No thanks. I bet this is not just for 'safety' but for non-repudiation. It could be used as evidence that the bullet was indeed fired from whomever the signal belongs to. Unless it gets hacked. Measures can be taken to ensure 'unhackability', but we all know about how well that works.
I think that the FOSS Search Engine would die a quick death. Here's why: Part of making a search engine is obfuscating the algorithm used to produce results. Sure, we all know that be putting in key words, etc. in the meta-tags helps the spiders find and catalogue a site. However, there are measures in place to help reduce the amount of search engine spamming that occurs. This algorithm isn't 100% effective, but it does a pretty good job. Now, if you have that algorithm out in the open, the incentive for not only spammers, but those you honestly want higher results are going to leverage that knowledge to artificially boost their page ranking. This kind of defeats the purpose of 'organic' search results. This means that the crap ends up coming up at the top, translating into a dissatisfied customer.
"As it turns out, Smith is a Level One Sex Offender"
How is this a relevant detail to the story? Now, if this guy was using their connection to commit such crimes against other people, THEN it would be an important detail. Otherwise, IMHO, the story really doesn't seem that important.
NEWS FLASH! A 22 year old man was cited for jay walking on a busy street and as it turns out he's a sex offender! More details on KBS at 10!
-or-
NEWS FLASH! A 19 year old boy was arrested today for stealing a hand full of 5 cent bubble gum. During a news conference today it was revealed that he is also a statutory rapist!
"You know, it would be nice, just once, for those we entrust with ensuring the country is run for the good of it's people actually worked for the people who vote for them..."
You are coming from a false presumption--that the majority of their constituents do not want the broadcast flag. Many people don't even know who their elected officials are--much less what a broadcast flag is and what it means to them.
I think sometimes here on/. we assume that the stories we read have the same relevent meaning to the rest of the populace. Sure, it's news for nerds. Stuff that matters...to nerds. It's like RSS discused in the Neilsen interview today. Ask the jow blow user what RSS is and they probably don't know. Ask 'em what a news feed is and they probably still don't know, but it's more meaningful than some obscure acronym meaning Really Simple Syndication.
In light of yesterday's request for interview questions for the creator of CSS, I was dissapointed that interviewers aren't grilling Microsoft for standards compatibility. For that matter, why aren't we (as a community) grilling Firefox for their lack of standards compatibility? What would it take for them to 'get the picture'
How about a Firefox plugin that e-mails the Firefox foundation everytime you start Firefox? Or an ActiveX control in IE that does the same? I think it would send a clear message that these things are important to consumers and ought to be a priority for updates.
Ya know, I thought to myself, surely IE fails miserably and Firefox will shine. I decided to try it out and sure enough, IE disgustingly fails. However, my Firefox 1.5.0.4 doesn't do much better. In fact, in Firefox I hadn't a clue what it was trying to render until I clicked on the reference page.
Suddenly my confidence is wavering in Firefox's standards compliance.
"These nanowires show promise in being able to be embedded in plastics, and could lead to devices such as flexible displays that process information in the screen itself."
"its easy to use, and it is adequate for most people."
So if there are all these satisfied people, what's there to be upset about? Seriously, you make it sound like a crime that Microsoft includes with with its OS an easy to use program. SUSE includes Firefox with its distro. Am I upset that it didn't include IE, or worse still that I can't even use IE with it? No, because Firefox too, is easy to use and adequate for my Linux uses.
not purely because it's a MS product. See, IE is what's called a value add product (insert joke here). At the end of the day, IE is meant to enhance a flagship product--Windows. So, Microsoft can get comfortable and decide to re-assign their IE staff to something more productive. That's how there's a security issue. Because there is no new innovation, the code stagnates, and is vulnerable to those who actively seek exploits.
Then you have Firefox. Does Firefox compete for code time with other Mozilla products. Yes, a few, but Firefox has quickly become a flagship product. There are people within and without the organization that maintain the code. This creates inherent security because there are positive contributors constantly refining and securing the code.
It's that simple. Will I ever download IE 7? I'll eventually have it in a few years when I buy a computer that has Vista on it, but I won't download it because of IE 6's lack of MS support. With Firefox I simply feel secure that SOMEONE will continue to develop it and make it more secure. Ironically, I can't say the same for a corporate developed piece of software.
