Head of "Something" as a general rule knows very little technical details about the latest development in the something they lead.
That's the way of life.
For heavily politicised position like this one, considering the guy was a lawyer (i.e. see problem from legal standpoint rather than technical) whose first position at the FBI was director, this is a miracle he knows how to spell phishing.
That level of motivation and energy is welcome in any society I'm part of because it's precisely those qualities that create the milk and honey you're so fond of!
Criminal display that same motivation every day and they don't exactly contribute that society finds desirable.
This is not to say that "illegal immigrant" will become criminal, most likely not. Illegal immigrant that enter the country on tourist visa and never leave often display the characteristic you listed and are actually desirable to the country.
However, the immigrant affected by the DNA tests didn't try to enter the country illegally, they tried to game the legal system in order to rip benefits they are not entitled to. That seems to be a bad start for a productive life in the country.
That's also a starship that we do not understand very well, with no crew and in constant mutiny...
Scientist do not even know the consequences of - at earth level - a relatively simple and common phenomenon like CO2 level and related climate change.
Do you really trust the same scientist to fix the problem using a complex solution that involve both Earth climate and deep experience of massive deployment in Space ?
What happen if they shoot too many mirrors or something goes wrong - we cannot even deal with the current set of garbage floating around earth. Hell we cannot even maintain the tiny ISS.
The day scientist predict the weather at 5 days with 100% accuracy and they have a cheap available and demonstrated technology to detect and clean significant portions of space in short timeframe,
and a government structure and society able to commit in 100 years+ projects, we may be able to use geo-engineering.
So he could have used CD 17 years ago. Will CD ( for data storage ) really be readable in 17 years ?
I tend to agree with other poster - the mainstream equivalent of the CD in 92 is probably the USB drive. Mainstream enough yet not old enough to survive a few more years.
Also there is a big difference between commercial CD and burned ones. I did the exercise a few years back and I already had to try a few computer before being able to read the backup made circa 2000.
The problem is not if the amount is trivial or not. The problem is with the source of energy.
If you say it is green, then it must come from a green source. Reusing, even a trivial amount of the energy produced by a car is still coming from the fuel and is no more green than the car that generated it.
Of course, they can put the plates to harness the power the car is trying to lose - like when braking. In that case you get indeed green energy ( except for hybrid car:-) )
Read the comment in the section c of the PDF: "You will not be covered for any theft claims if your vehicle is left unlocked or if you leave the keys in the vehicle while unattended."
This is for theft claim. If you purchase the right coverage and pay the right premium they reimburse your car if your neighbor dog pees on it.
In most cased, to prove it are fairly trivial for experts. You car is supposed to be fitted with a authorized alarm type ( the type is specified in the contract as well ) So, in normal circumstance, if the car is found back the expert will look for evidence of alarm circumvention, broken windows,... it gets worse if they also find the thief.
If the insurance is unhappy with the conclusion of the expert - the best case is that they don't pay - the worse case they also sue you. Then you need to get your (authorized) expert and/or lawyer. The cost won't ruin you however, this is fairly standard practice in EU to get sued by insurance companies. That's why, generally bundled with you car policy, there is another policy that cover defense and expert costs.
But still the delay and the stress before getting paid is worth a little precaution.
Read the comment in the section c of the PDF: "You will not be covered for any theft claims if your vehicle is left unlocked or if you leave the keys in the vehicle while unattended."
The important bit is theft claim. Theft claim will not affect your premium the same way any other claim will. ( and BTW, considering the cost of a full-coverage, a lot of persons, me included, don't have full coverage - so if the car is not where it should be one morning, we really need the theft claim )
I guess you won't believe that either, but the cost of the theft policy is also dependent on the area you live in, if you own a garage or the type of alarm fitted. You are supposed to notify your insurance in some circumstance like: moving to higher crime area, using the garage for the other car,... so that they can reevaluate the premium you pay - nice.
How they prove it is another question. But they try !
"WTF? What if I stand near my car and don't want it to open or start up?"
Funny you said that. Renault, the french car manufacturer, had this kind of technology a few years back. The car would unlock if it detected you were nearby.
In later models they decided to put a big lock/unlock button on the RFID card. It happened that people were not so trusting on the technology and were never sure the car was really locked. ( in case of theft, this is a critical difference between getting your money back from the insurance or walking to work for the next few years ) So people relied on old school: go inside house - drop the RFID on the table, go back outside and check the car is unlocked. I had a colleague doing exactly that at work - drop its keys and go back in the parking lot to check the car is locked. Kind of silly.
