Too smart to be really used by industry. Infact manufacturers would then have fewer ways to convince customer to buy newer and better devices as a replacement of the older ones.
'The chance of replicating this exact DNA sequence is one in 33 trillion'
... unless you already know exactly the sequence itself. It's as hard as opening the combination lock of a safe: it's quite simple if you already know the combination!
So one could steal the combination and replicate it in a snap. And the combintion itslef could be a simple file stored in an unsecure system. It'd be better to educate people about the real value of a used dirty football ball!
You use a private car for such a delivery?
You use your own basement as a "disaster recovery" site?
These sounds more like an excuse for some other dirty thing, like data loss, to be covered up.
And, of course, we all suppose that those backups have been recorded with strong cryptography, right?
In any case it seems that the major threat to information security is humanity.
Let's try a reasoning.
- Web content is made by files.
- The web is a technology to share, distribute and access contents.
- Thus the web should be illegal.
Very good!
Because microsoft invented XMLHTTPRequest object's interface.
So why on earth should they support the XMLHTTPRequest they invented?
The real point is that they had a good idea (none can deny this). Implementation, documentation and support has not been of the same level of the idea. While Mozilla's implementation (of a non original idea) has proved to be much better!
Good documentation should document both interfaces and behaviour!
Good standards should allow anyone to implement it the very same way!
Therefore I'd say that Microsoft invented the XMLHTTPRequest objec, but the standard is not its!
Try rewrite the software yourself, put it as opensource and finally kick that unfriendly softwarehouse out of the business! Again, there is still a solution. I think that all those opensource operating systems are trying to do the same with... you-know-who.
This is really news! Great News!
Of course the XMLHTTPRequest object as implemented by Microsoft will have some minor differences from what the others have already done.
And this is not news at all!
While software bugs have (almost) always a solution, for the hardware ones sometimes the solution is so far (and hard) to make the hardware itself unreliable when not useless.
I'd suggest Intel to be made liable for those bugs, provided that after these news it will be able to sell those chips! Intel should reclaim the chips e substitute them with fixed ones. As it happens for cars.
And it would be nice to see the bug lists for AMD and PPC chips as well!
Nowadays it is almost impossible to avoid people from copying company data, also because it is becoming a spread practice to bring some work at home. Not to mention the vast usage of laptops, especially among ICT workers.
Removable media with high capacity is only the "latest" technology to do this. In the past we have used printers, floppy disks, email and web disks in order to bring data and documents home (or wherever else).
You can lock floppy drives, USB ports, bluetooth features and so on. You can filter web accesses and other publishing media and protocols. But what about email and printers? Are you really planning to make work harder and slower?
And I'm pretty sure that in some cases, especially in small companies, the private copy saved the day in more than one case!
There are actually at least two solutions that can fit Gates' view of the world:
1. Create a brand new protocol suite to send and deliver email over the net, with a dozen or so of patents over it.
2. Declare that email is evil and convince governments to make it illegal.
Simple and effective.
Maybe smarter electronics would help.
While stuff that needs longer "boots" (like PCs) can take advantages from "stand by" (or sleep) mode, everyday appliances like TVs, VCRs and so on could easily be smarter as far as power consumption is concerned.
Maybe the same could be for power supply units and AC-to-DC units. Once the device is charged a controlled circuit breaker could interrupt any further consumption.
But then how much pollution would be created by all those new things whose lifespan is within a couple of years?
Or maybe smarter people would be a much better solution! Turn your appliances completely off if you know you won't need them for a while. Unplug your cell phone charger once you used it. And don't leave anything turned on only because you think you'll save some milliseconds of your time!
The world would be much more quiet if only digital entertainment industry got some very simple principle: there is very little to do against copies of digital media! Nothing, actually! With analogue entertainement (tapes, basically) there has always been a quality loss along with the copy process. And the copy has been done with specialised hardware (tape machines). Almost any PC with the needed (cheap) hardware and software can do copies, play the media and so on. Entertainment industry should focus more on quality and new ideas.
