The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes illegal for health insurers to discriminate based on genetic testing but life insurance, disability insurance or long-term-care insurance companies can.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2013/January/18/genetic-testing.aspx
Those companies might find it profitable to deny insurance because you have the same name as someone in a genetic database. If they can eliminate the few people that might get some rare disease, it might be better for them in spite of the few false positives.
If you can't make the bible say what you want it to say, you're not reading it right. "Beware of false prophets" applies to *everyone* who disagrees with you.
There's more and more evidence that people who "Have Never Been Sick a Day in Their Lives", are in fact, typhoid Marys. They get colds and the flu just like the rest of us, but their immune systems don't go into overdrive, and they don't have symptoms, but they do spread germs to everyone else. Here's an article w.r.t. SARS http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971211000245
"Works that are designed for use doing practical jobs must be free; "... uhmm... and that would be because...??
It's a Philosophical starting point, like arguing for Democracy over Monarchy. It'd be very, very, difficult to experimentally determine which system is really better under all circumstances, so we resort to thought experiments.
RMS assumes that Freedom is better than Slavery, even if you are offered many shiny baubles to sign over your freedom.
Version A has a bug, so the code is deleted and replaced with Version B.
Version B also has a bug, and gets replaced with Version A.
In an ideal world, before every change, someone would look at the previous versions. Leaving the commented code in helps prevent back and forth code fixes.
Getting insurance for you satellite that's being launched on a well tested, commercial rocket it easy, just pay for it. If 5% are expected to fail, expect to pay a bit more than 5% of the value of the satellite. For 100% of the cost, you have a 5% chance of losing everything, for 105 + N% of the cost, you have a 0% chance of losing everything.
If you are the first to use a given launch system, the insurance company is going to set N to a large value. If the rocket has people on it, the insurance company can't use a fixed number for the value of the payload. People + 1st launch = extremely expensive insurance.
This is where a new law can step in and set the value of the payload. It might be 0. (the sucks to be you law). It might be 1x yearly earnings, thus you and I could get insurance for the launch, but Bill Gates couldn't.
There cannot be any proof, it is obviously impossible to distinguish between "simulated" and "real" reality
Not that obvious to me. You're assuming the simulators have made a perfect simulation, which they may not have done. Or they could leave deliberate clues, if they so wished, which would help us distinguish simulation and reality....
Why do you assume reality is "perfect"? Perhaps inconsistent results is part of the built-in quantum randomness of the Universe.
Except that if they really can crack the underlying encryption of PGP, they can crack anything like PGP. Since this exploits keys lying around in memory or page space, only those products that don't actively manage keys have the vulnerability.
AFAIK, the machine encryption used at the company I work for, scambles and re-encrypts the keys when you suspend or hibernate your machine. It also clears the CPU caches and registers. Any attacker with a Lead Pipe could take your machine while you were working on it, but that's a problem for all mobile computing.
So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. You’ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off.
That's not really cracking. It's more like looking under the keyboard for sticky-notes.
That, I think is the key to why Perl is still around.
Shell scripts are quick and easy, they work and play well with others, but they quickly get unmaintainable after a page or two.
Perl has local variables, real functions, and it also works and plays well with others.
You really can do 90+% of everything you might want to do in Perl. Add in C code if you need something to be very fast, and you're up to 95+%. Well written Perl is no less readable than any other computer language, and more readable than most.
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That's the case with most object oriented languages these days. OO Perl is the worse. It's not just the language, it's the culture.
Instead of a simple A() calls B() and C() to do work, where B() and C() do real work, I've seen code where B() and C() are almost empty, relying on strange language contructs known only to true believers and their IDEs.
EFF's Opsahl says the new policy runs afoul of his group's voluntary best practices for social networks. He added: "Hopefully at some point we'll get greater clarity from Facebook and Instagram."
Could they be any more clear? "We own everything, bwaa-haa-haa"?
I'm sure this is just a polite way of saying, "What the f*ck do you think you are doing? Stop this sh*t now!".
Many science fiction authors has said "If this continues..." and studied what would happen if automation took all the jobs. Some are utopian and some are distopian.
Interestingly, the economist Paul Krugman was influenced by an early Heinlein story about a goverment that had to actually destroy wealth in order to keep the economy flowing.
The trick for individuals is to survive the transition from a work based economy to an automated economy. I suspect that wealth will flow to people who own land and things, as there is less and less oportunity to create.
Alternately, the RIAA, MPAA, and **AA, will take over, buy the elections, and we'll all be slaves to the managers that control the creative class.
What economist says that "technology cannot cause unemployment", instead saying that on average technology transfers jobs from low to high skilled?
Any economist at all will at least give lip service to the fact that local changes can cause temporary disruptions in economies.
It's the long term forecast that they argue over.
It's like the difference between weather and climate change.
The problem is that a local job change, like a tornado, can kill you before conditions normalize.
Multics was the grandfather of Unix, and had many security features built in that were left out of Unix. It did require hardware support to keep the rings separate, but that's a good thing.
I've wondered about that. My wife wants me to click no to the political ads and others she doesn't want to see.
