You, like other Ayn Rand cryptofascists, live under the impression that since you're superior, you'll never get really sick. Guess what? Your beloved "selfish interest" dictates that drugs/treatments for life-threatening conditions will always be expensive in an open market (from a cost/price perspective) because: a. demand is relatively inelastic (i.e. most people want to live as long as possible) b. individual clients are not likely to hang around much
That's why many sane countries create socialized medicine systems - essentially state-run monopsonies, which are then supposed to squeeze the profit margin of drug and healthcare providers as thin as possible, on one hand, while ensuring that everyone pays their "fair" share for the advantage of having "free" access to healthcare on the other. A difficult balancing act, to be sure, which usually leads to corruption in the system, underfunded hospitals and less-than innovative drug makers, but which provides chronic sufferers with a reasonable standard of care and usually places a lot of emphasis on preventative measures (like vaccination, family planning and the fight against obesity) because they give more bang for the buck than actual healthcare. This is not to say that the rich can't buy the best, of course - that is true in any system.
This beats the alternative of having profit-motivated insurers - go-betweens which are selfishly interested to squeeze BOTH sides of the deal as tightly as possible - that's how you get the US situation where hospitals run on essentially zero profit margins, yet a month-long hospital stay is a recipe for bankruptcy, while common drugs cost an arm and a leg.
Erm... yes. Actually, if I was trying to decide on hiring any type of manager (political, business, military, you name it), I'd be sure to kick back out the door any numbnuts who would waltz in with a fully-formed plan or MO and no doubts that it's the correct one, real sharpish like.
General incompetence is one thing, admitting you don't know the particulars of a situation and forming a sound plan for information gathering is quite another. How would you feel if , in your RIAA suit, the lawyer would stand up in court and mount a Chewbacca defense in lieu of smacking down the "evidence" - and the lawsuit - with the full force of a month's worth of research by a horde of paralegals and hackers?
A physical key is still a key, y'know? There is considerable overlap in concepts and techniques - why, putty transfer is simply a replay attack, while a rake is actually used to brute-force a lock by generating many pin position combinations in a very short time.
Would they now? By whom? How can you tell if it's just a bunch of apples gone bad or a whole barrel of cider waiting to happen? Why risk it in the first place?
Let's look at this from another perspective, shall we? As long as personal data remains in the hands of for-profits and governments which have no intention to share it (not even with those it was collected from), we are all unsafe. Here's to hoping that a legitimate, open market in such information is created sooner rather than later.
You may think you're being funny. If so, you are mistaken. The actions of the Bush administration have put more power than ever in the hands of the police(FBI) and the various secret services.
It's highly ironic to me that the three major systems which resulted from the second world war have come to an end in such similar ways. The Army ended up taking over China, Russia is ruled by the secret police forces, the US of A are ruled by their spies. Interesting to see what shape United Europe will take - after all, its political system is entirely new and hasn't been influenced by military threats much, as yet.
It's an interesting dilemma for Microsoft - they can't have DRM without video drivers running in kernelspace (performance issues), but DRM is broken if they allow drivers in kernelspace. Consider this: anyone can now load the vulnerable driver, apply Ionescu's magic and WHAM! I predict pirate-patched video card drivers for windows are coming soon - the oportunity to strip the DRM out of high-def movies from the comfort of your own PC is just too nice to pass up. And doing it with a legitimate copy of Vista? Priceless.
It starts here, with me. Microsoft is making driver devs jump through hoops with the whole signed-drivers thing when all it takes (as has been shown in this case) is ONE signed driver with ONE exploitable flaw to break the whole scheme.
What are Microsoft going to do now? Revoke the key they used to sign drivers with? How many copies of Vista wich verify drivers with the now-revoked pubkey have already been sold? How many devices were sold in retail with drivers which will no longer JustWork(tm)? Will Microsoft and the OEMs have the resources to re-certify each of those, or will they sign blindly?
Each of those probably stands a 50-50 chance of being either rooted or patched with the new key the first time it's connected to the 'net. How's that for convenience?
