The issue is that providers have oversold bandwidth, and are now afraid that one day, people are going to start to actually use the bandwidth, and they will be exposed. The issue here is that they were relying on favourable contention ratios, but when people actually start to download those movies, there will be problems.
Because bandwidth ill now be shown to be more scarce that believed, the price is going to go up. However, I do not think there is any need for net neutrality for this to occur. It is simple supply and demand. ISPs should be made to deliver what they promise. If they say I have 10Mbps upstream, then if someone is trying to download from me from elsewhere, then he better be able to get 10Mbps from me, assuming his downstream matches. They should just price accordingly.
Funny that. I thought the tragedy of the commons referred to people having a communal resource they all find useful (it has utility, in economic terms), but will not contribute (in economics, usually in cash) to keep it useful. Os it ends up being less useful than it should have been. Like if there is a playground where the kids in the neighborhood can play. If you can't exclude kids of parents who do not contribute in keeping it clean, then no parent is going to be interested in helping to do so, until the place is really dirty. This has to do with something with positive externalities. Which is what gives rise to taxes. If my understanding is correct, a more apt analogy would be Wikipedia having too many readers, and not enough contributors, such that its usefulness reduces, or is limited because of the lack of _quid pro quo_ contribution.
Spam on Wikipedia probably has more to do with negative externalities. That people want to further their own ends, and don't care how they ruin it for everyone else, so they spam Wikipedia, making it less useful for other (the negative externalities bit), much like second hand smoke, and apparently, SUVs.
They apparently do. How do you think they serve you results so quickly. Because that stuff is all in RAM. Try searching for stuff on your own PC now. See how long it takes to get meaningful results. Now search on Google. They did not query a database on some HD there. The whole thing is in RAM.
I still think the fact that a hash algorithm is broken can be relatively unimportant. I mean, for your average Linux distribution, if you want to trick someone into using your 'fake' iso, you will have to change the bits you want to change to make certain software vulnerable, or malignant, and then you will have to make sure it is giving the exact same checksum. You are not just looking for some collissions. The collissions have to be useful to you as well.
My question is, how trivial is it to create, say, a binary that features the command "take over user's computer" whilst keeping the same hash as the original.
The question I would ask myself is, what is easier, cracking the website where the program is stored, and replacing the hashes with the hashes of my binary, or trying to come up with a working binary that has my misfeatures in it. I still think that if you can make things difficult enough, then you have achieved the objective. Isn't this the idea behind crypto/hashes anyway. They are not 100% foolproof, but the required level is so hard as to not be worth it.
Let me tell you what will happen if they do not agree to censor results.
China will ban them from doing business there, and the Chinese people will just wake up and find google not available, and after 6 months of unavailability, they will forget about the whole Google thing. Some Chinese will remember, in their old age, the times when they could go too google, but how they had to switch to Baidu, and how it went on to become the largest search engine in the world.
The Chinese do not appreciate people or entities that may be influential trying to speak out like that. Small guys, they can ignore, but if corporations start being too meddlesome, they can and will shut them down. I say, let people search for what they have access to, like Google is doing, and maybe one day, the Chinese will wake up and find that nothing is censored anymore.
So banks should come together and agree not to allow internet transactions into certain countries that will not cooperate. You have to walk into a branch for that.
Problem solved. No technology is going to solve the problem of banks and law enforcement in some countries being unwilling to help catch criminals.
If we are nitpicking, I think that makes it internet based. Web based would be WWW (World Wide Web), and I think you are almost necessarily talking about http et al then.
So ssh'ing to a computer with emacs will nto make it web based, unless you somehow rig the PC to offer you emacs in a web browser. Actually, no, no http, no web based app.
...Stealing money online must be quite a silly thing to do. You leave such a trail, that you are almost always likely to be caught. Its not like these guys have money printing machines that convert e-dollars into actual paper dollars. Or do they, coz if they do, then I gotta get me one of those.
Can't you just look and say, OK, someone took money from this account, and put it in that accounnt. So whose account is that.
Or even a mandatory delay in processing for payments done online. Notify the user (on their phone) and they can call and speed up processing if they really require this.
