MS just needs to keep releasing security "bug" fixes that slow your machines down. Written properly, even faster hardware won't fix this. (i.e. wait for N tics on the RTC) Eventually people will have to switch. Of course, when XP stops working, a lot of people and companies will switch to Linux or MacOS X.
When my youngest was 2 or 3, she was able to shutdown an XP machine with a couple of keystrokes with or without metakeys. I still don't know how she did it.
Congress could easily put the orphaned book deal into law, whereby anyone could declare a book orphaned to a government agency that would look the book up in what's currently being published. If it's not, you would pay a royalty to that agency, who would keep the money in escrow in case the copyright owner comes forward. If and when they do, they could make a deal with you to keep publishing, or politely ask you to stop. Such a law would be a much better deal than a specific settlement between one company and the guilds.
Given that few if any people can actually get a job using the skills they learn in English 301 or Philosophy 205, that's not too much of a problem.
Imagine you are a corporate VP for a high tech company, and you need to give a presentation. Are you expected to create all the material you are going to present, or do you delegate it to your worker bees?
It described a Russian-"businessman"-headed network of Filipino paper-writers, most paid between $1 and $3 a page, who are able to market their services to the West through a web site [bestessays.com] and remote call centers. At $20/page to the end-user, with no possibility of plagiarism detection, I think that most desperate students would find this a good deal. In my opinion, ghostwriting will supplant plagiarism as time goes on.
We're already there. Many small town newspapers don't have writing staffs anymore. They email the facts and transcripts to exactly the kind of service that you are talking about. One or two in house editors is all it takes to run a newspaper.
I heard Brian Kernighan at a lecture talk about this. He and another researcher created the exact same 12 line subroutine once.
Arthur Clarke and Charles Sheffield published science fiction stories that introduced space elevators within 6 months of each other. Since the 2nd was written before the 1st was published, there's no way either could have copied from the other.
The best cheaters have names like Shakespeare and Heinlein. File off the serial numbers, change the body lines a bit, give it a new paint job, switch it over the state line, and it's yours!
I'm sure I can find a similar example where non-computerized health records lead to bad care
I've seen reports that tens of thousands of people are seriously injured or die because the pharmacist can't read the physician's hand written prescription.
I recently took my daughter to the doctor for pink eye. After he had diagnosed it, he used his laptop to send the script to the Target pharmacy without any paper in between. At Target, they know how old my daughter is, and the computer can double check that the dosage is appropriate.
Internet informed patients help solve this problem. Of course the Internet also helps people go off half-cocked about the dangers of vaccines and such.
ncoherent database design isolates patient information from one department to the next and from one organization to the next. This wastes time and increases errors because medical personnel must enter patient information into a unique view of the system that corresponded to user identity and department - this prevents one medical professional from seeing patient information input by another medical professional.
There's not much point in a computerized records system if the information can't be shared, it might as well be on paper, locked in a filing cabinet.
Keep the OSI model in mind, errors at the physical layer cause the whole stack to collapse.
You young whippersnappers. Back in my day, we just threw bits at a piece of hardline coax cable and *hoped* that some would come through at the other end. Our software at the upper layers of the OSI model had to be robust enough to handle some errors because they happened all the time.
That's a great idea. I'd willing submit my old papers to TurnItIn, then leave them where students could plagiarize from them if I'd get some money for it every time they got caught.
The MIG-23 is a awesome jet, but if we wanted any secrets from it, all we had to do was buy one for $20,000 and a case of vodka during the breakup of the Soviet Union.
During the cold war, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool. Good counter-spies have bad data available for immediate use.
So yes, we do leave classified data around for spies to find. But it's been modified. With something like a fighter jet, the frequencies of the radar systems may have been altered so that the enemy will be looking in the wrong place.
During the cold war, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.
Good counter-spies have bad data available for immediate use.
Yep, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.
Yep, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.
"If a soldier is shot in an ambush, the first thing he will think of doing will be to send a help request over the radio," observes Brochi. "What if he's trying to call for help and two truckers are discussing soccer? In an emergency, that soldier won't be able to remember quickly how to change the radio programming to look for a frequency that's not saturated."
What if he's shot in the field and the *enemy* saturates all the frequencies? This should have been secure from the get go, anything less is criminal.
Right, they'll never take you to court, because they're wrong. No-one has ever been fined for not paying a use tax here in Virginia, and I doubt anywhere else. If they actually had to prove that the tax was legal, they would risk it being declared unconstitutional and the suckers that pay the tax would stop.
The SCOTUS could easily rule that the federal sales tax must be uniform. They could disallow congress from allowing the states all their different state/city/county taxes.
Then they would have to have a uniform federal tax that is somehow rebated back to the states that are involved in the purchase. Congress can't just "allow" the states to get around the constitution.
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MS just needs to keep releasing security "bug" fixes that slow your machines down. Written properly, even faster hardware won't fix this. (i.e. wait for N tics on the RTC) Eventually people will have to switch. Of course, when XP stops working, a lot of people and companies will switch to Linux or MacOS X.
When my youngest was 2 or 3, she was able to shutdown an XP machine with a couple of keystrokes with or without metakeys. I still don't know how she did it.
So if I wanted to build an offline gaming machine for my 4 year old, I just have to keep setting the data backwards. (or reinstalling)
Of course, graphics based games are the most likely programs to be sensitive to a new OS.
