Ah; but Google is a public company. That means that if these people are also shareholders, they DO have the right to demand answers. But only as shareholders.
You've still got it. It's just Google that lost its right to remember; and I'm not really sure whether I have a problem with government and personal privacy trumping corporate rights on this one. If the government was censoring the actual content, I'd have more of an issue.
Additionally, this used to be common, but was called prototyping using a sintering machine. The "new" bits are a) calling it "3-D Printing" and b) the wealth of software now available for ALL 3-D printing devices due to the boom in hobbyist plastics-based additive manufacturing. Having more people interested in creating additive objects means that there have also been design improvements and economies of scale across all types of additive (and subtractive) manufacturing methods.
I'm just waiting for the day when subtractive cellulose modelling (aka carving/engraving) becomes known as 3-D Printing.
I wonder what happens if you just exploit them without probing first? After testing with an off-board flight system first of course, so you know exactly what will happen.
Therefore you cannot store PDFs with embedded fonts. If you can't store embedded fonts, then you can't confirm "original rendering" with any format, including PDF.
How to get copyright wrong on multiple levels....
1) ALL fonts are copyrighted; they haven't been around long enough (even the old bitmapped fonts) to fall out of copyright. The difference is in how they're licensed (most are freely shareable, but some have specific restrictive licenses, such as Apple Garamond).
2) Copyright doesn't prevent you from possessing a PDF document with fonts in it that have restrictive copyright. What it prevents is you SHARING that document with others. Even if you didn't buy the license to use the font yourself, it's not illegal to possess a PDF that contains it.
The annoying thing is that there's PDF and there's PDF... if you're dealing with a fully encapsulated 1.3 or 1.4 document, you're set. If you're dealing with a 1.7 document whose fonts are external on some font server, so much for WYSIWYG. You're better off using PNG or JPEG2000 (which is now out of patent protection IIRC) to keep an exact representation, linked to a unicode document containing the text -- in CSV format for all tables.
But if you're creating the format yourself, PDF should be fine, as you can set the encoding yourself. If you create a PDF where each page is actually a PNG image, with cleartext encoding linked to it, then it's both exactly as the original, and fully searchable. This doesn't work as well for tables, but Acrobat Reader at least can interpret chunked table data in a PDF and recombine it into tab separated values (TSV). Many other PDF parsers get it wrong and just read the embedded objects serially, totally garbling up the order.
Just remember to keep the originals; you might not be able to read MacWrite documents or ClarisWorks 1.0 documents currently, but hey -- there's always emulation of the original system, multi-step conversion, or someone reverse-engineering the format years down the line. And if you have a "modern" format that shows how it's actually supposed to look, then you can re-create that look in a modern format.
The problem is, he was advertising something illegal (lying to the government). So if he HAD done this in the first place, he'd be fine (as long as he also made the same pitch to the undercover agents that came to investigate him). As soon as he crossed the line to "Here, I'll teach you how to lie on the polygraph so you can get that federal job," he moved into criminal territory, no matter how stupid it is that governments rely on polygraphs in the first place. He'd be facing the same issue if he were teaching people how to cover up their Facebook indiscretions specifically so that the government would hire the person where otherwise they wouldn't.
Even though using polygraphs in the hiring process should be illegal, lying to the government under oath is also illegal, regardless of whether there's a polygraph involved..
"The incendiary acts behind the move appears to be the wide-spread pirating of 2014 action blockbuster The Expendables 3, about which Mark Gill comments that it “has been illegally viewed more than 60 million times, the CAS only allowed 0.3% of our infringement notices through to their customers. The other 99.7% of the time, the notices went in the trash"
And how the hell would they know this? It's not like snail mail letters have GPS attached to them so the sender will know you have opened them. How do they have any idea at all in any way shape or form how often these letters were received, opened, read or followed? I smell a rat...
They use polls and extrapolate. After the notices were sent, they then "follow up" with a percentage of the notices sent out, to see if the intended recipient actually got/read them. The notice itself may also include a step the target is supposed to take that signals to someone that it was read and acted on.