Israel does not confirm having nuclear weapons. They have an official policy of not saying whether or not they have nuclear weapons as a matter of national security.
But if you kill someone, you kill them, and prevent future descendants. Possibly thousands of man years worth. Unless the guy killed is a/.er of course.
Not quite. The probe will be probably traveling through vast amounts of empty space, and won't quite have materials at hand to replicate at will. So your best best would be to engineer a probe that won't die. It,s probably quite easy in space, because there will be little to no interaction with other bodies. So it can probably last quite long.
I think what he is doing is trying to give a 'best case' scenario, which is pretty much unattainable, to prove a point. So, even if we could make such a robot, which we can't, it would still be impossible.
Taiwan has never agitated for complete separation from China. The Kuomintang (did I spell that right) wanted to run China, but Mao beat them, so they ran to Taiwan, and are waiting for the next revolution.
Actually, Taiwan never wanted to secede from China. They believe they are the legitimate government of China, just that they are in exile. Except that they pretty much own another country. There is a reason they call themselves the "Republic of China". I mean why not just call yourself by some other name completely. Not that I like the mainland government much by the way.
The problem with most satellites is that once it is up there, it is a matter of time before someone dedicated finds it. So it may take them a year to find it, but if they do, and they want to take it down, they can.
To attack anti-satellite weaponry would be very provocative, because you would be necessarily attacking another country's land, and China has enough Chinese people in the USA to make Al Qaeda look like kindergarten.
Birth rate dropping below replacement rate causes havoc with most countries social security systems and pensions, which were mostly built under the assumption that populations will remain stable or increase slightly for it to actually work. So unless the developed countries want to accept even more immigrants than they do already, (no complaining here, I am an immigrant myself - legal of course), then they better start having enough kids to replace their current populations.
So unless you want to wake up one morning and find out that your pension promise is now worth nothing, you bloody slashdotters should be going out and getting laid a little more, and making babies. In the name of science (what science?) of course. Hey wait, what am I doing here?
That is why you are likely to see lots of inventory. I for one would love to get my hands on the PS3, and I shall, but right now I do not have the cash. Had it been available before Christmas, I would probably have rearranged my spending to be able to get one. I shall get one this year.
I am not much of a Sony fan, but I like their console. I like the fact that they have put that much effort into making the best all round console. Sales shall pick up, no doubt, especially with the inevitable price drops. The PS2 still sold strongly, and was the best seller over the holiday season. Next season, Sony won't be competing against itself, and then we will see the true picture. The lack of the library was a big issue for Sony, but next season, their library will be much more comprehensive.
I shall not be getting the gimmicky Wii, or the Xbox. I prefer the PS3 to the Xbox, and like the fact that I can also install Linux on it. Beat that Xbox. The Wii will be killed by its longevity, or rather lack of (IMO). Sony's PS2 has had extremely good legs, and has been the best selling console, well, since the Dreamcast launch. It shall pass the baton to the PS3. At least that is my prediction.
This kind of sampling happens all the time in Hip-Hop. It is what hip-hop has been about for many years now. Listen to "Ready or not" by the Fugees, "I don't wanna know" by Mario Winans and then "Boadicea" by Enya. Or Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson which was sampled by MC Lytes producers, and also buy whoever produced "Letter to my unborn child" by 2Pac.
Timbaland has sampled other songs like this before, the "Knight Rider" theme, he has sampled from McGyver (in an intro to a song), and has sampled the Spiderman theme too.
The Fugees basically sang over Enya's song, vocals included. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard Michael Jackson's songs sampled.
It is the label's job to clear the samples used, and in all probability, as someone mentioned, they probably couldn't find the originator, and decided to just release anyway. It's a calculated risk by the label. The beatmaker does what he does best, and the label handles the legal issues. Do you really think the producer gets involved in that sort of thing. Lawyers run that ship. Timbaland certainly doesn't handle such issues personally, and his credibility as a producer is not affected by this.
He has sampled from better artists anyway. Check Wikipedia where they actually talk about his sampling. So this is nothing new, and controversial only on slashdot and maybe in the demoscene, which took so long to cotton onto this, that I think they do not listen to Pop music much to know how frequent such things are.
emusic sells mp3s, which means you can download them there and put them on your iPod. Then use iTunes for the stuff that has to be sold with DRM. I mean, people will shop in ten different music stores, but expect to find the one that will fulfil all their needs on the internet. Just shop at all of them.
