A certain part of aging is certainly the gradual onset of senility and the reduction of brain plasticity. One of the many problems that need to be addressed.
This behavior can't be tolerated. Major websites should try and match the source IP fake view with real view and present users with LinkScanner with a notice of what their anti-virus is costing the company.
That ought to shame AVG into pulling the product. It's not like LinkScanner can work, anyway.
What frustrates me about this is that retroactive immunity isn't going to be protecting these companies from damages - since I don't think someone can put a $ price-tag on their privacy being improperly invaded - it's going to be protecting these companies from the full disclosure that the American public deserves.
How can anyone in congress think that's appropriate?
Despite the internet tough guy angle, you do raise an interesting point.
Assassination politics (to resurrect an old meme) actually sounds feasible here.
For those of you too young to remember assassination politics, the idea is basically that you set up a web site on which people can place bets on the particular day that a person will die. Enough people making microbets, and eventually someone will see the financial incentive to anonymously place a heavy bet on a particular day and off the subject of the death lottery.
In this case, the subjects of the death lottery would be partners in the legal firms employed by the RIAA, and probably the RIAA's chief legal counsel. Lawyers aren't particularly principled people, so one would hope they get the message and refuse to work for the RIAA.
Treaties ratified by the congress are Law in the United States. That would include agreements made with the UN.
The Supreme Court recently scoped that down a bit, eloquently saying 'uh, but not REALLY'.
I'll leave it to the Constitution to tell you who's right about this (hint: apparently not the 'conservative' and 'strict constructionist' Court in that decision): Article VI: [...] This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. [...]
We never can. The number of factors involved in an expression is always going to be a matter of debate, and what's simple to one person is not to another. And that's why Occam's Razor has no place in any debate. I feel like punching the director of Contact for injecting this asinine product of sophomore philosophy back into the popular consciousness.
Requiring the equivalent of 'root' level access (physical access to computer, or Administrative access to rename protected files) to enable an equivalent scenario is never a security hole.
On the inaccuracy; SYSTEM and a user with any of the 'Own the Computer' special privileges (elevated Vista Administrator, or a XP Administrator) are really equivalent.
Challenges: No escape key. No builting software for remapping buttons to other keys. Pocket Putty doesn't support arrow keys correctly, initially.
Solutions: Bind an escape key using a button remapping tool. Set these, for whatever your most important connection is: HKCU\Software\SimonTathan\PuTTY\Sessions\SessionName\NoApplicationKeys: 1 HKCU\Software\SimonTathan\PuTTY\Sessions\SessionName\NoApplicationCursors: 1
After that, the device is pretty usable over ssh. Not perfect, but it's a good start.
I can remember three or four shipping codes I typed 4 years ago. I can't tell you what I had for dinner last night. I can recall in entirety my three most recent games of "I'm going on a picnic, and I'm bringing" (the one where each person adds an item in alphabetical order to a list).
Physical evidence: blood in Reiser's car (tiny amount, undated, source 'maybe' Nina. Easily explained: humans bleed sometimes, Nina had ridden in the car.). blood in Reiser's house (tiny amount wiped over a larger area, undated, source Nina? I can't remember if this sample was mixed Nina, mixed Hans.) blood in a sleeping bag (mixed sample. Possibly result of 'intimate contact'.)
Aside from that, *shrug*.
As far as the Hans's own cell phone? Clearly Reiser realized he was being followed. Given he's into tech, he knows how they found Kevin Mitnick, so of course he's not going to carry around a big sign that says, "Hi guys, here's Hans Reiser." Removing the battery is a good way to do that, and given his other paranoid behavior, is not that strange.
The main point is your analogy is not apt. A use case of a car does not approximate the use case of a DRM licensed song.
And, someone has already responded to the point - with cars, somebody else can still build the parts if your car were to stop working. Except now, your car won't start for 'new drivers'. (And that's where the crap analogy breaks down).
Actually, the turtles hypothesis is more valid (from a scientific perspective) than Creationism. You see, you could launch satellites, confirm the spherical nature of the planet, and observe there is no turtle anywhere in sight - the theory is falsifiable.
Not so with creationism or its equally dubious cousin intelligent design. There is no way to demonstrate them to be false, making them deficient.
Meat is extraordinarily inefficient, as a food source. I'm not sure the biosphere will be able to handle 10+ billion people eating cattle. Vat-grown meat, assuming it is grown in a manner which is energy efficient, may be one of the best methods for assuring the sustainability of the species, longterm, if our meat dependence can not be addressed in other ways.
I have to give props to PETA for this, though I think their positioning is poor and I take issue with their sensationalism around the worst-case examples in the meat industry. I have surveyed some of the various butchering practices that exist, and I think you would be hard pressed to call Hallal butchering excessively inhumane. Like all slaughtering, the animal does feel pain and is killed, but the process is extremely efficient and if done properly, it is done very quickly with a minimum of struggling on the animal's part.
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He's referring to pre-9/11. The FISA court is notoriously lenient in granting warrants, having only denied a handful in some 30+ years of requests.
ID isn't actually permitted to be taught under the law, since ID is not a scientific theory.
When a piece of machinery fails, you don't say it 'just failed' for no reason, and pronounce it 'died of nothing'. You diagnose the bloody problem.
Why should life be any different?
A certain part of aging is certainly the gradual onset of senility and the reduction of brain plasticity. One of the many problems that need to be addressed.
die of nothing? I'm not even sure how to respond to that.
As far as the telomere/tumor limiting problem, if errors in cell division can be addressed, and cell death can occur more reliably, you're golden.
This behavior can't be tolerated. Major websites should try and match the source IP fake view with real view and present users with LinkScanner with a notice of what their anti-virus is costing the company.
