Performance enhancing drugs have a long history in all kinds of sport. Cycling's history of abuse is at least as old as the sport.
As much as sport organizations may not legitimately want the drugs in their sport, they start by making sure no one kills themselves with abuse first.
Some years ago 20yr old semi-pro cyclists were dying of heart attacks because of too much EPO and probably a few other things... The UCI's solution was to set a red blood cell count limit. Now most pro cyclists are close to that limit, which is way beyond a non-doping cyclist.
The goal then, is for pro or semi-pro athletes to stop a sport and lead productive lives as citizens. The Gov. of California is a well-known example. No one gets to be Mr. Olympia (or whatever) on training alone.
Today's lesson: Doping is okay in any sport. Just don't be stupid about it and don't kill yourself. Staying clean gets you nothing but peace of mind and a low-range pro athletes salary. That's a high price to pay for sticking to convictions.
Why are you changing the subject from Bush's not granting a security clearance to investigators to his starting a war you disaprove of?
1. As an example? What about signing statements example? 2. Don't make a presumption of fact regarding my position on operations in Iraq.
Principals constraining presidential power have been repeatedly violated and no doubt many more violations of law and presidential constraint of power that have yet to see the light of day.
Yes, I'm talking about Abraham Lincoln Are you suggesting the political/social/economic conditions that lead to the war 200+ years ago are similar to the current one? Really?
Stock trading volume on ATI spiked today and price went up. Volume tells you traders are looking to make some quick cash on the spread between today and the announced merger price. Increase in ATI price says people buying stock think it's a good deal for ATI.
Doesn't work like that. Consumers don't know and don't trust iRiver, Zen... If the price is right, who needs trust.
I used to have to comb through all of the market research on PC peripherals. Everytime Microsoft OEM'd something the top-3 leaders lost major revenue and units.
A dominant geopolitical society that did not have the military might to back their rule. Please don't whip out some tribal artifact either. I'm talking G8 superpower.
Can't do it without the guns and bodies. It's a sad matter of fact.
Every government has a couple/few spooky agencies that will do things that go miles beyond ethical boundaries of the vast majority of people. Like paying and training humans for an army to kill, it must be done.
I'll say it again, this UAC "security" is as temporary as all of the other security CF's before.
The parent's comment illustrates this perfectly. There is no clear path with UAC. Just like windows security center, it's designed to look like a fix.
What happens when there's a problem with a desktop application and I need to do something as administrator. Will I be able to do it? If administrator is not really the super user then what account is? Does Microsoft owns the super user account in Longwait?
Professionally, I'm actually in favor of this mess. Like a complex tax code indirectly benefits accountants, complex desktop "security" and a set top box environment benefits me endlessly. Bring it on. I'll get paid handsomely to support it.
Lawmakers hate it, judiciary hates it, and the executives, of course, hate it they each think, they are right and that the other branches are wrong in their disagreements.
Exactly right.
They all submit to it because of the laws
This is where you need to reconsider your opinion. One of the missions of the current administration is to vastly expand presidential powers. The President's office says, "Yeah that's okay for everyone else, but since I'm President, I have the power to do something else that I won't disclose but it's not illegal because I'm the President."
Or in the case of declaring war, I'm declaring war and I got the legislative branches to back me up. But this is a different war than the others so no current laws apply. Since no current laws apply, there is nothing stopping me from fighting this war the way I want. And since I'm president and my powers have been increased when the legislative branches gave me the okay for going to war, I'll start some other things that I can do when I have these extra powers to fight a war. But since this isn't like other wars and I'm the president I can do as I please.
The conventional process of law providing a mechanism to balance power in the U.S. has been overturned. Please consider this point carefully.
Tom's Harware: "But Microsoft hasn't taken this principle entirely to heart, either. The first user defined during installation is automatically granted administrative privileges. Worse yet, the reserved account named Administrator is not required to have a password to log into the machine!" http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_vis ta/page18.html [tomshardware.com]
Did they fix this?
If someone nitpicks about how Linux's sudo is somehow equivilant, it's not. Stop spreading the FUD.
You failed to notice the previous builds had every application of every version consumers will pay for in Longwait plus debugging. So it was gigantic in comparison to what ships.
Per the insightful post above, it's going to be business as usual as soon as this thing is shipping. It will keep me gainfully employed because there is no incentive to make it secure. There never was. There's a huge windows security industry that proves me right.
Meanwhile my family and I have great peace of mind running (insert your distro here) and KDE.
Keep in mind a FIPs certified build of openssl requires specific but not complex build parameters.
Also keep in mind the Openssl project can't modify the fips-certified code parts. It would have to go back for certification and I doubt Novell/HP and ? want to pay for that again and again.
