Thing hinted at in many posts above: yes your phone can do that, but you have to pull your (e-)wallet. There are people out there that don't have a knee-jerk reflex action like: I want a BMI calculator, lets whip out the (virtual) plastic and get me a BMI app. Now lets get my local bus time table into an app, let's whip out the plastic again.
Back in the day, when people wanted their wood chopped, they went to the shed to get an axe, didn't pick up the phone to call for a woodchopper at $50 an hour.
There is a critical flaw in your argument. We are talking here about documents constituting scientific knowledge, not kiddie porn or pretty pics. The value of scientific knowledge increases when it is disseminated to a larger audience, since more brains can build more knowledge based on it, a classical example of a multiplier effect.
Instead, your reasoning points to a fundamental flaw in the whole process of artificial scarcity (of knowledge in this case), which decreases the total potential value of this knowledge, e.g. the profits the publishers make while limiting its dissemination can never outweigh the value of future work based on it were it disseminated freely. This takes into account the added value by the publisher claiming peer review, as peer review can easily be verified by having the peers cryptographically sign the documents they review, and using the tree of trust as well as the citation index as a merit rating system. Both can be implemented in a modified BitTorrent tracker.
There is only one business plan that is viable in the long run.
1 Work 2 Your 3 Ass 4 Off 5 Profit!!
In that order, no cheating. Those who doubt should watch the Asian tigers, especially China, now and in the coming years. Yes, seriously. No, really, there's no way around it. And yes, thou should study. Hard. Aim for Engineering or Ph.D, preferably in combination.
If people (inside and outside of the patent office) would spend less time burping up all that text and building those paper walls that don't do nothing in defending a (non-)idea (i.e. intellectual property), then those very same people could spend more time thinking up Actual Useful Stuff, like extremely low-power sensor networks to monitor the (destruction of the) environment, super-efficient solar panels, software that debugs itself, or even a cure for cancer for all I care.
Let's stop this BS while we still can, or lawyers will still be hitting each other over the head with boxes full of paper stained with toxic lawyeridaridosis while the planet boils away into oblivion under their feet.
Unknown to the carrier is a no-brainer, they must be able to admit imported phones on their network (unless they sell only sim-locked contracts and allow no inbound roaming). I believe (haven't checked fully) that IMEIs for all GSM phones need to be registered with a central database before they're released into circulation at all.
Depending on strictness, unregistered devices may not be allowed on the network at all (India) or be very restricted in available features.
whoops, think I misread GP's post when I typed up that sarcastic reply.
To prevent your phone's data from being downloaded, you don't necessarily need an open source baseband, you just need to tightly control its communication with the rest of the OS. Turn it into a black box with just the antenna, power, dialing control, audio and a data channel connected to it. Get rid of the tight coupling with the OS already.
Don't get me wrong, IMO open-source baseband software is uber-cool, but the Feds will never willingly approve its use on the mobile networks, they're just too brittle.
Imagine what would happen when cool doodz start swapping millions of working ESN / MEID or IMEI / MSN / SIM data combos on the pirate bay? Instant telecommunications mayhem.
Almost right. You would also need an bunch of open-source cell towers and an open-source backbone network to connect them together and to the rest of the telcos, nevermind a rackstack full of licenses to operate all that. Leave anything in that list up to chance (read: COTS or outsourced) and you're back to square one: the Feds, foreign spyops and/or crooks _will_ have a way in....Oh yeah, you also need a platoon of volunteers to patrol all your cell sites and backbone 24/7 to keep the rodents, copper thieves, spies and crooks away from your gear.
Problem is that, taken together, these developments will broaden the income gap even more. Sidestepping the obligatory "Gattaca" reference, I'll opt for 'Kode 46' here (_very_ hard to find movie, but worth a watch!).
How is a genetically 'burdened' low-income earner ever to get insurance? Make a career resulting in a high availability, high responsibility job when s/he doesn't have the money to cover treatment / correction of the genetic defect in the first place?