That ought to shame AVG into pulling the product. It's not like LinkScanner can work, anyway.
What frustrates me about this is that retroactive immunity isn't going to be protecting these companies from damages - since I don't think someone can put a $ price-tag on their privacy being improperly invaded - it's going to be protecting these companies from the full disclosure that the American public deserves.
How can anyone in congress think that's appropriate?
Despite the internet tough guy angle, you do raise an interesting point.
Assassination politics (to resurrect an old meme) actually sounds feasible here.
For those of you too young to remember assassination politics, the idea is basically that you set up a web site on which people can place bets on the particular day that a person will die. Enough people making microbets, and eventually someone will see the financial incentive to anonymously place a heavy bet on a particular day and off the subject of the death lottery.
In this case, the subjects of the death lottery would be partners in the legal firms employed by the RIAA, and probably the RIAA's chief legal counsel. Lawyers aren't particularly principled people, so one would hope they get the message and refuse to work for the RIAA.
Treaties ratified by the congress are Law in the United States. That would include agreements made with the UN.
The Supreme Court recently scoped that down a bit, eloquently saying 'uh, but not REALLY'.
I'll leave it to the Constitution to tell you who's right about this (hint: apparently not the 'conservative' and 'strict constructionist' Court in that decision):
Article VI: [...] This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. [...]
We never can. The number of factors involved in an expression is always going to be a matter of debate, and what's simple to one person is not to another. And that's why Occam's Razor has no place in any debate. I feel like punching the director of Contact for injecting this asinine product of sophomore philosophy back into the popular consciousness.
Better writeup (and video) at:
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php
OK, so apparently he's guilty in fact, not just in the eyes of 12 jurors.
This sounds like a dumb move, legally. His case could have been appealed at some point.
This story is both inaccurate and stupid.
Requiring the equivalent of 'root' level access (physical access to computer, or Administrative access to rename protected files) to enable an equivalent scenario is never a security hole.
On the inaccuracy; SYSTEM and a user with any of the 'Own the Computer' special privileges (elevated Vista Administrator, or a XP Administrator) are really equivalent.
I use the HTC Mogul (hate Sprint, but *shrug*.)
Challenges:
No escape key.
No builting software for remapping buttons to other keys.
Pocket Putty doesn't support arrow keys correctly, initially.
Solutions:
Bind an escape key using a button remapping tool.
Set these, for whatever your most important connection is:
HKCU\Software\SimonTathan\PuTTY\Sessions\SessionName\NoApplicationKeys: 1
HKCU\Software\SimonTathan\PuTTY\Sessions\SessionName\NoApplicationCursors: 1
After that, the device is pretty usable over ssh. Not perfect, but it's a good start.
Damn, you caught me. Where's that lawyer.
I can remember three or four shipping codes I typed 4 years ago.
I can't tell you what I had for dinner last night.
I can recall in entirety my three most recent games of "I'm going on a picnic, and I'm bringing" (the one where each person adds an item in alphabetical order to a list).
People's memories are extremely wacky.
Actually, yes, she may well have been into that, if you consider her relationship with Sturgeon, who is an interesting fellow.
Physical evidence:
blood in Reiser's car (tiny amount, undated, source 'maybe' Nina. Easily explained: humans bleed sometimes, Nina had ridden in the car.).
blood in Reiser's house (tiny amount wiped over a larger area, undated, source Nina? I can't remember if this sample was mixed Nina, mixed Hans.)
blood in a sleeping bag (mixed sample. Possibly result of 'intimate contact'.)
Aside from that, *shrug*.
As far as the Hans's own cell phone? Clearly Reiser realized he was being followed. Given he's into tech, he knows how they found Kevin Mitnick, so of course he's not going to carry around a big sign that says, "Hi guys, here's Hans Reiser." Removing the battery is a good way to do that, and given his other paranoid behavior, is not that strange.
Most of the time people were not testing as std. user in the first place, and that's why they have issues in Vista.
As far as IPC? Use RPC. It's really not that hard.
I actually don't think it's that strange, if true. You think that the bulk of a medical devices company is actually building or programming devices?
Which is fine, provided the interfaces exposed by the daemon aren't themselves insecure.
The main point is your analogy is not apt. A use case of a car does not approximate the use case of a DRM licensed song.
And, someone has already responded to the point - with cars, somebody else can still build the parts if your car were to stop working. Except now, your car won't start for 'new drivers'. (And that's where the crap analogy breaks down).
Actually, the turtles hypothesis is more valid (from a scientific perspective) than Creationism. You see, you could launch satellites, confirm the spherical nature of the planet, and observe there is no turtle anywhere in sight - the theory is falsifiable.
Not so with creationism or its equally dubious cousin intelligent design. There is no way to demonstrate them to be false, making them deficient.
I see this as a matter of efficiency.
Meat is extraordinarily inefficient, as a food source. I'm not sure the biosphere will be able to handle 10+ billion people eating cattle. Vat-grown meat, assuming it is grown in a manner which is energy efficient, may be one of the best methods for assuring the sustainability of the species, longterm, if our meat dependence can not be addressed in other ways.
I have to give props to PETA for this, though I think their positioning is poor and I take issue with their sensationalism around the worst-case examples in the meat industry. I have surveyed some of the various butchering practices that exist, and I think you would be hard pressed to call Hallal butchering excessively inhumane. Like all slaughtering, the animal does feel pain and is killed, but the process is extremely efficient and if done properly, it is done very quickly with a minimum of struggling on the animal's part.
Untrue, at least in Washington State. I got hit with a use tax here when I brought my new car with me.