Another big reason for calling them a trade secret is so they don't have to show the public all the unpronounceable chemical names and crap in the food. They do have to show the FDA though, who is pretty much bought and sold by big pharma and food anyway.
I think you just described all the flavors of Linux! They all follow the same general recipe, but they are all slightly different after baked/compiled. One company likes to add a splash of gnome, the other likes kde, etc. Naturally this plays hell at a banquet when the guests see the bowl labeled with the name of the dish but have no idea if their utensils will work quite right with that particular homemade dish. They prefer the storebought box of mac-n-cheese that tastes the same every single time and they don't need to worry if their fork is somehow incompatible with todays version of the corn kernels in the dish.
Egads, I think I abused the hell out of that analogy. Should I have done a car analogy instead?:}
Gotta admit it is a bit of a marketing ploy. Too bad about picking a port that's likely to be blocked at the firewall or conflicting with p2p software.
I'm annoyed that the pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs to treat symptoms and then heavily marketing directly to the end users. Got heartburn? Instead of simply altering your diet, go out and buy the over the counter medication xyz! Or worse, ask you doctor as you may have a serious condition that can only be treated by drug zyx.
A case in point is the flood of drugs to lower HDL cholesterol levels, even though there is scant evidence to show that artificially lowering those levels has any long term heart health benefits. The better alternative is to fix your dietary issues which has been shown to have long term health effects.
Big Pharma is actively researching marketing options and constantly trying to figure out what the next big, marketable drug is going to be.
But curing diseases would be a bad business model.
I think this attitude is present in the pharmaceutical industry and drives some of their research priorities. I don't think its present in the general medical research as those guys honestly want to understand and cure a disease as their first priority, and second if it can't be cured at least manage it.
By "in the wild", I meant that there are samples of the virus that are not in direct control of someone we trust. My point was that we are weighing the risk of an epidemic (quite likely if smallpox is used as a weapon) against the harm that will happen to a small percentage of the population as a side effect of mass vaccinations.
Smallpox is still out in the wild. Vaccines are a calculated risk. You have to figure you will injure or kill XX number of people with the vaccine, versus the number of people that will die as a result of another epidemic. I believe the numbers recently flip-flopped and the risk of harm from the vaccine has become worse than the risk of contracting the disease and many areas are no longer requiring it. The whole controversy over mercury in the vaccines causing autism is still hotly debated, though.
Congratulations, you're one of the few people that read the article or the document itself. My take on this is that if end-end encryption was used, meaning the actual files lost were still securely encrypted and the keys were not compromised, then the data owner does not have to report it as compromised data. Sounds reasonable to me.
The ACT is also a huge motivator for these agencies to implement encryption in a secure manner, thereby avoiding the whole mess that happens every time a laptop gets stolen and they don't know what files were actually on it.
I used to be annoyed at the cyclists who rode in the road and didn't stop at lights or stop signs. Then I discovered we don't have to according to Idaho State law. Of course you might want to anyway just because cars rarely notice you.
If you're going to be a smart ass, you might want to check the dictionary first. In the acoustics industry, the terms are freely interchanged. In my area of expertise, damping is the quantitative measurement of the reduction and dampening is the act of applying the material or technique to effect a reduction.
Sure you can block the handful of ones that you know about. But if that's all you rely on be prepared for it it to become a game of whack-a-mole, as the number of sites is growing. Do you really want to have to police this? Or would you rather put out a clearly defined policy, show the users you trust them to behave instead of treating them like inmates, and hammer the few folks that are too dense to follow the policy?
MS08-048 fixes three vulnerabilities. The vulnerability that can result in a system compromise is CVE-2009-1925 and ONLY AFFECTS VISTA. The other two, CVE-2008-4609 and CVE-2009-1926 are denial of service attacks against listening services with no possibility for remote code execution.
Microsoft is basically saying that since 2000 and XP are only subject to a possible DOS of listening services, and are not intended as servers that the issue is not worth fixing. This would not be the first DOS only type of vulnerability that Microsoft has downplayed. They did however develop a patch to address their products that are intended as servers. Note that according to the MS KB article the patch does not eliminate the DOS vulnerabilities, but alleviates it by tweaking the algorithm used to drop open connections.
It's also not clear to me, but it may be possible to address this issue by setting some of the settings in the registry that control the max number of half-open connections (turned off by default in the usual MS way).
If it cures them you wouldn't have to live with eczema, unlike me.
