... to point out the systems that should not be trusted. IMO, there is nobody I'll trust to tell me that a system is safe. Only time and repeated inspections will get something close to a state of trust.
Which sounds similar to what Arachnid is doing. The difference being you are buying a h/w chip from TI to do your USB. Two things come to mind: The TI chip is "perhaps" a safer way to go as far as bus compatibility/damage goes. But the USB-IF position might be a result of the existing participants wanting to use this as leverage to push their own hardware instead of a hobbyist bit-banging the USB bus on their own.
Right. And with similar legislation, non-US ISPs will turn away US citizens. No off-shore e-mail accounts or servers. In fact, you might have trouble connecting to WiFi at a European hotel if the NSA has the power to dig through the records of anyone dealing with Americans' data.
That will work until the US Congress passes a law similar to FATCA which compels foreign businesses to turn over financial records involving US persons. So far, few if any foreign countries have attempted to defend their sovereignty to protect Americans. I doubt much will change when it comes to data.
It matters very little anyway. Because the 'big money' is in corporate accounts and corporate data. You and I, as individuals, can't wave a magic legal wand and move ourselves offshore. Corporations can. And that's who the people running offshore banks or data services cater to.
Actually, the real concern here is that we are still building and refining atmospheric and oceanographic models. Models that some people have already tried to use to initiate political and economic changes.
Good science, just too early to use for anything important.
They will probably be scraping up the IP addresses of everyone who visits your site. You could make your life easier if you'd co-locate your server with them. They have a nice facility in Utah.
... its incredibly difficult to map rules described in English to software requirements. And in this case, it isn't English, its legalese.
I've done this for engineering applications. In fact I've worked with automated systems that do a pretty good job of automated code generation. But in either the manual or automated case, it takes numerous iterations through the requirements definition phase to capture the inputs (what the customer wants), map these to requirements, discover holes (where a specific case might not be addressed) or conflicts. The solution in these cases is to go back to the customer and get more information. Or in some cases, tell them that 'it just won't work like that'.
Writing legislation, passing a bill and then building a web site doesn't work this way. What do you expect the developers to do? Go back to Congress and ask them to re-write the law if a problem is discovered? I don't think so.
Compare this to tax law. That has had decades to evolve, as a manual system before TurboTax came on the scene. And many of the discrepancies were actually encountered and solved. Just not in software. So when it came time to write code, the regulations (requirements) were well understood and complete.
... that makes such a process carbon neutral or negative is the input of plant matter. The plant matter which, during its life, sequestered carbon from the atmosphere. In that sense, it is better than burning 'old' carbon, which we pump or mine from the ground. But it does introduce competition between food crops and energy crops into an economy.
The crop cycles into which this technology is introduced will have to be examined carefully to evaluate its impact. Is it better to burn or gassify the non-food parts of plants? Or till them back into the soil where microbes can act upon them in symbiosis with the next generation of crops. In the final analysis, we have to figure out how much energy is being diverted from biological (crop) cycles to power a more energy intensive lifestyle.
Right. And the process of rotting (microbes and other small animals eating dead plant matter) releases much of the carbon as CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Why use this for cars? Fixed base load generation is a far better idea (assuming fuel supply and other problems have been solved). And then you can charge an electric car, if you really need one.
Because asking Huawei to build these hooks into their equipment would have tipped the Chinese off about the NSA's capabilities. And they would have an idea where and how all the backdoors in other vendors' systems (in use in the USA) were implemented and how to utilize them.
Even with its own segregated advertising section, the leverage that marketers will gain over Wikipedia management will become irresistible. Its the camel's nose under the tent. Demands from the money source will increase to merge the real content with phony article-formatted ads. Do it or else the money will stop.
But you've already sold your soul to the devil (Microsoft or Apple). The problem here is that some power brokers in the open source world are attempting to follow the same script that the closed source people are stuck with. Not so much init/upstart/systemd, as these don't directly affect end user apps (these are more of a system admin headache). But the Xorg/Mir/Wayland battle is a clear attempt to build frameworks that will capture developers of user apps.
From the point of view of the tablet/phone/gamer crowd, who cares? The markets are big enough so that developers will have to support multiple stacks. Or lose customers. But the high end apps (scientific, engineering, etc.) markets are smaller and more likely to pick one platform and expend their resources on actually providing value to the customer. Microsoft nearly lost this battle early on. But they stuck their nose (and handfulls of cash) into so many boardrooms that apps had to be built for Windows. And the high end s/w developers were distracted from providing customer value to suporting multiple shitty UIs. never again.
Facebook and Google will just form European subsidiaries and separate them from the operations of the US entity to a degree necessary to satisfy EU law. That may eventually mean multiple independent subsidiaries and a parent holding company offshore someplace beyond US intelligence and law enforcement data sharing laws. Only the US subsidiary would have to comply and EU citizens would be directed to sites compliant with their own privacy laws.
I'm more upset with things like the 777 airlines' change from 9 to 10 abreast. I'm short (only 4' 18"), so legroom isn't a problem for me. But I've got wide shoulders and my arms end up hanging into the aisle and over the armrest into the next person's seat. My only solution is to secure an aisle seat and lean out, pissing off the cabin crew and passengers trying to squeeze by.
One of the fixes being made to the new seats is actually a good idea. Reclining the new seats will be done by sliding your butt forward, not tipping the seat back into the next person's space. So overlength passengers will have to make a choice between preserving legroom or sitting upright.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps Facebook needs a "mod down" option.