With MS's next browser release (IE 7), you mentioned in other interviews that their decision to not supprt CSS2 was more a political decision than a mechanical one. Aside from their obvious desire to dominate the world, what politics do you think are in play that make them not want to conform to the standard, and what do you think would change that landscape so that they would have some initiative to fully support it?
but it would really be ironic if, sometime in the distant future, the vault is broken open and actually causes the destruction of future life because of ecosystem incompatibilities. I say live and let die. The Earth seems quite adept at recovering and moving on over its billions of years. We weren't the first ones here, nor the last. We are not even a fraction of a blink of an eye to the Earth.
"Movie piracy is a $3 billion-a-year problem," Clawson maintains -- a problem said to be especially acute in Asia. "If someone videotapes a movie in a theater and then puts it up on the web that night or burns half a million copies to sell on the street - then the movie industry has lost a lot of in-theater revenue.
Will someone please explain the Accounting here? This kind of statement really bothers me because it assumes a few things. 1. That consumers of pirated content have the dispossable income to purchase the 'legit' consumable. 2. That if piracy were to go away they would buy the 'legit' stuff.
So, I would argue that their actual lost revenue is quite a bit less. For example, I'm semi-interested in watching the new X-Men movie. When presented with a choice, I can spend $16 to go to a theater and watch it with a significant other (plus $6 for popcorn), or I can purchase a semi-decent bootleg for $5. Which do I choose. Hmm.. A bootleg sounds really nice. However, in the absence of a bootleg do I go to the theater? No. Because the interest is not sufficient to justify the cost. When presented with the theater and a P2P acquired copy, which do I choose? Hmmm...Not to difficult either. But in the absence of P2P copy, do I go to the theater? No.
So, I again ask, how in the heck do they reconcile the lost revenue???
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I'd have to go through Argentina! I knew my uncle was full of &*^% when he told me he was digging to China!
That's the trick though, isn't it? There has to be a fine line of controls and being able to get work done. As long the controls allow for the process to continue without a material delay in time that's ok. It's when the controls interfere with business's ability to do business, (ie. add politics, the proverbial 'red tape' etc.) that it goes over the line. I think this is a really important opportunity for technology to help speed those things along.
I never mentioned anything about the legality of pornography. We all know its legal to create/distribute/consume porn. I'm not debating that. Nor am I advocating a particular point concerning its legal status. Just because there isn't a law written for/against pornography does not make a significant bit of difference as to its morality or immorality. However, on its base level, it is a question of morality, an issue that both stealing and pornography share.
It is interesting to me that pornographers like to peddle their wares, even when flying in the face of a morality question. A whole thread discussion could be started just talking about that, but this isn't my point.
My point is, that many would argue that is it immoral to steal. Many would consider pirating a movie, no matter its content, to be immoral. I just think it's interesting to point out that the pornographers want their cake and eat too, by combating piracy, since what they do is considered immoral also.
but my surfing habits include getting somewhere fast. If I have to walk around to where I want to go...I'll walk down the street to get there. Point, click, type. No frills surfing is 'nuff for me.
As it explains the article you linked from MS, the biggest hurtle you may have to jump is making sure that you meet the NIC requirement:
"PXE DHCP-based boot ROM version 1.00 or later network adapter, or a network adaptor that is supported by the RIS boot disk."
Because you have a hodge podge of clients on your network, you may have to make an investment to upgrade all your NICs if they don't meet spec. I would start first by determining what hardware you currently got and make some decisions on how much you got to make sure everything fits the requirements for RIS.
This is really good news for the portable device market. Our portable devices can only get as small as the battteries needed to power them. While more renewable resources like ethenol seem attractive, the prospect of needing to purchase a cartridge is quite a turn off. Because these capacitors are significantly smaller, using them in portable devices will help us really break the barrier in energy storage.
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No thanks. I bet this is not just for 'safety' but for non-repudiation. It could be used as evidence that the bullet was indeed fired from whomever the signal belongs to. Unless it gets hacked. Measures can be taken to ensure 'unhackability', but we all know about how well that works.
...that the Internet is shrinking everybody's social life.
