You vote. I don't care how, but you vote. It will probably be electronic, with a paper receipt in a secure container. There will be a paper receipt given to you with a serial number on it and an encrypted account of your vote as a verification. You go home, and off the internet, you type in your serial number, and a pin number, and viola, your vote shows up as recorded. If it wasn't recorded, or recorded incorrectly, you go to your local voting office, and raise hell.
You don't need it to last 2 million year, or even close to that. The more radioactive a material, the shorter it's halflife (and no, I'm not talking about the game). The point is that the material rapidly decays from highly radioactive material to slightly radioactive material. Did you know that a piece of Granite, if brought into a nuclear reactor complex, would be considered radioactive. The same stuff you may have as your contertops doesn't qualify as being "safe" in a nuclear complex. The point is that if you held this material in a reasonable stable environment for a couple thousand years, it will be MUCH less of a threat than it is now. Everybody thinks it will always be dangerous, but this isn't the case.
And isn't it against the "license" for them to keep the seeds? As such, in 20 years, will there be samples of today's version to use after the patent wears off, or will it be the ULTRA super duper version patented 19 years from now that they sell that has bioluminescence or some other feature nobody really cares about plus the real stuff like pest resistance in today's version?
The system of patents was developed in a time when there were few people where were experts in a particular area, and the chances of them coming up with the same idea at the same time was slim, because the chances of them working on the same questions was slim. It did still happen sometimes though. Now, however, with our factory education system, there are dozens of people all working on the same issues and they come up with the same solution. The original idea was to protect the inventor from someone using an idea that they developed. Now, the same idea is probably patented at the same time many, many times during almost any parent's review process, which idealy would invalidate a patent on it's own. Why? Because obviously the solution was obvious to someone knowledgeable in the area of technology to have developed the idea at the same time. The patent system has outgrown it's usefulness and needs a major overhaul so that only those truly unique inovations can be patented. In these days, give enough resources, anybody can come up with a solution for nearly any technical problem, it's the true innovations that need to be protected. For example, the idea of an integrated circuit could be patented, but the idea of using a slightly different material to improve performance on it's own is questionable. Through trial and error, you can find what works best and doesn't, but the original idea itself is unique. Same with nearly every other "innovation" in technology today. The advancement of knowledge and problem solving should have raised the bar for patents, but it hasn't, instead the bar has been lowered.
I don't think you got the point to the article. Most of the advancement that these GM seeds rely on was as a result of thousands of years of selective practices by generations of farmers. That they add in one feature and sell the seeds is akin to taking a large GPL program, adding in one feature and selling the binary without source. The ancestors of the plans that we eat are many times very much distant from what we grow today, GM or not, and that work has taken thousands of years to bring us this far.
It's not about knowing something, it's about knowing to look for something when you need it, knowing HOW to look for something, and knowing when to cut your losses when you can't find something. Example, finding tools to help you in your job. If you do something frequently, then look for tools to help. I've done very well not by spending a lot of time doing my job, but being able to find the tools that help me in my job.
All the more reason to stop using the oil we have for power. Many components that could be used for other purposes are cracked to lighter components for use as fuel, if we didn't need to do this, it would make the 23 hula hoops listed above cheaper. Imagine that, hula hoops that are cheaper!
I agree, awsome game. I started playing about two months ago, and love the time based skill system. It definately makes for a better experience then "kill 10,000 mobs and get a level" which favors people with absolutly no life. Other factors tend to come into play, like you can't earn as much cash as people that play as much, but you have less expenses (like ship loss) to deal with as well. All in all, a nice game that has something for everybody once you get into it. I do think that is fairly rough on the newbies, it has a steep learning curve, but the chat forums help with that enormously.
But the company I work for provides products that help in situations like this, although pre-planning for such events is critical for surges like this to be handled cleanly. For anybody interested, check out http://www.netscaler.com/ for information. Some key things to look for:
1) That your upstream provider has sufficient capacity to handle large surges in traffic to one part of their infrastructure 2) If you expect to receive a large surge, to overprovision your upstream links 3) Make sure to have a front-end device that can determine "legitimate" traffic from bad traffic such as syn floods, and deal with the capacity of the upstream links. 4) Make sure you have the ability to cache hot content in case you max out your servers if you need too. You don't need to regenerate a page of voting information with every request if it only changes ever few minutes, cache it to reduce the server load.
In many cases, people fail to insure they have enough bandwidth on their upstream connections, and then put firewalls on the other side of the connection. Firewalls will tend to die under a heavy syn flood, and if they don't if you don't have enough capacity, it won't help anyway.
And who relies on slashcode to determine the president of the USA? I think that those responsible for the mechanisms relied upon for voting should be held to a higher standard than slashdot is.
Check out Eve if you like this. The way the skill system works, it keeps people that sit online all the time from advancing much faster than those that have real jobs and have other things to do outside of the game. The game is also very deep in content, although you may not even realize it until you have played for a week or so.
Now, the next question is, can you integrate this project into the LinuxBIOS so that it bootstraps the hardware, detects what is there, tftp downloads the source for the linux kernel from a local boot server, compiles an appropriate kernel for the hardware detected, and boots into it? Now that would be cool...