The way I figure it, if you click yes, it means you are already a customer, so they don't need to spend money advertising to you. If you click no, you need to be convinced.
Real gunshots will cause more than discomfort. I knew a guy that was deaf in one year because a "friend" of his fired a shotgun alongside him, "Just to scare him".
These days, the director of a war movie isn't happy unless 10% of the audience leaves with PTSD.
Although from what I've learned from BBC television shows, the British use 999, so I doubt 911 & 112 is an exhaustive list. Still, why not have a dozen emergency phone numbers?
Diplomatic immunity is granted by a country to diplomats THEY AGREE to have in their country. It's not some magic power all foreign state employees get.
Maybe. It'd be an interesting test case.
I imagine a diplomat from country A, that was in country B, and got chucked into country C, would still have his immunity and would be shipped back to country A, along with many strongly worded letters. As long as country A, B, and C were "friendly", he wouldn't be arrested.
Once arrested, I don't think there's a case of retroactive DI, but Julian hasn't been arrested. If Australian grants Assange DI, and Ecuador agrees, then he *is* a diplomat. If Ecuador then kicks him out of their "country", then I don't think England could arrest him without causing friction from Australia. Of course, the Aussies might publically complain, and send their own strongly worded letter to Britain, and that would be that.
Actually, I could see all this happening, in the unlikely event Asange does get elected. After he's disappeared to Sweden, Australia and Britain just say, "Our bad, won't happen again", and the whole thing will blow over.
It's also a question of difficulty. Could the police reasonably have faked DNA evidence? A DNA testing lab might be able to, but the average bobby probably not (yet). On the other hand faking electrical hum is almost trivial, easily done in Audacity. You don't need access to the database, just a recording of your own made at the time you want to fake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7966641.stm
One woman's DNA was found at more than 40 crime scenes across Germany. The police thought they had a serial killer but it turned out the DNA was from cotton swabs used to collect DNA had been contaminated accidently by a woman working at an unidentified factory.
This wasn't intentional, but it doesn't take a leap to figure out how this might be used to point suspicion at a person. You don't have to convict someone to ruin their life.
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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes illegal for health insurers to discriminate based on genetic testing but life insurance, disability insurance or long-term-care insurance companies can.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2013/January/18/genetic-testing.aspx
Those companies might find it profitable to deny insurance because you have the same name as someone in a genetic database. If they can eliminate the few people that might get some rare disease, it might be better for them in spite of the few false positives.
If you can't make the bible say what you want it to say, you're not reading it right. "Beware of false prophets" applies to *everyone* who disagrees with you.
There's more and more evidence that people who "Have Never Been Sick a Day in Their Lives", are in fact, typhoid Marys. They get colds and the flu just like the rest of us, but their immune systems don't go into overdrive, and they don't have symptoms, but they do spread germs to everyone else. Here's an article w.r.t. SARS http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971211000245
"Works that are designed for use doing practical jobs must be free; " ... uhmm... and that would be because...??
It's a Philosophical starting point, like arguing for Democracy over Monarchy. It'd be very, very, difficult to experimentally determine which system is really better under all circumstances, so we resort to thought experiments.
RMS assumes that Freedom is better than Slavery, even if you are offered many shiny baubles to sign over your freedom.
Version A has a bug, so the code is deleted and replaced with Version B.
Version B also has a bug, and gets replaced with Version A.
In an ideal world, before every change, someone would look at the previous versions. Leaving the commented code in helps prevent back and forth code fixes.
Your right, but...
Getting insurance for you satellite that's being launched on a well tested, commercial rocket it easy, just pay for it. If 5% are expected to fail, expect to pay a bit more than 5% of the value of the satellite. For 100% of the cost, you have a 5% chance of losing everything, for 105 + N% of the cost, you have a 0% chance of losing everything.
If you are the first to use a given launch system, the insurance company is going to set N to a large value. If the rocket has people on it, the insurance company can't use a fixed number for the value of the payload. People + 1st launch = extremely expensive insurance.
This is where a new law can step in and set the value of the payload. It might be 0. (the sucks to be you law). It might be 1x yearly earnings, thus you and I could get insurance for the launch, but Bill Gates couldn't.
Also, you have to build it before the patent will come.
This, "Let's patent a crazy idea about a brain interface that reads your every thought", without even a plan to build a prototype is nonsense.
There cannot be any proof, it is obviously impossible to distinguish between "simulated" and "real" reality
Not that obvious to me. You're assuming the simulators have made a perfect simulation, which they may not have done. Or they could leave deliberate clues, if they so wished, which would help us distinguish simulation and reality. ...
Why do you assume reality is "perfect"? Perhaps inconsistent results is part of the built-in quantum randomness of the Universe.
Except that if they really can crack the underlying encryption of PGP, they can crack anything like PGP. Since this exploits keys lying around in memory or page space, only those products that don't actively manage keys have the vulnerability.
AFAIK, the machine encryption used at the company I work for, scambles and re-encrypts the keys when you suspend or hibernate your machine. It also clears the CPU caches and registers. Any attacker with a Lead Pipe could take your machine while you were working on it, but that's a problem for all mobile computing.