I think that the FOSS Search Engine would die a quick death. Here's why: Part of making a search engine is obfuscating the algorithm used to produce results. Sure, we all know that be putting in key words, etc. in the meta-tags helps the spiders find and catalogue a site. However, there are measures in place to help reduce the amount of search engine spamming that occurs. This algorithm isn't 100% effective, but it does a pretty good job. Now, if you have that algorithm out in the open, the incentive for not only spammers, but those you honestly want higher results are going to leverage that knowledge to artificially boost their page ranking. This kind of defeats the purpose of 'organic' search results. This means that the crap ends up coming up at the top, translating into a dissatisfied customer.
Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"As it turns out, Smith is a Level One Sex Offender"
How is this a relevant detail to the story? Now, if this guy was using their connection to commit such crimes against other people, THEN it would be an important detail. Otherwise, IMHO, the story really doesn't seem that important.
NEWS FLASH! A 22 year old man was cited for jay walking on a busy street and as it turns out he's a sex offender! More details on KBS at 10!
-or-
NEWS FLASH! A 19 year old boy was arrested today for stealing a hand full of 5 cent bubble gum. During a news conference today it was revealed that he is also a statutory rapist!
"You know, it would be nice, just once, for those we entrust with ensuring the country is run for the good of it's people actually worked for the people who vote for them..."
You are coming from a false presumption--that the majority of their constituents do not want the broadcast flag. Many people don't even know who their elected officials are--much less what a broadcast flag is and what it means to them.
I think sometimes here on /. we assume that the stories we read have the same relevent meaning to the rest of the populace. Sure, it's news for nerds. Stuff that matters...to nerds. It's like RSS discused in the Neilsen interview today. Ask the jow blow user what RSS is and they probably don't know. Ask 'em what a news feed is and they probably still don't know, but it's more meaningful than some obscure acronym meaning Really Simple Syndication.
</Stepping off of soap box>A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square.
Having your genitals burned off is becoming sterile, becoming sterile does not mean having your genitals burned off.
In light of yesterday's request for interview questions for the creator of CSS, I was dissapointed that interviewers aren't grilling Microsoft for standards compatibility. For that matter, why aren't we (as a community) grilling Firefox for their lack of standards compatibility? What would it take for them to 'get the picture'
How about a Firefox plugin that e-mails the Firefox foundation everytime you start Firefox? Or an ActiveX control in IE that does the same? I think it would send a clear message that these things are important to consumers and ought to be a priority for updates.
Ya know, I thought to myself, surely IE fails miserably and Firefox will shine. I decided to try it out and sure enough, IE disgustingly fails. However, my Firefox 1.5.0.4 doesn't do much better. In fact, in Firefox I hadn't a clue what it was trying to render until I clicked on the reference page.
Suddenly my confidence is wavering in Firefox's standards compliance.
...to being the real 'Borg-Bill photo we see so often on /.
"These nanowires show promise in being able to be embedded in plastics, and could lead to devices such as flexible displays that process information in the screen itself."
What, and this doesn't?
"its easy to use, and it is adequate for most people."
So if there are all these satisfied people, what's there to be upset about? Seriously, you make it sound like a crime that Microsoft includes with with its OS an easy to use program. SUSE includes Firefox with its distro. Am I upset that it didn't include IE, or worse still that I can't even use IE with it? No, because Firefox too, is easy to use and adequate for my Linux uses.
not purely because it's a MS product. See, IE is what's called a value add product (insert joke here). At the end of the day, IE is meant to enhance a flagship product--Windows. So, Microsoft can get comfortable and decide to re-assign their IE staff to something more productive. That's how there's a security issue. Because there is no new innovation, the code stagnates, and is vulnerable to those who actively seek exploits.
Then you have Firefox. Does Firefox compete for code time with other Mozilla products. Yes, a few, but Firefox has quickly become a flagship product. There are people within and without the organization that maintain the code. This creates inherent security because there are positive contributors constantly refining and securing the code.
It's that simple. Will I ever download IE 7? I'll eventually have it in a few years when I buy a computer that has Vista on it, but I won't download it because of IE 6's lack of MS support. With Firefox I simply feel secure that SOMEONE will continue to develop it and make it more secure. Ironically, I can't say the same for a corporate developed piece of software.
