As I get older, I'm realizing that when an Industry slaps "Smart-"something on a product, it's more about the marketing and less about the architecture. This technology basically uses wi-fi in a mesh topology. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
That will not get you a user base. You need to add Bling.. lot's of big fat, cpu grinding Bling. Users want Pretty and they want it Fast... a few poniez on the wallpaper selections help too. I'm not kidding.
First we have the SOPA loveboat heading up NSF funding, and now Cable lobbyists in charge of the FCC? Whats next, putting Prenda lawyers in charge of the US Patent Office?
The problem with this system, as well as the problems with the Lanza reference, are that people were expected to follow a set of rules in order for the system to work as intended. When people don't follow the rules, the system does not work. As soon as someone forgets to disable temporary permissions, or effectively does a "chmod 777" on the smartgun system to "to make it easier to use", it's just as useless as the paperwork system that's been in use.
They can be the guys designing the robots, programming them, maintaining them, manufacturing them.
Yes, but only if you are H1B or live in a third world country. The US manufacturing industry has no intention on re-training the forklift driver to program the robotic gizmo.
If this letter generates enough static around the patent situation (and I tend to agree, in general, with the spirit of the letter) then maybe it was a brilliant ploy on the lawyers part to drag the issues out into prime time news feeds using drama as the winch. Sometimes any exposure to a corrupt problem is better than none at all.
Do one overwrite with zeros for magnetic media. They cannot recover that.
if "They" refers to Geek Squad, yeah maybe not. In reality however, overwriting magnetic storage with 0s doesn't actually remove the data*. I'm not saying everyone can afford, or get access to, the equipment below but there is some myth to the notion of "erasing" data by overwriting it.
using specialised circuitry it is possible to work out what previous "layers" contained. The recovery of at least one or two layers of overwritten data isn't too hard to perform by reading the signal from the analog head electronics with a high-quality digital sampling oscilloscope, downloading the sampled waveform to a PC, and analysing it in software to recover the previously recorded signal.
Interesting to see what they actually found as TFA doesn't mention it. Assuming ECHO is Enteric Cytopathic Human Orphan, Adeno is Adenovirus and Cox is Coxsackie virus which can cause swelling of the tissue around the heart. Yeessh...
This is the same behavior I would expect from any kind of extremist where their actions are based on intolerant idealism. Whatever your religion, if you think other people need to suffer, you are wrong.
can we please finally now get on with dealing with the fact that we don't need 100% employment anymore?
Consider what you are proposing; it sounds like an economy not based on monetary exchange for human labor. That's all well and good however whats the plan for purchasing goods people consume? Electricity, food, entertainment, internet access... those costs do not magically go away just because a robot is shoveling coal, growing corn, topless dancing or programming a switch. Besides, employment drives innovation as well as providing mental and social benefits which people do need. Even a Basement Dweller uses mailing lists, IM or IRC.
Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system. Not sure it's ever even happened to me.
Mkay...just a quick google Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well
Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.
So if the system doesn't actually catch bad guys, why do they still have it? Did they not save their sales receipt from spending all those tax dollars?
It's a little know fact that Starbucks allows you to bring your Civet in for that fresh-brewed taste. Best way to do it is feed Civet and entire box of prunes about 30 minutes before heading out.
The one time we really need technology to do something besides email imgur links or annoy people on Twitter, it fails. Probably best anyway as most of the traffic I saw was just "ZOMG..first post.." drama anyway.
i still can't figure out the point in spending $1500 on a pair
- stylish accoutrement while riding your Segway - Create instant envy while in Starbucks with your iMac - Hands-free brutalization while recording cops brutalizing you - hilarious Google Glass Fail videos for the rest of us to enjoy
I believe SMS piggy-backs on a transmission from the tower which is a different protocol than what is used for voice/data*. It seems possible that SMS may work when voice/data has been blocked.
"transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephone traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. "
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As I get older, I'm realizing that when an Industry slaps "Smart-"something on a product, it's more about the marketing and less about the architecture. This technology basically uses wi-fi in a mesh topology. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
First of all, QNX is awesome
That will not get you a user base. You need to add Bling.. lot's of big fat, cpu grinding Bling. Users want Pretty and they want it Fast. .. a few poniez on the wallpaper selections help too. I'm not kidding.
Run a pipeline from US Senate/House of Reps. to Oslo. Operate incinerator off the methane vapors.
