On the other hand, Amazon has no qualms about changing the price of goods in my cart before I check out. The price they charge me is the price at the time of checkout, not when the item goes into my cart nor any other time prior to checkout. Amazon has already set the precedent. They can't have it both ways.
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Spamhaus listed E360 as spammers
E360 sued Spamhaus in an Illinois court, saying that they weren't spammers.
Spamhaus said that an Illinois court has no jurisdiction and didn't show up.
E360 won a default judgement because Spamhaus didn't show up.
Spamhaus still said the court had no authority and ignored the judgement.
E360 filed for an injunction, asking the court to order either ICANN or the domain registrar to block the Spamhaus domain because Spamhaus ignored the judgement.
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ICANN is saying leave us out of it. We don't have any part in it and can't do anything about it.
The real fun is to change the primary phone number that it dials to get authorization to a phone sex line. The call will fail to connect to a modem and fallback to the secondary number Transactions take longer, but they are racking up $4.99 per call on the ATM owner's line. Payback for the surcharge fee.
Let's get some perspective on this please. Despite the gratuitous use of the word "police" in the posting headline, this has nothing to do with the police or the law. No one is trying to pass any laws. This is one condo association setting up the covenants under which purchasers of the condos must live. This isn't any different than a restriction that condo owners can't put a fence in their front yards.
According to the article
"Bryan Welch is sales manager and designated broker for Canoa Ranch and he takes credit for first broaching the wireless security mandate with the developers of the project, which will provide each condo unit/hotel room with wired broadband, telephony and cable TV service."
In summary, the condo developers are providing the broadband connection and want to make sure that the condo owners secure their endpoints. Open access points have some risks that the developers are apparently not willing to accept. As a goodwill gesture they could retain a local networking firm to help owners set up their wireless networks properly though.
Why can't they go forward with someone on the staff who already has the appropriate clearance?
I don't think he has the appropriate clearance... <click> In fact I'm sure he doesn't have the appropriate clearance. I don't even understand why you would assign him to this since he was very recently <click> identified as a potential terrorist and is scheduled for relocation.
I'm not an artificial inteligence specialist but don't neural networks algorithms already give us a pretty good idea on how to be fail safe based on our central nervous system?
Not really. Neural networks are geared more towards machine learning. Given a sample set of data to be recognized and the correct answer they can evolve a network that will, given an unknown sample, return the correct answer with high probability. The loss of a neuron in the network would be disruptive and would impact the model in unpredictable ways. You would have to retrain the network with the new configuration. This isn't normally a problem in most systems since they are modeled in software and you don't lose neurons.
To model this in hardware you would need to include sufficient extra neurons in each layer and have some sort of feedback mechanism to continue evolving the pathways. Even then you would have unpredictable results for a period of time while the network evolved new paths to compensate for the loss. You could avoid this by having a training data set stored off and the failure mode would be to reset the network and retrain from scratch. This might not be practical however, depending on the application and number of nodes.
An interesting experiment would be to include extra neurons and randomly disable one momentarily during the training sessions. I wonder if this would evolve more robust networks?
The best solution is to crack the new encryption (worst case use brute force harnessing setiathome-style P2P networks to speed up the process), obviously.
The simplest way to get the encryption key is to ask for it. Somewhere in the process will be an encryption key that must remain secret for the whole thing to work. Either take up a collection and bribe the person that knows it or create a shell corporation, license the technology and the key, then violate the contract and dissolve the company.
Why is it that Apple seems determined to continue to ship systems with too little RAM? Dell is notorious for pulling the same crap. A new system should not be shipping with anything less than 1 Gig. It's disingenuous to price systems this way.
Maybe they hired some former Harley Davidson execs.
Does anyone know what Visa and the others charge for their service?
The amount charged to merchants for a sale varies greatly depending on the agreement between the merchant and the card processor. Factors can include the number of monthly transactions, total monthly dollar amount, number of chargebacks, swiped vs. manually entered transactions, etc. In general the google figure is probably in line or a bit lower than what most small business merchants are charged per transaction.
The interesting things will be how chargebacks are handled, what fraud prevention measures are in place, and who eats the cost of fraud. With a credit card I get a lot of protection and infrastructure that handles all of this. Google will have to at least match this before I will consider using it.
Personally I still don't know how Paypal manages to avoid being classified as a bank by the government.
AFAIK, this MUST be done graphically. It can't be coded. Or at least, it is strongly discouraged. This graphical nature took me quite awhile to get used to.
InterfaceBuilder makes the bindings in the MVC architecture for you when you connect them graphically. Once you get the hang of which object creates the event and which object should receive it then this becomes very straightforward. That being said, you can code by hand if you wish. I don't have the reference on me, but I believe the Hillegass book "Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (2nd Edition)" demonstrates coding an example application this way.
Regarding the linked story about the iBook, I'm wondering how they grabbed a burning laptop, rushed through the house and deposited it on the patio with the AC adapter still plugged in and the screen intact. I call BS.