You try eliminating products containing gluten? Seriously. I know 4 people know who had chronic eczema for years who eliminated gluten and their eczema went away within a few weeks.
I agree the ability to create a NK free test platform is valuable.
Note as usual the/. title is completely misleading when what they really found is a gene they can use to switch off the production of a particular type of immune cell.
From the article, its apparent that they have found a gene which is critical to the production of NK cells and its absence doesn't interfere with production of other cell types. That gives them the ability to turn NK production off, but its not a given that this is the only gene required for NK production to work. It's not even a good assumption that this doesn't have any other side effects, although obviously those side effects are not immediately lethal.
Based on the article, being able to generated phased sound at multiple points would be an improvement over the current method of dunking a speaker in the water. This would have the ability to transmit from mulitple points and create a directional sound, in theory pointed away from the enemy and towards the friendly.
Active Sonar output is limited by cavitation. That is the boiling of the water on the surface of the transducer, which acts like a blanket attenuating and distorting the output. In general that means under 200 dB. Still plenty to cause problems with local wildlife. Active sonar is not used very often at its also like turning on a spotlight in a dark room.
I think this would be a tremendous advantage by not immediately altering the content. If the system is capable of determining viewer attention (ie do they even look at the ad), then its a fantastic feedback mechanism. The ad agency can tell what ads are noticed and which are ignored. The second part of the equation of which ads engender brand recognition or result in an increase in sales is another hurdle.
Personally face recognition is a bit harder. Anyone have a cell phone? How long before the advertisers start watching for cell phone signals and correlate them with a specific person or demographics. What about all those rfid enabled cards out there. It may not need or want or even be legal to identify you individually, but it could certainly determine what your demographics are. If the room is full of low income males, throw up a Budweiser ad. If it's older more affluent males then the ED ad. If minorities are present then show the multi-cultural version of the Microsoft ad. If its all white Pollocks then show the ad with the black guy photo-chopped out.
Say it recognizes specific types of people. Would you really want ads for adult dating sites popping up if it thought a bachlor was strolling by? Or it could detect "that time of the month" and started advertising feminine products. Or how about it pops up porn ads when it only senses adult males in the vicinity.
I don't think feature parity means you can use MS office documents. Feature parity means you can do anything in open office that you can do in MS office.
You're right that I did mix feature sets with interoperability. Both are valid points. There are still lots of things you can do with MS Office that you can't in Open Office. I'll be honest and say I use both. I like OO for basic stuff like simple word documents at home. I don't use it at work because the features simply aren't there. Impress and calc are toys compared to MS Office.
The only thing OO has going for it is the price and multi-OS support. It's quickly becoming slow and bloated though.
Outlook is not a hard requirement for accessing an Exchange server mailbox. There's plenty of other options such as imap, webmail, pop3/smtp, etc. If you want the full experience and features you gotta use Outlook though.
I disagree the OpenOffice is at feature parity with MSOffice. It's still not even terribly compatible as documents don't always flow the same when viewed or printed with either platform. It may be better than anything else on Linux or Apple, and work just fine for a lot of folks, but it still doesn't implement a huge number of the more advanced features. Granted most home users don't know or care about them. For a true corporate environment, MSOffice is king for features and management support for a reason.
They are implementing this via a custom conduit that uses WEBDAV. It's not clear if this requires anything installed on the server side, if so then its a non-starter for most folks. For Apple PC's you're probably better off simply using the webmail interface anyway. This does provide a means for mobile sysems such as phones or laptops to actually download the messages.
No it does not. Some websites check the version and prompt you, but its not a feature of flash itself. I wouldn't mind if Firefox popped up a warning at startup, letting me know there is a new version of available if the installed version has a significant vulnerability. Something similar to the nag screen about updating the add-ins. You better give me an option to ignore the warning though, as I may have a valid reason for not upgrading such as breaking a corporate app.
Don't be a wuss. Upgrade the Flash its free and gets rid of a gigantic hole in your browser. I feel you're pain on Acrobat as they stopped supporting the ancient versions. But of course those versions can't handle all the files and features generated using the latest versions anyway. If you just want to print to PDFs, there are better free programs out there.
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Another big reason for calling them a trade secret is so they don't have to show the public all the unpronounceable chemical names and crap in the food. They do have to show the FDA though, who is pretty much bought and sold by big pharma and food anyway.