First we have the SOPA loveboat heading up NSF funding, and now Cable lobbyists in charge of the FCC? Whats next, putting Prenda lawyers in charge of the US Patent Office?
I mean their phone was doing so well.
What's more surprising is that is isn't a normal occurence given the amount of crap floating around up there.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40173
"Wow!! Those blink tags are going to be so useful!"
The problem with this system, as well as the problems with the Lanza reference, are that people were expected to follow a set of rules in order for the system to work as intended. When people don't follow the rules, the system does not work. As soon as someone forgets to disable temporary permissions, or effectively does a "chmod 777" on the smartgun system to "to make it easier to use", it's just as useless as the paperwork system that's been in use.
They can be the guys designing the robots, programming them, maintaining them, manufacturing them.
Yes, but only if you are H1B or live in a third world country. The US manufacturing industry has no intention on re-training the forklift driver to program the robotic gizmo.
If this letter generates enough static around the patent situation (and I tend to agree, in general, with the spirit of the letter) then maybe it was a brilliant ploy on the lawyers part to drag the issues out into prime time news feeds using drama as the winch. Sometimes any exposure to a corrupt problem is better than none at all.
I do that all the time. I like to do that. That's why I bought a sports car. Why would I want an app to chirp at me when I do that?
you don't. The rest of us getting "buzzed" by you do.
Big deal. That's like the difference between December and July in the Midwest.
Do one overwrite with zeros for magnetic media. They cannot recover that.
if "They" refers to Geek Squad, yeah maybe not. In reality however, overwriting magnetic storage with 0s doesn't actually remove the data*. I'm not saying everyone can afford, or get access to, the equipment below but there is some myth to the notion of "erasing" data by overwriting it.
using specialised circuitry it is possible to work out what previous "layers" contained. The recovery of at least one or two layers of overwritten data isn't too hard to perform by reading the signal from the analog head electronics with a high-quality digital sampling oscilloscope, downloading the sampled waveform to a PC, and analysing it in software to recover the previously recorded signal.
[*] - http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Interesting to see what they actually found as TFA doesn't mention it. Assuming ECHO is Enteric Cytopathic Human Orphan, Adeno is Adenovirus and Cox is Coxsackie virus which can cause swelling of the tissue around the heart. Yeessh...
http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/esthag/0/esthag.ahead-of-print/es400509b/aop/images/large/es-2013-00509b_0006.jpeg
This is the same behavior I would expect from any kind of extremist where their actions are based on intolerant idealism. Whatever your religion, if you think other people need to suffer, you are wrong.
can we please finally now get on with dealing with the fact that we don't need 100% employment anymore?
Consider what you are proposing; it sounds like an economy not based on monetary exchange for human labor. That's all well and good however whats the plan for purchasing goods people consume? Electricity, food, entertainment, internet access... those costs do not magically go away just because a robot is shoveling coal, growing corn, topless dancing or programming a switch. Besides, employment drives innovation as well as providing mental and social benefits which people do need. Even a Basement Dweller uses mailing lists, IM or IRC.
Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system. Not sure it's ever even happened to me.
Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well
Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.
This is the same guy that headed off the Oracle vs. Java ruling disaster.
So if the system doesn't actually catch bad guys, why do they still have it? Did they not save their sales receipt from spending all those tax dollars?
It's a little know fact that Starbucks allows you to bring your Civet in for that fresh-brewed taste. Best way to do it is feed Civet and entire box of prunes about 30 minutes before heading out.
Sounds like the govenrment finally decided they didn't like money outside their control.
lol.. money is the least of it. 'patents', 'power', 'drugs', and 'judicial/legislative/executive' systems also fit that sentence.
The one time we really need technology to do something besides email imgur links or annoy people on Twitter, it fails. Probably best anyway as most of the traffic I saw was just "ZOMG..first post.." drama anyway.
Not sure how they plan on registering the domain and still remaining 'Anonymous' since ICANN won't allow any-old-BS* in the whois record anymore.
[8] -http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities
i still can't figure out the point in spending $1500 on a pair
- stylish accoutrement while riding your Segway
- Create instant envy while in Starbucks with your iMac
- Hands-free brutalization while recording cops brutalizing you
- hilarious Google Glass Fail videos for the rest of us to enjoy
I believe SMS piggy-backs on a transmission from the tower which is a different protocol than what is used for voice/data*. It seems possible that SMS may work when voice/data has been blocked.
"transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephone traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. "
[*] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service