This captcha thing is not the only negative effect of sweatshops. But it's an effect -- one of many.
The cause of sweatshops is trade barriers, and the backwards political systems that keep their subjects in anti-modern societies.
Once the world is fully opened up, and all the anti-technological memes have been killed, the labor market will homogenize. At that time, it will no longer be possible to hire a brain for sixty cents an hour. Only then will this category of spammer/freerider problems be solved.
Not true. Remove the air from the lungs and replace it with a liquid saturated with 02, and the human body can withstand incredible stress.
The body can withstand stress maybe, or pressure, but not accelleration. Under high accelleration, the brain will get damaged while banging around inside the skull. At higher accellerations, bones will break while attempting to support the weight of flesh that would otherwise flatten out against the surface.
Legal and privacy experts said that Google had no choice but to comply with the court order. 'From the law enforcement perspective, if the records are in the possession of the business, the business can be compelled to produce them,' said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center."
That may be true of a typical business, but Google is not a typical business. Google can ignore the edicts of any government except America and China. What is Brazil going to do, block all national traffic to Google's websites? I'd love to see them get re-elected after pulling that little stunt.
There is no glory in being one of a million diffuse contributors.
But there *is* glory in being one of a small elite group, the group that really matters, the group that the founder adores. Jimmy is baiting his contributors with this possibility, in order to motivate them.
Not to mention that [sticker-happy California] has one of the highest GDPs of any state and is the world's 7th largest economy in addition to being a leader in innovation. Too bad the rest of the states can't seem to learn from California's success.
Correllation != causation.
And another thing. The cost of warning stickers is inevitably reflected in the product's price. Therefore, the actual effect of this law is to force the consumer to purchase warning stickers that may or may not be necessary, useful, or effective.
Since their use in cryptography was discovered in 1985, elliptic curve cryptography has also been an active area of study in academia. Similar to both RSA and Diffie-Hellman, the first years of analysis yielded some degenerate cases for elliptic curve parameters that one should avoid. However, unlike the RSA and Diffie-Hellman cryptosystems that slowly succumbed to increasingly strong attack algorithms, elliptic curve cryptography has remained at its full strength since it was first presented in 1985.
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If you imagine something is uncrackable, like pgp pretty much is [. ..]
Cracking PGP is still a Hard Problem, but the times they are a'changin'. It may succumb to quantum computing. Or, it may fall under the combined assault of the army of mathematicians who are studying integer factorization. Nobody knows for sure, but the NSA has been telling people for years now to not rely on RSA. They suggest switching over to Elliptic Curve or other advanced algorithm.
I prefer walls. They are almost always more gratifying plus you don't have to deny your use of a bad pun.
The advantage of throwing a person or laptop through a window, rather than a wall, is that afterward you can say that you defenestrated them.
Defenestrate is The Greatest Word In The English Language, and so it's always important to take advantage of the rare chance to use it in a serious sentence.
P.S. Just kidding. Sort of. In another fifty years, if humans are still meat-based, I expect we'll at least have access to a nanotech gender-change booth. Walk in, swipe your card, and boom.:)
Humans utilize EEPROM memory, you know. Which reminds me: wouldn't it be cool to have true random-access long-term memory? Then I could actually 'remember' scoring on that beautiful brunette who sat behind me in American History in 7th grade. Wow, what a long and beautifully miserable year that was!
As long as people continue to differ on what they enjoy, the problem cannot be solved by making a particular aspect of the game more enjoyable. 'Enjoyable', you see, is neither constant nor universal.
To put the point another way: there will always be a percentage of people who simply enjoy cruising around with an uber-powerful not-home-made character, and so a market will do its darndest to arise to fulfill that desire.
Whether or not one agrees with those objections (I, personally do not, but I can understand them), surely examining the morality and ethics of aresearch technique before proceeding blithely ahead is a good thing?
Not necessarily. These examinations cost much time and other resources.
Suppose that you are currently in pain or dying. Some random breakthrough will save you. But then a bunch of religionists insist on a delay while they satiate their fear of complexity.
You wait, in pain, while these fear-driven blowhards march in their demonstrations and gleefully soak up each others' sermons.
You die, in pain, because the cure did not come in time.
Asked if he expected the advance to satisfy President Bush, Dr Lanza said: 'Well, as you know, the President objects to the fact that you would be sacrificing one life to save another, and in this instance there is no harm to the embryo.''
Lanza just pulled off quite a clever little begging of the question. And for a good cause, too.:)
To wit: We are nowhere near the point where the stem cells from one embryo can save one life. We are still in the research stage. But, if we can publicly circulate the idea that one embryo can be traded for one adult life, then the misguided resistance to stem-cell research will wither.
