Um, let's see... Because believe it or not, they just may care about people? My aunt is a dentist, and she sure as hell tells her patients to brush their teeth, supports fluoride in the water, and doesn't give sugary candy to kids. If she had to choose between end oral harm and having her job, she'd choose the former. Assailing the nature of every professional is just not fair. Many people, if not most, get into a field because they *care* about people or their chosen work. To broadly say that absolutely everyone just works to make as much money as possibly is too cynical for even me.
As for putting people out of business, have you noticed that technology somehow manages to create enough work to make up for the jobs that are lost? Look at employment now verses across history. I don't see the trend where more advanced world => more unemployment, do you?
Thank GOD. The less people have to do with driving, the better. I would argue that at least 9/10 of drivers are less competant than a properly skilled and trained driver would be while intoxicated, and therefore should be given DUIs just on principal. Honestly, when did we decide that the right to convenient transportation was more important than the right to not be killed by a driver who is just plain stupid?
Well, hopefully this causes a great big scare and lots of crapped pants. Seriously. I know too many OSX users who brag about how they can blatantly ignore almost all the common security protocols for computer use 'cause they're on the Holy Apple OS X, IMMUNE TO ALL THINGS BAD! I shudder to think what these people do in their cars when they hear about it winning some special six-star crash test rating.
Soundcard support is pretty decent, until you realize the OS often implicitly locks-out multiple apps from outputting audio... so uses involving alerts and alarms (timers, calendars, IMs, softphones, etc.) cannot be relied upon. Obviously this is also an obsctruction for musicians and DJs. But ya gotta maintain compatability with 1991 apps so the brokenness stays.
Yes, by default a sound card can only take one sound input (assuming it is a run-of-the-mill card that lacks hardware mixing, not reasonably servicable card like *cough* my Audigy 2). This problem is easily solved by installing a simple sound daemon that will mix your multiple sound inputs, exactly like windows does by default. Some bizarre, fictitious compadability issue has nothing to do with this behaviour. It's all a matter of 1) hardware shortcomings and 2) not assuming that by default everone wants more daemons eating resources.
Transcription? Not too hard. Translation? I highly doubt it.
Recent studies of the efficacy of machine translation found that we have made only marginal progress by modern engines from those of the *70s*, (in fact, one of them, SysTrans, is the most used translation engine online) and there were *no* descernable difference between engines of the eighties and current engines. I hope that they're not trying to claim that they suddenly overcame the vast problems of translation wholly independent of the linguistic community. That's just ludicrous.
I'd love to see the this engine handle a parasitic sentence like this between two largely different languages and catch the nuance in the parens: "Which report did she file (that report) without (her) reading (that same report)?" Sure some engines will hit by chance, but only because of similar structure, but the engine is lucky, not actually parsing the "meaning."
Excellent point! He should go join the last band of losers who used too much contrast and skimped on detail. They never amounted to much either... Why does everyone think they have the right to throw around the term "art" with every little idea they have?
When I see Macs in the corporate environment it's a rarity -- except maybe in art departments -- despite the fact that a Windows PC can't do much more than a Mac can. Does Apple have a plan to win some share inside big companies?
Perhaps the real question is why buy something that isn't as capable (in nearly all situations) but costs lots more? The author cannot seriously wonder why that is less important than some warm fuzzy PR and cool appearance to the buisness world... can he?:-/
No, you can't *buy* it, but you can build it: Part 1: Buy a multi-function LCD, just switch between input sources to watch TV or work. Part 2: Get a good keyboard. They're not rare, just not the $9.99 wal-mart ones. Part 3a: Go to SilentPC.com, and build a system from their silent components list, but only after Part 3b: check potential parts for Linux SWSuspend safety (ten minutes with google/forums + IRC) Part 4: Install Linux, and don't shut down, SWSuspend.
Tada! Seconds long initalization, silent operation, comfortable keyboard, and one button switch to/from TV. Added bonus: You can tons more with it, since it's a full-scale Linux box.
Anyone who's taken second semester Physics (or a thermo) class can tell you that you're *always* better off producing less waste heat than trying to use the heat you have. The conversion from heat to mechanical (or any other) energy is horribly inefficient compared to other energy form conversions. The future obviously isn't in harvesting waste energy, but in producing less of it--you get 100% efficiency from saving energy, so you only pay the form conversion cost once (from chemical, etc. to mechanical).