This is not news. Because very few people (if any) in Goverment Offices (the country doesn't matter) has any form of understanding of concepts like privacy, security and freedom (as in free). They are happy that someone else is willing to explain and taking care for those things on their behalf!
I'd suggest to go the Civil Code of the USA and read carefully the chapter titled "About Ownership".
I'd bet that, like almost all other Civil Codes all over the world, it states that you can claim your exclusive ownership if and only if none else can prove the same.
If those results have been published in any way, anyone could have been collecting and arranging them in some suitable form. You could claim the ownership on the collection (i.e. a file), but not on the data themselves, because they have been public and publicly available (on sport newspaper and TV shows).
It's more likely to be an action related to some stock market move. That is, it is very likely... crap!
Speed, power hunger and heat seem to give non-volatile memories a plus over HDs.
But for a real replacement of HDs in our PCs we'd need at least:
1. Good "specific capacity", that is the ratio between memory room and physical volume, comparable with HDs.
2. Medium durability. We use to both read and write on HDs. Current non-volatile memories seem to suffer a little bit when frequently updated.
While point #1 seems to become more close every day, point #2 is the weakest one. But maybe someone will package some extra memory to automatically patch the broken banks (or sectors if you prefer).
the roman empire fell when it was sacked by goths and vandals
Again, that has been an effect, not a cause. Those populations have always been there. They got in only when the legions lost their power. And this happened pecause ofthe fall of the Empire.
the roman empire was based on slavery
We still have it, we just keep it outside of our (western) countries. Slavery was used in very limited cases like agriculture. Army, architecture, education and arts needs specialised, paid and motivated people, not slaves.
we live in a much more globalized economy
I fear that Romans invneted globalisation. One language, one coin, one law system, one emperor over almost all the known (western) world. While in Rome you could have been able to drink French wine, eat Greek cheese, wear eastern silk dresses and read poetry from Neapolis. It simply used to took longer than today in order to have those things.
cheaper labor rather than undermining an economy, stimulate inovation and propel former grunt workers into more complex technology
I was not arguing that cheaper is worse. Only saying that today cheaper means "done by people paid with lower wages". Technology itself costs very little. Most of the costs are human costs and hunger for high profits. As profts lower, companies try to find cheaper ways to produce. So they either manufacture the stuff abroad or "stimulate" immigration. In both cases, in my opinion, they (we) spoil the home country in the mid term. But again, I'm not against this. This is history repeating itself.
There's no way to stop history. This already happened several times in the Human history. One of the most kown case the "Fall of Roman Empire". People coming from the borders substituted the Romans in almost all the "lower" layers of the society, thus actually changing the Roman Empire itself. Soldiers were not Roman at all, later officers and generals and finally even the Emperors themselves. The same happened with economy. First the farmers and the goods traders, later the manufacturers. In the end of the Empire all the stuff needed to keep Rome alive came from abroad, even the wheat. And Rome ended to be nothing more than a village from a big city it used to be.
The "empire" people concentrate into consuming resources instead of producing them and into looking at the world instead of taking care of it. The people from the borders try to exploit this by providing those goods, thus dumping the market and killing the "local" manufacturers and traders with lower costs and prices. Most part of the western society will be replaced in a near future by "border" people. And there is no way to stop this.
I mean both "real need for energy" and "need for real energy".
A real need requires a real and timely answer. We'd consider how long (and how much) it takes to build a power sorce that can provide enough power for everything. I fear that only nuclear power, fission by now and fusion in the future, can be a real answer. Is there any plan for hydrogen powered fridges, ovens, laundrettes and light bulbs? What about the millions of routers, switches and firewalls building up the entire Internet? How big, heavy and costly would be a home hydrogen powered energy source?
We need an average of a kilo watt per hour for our houses and more to move our cars accordingly to our current (western) life models. A real change in this model would take tens of years, not weeks or months, even in the most optimistic view! So, unless someone has a real good idea that can be implemented within months, nuclear fission remains the only one solution ready to be used. In my humble and hopefully wrong opinion.
If you run Windows you have much more troubles in mind than encription of personal data!
Provided that your OS has not grabbed all of your free disk space!