Is that it is making obvious what CAN be done with software on the desktop, and it's freaking people out. It doesn't do anything a spyware package couldn't do, except it asks before doing it. There is no partitioning of data from one app to another logged in as a given user, and as such, it should be assumed that any app has access to anything, including passwords, etc. If people are allowed to install software on shared computers, then there is already a security issue.
On the flip side, we can't dismiss the problem with a "the problem is already there" as it is still a problem. The question is at what price are we willing to give up the convienience that our current user based computing model provides to one where every piece of data is locked down with encryption and passwords. And if we even did that, would it help, as everybody would just end up using the same passwords anyway. Beyond a certain point of security, the inconvience will prove more detrimental than what it provides to people and they will stop using computers at all.
If you didn't follow things, you may not have realized that Valve didn't have an agreement with Vivendi relating to steam, but instead had provided that Vivendi was for retail (physical box) distribution of the game, and not revealed they were working on Steam on the side. That's part of the problem that "steamed" Vivendi.
How about invite any candidate that is on more than 10% of the state ballots? Draw a line, but I agree that you can't have everybody that claims to be a candidate, but you should have some rules that dictate who should be invited that allows serious third party candidates in general.
The benefit that this provides isn't knowing when a quake will occur, but allow pre-planning to save lives by adjusting building codes to account for risk. Not all areas need the same level of structural integrity, and such research allows this to be used to save money in some areas, and lives in others.
I was freaked out enough to go to the dept of treasury to see if it linked back to the same site, and it did. Of course, I couldn't do anything on the site due to it being slashdoted, but that's another issue.
I've noticed that too. The Patent office is operating under the assumption that all things that are patentable ARE being patented by people, and ignoring the fact that many ideas are NOT being patented. In addition, they are ignoring the fact that a parent should be non-obvious. Proof?
Incorrect. If you set the password several times with different values, you can compute the value yu are xor'ing against, and determine the key. At that time, if all users are using the same key (which it sounds like they are) then the information is now open to everybody that knows it.
In case you didn't figure it out, I was making a point that both God and dark matter are things that which if they exist you can't see, you can only infer they exist based on the apparent influence they have in the universe. I wasn't trying to state that god does not exist, just that dismissing the possibility that dark matter explains this influence is as bad as dismissing religion outright without proof.
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You vote. I don't care how, but you vote. It will probably be electronic, with a paper receipt in a secure container. There will be a paper receipt given to you with a serial number on it and an encrypted account of your vote as a verification. You go home, and off the internet, you type in your serial number, and a pin number, and viola, your vote shows up as recorded. If it wasn't recorded, or recorded incorrectly, you go to your local voting office, and raise hell.
You don't need it to last 2 million year, or even close to that. The more radioactive a material, the shorter it's halflife (and no, I'm not talking about the game). The point is that the material rapidly decays from highly radioactive material to slightly radioactive material. Did you know that a piece of Granite, if brought into a nuclear reactor complex, would be considered radioactive. The same stuff you may have as your contertops doesn't qualify as being "safe" in a nuclear complex. The point is that if you held this material in a reasonable stable environment for a couple thousand years, it will be MUCH less of a threat than it is now. Everybody thinks it will always be dangerous, but this isn't the case.
And isn't it against the "license" for them to keep the seeds? As such, in 20 years, will there be samples of today's version to use after the patent wears off, or will it be the ULTRA super duper version patented 19 years from now that they sell that has bioluminescence or some other feature nobody really cares about plus the real stuff like pest resistance in today's version?
About your sig, it should be "Give a man a fish, he owe's you a fish plus interest".
The system of patents was developed in a time when there were few people where were experts in a particular area, and the chances of them coming up with the same idea at the same time was slim, because the chances of them working on the same questions was slim. It did still happen sometimes though. Now, however, with our factory education system, there are dozens of people all working on the same issues and they come up with the same solution. The original idea was to protect the inventor from someone using an idea that they developed. Now, the same idea is probably patented at the same time many, many times during almost any parent's review process, which idealy would invalidate a patent on it's own. Why? Because obviously the solution was obvious to someone knowledgeable in the area of technology to have developed the idea at the same time. The patent system has outgrown it's usefulness and needs a major overhaul so that only those truly unique inovations can be patented. In these days, give enough resources, anybody can come up with a solution for nearly any technical problem, it's the true innovations that need to be protected. For example, the idea of an integrated circuit could be patented, but the idea of using a slightly different material to improve performance on it's own is questionable. Through trial and error, you can find what works best and doesn't, but the original idea itself is unique. Same with nearly every other "innovation" in technology today. The advancement of knowledge and problem solving should have raised the bar for patents, but it hasn't, instead the bar has been lowered.
I don't think you got the point to the article. Most of the advancement that these GM seeds rely on was as a result of thousands of years of selective practices by generations of farmers. That they add in one feature and sell the seeds is akin to taking a large GPL program, adding in one feature and selling the binary without source. The ancestors of the plans that we eat are many times very much distant from what we grow today, GM or not, and that work has taken thousands of years to bring us this far.
