Representatives from the Alpine village's historic church are also concerned. Copying a house of God for use as a tourist attraction is problematic, Catholic priest Richard Czurylo told daily Die Presse, adding that at the very least, the new church must be declared a place of prayer.
This made me smile... Also another part where major is stunned but he thinks it is good for business. 'nuff said:).
But priest seeing an opportunity to spread faith... This is top one:)
Question remains: how comes those people are so dumb? Being at de-facto cyberwar with a country, and still use closed source program originating from it?
I wonder if there's a Russian source linking Space shuttle explosions with bugs-in-stolen-code, you know, that code stolen from Russians to drive space program...
Maybe Russians inserted FOR I = 1.100 DO... in rocket's code...
A lot of tongue in cheek, but... cyberwar in 1982 is as credible as is Wargames scenario, Joshua playing TicTacToe... Who wants to believe - he will. Me - I like harder facts than random writing on the wall called wikipedia.
Question remains: how comes those people are so dumb? Being at de-facto cyberwar with a country, and still use closed source program originating from it?
Another one: Be rich and smart enough to have a nuclear research, but not smart enough to roll its own IT infrastructure base on code they can audit?
If, by any criteria, US does not top such charts, it's only because of outsourcing of manufacturing. Meaning - most of second-hand "smoke" is because of US consumption too.
Also, see this. Just for example, additional llustration:
Maybe Americans are getting smart and using VPN's and proxies:D
Or US Internet traffic is growing - something the ISP's & cell carriers are crying about on a regular basis. If the overall usage goes up, stagnant BitTorrent traffic rates - or if the BT rates are growing at a slower rate as compared to overall US usage - will look like it declined.
youtube and various other, legal, video sharing services are guzzling Internet traffic now, every day more so.
Once, we had multipath delivery (by p2p networks) - now we have Hydra systems with much bigger "tube" needs. MPAA/RIAA/... choose, now telcos are crying foul.
A Facebook page is a pre-arranged display window whose purpose is to block our gaze from the real person behind it.
That is Facebook's curse.
It attracts hundreds of millions of users by providing them with a platform for narcissism and the means to lie about themselves more persuasively, but it hopes to make money by learning what it is that they really like, the better to show them advertisements.
I think GCC is a bit blindalleyed here. Undocumented internals are not so big problem when there is no comparable alternative. But - project is strong, without doubt. No reason to not pull over.
C++ as an health/longevity argument is a bit doubtful. But, I am obviously biased there:).
Stallman and others deliberately fought having APIs, proper documentation and to allow plugins for all parts of the GCC toolchain, to keep control of the thing.
Mostly result of dispute with DEC SRC when GCC and parent FSF failed to enforce GPL on Modula-3. Moving target known as GCC internals has been problem ever since, mostly to "legitimate" GNU compiler developers.
LLVM, on the other hand, made ingenious move with standard and open IR. Overall modular design is another boon.
GCC was in blind alleys before. No real reason for them not to survive this one. Another EGC can happen, to pull GCC in future.
In the world of ultimate surveillance, like one we are becoming (and fast) - some kind of rollback mechanism is (at least to me) most logical thing to do.
Money can be followed, to the moment when a person gets it from ATM or bank clerk. Also, it can be found later - serial numbers are there to be used and I do not doubt they are.
On the other hand, bank can make better authentication (as GeneralTurgidson implies) but also some mechanism for keeping a customer in loop. Some banks report transactions through SMS, for example. Mechanism where transaction is delayed for some time, during which customer can take action. If I don't get SMS confirmation in 3 hours, for example - call bank hotline to stop everything.
And many other things, other than - let customer pay.
In Bosnia and Herzegowina we have national id cards. We had them also in former Yugoslavia, so - nothing new here. Except these new ones are barcoded so it is easy to register us on border checkpoints and like. Every time I cross border, they put my id card in scanner and register passage... But, we also have long established practice of copying our id card for lots of procedures/applications at banks, telecoms and such. You come to open bank account (like I did just today) and they get your id card and copy both sides... What is interesting, today my friend witnessed this, and he works for another company copying id cards a lot... He was surprised when he saw bank clerk copying id card because at his company they spent friday-sunday destroying all copied id cards because of recent law forbiding this id card data collection. At least somebody came to his senses... Imagine that, tons of identities in hundreds of binders in tens of companies... Looks like Fukushima to me:).
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You're not getting it, obviously.
Use dedicated book reader. Something lighter, friendlier to eyes (hint, hint.. maybe Kindle??) and with survivable battery discipline.
As I am (obvious?) using a computer to read and write here, how can I also be a Luddite?:)
Help Slashdot. Buy a clue for every poster.:)
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This is how cycle moves forward. 95%+ people interested in this new version already paid for rights to use this intelectual property, many more times than once. VHS, VCD, DVD,... No problem, we can pay again, and again... As long as they improve resolution, add new beneath-the-scenes, how-we-did-it and similar sugar. Why don't they change anything? Because IT WORKS!