There'll come a day, not far from now, when the open web is regarded as something like the text usenet - a ghetto populated mainly by an ever-shrinking crowd of greybeards.
Several local businesses in my town only have a facebook presence. Our equivalent of NPR (funded mainly by tax money) is steadily shifting its web and email contact points over to facebook pages. Even the goverment is on 'social'.
It truly offends me that a man can't go about his life without being forced to pay for / use foreign commercial service providers.:
I'm not clear about why you talk about "Jewish hell"
I'm referencing Gehenna, although at the time Jesus was alive, the concept of Gehenna was in the middle of a perceptual shift, no longer quite the void that it was in 800BCE.
"Jewish hell" was to make it easier to reference for cultural Christians who have often totally mixed up the concepts of the OT, NT, Milton's Paradise Lost, Greek mythology and modern Jewish theology.
LORD would lose much of its appeal if played alone. Half of the fun was leaving messages and flowers; the other half was attempting to get further before your time slot ran out and you had to wait a day to continue. You'd then check the leaderboard to see if anyone else was able to get further than you in that limited time.
It really captured the heart of what BBS systems were all about, as did Trade Wars.
And yeah; back in the early 90's, I set up my own internal BBS with those games on it, just so I could fully explore them without the time slots and tied up phone lines associated with connecting to other BBSes -- while it allowed me to figure out the game mechanics and optimal plays, it wasn't anywhere near as fun as playing on an active BBS. The game itself was purely a vehicle for the personal interaction.
Later on in the 90's I stumbled across MUDs, which took this concept to a new level. I still have fond memories of LambdaMOO, PennMUSH, MUME (which is still running), a Diku MUD I forget the name of (something to do with dragons; it was the first MUD I signed on to, primarily because the name evoked echoes of LORD), and later on Discworld MUD.
I guess the modern descendant of these would have to be WoW.
You used an illegal scenario, but how about these:
Did the guy working packing at the Amazon eat a poppyseed-lemon muffin on his coffee break? Instant FP (goes for inhalers too, btw).
Did someone who handles large amounts of cash also wrap a package? There's likely trace amounts of cocaine present on the outside of the package then.
Did someone wrap a package after their macrame class or civil war re-enactment? Oils from the rope will likely cause an FP.
There are so many drugs out there that to test for all of them means you're also detecting perfectly safe items such as hemp, poppy seeds, etc. as well as traces of illegal items that just happen to be smeared over a significant portion of publicly used cash.
You know those swabs they take in Airport Security? Those don't test for the majority of drugs or explosives, only a select few. And the sensitivity is turned down quite a bit. Otherwise, anyone who had been around, say, fertilizer, would set the thing off every time they flew.
You missed a big one: drug cartels -- when it's illegal, you drive up the price and limit the number of sources, which also limits the big players to those who operate without regard for the law in general.
That said, if you're going to participate in that marketplace, stay far, far away from the big players. The smaller ones may be less of a known quantity, but they tend to be less of a target too.
While true, in a marketplace like that, a number of the smaller players are likely government* operatives. While hiring a hit man is likely illegal anywhere, there are legal methods for obtaining most of what you'd find on those sites -- it's just a lot more work, and significantly more public.
So..., you're saying that all the Old Testament crap is right out the window? Cool. Please tell all your fellow "Christians". Until then, GP's point is valid.
The "Old Testament crap" is the Jewish fundamentalist law. Notice that Jesus didn't say "Sorry, that law is crap. Ignore it." He said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." So the law still stood -- he just believed that it should be applied evenly to all. Of course, that's before the whole "atonement" bit came into play: the second part of the Bible (the stuff that follows the Hebrew books) has a significant part dedicated to early followers who were Jewish figuring out how the Hebraic Law applied now that the associated prophecies had been fulfilled.
On the flip side, you have the Crusades, the Holy Roman Empire, the Inquisition, Bloody Mary, Imperialism, etc.
People seem to want to be ruled by regulations instead of being responsible for their own actions. They prefer following the Ten Commandments in a literal sense to following Jesus' interpretation of them (in both thought and deed), and prefer both of those to the stipulation of the early church that the one rule from the Jewish law that must be held to was to avoid eating food that had been sacrificed to idols.