They had all other kind of little problems linked to theft or general annoyance. At the gaz station - you are too close to lock your car, yet your are not in and some thief could steal something in it. People washing their car were annoyed to have the car contiousely locking/unlocking,...
And then we will get the same problem as currently.
The attacker will not be able to escape the sandbox, but since all the things that matter to you will be running in the sandbox, that means you are still as fucked as before.
Unless of course you are a sysadmin and the only thing that matters to you is the system, not the user data.
Come on - always the same 'it is copyright infringement' bla bla bla
Slashdot is not a court room - people say steal when they get something illegally without paying. Period.
If you want to nitpick, regardless if you purchased the drm version or not, downloading the torrent is always copyright infringement. What do you tell your kid in those circumstances ? Moral Copyright Infringement vs Immoral Copyright Infringement ? Let's call the immoral one stealing and hope the second disappear one day.
Nice in theory. In practice that will just become like the US patent system: you will have people submitting tons of general ideas that will prevent other employee to submit "derivative" ideas and/or could interfere with the company already ongoing projects.
Also idea as you said, idea for software program are like ideas for books, poem,... Meaning they are very common and worthless, without huge effort.
If you want innovation - you can pay for it in another way. Just give time and resource to your employee to pursue some of their ideas. When you see something concretely good taking shape, reward your employee by upgrading his pet project into a company project and give him some career opportunity on it.
That will cost the company the same (or more), but without the side effect of the patent system. That seems to work alright at google. ( but well google is full of cash right now, so difficult to say how beneficial is this approach in the long term in less profitable times. )
If you win millions - you get a big fat check and a senior position in a Wall Street bank, with more check on the way.
If you lose millions, nothing happens, try again next time.
If you lose billions, you let the taxpayer deal with the bill and take a year or two of vacation with the savings of previous good years. Try again next time.
I'm sure that most people will see the difference when trying to install a game, sync their PDA (with the instruction on their constructor webpage not matching what they see on their screen) or try to open the crappy humor Powerpoint filling their mailboxes. No need to be a admin to see a subtle difference between linux and windows if you don't have a diligent kid/friend that take care of every single installation problem for you.
This video reminds me of all those "infomercial" showing the latest innovation in carpet cleaning or kitchen robot...
When everything is labelled in both cm and in, however, there is always a "base unit" and the other one is rounded. Example: (In the UK) I needed to replace a 47in/120cm hanging rail. So went to the shop and bought a 47in/120cm replacement. The trick was that the one I had at home was 120cm = 47.2in and I bought a 47in one = 119 cm - i.e. it did not fit.
"you can certainly tell a country to whom you provide $X million per year in aid that you won't provide that money if they don't subscribe to your energy policy"
And at the same time we can also tell them that they need to apply Human Rights, have a democracy and respect our laws on Child labor.
Seeing how long we have had the Human Right Charter and how it is completely ignored in international trade, don't get your hopes up.
The truth is that, as with cheap labor, for the US and European countries, the easiest way to reach their environmental goals is to buy "green-ish" energy from a "trustful" external country. Each kW/h will come with a nice certificate of green-ishness and that will be proof enough/sarcarsm
At the very least, humanity as we know it would be completely destroyed.
With the knowledge infrastructure destroyed, and pressing need to work on primary survival needs, it will only take a few generations to completely wipe out hundred year of scientific advance.
And even if a bit of infrastructure and "pockets" of advanced civilization remain, what is the chance that they will be even remotely like our civilization, even if only by their approach to "science" and "progress".
It is not about 3 giants agreeing to "defend" Human Rights.
It is 3 giants agreeing between themself that none of them will grow a conscience overnight, starts fighting for Human Rights and makes bad press for the other 2. Example: Google pulling out of China... that would make MS and Yahoo look so bad. At the end of the day - future money is maybe in China, but today money is still in US/EU.
So, not useless... for them - just the same kind of PR-spin than DRM.
Bad press was about performance and lack of support.
What they will do is repackage Vista almost 100% the same except for minor tweaking and GUI gimmicks.
Just that in 2 years time, all the machines on the market will have driver and be fast enough to run vista, so they will be able to claim 'XP level' performance and driver support. They will even claim that they are right on time and boast about their new fast development cycle.
Microsoft is a company, not a human being. They don t do thing with any other purpose than making more money.
