Whether we imagine aliens to be friend of foe tells a lot about our own perception and mind set. And this perception changed dramatically over the decades up to a point where pop culture (or sci-fi too) overwhelmingly considers aliens to be a threat. It wasn't so earlier. How comes that?
Another point to ponder is this: if an alien culture were able to travel faster than light (and receive our signals before they arrived, but let's not be distracted by that), they would also be immensely more advanced than us, and would have paid us a (deadly of friendly) visit a long time ago since we started radio and TV broadcasting... if they thought we were worthy enough for a visit at all.
I mean, this is the NSA we're talking about. They're on YOUR side.
Now that's a US-centric view. What about non-US slashdotters, you insensitive clod? But seriously, the guys who brought us SE-Linux, TrustedBSD's MAC framework et. al. can't be all that bad. Yes, they're on OUR side, kind of.
This reminds me of SUN's incredibly silly decision to remove their C compiler from SunOS when they shipped Solaris, so that one had to jump through hoops just to find a suitable gcc binary because you couldn't bootstrap gcc without a compiler. Sure, GIMP is not so crucial, but still...
There's an official place where laws are being published and displayed, and there are unofficial services that duplicate those laws, so it is more convenient to check them out. The official place could be something like a well defined place in your city hall.... or in the basement of the local planning department on Alpha Centauri:
There's no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.
In 2014 they'll be asking Congress to close the "cash hole"
All it takes to close the "cash hole" is 1.) Congress declaring war on tax evaders, and 2.) a little help from mass media i.e. stirring up a little terrorism, child pr0n or whatever hysteria. Eventually, anonymous money (cash) as we know it will disappear in a post-ACTA world.
No need to wait until the screen produces light, and camcord that. You can get a much better result electrically: every LCD-based display has some chip that drives the individual pixels. That chip's output is by design a high quality unencrypted electrical signal... that can be easily captured by another chip. It can be even easier than that: on some sets, at least two ICs are being used: one to decrypt the DRMed signal, and another IC to drive the pixels. Both ICs communicate over a bus, and their messages must be unencrypted. That too can be easily sniffed off the bus.
Who knows, maybe the HELLO message will eventually include a flag that says that the server shouldn't push anything to the client. We're already talking about how to rate-limit anything speculative like this
How would you implement this rate-limit across a distributed server farm? Won't you need to propagate client's choke message to all involved servers? Or is this per connection only? And if so, what about anycast connections?
Granted, a year is a lot, particularly if your alternative during that year is "starvation."
The US strategic reserve (i.e. the not yet pumped reserves on US soil) will probably last longer, as it will be reserved to power the military and a (very) few couple of vital industries. Don't expect the civilian population and industry to be able to access it.
The problem is that these places are all about censorship (or worse), and they couldn't really be trusted to honor an agreement to be a safe harbor...
Absolutely. In those countries, it's all about who has deeper pockets. TPB founders vs. MAFIAA w.r.t. bribes necessary to prevail in such countries? That's a no brainer who'll win... Unless you pick a resourceful country with a leader that is fanatically opposed to the US, like, say, Venezuela? Of course, they could lose their national internet connection(s), but if they have enough petrodollars, they'll be able to launch their own network of relay satellites (hint, hint...).
TCP/IP can't tell apart copyrighted data and non copyrighted data.
Newsflash: IPv4 and IPv6 will be deprecated in favor of IPv7, which will mandate a "Copyrighted" flag in each IPv7 packet header. Routers will have to ask permission from the Central Copyright Authority anycast server(s) run by ICANN(WIPO-branch) before forwarding any IPv7 packet with the copyright flag set.
My point being that 100 cores, while it sounds impressive, you get a diminished return after a few cores.
Yes, indeed. The memory bus is usually the bottleneck here... unless you switch from SMP to NUMA architecture, which seems necessary for anything with more than, say, 8 to 16 cores.
Using many of those as SOHO routers, running mpd5, postfix, lighttpd, cyrus-imapd, nptd, etc, etc. etc... Very neat. I'm planning to replace some HDDs with SSDs though, esp. for some net4801's in the field.
Security Admin: Upper management doesn't understand the risk these vulnerabilities pose and we can't get funding to get it fixed. We need it demonstrated through videos and screenshots, exactly what sort of damage can be done by a single attacker given 1 week to exploit this application.
Oh yes! That's what the Taliban did to a whole country.
Well, with all the NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Royalties-Taliban have less natural enemies at home. No wonder they get raise their ugly heads now.
Is copyright as it exists today out of balance? I think so. Is this story an example of that imbalance? Well, since its resolution was correct I guess I'd have to say "no".
I beg to disagree. For every positive resolution of copyright-related conflicts, there are hundreds of cases that don't make it to the press, which don't have such a happy ending.
This case is not typical for its resolution; its beginning and evolving up to the point it became widely published are.
Furthermore, did they think that there was some way that women attendees would be perfectly comfortable watching other women objectified on a stage?
We're not in the 60ies, 70ies or 80ies mindset anymore. Gender doesn't matter w.r.t. on how to view the show. Some male attendees may have considered this degrading for the dancers, while some female attendees may have enjoyed it. Who knows?...
... and, frankly, who cares? All this being much ado about nothing.