I think you just described all the flavors of Linux! They all follow the same general recipe, but they are all slightly different after baked/compiled. One company likes to add a splash of gnome, the other likes kde, etc. Naturally this plays hell at a banquet when the guests see the bowl labeled with the name of the dish but have no idea if their utensils will work quite right with that particular homemade dish. They prefer the storebought box of mac-n-cheese that tastes the same every single time and they don't need to worry if their fork is somehow incompatible with todays version of the corn kernels in the dish.
Egads, I think I abused the hell out of that analogy. Should I have done a car analogy instead? :}
Gotta admit it is a bit of a marketing ploy. Too bad about picking a port that's likely to be blocked at the firewall or conflicting with p2p software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
1337/TCP PowerFolder P2P Encrypted File Synchronization Program Unofficial
1337/TCP WASTE Encrypted File Sharing Program Unofficial
From http://isc.sans.org/services.html
Shadyshell 1337/tcp #[trojan] Shadyshell
Indeed, some of the studies actually showed increase mental capacity in the groups associated with ethylmercury exposure from thimerasol in vaccines. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/min-oct07.pdf
I'm annoyed that the pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs to treat symptoms and then heavily marketing directly to the end users. Got heartburn? Instead of simply altering your diet, go out and buy the over the counter medication xyz! Or worse, ask you doctor as you may have a serious condition that can only be treated by drug zyx.
A case in point is the flood of drugs to lower HDL cholesterol levels, even though there is scant evidence to show that artificially lowering those levels has any long term heart health benefits. The better alternative is to fix your dietary issues which has been shown to have long term health effects.
Big Pharma is actively researching marketing options and constantly trying to figure out what the next big, marketable drug is going to be.
But curing diseases would be a bad business model.
I think this attitude is present in the pharmaceutical industry and drives some of their research priorities. I don't think its present in the general medical research as those guys honestly want to understand and cure a disease as their first priority, and second if it can't be cured at least manage it.
By "in the wild", I meant that there are samples of the virus that are not in direct control of someone we trust. My point was that we are weighing the risk of an epidemic (quite likely if smallpox is used as a weapon) against the harm that will happen to a small percentage of the population as a side effect of mass vaccinations.
Smallpox is still out in the wild. Vaccines are a calculated risk. You have to figure you will injure or kill XX number of people with the vaccine, versus the number of people that will die as a result of another epidemic. I believe the numbers recently flip-flopped and the risk of harm from the vaccine has become worse than the risk of contracting the disease and many areas are no longer requiring it. The whole controversy over mercury in the vaccines causing autism is still hotly debated, though.
Congratulations, you're one of the few people that read the article or the document itself. My take on this is that if end-end encryption was used, meaning the actual files lost were still securely encrypted and the keys were not compromised, then the data owner does not have to report it as compromised data. Sounds reasonable to me.
The ACT is also a huge motivator for these agencies to implement encryption in a secure manner, thereby avoiding the whole mess that happens every time a laptop gets stolen and they don't know what files were actually on it.
I used to be annoyed at the cyclists who rode in the road and didn't stop at lights or stop signs. Then I discovered we don't have to according to Idaho State law. Of course you might want to anyway just because cars rarely notice you.
If you're going to be a smart ass, you might want to check the dictionary first. In the acoustics industry, the terms are freely interchanged. In my area of expertise, damping is the quantitative measurement of the reduction and dampening is the act of applying the material or technique to effect a reduction.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dampening
1. To make damp.
2. To deaden, restrain, or depress.
3. To soundproof.
Sure you can block the handful of ones that you know about. But if that's all you rely on be prepared for it it to become a game of whack-a-mole, as the number of sites is growing. Do you really want to have to police this? Or would you rather put out a clearly defined policy, show the users you trust them to behave instead of treating them like inmates, and hammer the few folks that are too dense to follow the policy?
MS08-048 fixes three vulnerabilities. The vulnerability that can result in a system compromise is CVE-2009-1925 and ONLY AFFECTS VISTA. The other two, CVE-2008-4609 and CVE-2009-1926 are denial of service attacks against listening services with no possibility for remote code execution.
Microsoft is basically saying that since 2000 and XP are only subject to a possible DOS of listening services, and are not intended as servers that the issue is not worth fixing. This would not be the first DOS only type of vulnerability that Microsoft has downplayed. They did however develop a patch to address their products that are intended as servers. Note that according to the MS KB article the patch does not eliminate the DOS vulnerabilities, but alleviates it by tweaking the algorithm used to drop open connections.