All the bits dealing with Jesus' actual teachings can be summed up with "love God, and love your neighbour."
So, GGGP's point is valid in a way -- as in, don't follow fundamentalist Jewish law. But anyone calling themselves Christian just because they believe in the (selective) practice of fundamentalist Jewish law and also believe that merely believing that Jesus died on the cross to save people from their sins somehow gave them a "get out of Hell free" card had better do some fundamental re-reading of their Bible. That doesn't keep them out of the Jewish hell, nor does it keep them out of Jesus' hell. It makes them no better than the Samaritans.
Car fobs require proximity. The whole problem with IoT is that the proximity hurdle is removed -- which means everyone around the world who has an idea about how to use your device has the ability to attempt it. Just like with Internet-enabled cars. Now some cars have the ability for a remote attacker to both pinpoint their location AND unlock the doors, via script. Insecure car fobs have nothing on that (I remember when physical keys could often be swapped within car model).
As a comparison, Inox, or "stainless steel" is a steel alloy. Steel is very incompatible with water, and could corrode away very quickly if it got wet. And yet, add that chromium to create a new alloy, and suddenly you've got a slightly softer metal that doesn't oxidize.
See also: transparent aluminium, silicon vs silicone, etc.
If there's no driver, will the passengers want to look outside?
Yes. It's not drivers that make people want to look outside.
In the summer, will anyone want to endure the relentless heat from the sun?
This is in "The Atlantic" ???? I can see this statement coming from California, but there's lots of places in the world where it can be quite mild in the summer. Plus, metal heats up too; better to install one-way windows. Right now, there are requirements about what kind of glass can be used in the windshield and front windows of a vehicle; for fully autonomous vehicles, I can see this requirement going away, assuming the vehicle is prominently labeled as autonomous.
The robot cars offer us a great opportunity to rethink the platform which is largely devoted to supporting the driver. But if a computer is in charge and it sees with dozens of cameras ringing the car, what else can we change? What else don't we need? What can improve?
OK: let's look at this from a sane standpoint instead of the disconnected thoughts from the original article.
In an autonomous vehicle, no driver is needed. That means that all the functions that are tied directly to the driver/navigator are no longer needed. Anything that's currently a requirement elsewhere in the vehicle will still be a requirement. Vans are often driven by a single driver, and have no windows beyond the windshield and front side windows. So the difference between a van and say, a minivan, will show you what features are needed purely for the passengers.
That said, with "retina" displays these days, it shouldn't be too long before windows can be replaced with something that provides a full 360 degree video feed of what's happening outside the car. This would help people with motion sickness beyond what is currently provided in cars. As an added bonus, you could swap out the "real" feed for some other location, etc, syncing up the movement part, but providing a more visually pleasing scene. You could also add more information to the display as desired by the passengers, block off part of it as a display for their mobile device or in-vehicle entertainment system, etc.
Basically, the inside of a vehicle could become an Omnimax theater.
Also, we currently have all the seats facing forward. It's possible that without the need for the driver to face forward, all seats could face the rear, which would possibly result in fewer whiplash cases in the case of front-end collisions.
I'm sure people could think of many more things that could be done to the interior if the "driver's pod" no longer existed.
Also, if Ed is holding this position, then there's suddenly a lot of stuff he's not allowed to say to the public. It's probably in his best interests for this to be a short-term gig.
It's good to know that there are at least a few IT departments with their heads on straight out there:)
That said, you could also deploy a data protection/encryption package that would allow your company to use such services... but even if something's encrypted, decrypting is only a matter of time if you have full access to the data.
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Ah; but Google is a public company. That means that if these people are also shareholders, they DO have the right to demand answers. But only as shareholders.
You've still got it. It's just Google that lost its right to remember; and I'm not really sure whether I have a problem with government and personal privacy trumping corporate rights on this one. If the government was censoring the actual content, I'd have more of an issue.