It's not about knowing something, it's about knowing to look for something when you need it, knowing HOW to look for something, and knowing when to cut your losses when you can't find something. Example, finding tools to help you in your job. If you do something frequently, then look for tools to help. I've done very well not by spending a lot of time doing my job, but being able to find the tools that help me in my job.
All the more reason to stop using the oil we have for power. Many components that could be used for other purposes are cracked to lighter components for use as fuel, if we didn't need to do this, it would make the 23 hula hoops listed above cheaper. Imagine that, hula hoops that are cheaper!
I agree, awsome game. I started playing about two months ago, and love the time based skill system. It definately makes for a better experience then "kill 10,000 mobs and get a level" which favors people with absolutly no life. Other factors tend to come into play, like you can't earn as much cash as people that play as much, but you have less expenses (like ship loss) to deal with as well. All in all, a nice game that has something for everybody once you get into it. I do think that is fairly rough on the newbies, it has a steep learning curve, but the chat forums help with that enormously.
But the company I work for provides products that help in situations like this, although pre-planning for such events is critical for surges like this to be handled cleanly. For anybody interested, check out http://www.netscaler.com/ for information. Some key things to look for:
1) That your upstream provider has sufficient capacity to handle large surges in traffic to one part of their infrastructure
2) If you expect to receive a large surge, to overprovision your upstream links
3) Make sure to have a front-end device that can determine "legitimate" traffic from bad traffic such as syn floods, and deal with the capacity of the upstream links.
4) Make sure you have the ability to cache hot content in case you max out your servers if you need too. You don't need to regenerate a page of voting information with every request if it only changes ever few minutes, cache it to reduce the server load.
In many cases, people fail to insure they have enough bandwidth on their upstream connections, and then put firewalls on the other side of the connection. Firewalls will tend to die under a heavy syn flood, and if they don't if you don't have enough capacity, it won't help anyway.
And who relies on slashcode to determine the president of the USA? I think that those responsible for the mechanisms relied upon for voting should be held to a higher standard than slashdot is.
Check out Eve if you like this. The way the skill system works, it keeps people that sit online all the time from advancing much faster than those that have real jobs and have other things to do outside of the game. The game is also very deep in content, although you may not even realize it until you have played for a week or so.
Now, the next question is, can you integrate this project into the LinuxBIOS so that it bootstraps the hardware, detects what is there, tftp downloads the source for the linux kernel from a local boot server, compiles an appropriate kernel for the hardware detected, and boots into it? Now that would be cool...
Is that it is making obvious what CAN be done with software on the desktop, and it's freaking people out. It doesn't do anything a spyware package couldn't do, except it asks before doing it. There is no partitioning of data from one app to another logged in as a given user, and as such, it should be assumed that any app has access to anything, including passwords, etc. If people are allowed to install software on shared computers, then there is already a security issue.
On the flip side, we can't dismiss the problem with a "the problem is already there" as it is still a problem. The question is at what price are we willing to give up the convienience that our current user based computing model provides to one where every piece of data is locked down with encryption and passwords. And if we even did that, would it help, as everybody would just end up using the same passwords anyway. Beyond a certain point of security, the inconvience will prove more detrimental than what it provides to people and they will stop using computers at all.
I thought I was the only one that did that. Actually, I bought my because of one little sticker on the box, the price tag.
If you didn't follow things, you may not have realized that Valve didn't have an agreement with Vivendi relating to steam, but instead had provided that Vivendi was for retail (physical box) distribution of the game, and not revealed they were working on Steam on the side. That's part of the problem that "steamed" Vivendi.
How about invite any candidate that is on more than 10% of the state ballots? Draw a line, but I agree that you can't have everybody that claims to be a candidate, but you should have some rules that dictate who should be invited that allows serious third party candidates in general.
The benefit that this provides isn't knowing when a quake will occur, but allow pre-planning to save lives by adjusting building codes to account for risk. Not all areas need the same level of structural integrity, and such research allows this to be used to save money in some areas, and lives in others.
Nice benchmark, what surprised me was how well the Voodoo 5 ran with DRI given the age of the product at this point.
I was freaked out enough to go to the dept of treasury to see if it linked back to the same site, and it did. Of course, I couldn't do anything on the site due to it being slashdoted, but that's another issue.
I've noticed that too. The Patent office is operating under the assumption that all things that are patentable ARE being patented by people, and ignoring the fact that many ideas are NOT being patented. In addition, they are ignoring the fact that a parent should be non-obvious. Proof?
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns
Not only was this granted, but was granted on appeal.
Information straight from the USPTO:
http://vsmca.tripod.com/sxd.pdf
If these don't count as prior art for vibrating joysticks, I don't know what does.
Yes, it's in the Milky Way.
Incorrect. If you set the password several times with different values, you can compute the value yu are xor'ing against, and determine the key. At that time, if all users are using the same key (which it sounds like they are) then the information is now open to everybody that knows it.
In case you didn't figure it out, I was making a point that both God and dark matter are things that which if they exist you can't see, you can only infer they exist based on the apparent influence they have in the universe. I wasn't trying to state that god does not exist, just that dismissing the possibility that dark matter explains this influence is as bad as dismissing religion outright without proof.