Customers have shown that, so far, they have been willing to suffer through a poor user experience in order to enjoy the benefits Facebook provides
What you talkin' 'bout Willis? Facebooks customers are the advertisers and corporate partners. Oh, you mean the "users". The users are Facebook's *product*, not its customers.
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The depressing reality is that most security money these days is spent filling out paperwork, and getting exemptions where you don't meet the standards. That coupled with the fact that there's simply much, much, more stuff online now, makes hacking easier.
"When it was my turn, I used a random set of letters and numbers that everyone said no-one could remember. That password had fewer people re-requesting it than any other"
That is because every single person wrote it on a sticky note somewhere, thereby greatly decreasing its security.
The password in your wallet scheme isn't too insecure, and is quite appropriate for anything secured that can be replaced. i.e. Money. If your bank account is hacked, proper auditing can roll back the felonious transactions and you're good to go.
Real, Military grade, security should be used for things that aren't replaceable. Lives. Nuclear Weapon Secrets. Compromising Photos. Etc.
Back in the day, we would trade off the duty of creating the root password, and changing it everywhere it needed to be changed. When it was my turn, I used a random set of letters and numbers that everyone said no-one could remember. That password had fewer people re-requesting it than any other. I still remember it today. I just Googled it, and nope, it's not there yet.
the only problem is how can Khan ever fund videos on really complicated stuff that requires a lot of money to produce? like say a high level biomedical video full of diagrams of cells and pathways and molecule interactions?
That's what grad students are for.
Seriously, every education grad student and anyone who plans to teach at the University level should create these videos and give permission to Khan academy to use them. The best will be filtered out. KA just needs a moderation system. I wonder where they could find a good one...
Certain politicians argue for a system where to succeed, a person would have to have both great parents, and great schools. (This is how the pols got where they are, so let the rest of them eat cake.)
I've always thought we should design a system so that having *either* a set of great parents or a great school would allow any child to succeed.
During a prosecution of a mob boss several years ago, the Government brought in a "Mob Speak" expert witness to testify what the guy meant on a tape recording. Saturday Night Live did a parody of this, where everything he said, translated into "Kill the Guy".
Mob Boss: (on tape) "I need you to take out the trash"
The copied songs might be owned by the same uber holding company that owns the original.
So how can a new artist unaffiliated with "the same uber holding company" write, record, and publish his own music without the threat of lawsuit?
Fly under the radar and hope?
Seriously, it's hard to know if you've invented a new riff, or something you heard in grade school seeped it's way up through your unconsciousness and planted itself into your new composition.
It's entirely possible that the CEO and his cronies are making more money at RIM than they could anywhere else, at any time, even if they drive the company into the ground.
If that's the case, they are going to hold on for dear life with both hands, the company and stockholders be damned.
Capitalism is the best allocator of resources, as long as a free market is maintained. But that qualifier is a big one. Companies use every trick they can to manipulate us and to consolidate their power. Just as government cannot be trusted, companies cannot be trusted.
Very few people who say they are capitalists, really are. Most are monopolists in capitalist clothing.
Capitalism is a contest, like a track race. Imagine a track star that wanted to "win" by crippling his opponents, rather than running faster than they do. Monopolists want to eliminate the competition, then sit back and "win" without having to do any of that difficult running stuff.
Because computer worms and viruses are prior art for P2P networks. It's not difficult to imagine a program that is just like a worm, but uses authorized channels to distribute software. An authorized virus could be used to apply OS patches.
The copied songs might be owned by the same uber holding company that owns the original.
Or the new artists got permission, but the original artist didn't want to be associated with that crap, but needed to get paid.
Or the "original" and the copy both are using a well known ancient riff. (See Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Dani California" and Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
Robert Heinlein said, "Steal from the best, and file off the serial numbers".
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Back in 7th grade the teacher wanted us to show our work. Most of the time I could figure out the stuff in my head, so I didn't want to do that. In order to freak out the teacher, I memorized the multiplication table of (single digit) * 3.14
After that I could write stuff like 67*pi = 188.40 + 21.98 = 210.38 (vertically)
The teacher never commented on showing my work after that...