Additionally, this used to be common, but was called prototyping using a sintering machine. The "new" bits are a) calling it "3-D Printing" and b) the wealth of software now available for ALL 3-D printing devices due to the boom in hobbyist plastics-based additive manufacturing. Having more people interested in creating additive objects means that there have also been design improvements and economies of scale across all types of additive (and subtractive) manufacturing methods.
I'm just waiting for the day when subtractive cellulose modelling (aka carving/engraving) becomes known as 3-D Printing.
I wonder what happens if you just exploit them without probing first? After testing with an off-board flight system first of course, so you know exactly what will happen.
one billion dollar bounty for anyone who can pass through solid wall without looking for or making a door.
Are you allowed to look for Windows?
You must have loved Stargate when it came out....
Cave paintings certainly have some migration issues.
They also have the propensity to be overwritten from time to time, and many of them suffer from infrastructure collapse.
And many never see the light of day.
Petroglyphs are great, except that you'll still want to store them somewhere safe, as the weather has this tendency to destroy them over time.
Fonts are copyrightable in some cases
Therefore you cannot store PDFs with embedded fonts. If you can't store embedded fonts, then you can't confirm "original rendering" with any format, including PDF.
How to get copyright wrong on multiple levels....
1) ALL fonts are copyrighted; they haven't been around long enough (even the old bitmapped fonts) to fall out of copyright. The difference is in how they're licensed (most are freely shareable, but some have specific restrictive licenses, such as Apple Garamond).
2) Copyright doesn't prevent you from possessing a PDF document with fonts in it that have restrictive copyright. What it prevents is you SHARING that document with others. Even if you didn't buy the license to use the font yourself, it's not illegal to possess a PDF that contains it.
The annoying thing is that there's PDF and there's PDF... if you're dealing with a fully encapsulated 1.3 or 1.4 document, you're set. If you're dealing with a 1.7 document whose fonts are external on some font server, so much for WYSIWYG. You're better off using PNG or JPEG2000 (which is now out of patent protection IIRC) to keep an exact representation, linked to a unicode document containing the text -- in CSV format for all tables.
But if you're creating the format yourself, PDF should be fine, as you can set the encoding yourself. If you create a PDF where each page is actually a PNG image, with cleartext encoding linked to it, then it's both exactly as the original, and fully searchable. This doesn't work as well for tables, but Acrobat Reader at least can interpret chunked table data in a PDF and recombine it into tab separated values (TSV). Many other PDF parsers get it wrong and just read the embedded objects serially, totally garbling up the order.
Just remember to keep the originals; you might not be able to read MacWrite documents or ClarisWorks 1.0 documents currently, but hey -- there's always emulation of the original system, multi-step conversion, or someone reverse-engineering the format years down the line. And if you have a "modern" format that shows how it's actually supposed to look, then you can re-create that look in a modern format.
The problem is, he was advertising something illegal (lying to the government). So if he HAD done this in the first place, he'd be fine (as long as he also made the same pitch to the undercover agents that came to investigate him). As soon as he crossed the line to "Here, I'll teach you how to lie on the polygraph so you can get that federal job," he moved into criminal territory, no matter how stupid it is that governments rely on polygraphs in the first place. He'd be facing the same issue if he were teaching people how to cover up their Facebook indiscretions specifically so that the government would hire the person where otherwise they wouldn't.
Even though using polygraphs in the hiring process should be illegal, lying to the government under oath is also illegal, regardless of whether there's a polygraph involved..
Exactly. Cartels win, law-abiding citizens still lose.
From the article:
"The incendiary acts behind the move appears to be the wide-spread pirating of 2014 action blockbuster The Expendables 3, about which Mark Gill comments that it “has been illegally viewed more than 60 million times, the CAS only allowed 0.3% of our infringement notices through to their customers. The other 99.7% of the time, the notices went in the trash"
And how the hell would they know this? It's not like snail mail letters have GPS attached to them so the sender will know you have opened them. How do they have any idea at all in any way shape or form how often these letters were received, opened, read or followed? I smell a rat...
