Indeed. but for anyone who thinks thinks long-term copyright is a bad thing, I'd like to point out that copyright expiration is why we show "It's a wonderful life" year after year after year after year after....
The problem with that theory is that the terrans did have something that the na'vi might want, it just never occurred to a myopic jarhead and his blood-lusting CO.
They had something that would be extremely valuable to a people with an ethernet port growing out of their heads. Wireless..
I know you haven't considered the possibility of rampant deforestation resulting from massive inflation, but I at least take comfort in the fact that we're not going to suffer extinction due to viruses spreading on unsanitary telephone receivers.
Patients *do not* usually get treatment that costs three times as much if they're only 10% more likely to survive
So.. you have rationing....
There is no gain in prolonging someone's painfil few months of cancer for the same cost of a life-saving liver transplant or something.
With that attitude, you're going to have "end-of-life counseling," if you don't already.
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When there is one, yes you HAVE to use it, but when there isn't you shouldn't be using the pedestrians' side-walks but simply drive on the right side of the road
It's attitudes like that that prevent people from commuting via bicycle. Let me translate that for you into what people who live in an auto-dominant urban area hear:
When there is one, yes you HAVE to use it, but when there isn't you should trade a small chance of not-likely-to-be fatal physical harm to yourself and other pedestrians to a much, much greater chance of quite-likely-to-be-fatal harm to yourself only.
Or to sum up: biking is a recreational activity, not a transportation option, and it will continue to be for as long as people half-ass the bike lanes and think that the roads are a good fall-back option.
To answer the original question, the thing holding back encryption is the above mistaken attitude, that using a self-signed cert is barely better than using plaintext.
Indeed. It would be more accurate to say that a self-signed cert is no better than using plaintext, unless you distribute the cert via a separate channel.
just a hundred or so years ago, it was cost prohibitive to make a copy of a book for a friend. In fact it was so cost prohibitive that it was much less costly to just buy them another mass-produced copy. It was possible to make money from a popular work by selling it to a publisher or patron, though presumably authors were getting screwed occasionally and it happened often enough for copyright laws to be created. And it was seen as important enough to fledgeling democracy to give congress the power to make similar laws nation-wide.
So, fast forward to today, when authors can not only be screwed by publishers, their work can also be easily reproduced anyone with a computer, which makes their work less valuable to publishers, so even honest publishers will have to pay the author less for works that are more popular than ever.
The only reliable source of income for authors in "copyright-free" world is patronage. Compensation not based on how popular their work is, but on how much some rich person likes it, or some well-funded art endowment manager. It's certainly a world where authorship still exists, but it's a world where your culture is determined by a wealthy, ruling elite: no matter how popular your work is, you can only produce so much of it when you have to spend eight hours of the day toiling in the sweat mines because none of the overlords think it's worthy.
Not everything is life-or-death, and if the patient is in control, even the life-or-death stuff can be shopped around. Hell, even under the current system, you're a fool not to get a extra opinions when serious procedures are on the table.
There are plenty of things that can easily be haggled. Routine care for one thing, a number of life-improving elective procedures can be shopped around (Lasik for instance is one of the few medical procedures that has declined in cost over the past decade. Guess why.).
Testing. MRI is basically a fancy name for RADAR. You're telling me that it can't be made so common that people without piercings can just get one for fun, analogous to supermarket blood pressure screenings? What's so expensive about it? The superconductor? Certainly not operations. LN2 is cheaper than milk.
Flu shots aren't covered by insurance, but you can buy 'em for thirty bucks at walgreens, and there's almost never any waiting. How much is that MMR series again?
Indeed it is an audacious and temptingly original idea by Cameron. Truly groundbreaking. I hope the first film they remake is "Simone." That would be great to see in a modern setting with the "original" actors.
They don't care because there is often only one or two payers: they're not competing for customers - the insurance companies are their customers and the barriers to entry are so high that some states only have one.
There doesn't need to be transparency in pricing in med. equipment any more than in the grocery store. There just needs to be a real marketplace. Diversity of vendors is not enough. "did you get the contract with THE insurance company Mr. Loman?" is not a sign of a healthy marketplace in any sense of the word.