Oh, did I mention that finding another bug in another driver signed with the new key will mean the whole process must be repeated?
Oh and did I mention that if someone finds such a bug and sits on it, they have root to any Vista system in existence, until the bug is found and fixed (which may be never)?
Squatting, anyone? Or how about just starting a big ol' lawsuit accusing the big real-estate companies of collusion/price-fixing? Won't be long before some populist politician jumps on the bandwagon and then you're all set.
You talk a sweet deal, for sure. But riddle me this: how do you know you got infected and it's time for a reboot? There are lots of viruses (specifically file infectors) out there that could survive between wipes in your "unfrozen" data areas -and you'd be wallowing in complacency while being re-0wned every time you boot up.
Hmm. Given that you have to also exhale at the same time, if you can bend just right AND make a spark, you might get some extra oomph from lighting (some of) the methane up - not sure how much more, tho'. Space propulsion, Chili-Yoga style.
LCD shutter glasses should do nicely. It's existing tech and all you need to add is a sensor, for it to know when you're being flashed. But seriously, between retina projectors for ads and these things, shutter glasses might just be the next decade's "must have" accessory.
Funny you should mention that. He wrote about this. There's a short story of his about this paraplegic chick who has vivid escape dreams and sells them as entertainment.
We'll use AI. Dog-slow, horrifically expensive, hard to maintain AI based on neural networks and other sorts of predictive algorithms, such as bayes. Google should work nicely as a spam filter for the world (it already does, to some extent).
I call BS on that last one, guv. Some package management is better than no package management any day of the week. I have no time to spare on tracking down libs and whatnot. Automatix fills the need for conveniency. If there was no such need, we'd all be using LFS.
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You, like other Ayn Rand cryptofascists, live under the impression that since you're superior, you'll never get really sick. Guess what? Your beloved "selfish interest" dictates that drugs/treatments for life-threatening conditions will always be expensive in an open market (from a cost/price perspective) because:
a. demand is relatively inelastic (i.e. most people want to live as long as possible)
b. individual clients are not likely to hang around much
That's why many sane countries create socialized medicine systems - essentially state-run monopsonies, which are then supposed to squeeze the profit margin of drug and healthcare providers as thin as possible, on one hand, while ensuring that everyone pays their "fair" share for the advantage of having "free" access to healthcare on the other. A difficult balancing act, to be sure, which usually leads to corruption in the system, underfunded hospitals and less-than innovative drug makers, but which provides chronic sufferers with a reasonable standard of care and usually places a lot of emphasis on preventative measures (like vaccination, family planning and the fight against obesity) because they give more bang for the buck than actual healthcare. This is not to say that the rich can't buy the best, of course - that is true in any system.
This beats the alternative of having profit-motivated insurers - go-betweens which are selfishly interested to squeeze BOTH sides of the deal as tightly as possible - that's how you get the US situation where hospitals run on essentially zero profit margins, yet a month-long hospital stay is a recipe for bankruptcy, while common drugs cost an arm and a leg.
Well, NK did. Apparently, with enough artillery, mines, conscripts and a couple deliverable nukes, you can be as isolationist as you like.
Erm... yes. Actually, if I was trying to decide on hiring any type of manager (political, business, military, you name it), I'd be sure to kick back out the door any numbnuts who would waltz in with a fully-formed plan or MO and no doubts that it's the correct one, real sharpish like.
General incompetence is one thing, admitting you don't know the particulars of a situation and forming a sound plan for information gathering is quite another. How would you feel if , in your RIAA suit, the lawyer would stand up in court and mount a Chewbacca defense in lieu of smacking down the "evidence" - and the lawsuit - with the full force of a month's worth of research by a horde of paralegals and hackers?
A physical key is still a key, y'know? There is considerable overlap in concepts and techniques - why, putty transfer is simply a replay attack, while a rake is actually used to brute-force a lock by generating many pin position combinations in a very short time.
Would they now? By whom? How can you tell if it's just a bunch of apples gone bad or a whole barrel of cider waiting to happen? Why risk it in the first place?
Known good AC's?
Hah.
