That's great. I'm going to go setup myspace pages for any potential presidential candidates in 2012. I'll gladly update it per their needs, on a volunteer basis. I'll include pictures of them, and make it appear as though I am really that person. Then, when they actually run, I'll charge for all my time or hold the site captive.
If this was www.friendsofobama.com or www.myspace.com/IWantToVoteForBarackObama I would agree. But this is a myspace page where it says it is the "Official Barack Obama Myspace Profile"
...and make sure they haven't watermarked the song. Why do you care if they watermark the songs? Watermarking is an excellent solution to protecting digital content while preserving fair use.
The cryptography example you provided is inherently flawed. Which I said when I wrote it, to prevent you from saying that it was flawed and thus throwing it out the window. Which you did anyway.:-( The point is, there are solutions, and you should go look for them instead of jumping to conclusions about how all solutions must be bounded.
If votes are counted by any private organization there will always be the possibility that the organization tampers with the data internally. Now that's completely different from what I thought you were saying. Before, you said votes couldn't be anonymous. Now, you are saying they must be counted by the public. That's different. I agree with you there. But that system already is in place for the most part. Citizens can be election judges, and political parties as well as third-party organizations can monitor the vote counting process. So there is plenty of public scrutiny at that point.
And the only way to achieve that is to make all votes available to every citizen. Yes, but they can still stay anonymous.
It sounds like conspiracy theory -- it IS. Pointing out a potential security flaw isn't a conspiracy theory. But I know the feeling. I often point out such holes in things and I'm told "oh, nobody will do that..." which is missing the point. You don't fix it because someone will. You fix it because someone can.
(1) How many people actually look at patent to come up with ideas? If no-one does, then how is it helping with innovation? What exactly is the purpose of software patents other than a way for lawyers and patent trolls to get paid for disrupting innovation? I can answer this question from two perspectives. A. Nobody looks at patents to come-ip with ideas, because then, they are liable for triple damages if they are found to be violating it. B. Patents help with innovation, not by being a library of ideas to draw upon, but by making it illegal for someone to copy your idea and sell it as their own.
Also, (2) Is a whole can of worms. Soooo many people would suddenly independently come-up with your idea.:-) And it would take a lot of lawyers and patent clerks time to examine the "proof" to see if you really did.
...polarized glasses, this is used for films that have not been filmed in 3D but they then process... I think the use of the headset -vs- polarized glasses is not based on how the movie was filmed. I've seen several IMAX movies at the Baltimore IMAX theater, some filmed in 3D and some not, but they all used the polarized glasses. I've never seen the head gear. This includes Deep Sea 3D, African Safari 3D, and Beauty and the Beast. The first two are native 3D, the last is not. I suspect that the headset -vs- glasses decision is made by each theater, rather than being dependent on how it was filmed.
...for the people controlling the process... You are still incorrect. Let me pick one of the methods off the top of my head. I may not remember the mechanics correctly.
Everyone is given a random number when they vote. Now, start with a blank ballot. You fill-in the ballot. The ballot is then cryptographically hashed along with the random number you were given to produce a ballot hash. That result is stored on the voting computers. You go home, and go to a web site. You enter in your random number. That random number is then used to find your ballot hash, without identifying you. You enter in your vote again, then the hash is recalculated. If the hashes match, then your vote has been securely stored without being tampered with.
This isn't exactly right, but I'm not a cryptography expert. But you get the idea. There's paper-based approaches too, where you can be given a receipt, then return and demand to see your original ballot based on that receipt. Same kinda idea. You may not even need the ballot hash thing. I'm unclear on the process.
It's the only way you can be sure everyone's vote was really counted how it should've been. That's not true. There are plenty of ways to cryptographically verify a vote without exposing it publically using techniques like hashing and digital signatures. IF you look through prior Slashdot discussions there are a number of novel paper-based approaches as well.
What you say has a technical basis: The XP search is a step back from what Windows 2000 offered. In Windows XP, suppose you have a text file name read.me containing "Hello World" in it. Do a search for *.me containing "hello" and you will find nothing. This is because the.me extension does not have a shell search object assocated with it, so XP won't open it. Windows 2000 would do what a normal tool does: open any arbitrary file, determine the encoding, and search it. This mis-feature makes the XP search useless, which has created a small market for free and cheap search tools.