Stop trying to program with *any* fonts. Get the glyphs from some sort of system-wide font handler so the users can change them, and design your modal dialogs and menues such that they can accommodate the changes, including size changes.
Depending on fixed-size system fonts was fine back in the mid 80s, when you were lucky have a display a full 640 dots wide. It's the 10s, now. People's screens and eyes are all kinds of wonderful permutations of each other. Let us specify our own sizes.
So, you're suggesting we give them flack then, right? I know you're not suggesting that we should cut the officials some slack for reacting in the most odiously officious manner is logical because of the lack of negative response.
When you handle as much video as youtube, "pre-encoding the videos" is a huge technical challenge that hardware acceleration would be incredibly useful for.
A lot of people donated to Red Cross after 9/11, but the only real logistical issue the had was a blood shortage due to the lack of long-term storage facilities: blood doesn't keep more than 40 days or so under typical storage conditions, so you really can't stock up.
They wanted to use much of the money donated for the construction of cryogenic facilities and other infrastructure improvements to be better prepared for the next disaster, but unfortunately they had advertised that donating would be specifically helping "victims of 9/11", so instead of building up infrastructure, they paid out awards of millions of dollars to the families of the victims.
Lots of people made mistakes there. One group was Red Cross in their poor use of the disaster to promote themselves. Another was the donators, who unreasonably expected the money they donated to go towards the current disaster.
Newsflash, it takes time to build up resources that can be used and also to train personnel to use them. When a disaster occurs, you use the stocks you have on hand, money is almost useless. You can't magic up an extra hundred generator trailers if all you have is the money to buy them with.
You send the materiel you have and hope that the donations match up to replenish supplies afterward. People making donations need to be aware of this, as it appears Red Cross did not learn the right lesson.
Yeah, but the problem was secret mutual defense and attack treaties that built up over time into a domino sculpture. If people could see their dominoes stacking up next to the line of other dominoes, they might very well have averted that conflict.
We know about the treaty problem, and none of the nuclear-capable superpowers are showing any particular inclination to empty their reserves.
The clock was pretty stupid when it came out, being invented by editorializing nuclear scientists and not anyone in a profession that offers particular insights into the politics that results in weapons actually being deployed. It's even dumber now, and it's even a poor metaphor for what they're trying to express: in clock form, there isn't any analogy that maps to backwards movement that makes any sense.
Good point. But as the "guy with the restaurant bomb" (I assume you are referring to Bürgerbräukeller?) you have to weight the wrath of the survivors vs. the continued survival of the "high value target."
In wartime, a sufficiently high-value target may in fact be worth incurring that wrath. Such is the terrible calculus of war.
For instance, the right click menu for changing the flash settings offers an option called "hardware acceleration" Yet, the CPU usage is evidently much higher for simply switching to full-screen. What exactly is the hardware accelerating if it doesn't even use hardware scaling?
Neat trick for linux users: use the scroll wheel screen zoom function in Compiz instead of the website's "full screen" button to save battery juice on laptops or get away lighter CPUs.
These OST files are tiny by ground-based standards – around at most 4MB for shuttle crew.
Amazing. A just over a half-dozen people and yet they manage to keep their email communications down to just 2,000 pages of text a day! How do they manage.
The OST file, now with outgoing emails, is copied back to NASA on the ground where the messages are sent, copied to the Sent Items folder and any new email is placed in the OST ready for the next upload.
Well, that makes sense. They reply with the same type of file that they receive with. If it's good for bandwidth one way, it's good for bandwidth the other I'd guess.
Because there’s limited bandwidth up to the shuttle it’s important to keep the OST fairly small so occasionally you’ll hear NASA controllers ask the crew to clean out their Outlook files (the OST).
Whajah? They're sending the *entire* mailbox both ways and just bouncing the same messages back and forth every time? How does that save bandwidth? How do these guys send pictures to each other, zip up an image of the entire hard drive?
I guess that explains why they need to transfer 2,000+ pages of text every day.