It can be round, like a barrel connector, or just rectangular and have the pins symmetrical. Like having several positive pins on the inside, and ground pins on the outside. Make communications pins bi-directional.
USB should have done this. I'm always needing to plug in a USB connector under a table or somewhere it's too dark. Also, as I get older, my eyes don't focus close in as well as they used to. USB also shouldn't be the same width as an RJ45.
Wikipedia isn't sued because they'd just stop using the image, and that would cause there to be less overall infringement. The copyright owner of a little used work *wants* their copyright to be violated by someone who puts it on a physical object, so that it would be expensive to recall.
Any decent copyright/patent/trademark law overhaul should have standards for corroborative works, so that people wishing to buy rights to a work, don't have to contract with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that contributed to a work. (T., D., and H. all deserve a cut, but a fair cut)
Yep, they already have a system for doing this on airplanes. It supplements the black boxes so that if a plane goes down in the ocean, you can get the data even if you can't find the black box. Airlines are already thinking about using the system to do real-time analysis.
All the space shots had data like this. What's new about this?
All the media that no one remembers, die. I'm sure Ogg the caveman scratched marks into a boulder that meant something to him, but nobody else knows how to decipher it.
There could easily be media sitting in someone's attic that can't be read on any working hardware. (Or a farmer's barn, I've seen old computers gathering dust on a farm)
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Customers have shown that, so far, they have been willing to suffer through a poor user experience in order to enjoy the benefits Facebook provides
What you talkin' 'bout Willis? Facebooks customers are the advertisers and corporate partners. Oh, you mean the "users". The users are Facebook's *product*, not its customers.
Mostly good. If the attacker can lay physical hands on your machine, most reasonable security people consider it compromised.
This sounds like it makes it harder for manufacturers to TiVoize their products.
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The depressing reality is that most security money these days is spent filling out paperwork, and getting exemptions where you don't meet the standards. That coupled with the fact that there's simply much, much, more stuff online now, makes hacking easier.
"When it was my turn, I used a random set of letters and numbers that everyone said no-one could remember. That password had fewer people re-requesting it than any other"
That is because every single person wrote it on a sticky note somewhere, thereby greatly decreasing its security.
The password in your wallet scheme isn't too insecure, and is quite appropriate for anything secured that can be replaced. i.e. Money. If your bank account is hacked, proper auditing can roll back the felonious transactions and you're good to go.
Real, Military grade, security should be used for things that aren't replaceable. Lives. Nuclear Weapon Secrets. Compromising Photos. Etc.
Back in the day, we would trade off the duty of creating the root password, and changing it everywhere it needed to be changed. When it was my turn, I used a random set of letters and numbers that everyone said no-one could remember. That password had fewer people re-requesting it than any other. I still remember it today. I just Googled it, and nope, it's not there yet.
the only problem is how can Khan ever fund videos on really complicated stuff that requires a lot of money to produce? like say a high level biomedical video full of diagrams of cells and pathways and molecule interactions?
That's what grad students are for.
Seriously, every education grad student and anyone who plans to teach at the University level should create these videos and give permission to Khan academy to use them. The best will be filtered out. KA just needs a moderation system. I wonder where they could find a good one...
Certain politicians argue for a system where to succeed, a person would have to have both great parents, and great schools. (This is how the pols got where they are, so let the rest of them eat cake.)
I've always thought we should design a system so that having *either* a set of great parents or a great school would allow any child to succeed.
During a prosecution of a mob boss several years ago, the Government brought in a "Mob Speak" expert witness to testify what the guy meant on a tape recording. Saturday Night Live did a parody of this, where everything he said, translated into "Kill the Guy".
...
Mob Boss: (on tape) "I need you to take out the trash"
Expert Witness: "Kill the Guy"
MB: "Then clean the gutters"
EW: "Kill the Guy"
MB: "Then pick up my wife at the salon"
EW: "Kill the Guy"
Unless her passphrase is "I_shot_the_f*cker"
Anyone's who's seen "DeathRace 2000", would know how this works.
