Indeed... if you found the cure for cancer, and sold it out a small shop surrounded by other shops selling snake oil, you probably aren't going to get many takers.
Marketing is key, as Apple knows. If you have a good app and some capital, figure out where you can generate buzz about it so that people "need to have" it.
Otherwise, someone else will see your wonderful app and say "hey! I know how to make money off of that!" make a knockoff product with a few changes to encourage micropayments, put it in the App store too, and market it properly. End result? THEY get the big bucks, not you.
Why else do you think that FarmVille outsells Harvest Moon?
I've got a great article on Microsoft's next OS, Windows 7, I'm planning on submitting tonight- supposedly it's going to fix all the problems in Vista...
This is impressive discovery, but it's no longer news. The paper was published in April 2010: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys1636 Admittedly the authors only recently uploaded a copy to arXiv on October 17, but can we not pretend this is some breaking news for nerds?
Where did you get the idea that/. was about breaking news? The stuff that shows up on here is usually two of: interesting, breaking, accurate. Thankfully, the editors often choose accurate over breaking.
It sounds like the police just don't want to bother. If it was the MPAA, RIAA, or Apple asking, they would have a SWAT team there in under 5 minutes.
The IP address with location may not be sufficient for a conviction, but it does support probably cause. Why not see if you can go to the location, and then h
Don't you have sshd enabled on your mac with an appropriate 50 character password? Just use ssh to remotely do it.
Doesn't LogMeIn allow you to remotely control the machine? Use (ssh is preferred) that to set up a script that takes the picture, make several copies in several locations, copies the file via scp, and ftp to a couple of different locations. Then wait for him to log into different web sites so you can have his user ids, then have the computer take pictures.
We're talking about the VPD here... if it was the MPAA, RIAA or Apple asking, they'd go tell them to talk to the CRIA or RCMP for starters. The VPD is a Canadian city force, not some federal watchdog. If you want to see the VPD in action, look up the Vancouver riots.
As far as I know, BC law doesn't say anything about what you can use your laptop for... and again, based on the riots, they don't seem to go after people who publish photos of people doing criminally stupid things.
For that matter, these systems work best if nobody knows they exist. Now that we know they exist, people will be able to train themselves specifically to beat the systems -- and others will be paranoid that something they're doing will automatically set the system off, thereby setting the system off. This is really just a crowd-version of the polygraph.
The reason humans are so good at doing this (when properly trained) is that we don't ignore cues -- machines are usually designed to detect by filtering out all the "useless" information and coming to a conclusion based on what's left. People can do this and *at the same time* apply those conclusions in a feedback loop to the full set of sensory data being provided.
Ok, and now explain how this will get kickbacks from the buddy-companies that sell the snakeoil scanners, and how this employs people too stupid to find their own ass with both hands so they have to find yours during a "security check", we can talk.
Are you serious about this? instead of producing expensive-to-build full body scanners, the same buddy-companies can now buy off-the-shelf video cameras (or even use the ones already installed at the venues) and only have to deal in software -- which means they can keep charging the same rates while producing absolutely nothing.
As for the employees... now they don't have to resort to the "security checks." And this system actually is designed to replicate what the old-fashioned highly paid legitimate security officers were trained to do.
So yes, it's about security -- job security.
(I know, I know, you were being facetious, but I couldn't help but point this out, as you seemed to be talking yourself out of your argument)
Yeah; there are too many complaints of students camping at a drop point. Work is in place to help them increase their INT and DEX, and to complete class projects as parties with varied strengths. Of course, there's a large debate about how to increase WIS and how Mana should be used.
Personally, I remember school being a puzzle game... attempting to put all the pieces in the right place before the time ran out.
I wish *I* could come in a few hundred million dollars over budget and have people think that's a good thing....
Interesting to think that not only did this project have a budget the size of a small nation, it actually was projected to exceed its budget by the GDP of another small nation.
And despite this, Congress didn't have an active oversight committee watching this thing???? The project was a small dictator-led country in it's own right, with debt, deficit, and the works!
huh? The guy's saying that a repeat offender is using the same IP as him. As such, his ISP would most definitely be in the right to cut him off, and the authorities would be in the right to take all his electronics for investigation.
Now, if this were done without any evidence of infringement by that account, it'd be a different story....
Or, it's an alien monitoring station, and those variations are just the stabilizers kicking in to make minor adjustments. They must wonder why it took us so long to notice....