NO (and the rest) applies to 'reliable'. Any solution's usefulness lasts only as long as the time it takes the malware writers to come up with a new threat. What I meant to point out is that there is _no_ way to win this war. It's like evolution. Take out some threats, then the more sneaky, stealthy, difficult to detect ones prevail and proliferate.
I'm somewhat disappointed by Cisco making such bold claims for its product, they should know better. I.e. it reads like only at the very last moment they removed the claim that it will whiten your teeth and cook your dinner while babysitting your kids...
Next you're going to tell me that Digital Research's Dr. Gary Kildall and his wife were so brazen to originally name their company Intergalactic Digital Research...
Arms race. Botmasters discover that too many drones get taken offline by quarantine. Bothackers design new stealthier botnets with 'heartbeat' control. Drone is on the 'net? It connects to botmaster, sends regular heartbeats and it spews. Drone is in quarantine? Its heartbeat stops and it no longer spews. Drone is reconnected to the 'net? It stays _quiet_ for a few days, then reconnects to botmaster.
There's only 2 ways they can tell if you have code on your system that is potentially harmful:
Feyshtey, nothing personal against you (you're probably just another victim) but...When Is This $@#$ing Meme Ever Gonna Die?!?!
There are NO (0, nil, zip, NULL, Zero) reliable ways to predict harmful activity from _any_ computer code whatsoever. This has been proven a bazillion times.
Let me give yet another cartoonesque and gumpy example, but just make the point yet again:
-code-
if (estimate_risk(this_program) == None):
go_out_and_nuke_the_internet()
-end code
'nuff said. Sorry, no Wikipedia or MathWorld quotes today, I'm feeling grumpy.
Not realizing your own power only makes you seem powerless (that's exactly what happened to Neo in that scene you allude to).
If today's kids would only step away from their XBoxen and Wii's every once in a while and go out (yikes!) visit a Radio Shack (do they still sell radio stuff?) or any other oldskool electronics store, they could stock up on gear that might prove useful once someone throws the internet kill switch.
Read up on basic electronics, transmitter/receiver design, antenna design, shortwave radio, modulation techniques, modems, (advanced) packet radio, mesh networking,...... become a Ham radio operator and be prepared to help build (y)our own pirate network to keep on communicating when the Feds pull the plug.
Is there any python IDE with this built in... anything that mimics the 'desktop' of Matlab?
Why not have a look at Geany? It's small, free and sweet (i.e. very usable), and it assists with editing code in a lot of programming languages. By the way, the key sequence you gave as example nicely increases indent one level in Geany. For Python, Geany will auto-indent some obvious things: indent after a line ending with ':', dedent after 'return', etc.
hint: molten solder + high-powered laser = (probably) NOT good
(probably: depending on whether solder evaporates before getting really...shineyyyyy!)
About as good as coming up with the idea that it'd be cool to rig up a bowling ball made of a lump of clay with some C4 for a core, adding a pressure sensitive igniter, topping it up with some beer-bottle necks for good measure. You'll probably score strikes on all lanes simultaneously, but your celebration party will be full of sirens and stretchers.
Yeah, and wear safety goggles, blanket all windows in your workshop while you're working, disable the doorbell, bolt down doors etc. Corollary: "Did anyone order pizzaAAaaargh!! My eyes!"
Queue newsflash of skyrocketing sales of protective eyewear disguised as fashionable sunglasses accompanied by similarly impressive sales of fireproof full-body garments...
Slashdot Mirror
Thing hinted at in many posts above: yes your phone can do that, but you have to pull your (e-)wallet.
There are people out there that don't have a knee-jerk reflex action like: I want a BMI calculator, lets whip out the (virtual) plastic and get me a BMI app. Now lets get my local bus time table into an app, let's whip out the plastic again.
Back in the day, when people wanted their wood chopped, they went to the shed to get an axe, didn't pick up the phone to call for a woodchopper at $50 an hour.
Ahh those were the days...
s/tree of trust/web of trust/
There is a critical flaw in your argument.
We are talking here about documents constituting scientific knowledge, not kiddie porn or pretty pics.
The value of scientific knowledge increases when it is disseminated to a larger audience, since more brains can build more knowledge based on it, a classical example of a multiplier effect.
