is using as "proof" for its case. All we would need is one positive result and this lawsuit war would be over.
Unfortunately, at least one of these new vulnerabilities has been blown way out of proportion. There are easy methods of fixing the unsafe permissions vulnerability for example... It's caused by third party vendors using customized installers. If they'd use the Mac installer, this wouldn't be an issue.
Likewise, the fix is easy. Try this sucker as a cron job:
diskutil repairpermissions /
Not if that "Secure" OS had some sort of trust relationship with the insecure one.
Wow... I haven't seen a Gorbie reference in years.
But the goals of the X-Prize are specific. A cheaply reusable rocket would allow for more moderately wealthy people taking the greatest vacation of all. As demand goes up competition will flourish, driving prices down further. The more people getting into space, the better - from the human genome's perspective.
Sure, it may flop. But it's a great idea, and it should be pursued aggressively.
I imagine is shooting him out of the top with a parachute on his back the way that an Estes does.
Absolutely. I was thinking the exact same thing. How is a 10 person panel (with maybe a hundred staffers assisting) supposed to wade through that type of material?
I wonder how many pages of paper an exabyte of data would take up? We're talking about gigantic masses, here. Why not figure it out? I'm guessing, based on character counts from Open Office, that you can get about 2kB of data on a single sheet. That's 4kB if you use both sides. And you get around 125 sheets per pound... So, based on some guesses, it looks like it will take 2,251,799,813,685 pounds of paper to print one exabyte of this data. For all 5 exabytes, we're looking at a wieght 122 times that of the Great Pyramid. Not as much as I'd suspected... but still fun!
Hooray for exponential curves! It is daunting, though. As an illustration of this, I read that the White House has already turned over 2 million pages of documents relating to 9/11 to the independent investigation panel.
It will only adversely affect their business because they have a business model based on stiffling fair competition. More of these types of decisions would be wonderful. Unfortunately, I have read that this decision does not set a precedent. IANAL, so I have no idea why.