You'd have a point, except that "bars" in this context are actually a percentage of expected maximum signal strength, and the number of bars to reach 100% is not standardized. For example, one of my devices has 5 bars, and normally sits at 3. 4 extra bars would likely mean some regulator knocking on my door, or at least grumpy neighbours who can't do anything in the neighbourhood of the bands I'm using. A better measure would have been to report percentage increase at a specific distance.
This fix didn't touch Safari... it fixed a bug regarding revocation in the system keychain, and then revoked the key. Since the entire OS hangs on the keychain, making a change to fix a bug in the revocation code requires a restart (all Apple authentication goes through this system, so leaving an authenticated process running while patching would be a bad idea).
Seems to me Apple could easily set up another option for updates though, even though it wouldn't have worked for this instance -- kill and restart the windowing system only. This would work for Safari patches or anything else that modifies core userland components.
Personally, I'd love to see an indication of number of submissions, frequency of submissions, and submission to acceptance ratio, along with someone's number of friends and foes posted beside their name at the top of posts, along with a way to filter out submissions based on these criteria. Age of account would also be a useful metric (so we can turf the submissiions that are from the same person creating new accounts to hide their foes list).
Shoes like this should not require batteries... a simple capacitor array driven by a small heel-pad dynamo should do the trick just fine. You could even add other electronics to the shoes, such as Nike's Bluetooth motion sensor and a WiFi repeater. Hey... why not add in a solid state wireless NAS as well?
Upstanding white people did EXACTLY what I suggested, in a "Is-this-OK?" manner, despite the fact that the cop was in uniform and I wore civilian clothes.
Actually, this is probably BECAUSE you were in civvies -- as people who watch Police dramas on TV know, it's only the really high ranked star-of-the-show police officers who wander around police investigations in plainclothes. I'm actually surprised that the police don't take greater advantage of this and have someone tag along with them to ask the questions/give the instructions that they're blocked from themselves -- nobody's likely to ask for the OTHER guy's ID after seeing the ID of the uniformed officer, and that he treats the plainclothes person with respect.
Why do rioters burn and loot their own neighborhoods?
I don't know... why do they? All the riots I've seen recently were mostly out-of-neighbourhood jobs. The spectators tend to be local, but the hooligans tend to do their dirty work in other people's neighbourhoods. The times when I've heard of the burners and looters run amok on their own turf was when someone more powerful had already taken that turf from them.
As far as I know, not much has changed recently at 4Chan or Wikileaks.
The confusion comes from the original article talking about non-avian reptiles, and people (including the submitter) assuming that avian = bird. Birds are descended from a branch of dinosaurs, who we loosely related to reptiles (and they do likely have a shared ancestry)... however, modern birds are NOT reptiles, even though we do have sequence info for historical avian reptiles.
Depends on what you mean by "secure" -- this sort of thing depends on insecurity through obscurity -- and when dealing with the OSS kernel SCM, there is no obscurity.
Therefore, Linux is inherently secure against this sort of thing, as it doesn't matter at all if someone breaks into the server. There is a disruption, but the only person affected would be someone who had never used the server before.
Now if someone broke into a developer's account, or spent years building up street cred and gained commit privs and then committed something that looked legit and passed code review, but contained malicious code, Linux isn't secure against THAT -- but neither is any other OS. For example, there was a Delphi compiler virus that went undetected for over a year, and eventually ended up on a LOT of Delphi IDEs (and in all the software built by them) before it was eventually caught.
If this happens to OSS with a SCM like Git, it's not a big deal at all; any modifications will be instantly known to anyone in the development community who is interested in discovering them.
If this happens to MS, first, we likely would never hear about it. Second, because of the centralized and closed development model, the result would be that MS would have to freeze the servers potentially affected in the breach, revert to working from backups, AND do a complete code review and audit (with the same employee hours).
Your SCM will alert you that they differ when you attempt to commit. Therefore, anyone actually updating the files on the compromised server will be alerted that something has changed, and even get a diff as to what that is. If they can't trace that change back to another legit comitter (or if the change isn't logged in the SCM), they'll know it's rogue data, and restore the last known good state.
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Indeed... if you found the cure for cancer, and sold it out a small shop surrounded by other shops selling snake oil, you probably aren't going to get many takers.
Marketing is key, as Apple knows. If you have a good app and some capital, figure out where you can generate buzz about it so that people "need to have" it.