So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. You’ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off.
That's not really cracking. It's more like looking under the keyboard for sticky-notes.
That, I think is the key to why Perl is still around.
Shell scripts are quick and easy, they work and play well with others, but they quickly get unmaintainable after a page or two.
Perl has local variables, real functions, and it also works and plays well with others.
You really can do 90+% of everything you might want to do in Perl. Add in C code if you need something to be very fast, and you're up to 95+%. Well written Perl is no less readable than any other computer language, and more readable than most.
That's the case with most object oriented languages these days. OO Perl is the worse. It's not just the language, it's the culture.
Instead of a simple A() calls B() and C() to do work, where B() and C() do real work, I've seen code where B() and C() are almost empty, relying on strange language contructs known only to true believers and their IDEs.
Mostly inertia and a great set of libraries in CPAN.
There's even a Perl library that will hold your C code, compile it when needed, and make it easy to use.
Perl just plain works and plays well with others. Compare and contrast that with Java or Smalltalk.
EFF's Opsahl says the new policy runs afoul of his group's voluntary best practices for social networks. He added: "Hopefully at some point we'll get greater clarity from Facebook and Instagram."
Could they be any more clear? "We own everything, bwaa-haa-haa"?
I'm sure this is just a polite way of saying, "What the f*ck do you think you are doing? Stop this sh*t now!".
Isn't anonymous donation the problem with the "SuperPAC"s?
While I'm sure this will only gather penny ante donations, do they have rules for extremely large donations?
Many science fiction authors has said "If this continues..." and studied what would happen if automation took all the jobs. Some are utopian and some are distopian.
Interestingly, the economist Paul Krugman was influenced by an early Heinlein story about a goverment that had to actually destroy wealth in order to keep the economy flowing.
The trick for individuals is to survive the transition from a work based economy to an automated economy. I suspect that wealth will flow to people who own land and things, as there is less and less oportunity to create.
Alternately, the RIAA, MPAA, and **AA, will take over, buy the elections, and we'll all be slaves to the managers that control the creative class.
What economist says that "technology cannot cause unemployment", instead saying that on average technology transfers jobs from low to high skilled?
Any economist at all will at least give lip service to the fact that local changes can cause temporary disruptions in economies. It's the long term forecast that they argue over.
It's like the difference between weather and climate change.
The problem is that a local job change, like a tornado, can kill you before conditions normalize.
And forensic investigators will shoot or burn pigs to simulate human flesh, although they mostly use already slaughtered bodies.
Personally, I think he protests too much.
Multics was the grandfather of Unix, and had many security features built in that were left out of Unix. It did require hardware support to keep the rings separate, but that's a good thing.
I've wondered about that. My wife wants me to click no to the political ads and others she doesn't want to see.
The way I figure it, if you click yes, it means you are already a customer, so they don't need to spend money advertising to you. If you click no, you need to be convinced.
Real gunshots will cause more than discomfort. I knew a guy that was deaf in one year because a "friend" of his fired a shotgun alongside him, "Just to scare him".
These days, the director of a war movie isn't happy unless 10% of the audience leaves with PTSD.
This.
Although from what I've learned from BBC television shows, the British use 999, so I doubt 911 & 112 is an exhaustive list. Still, why not have a dozen emergency phone numbers?
Diplomatic immunity is granted by a country to diplomats THEY AGREE to have in their country. It's not some magic power all foreign state employees get.
Maybe. It'd be an interesting test case.
I imagine a diplomat from country A, that was in country B, and got chucked into country C, would still have his immunity and would be shipped back to country A, along with many strongly worded letters. As long as country A, B, and C were "friendly", he wouldn't be arrested.
Once arrested, I don't think there's a case of retroactive DI, but Julian hasn't been arrested. If Australian grants Assange DI, and Ecuador agrees, then he *is* a diplomat. If Ecuador then kicks him out of their "country", then I don't think England could arrest him without causing friction from Australia. Of course, the Aussies might publically complain, and send their own strongly worded letter to Britain, and that would be that.
Actually, I could see all this happening, in the unlikely event Asange does get elected. After he's disappeared to Sweden, Australia and Britain just say, "Our bad, won't happen again", and the whole thing will blow over.
10%, or tithing, has a many thousand year history.
He may have arbitrarily picked from many different tax schemes, but he did not "make it up"
It's also a question of difficulty. Could the police reasonably have faked DNA evidence? A DNA testing lab might be able to, but the average bobby probably not (yet). On the other hand faking electrical hum is almost trivial, easily done in Audacity. You don't need access to the database, just a recording of your own made at the time you want to fake.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7966641.stm One woman's DNA was found at more than 40 crime scenes across Germany. The police thought they had a serial killer but it turned out the DNA was from cotton swabs used to collect DNA had been contaminated accidently by a woman working at an unidentified factory.
This wasn't intentional, but it doesn't take a leap to figure out how this might be used to point suspicion at a person. You don't have to convict someone to ruin their life.