Plus, what's to say that someday somewhere someone won't start buying off known good editors?
Let's look at this from another perspective, shall we? As long as personal data remains in the hands of for-profits and governments which have no intention to share it (not even with those it was collected from), we are all unsafe. Here's to hoping that a legitimate, open market in such information is created sooner rather than later.
I'm sorry. I must have misunderstood. I thought playing back media IS "normal usage" for a desktop computer.
Relays?
Easy. It's because they want to get cooler (or warmer) FAST when they come into the house.
You may think you're being funny. If so, you are mistaken. The actions of the Bush administration have put more power than ever in the hands of the police(FBI) and the various secret services.
It's highly ironic to me that the three major systems which resulted from the second world war have come to an end in such similar ways. The Army ended up taking over China, Russia is ruled by the secret police forces, the US of A are ruled by their spies. Interesting to see what shape United Europe will take - after all, its political system is entirely new and hasn't been influenced by military threats much, as yet.
Mwahahahaha. And you can have them back for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Oops. Who gave ati the signing key?
It's an interesting dilemma for Microsoft - they can't have DRM without video drivers running in kernelspace (performance issues), but DRM is broken if they allow drivers in kernelspace. Consider this: anyone can now load the vulnerable driver, apply Ionescu's magic and WHAM! I predict pirate-patched video card drivers for windows are coming soon - the oportunity to strip the DRM out of high-def movies from the comfort of your own PC is just too nice to pass up. And doing it with a legitimate copy of Vista? Priceless.
It starts here, with me. Microsoft is making driver devs jump through hoops with the whole signed-drivers thing when all it takes (as has been shown in this case) is ONE signed driver with ONE exploitable flaw to break the whole scheme.
What are Microsoft going to do now? Revoke the key they used to sign drivers with? How many copies of Vista wich verify drivers with the now-revoked pubkey have already been sold? How many devices were sold in retail with drivers which will no longer JustWork(tm)? Will Microsoft and the OEMs have the resources to re-certify each of those, or will they sign blindly?
Each of those probably stands a 50-50 chance of being either rooted or patched with the new key the first time it's connected to the 'net. How's that for convenience?
Oh, did I mention that finding another bug in another driver signed with the new key will mean the whole process must be repeated?
Oh and did I mention that if someone finds such a bug and sits on it, they have root to any Vista system in existence, until the bug is found and fixed (which may be never)?
Squatting, anyone?
Or how about just starting a big ol' lawsuit accusing the big real-estate companies of collusion/price-fixing? Won't be long before some populist politician jumps on the bandwagon and then you're all set.
Showing a bit o' wrinkles there, guv'nor ;).
Now to get these damn kids off my lawn...
You talk a sweet deal, for sure. But riddle me this: how do you know you got infected and it's time for a reboot? There are lots of viruses (specifically file infectors) out there that could survive between wipes in your "unfrozen" data areas -and you'd be wallowing in complacency while being re-0wned every time you boot up.
Hmm. Given that you have to also exhale at the same time, if you can bend just right AND make a spark, you might get some extra oomph from lighting (some of) the methane up - not sure how much more, tho'. Space propulsion, Chili-Yoga style.
In other words, The Hitchhiker's Guide gets it right again: DON'T PANIC!
LCD shutter glasses should do nicely. It's existing tech and all you need to add is a sensor, for it to know when you're being flashed. But seriously, between retina projectors for ads and these things, shutter glasses might just be the next decade's "must have" accessory.
Funny you should mention that. He wrote about this. There's a short story of his about this paraplegic chick who has vivid escape dreams and sells them as entertainment.
We'll use AI. Dog-slow, horrifically expensive, hard to maintain AI based on neural networks and other sorts of predictive algorithms, such as bayes. Google should work nicely as a spam filter for the world (it already does, to some extent).
I call BS on that last one, guv. Some package management is better than no package management any day of the week. I have no time to spare on tracking down libs and whatnot. Automatix fills the need for conveniency. If there was no such need, we'd all be using LFS.
So what if they're producers? Does the device have sufficient legal uses, or not?