In most languages copulation isn't an expletive. A native German speaker told me that the worst he could think of was "Go to the Devil", in Deutch.
one high-ranking official skeptical of the rocket-cushioned approach to landing reportedly used an unprintable expletive to
I only know enough Cyrillic to recongize it, I can't actually read Russian.
Imagine, an expletive so vial it transcends language barriers.
Check out compulsory licenses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
Congress could easily put the orphaned book deal into law, whereby anyone could declare a book orphaned to a government agency that would look the book up in what's currently being published. If it's not, you would pay a royalty to that agency, who would keep the money in escrow in case the copyright owner comes forward. If and when they do, they could make a deal with you to keep publishing, or politely ask you to stop. Such a law would be a much better deal than a specific settlement between one company and the guilds.
Given that few if any people can actually get a job using the skills they learn in English 301 or Philosophy 205, that's not too much of a problem.
Imagine you are a corporate VP for a high tech company, and you need to give a presentation. Are you expected to create all the material you are going to present, or do you delegate it to your worker bees?
It described a Russian-"businessman"-headed network of Filipino paper-writers, most paid between $1 and $3 a page, who are able to market their services to the West through a web site [bestessays.com] and remote call centers. At $20/page to the end-user, with no possibility of plagiarism detection, I think that most desperate students would find this a good deal. In my opinion, ghostwriting will supplant plagiarism as time goes on.
We're already there. Many small town newspapers don't have writing staffs anymore. They email the facts and transcripts to exactly the kind of service that you are talking about. One or two in house editors is all it takes to run a newspaper.
I heard Brian Kernighan at a lecture talk about this. He and another researcher created the exact same 12 line subroutine once.
Arthur Clarke and Charles Sheffield published science fiction stories that introduced space elevators within 6 months of each other. Since the 2nd was written before the 1st was published, there's no way either could have copied from the other.
The best cheaters have names like Shakespeare and Heinlein. File off the serial numbers, change the body lines a bit, give it a new paint job, switch it over the state line, and it's yours!
I'm sure I can find a similar example where non-computerized health records lead to bad care
I've seen reports that tens of thousands of people are seriously injured or die because the pharmacist can't read the physician's hand written prescription.
I recently took my daughter to the doctor for pink eye. After he had diagnosed it, he used his laptop to send the script to the Target pharmacy without any paper in between. At Target, they know how old my daughter is, and the computer can double check that the dosage is appropriate.
Internet informed patients help solve this problem. Of course the Internet also helps people go off half-cocked about the dangers of vaccines and such.
ncoherent database design isolates patient information from one department to the next and from one organization to the next. This wastes time and increases errors because medical personnel must enter patient information into a unique view of the system that corresponded to user identity and department - this prevents one medical professional from seeing patient information input by another medical professional.
There's not much point in a computerized records system if the information can't be shared, it might as well be on paper, locked in a filing cabinet.
Gods yes. And not to mention that 80% of them are from 2006 or earlier.
Uuuugh, so true. Worse still, about 60% or more of those newbie questions remain unanswered years after they were asked!
There's probably a study here... If a question isn't answered in the first NN hours, I doubt it will ever be answered.
Keep the OSI model in mind, errors at the physical layer cause the whole stack to collapse.
You young whippersnappers. Back in my day, we just threw bits at a piece of hardline coax cable and *hoped* that some would come through at the other end. Our software at the upper layers of the OSI model had to be robust enough to handle some errors because they happened all the time.
That's a great idea. I'd willing submit my old papers to TurnItIn, then leave them where students could plagiarize from them if I'd get some money for it every time they got caught.
The MIG-23 is a awesome jet, but if we wanted any secrets from it, all we had to do was buy one for $20,000 and a case of vodka during the breakup of the Soviet Union.
During the cold war, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002 Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool. Good counter-spies have bad data available for immediate use.
So yes, we do leave classified data around for spies to find. But it's been modified. With something like a fighter jet, the frequencies of the radar systems may have been altered so that the enemy will be looking in the wrong place.
During the cold war, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool. Good counter-spies have bad data available for immediate use.
Yep, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.
Yep, the US got wind that the Soviets were stealing natural gas pipeline control software, so they let them steal a version that had a logic bomb in it. When it blew up, it caused the largest non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
Anyone who uses the stolen data is a fool.
"If a soldier is shot in an ambush, the first thing he will think of doing will be to send a help request over the radio," observes Brochi. "What if he's trying to call for help and two truckers are discussing soccer? In an emergency, that soldier won't be able to remember quickly how to change the radio programming to look for a frequency that's not saturated."
What if he's shot in the field and the *enemy* saturates all the frequencies? This should have been secure from the get go, anything less is criminal.
Right, they'll never take you to court, because they're wrong. No-one has ever been fined for not paying a use tax here in Virginia, and I doubt anywhere else. If they actually had to prove that the tax was legal, they would risk it being declared unconstitutional and the suckers that pay the tax would stop.
The SCOTUS could easily rule that the federal sales tax must be uniform. They could disallow congress from allowing the states all their different state/city/county taxes.
Then they would have to have a uniform federal tax that is somehow rebated back to the states that are involved in the purchase. Congress can't just "allow" the states to get around the constitution.