Money has the virtue of flowing to those who labor to accumulate it. It has the virtue of flowing fastest to those who innovate ways to take advantage of political systems.
No matter what form of power a society embraces your objection applies. It is not a problem caused or solved by money.
Money, at least, brings with it an incentive to greater productivity. Contrast that to a quota-based economy -- assuming there are any around that have not yet collapsed. Or for some real fun, contrast that to the coming influence-based society.
The entire fuel needs people involved in running the tidal/biofuel must also be taken into the efficiency equations. The goal is to generate additional energy, not to create a new segment that consumes everything it creates.
That is your goal. Do you believe it to also be the goal of those in positions of power?
The vast majority of content on television nowadays is advertisement. I'm not talking about the commercial breaks, either. Consider your average Tonight Show|Charlie Rose|Meet the Press|Today Show|Good Morning America|20/20 interview.
Of course it is. That's the price of free programming.
When every show starts to cost money (say, ten cents to watch the latest CSI), then Hollywood will be able to afford to reduce the embedded advertising.
There is no free lunch. Doubly so when it comes to entertainment.
Then only distribute the registry as a set of hashes. Simply run a hash on the email you want to send to, and skip it if it matches a hash in the registry. This has the added benefit of making the spammers waste a little more cpu time before filling our inboxes.
Do you know where spammers get their CPU time?
Indeed, the future of the internet seems to be a war over computing cycles, in the same way that the snail world was (is) a war over energy. Well, the world mostly fights over real estate, but that is at heart a fight over two things: ease of access to energy, and living areas with low energy requirements.
In any case, they are fighting to pilfer CPU cycles, which are then directed towards the most profitable endeavor that spare distributed CPU cycles can be applied to: sending spam, blackmail DDOSing, etc. But that will change as more we'll-buy-your-CPU-cycles projects come online, SETI@home and BOINC being the pioneer of course. At that time, the owners of zombie networks may switch over from spamming to something more socially and fiscally constructive.
Sorry, I'm rambling. What were we talking about again?:)
Oh yeah, hashing the do-not-email list. How long could that thing take to get brute-forced? The entropy value of a typical email address is low: maybe 15 characters from a ~30-character charset? That doesn't seem like too hard of a thing to brute-force, if you're the owner of a big zombie network.
In fact I remember when somebody brute-forced the entire AOL userlist just by sending test pings to the AOL email server: AAAAAAA@AOL.COM, nope. AAAAAAB@AOL.com, nope. AAAAAAC@AOL.COM, nope.....
In other news, by referring to them as "Native Americans", you reveal yourself to be an armchair quarterback in this discussion. Surveys show that more of them prefer the term "American Indians", for interesting reasons.
The Europeans did not merely have better technology. The difference is that they were technological, whereas the Indians were not. Therefore, only the Europeans were capable of building a civilization, transcending religion, etc.
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This captcha thing is not the only negative effect of sweatshops. But it's an effect -- one of many.
The cause of sweatshops is trade barriers, and the backwards political systems that keep their subjects in anti-modern societies.
Once the world is fully opened up, and all the anti-technological memes have been killed, the labor market will homogenize. At that time, it will no longer be possible to hire a brain for sixty cents an hour. Only then will this category of spammer/freerider problems be solved.
Think of 'glory' in the broadest terms: prestige, pride, a sense of importance . . .
The body can withstand stress maybe, or pressure, but not accelleration. Under high accelleration, the brain will get damaged while banging around inside the skull. At higher accellerations, bones will break while attempting to support the weight of flesh that would otherwise flatten out against the surface.
That may be true of a typical business, but Google is not a typical business. Google can ignore the edicts of any government except America and China. What is Brazil going to do, block all national traffic to Google's websites? I'd love to see them get re-elected after pulling that little stunt.
Jimmy Wales is wrong, and probably on purpose...
There is no glory in being one of a million diffuse contributors.
But there *is* glory in being one of a small elite group, the group that really matters, the group that the founder adores. Jimmy is baiting his contributors with this possibility, in order to motivate them.
Correllation != causation.
And another thing. The cost of warning stickers is inevitably reflected in the product's price. Therefore, the actual effect of this law is to force the consumer to purchase warning stickers that may or may not be necessary, useful, or effective.
Fact Sheet NSA Suite B Cryptography
The Case for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
From the latter:
Cracking PGP is still a Hard Problem, but the times they are a'changin'. It may succumb to quantum computing. Or, it may fall under the combined assault of the army of mathematicians who are studying integer factorization. Nobody knows for sure, but the NSA has been telling people for years now to not rely on RSA. They suggest switching over to Elliptic Curve or other advanced algorithm.