If they are convinced that being OpenSource friendly can give them an edge, they will become open source friendly overnight and you will probably see Balmer praising OSS all over the news as if it had always been the case.
That s the problem with companies, one day they say black and switch to white the very next day.
It is difficult to predict what Microsoft has in mind, but in big company world, even in your scenario, the proper thing is to assume nothing. This also applies to your friend, Apache, even if unlikely, could turn evil overnight.
Note that the people inside the companies are a different matter. But frankly, except the most retard one, there is probably not much difference between a Google employee or a Microsoft employee.
"They had to trust that I would call if I stayed out longer (and I was basically allowed to stay out whenever I wanted and however long I wanted, because I was trusted to know myself when it was a good time to return home)."
His kids are 7 and 9 - while he looks like he is over the top - complete freedom to kids aged 7 and 9 is also over the top.
If I could also do anything I wanted by the time I was 16, at 7, I was not even allowed to chose not to eat my vegetable.
But well that all depends on the sophistication of the system. The real time part is probably a key element. Defacement followed by report could put a site off-line for a few hours/days or maybe months since getting removed from a blacklist is always much harder.
There are countries like Belgium where it is illegal to sell a locked phone.
In Belgium there is no concept of subsidied phone. You buy your phone and your contract separately.
Some other countries like France allow locking but still requires that an unlocked version is sold ( it is currently possible to buy an unlocked iphone in France )
Sure Apple could buy a law, but it more realistic to think that the 199$ 'maximum price' was a hyperbole. ( Also think that currently the USD is worth nothing - taking Steve speech literally would mean an iPhone for 100 GBP in the UK - yeat, you can barely enter a Apple Store with that money in your pocket. )
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Head of "Something" as a general rule knows very little technical details about the latest development in the something they lead. That's the way of life. For heavily politicised position like this one, considering the guy was a lawyer (i.e. see problem from legal standpoint rather than technical) whose first position at the FBI was director, this is a miracle he knows how to spell phishing.
That level of motivation and energy is welcome in any society I'm part of because it's precisely those qualities that create the milk and honey you're so fond of!
Criminal display that same motivation every day and they don't exactly contribute that society finds desirable.
This is not to say that "illegal immigrant" will become criminal, most likely not. Illegal immigrant that enter the country on tourist visa and never leave often display the characteristic you listed and are actually desirable to the country.
However, the immigrant affected by the DNA tests didn't try to enter the country illegally, they tried to game the legal system in order to rip benefits they are not entitled to. That seems to be a bad start for a productive life in the country.
That's also a starship that we do not understand very well, with no crew and in constant mutiny...
Scientist do not even know the consequences of - at earth level - a relatively simple and common phenomenon like CO2 level and related climate change.
Do you really trust the same scientist to fix the problem using a complex solution that involve both Earth climate and deep experience of massive deployment in Space ?
What happen if they shoot too many mirrors or something goes wrong - we cannot even deal with the current set of garbage floating around earth. Hell we cannot even maintain the tiny ISS.
The day scientist predict the weather at 5 days with 100% accuracy and they have a cheap available and demonstrated technology to detect and clean significant portions of space in short timeframe, and a government structure and society able to commit in 100 years+ projects, we may be able to use geo-engineering.
So he could have used CD 17 years ago.
Will CD ( for data storage ) really be readable in 17 years ?
I tend to agree with other poster - the mainstream equivalent of the CD in 92 is probably the USB drive.
Mainstream enough yet not old enough to survive a few more years.
Also there is a big difference between commercial CD and burned ones.
I did the exercise a few years back and I already had to try a few computer before being able to read the backup made circa 2000.
The problem is not if the amount is trivial or not. The problem is with the source of energy.
If you say it is green, then it must come from a green source. Reusing, even a trivial amount of the energy produced by a car is still coming from the fuel and is no more green than the car that generated it.
Of course, they can put the plates to harness the power the car is trying to lose - like when braking. In that case you get indeed green energy ( except for hybrid car :-) )
Hate to reply to myself - but the quote is coming from the second document: http://www.churchill.com/pdf/car_summary.pdf
I replied to the parent- but here is a UK policy
http://www.churchill.com/motor/carpolicydocs.htm
Read the comment in the section c of the PDF:
"You will not be covered for any theft claims if your vehicle is left unlocked or if you leave the keys in the vehicle while unattended."