When I call my bank, they never ask me for say, my full telephone pin. They ask for 2 random digits.
So this gives you passwords within passwords. You can have a fifteen digit number/password, and they ask you for random characters from those. Always try to ask for a different combination, and perhaps ask in more ingenious ways, like the third letter and the fourth from last (which could be the same position as the third - if you had a stupid password).
You can then keep the password long enough for it to not be too much of a bother to remember. And they can always disable the account if too many wrong tries are made.
The cleverest thing to do though, is to probably make it harder to do international transfers of cash using accounts, or impossible online. And make it harder to have an account without giving some form of verifiable ID. My bank does that. It is quite silly to steal money online into another local account in my estimation anyway, because you will be caught. Internationally is another issue, because some countries may not cooperate.
Anyway, how many people do you know who have had their money stolen from their bank accoount online. I guess very few.
Fahrenheit is even more lame. There are too many units in the range of temperatures that are common to man. The difference between 25 and 26 degrees Celsius is possible too small for most humans to feel. Dividing that into 3 makes its accuracy rather useless for something that is only used to tell people how hot it is.
You mean the Kelvin scale. Well, it is exactly the same units as Celsius. And the opposition to the reference to sea level is a little odd. That is how science operates, with reference to otehr thingst. Besides, fahrenheit is a metric scale, so it wouldn't be a problem. And real scientists use the Kelvin anyway.
The part that is just weird is the whole inches, feet, yards, miles thing. That is not metric (as in powers of ten) so you have funny relations betwen the units. It would be less of a problem if, for examples, yards were 10 times larger than feet, which were 10 time larger than inches and so on.
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The issue is that providers have oversold bandwidth, and are now afraid that one day, people are going to start to actually use the bandwidth, and they will be exposed. The issue here is that they were relying on favourable contention ratios, but when people actually start to download those movies, there will be problems.
Because bandwidth ill now be shown to be more scarce that believed, the price is going to go up. However, I do not think there is any need for net neutrality for this to occur. It is simple supply and demand. ISPs should be made to deliver what they promise. If they say I have 10Mbps upstream, then if someone is trying to download from me from elsewhere, then he better be able to get 10Mbps from me, assuming his downstream matches. They should just price accordingly.
Funny that. I thought the tragedy of the commons referred to people having a communal resource they all find useful (it has utility, in economic terms), but will not contribute (in economics, usually in cash) to keep it useful. Os it ends up being less useful than it should have been. Like if there is a playground where the kids in the neighborhood can play. If you can't exclude kids of parents who do not contribute in keeping it clean, then no parent is going to be interested in helping to do so, until the place is really dirty. This has to do with something with positive externalities. Which is what gives rise to taxes. If my understanding is correct, a more apt analogy would be Wikipedia having too many readers, and not enough contributors, such that its usefulness reduces, or is limited because of the lack of _quid pro quo_ contribution.
Spam on Wikipedia probably has more to do with negative externalities. That people want to further their own ends, and don't care how they ruin it for everyone else, so they spam Wikipedia, making it less useful for other (the negative externalities bit), much like second hand smoke, and apparently, SUVs.
My economics is a bit rusty though.
I think he was being rather sarcastic. But then again, maybe you got it.
Google is not ignorant.
They apparently do. How do you think they serve you results so quickly. Because that stuff is all in RAM. Try searching for stuff on your own PC now. See how long it takes to get meaningful results. Now search on Google. They did not query a database on some HD there. The whole thing is in RAM.
Actually, 1 true random should make data unrecoverable by just about all means.
You do not have to install software on them. You could just give them Linux CDs for them to install themselves, with a nice instruction manual.
I still think the fact that a hash algorithm is broken can be relatively unimportant. I mean, for your average Linux distribution, if you want to trick someone into using your 'fake' iso, you will have to change the bits you want to change to make certain software vulnerable, or malignant, and then you will have to make sure it is giving the exact same checksum. You are not just looking for some collissions. The collissions have to be useful to you as well.