Despite the rhetoric however, there is currently no evidence that broadband operators are going out of their way to block access to any widely used websites or similar online services. In fact, any significant discriminatory behavior on the part of broadband service providers ( BSPs ) would generally be financially counterproductive considering that BSPs make more money by carrying more traffic. On the rare occasion that a BSP may actively regulate traffic or impose differential pricing schemes on their network, it would likely be for rather sensible reasons. Network owners may want to discourage the use of certain devices on their networks to avoid system crashes, interference, or signal theft.
Does he mean like my broadband ISP provider , who also happens to be the local telco, throttling VOIP traffic? You know, a service that is in direct competition with their "business partner"?
I guess from my telco's perspective that is a sensible reason, but it sure isn't from mine!
IIRC, Elliptic Curve crypto is based on Discreet Logs and not large primes. Thus, figuring out a rapid way to factor primes will not totally obsolete PKI -- just the PKI that relies on prime keys.
PK crypto using elliptic curves does use discrete logs but quantum computation will be able to compute the key just as easily. In fact, since elliptic curve crypto uses fewer bits for keys, it will be solvable by a quantum computer before a crypto system that uses large primes.
Here is a
transcript of the full conference call and a
quick take of the two most important minutes of that call that relate to the new pricing strategy.
Slashdot Mirror
Please stop feeding the troll.
On the other hand, Amazon has no qualms about changing the price of goods in my cart before I check out. The price they charge me is the price at the time of checkout, not when the item goes into my cart nor any other time prior to checkout. Amazon has already set the precedent. They can't have it both ways.
I guess this means Verizon will be outsourcing its billing department.
10 Second History
Spamhaus listed E360 as spammers
E360 sued Spamhaus in an Illinois court, saying that they weren't spammers.
Spamhaus said that an Illinois court has no jurisdiction and didn't show up.
E360 won a default judgement because Spamhaus didn't show up.
Spamhaus still said the court had no authority and ignored the judgement.
E360 filed for an injunction, asking the court to order either ICANN or the domain registrar to block the Spamhaus domain because Spamhaus ignored the judgement.
This Story
ICANN is saying leave us out of it. We don't have any part in it and can't do anything about it.
The real fun is to change the primary phone number that it dials to get authorization to a phone sex line. The call will fail to connect to a modem and fallback to the secondary number Transactions take longer, but they are racking up $4.99 per call on the ATM owner's line. Payback for the surcharge fee.
According to the article
In summary, the condo developers are providing the broadband connection and want to make sure that the condo owners secure their endpoints. Open access points have some risks that the developers are apparently not willing to accept. As a goodwill gesture they could retain a local networking firm to help owners set up their wireless networks properly though.<click>
In fact I'm sure he doesn't have the appropriate clearance. I don't even understand why you would assign him to this since he was very recently
<click>
identified as a potential terrorist and is scheduled for relocation.
Not really. Neural networks are geared more towards machine learning. Given a sample set of data to be recognized and the correct answer they can evolve a network that will, given an unknown sample, return the correct answer with high probability. The loss of a neuron in the network would be disruptive and would impact the model in unpredictable ways. You would have to retrain the network with the new configuration. This isn't normally a problem in most systems since they are modeled in software and you don't lose neurons.
To model this in hardware you would need to include sufficient extra neurons in each layer and have some sort of feedback mechanism to continue evolving the pathways. Even then you would have unpredictable results for a period of time while the network evolved new paths to compensate for the loss. You could avoid this by having a training data set stored off and the failure mode would be to reset the network and retrain from scratch. This might not be practical however, depending on the application and number of nodes.
An interesting experiment would be to include extra neurons and randomly disable one momentarily during the training sessions. I wonder if this would evolve more robust networks?
I guess for once a slashdotting is a good thing.
The interesting things will be how chargebacks are handled, what fraud prevention measures are in place, and who eats the cost of fraud. With a credit card I get a lot of protection and infrastructure that handles all of this. Google will have to at least match this before I will consider using it.
Personally I still don't know how Paypal manages to avoid being classified as a bank by the government.
InterfaceBuilder makes the bindings in the MVC architecture for you when you connect them graphically. Once you get the hang of which object creates the event and which object should receive it then this becomes very straightforward. That being said, you can code by hand if you wish. I don't have the reference on me, but I believe the Hillegass book
"Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (2nd Edition)" demonstrates coding an example application this way.
Regarding the linked story about the iBook, I'm wondering how they grabbed a burning laptop, rushed through the house and deposited it on the patio with the AC adapter still plugged in and the screen intact. I call BS.
Does he mean like my broadband ISP provider , who also happens to be the local telco, throttling VOIP traffic? You know, a service that is in direct competition with their "business partner"?
I guess from my telco's perspective that is a sensible reason, but it sure isn't from mine!
As far as I can tell these are just patent applications. No patents have been awarded for these proposals.
Here is a transcript of the full conference call and a quick take of the two most important minutes of that call that relate to the new pricing strategy.
This is old news:
Corsaire - Securing Mac OS X Panther
for those still using OSX 10.3.