Free broadband to everyone doesn't necessarily mean to their homes. They don't even have telephones to each home right now. This may just mean that it will be available at a nearby location. When I was in India, there were places you could use the Internet or make a phone call from all over the place. Going to the home would be pointless since they don't all have computers or 24-7 electricity either.
If spammers start encrypting their email, does that mean that the servers can no longer filter it because they don't have the aggregate information to draw upon?
They may become intelligent, that doesn't make them alive. Trust me dude, if I find a planet of intelligent robots out there, nobody is going to be like "meh, they aren't alive, no sense in talking to them":-) Besides, they might think the same thing about us.
And concentrations of those elements are so low in the universe, that they'd need to be mined by other life forms first. Good point, they are all higher-up on the periodic table. Sounds like that makes a really good search criteria then.
I've used Thunderbird for years... and it quite regularly corrupts my local mail store. I have a bag of tricks for dealing with it. It is always in very minor ways though: Can't delete attachments, can't find an email via search even though it is there. A few messages that sort wrong, etc. The problem with most of these is they are intermittent so I can't reproduce them reliably any more.
I believe that it is inevitable that computers/robots will gain intelligence. If I am right, then there will be a non-carbon based intelligent life form on this planet. So perhaps we should be looking for steel, aluminum, and silicon instead of water and carbon.
Having a bunch of competitors doing the same thing ends up working better than having one huge monopoly, maybe. For a quick overview, try Ideal firm size. I also recommend reading Economies of Scale and Diseconomies of scale, which are linked from that article.
Mistake 7:...Put your feelings about GNU, Patents, Microsoft.... Aside and focus on getting your work done. That's an interesting one. If your feelings about such things are not compatible with your work environment, then your feelings are either: 1) Not compatible with the real world (AKA - All software must be free as in beer, but oh, I want to get paid) 2) You are working for the wrong type of company and should find a company that shares your belief set. Don't work for Microsoft and believe that Linux will rule the world. Don't work for SCO but hate software patents.
Perhaps you are joking, but I've often wondered if quantum effects are caused by the universe having limited floating-point accuracy.
Big things seem to move in simple and obvious Newtonian physics. But as we look smaller and smaller, things seem to jump from place to place, go through each other, and behave randomly. This is precisely what happens in a simulation as you approach 0 in floating-point. You can get seemingly random effects by adding very very small numbers together. It is also similar to what happens if an object in a video games moves very quickly relative to the the frame rate. The bullet may pass through things, especially other things moving quickly.
Maybe, in a few generations, we will be able to break out of this universe, and see what is really out there.
What are they going to do? Attach a PDF of the latest issue of Nature on each can of soup? The risks are technical, complicated, ever-changing, and sometimes politically motivated. This is not something that can be placed onto the package.
This is odd. I just close an eTrade account that I've had for years and I always use Firefox. This must be something with their open account page. Ironically, I am leaving them for a host of other reasons, many of which are technical problems. I recommend moving your stocks elsewhere before they get hacked.
Yes, after you turned off the "downlevel" browser feature that treats IE as CSS 2 compliant and sends hacked-up malfunctioning tables to other browsers. <%@ Page language="c#" ClientTarget="ie5"... %>
To that end, I don't understand why browsers don't natively support MPEG-4. It would completely change the landscape of online video if you could do:
<img src="foo.mp4"/> It works with PNG, JPG, and GIF - so why not MP4? There's so many benefits to that I can't count them all.
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That's great. I'm going to go setup myspace pages for any potential presidential candidates in 2012. I'll gladly update it per their needs, on a volunteer basis. I'll include pictures of them, and make it appear as though I am really that person. Then, when they actually run, I'll charge for all my time or hold the site captive.
If this was www.friendsofobama.com or www.myspace.com/IWantToVoteForBarackObama I would agree. But this is a myspace page where it says it is the "Official Barack Obama Myspace Profile"
...and make sure they haven't watermarked the song. Why do you care if they watermark the songs? Watermarking is an excellent solution to protecting digital content while preserving fair use.A. Nobody looks at patents to come-ip with ideas, because then, they are liable for triple damages if they are found to be violating it.
B. Patents help with innovation, not by being a library of ideas to draw upon, but by making it illegal for someone to copy your idea and sell it as their own.
Also, (2) Is a whole can of worms. Soooo many people would suddenly independently come-up with your idea.