Instead, your reasoning points to a fundamental flaw in the whole process of artificial scarcity (of knowledge in this case), which decreases the total potential value of this knowledge, e.g. the profits the publishers make while limiting its dissemination can never outweigh the value of future work based on it were it disseminated freely.
This takes into account the added value by the publisher claiming peer review, as peer review can easily be verified by having the peers cryptographically sign the documents they review, and using the tree of trust as well as the citation index as a merit rating system. Both can be implemented in a modified BitTorrent tracker.
I'm really not in the mood for spewing citations, do a Google search on "artificial scarcity" or have a look at Wikipedia: Economic actions that create artificial scarcity
Publishers are long overdue in looking for a better business model.
There is only one business plan that is viable in the long run.
1 Work
2 Your
3 Ass
4 Off
5 Profit!!
In that order, no cheating. Those who doubt should watch the Asian tigers, especially China, now and in the coming years.
Yes, seriously. No, really, there's no way around it. And yes, thou should study. Hard. Aim for Engineering or Ph.D, preferably in combination.
Siiiiggghhh.
If people (inside and outside of the patent office) would spend less time burping up all that text and building those paper walls that don't do nothing in defending a (non-)idea (i.e. intellectual property), then those very same people could spend more time thinking up Actual Useful Stuff, like extremely low-power sensor networks to monitor the (destruction of the) environment, super-efficient solar panels, software that debugs itself, or even a cure for cancer for all I care.
Let's stop this BS while we still can, or lawyers will still be hitting each other over the head with boxes full of paper stained with toxic lawyeridaridosis while the planet boils away into oblivion under their feet.
Depends on what you mean by 'unknown'.
Unknown to the carrier is a no-brainer, they must be able to admit imported phones on their network (unless they sell only sim-locked contracts and allow no inbound roaming).
I believe (haven't checked fully) that IMEIs for all GSM phones need to be registered with a central database before they're released into circulation at all.
Depending on strictness, unregistered devices may not be allowed on the network at all (India) or be very restricted in available features.
whoops, think I misread GP's post when I typed up that sarcastic reply.
To prevent your phone's data from being downloaded, you don't necessarily need an open source baseband, you just need to tightly control its communication with the rest of the OS. Turn it into a black box with just the antenna, power, dialing control, audio and a data channel connected to it. Get rid of the tight coupling with the OS already.
Don't get me wrong, IMO open-source baseband software is uber-cool, but the Feds will never willingly approve its use on the mobile networks, they're just too brittle.
Imagine what would happen when cool doodz start swapping millions of working ESN / MEID or IMEI / MSN / SIM data combos on the pirate bay? Instant telecommunications mayhem.
Almost right. You would also need an bunch of open-source cell towers and an open-source backbone network to connect them together and to the rest of the telcos, nevermind a rackstack full of licenses to operate all that. ...Oh yeah, you also need a platoon of volunteers to patrol all your cell sites and backbone 24/7 to keep the rodents, copper thieves, spies and crooks away from your gear.
Leave anything in that list up to chance (read: COTS or outsourced) and you're back to square one: the Feds, foreign spyops and/or crooks _will_ have a way in.
"All middle men are bad." - Syd Barrett,
(Melody Maker interview with the Pink Floyd, December 9, 1967)
R.W & Co didn't agree, so that's probably an important reason why Syd left.
R.I.P. Syd.
Problem is that, taken together, these developments will broaden the income gap even more.
Sidestepping the obligatory "Gattaca" reference, I'll opt for 'Kode 46' here (_very_ hard to find movie, but worth a watch!).
How is a genetically 'burdened' low-income earner ever to get insurance? Make a career resulting in a high availability, high responsibility job when s/he doesn't have the money to cover treatment / correction of the genetic defect in the first place?
You forgot:
chchchchch chchch chch chchchchch chchch chch
cho cho cho ho ho!
Commas will, be misplaced.
Quickly, stop that notary! Someone is trying to cast a magic spell to hide Commas' testament! Hurry!