Look at MSs flagship product. 1) Release new version of Windows 2) Find lots of bugs and holes 3) Lose more market share to Linux (and MacOS) 4) Release a half-finshed feature-crippling patch 5) Wonder why people love to hate you
If they can't fix that, how are they gonna do anything about *social* patterns?
Hey, MS took out a feature! If they continue to do this, they might actually become secure...
Of course when it's actually secure, it'll be because MS took out program execution as a feature.
(Announcer: Windows Bottomless Canyon, our most secure operating system yet. It's completely inveunerable to all forms of security risk. When you want to watch your mouse pointer move around the screen, but don't want the gaping security holes in Linux, look no further than Microsoft. (Program execution plugin may add risks over base (mouse move only) package. Security claim unproven. Suggested retail price $399.99))
Great. Now that MD5 is dead, the slow/theoretical attacks on SHA1 can be the focus of collision research. I look forward to changing hash algorythms again from SHA1 in a year.:-/
I concur. My father, who is a Professor of Law at Ole Miss Law School (specializing in Business and Contract law), just published a (roughly 80 page) paper in a rather prestigious Law Journal about EULAs. His contention is that they are not necessarily binding, especially when they are clearly written without intent of review by the recipient. His focus was on long ones, where even the OpenOffice.org EULA was pushing it at two scroll boxes worth of text, but he did suggest that all EULAs are now reasonably in the scope of presumed non-review, since the numerous long ones cause everyone to start ignoring them all.
I switched, not because I had any idea how incredible using a well-designed, mature (excepting some areas of drivers), and customizable Operating Environment (to give credit to the authors of GNU tools and all the other software that makes my system worth using) because I, like most people, was content with 'good enough,' and not willing to put the time in to switch the underlying method of doing every single task I perform on my computer. I certainly appreciate the strengths of Linux now, and can't imagine living without them, but I didn't choose for that reason.
I switched for the same reason a lot of people switch: One single issue with Windows (or MacOS) was so completly crippling to my experience, I was willing to put up with any other flaws to resolve. For me, it was a crippling terror of trusted computing (obligatory wikipedia article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing) invading my work, which, as a CS major, will exist primarily on computers. My dad is chomping at the bit to get Linux on his work machine for much the same reason.
It's a far cry from POSIX. Actually, it only includes a (not really finished) POSIX API. There was no real effort to make it anything more than a selling point to the gov't though...
I cannot imagine ever suggesting such a thing, not for fear of moderation, but for fear of enhancing support for what is the greatest threat to digital rights ever conceived.
I'd carry around my 30kg (steel case) computer instead of a USB drive in exchange for weakening that horrific 'solution' for problems of low-grade code that would infect every computer with an incurable cancer of corporate manipulation.
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the phrase is actually "Danke schön." Yes, I'm a German pronunciation/spelling elitist. I corrected someone's "Ubur" to "Über" the other day.
If you're gonna use another language, make sure you usre it correctly.:-P
Any artist who signs with the RIAA companies basically signs over all rights to _their own music_ including sales outside the label. Only the artists with huge clout can afford to make contracts that do not rape them.
The RIAA screws artists a lot too, and consumers who are constantly terrorized with their (IMAO criminal) behaviour forget that the lables are generally hated by everyone, including the artists. (Ever hear a performer thank their label when winning an award? No, only people. The corperate part is a leech, and they all know it.)
Back to the main point, artists cannot sell anything they record with a label themselves, so unfortunately, the site idea (which I would love) can't work.
Actually, he was totally aware of his non-Indian landing. A conjunction of stupid educators and bad author's unresearched publications has created a massive myth surrounding his landing.
First, he didn't have to convince anyone that the world was round. Sure the stupid peasants thought it was flat, but anyone educated knew that it was round. In fact, the Greeks even measured the diameter to within a few percent (as I recall, a little less than one percent). This was the real issue. All the educated classes knew how big the world was, and consequently said his voyage was impossible (which, if not for the intervening Americas, would have been), and refused to fund a suicide mission. He had to convince the courts that the Greeks were too stupid to get the dimensions of the earth right. He based his arguments on citing obscure Greeks who had come to various highly underestimated conclusions (one Greek is as good as another, he said). All the sensible courts turned his wholly unsubstantiated arguments out to the cold.