This sounds cumbersome and messy
True. Because it is cumbersome and messy.
it’s certainly not the way you’d do it here on the Green Hills of Earth.
It's also not the way I'd do it in space either, because of the bandwidth constraints.
However it makes sense
No it doesn't. Not under any circumstance does "send the whole thing back and forth every time" make sense if the thing you're trying to conserve is bandwidth.
You might also hear ‘CapCom’ asking the crew to shut down their copies of Outlook so that an OST transfer can occur. Outlook puts a file lock on any PST/OST file which prevents any copying (a problem anyone trying to do an Outlook backup might be familiar with).
Ahh, so that's it. They're not trying to conserve bandwidth. They're trying to conserve "thinking about it." Otherwise, they'd only have to shut down outlook when renaming "file.ost.xfer" to "c:\...\outlookdir\file.ost"
In addition, communication with the ground isn’t always possible (you’ll hear warnings of LOS – Loss of Signal during mission communications) so standard methods of email transfer like POP/SMTP, IMAP etc might not be reliable.
True. Why does it need to be email, though. Why can't they just send a psk-31 HF radiogram? or the even more fault tolerant HF packet radio? You only need a transmit station somewhere in the same hemisphere for that to work.
Hell, with a directional antenna (and a doppler-compensating transmitter), there's no reason why they couldn't use 3G cell service when over a country which has it. 300 miles up gets you a window of up to 11 minutes which would let you download quite a bit.
But I don't think bandwidth is really the issue. There's enough bandwidth to transmit live video for pete's sake, but email is somehow a problem? The issue is that "outlook is email." It clearly has simply never occurred to anyone in the chain that there might even be any other way to handle email-type communications.
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Indeed. but for anyone who thinks thinks long-term copyright is a bad thing, I'd like to point out that copyright expiration is why we show "It's a wonderful life" year after year after year after year after....
The problem with that theory is that the terrans did have something that the na'vi might want, it just never occurred to a myopic jarhead and his blood-lusting CO.
They had something that would be extremely valuable to a people with an ethernet port growing out of their heads. Wireless..
I know you haven't considered the possibility of rampant deforestation resulting from massive inflation, but I at least take comfort in the fact that we're not going to suffer extinction due to viruses spreading on unsanitary telephone receivers.
Patients *do not* usually get treatment that costs three times as much if they're only 10% more likely to survive
So.. you have rationing....
There is no gain in prolonging someone's painfil few months of cancer for the same cost of a life-saving liver transplant or something.
With that attitude, you're going to have "end-of-life counseling," if you don't already.
When there is one, yes you HAVE to use it, but when there isn't you shouldn't be using the pedestrians' side-walks but simply drive on the right side of the road
It's attitudes like that that prevent people from commuting via bicycle. Let me translate that for you into what people who live in an auto-dominant urban area hear:
When there is one, yes you HAVE to use it, but when there isn't you should trade a small chance of not-likely-to-be fatal physical harm to yourself and other pedestrians to a much, much greater chance of quite-likely-to-be-fatal harm to yourself only.
Or to sum up: biking is a recreational activity, not a transportation option, and it will continue to be for as long as people half-ass the bike lanes and think that the roads are a good fall-back option.
To answer the original question, the thing holding back encryption is the above mistaken attitude, that using a self-signed cert is barely better than using plaintext.
Indeed. It would be more accurate to say that a self-signed cert is no better than using plaintext, unless you distribute the cert via a separate channel.
I was disappointed by that article as well. It was obvious even then that they simply weren't exaggerating enough.
just a hundred or so years ago, it was cost prohibitive to make a copy of a book for a friend. In fact it was so cost prohibitive that it was much less costly to just buy them another mass-produced copy. It was possible to make money from a popular work by selling it to a publisher or patron, though presumably authors were getting screwed occasionally and it happened often enough for copyright laws to be created. And it was seen as important enough to fledgeling democracy to give congress the power to make similar laws nation-wide.
So, fast forward to today, when authors can not only be screwed by publishers, their work can also be easily reproduced anyone with a computer, which makes their work less valuable to publishers, so even honest publishers will have to pay the author less for works that are more popular than ever.