First thing to stop using when you get an OSX machine, in my book. When I first got MBP, fall 2010, I had few hard freezes. They stopped as soon as I stopped using Safari. It may be a coincidence, but my MBP is definitely more stable without. A lot more stable!
As for users ignoring warnings... It looks like good case for Apple to close OSX as they closed iOS - force us to use single app store. Good thing gnome-shell is really nice env, so current OSX users have upgrade, errr, escape path available.
1) To find child pornographers 2) To find money counterfeiters....
So, every 1,000,000th computer user is 1), and probably every 10,000,000th is 2).. Or something like. Nothing bad, I would propose much stricter sentencing for 1), and let authorities eat 2) for breakfast, and so on... But... 1) and 2) are probably verrry aware of methods used so only guaranteed effect is: surveillance and control of rest of us.
We (the rest) are just collateral damage - freedom here and freedom there is lost...
Nothing new here...:)
As for printer companies - Every single one not on this list is just temporarily off it. Why would they decline request like that from government? At least for printer sold in some country, it's only normal to expect its government to impose such request onto company willing to sell it's wares. While this situation is very similar to old reasoning for cryptography for our emails, I really don't see why it would be a problem to me if papers I produce are traceable by government? A lot of my writing is already in circulation so they also have many other ways to match my papers to me:).
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Representatives from the Alpine village's historic church are also concerned. Copying a house of God for use as a tourist attraction is problematic, Catholic priest Richard Czurylo told daily Die Presse, adding that at the very least, the new church must be declared a place of prayer.
This made me smile... Also another part where major is stunned but he thinks it is good for business. 'nuff said :).
But priest seeing an opportunity to spread faith... This is top one :)
Even Ivan took shortcuts. Read about the Savatage of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. (D'oh, stupid auto-complete!)
Good reading that...
I wonder if there's a Russian source linking Space shuttle explosions with bugs-in-stolen-code, you know, that code stolen from Russians to drive space program...
Maybe Russians inserted FOR I = 1.100 DO... in rocket's code...
A lot of tongue in cheek, but... cyberwar in 1982 is as credible as is Wargames scenario, Joshua playing TicTacToe... Who wants to believe - he will. Me - I like harder facts than random writing on the wall called wikipedia.
Funny thing to say about any version of Windows.
Question remains: how comes those people are so dumb? Being at de-facto cyberwar with a country, and still use closed source program originating from it?
Another one: Be rich and smart enough to have a nuclear research, but not smart enough to roll its own IT infrastructure base on code they can audit?
If, by any criteria, US does not top such charts, it's only because of outsourcing of manufacturing. Meaning - most of second-hand "smoke" is because of US consumption too.
Also, see this. Just for example, additional llustration:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44781282/World_s_Most_Polluted_Countries
Maybe Americans are getting smart and using VPN's and proxies :D
Or US Internet traffic is growing - something the ISP's & cell carriers are crying about on a regular basis. If the overall usage goes up, stagnant BitTorrent traffic rates - or if the BT rates are growing at a slower rate as compared to overall US usage - will look like it declined.
youtube and various other, legal, video sharing services are guzzling Internet traffic now, every day more so.
Once, we had multipath delivery (by p2p networks) - now we have Hydra systems with much bigger "tube" needs. MPAA/RIAA/... choose, now telcos are crying foul.
Fun.
Enlightening article: http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NE22Dj03.html
A Facebook page is a pre-arranged display window whose purpose is to block our gaze from the real person behind it.
That is Facebook's curse.
It attracts hundreds of millions of users by providing them with a platform for narcissism and the means to lie about themselves more persuasively, but it hopes to make money by learning what it is that they really like, the better to show them advertisements.
'nuff said :)
Why they are exempt from various quota talks?
Until I read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
So.. Where were we? Importance of arsenals?
I think GCC is a bit blindalleyed here. Undocumented internals are not so big problem when there is no comparable alternative. But - project is strong, without doubt. No reason to not pull over.
C++ as an health/longevity argument is a bit doubtful. But, I am obviously biased there :).
Stallman and others deliberately fought having APIs, proper documentation and to allow plugins for all parts of the GCC toolchain, to keep control of the thing.
Mostly result of dispute with DEC SRC when GCC and parent FSF failed to enforce GPL on Modula-3. Moving target known as GCC internals has been problem ever since, mostly to "legitimate" GNU compiler developers.
LLVM, on the other hand, made ingenious move with standard and open IR. Overall modular design is another boon.
GCC was in blind alleys before. No real reason for them not to survive this one. Another EGC can happen, to pull GCC in future.