This is for theft claim. If you purchase the right coverage and pay the right premium they reimburse your car if your neighbor dog pees on it.
In most cased, to prove it are fairly trivial for experts. You car is supposed to be fitted with a authorized alarm type ( the type is specified in the contract as well ) So, in normal circumstance, if the car is found back the expert will look for evidence of alarm circumvention, broken windows, ... it gets worse if they also find the thief.
If the insurance is unhappy with the conclusion of the expert - the best case is that they don't pay - the worse case they also sue you. Then you need to get your (authorized) expert and/or lawyer. The cost won't ruin you however, this is fairly standard practice in EU to get sued by insurance companies. That's why, generally bundled with you car policy, there is another policy that cover defense and expert costs.
But still the delay and the stress before getting paid is worth a little precaution.
I don't know in the US - but here is the UK that is exactly like that:
http://www.churchill.com/motor/carpolicydocs.htm
Read the comment in the section c of the PDF:
"You will not be covered for any theft claims if your vehicle is left unlocked or if you leave the keys in the vehicle while unattended."
The important bit is theft claim. Theft claim will not affect your premium the same way any other claim will. ( and BTW, considering the cost of a full-coverage, a lot of persons, me included, don't have full coverage - so if the car is not where it should be one morning, we really need the theft claim )
I guess you won't believe that either, but the cost of the theft policy is also dependent on the area you live in, if you own a garage or the type of alarm fitted. You are supposed to notify your insurance in some circumstance like: moving to higher crime area, using the garage for the other car, ... so that they can reevaluate the premium you pay - nice.
How they prove it is another question. But they try !
"WTF? What if I stand near my car and don't want it to open or start up?"
Funny you said that. Renault, the french car manufacturer, had this kind of technology a few years back. The car would unlock if it detected you were nearby.
In later models they decided to put a big lock/unlock button on the RFID card. It happened that people were not so trusting on the technology and were never sure the car was really locked. ( in case of theft, this is a critical difference between getting your money back from the insurance or walking to work for the next few years ) So people relied on old school: go inside house - drop the RFID on the table, go back outside and check the car is unlocked. I had a colleague doing exactly that at work - drop its keys and go back in the parking lot to check the car is locked. Kind of silly.
They had all other kind of little problems linked to theft or general annoyance. At the gaz station - you are too close to lock your car, yet your are not in and some thief could steal something in it. People washing their car were annoyed to have the car contiousely locking/unlocking, ...
Mental ability peak in the 20s, Memory in 35. However, the ability relying on accumulated experience ( like vocabulary, ... ) peak at 60.
Can remember the reference, but it was a recent article.
So yes you are sharper in the 20s: you can read RFC faster. Big deal, experience and attitude plays a huge part in the efficiency of a developer.
And then we will get the same problem as currently.
The attacker will not be able to escape the sandbox, but since all the things that matter to you will be running in the sandbox, that means you are still as fucked as before.
Unless of course you are a sysadmin and the only thing that matters to you is the system, not the user data.
Come on - always the same 'it is copyright infringement' bla bla bla
Slashdot is not a court room - people say steal when they get something illegally without paying. Period.
If you want to nitpick, regardless if you purchased the drm version or not, downloading the torrent is always copyright infringement. What do you tell your kid in those circumstances ? Moral Copyright Infringement vs Immoral Copyright Infringement ? Let's call the immoral one stealing and hope the second disappear one day.
Nice in theory. In practice that will just become like the US patent system: you will have people submitting tons of general ideas that will prevent other employee to submit "derivative" ideas and/or could interfere with the company already ongoing projects.
Also idea as you said, idea for software program are like ideas for books, poem, ... Meaning they are very common and worthless, without huge effort.
If you want innovation - you can pay for it in another way. Just give time and resource to your employee to pursue some of their ideas. When you see something concretely good taking shape, reward your employee by upgrading his pet project into a company project and give him some career opportunity on it.
That will cost the company the same (or more), but without the side effect of the patent system.
That seems to work alright at google. ( but well google is full of cash right now, so difficult to say how beneficial is this approach in the long term in less profitable times. )
If you win millions - you get a big fat check and a senior position in a Wall Street bank, with more check on the way.
If you lose millions, nothing happens, try again next time.
If you lose billions, you let the taxpayer deal with the bill and take a year or two of vacation with the savings of previous good years. Try again next time.