It would be interesting to hear if distros (or any users) are building and using it in applications in the FIPS mode.
the barcode can't store any significant amount of data
Depending on the barcode used, lots more data than you realize can be stored in a bar code.
The chips from the article (and many RFID chips) can contain the entire PDF brochure of that lawnmower you're looking at
There are many technical problems you are glossing over like transmission rate, storage limitations/configurations and reading a PDF on a mobile phone screen.(?)
What about the organizational problem of getting your phone service provider to make this work? Lots of really useful technology dies on the vine for this reason.
This was exactly my experience. I was quite happy up to 9.3.
I believe Novell and Red Hat let hobbyists work out bugs on a relatively free (as in freedom) distros. The "enterprise" versions bundle in non-free things, draconian licence terms, support and hopefully do more bug squashing.
I just don't find the stability I need in the opensuse or fedora distros. (someone will no doubt declare otherwise) For me, it's back to Debian where testing is the equivalent of running opensuse/fedora and stable is production quality.
This isn't really an insightful comment. It's currently modded as such.
Asterisk does not currently provide the nuts and bolts of connecting SIP callers. It's SIP integration is not built out so great either. (ex. can't easily connect to a STUN or RTP proxy)
The normal procedure is to use an SIP server with asterisk as a voicemail backend.
The SER and OpenSER SIP server projects both connect to asterisk.
There is no reason to use skype's proprietary protocol. Good for the Chinese for putting a dent in their proprietary methods. Let SIP providers compete on a service basis, not protocol competition.
As the only other good post states, this is hardly a win.
The Mother's case is more-or-less closed. RIAA members get to send the message (prepare for shouting) "WE'LL SUE YOU IF WE THINK YOU ARE STEALING MUSIC AND YOU ARE A THEIF" is the big stick message that pretty much everyone has gotten either through RIAA lawsuit activities or the dumb trailer in front of some movies.
It is very disappointing to see so many "stick it to the RIAA" messages. The war is over and your freedom to legitimately copy the media you bought is gone.
The real world differs drastically. Sharecropping, slavery, prostitution, desktop OS's, so-called "energy markets", telecomm markets all exhibit market behavior that defy the theory.
Mostly because humans are greedy and will do anything to maximize their profit-making systems.
That doesn't include: 1. development (big-time cost) 2. Molds for housings (one-time cost) 3. Certifications (regulatory stuff for various parts of the world) (small one-time cost) 4. Licensing (ongoing software/IP costs are unknown)
I'd guess the nanos come in at much less than $10 with RAM being one of the most expensive components. The hard-drive versions I'd estimate come in at $20 ea. tops.
The marketing costs probably soak up much of the spread between OEM price/unit and retail because they advertise like no other player manufacturer.
The analyst can cry all he wants but the guy is an idiot for not contacting an OEM and figuring it out for himself. It's not secret by any stretch of the imagination.
OT: How do I get that gig? Does it pay well to be so uninformed and lazy?
It's really a stretch to call this "capitalism" at work. True capitalists want less government regulation.
1. The "true capitalist" does not exist. Please do a search for the "no true scotsman" argument. 2. Capitalism has no mechanism for the distribution of wealth. It promotes the opposite. In this situation, you are given only the rights explicitly given to you in the EULA. It's their software to sell to you at a price they see fit to charge you for its limited use. Furthermore, Microsoft is allowed to change the EULA terms as they see fit. That's capitalism. And it works great for Microsoft. Not so much for the individual.
They bought a computer, or maybe a software bundle that included an EULA to which they did not agree. That implies they do not have the right to transfer the license they did not agree to and therefore did not own.
I believe the intention is to elminate the ability to transfer -any- license, even the one you have when you agree to MS's EULA. Thereby increasing consumption of new OS licenses.
This is the logical step forward in a society that fully embraces capitalism. Microsoft/RIAA corporations own the content and allows you to use it temporarily and that's it.
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it was partially true but it's not.
Performance enhancing drugs have a long history in all kinds of sport. Cycling's history of abuse is at least as old as the sport.
As much as sport organizations may not legitimately want the drugs in their sport, they start by making sure no one kills themselves with abuse first.
Some years ago 20yr old semi-pro cyclists were dying of heart attacks because of too much EPO and probably a few other things... The UCI's solution was to set a red blood cell count limit. Now most pro cyclists are close to that limit, which is way beyond a non-doping cyclist.
The goal then, is for pro or semi-pro athletes to stop a sport and lead productive lives as citizens. The Gov. of California is a well-known example. No one gets to be Mr. Olympia (or whatever) on training alone.