It wonders me to see a forum like slashdot not recognizing FUD tactics.
This time, FUD targets everyone's stability and inspires fear from everything.
"You are warned, don't tell you are not, once your elevator leaves for moon. With you inside."
Am I also only person without facebook account? Am not!
Am only one of those persons who do not keep anything worth worrying about on facebook.
They will probably make more money from that, than from active site :).
And RIAA will get wrist/checkbook slap.
Probably nature of his job/post/tenure assumed crypto keys were being held in escrow.
I think we were all made to think how right measure of rogueness is what makes good Google engineer.
Or we just didn't read full specification of what 20%, free initiative time, is allowed to be spent on?
Like: You are allowed/obliged to spend 20% of time on projects of your choosing as long as it does not result in federal lawsuit?
IANAL, but something like that...
In the world of ultimate surveillance, like one we are becoming (and fast) - some kind of rollback mechanism is (at least to me) most logical thing to do.
Money can be followed, to the moment when a person gets it from ATM or bank clerk. Also, it can be found later - serial numbers are there to be used and I do not doubt they are.
On the other hand, bank can make better authentication (as GeneralTurgidson implies) but also some mechanism for keeping a customer in loop. Some banks report transactions through SMS, for example. Mechanism where transaction is delayed for some time, during which customer can take action. If I don't get SMS confirmation in 3 hours, for example - call bank hotline to stop everything.
And many other things, other than - let customer pay.
a) NAT
b) dynamic IP ranges
But authors are so full of themselves it hurts :). Good luck for them and maybe-buyers, once they try to litigate with mostly false data.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-17-brazil-AIDS_N.htm
It is logical thing for governments to do. At least as long as they have enough sovereignity for such action. Think World Government here...
In Bosnia and Herzegowina we have national id cards. We had them also in former Yugoslavia, so - nothing new here. Except these new ones are barcoded so it is easy to register us on border checkpoints and like. Every time I cross border, they put my id card in scanner and register passage... :).
But, we also have long established practice of copying our id card for lots of procedures/applications at banks, telecoms and such. You come to open bank account (like I did just today) and they get your id card and copy both sides... What is interesting, today my friend witnessed this, and he works for another company copying id cards a lot... He was surprised when he saw bank clerk copying id card because at his company they spent friday-sunday destroying all copied id cards because of recent law forbiding this id card data collection. At least somebody came to his senses...
Imagine that, tons of identities in hundreds of binders in tens of companies... Looks like Fukushima to me
You're not getting it, obviously.
Use dedicated book reader. Something lighter, friendlier to eyes (hint, hint.. maybe Kindle??) and with survivable battery discipline.
As I am (obvious?) using a computer to read and write here, how can I also be a Luddite? :)
Help Slashdot. Buy a clue for every poster. :)
That's it.
Don't use iPad for reading.
Things that tend to disappear at whims of CEOs and boards?
I know, I know.. My English is work in progress.
This is how cycle moves forward. 95%+ people interested in this new version already paid for rights to use this intelectual property, many more times than once. VHS, VCD, DVD, ...
No problem, we can pay again, and again... As long as they improve resolution, add new beneath-the-scenes, how-we-did-it and similar sugar.
Why don't they change anything? Because IT WORKS!
First thing to stop using when you get an OSX machine, in my book.
When I first got MBP, fall 2010, I had few hard freezes. They stopped as soon as I stopped using Safari.
It may be a coincidence, but my MBP is definitely more stable without. A lot more stable!
As for users ignoring warnings... It looks like good case for Apple to close OSX as they closed iOS - force us to use single app store. Good thing gnome-shell is really nice env, so current OSX users have upgrade, errr, escape path available.
White hat people (and gray hat like this one looks like) go around Facebook in wide circle.
Facebook is left to its obviously non-competent, happylawyery self and, of course, to black hats.
Good thing I never put anything remotely important on their servers.
Also possible - Facebook pleads for this guy, now when he is sentenced, to get maximum positive press.
1) To find child pornographers ....
2) To find money counterfeiters
So, every 1,000,000th computer user is 1), and probably every 10,000,000th is 2).. Or something like. Nothing bad, I would propose much stricter sentencing for 1), and let authorities eat 2) for breakfast, and so on... But... 1) and 2) are probably verrry aware of methods used so only guaranteed effect is: surveillance and control of rest of us.
We (the rest) are just collateral damage - freedom here and freedom there is lost...
Nothing new here... :)
As for printer companies - Every single one not on this list is just temporarily off it. Why would they decline request like that from government? At least for printer sold in some country, it's only normal to expect its government to impose such request onto company willing to sell it's wares. While this situation is very similar to old reasoning for cryptography for our emails, I really don't see why it would be a problem to me if papers I produce are traceable by government? A lot of my writing is already in circulation so they also have many other ways to match my papers to me :).