Second, he never thought he hit India. He told his financiers that he just needed a few more trips to get around the mass that was in the way, or to find a group that traded with the (India) Indians.
Third, he didn't name the people he found Indians, since that name for the country wasn't used by cartographers until long after he died. Rather he called them "Indeos" (excuse my spelling, I don't know Portuguese), meaning "with God." A large number of 'Native Americans' are aware of this correct origin, and prefer Indian to "Native American." Besides, anyone born here is a "Native American."
Also: I hereby moderate this entire message [-1 Off-topic].:-P
How immediate is the need for access to the information? The stronger the solution, the slower the access for the most part. Something that needs to be immediately accessable will need to be bundled with proper decryption tools (assume nothing better than Windows 95 will be available) on-stick.
Also related: what operating system are you using? Under Linux, you could use a loopback encrypted filesystem, for example, but under windows such would not be viable.
Are we assuming that the computer will be destroyed, or that we need to stick to a pure-RAM access system to prevent residue on the hard drive from being intercepted?
Are you willing to trust a corperate product for ease-of-use concerns?
Finally, how are you securing your original documents? Might it just be as easy to grab an organized safe-box as keep all the digital security on a digital form? Keep in mind that only origial copies are good for anything beyond having a reference point to start receiveing replacement copies of your stuff.
One more thing: How much of this is overkill? Keep in mind how cheap and simple it is to acquire copies of an arbitrary person's complete identifying information (I often see ways to do it under two hundred dollars, including original copies of all the usual certificates and plastic cards, which would cost less for a professional). A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in this case, with just some reasonable precaution, the path of least cost and difficulty is through more common means of aqusition than stealing a thumbdrive.
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Um, let's see... Because believe it or not, they just may care about people? My aunt is a dentist, and she sure as hell tells her patients to brush their teeth, supports fluoride in the water, and doesn't give sugary candy to kids. If she had to choose between end oral harm and having her job, she'd choose the former. Assailing the nature of every professional is just not fair. Many people, if not most, get into a field because they *care* about people or their chosen work. To broadly say that absolutely everyone just works to make as much money as possibly is too cynical for even me.
As for putting people out of business, have you noticed that technology somehow manages to create enough work to make up for the jobs that are lost? Look at employment now verses across history. I don't see the trend where more advanced world => more unemployment, do you?
Thank GOD. The less people have to do with driving, the better. I would argue that at least 9/10 of drivers are less competant than a properly skilled and trained driver would be while intoxicated, and therefore should be given DUIs just on principal. Honestly, when did we decide that the right to convenient transportation was more important than the right to not be killed by a driver who is just plain stupid?
Well, hopefully this causes a great big scare and lots of crapped pants. Seriously. I know too many OSX users who brag about how they can blatantly ignore almost all the common security protocols for computer use 'cause they're on the Holy Apple OS X, IMMUNE TO ALL THINGS BAD! I shudder to think what these people do in their cars when they hear about it winning some special six-star crash test rating.
Soundcard support is pretty decent, until you realize the OS often implicitly locks-out multiple apps from outputting audio... so uses involving alerts and alarms (timers, calendars, IMs, softphones, etc.) cannot be relied upon. Obviously this is also an obsctruction for musicians and DJs. But ya gotta maintain compatability with 1991 apps so the brokenness stays.
Yes, by default a sound card can only take one sound input (assuming it is a run-of-the-mill card that lacks hardware mixing, not reasonably servicable card like *cough* my Audigy 2). This problem is easily solved by installing a simple sound daemon that will mix your multiple sound inputs, exactly like windows does by default. Some bizarre, fictitious compadability issue has nothing to do with this behaviour. It's all a matter of 1) hardware shortcomings and 2) not assuming that by default everone wants more daemons eating resources.
Transcription? Not too hard. Translation? I highly doubt it.
Recent studies of the efficacy of machine translation found that we have made only marginal progress by modern engines from those of the *70s*, (in fact, one of them, SysTrans, is the most used translation engine online) and there were *no* descernable difference between engines of the eighties and current engines. I hope that they're not trying to claim that they suddenly overcame the vast problems of translation wholly independent of the linguistic community. That's just ludicrous.