NO (and the rest) applies to 'reliable'. Any solution's usefulness lasts only as long as the time it takes the malware writers to come up with a new threat.
What I meant to point out is that there is _no_ way to win this war. It's like evolution. Take out some threats, then the more sneaky, stealthy, difficult to detect ones prevail and proliferate.
I'm somewhat disappointed by Cisco making such bold claims for its product, they should know better. I.e. it reads like only at the very last moment they removed the claim that it will whiten your teeth and cook your dinner while babysitting your kids...
Next you're going to tell me that Digital Research's Dr. Gary Kildall and his wife were so brazen to originally name their company Intergalactic Digital Research...
wink, smile, old days...
And how exactly could their automated relay detection software divine that you were in fact the owner of said domain?
True, they should have informed (and offered) you an alternative (AUTHSMTP) solution, or you could have set one up at your domain host.
Arms race.
Botmasters discover that too many drones get taken offline by quarantine.
Bothackers design new stealthier botnets with 'heartbeat' control.
Drone is on the 'net? It connects to botmaster, sends regular heartbeats and it spews.
Drone is in quarantine? Its heartbeat stops and it no longer spews.
Drone is reconnected to the 'net? It stays _quiet_ for a few days, then reconnects to botmaster.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Enjoy your new neverending story.
There's only 2 ways they can tell if you have code on your system that is potentially harmful:
Feyshtey, nothing personal against you (you're probably just another victim) but...When Is This $@#$ing Meme Ever Gonna Die?!?!
There are NO (0, nil, zip, NULL, Zero) reliable ways to predict harmful activity from _any_ computer code whatsoever. This has been proven a bazillion times.
Let me give yet another cartoonesque and gumpy example, but just make the point yet again:
-code-
if (estimate_risk(this_program) == None):
go_out_and_nuke_the_internet()
-end code
'nuff said. Sorry, no Wikipedia or MathWorld quotes today, I'm feeling grumpy.
This is where I step into the picture frame.
Not realizing your own power only makes you seem powerless (that's exactly what happened to Neo in that scene you allude to).
If today's kids would only step away from their XBoxen and Wii's every once in a while and go out (yikes!) visit a Radio Shack (do they still sell radio stuff?) or any other oldskool electronics store, they could stock up on gear that might prove useful once someone throws the internet kill switch.
Read up on basic electronics, transmitter/receiver design, antenna design, shortwave radio, modulation techniques, modems, (advanced) packet radio, mesh networking, ... ... become a Ham radio operator and be prepared to help build (y)our own pirate network to keep on communicating when the Feds pull the plug.
Is there any python IDE with this built in... anything that mimics the 'desktop' of Matlab?
Why not have a look at Geany? It's small, free and sweet (i.e. very usable), and it assists with editing code in a lot of programming languages.
By the way, the key sequence you gave as example nicely increases indent one level in Geany. For Python, Geany will auto-indent some obvious things: indent after a line ending with ':', dedent after 'return', etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_soldering
Keywords: DIVERGENCE, SPOT SIZE
Better not use this puppy as a soldering pistol.
hint: molten solder + high-powered laser = (probably) NOT good
(probably: depending on whether solder evaporates before getting really...shineyyyyy!)
About as good as coming up with the idea that it'd be cool to rig up a bowling ball made of a lump of clay with some C4 for a core, adding a pressure sensitive igniter, topping it up with some beer-bottle necks for good measure.
You'll probably score strikes on all lanes simultaneously, but your celebration party will be full of sirens and stretchers.
Yeah, and wear safety goggles, blanket all windows in your workshop while you're working, disable the doorbell, bolt down doors etc.
Corollary: "Did anyone order pizzaAAaaargh!! My eyes!"
Avoiding detection is just a matter of smoke and mirrors (applied at the appropriate locations).
Queue newsflash of skyrocketing sales of protective eyewear disguised as fashionable sunglasses accompanied by similarly impressive sales of fireproof full-body garments...
Contrast this to:
NSA: No Strings Attached ...ad nauseum
NSA: Nukes Still Armed
NSA: Nixon Sold America
NSA: Nerd's Sudoku Alternative