The only reliable source of income for authors in "copyright-free" world is patronage. Compensation not based on how popular their work is, but on how much some rich person likes it, or some well-funded art endowment manager. It's certainly a world where authorship still exists, but it's a world where your culture is determined by a wealthy, ruling elite: no matter how popular your work is, you can only produce so much of it when you have to spend eight hours of the day toiling in the sweat mines because none of the overlords think it's worthy.
But can you explain what happens when you check "enable hardware acceleration" in the flash preferences?
Isn't ffmpeg the "premiere" open source video encoder?
Not everything is life-or-death, and if the patient is in control, even the life-or-death stuff can be shopped around. Hell, even under the current system, you're a fool not to get a extra opinions when serious procedures are on the table.
There are plenty of things that can easily be haggled. Routine care for one thing, a number of life-improving elective procedures can be shopped around (Lasik for instance is one of the few medical procedures that has declined in cost over the past decade. Guess why.).
Testing. MRI is basically a fancy name for RADAR. You're telling me that it can't be made so common that people without piercings can just get one for fun, analogous to supermarket blood pressure screenings? What's so expensive about it? The superconductor? Certainly not operations. LN2 is cheaper than milk.
Flu shots aren't covered by insurance, but you can buy 'em for thirty bucks at walgreens, and there's almost never any waiting. How much is that MMR series again?
Every movie is an update of one of the Shakespeare plays. They're practically axiomatic. For instance: this.
Indeed it is an audacious and temptingly original idea by Cameron. Truly groundbreaking. I hope the first film they remake is "Simone." That would be great to see in a modern setting with the "original" actors.
Everyone is always surprised by Sprint's performance, yet maligns them nevertheless. They're like the "apple" of cell phones.
They don't care because there is often only one or two payers: they're not competing for customers - the insurance companies are their customers and the barriers to entry are so high that some states only have one.
There doesn't need to be transparency in pricing in med. equipment any more than in the grocery store. There just needs to be a real marketplace. Diversity of vendors is not enough. "did you get the contract with THE insurance company Mr. Loman?" is not a sign of a healthy marketplace in any sense of the word.
Stop trying to program with *any* fonts. Get the glyphs from some sort of system-wide font handler so the users can change them, and design your modal dialogs and menues such that they can accommodate the changes, including size changes.
Depending on fixed-size system fonts was fine back in the mid 80s, when you were lucky have a display a full 640 dots wide. It's the 10s, now. People's screens and eyes are all kinds of wonderful permutations of each other. Let us specify our own sizes.
You misunderstand. He's recommending the family get legal counsel. For their lawsuit against the school.
So, you're suggesting we give them flack then, right? I know you're not suggesting that we should cut the officials some slack for reacting in the most odiously officious manner is logical because of the lack of negative response.
When you handle as much video as youtube, "pre-encoding the videos" is a huge technical challenge that hardware acceleration would be incredibly useful for.
A high end Ultra 2 certification on speakers pretty much means they can handle theatre reference levels of sound.
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Then the theaters are wasting their money. I have yet to sit in a non-IMAX theater where the speakers aren't overdriven to the point of distortion.
A lot of people donated to Red Cross after 9/11, but the only real logistical issue the had was a blood shortage due to the lack of long-term storage facilities: blood doesn't keep more than 40 days or so under typical storage conditions, so you really can't stock up.
They wanted to use much of the money donated for the construction of cryogenic facilities and other infrastructure improvements to be better prepared for the next disaster, but unfortunately they had advertised that donating would be specifically helping "victims of 9/11", so instead of building up infrastructure, they paid out awards of millions of dollars to the families of the victims.
Lots of people made mistakes there. One group was Red Cross in their poor use of the disaster to promote themselves. Another was the donators, who unreasonably expected the money they donated to go towards the current disaster.
Newsflash, it takes time to build up resources that can be used and also to train personnel to use them. When a disaster occurs, you use the stocks you have on hand, money is almost useless. You can't magic up an extra hundred generator trailers if all you have is the money to buy them with.