Except that something like com/example/foo/bar/baz is not uniquely resolvable. It could translate to foo.example.com/bar/baz, or to example.com/foo/bar/bz... IMHO, a unique delimiter between hostname and the path on that hostname would be necessary.
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Whether we imagine aliens to be friend of foe tells a lot about our own perception and mind set. And this perception changed dramatically over the decades up to a point where pop culture (or sci-fi too) overwhelmingly considers aliens to be a threat. It wasn't so earlier. How comes that? Another point to ponder is this: if an alien culture were able to travel faster than light (and receive our signals before they arrived, but let's not be distracted by that), they would also be immensely more advanced than us, and would have paid us a (deadly of friendly) visit a long time ago since we started radio and TV broadcasting... if they thought we were worthy enough for a visit at all.
Now that's a US-centric view. What about non-US slashdotters, you insensitive clod? But seriously, the guys who brought us SE-Linux, TrustedBSD's MAC framework et. al. can't be all that bad. Yes, they're on OUR side, kind of.
This reminds me of SUN's incredibly silly decision to remove their C compiler from SunOS when they shipped Solaris, so that one had to jump through hoops just to find a suitable gcc binary because you couldn't bootstrap gcc without a compiler. Sure, GIMP is not so crucial, but still...
All it takes to close the "cash hole" is 1.) Congress declaring war on tax evaders, and 2.) a little help from mass media i.e. stirring up a little terrorism, child pr0n or whatever hysteria. Eventually, anonymous money (cash) as we know it will disappear in a post-ACTA world.
No need to wait until the screen produces light, and camcord that. You can get a much better result electrically: every LCD-based display has some chip that drives the individual pixels. That chip's output is by design a high quality unencrypted electrical signal... that can be easily captured by another chip. It can be even easier than that: on some sets, at least two ICs are being used: one to decrypt the DRMed signal, and another IC to drive the pixels. Both ICs communicate over a bus, and their messages must be unencrypted. That too can be easily sniffed off the bus.
How would you implement this rate-limit across a distributed server farm? Won't you need to propagate client's choke message to all involved servers? Or is this per connection only? And if so, what about anycast connections?
In the real world, many fundamental RFCs are being co-authored by (engineers working at) corporations. Just pay attention to the authors' section.
The US strategic reserve (i.e. the not yet pumped reserves on US soil) will probably last longer, as it will be reserved to power the military and a (very) few couple of vital industries. Don't expect the civilian population and industry to be able to access it.
Interesting. Looks like good ole www/youtube-dl port on FreeBSD... just for a lot more sites.
How about GiNaC?
Absolutely. In those countries, it's all about who has deeper pockets. TPB founders vs. MAFIAA w.r.t. bribes necessary to prevail in such countries? That's a no brainer who'll win... Unless you pick a resourceful country with a leader that is fanatically opposed to the US, like, say, Venezuela? Of course, they could lose their national internet connection(s), but if they have enough petrodollars, they'll be able to launch their own network of relay satellites (hint, hint...).
Newsflash: IPv4 and IPv6 will be deprecated in favor of IPv7, which will mandate a "Copyrighted" flag in each IPv7 packet header. Routers will have to ask permission from the Central Copyright Authority anycast server(s) run by ICANN(WIPO-branch) before forwarding any IPv7 packet with the copyright flag set.
Yes, indeed. The memory bus is usually the bottleneck here... unless you switch from SMP to NUMA architecture, which seems necessary for anything with more than, say, 8 to 16 cores.
Using many of those as SOHO routers, running mpd5, postfix, lighttpd, cyrus-imapd, nptd, etc, etc. etc... Very neat. I'm planning to replace some HDDs with SSDs though, esp. for some net4801's in the field.
No, the reason it won't happen is that Google is basically an advertising business, and they'd be loosing just too many users.
But I kind of like the idea of Google trying to educate the largest European economy what kind of laws it should adopt.
Right. SUN claims trademark over a thermonuclear reactor in the midst of our solar system.
A true maid spy always carries a screwdriver^H Multivolt/Multisocket AC adapter around.
From Sneakers (1992):
Bank Secretary: So, people hire you to break into their places... to make sure no one can break into their places?
Martin Bishop: It's a living.
Bank Secretary: Not a very good one.
Well, with all the NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Royalties-Taliban have less natural enemies at home. No wonder they get raise their ugly heads now.
I beg to disagree. For every positive resolution of copyright-related conflicts, there are hundreds of cases that don't make it to the press, which don't have such a happy ending.
This case is not typical for its resolution; its beginning and evolving up to the point it became widely published are.
We're not in the 60ies, 70ies or 80ies mindset anymore. Gender doesn't matter w.r.t. on how to view the show. Some male attendees may have considered this degrading for the dancers, while some female attendees may have enjoyed it. Who knows?...
Except that something like com/example/foo/bar/baz is not uniquely resolvable. It could translate to foo.example.com/bar/baz, or to example.com/foo/bar/bz... IMHO, a unique delimiter between hostname and the path on that hostname would be necessary.
This particular point is just the result of the US (and nearly every other nations') implementation of the Berne Convention.
Google's machines consist of regular single-PC boards? How quaint!
Seriously, doesn't Google use high performance servers, which are an entirely type of beast anyway?