They use polls and extrapolate. After the notices were sent, they then "follow up" with a percentage of the notices sent out, to see if the intended recipient actually got/read them. The notice itself may also include a step the target is supposed to take that signals to someone that it was read and acted on.
Either way, it's not going to be very accurate.
There'll come a day, not far from now, when the open web is regarded as something like the text usenet - a ghetto populated mainly by an ever-shrinking crowd of greybeards.
Several local businesses in my town only have a facebook presence. Our equivalent of NPR (funded mainly by tax money) is steadily shifting its web and email contact points over to facebook pages. Even the goverment is on 'social'.
It truly offends me that a man can't go about his life without being forced to pay for / use foreign commercial service providers. :
Indeed... it's the Return to AOL.
I'm not clear about why you talk about "Jewish hell"
I'm referencing Gehenna, although at the time Jesus was alive, the concept of Gehenna was in the middle of a perceptual shift, no longer quite the void that it was in 800BCE.
"Jewish hell" was to make it easier to reference for cultural Christians who have often totally mixed up the concepts of the OT, NT, Milton's Paradise Lost, Greek mythology and modern Jewish theology.
LORD would lose much of its appeal if played alone. Half of the fun was leaving messages and flowers; the other half was attempting to get further before your time slot ran out and you had to wait a day to continue. You'd then check the leaderboard to see if anyone else was able to get further than you in that limited time.
It really captured the heart of what BBS systems were all about, as did Trade Wars.
And yeah; back in the early 90's, I set up my own internal BBS with those games on it, just so I could fully explore them without the time slots and tied up phone lines associated with connecting to other BBSes -- while it allowed me to figure out the game mechanics and optimal plays, it wasn't anywhere near as fun as playing on an active BBS. The game itself was purely a vehicle for the personal interaction.
Later on in the 90's I stumbled across MUDs, which took this concept to a new level. I still have fond memories of LambdaMOO, PennMUSH, MUME (which is still running), a Diku MUD I forget the name of (something to do with dragons; it was the first MUD I signed on to, primarily because the name evoked echoes of LORD), and later on Discworld MUD.
I guess the modern descendant of these would have to be WoW.
You used an illegal scenario, but how about these:
Did the guy working packing at the Amazon eat a poppyseed-lemon muffin on his coffee break? Instant FP (goes for inhalers too, btw).
Did someone who handles large amounts of cash also wrap a package? There's likely trace amounts of cocaine present on the outside of the package then.
Did someone wrap a package after their macrame class or civil war re-enactment? Oils from the rope will likely cause an FP.
There are so many drugs out there that to test for all of them means you're also detecting perfectly safe items such as hemp, poppy seeds, etc. as well as traces of illegal items that just happen to be smeared over a significant portion of publicly used cash.
You know those swabs they take in Airport Security? Those don't test for the majority of drugs or explosives, only a select few. And the sensitivity is turned down quite a bit. Otherwise, anyone who had been around, say, fertilizer, would set the thing off every time they flew.
You missed a big one:
drug cartels -- when it's illegal, you drive up the price and limit the number of sources, which also limits the big players to those who operate without regard for the law in general.
That said, if you're going to participate in that marketplace, stay far, far away from the big players. The smaller ones may be less of a known quantity, but they tend to be less of a target too.
While true, in a marketplace like that, a number of the smaller players are likely government* operatives. While hiring a hit man is likely illegal anywhere, there are legal methods for obtaining most of what you'd find on those sites -- it's just a lot more work, and significantly more public.
*not necessarily the US government
So..., you're saying that all the Old Testament crap is right out the window? Cool. Please tell all your fellow "Christians". Until then, GP's point is valid.
The "Old Testament crap" is the Jewish fundamentalist law. Notice that Jesus didn't say "Sorry, that law is crap. Ignore it." He said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." So the law still stood -- he just believed that it should be applied evenly to all. Of course, that's before the whole "atonement" bit came into play: the second part of the Bible (the stuff that follows the Hebrew books) has a significant part dedicated to early followers who were Jewish figuring out how the Hebraic Law applied now that the associated prophecies had been fulfilled.
On the flip side, you have the Crusades, the Holy Roman Empire, the Inquisition, Bloody Mary, Imperialism, etc.