Today's lesson: Doping is okay in any sport. Just don't be stupid about it and don't kill yourself. Staying clean gets you nothing but peace of mind and a low-range pro athletes salary. That's a high price to pay for sticking to convictions.
As the summary points out, mobile phone networks in the U.S. compete against each other with no third-party innovation allowed.
I'm not talking about java games here, I'm talking third-party mobile services.
So, why would a privatized internet be different?
Why are you changing the subject from Bush's not granting a security clearance to investigators to his starting a war you disaprove of?
1. As an example? What about signing statements example?
2. Don't make a presumption of fact regarding my position on operations in Iraq.
Principals constraining presidential power have been repeatedly violated and no doubt many more violations of law and presidential constraint of power that have yet to see the light of day.
Yes, I'm talking about Abraham Lincoln
Are you suggesting the political/social/economic conditions that lead to the war 200+ years ago are similar to the current one? Really?
Stock trading volume on ATI spiked today and price went up. Volume tells you traders are looking to make some quick cash on the spread between today and the announced merger price. Increase in ATI price says people buying stock think it's a good deal for ATI.
Doesn't work like that. Consumers don't know and don't trust iRiver, Zen... If the price is right, who needs trust.
I used to have to comb through all of the market research on PC peripherals. Everytime Microsoft OEM'd something the top-3 leaders lost major revenue and units.
Every time.
At this point it's about pride at Microsoft because none of their peripheral vendors can make a dent in Apple's market share.
They knock-off the iTunes and buy a bunch of media ads for the holiday sell-a-thon. By now the've paid for the retail slots too.
I think they've missed the boat though.
A dominant geopolitical society that did not have the military might to back their rule. Please don't whip out some tribal artifact either. I'm talking G8 superpower.
Can't do it without the guns and bodies. It's a sad matter of fact.
The editor who let this one through needs to seriously reconsider it.
It can't be take back, but some kind of reconsideration is necessary.
Clearly the woman did the wrong thing at the wrong place.
Every government has a couple/few spooky agencies that will do things that go miles beyond ethical boundaries of the vast majority of people. Like paying and training humans for an army to kill, it must be done.
A very unplesant fact of life.
I'll say it again, this UAC "security" is as temporary as all of the other security CF's before.
The parent's comment illustrates this perfectly. There is no clear path with UAC. Just like windows security center, it's designed to look like a fix.
What happens when there's a problem with a desktop application and I need to do something as administrator. Will I be able to do it? If administrator is not really the super user then what account is? Does Microsoft owns the super user account in Longwait?
Professionally, I'm actually in favor of this mess. Like a complex tax code indirectly benefits accountants, complex desktop "security" and a set top box environment benefits me endlessly. Bring it on. I'll get paid handsomely to support it.
Lawmakers hate it, judiciary hates it, and the executives, of course, hate it they each think, they are right and that the other branches are wrong in their disagreements.
Exactly right.
They all submit to it because of the laws
This is where you need to reconsider your opinion. One of the missions of the current administration is to vastly expand presidential powers. The President's office says, "Yeah that's okay for everyone else, but since I'm President, I have the power to do something else that I won't disclose but it's not illegal because I'm the President."
Or in the case of declaring war, I'm declaring war and I got the legislative branches to back me up. But this is a different war than the others so no current laws apply. Since no current laws apply, there is nothing stopping me from fighting this war the way I want. And since I'm president and my powers have been increased when the legislative branches gave me the okay for going to war, I'll start some other things that I can do when I have these extra powers to fight a war. But since this isn't like other wars and I'm the president I can do as I please.
The conventional process of law providing a mechanism to balance power in the U.S. has been overturned. Please consider this point carefully.
That's good news. No shortage of malware then.
It will take a couple of months, but UAC will be as useful as the windows "security" center.
No matter how much better it might be, it's still insecure.
From May/June of this year
s ta/page18.html [tomshardware.com]
Tom's Harware:
"But Microsoft hasn't taken this principle entirely to heart, either. The first user defined during installation is automatically granted administrative privileges. Worse yet, the reserved account named Administrator is not required to have a password to log into the machine!"
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_vi
Did they fix this?
If someone nitpicks about how Linux's sudo is somehow equivilant, it's not. Stop spreading the FUD.
You failed to notice the previous builds had every application of every version consumers will pay for in Longwait plus debugging. So it was gigantic in comparison to what ships.
Per the insightful post above, it's going to be business as usual as soon as this thing is shipping. It will keep me gainfully employed because there is no incentive to make it secure. There never was. There's a huge windows security industry that proves me right.
Meanwhile my family and I have great peace of mind running (insert your distro here) and KDE.
they fail to mention is read range. As in, if the instrument is in too deep for the reader to power the module.
Most RFID just isn't right for this kind of application. Someone may figure it out though.