Nice! And with some hundreds thousands of targets, if not tens of millions, using wired and wireless phones, internet email and messages and even magazines ads all over the world, it cannot be done in a snap.
IMHO, without some good hint and leak in they would have a very hard time to "recognize" anything!
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Too smart to be really used by industry.
Infact manufacturers would then have fewer ways to convince customer to buy newer and better devices as a replacement of the older ones.
So one could steal the combination and replicate it in a snap. And the combintion itslef could be a simple file stored in an unsecure system.
It'd be better to educate people about the real value of a used dirty football ball!
You use a private car for such a delivery?
You use your own basement as a "disaster recovery" site?
These sounds more like an excuse for some other dirty thing, like data loss, to be covered up.
And, of course, we all suppose that those backups have been recorded with strong cryptography, right?
In any case it seems that the major threat to information security is humanity.
Now that you went down to 45nm, you only need to design and build working processors!
Let's try a reasoning.
- Web content is made by files.
- The web is a technology to share, distribute and access contents.
- Thus the web should be illegal.
Very good!
The real point is that they had a good idea (none can deny this). Implementation, documentation and support has not been of the same level of the idea.
While Mozilla's implementation (of a non original idea) has proved to be much better!
Good documentation should document both interfaces and behaviour!
Good standards should allow anyone to implement it the very same way!
Therefore I'd say that Microsoft invented the XMLHTTPRequest objec, but the standard is not its!
Try rewrite the software yourself, put it as opensource and finally kick that unfriendly softwarehouse out of the business! ... you-know-who.
Again, there is still a solution.
I think that all those opensource operating systems are trying to do the same with
This is really news! Great News!
Of course the XMLHTTPRequest object as implemented by Microsoft will have some minor differences from what the others have already done.
And this is not news at all!
While software bugs have (almost) always a solution, for the hardware ones sometimes the solution is so far (and hard) to make the hardware itself unreliable when not useless.
I'd suggest Intel to be made liable for those bugs, provided that after these news it will be able to sell those chips!
Intel should reclaim the chips e substitute them with fixed ones. As it happens for cars.
And it would be nice to see the bug lists for AMD and PPC chips as well!
Nowadays it is almost impossible to avoid people from copying company data, also because it is becoming a spread practice to bring some work at home.
Not to mention the vast usage of laptops, especially among ICT workers.
Removable media with high capacity is only the "latest" technology to do this.
In the past we have used printers, floppy disks, email and web disks in order to bring data and documents home (or wherever else).
You can lock floppy drives, USB ports, bluetooth features and so on. You can filter web accesses and other publishing media and protocols.
But what about email and printers?
Are you really planning to make work harder and slower?
And I'm pretty sure that in some cases, especially in small companies, the private copy saved the day in more than one case!
There are actually at least two solutions that can fit Gates' view of the world:
1. Create a brand new protocol suite to send and deliver email over the net, with a dozen or so of patents over it.
2. Declare that email is evil and convince governments to make it illegal.
Simple and effective.
Maybe smarter electronics would help.
While stuff that needs longer "boots" (like PCs) can take advantages from "stand by" (or sleep) mode, everyday appliances like TVs, VCRs and so on could easily be smarter as far as power consumption is concerned.
Maybe the same could be for power supply units and AC-to-DC units. Once the device is charged a controlled circuit breaker could interrupt any further consumption.
But then how much pollution would be created by all those new things whose lifespan is within a couple of years?
Or maybe smarter people would be a much better solution!
Turn your appliances completely off if you know you won't need them for a while. Unplug your cell phone charger once you used it.
And don't leave anything turned on only because you think you'll save some milliseconds of your time!
The world would be much more quiet if only digital entertainment industry got some very simple principle: there is very little to do against copies of digital media! Nothing, actually!
With analogue entertainement (tapes, basically) there has always been a quality loss along with the copy process. And the copy has been done with specialised hardware (tape machines).
Almost any PC with the needed (cheap) hardware and software can do copies, play the media and so on.
Entertainment industry should focus more on quality and new ideas.