I'd love to see the this engine handle a parasitic sentence like this between two largely different languages and catch the nuance in the parens: "Which report did she file (that report) without (her) reading (that same report)?" Sure some engines will hit by chance, but only because of similar structure, but the engine is lucky, not actually parsing the "meaning."
Excellent point! He should go join the last band of losers who used too much contrast and skimped on detail. They never amounted to much either... Why does everyone think they have the right to throw around the term "art" with every little idea they have?
When I see Macs in the corporate environment it's a rarity -- except maybe in art departments -- despite the fact that a Windows PC can't do much more than a Mac can. Does Apple have a plan to win some share inside big companies?
:-/
Perhaps the real question is why buy something that isn't as capable (in nearly all situations) but costs lots more? The author cannot seriously wonder why that is less important than some warm fuzzy PR and cool appearance to the buisness world... can he?
No, you can't *buy* it, but you can build it:
Part 1: Buy a multi-function LCD, just switch between input sources to watch TV or work.
Part 2: Get a good keyboard. They're not rare, just not the $9.99 wal-mart ones.
Part 3a: Go to SilentPC.com, and build a system from their silent components list, but only after
Part 3b: check potential parts for Linux SWSuspend safety (ten minutes with google/forums + IRC)
Part 4: Install Linux, and don't shut down, SWSuspend.
Tada! Seconds long initalization, silent operation, comfortable keyboard, and one button switch to/from TV. Added bonus: You can tons more with it, since it's a full-scale Linux box.
Anyone who's taken second semester Physics (or a thermo) class can tell you that you're *always* better off producing less waste heat than trying to use the heat you have. The conversion from heat to mechanical (or any other) energy is horribly inefficient compared to other energy form conversions. The future obviously isn't in harvesting waste energy, but in producing less of it--you get 100% efficiency from saving energy, so you only pay the form conversion cost once (from chemical, etc. to mechanical).
Patterns?
Look at MSs flagship product.
1) Release new version of Windows
2) Find lots of bugs and holes
3) Lose more market share to Linux (and MacOS)
4) Release a half-finshed feature-crippling patch
5) Wonder why people love to hate you
If they can't fix that, how are they gonna do anything about *social* patterns?
Hey, MS took out a feature! If they continue to do this, they might actually become secure...
Of course when it's actually secure, it'll be because MS took out program execution as a feature.
(Announcer: Windows Bottomless Canyon, our most secure operating system yet. It's completely inveunerable to all forms of security risk. When you want to watch your mouse pointer move around the screen, but don't want the gaping security holes in Linux, look no further than Microsoft. (Program execution plugin may add risks over base (mouse move only) package. Security claim unproven. Suggested retail price $399.99))
Great. Now that MD5 is dead, the slow/theoretical attacks on SHA1 can be the focus of collision research. I look forward to changing hash algorythms again from SHA1 in a year. :-/
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=firefox
According to that, it's not available. Where did you get your package?
Damnit. Ignore parent. I'm an idiot. :-/
See my earlier comment, my friend. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167099&cid =13937083
I concur. My father, who is a Professor of Law at Ole Miss Law School (specializing in Business and Contract law), just published a (roughly 80 page) paper in a rather prestigious Law Journal about EULAs. His contention is that they are not necessarily binding, especially when they are clearly written without intent of review by the recipient. His focus was on long ones, where even the OpenOffice.org EULA was pushing it at two scroll boxes worth of text, but he did suggest that all EULAs are now reasonably in the scope of presumed non-review, since the numerous long ones cause everyone to start ignoring them all.
I switched, not because I had any idea how incredible using a well-designed, mature (excepting some areas of drivers), and customizable Operating Environment (to give credit to the authors of GNU tools and all the other software that makes my system worth using) because I, like most people, was content with 'good enough,' and not willing to put the time in to switch the underlying method of doing every single task I perform on my computer. I certainly appreciate the strengths of Linux now, and can't imagine living without them, but I didn't choose for that reason.
I switched for the same reason a lot of people switch: One single issue with Windows (or MacOS) was so completly crippling to my experience, I was willing to put up with any other flaws to resolve. For me, it was a crippling terror of trusted computing (obligatory wikipedia article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing) invading my work, which, as a CS major, will exist primarily on computers. My dad is chomping at the bit to get Linux on his work machine for much the same reason.