Keep in mind a FIPs certified build of openssl requires specific but not complex build parameters.
Also keep in mind the Openssl project can't modify the fips-certified code parts. It would have to go back for certification and I doubt Novell/HP and ? want to pay for that again and again.
It would be interesting to hear if distros (or any users) are building and using it in applications in the FIPS mode.
Obligatory link: http://oss-institute.org/fips-faq.html
the barcode can't store any significant amount of data
Depending on the barcode used, lots more data than you realize can be stored in a bar code.
The chips from the article (and many RFID chips) can contain the entire PDF brochure of that lawnmower you're looking at
There are many technical problems you are glossing over like transmission rate, storage limitations/configurations and reading a PDF on a mobile phone screen.(?)
What about the organizational problem of getting your phone service provider to make this work? Lots of really useful technology dies on the vine for this reason.
I took a WiFi VoIP phone (zyxel) home and it used the Asterisk server at work from behind my Linky's NAT just fine
o xy explains the difference between it and a proxy. Please read it and consider carefully.
1. Because it works in your situation, it's not a good idea to generalize.
2. Conveniently, you fail to mention how you are connecting to the office network.
3. http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+SIP+not-pr
The task of proxying over heterogeneous security appliances and public/private networks is not as easy as you claim.
This was exactly my experience. I was quite happy up to 9.3.
I believe Novell and Red Hat let hobbyists work out bugs on a relatively free (as in freedom) distros. The "enterprise" versions bundle in non-free things, draconian licence terms, support and hopefully do more bug squashing.
I just don't find the stability I need in the opensuse or fedora distros. (someone will no doubt declare otherwise) For me, it's back to Debian where testing is the equivalent of running opensuse/fedora and stable is production quality.
This isn't really an insightful comment. It's currently modded as such.
Asterisk does not currently provide the nuts and bolts of connecting SIP callers. It's SIP integration is not built out so great either. (ex. can't easily connect to a STUN or RTP proxy)
The normal procedure is to use an SIP server with asterisk as a voicemail backend.
The SER and OpenSER SIP server projects both connect to asterisk.
There is no reason to use skype's proprietary protocol. Good for the Chinese for putting a dent in their proprietary methods. Let SIP providers compete on a service basis, not protocol competition.
As the only other good post states, this is hardly a win.
The Mother's case is more-or-less closed. RIAA members get to send the message (prepare for shouting) "WE'LL SUE YOU IF WE THINK YOU ARE STEALING MUSIC AND YOU ARE A THEIF" is the big stick message that pretty much everyone has gotten either through RIAA lawsuit activities or the dumb trailer in front of some movies.
It is very disappointing to see so many "stick it to the RIAA" messages. The war is over and your freedom to legitimately copy the media you bought is gone.
In theory you are correct.
The real world differs drastically. Sharecropping, slavery, prostitution, desktop OS's, so-called "energy markets", telecomm markets all exhibit market behavior that defy the theory.
Mostly because humans are greedy and will do anything to maximize their profit-making systems.
C'mon people, this is easy.
That doesn't include:
1. development (big-time cost)
2. Molds for housings (one-time cost)
3. Certifications (regulatory stuff for various parts of the world) (small one-time cost)
4. Licensing (ongoing software/IP costs are unknown)
I'd guess the nanos come in at much less than $10 with RAM being one of the most expensive components. The hard-drive versions I'd estimate come in at $20 ea. tops.
The marketing costs probably soak up much of the spread between OEM price/unit and retail because they advertise like no other player manufacturer.
The analyst can cry all he wants but the guy is an idiot for not contacting an OEM and figuring it out for himself. It's not secret by any stretch of the imagination.
OT: How do I get that gig? Does it pay well to be so uninformed and lazy?
It's really a stretch to call this "capitalism" at work. True capitalists want less government regulation.
1. The "true capitalist" does not exist. Please do a search for the "no true scotsman" argument.
2. Capitalism has no mechanism for the distribution of wealth. It promotes the opposite. In this situation, you are given only the rights explicitly given to you in the EULA. It's their software to sell to you at a price they see fit to charge you for its limited use. Furthermore, Microsoft is allowed to change the EULA terms as they see fit. That's capitalism. And it works great for Microsoft. Not so much for the individual.
They bought a computer, or maybe a software bundle that included an EULA to which they did not agree. That implies they do not have the right to transfer the license they did not agree to and therefore did not own.
I believe the intention is to elminate the ability to transfer -any- license, even the one you have when you agree to MS's EULA. Thereby increasing consumption of new OS licenses.
This is the logical step forward in a society that fully embraces capitalism. Microsoft/RIAA corporations own the content and allows you to use it temporarily and that's it.