Otherwise, someone else will see your wonderful app and say "hey! I know how to make money off of that!" make a knockoff product with a few changes to encourage micropayments, put it in the App store too, and market it properly. End result? THEY get the big bucks, not you.
Why else do you think that FarmVille outsells Harvest Moon?
I've got a great article on Microsoft's next OS, Windows 7, I'm planning on submitting tonight- supposedly it's going to fix all the problems in Vista...
Surely you mean Windows ME?
This is impressive discovery, but it's no longer news. The paper was published in April 2010: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys1636 Admittedly the authors only recently uploaded a copy to arXiv on October 17, but can we not pretend this is some breaking news for nerds?
Where did you get the idea that /. was about breaking news? The stuff that shows up on here is usually two of: interesting, breaking, accurate. Thankfully, the editors often choose accurate over breaking.
It's called doublespeak.
Interesting to see that pidgin.exe and chrome.exe aren't in the list....
It sounds like the police just don't want to bother. If it was the MPAA, RIAA, or Apple asking, they would have a SWAT team there in under 5 minutes.
The IP address with location may not be sufficient for a conviction, but it does support probably cause. Why not see if you can go to the location, and then h
Don't you have sshd enabled on your mac with an appropriate 50 character password? Just use ssh to remotely do it.
Doesn't LogMeIn allow you to remotely control the machine? Use (ssh is preferred) that to set up a script that takes the picture, make several copies in several locations, copies the file via scp, and ftp to a couple of different locations. Then wait for him to log into different web sites so you can have his user ids, then have the computer take pictures.
We're talking about the VPD here... if it was the MPAA, RIAA or Apple asking, they'd go tell them to talk to the CRIA or RCMP for starters. The VPD is a Canadian city force, not some federal watchdog. If you want to see the VPD in action, look up the Vancouver riots.
As far as I know, BC law doesn't say anything about what you can use your laptop for... and again, based on the riots, they don't seem to go after people who publish photos of people doing criminally stupid things.
For that matter, these systems work best if nobody knows they exist. Now that we know they exist, people will be able to train themselves specifically to beat the systems -- and others will be paranoid that something they're doing will automatically set the system off, thereby setting the system off. This is really just a crowd-version of the polygraph.
The reason humans are so good at doing this (when properly trained) is that we don't ignore cues -- machines are usually designed to detect by filtering out all the "useless" information and coming to a conclusion based on what's left. People can do this and *at the same time* apply those conclusions in a feedback loop to the full set of sensory data being provided.
Ok, and now explain how this will get kickbacks from the buddy-companies that sell the snakeoil scanners, and how this employs people too stupid to find their own ass with both hands so they have to find yours during a "security check", we can talk.
Are you serious about this? instead of producing expensive-to-build full body scanners, the same buddy-companies can now buy off-the-shelf video cameras (or even use the ones already installed at the venues) and only have to deal in software -- which means they can keep charging the same rates while producing absolutely nothing.
As for the employees... now they don't have to resort to the "security checks." And this system actually is designed to replicate what the old-fashioned highly paid legitimate security officers were trained to do.
So yes, it's about security -- job security.
(I know, I know, you were being facetious, but I couldn't help but point this out, as you seemed to be talking yourself out of your argument)
Yeah; there are too many complaints of students camping at a drop point. Work is in place to help them increase their INT and DEX, and to complete class projects as parties with varied strengths. Of course, there's a large debate about how to increase WIS and how Mana should be used.
Personally, I remember school being a puzzle game... attempting to put all the pieces in the right place before the time ran out.
I wish *I* could come in a few hundred million dollars over budget and have people think that's a good thing....
Interesting to think that not only did this project have a budget the size of a small nation, it actually was projected to exceed its budget by the GDP of another small nation.
And despite this, Congress didn't have an active oversight committee watching this thing???? The project was a small dictator-led country in it's own right, with debt, deficit, and the works!
huh?
The guy's saying that a repeat offender is using the same IP as him. As such, his ISP would most definitely be in the right to cut him off, and the authorities would be in the right to take all his electronics for investigation.
Now, if this were done without any evidence of infringement by that account, it'd be a different story....
Or, it's an alien monitoring station, and those variations are just the stabilizers kicking in to make minor adjustments. They must wonder why it took us so long to notice....