You send the materiel you have and hope that the donations match up to replenish supplies afterward. People making donations need to be aware of this, as it appears Red Cross did not learn the right lesson.
Yeah, but the problem was secret mutual defense and attack treaties that built up over time into a domino sculpture. If people could see their dominoes stacking up next to the line of other dominoes, they might very well have averted that conflict.
We know about the treaty problem, and none of the nuclear-capable superpowers are showing any particular inclination to empty their reserves.
The clock was pretty stupid when it came out, being invented by editorializing nuclear scientists and not anyone in a profession that offers particular insights into the politics that results in weapons actually being deployed. It's even dumber now, and it's even a poor metaphor for what they're trying to express: in clock form, there isn't any analogy that maps to backwards movement that makes any sense.
Good point. But as the "guy with the restaurant bomb" (I assume you are referring to Bürgerbräukeller?) you have to weight the wrath of the survivors vs. the continued survival of the "high value target."
In wartime, a sufficiently high-value target may in fact be worth incurring that wrath. Such is the terrible calculus of war.
Adobe flash has many issues.
For instance, the right click menu for changing the flash settings offers an option called "hardware acceleration" Yet, the CPU usage is evidently much higher for simply switching to full-screen. What exactly is the hardware accelerating if it doesn't even use hardware scaling?
Neat trick for linux users: use the scroll wheel screen zoom function in Compiz instead of the website's "full screen" button to save battery juice on laptops or get away lighter CPUs.
These OST files are tiny by ground-based standards – around at most 4MB for shuttle crew.
Amazing. A just over a half-dozen people and yet they manage to keep their email communications down to just 2,000 pages of text a day! How do they manage.
The OST file, now with outgoing emails, is copied back to NASA on the ground where the messages are sent, copied to the Sent Items folder and any new email is placed in the OST ready for the next upload.
Well, that makes sense. They reply with the same type of file that they receive with. If it's good for bandwidth one way, it's good for bandwidth the other I'd guess.
Because there’s limited bandwidth up to the shuttle it’s important to keep the OST fairly small so occasionally you’ll hear NASA controllers ask the crew to clean out their Outlook files (the OST).
Whajah? They're sending the *entire* mailbox both ways and just bouncing the same messages back and forth every time? How does that save bandwidth? How do these guys send pictures to each other, zip up an image of the entire hard drive?
I guess that explains why they need to transfer 2,000+ pages of text every day.
This sounds cumbersome and messy
True. Because it is cumbersome and messy.
it’s certainly not the way you’d do it here on the Green Hills of Earth.
It's also not the way I'd do it in space either, because of the bandwidth constraints.
However it makes sense
No it doesn't. Not under any circumstance does "send the whole thing back and forth every time" make sense if the thing you're trying to conserve is bandwidth.
You might also hear ‘CapCom’ asking the crew to shut down their copies of Outlook so that an OST transfer can occur. Outlook puts a file lock on any PST/OST file which prevents any copying (a problem anyone trying to do an Outlook backup might be familiar with).
Ahh, so that's it. They're not trying to conserve bandwidth. They're trying to conserve "thinking about it." Otherwise, they'd only have to shut down outlook when renaming "file.ost.xfer" to "c:\...\outlookdir\file.ost"
In addition, communication with the ground isn’t always possible (you’ll hear warnings of LOS – Loss of Signal during mission communications) so standard methods of email transfer like POP/SMTP, IMAP etc might not be reliable.
True. Why does it need to be email, though. Why can't they just send a psk-31 HF radiogram? or the even more fault tolerant HF packet radio? You only need a transmit station somewhere in the same hemisphere for that to work.
Hell, with a directional antenna (and a doppler-compensating transmitter), there's no reason why they couldn't use 3G cell service when over a country which has it. 300 miles up gets you a window of up to 11 minutes which would let you download quite a bit.
But I don't think bandwidth is really the issue. There's enough bandwidth to transmit live video for pete's sake, but email is somehow a problem? The issue is that "outlook is email." It clearly has simply never occurred to anyone in the chain that there might even be any other way to handle email-type communications.