My question is, how trivial is it to create, say, a binary that features the command "take over user's computer" whilst keeping the same hash as the original.
The question I would ask myself is, what is easier, cracking the website where the program is stored, and replacing the hashes with the hashes of my binary, or trying to come up with a working binary that has my misfeatures in it. I still think that if you can make things difficult enough, then you have achieved the objective. Isn't this the idea behind crypto/hashes anyway. They are not 100% foolproof, but the required level is so hard as to not be worth it.
Let me tell you what will happen if they do not agree to censor results.
China will ban them from doing business there, and the Chinese people will just wake up and find google not available, and after 6 months of unavailability, they will forget about the whole Google thing. Some Chinese will remember, in their old age, the times when they could go too google, but how they had to switch to Baidu, and how it went on to become the largest search engine in the world.
The Chinese do not appreciate people or entities that may be influential trying to speak out like that. Small guys, they can ignore, but if corporations start being too meddlesome, they can and will shut them down. I say, let people search for what they have access to, like Google is doing, and maybe one day, the Chinese will wake up and find that nothing is censored anymore.
So banks should come together and agree not to allow internet transactions into certain countries that will not cooperate. You have to walk into a branch for that.
Problem solved. No technology is going to solve the problem of banks and law enforcement in some countries being unwilling to help catch criminals.
If we are nitpicking, I think that makes it internet based. Web based would be WWW (World Wide Web), and I think you are almost necessarily talking about http et al then.
So ssh'ing to a computer with emacs will nto make it web based, unless you somehow rig the PC to offer you emacs in a web browser. Actually, no, no http, no web based app.
...Stealing money online must be quite a silly thing to do. You leave such a trail, that you are almost always likely to be caught. Its not like these guys have money printing machines that convert e-dollars into actual paper dollars. Or do they, coz if they do, then I gotta get me one of those.
Can't you just look and say, OK, someone took money from this account, and put it in that accounnt. So whose account is that.
Or even a mandatory delay in processing for payments done online. Notify the user (on their phone) and they can call and speed up processing if they really require this.
Israel does not confirm having nuclear weapons. They have an official policy of not saying whether or not they have nuclear weapons as a matter of national security.
But if you kill someone, you kill them, and prevent future descendants. Possibly thousands of man years worth. Unless the guy killed is a /.er of course.
Not quite. The probe will be probably traveling through vast amounts of empty space, and won't quite have materials at hand to replicate at will. So your best best would be to engineer a probe that won't die. It,s probably quite easy in space, because there will be little to no interaction with other bodies. So it can probably last quite long.
I think what he is doing is trying to give a 'best case' scenario, which is pretty much unattainable, to prove a point. So, even if we could make such a robot, which we can't, it would still be impossible.
Taiwan has never agitated for complete separation from China. The Kuomintang (did I spell that right) wanted to run China, but Mao beat them, so they ran to Taiwan, and are waiting for the next revolution.
Actually, Taiwan never wanted to secede from China. They believe they are the legitimate government of China, just that they are in exile. Except that they pretty much own another country. There is a reason they call themselves the "Republic of China". I mean why not just call yourself by some other name completely. Not that I like the mainland government much by the way.
Next.
The problem with most satellites is that once it is up there, it is a matter of time before someone dedicated finds it. So it may take them a year to find it, but if they do, and they want to take it down, they can.
To attack anti-satellite weaponry would be very provocative, because you would be necessarily attacking another country's land, and China has enough Chinese people in the USA to make Al Qaeda look like kindergarten.
Birth rate dropping below replacement rate causes havoc with most countries social security systems and pensions, which were mostly built under the assumption that populations will remain stable or increase slightly for it to actually work. So unless the developed countries want to accept even more immigrants than they do already, (no complaining here, I am an immigrant myself - legal of course), then they better start having enough kids to replace their current populations.
So unless you want to wake up one morning and find out that your pension promise is now worth nothing, you bloody slashdotters should be going out and getting laid a little more, and making babies. In the name of science (what science?) of course. Hey wait, what am I doing here?