With MS's next browser release (IE 7), you mentioned in other interviews that their decision to not supprt CSS2 was more a political decision than a mechanical one. Aside from their obvious desire to dominate the world, what politics do you think are in play that make them not want to conform to the standard, and what do you think would change that landscape so that they would have some initiative to fully support it?
but it would really be ironic if, sometime in the distant future, the vault is broken open and actually causes the destruction of future life because of ecosystem incompatibilities. I say live and let die. The Earth seems quite adept at recovering and moving on over its billions of years. We weren't the first ones here, nor the last. We are not even a fraction of a blink of an eye to the Earth.
"Movie piracy is a $3 billion-a-year problem," Clawson maintains -- a problem said to be especially acute in Asia. "If someone videotapes a movie in a theater and then puts it up on the web that night or burns half a million copies to sell on the street - then the movie industry has lost a lot of in-theater revenue.
Will someone please explain the Accounting here? This kind of statement really bothers me because it assumes a few things. 1. That consumers of pirated content have the dispossable income to purchase the 'legit' consumable. 2. That if piracy were to go away they would buy the 'legit' stuff.
So, I would argue that their actual lost revenue is quite a bit less. For example, I'm semi-interested in watching the new X-Men movie. When presented with a choice, I can spend $16 to go to a theater and watch it with a significant other (plus $6 for popcorn), or I can purchase a semi-decent bootleg for $5. Which do I choose. Hmm.. A bootleg sounds really nice. However, in the absence of a bootleg do I go to the theater? No. Because the interest is not sufficient to justify the cost. When presented with the theater and a P2P acquired copy, which do I choose? Hmmm...Not to difficult either. But in the absence of P2P copy, do I go to the theater? No.
So, I again ask, how in the heck do they reconcile the lost revenue???
I'd have to go through Argentina! I knew my uncle was full of &*^% when he told me he was digging to China!
That's the trick though, isn't it? There has to be a fine line of controls and being able to get work done. As long the controls allow for the process to continue without a material delay in time that's ok. It's when the controls interfere with business's ability to do business, (ie. add politics, the proverbial 'red tape' etc.) that it goes over the line. I think this is a really important opportunity for technology to help speed those things along.
I never mentioned anything about the legality of pornography. We all know its legal to create/distribute/consume porn. I'm not debating that. Nor am I advocating a particular point concerning its legal status. Just because there isn't a law written for/against pornography does not make a significant bit of difference as to its morality or immorality. However, on its base level, it is a question of morality, an issue that both stealing and pornography share.
It is interesting to me that pornographers like to peddle their wares, even when flying in the face of a morality question. A whole thread discussion could be started just talking about that, but this isn't my point.
My point is, that many would argue that is it immoral to steal. Many would consider pirating a movie, no matter its content, to be immoral. I just think it's interesting to point out that the pornographers want their cake and eat too, by combating piracy, since what they do is considered immoral also.
"the wrinkles in President Lincoln's clothing"
It's too bad the mint couldn't have ironed his clothes before casting him in metal...
but my surfing habits include getting somewhere fast. If I have to walk around to where I want to go...I'll walk down the street to get there. Point, click, type. No frills surfing is 'nuff for me.
As it explains the article you linked from MS, the biggest hurtle you may have to jump is making sure that you meet the NIC requirement:
"PXE DHCP-based boot ROM version 1.00 or later network adapter, or a network adaptor that is supported by the RIS boot disk."
Because you have a hodge podge of clients on your network, you may have to make an investment to upgrade all your NICs if they don't meet spec. I would start first by determining what hardware you currently got and make some decisions on how much you got to make sure everything fits the requirements for RIS.
There's a gotcha, though. If we read further, there's this little interesting part:
You can recover your PIN quickly and easily. Just log on to a computer where you've installed Google Browser Sync, then follow these steps:
So, this says to me that, sure my info is encrypted, but if someone with a lot of muscle (like my Big Brother) then that information can be decrypted.
This is really good news for the portable device market. Our portable devices can only get as small as the battteries needed to power them. While more renewable resources like ethenol seem attractive, the prospect of needing to purchase a cartridge is quite a turn off. Because these capacitors are significantly smaller, using them in portable devices will help us really break the barrier in energy storage.