This is not news. Because very few people (if any) in Goverment Offices (the country doesn't matter) has any form of understanding of concepts like privacy, security and freedom (as in free).
They are happy that someone else is willing to explain and taking care for those things on their behalf!
I'd suggest to go the Civil Code of the USA and read carefully the chapter titled "About Ownership". ... crap!
I'd bet that, like almost all other Civil Codes all over the world, it states that you can claim your exclusive ownership if and only if none else can prove the same.
If those results have been published in any way, anyone could have been collecting and arranging them in some suitable form.
You could claim the ownership on the collection (i.e. a file), but not on the data themselves, because they have been public and publicly available (on sport newspaper and TV shows).
It's more likely to be an action related to some stock market move. That is, it is very likely
Speed, power hunger and heat seem to give non-volatile memories a plus over HDs.
But for a real replacement of HDs in our PCs we'd need at least:
1. Good "specific capacity", that is the ratio between memory room and physical volume, comparable with HDs.
2. Medium durability. We use to both read and write on HDs. Current non-volatile memories seem to suffer a little bit when frequently updated.
While point #1 seems to become more close every day, point #2 is the weakest one. But maybe someone will package some extra memory to automatically patch the broken banks (or sectors if you prefer).
We still have it, we just keep it outside of our (western) countries. Slavery was used in very limited cases like agriculture. Army, architecture, education and arts needs specialised, paid and motivated people, not slaves. I fear that Romans invneted globalisation. One language, one coin, one law system, one emperor over almost all the known (western) world. While in Rome you could have been able to drink French wine, eat Greek cheese, wear eastern silk dresses and read poetry from Neapolis. It simply used to took longer than today in order to have those things. I was not arguing that cheaper is worse. Only saying that today cheaper means "done by people paid with lower wages". Technology itself costs very little. Most of the costs are human costs and hunger for high profits. As profts lower, companies try to find cheaper ways to produce. So they either manufacture the stuff abroad or "stimulate" immigration. In both cases, in my opinion, they (we) spoil the home country in the mid term. But again, I'm not against this. This is history repeating itself.
There's no way to stop history.
This already happened several times in the Human history. One of the most kown case the "Fall of Roman Empire".
People coming from the borders substituted the Romans in almost all the "lower" layers of the society, thus actually changing the Roman Empire itself. Soldiers were not Roman at all, later officers and generals and finally even the Emperors themselves.
The same happened with economy. First the farmers and the goods traders, later the manufacturers. In the end of the Empire all the stuff needed to keep Rome alive came from abroad, even the wheat.
And Rome ended to be nothing more than a village from a big city it used to be.
The "empire" people concentrate into consuming resources instead of producing them and into looking at the world instead of taking care of it. The people from the borders try to exploit this by providing those goods, thus dumping the market and killing the "local" manufacturers and traders with lower costs and prices.
Most part of the western society will be replaced in a near future by "border" people. And there is no way to stop this.
I mean both "real need for energy" and "need for real energy".
A real need requires a real and timely answer. We'd consider how long (and how much) it takes to build a power sorce that can provide enough power for everything.
I fear that only nuclear power, fission by now and fusion in the future, can be a real answer.
Is there any plan for hydrogen powered fridges, ovens, laundrettes and light bulbs?
What about the millions of routers, switches and firewalls building up the entire Internet?
How big, heavy and costly would be a home hydrogen powered energy source?
We need an average of a kilo watt per hour for our houses and more to move our cars accordingly to our current (western) life models.
A real change in this model would take tens of years, not weeks or months, even in the most optimistic view!
So, unless someone has a real good idea that can be implemented within months, nuclear fission remains the only one solution ready to be used.
In my humble and hopefully wrong opinion.
If you run Windows you have much more troubles in mind than encription of personal data!
Provided that your OS has not grabbed all of your free disk space!
Chances there are that we are the box.
... apart of Mr. Feynman!
Nice!
And with some hundreds thousands of targets, if not tens of millions, using wired and wireless phones, internet email and messages and even magazines ads all over the world, it cannot be done in a snap.
IMHO, without some good hint and leak in they would have a very hard time to "recognize" anything!