That is why you are likely to see lots of inventory. I for one would love to get my hands on the PS3, and I shall, but right now I do not have the cash. Had it been available before Christmas, I would probably have rearranged my spending to be able to get one. I shall get one this year.
I am not much of a Sony fan, but I like their console. I like the fact that they have put that much effort into making the best all round console. Sales shall pick up, no doubt, especially with the inevitable price drops. The PS2 still sold strongly, and was the best seller over the holiday season. Next season, Sony won't be competing against itself, and then we will see the true picture. The lack of the library was a big issue for Sony, but next season, their library will be much more comprehensive.
I shall not be getting the gimmicky Wii, or the Xbox. I prefer the PS3 to the Xbox, and like the fact that I can also install Linux on it. Beat that Xbox. The Wii will be killed by its longevity, or rather lack of (IMO). Sony's PS2 has had extremely good legs, and has been the best selling console, well, since the Dreamcast launch. It shall pass the baton to the PS3. At least that is my prediction.
This kind of sampling happens all the time in Hip-Hop. It is what hip-hop has been about for many years now. Listen to "Ready or not" by the Fugees, "I don't wanna know" by Mario Winans and then "Boadicea" by Enya. Or Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson which was sampled by MC Lytes producers, and also buy whoever produced "Letter to my unborn child" by 2Pac.
Timbaland has sampled other songs like this before, the "Knight Rider" theme, he has sampled from McGyver (in an intro to a song), and has sampled the Spiderman theme too.
The Fugees basically sang over Enya's song, vocals included. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard Michael Jackson's songs sampled.
It is the label's job to clear the samples used, and in all probability, as someone mentioned, they probably couldn't find the originator, and decided to just release anyway. It's a calculated risk by the label. The beatmaker does what he does best, and the label handles the legal issues. Do you really think the producer gets involved in that sort of thing. Lawyers run that ship. Timbaland certainly doesn't handle such issues personally, and his credibility as a producer is not affected by this.
He has sampled from better artists anyway. Check Wikipedia where they actually talk about his sampling. So this is nothing new, and controversial only on slashdot and maybe in the demoscene, which took so long to cotton onto this, that I think they do not listen to Pop music much to know how frequent such things are.
emusic sells mp3s, which means you can download them there and put them on your iPod. Then use iTunes for the stuff that has to be sold with DRM. I mean, people will shop in ten different music stores, but expect to find the one that will fulfil all their needs on the internet. Just shop at all of them.
When I call my bank, they never ask me for say, my full telephone pin. They ask for 2 random digits.
So this gives you passwords within passwords. You can have a fifteen digit number/password, and they ask you for random characters from those. Always try to ask for a different combination, and perhaps ask in more ingenious ways, like the third letter and the fourth from last (which could be the same position as the third - if you had a stupid password).
You can then keep the password long enough for it to not be too much of a bother to remember. And they can always disable the account if too many wrong tries are made.
The cleverest thing to do though, is to probably make it harder to do international transfers of cash using accounts, or impossible online. And make it harder to have an account without giving some form of verifiable ID. My bank does that. It is quite silly to steal money online into another local account in my estimation anyway, because you will be caught. Internationally is another issue, because some countries may not cooperate.
Anyway, how many people do you know who have had their money stolen from their bank accoount online. I guess very few.
No Celsius is not lame.
Fahrenheit is even more lame. There are too many units in the range of temperatures that are common to man. The difference between 25 and 26 degrees Celsius is possible too small for most humans to feel. Dividing that into 3 makes its accuracy rather useless for something that is only used to tell people how hot it is.
There is internet time already. It goes from 0 to 999. 1000 beats.
The unit of time is the second. In science you deal in seconds, not minutes or hours. But seconds.
You mean the Kelvin scale. Well, it is exactly the same units as Celsius. And the opposition to the reference to sea level is a little odd. That is how science operates, with reference to otehr thingst. Besides, fahrenheit is a metric scale, so it wouldn't be a problem. And real scientists use the Kelvin anyway.
The part that is just weird is the whole inches, feet, yards, miles thing. That is not metric (as in powers of ten) so you have funny relations betwen the units. It would be less of a problem if, for examples, yards were 10 times larger than feet, which were 10 time larger than inches and so on.