I'm sure that most people will see the difference when trying to install a game, sync their PDA (with the instruction on their constructor webpage not matching what they see on their screen) or try to open the crappy humor Powerpoint filling their mailboxes. No need to be a admin to see a subtle difference between linux and windows if you don't have a diligent kid/friend that take care of every single installation problem for you.
This video reminds me of all those "infomercial" showing the latest innovation in carpet cleaning or kitchen robot ...
When everything is labelled in both cm and in, however, there is always a "base unit" and the other one is rounded.
Example: (In the UK) I needed to replace a 47in/120cm hanging rail. So went to the shop and bought a 47in/120cm replacement. The trick was that the one I had at home was 120cm = 47.2in and I bought a 47in one = 119 cm - i.e. it did not fit.
"you can certainly tell a country to whom you provide $X million per year in aid that you won't provide that money if they don't subscribe to your energy policy"
And at the same time we can also tell them that they need to apply Human Rights, have a democracy and respect our laws on Child labor.
Seeing how long we have had the Human Right Charter and how it is completely ignored in international trade, don't get your hopes up.
The truth is that, as with cheap labor, for the US and European countries, the easiest way to reach their environmental goals is to buy "green-ish" energy from a "trustful" external country. Each kW/h will come with a nice certificate of green-ishness and that will be proof enough /sarcarsm
At the very least, humanity as we know it would be completely destroyed.
With the knowledge infrastructure destroyed, and pressing need to work on primary survival needs, it will only take a few generations to completely wipe out hundred year of scientific advance.
And even if a bit of infrastructure and "pockets" of advanced civilization remain, what is the chance that they will be even remotely like our civilization, even if only by their approach to "science" and "progress".
1.2K arrest for 160K control.
How many would have been arrested if 160K person had been randomly controlled instead of using that technology ?
Also how many of those person with fake id would have been catched later-on at passport control ?
Police Officer are already very good at behavior detection. Can this system be replaced by simply adding more cops in critical area ?
I guess we all miss the point here.
It is not about 3 giants agreeing to "defend" Human Rights.
It is 3 giants agreeing between themself that none of them will grow a conscience overnight, starts fighting for Human Rights and makes bad press for the other 2. Example: Google pulling out of China ... that would make MS and Yahoo look so bad. At the end of the day - future money is maybe in China, but today money is still in US/EU.
So, not useless ... for them - just the same kind of PR-spin than DRM.
Bad press was about performance and lack of support.
What they will do is repackage Vista almost 100% the same except for minor tweaking and GUI gimmicks.
Just that in 2 years time, all the machines on the market will have driver and be fast enough to run vista, so they will be able to claim 'XP level' performance and driver support. They will even claim that they are right on time and boast about their new fast development cycle.
Microsoft is a company, not a human being. They don t do thing with any other purpose than making more money.
If they are convinced that being OpenSource friendly can give them an edge, they will become open source friendly overnight and you will probably see Balmer praising OSS all over the news as if it had always been the case.
That s the problem with companies, one day they say black and switch to white the very next day.
It is difficult to predict what Microsoft has in mind, but in big company world, even in your scenario, the proper thing is to assume nothing.
This also applies to your friend, Apache, even if unlikely, could turn evil overnight.
Note that the people inside the companies are a different matter. But frankly, except the most retard one, there is probably not much difference between a Google employee or a Microsoft employee.
"They had to trust that I would call if I stayed out longer (and I was basically allowed to stay out whenever I wanted and however long I wanted, because I was trusted to know myself when it was a good time to return home)."
His kids are 7 and 9 - while he looks like he is over the top - complete freedom to kids aged 7 and 9 is also over the top.
If I could also do anything I wanted by the time I was 16, at 7, I was not even allowed to chose not to eat my vegetable.
Post some kiddie porn on a forum and report.
But well that all depends on the sophistication of the system. The real time part is probably a key element. Defacement followed by report could put a site off-line for a few hours/days or maybe months since getting removed from a blacklist is always much harder.
There are countries like Belgium where it is illegal to sell a locked phone.
In Belgium there is no concept of subsidied phone. You buy your phone and your contract separately.
Some other countries like France allow locking but still requires that an unlocked version is sold ( it is currently possible to buy an unlocked iphone in France )
Sure Apple could buy a law, but it more realistic to think that the 199$ 'maximum price' was a hyperbole. ( Also think that currently the USD is worth nothing - taking Steve speech literally would mean an iPhone for 100 GBP in the UK - yeat, you can barely enter a Apple Store with that money in your pocket. )