It's a far cry from POSIX. Actually, it only includes a (not really finished) POSIX API. There was no real effort to make it anything more than a selling point to the gov't though...
It's offtopic, but in response to your sig:
:-P
The best place to sell off Magic cards is 1999 or, barring that, someone who's stuck there but visits 2005 eBay.
I propose the following punishment for all internet advertisers who use invasive ads:
1) Strip advertiser naked.
2) Nail his (odds are he's male) penis to a tree.
3) Hand him a butter knife.
4) Set the tree on fire.
I cannot imagine ever suggesting such a thing, not for fear of moderation, but for fear of enhancing support for what is the greatest threat to digital rights ever conceived.
I'd carry around my 30kg (steel case) computer instead of a USB drive in exchange for weakening that horrific 'solution' for problems of low-grade code that would infect every computer with an incurable cancer of corporate manipulation.
the phrase is actually "Danke schön." Yes, I'm a German pronunciation/spelling elitist. I corrected someone's "Ubur" to "Über" the other day.
:-P
If you're gonna use another language, make sure you usre it correctly.
Any artist who signs with the RIAA companies basically signs over all rights to _their own music_ including sales outside the label. Only the artists with huge clout can afford to make contracts that do not rape them.
The RIAA screws artists a lot too, and consumers who are constantly terrorized with their (IMAO criminal) behaviour forget that the lables are generally hated by everyone, including the artists. (Ever hear a performer thank their label when winning an award? No, only people. The corperate part is a leech, and they all know it.)
Back to the main point, artists cannot sell anything they record with a label themselves, so unfortunately, the site idea (which I would love) can't work.
Actually, he was totally aware of his non-Indian landing. A conjunction of stupid educators and bad author's unresearched publications has created a massive myth surrounding his landing. First, he didn't have to convince anyone that the world was round. Sure the stupid peasants thought it was flat, but anyone educated knew that it was round. In fact, the Greeks even measured the diameter to within a few percent (as I recall, a little less than one percent). This was the real issue. All the educated classes knew how big the world was, and consequently said his voyage was impossible (which, if not for the intervening Americas, would have been), and refused to fund a suicide mission. He had to convince the courts that the Greeks were too stupid to get the dimensions of the earth right. He based his arguments on citing obscure Greeks who had come to various highly underestimated conclusions (one Greek is as good as another, he said). All the sensible courts turned his wholly unsubstantiated arguments out to the cold. Second, he never thought he hit India. He told his financiers that he just needed a few more trips to get around the mass that was in the way, or to find a group that traded with the (India) Indians. Third, he didn't name the people he found Indians, since that name for the country wasn't used by cartographers until long after he died. Rather he called them "Indeos" (excuse my spelling, I don't know Portuguese), meaning "with God." A large number of 'Native Americans' are aware of this correct origin, and prefer Indian to "Native American." Besides, anyone born here is a "Native American." Also: I hereby moderate this entire message [-1 Off-topic]. :-P
How immediate is the need for access to the information? The stronger the solution, the slower the access for the most part. Something that needs to be immediately accessable will need to be bundled with proper decryption tools (assume nothing better than Windows 95 will be available) on-stick.
Also related: what operating system are you using? Under Linux, you could use a loopback encrypted filesystem, for example, but under windows such would not be viable.
Are we assuming that the computer will be destroyed, or that we need to stick to a pure-RAM access system to prevent residue on the hard drive from being intercepted?
Are you willing to trust a corperate product for ease-of-use concerns?
Finally, how are you securing your original documents? Might it just be as easy to grab an organized safe-box as keep all the digital security on a digital form? Keep in mind that only origial copies are good for anything beyond having a reference point to start receiveing replacement copies of your stuff.
One more thing: How much of this is overkill? Keep in mind how cheap and simple it is to acquire copies of an arbitrary person's complete identifying information (I often see ways to do it under two hundred dollars, including original copies of all the usual certificates and plastic cards, which would cost less for a professional). A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in this case, with just some reasonable precaution, the path of least cost and difficulty is through more common means of aqusition than stealing a thumbdrive.