The copied songs might be owned by the same uber holding company that owns the original.
So how can a new artist unaffiliated with "the same uber holding company" write, record, and publish his own music without the threat of lawsuit?
Fly under the radar and hope?
Seriously, it's hard to know if you've invented a new riff, or something you heard in grade school seeped it's way up through your unconsciousness and planted itself into your new composition.
It's entirely possible that the CEO and his cronies are making more money at RIM than they could anywhere else, at any time, even if they drive the company into the ground.
If that's the case, they are going to hold on for dear life with both hands, the company and stockholders be damned.
Capitalism is the best allocator of resources, as long as a free market is maintained. But that qualifier is a big one. Companies use every trick they can to manipulate us and to consolidate their power. Just as government cannot be trusted, companies cannot be trusted.
Very few people who say they are capitalists, really are. Most are monopolists in capitalist clothing.
Capitalism is a contest, like a track race. Imagine a track star that wanted to "win" by crippling his opponents, rather than running faster than they do. Monopolists want to eliminate the competition, then sit back and "win" without having to do any of that difficult running stuff.
No, the first to get caught. There were worms that only went so far, then self destructed. But, they're secret.
Because computer worms and viruses are prior art for P2P networks. It's not difficult to imagine a program that is just like a worm, but uses authorized channels to distribute software. An authorized virus could be used to apply OS patches.
The copied songs might be owned by the same uber holding company that owns the original.
Or the new artists got permission, but the original artist didn't want to be associated with that crap, but needed to get paid.
Or the "original" and the copy both are using a well known ancient riff. (See Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Dani California" and Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
Robert Heinlein said, "Steal from the best, and file off the serial numbers".
Back in 7th grade the teacher wanted us to show our work. Most of the time I could figure out the stuff in my head, so I didn't want to do that. In order to freak out the teacher, I memorized the multiplication table of (single digit) * 3.14
After that I could write stuff like 67*pi = 188.40 + 21.98 = 210.38 (vertically)
The teacher never commented on showing my work after that...
If software patents do not promote the progress of science and useful arts are they not unconstitutional ?
Lawrence Lessig tried to argue that about retroactive copyright extension before the Supreme Court. He lost.
Make it symmetrical, and make them test it with a sight impaired person. USB dropped the ball on this big-time.
It can be round, like a barrel connector, or just rectangular and have the pins symmetrical. Like having several positive pins on the inside, and ground pins on the outside. Make communications pins bi-directional.
USB should have done this. I'm always needing to plug in a USB connector under a table or somewhere it's too dark. Also, as I get older, my eyes don't focus close in as well as they used to. USB also shouldn't be the same width as an RJ45.
Apple's patent is for that *On a Computer*
Wikipedia isn't sued because they'd just stop using the image, and that would cause there to be less overall infringement. The copyright owner of a little used work *wants* their copyright to be violated by someone who puts it on a physical object, so that it would be expensive to recall.
Any decent copyright/patent/trademark law overhaul should have standards for corroborative works, so that people wishing to buy rights to a work, don't have to contract with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that contributed to a work. (T., D., and H. all deserve a cut, but a fair cut)
*Free the WKRP Soundtrack!!!*
Yep, they already have a system for doing this on airplanes. It supplements the black boxes so that if a plane goes down in the ocean, you can get the data even if you can't find the black box. Airlines are already thinking about using the system to do real-time analysis.
All the space shots had data like this. What's new about this?
All the media that no one remembers, die. I'm sure Ogg the caveman scratched marks into a boulder that meant something to him, but nobody else knows how to decipher it.
There could easily be media sitting in someone's attic that can't be read on any working hardware. (Or a farmer's barn, I've seen old computers gathering dust on a farm)
I'm sure they'll never be allowed to practice law in Canada. (or Zimbabwe, or certain parts of Lichtenstein)