...polarized glasses, this is used for films that have not been filmed in 3D but they then process... I think the use of the headset -vs- polarized glasses is not based on how the movie was filmed. I've seen several IMAX movies at the Baltimore IMAX theater, some filmed in 3D and some not, but they all used the polarized glasses. I've never seen the head gear. This includes Deep Sea 3D, African Safari 3D, and Beauty and the Beast. The first two are native 3D, the last is not. I suspect that the headset -vs- glasses decision is made by each theater, rather than being dependent on how it was filmed.
...for the people controlling the process... You are still incorrect. Let me pick one of the methods off the top of my head. I may not remember the mechanics correctly.Everyone is given a random number when they vote. Now, start with a blank ballot. You fill-in the ballot. The ballot is then cryptographically hashed along with the random number you were given to produce a ballot hash. That result is stored on the voting computers. You go home, and go to a web site. You enter in your random number. That random number is then used to find your ballot hash, without identifying you. You enter in your vote again, then the hash is recalculated. If the hashes match, then your vote has been securely stored without being tampered with.
This isn't exactly right, but I'm not a cryptography expert. But you get the idea. There's paper-based approaches too, where you can be given a receipt, then return and demand to see your original ballot based on that receipt. Same kinda idea. You may not even need the ballot hash thing. I'm unclear on the process.
What you say has a technical basis: The XP search is a step back from what Windows 2000 offered. In Windows XP, suppose you have a text file name read.me containing "Hello World" in it. Do a search for *.me containing "hello" and you will find nothing. This is because the .me extension does not have a shell search object assocated with it, so XP won't open it. Windows 2000 would do what a normal tool does: open any arbitrary file, determine the encoding, and search it. This mis-feature makes the XP search useless, which has created a small market for free and cheap search tools.
Free broadband to everyone doesn't necessarily mean to their homes. They don't even have telephones to each home right now. This may just mean that it will be available at a nearby location. When I was in India, there were places you could use the Internet or make a phone call from all over the place. Going to the home would be pointless since they don't all have computers or 24-7 electricity either.
This might be very useful for terraforming planets with too much CO2 in the atmosphere. Or, for moving some from one planet to another.
If spammers start encrypting their email, does that mean that the servers can no longer filter it because they don't have the aggregate information to draw upon?
I've used Thunderbird for years... and it quite regularly corrupts my local mail store. I have a bag of tricks for dealing with it. It is always in very minor ways though: Can't delete attachments, can't find an email via search even though it is there. A few messages that sort wrong, etc. The problem with most of these is they are intermittent so I can't reproduce them reliably any more.
I believe that it is inevitable that computers/robots will gain intelligence. If I am right, then there will be a non-carbon based intelligent life form on this planet. So perhaps we should be looking for steel, aluminum, and silicon instead of water and carbon.
1) Not compatible with the real world (AKA - All software must be free as in beer, but oh, I want to get paid)
2) You are working for the wrong type of company and should find a company that shares your belief set. Don't work for Microsoft and believe that Linux will rule the world. Don't work for SCO but hate software patents.
Perhaps you are joking, but I've often wondered if quantum effects are caused by the universe having limited floating-point accuracy.
Big things seem to move in simple and obvious Newtonian physics. But as we look smaller and smaller, things seem to jump from place to place, go through each other, and behave randomly. This is precisely what happens in a simulation as you approach 0 in floating-point. You can get seemingly random effects by adding very very small numbers together. It is also similar to what happens if an object in a video games moves very quickly relative to the the frame rate. The bullet may pass through things, especially other things moving quickly.
Maybe, in a few generations, we will be able to break out of this universe, and see what is really out there.
7-zip can also compress small files, while most archivers just store them uncompressed. Do any of the others do this?
What are they going to do? Attach a PDF of the latest issue of Nature on each can of soup? The risks are technical, complicated, ever-changing, and sometimes politically motivated. This is not something that can be placed onto the package.
This is odd. I just close an eTrade account that I've had for years and I always use Firefox. This must be something with their open account page. Ironically, I am leaving them for a host of other reasons, many of which are technical problems. I recommend moving your stocks elsewhere before they get hacked.
Yes, after you turned off the "downlevel" browser feature that treats IE as CSS 2 compliant and sends hacked-up malfunctioning tables to other browsers.
... %>
<%@ Page language="c#" ClientTarget="ie5"
To that end, I don't understand why browsers don't natively support MPEG-4. It would completely change the landscape of online video if you could do: />
<img src="foo.mp4"
It works with PNG, JPG, and GIF - so why not MP4? There's so many benefits to that I can't count them all.