People seem to want to be ruled by regulations instead of being responsible for their own actions. They prefer following the Ten Commandments in a literal sense to following Jesus' interpretation of them (in both thought and deed), and prefer both of those to the stipulation of the early church that the one rule from the Jewish law that must be held to was to avoid eating food that had been sacrificed to idols.
All the bits dealing with Jesus' actual teachings can be summed up with "love God, and love your neighbour."
So, GGGP's point is valid in a way -- as in, don't follow fundamentalist Jewish law. But anyone calling themselves Christian just because they believe in the (selective) practice of fundamentalist Jewish law and also believe that merely believing that Jesus died on the cross to save people from their sins somehow gave them a "get out of Hell free" card had better do some fundamental re-reading of their Bible. That doesn't keep them out of the Jewish hell, nor does it keep them out of Jesus' hell. It makes them no better than the Samaritans.
Car fobs require proximity. The whole problem with IoT is that the proximity hurdle is removed -- which means everyone around the world who has an idea about how to use your device has the ability to attempt it. Just like with Internet-enabled cars. Now some cars have the ability for a remote attacker to both pinpoint their location AND unlock the doors, via script. Insecure car fobs have nothing on that (I remember when physical keys could often be swapped within car model).
Good luck getting your antivirus software to scan your toaster....
They've done cockroaches; next up is sharks with lasers implanted in their heads.
"magnesium alloy"
As a comparison, Inox, or "stainless steel" is a steel alloy. Steel is very incompatible with water, and could corrode away very quickly if it got wet. And yet, add that chromium to create a new alloy, and suddenly you've got a slightly softer metal that doesn't oxidize.
See also: transparent aluminium, silicon vs silicone, etc.
If there's no driver, will the passengers want to look outside?
Yes. It's not drivers that make people want to look outside.
In the summer, will anyone want to endure the relentless heat from the sun?
This is in "The Atlantic" ???? I can see this statement coming from California, but there's lots of places in the world where it can be quite mild in the summer. Plus, metal heats up too; better to install one-way windows.
Right now, there are requirements about what kind of glass can be used in the windshield and front windows of a vehicle; for fully autonomous vehicles, I can see this requirement going away, assuming the vehicle is prominently labeled as autonomous.
The robot cars offer us a great opportunity to rethink the platform which is largely devoted to supporting the driver. But if a computer is in charge and it sees with dozens of cameras ringing the car, what else can we change? What else don't we need? What can improve?
OK: let's look at this from a sane standpoint instead of the disconnected thoughts from the original article.
In an autonomous vehicle, no driver is needed. That means that all the functions that are tied directly to the driver/navigator are no longer needed. Anything that's currently a requirement elsewhere in the vehicle will still be a requirement. Vans are often driven by a single driver, and have no windows beyond the windshield and front side windows. So the difference between a van and say, a minivan, will show you what features are needed purely for the passengers.
That said, with "retina" displays these days, it shouldn't be too long before windows can be replaced with something that provides a full 360 degree video feed of what's happening outside the car. This would help people with motion sickness beyond what is currently provided in cars. As an added bonus, you could swap out the "real" feed for some other location, etc, syncing up the movement part, but providing a more visually pleasing scene. You could also add more information to the display as desired by the passengers, block off part of it as a display for their mobile device or in-vehicle entertainment system, etc.
Basically, the inside of a vehicle could become an Omnimax theater.
Also, we currently have all the seats facing forward. It's possible that without the need for the driver to face forward, all seats could face the rear, which would possibly result in fewer whiplash cases in the case of front-end collisions.
I'm sure people could think of many more things that could be done to the interior if the "driver's pod" no longer existed.
Also, if Ed is holding this position, then there's suddenly a lot of stuff he's not allowed to say to the public. It's probably in his best interests for this to be a short-term gig.
It's good to know that there are at least a few IT departments with their heads on straight out there :)
That said, you could also deploy a data protection/encryption package that would allow your company to use such services... but even if something's encrypted, decrypting is only a matter of time if you have full access to the data.