You'd have a point, except that "bars" in this context are actually a percentage of expected maximum signal strength, and the number of bars to reach 100% is not standardized. For example, one of my devices has 5 bars, and normally sits at 3. 4 extra bars would likely mean some regulator knocking on my door, or at least grumpy neighbours who can't do anything in the neighbourhood of the bands I'm using. A better measure would have been to report percentage increase at a specific distance.
This fix didn't touch Safari... it fixed a bug regarding revocation in the system keychain, and then revoked the key. Since the entire OS hangs on the keychain, making a change to fix a bug in the revocation code requires a restart (all Apple authentication goes through this system, so leaving an authenticated process running while patching would be a bad idea).
Seems to me Apple could easily set up another option for updates though, even though it wouldn't have worked for this instance -- kill and restart the windowing system only. This would work for Safari patches or anything else that modifies core userland components.
Personally, I'd love to see an indication of number of submissions, frequency of submissions, and submission to acceptance ratio, along with someone's number of friends and foes posted beside their name at the top of posts, along with a way to filter out submissions based on these criteria. Age of account would also be a useful metric (so we can turf the submissiions that are from the same person creating new accounts to hide their foes list).
Shoes like this should not require batteries... a simple capacitor array driven by a small heel-pad dynamo should do the trick just fine. You could even add other electronics to the shoes, such as Nike's Bluetooth motion sensor and a WiFi repeater. Hey... why not add in a solid state wireless NAS as well?
Lisp:
First you define the shoelace; then you define acceptable knot formats.
After that, you recursively call a looping function to create the knot.
Upstanding white people did EXACTLY what I suggested, in a "Is-this-OK?" manner, despite the fact that the cop was in uniform and I wore civilian clothes.
Actually, this is probably BECAUSE you were in civvies -- as people who watch Police dramas on TV know, it's only the really high ranked star-of-the-show police officers who wander around police investigations in plainclothes. I'm actually surprised that the police don't take greater advantage of this and have someone tag along with them to ask the questions/give the instructions that they're blocked from themselves -- nobody's likely to ask for the OTHER guy's ID after seeing the ID of the uniformed officer, and that he treats the plainclothes person with respect.
We all know that Anonymous Coward is responsible for some of the earliest DDoS attacks in the Internet....
Why do rioters burn and loot their own neighborhoods?
I don't know... why do they? All the riots I've seen recently were mostly out-of-neighbourhood jobs. The spectators tend to be local, but the hooligans tend to do their dirty work in other people's neighbourhoods. The times when I've heard of the burners and looters run amok on their own turf was when someone more powerful had already taken that turf from them.
As far as I know, not much has changed recently at 4Chan or Wikileaks.
http://www.amnesty.org/
They're about protecting human rights though, not about whistleblowing, per-se.
They tend to work via traditional means, and do a pretty good job of it.
The confusion comes from the original article talking about non-avian reptiles, and people (including the submitter) assuming that avian = bird. Birds are descended from a branch of dinosaurs, who we loosely related to reptiles (and they do likely have a shared ancestry)... however, modern birds are NOT reptiles, even though we do have sequence info for historical avian reptiles.
Depends on what you mean by "secure" -- this sort of thing depends on insecurity through obscurity -- and when dealing with the OSS kernel SCM, there is no obscurity.
Therefore, Linux is inherently secure against this sort of thing, as it doesn't matter at all if someone breaks into the server. There is a disruption, but the only person affected would be someone who had never used the server before.
Now if someone broke into a developer's account, or spent years building up street cred and gained commit privs and then committed something that looked legit and passed code review, but contained malicious code, Linux isn't secure against THAT -- but neither is any other OS. For example, there was a Delphi compiler virus that went undetected for over a year, and eventually ended up on a LOT of Delphi IDEs (and in all the software built by them) before it was eventually caught.
If this happens to OSS with a SCM like Git, it's not a big deal at all; any modifications will be instantly known to anyone in the development community who is interested in discovering them.
If this happens to MS, first, we likely would never hear about it. Second, because of the centralized and closed development model, the result would be that MS would have to freeze the servers potentially affected in the breach, revert to working from backups, AND do a complete code review and audit (with the same employee hours).
Your SCM will alert you that they differ when you attempt to commit. Therefore, anyone actually updating the files on the compromised server will be alerted that something has changed, and even get a diff as to what that is. If they can't trace that change back to another legit comitter (or if the change isn't logged in the SCM), they'll know it's rogue data, and restore the last known good state.