And Slashdot could use a "-1 OffWithYourHead" option as well.
Which sounds similar to what Arachnid is doing. The difference being you are buying a h/w chip from TI to do your USB. Two things come to mind: The TI chip is "perhaps" a safer way to go as far as bus compatibility/damage goes. But the USB-IF position might be a result of the existing participants wanting to use this as leverage to push their own hardware instead of a hobbyist bit-banging the USB bus on their own.
Right. And with similar legislation, non-US ISPs will turn away US citizens. No off-shore e-mail accounts or servers. In fact, you might have trouble connecting to WiFi at a European hotel if the NSA has the power to dig through the records of anyone dealing with Americans' data.
I've spent the last few decades cultivating a natural reverse Mohawk.
I shaved my head a month ago, and it made me look like 35-45 year old hardened criminal.
That would take a mullet in these parts. Bald is OK in polite society.
That will work until the US Congress passes a law similar to FATCA which compels foreign businesses to turn over financial records involving US persons. So far, few if any foreign countries have attempted to defend their sovereignty to protect Americans. I doubt much will change when it comes to data.
It matters very little anyway. Because the 'big money' is in corporate accounts and corporate data. You and I, as individuals, can't wave a magic legal wand and move ourselves offshore. Corporations can. And that's who the people running offshore banks or data services cater to.
Actually, the real concern here is that we are still building and refining atmospheric and oceanographic models. Models that some people have already tried to use to initiate political and economic changes.
Good science, just too early to use for anything important.
This is what you get for making fun of the NSA.
They will probably be scraping up the IP addresses of everyone who visits your site. You could make your life easier if you'd co-locate your server with them. They have a nice facility in Utah.
I've done this for engineering applications. In fact I've worked with automated systems that do a pretty good job of automated code generation. But in either the manual or automated case, it takes numerous iterations through the requirements definition phase to capture the inputs (what the customer wants), map these to requirements, discover holes (where a specific case might not be addressed) or conflicts. The solution in these cases is to go back to the customer and get more information. Or in some cases, tell them that 'it just won't work like that'.
Writing legislation, passing a bill and then building a web site doesn't work this way. What do you expect the developers to do? Go back to Congress and ask them to re-write the law if a problem is discovered? I don't think so.
Compare this to tax law. That has had decades to evolve, as a manual system before TurboTax came on the scene. And many of the discrepancies were actually encountered and solved. Just not in software. So when it came time to write code, the regulations (requirements) were well understood and complete.
You check your watch for incoming messages. You look at your phone to check the time.
So, it has come to this.
The crop cycles into which this technology is introduced will have to be examined carefully to evaluate its impact. Is it better to burn or gassify the non-food parts of plants? Or till them back into the soil where microbes can act upon them in symbiosis with the next generation of crops. In the final analysis, we have to figure out how much energy is being diverted from biological (crop) cycles to power a more energy intensive lifestyle.
Right. And the process of rotting (microbes and other small animals eating dead plant matter) releases much of the carbon as CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Why use this for cars? Fixed base load generation is a far better idea (assuming fuel supply and other problems have been solved). And then you can charge an electric car, if you really need one.
239, 240. Whatever it takes.
This.
Because asking Huawei to build these hooks into their equipment would have tipped the Chinese off about the NSA's capabilities. And they would have an idea where and how all the backdoors in other vendors' systems (in use in the USA) were implemented and how to utilize them.
Blatant sex works (works really well).
I am skeptical. Convince me.
Don't take Madison Avenue money.
Even with its own segregated advertising section, the leverage that marketers will gain over Wikipedia management will become irresistible. Its the camel's nose under the tent. Demands from the money source will increase to merge the real content with phony article-formatted ads. Do it or else the money will stop.
But you've already sold your soul to the devil (Microsoft or Apple). The problem here is that some power brokers in the open source world are attempting to follow the same script that the closed source people are stuck with. Not so much init/upstart/systemd, as these don't directly affect end user apps (these are more of a system admin headache). But the Xorg/Mir/Wayland battle is a clear attempt to build frameworks that will capture developers of user apps.
From the point of view of the tablet/phone/gamer crowd, who cares? The markets are big enough so that developers will have to support multiple stacks. Or lose customers. But the high end apps (scientific, engineering, etc.) markets are smaller and more likely to pick one platform and expend their resources on actually providing value to the customer. Microsoft nearly lost this battle early on. But they stuck their nose (and handfulls of cash) into so many boardrooms that apps had to be built for Windows. And the high end s/w developers were distracted from providing customer value to suporting multiple shitty UIs. never again.
Facebook and Google will just form European subsidiaries and separate them from the operations of the US entity to a degree necessary to satisfy EU law. That may eventually mean multiple independent subsidiaries and a parent holding company offshore someplace beyond US intelligence and law enforcement data sharing laws. Only the US subsidiary would have to comply and EU citizens would be directed to sites compliant with their own privacy laws.
1. Enumeration.
......
Wait. Strike that. Make it:
0. Enumeration.
I'm more upset with things like the 777 airlines' change from 9 to 10 abreast. I'm short (only 4' 18"), so legroom isn't a problem for me. But I've got wide shoulders and my arms end up hanging into the aisle and over the armrest into the next person's seat. My only solution is to secure an aisle seat and lean out, pissing off the cabin crew and passengers trying to squeeze by.
One of the fixes being made to the new seats is actually a good idea. Reclining the new seats will be done by sliding your butt forward, not tipping the seat back into the next person's space. So overlength passengers will have to make a choice between preserving legroom or sitting upright.