The advantage of throwing a person or laptop through a window, rather than a wall, is that afterward you can say that you defenestrated them.
Defenestrate is The Greatest Word In The English Language, and so it's always important to take advantage of the rare chance to use it in a serious sentence.
Just have a sex change already.
Sheesh.
P.S. Just kidding. Sort of. In another fifty years, if humans are still meat-based, I expect we'll at least have access to a nanotech gender-change booth. Walk in, swipe your card, and boom. :)
Humans utilize EEPROM memory, you know. Which reminds me: wouldn't it be cool to have true random-access long-term memory? Then I could actually 'remember' scoring on that beautiful brunette who sat behind me in American History in 7th grade. Wow, what a long and beautifully miserable year that was!
As long as people continue to differ on what they enjoy, the problem cannot be solved by making a particular aspect of the game more enjoyable. 'Enjoyable', you see, is neither constant nor universal.
To put the point another way: there will always be a percentage of people who simply enjoy cruising around with an uber-powerful not-home-made character, and so a market will do its darndest to arise to fulfill that desire.
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Good answer.
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Word.
We computer geeks already possess the solution:
Fertility should be off by default.
Put something in the water supply to turn it off, and then hand out free pills for anyone wishing to turn it back on.
Better: the pills can be engineered to require 30 days' continuous dosing in order to enable fertility. That way there will be no accidents.
Even better: both male and female will need to take the pills.
Best yet: the pills can be engineered to cause the user's armpits to turn polka-dotted. That way there can be no failures-to-disclose.
Not necessarily. These examinations cost much time and other resources.
Suppose that you are currently in pain or dying. Some random breakthrough will save you. But then a bunch of religionists insist on a delay while they satiate their fear of complexity.
You wait, in pain, while these fear-driven blowhards march in their demonstrations and gleefully soak up each others' sermons.
You die, in pain, because the cure did not come in time.
Lanza just pulled off quite a clever little begging of the question. And for a good cause, too. :)
To wit: We are nowhere near the point where the stem cells from one embryo can save one life. We are still in the research stage. But, if we can publicly circulate the idea that one embryo can be traded for one adult life, then the misguided resistance to stem-cell research will wither.
So they're going to name it 'Orion'.
Will it have option mounts?
Also, the ability to double its engine output could really come in handy in the event of a booster failure, or when hefting a heavy payload to GTO.
No matter what form of power a society embraces your objection applies. It is not a problem caused or solved by money.
Money, at least, brings with it an incentive to greater productivity. Contrast that to a quota-based economy -- assuming there are any around that have not yet collapsed. Or for some real fun, contrast that to the coming influence-based society.
By what other means would you have our society ruled?
Money, at least, has the virtue of flowing automatically to those who labor and innovate and create pleasure for others.
That is your goal. Do you believe it to also be the goal of those in positions of power?
Oh come on, a paper?
Everyone knows that if you want to share a secret, you just tell it to a -- eh, never mind. :P
Of course it is. That's the price of free programming.
When every show starts to cost money (say, ten cents to watch the latest CSI), then Hollywood will be able to afford to reduce the embedded advertising.
There is no free lunch. Doubly so when it comes to entertainment.
Do you know where spammers get their CPU time?
Indeed, the future of the internet seems to be a war over computing cycles, in the same way that the snail world was (is) a war over energy. Well, the world mostly fights over real estate, but that is at heart a fight over two things: ease of access to energy, and living areas with low energy requirements.
In any case, they are fighting to pilfer CPU cycles, which are then directed towards the most profitable endeavor that spare distributed CPU cycles can be applied to: sending spam, blackmail DDOSing, etc. But that will change as more we'll-buy-your-CPU-cycles projects come online, SETI@home and BOINC being the pioneer of course. At that time, the owners of zombie networks may switch over from spamming to something more socially and fiscally constructive.
Sorry, I'm rambling. What were we talking about again? :)
Oh yeah, hashing the do-not-email list. How long could that thing take to get brute-forced? The entropy value of a typical email address is low: maybe 15 characters from a ~30-character charset? That doesn't seem like too hard of a thing to brute-force, if you're the owner of a big zombie network.
In fact I remember when somebody brute-forced the entire AOL userlist just by sending test pings to the AOL email server: AAAAAAA@AOL.COM, nope. AAAAAAB@AOL.com, nope. AAAAAAC@AOL.COM, nope.....
In other news, by referring to them as "Native Americans", you reveal yourself to be an armchair quarterback in this discussion. Surveys show that more of them prefer the term "American Indians", for interesting reasons.
The Europeans did not merely have better technology. The difference is that they were technological, whereas the Indians were not. Therefore, only the Europeans were capable of building a civilization, transcending religion, etc.