It's also not clear to me, but it may be possible to address this issue by setting some of the settings in the registry that control the max number of half-open connections (turned off by default in the usual MS way).
If it cures them you wouldn't have to live with eczema, unlike me.
You try eliminating products containing gluten? Seriously. I know 4 people know who had chronic eczema for years who eliminated gluten and their eczema went away within a few weeks.
I agree the ability to create a NK free test platform is valuable.
Note as usual the /. title is completely misleading when what they really found is a gene they can use to switch off the production of a particular type of immune cell.
From the article, its apparent that they have found a gene which is critical to the production of NK cells and its absence doesn't interfere with production of other cell types. That gives them the ability to turn NK production off, but its not a given that this is the only gene required for NK production to work. It's not even a good assumption that this doesn't have any other side effects, although obviously those side effects are not immediately lethal.
Based on the article, being able to generated phased sound at multiple points would be an improvement over the current method of dunking a speaker in the water. This would have the ability to transmit from mulitple points and create a directional sound, in theory pointed away from the enemy and towards the friendly.
Active Sonar output is limited by cavitation. That is the boiling of the water on the surface of the transducer, which acts like a blanket attenuating and distorting the output. In general that means under 200 dB. Still plenty to cause problems with local wildlife. Active sonar is not used very often at its also like turning on a spotlight in a dark room.
I think this would be a tremendous advantage by not immediately altering the content. If the system is capable of determining viewer attention (ie do they even look at the ad), then its a fantastic feedback mechanism. The ad agency can tell what ads are noticed and which are ignored. The second part of the equation of which ads engender brand recognition or result in an increase in sales is another hurdle.
Personally face recognition is a bit harder. Anyone have a cell phone? How long before the advertisers start watching for cell phone signals and correlate them with a specific person or demographics. What about all those rfid enabled cards out there. It may not need or want or even be legal to identify you individually, but it could certainly determine what your demographics are. If the room is full of low income males, throw up a Budweiser ad. If it's older more affluent males then the ED ad. If minorities are present then show the multi-cultural version of the Microsoft ad. If its all white Pollocks then show the ad with the black guy photo-chopped out.
Say it recognizes specific types of people. Would you really want ads for adult dating sites popping up if it thought a bachlor was strolling by? Or it could detect "that time of the month" and started advertising feminine products. Or how about it pops up porn ads when it only senses adult males in the vicinity.
I don't think feature parity means you can use MS office documents. Feature parity means you can do anything in open office that you can do in MS office.
You're right that I did mix feature sets with interoperability. Both are valid points. There are still lots of things you can do with MS Office that you can't in Open Office. I'll be honest and say I use both. I like OO for basic stuff like simple word documents at home. I don't use it at work because the features simply aren't there. Impress and calc are toys compared to MS Office.
The only thing OO has going for it is the price and multi-OS support. It's quickly becoming slow and bloated though.
Outlook is not a hard requirement for accessing an Exchange server mailbox. There's plenty of other options such as imap, webmail, pop3/smtp, etc. If you want the full experience and features you gotta use Outlook though.
I disagree the OpenOffice is at feature parity with MSOffice. It's still not even terribly compatible as documents don't always flow the same when viewed or printed with either platform. It may be better than anything else on Linux or Apple, and work just fine for a lot of folks, but it still doesn't implement a huge number of the more advanced features. Granted most home users don't know or care about them. For a true corporate environment, MSOffice is king for features and management support for a reason.
They are implementing this via a custom conduit that uses WEBDAV. It's not clear if this requires anything installed on the server side, if so then its a non-starter for most folks. For Apple PC's you're probably better off simply using the webmail interface anyway. This does provide a means for mobile sysems such as phones or laptops to actually download the messages.
No it does not. Some websites check the version and prompt you, but its not a feature of flash itself. I wouldn't mind if Firefox popped up a warning at startup, letting me know there is a new version of available if the installed version has a significant vulnerability. Something similar to the nag screen about updating the add-ins. You better give me an option to ignore the warning though, as I may have a valid reason for not upgrading such as breaking a corporate app.
Don't be a wuss. Upgrade the Flash its free and gets rid of a gigantic hole in your browser. I feel you're pain on Acrobat as they stopped supporting the ancient versions. But of course those versions can't handle all the files and features generated using the latest versions anyway. If you just want to print to PDFs, there are better free programs out there.