Right, I was expecting "It's War on Internet Usurpers if you don't get in line", with a few "Bitches" thrown in there. This is pretty laid back and beige.
Of course, it maybe just seems that way to me because I'm accustomed to internet exchanges where nobody cares about offense, and these people have countries on the line.
You're assuming that the only place to get the starter power is from oil or gas. What if it's solar energy?
What if you start one of these from a solar panel, and use energy derived from it to start a bunch of other ones? It's a good idea if it works.
From TFA:
"The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position."
"The agency is also testing another system that warns drivers with a voice alarm and a light whenever they start to speed"
It's being tested. That means if it results in lots of people getting in wrecks all the time, they will probably modify it not to do so, what with wrecks being generally not profitable to the DoT (canadian or otherwise). Plus they are doing the thing where they buzz a light and say "John Spartan fined 1 credit for violation of the profanity statute".
If you want to be pissed at it for being invasive and not allowing you to break the law, just say so. You don't have to phrase the gripe in terms of things that you think will convince law people.
Before writing, huge chunks of information were passed on in oral histories, in the form of songs and poems(recall that somebody, somewhere, had Gilgamesh memorized in its entirety). If there's a rhyme formula like that, in which the entire original piece is written, then if you forget this or that piece of information there are a limited amount of words (not to mention concepts) that might fit. It's easier to remember because you can, to some extent, derive any missing word from the words surrounding it.
Add in rhythm and tone, and you have two more aspects that are associated with these pieces of information- just getting to that point in the song triggers that memory better than thinking "Man, I wish I knew what that piece of information was". Like a song whose title is in the lyrics, but you can't recall said title without running through the lyrics until you get to that point.
A song is a good way of remembering things. And it makes it less likely that you'll forget it after the final exam.
APSTNDP Aliens Probably Stole the Ninja Dew Pop
APSTNDP All People Seem To Need Data Processing
APSTNDP All Pirate Ships Take No Darn Prisoners
PDNTSPA Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (backwards)
(Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, Physical)
But in this case they aren't serving as "honeypots" (nonfunctional things meant to simulate the vulnerabilities of the functional thing so as to protect from specific attackers) but rather people being tested for pathogens, to identify for patheogens.
It's a totally different thing because it's not a sacrificial lamb. What you're describing here is just a sort of a survey of existing pathogens in the community, and immunizing against them. In fact this is basically what is done today when we immunize masses of people: you take people who get sick, check what they're sick with, and give healthy people a vaccine against it.
I don't think this would work. Humans are susceptible to viruses, A) because the virus adsorbs to and infects certain cells in their body, and B) because of behaviors that put them in contact with the virus. For instance, if you go to India and get Cholera in the yearly cholera-go-round, it requires both that Cholera successfully reverse the osmolarity of your intestines, and that you dip your toe in the poopy Ganges (or some other reservoir of watery cholera diarrhea). If you time travel back to the 1920s and get Smallpox, it's because A) smallpox is lysing skin cells wherever it falls, and B) you let somebody infected with smallpox breathe on you, and so the airborne pathogen got inside your windpipe.
So the reason that these honeypots work to cull Spam mail, for instance, or perhaps viruses, is because they're effectively out there dipping their toes in the poopy Ganges that is the internet. They're behavior-wise exposing themselves to pathogens.
But if you had biological honeypots (say, a little modified pig strapped to a pipe that scientists occasionally tested), where would you place them? Certainly in known sources of the virus, to perhaps catch new mutations, but this wouldn't really give you any way to catch fresh new ones, nor a way to differentiate new ones from old ones. If you wanted to catch new ones, you'd have to have the honeypot duplicating all the unsafe, pathogen-risking behaviors that humans do.
And who wants to spend time talking to a pig-fetus strapped to a pipe?
Is that $50 figure for the flash memory the retail price? Because the manufacturers aren't going to be getting the parts at Best Buy, they'll be making them themselves. And isn't it possible that rather than using flash, they could go entirely old school and use a 1GB hard drive, such that I might have seen on my '92 Acer Aspire? I can't imagine that would be costly, either to sublet or to manufacture.
If you can get a 1GB flash card for $50 on newegg, I'm sure you can get it cheaper if it's wholesale and not flash specific.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to just design a non-modular, solid processor, board and memory? I don't know much tech so I wouldn't know, but it seems that mass-producing most of the guts would both make it cheaper and make assembly easier.
You're right that your or I would have a hell of a time putting it together from storebought parts for $100, but manufacturing parts specific for the price and getting the materials wholesale? I'd be astonished if you couldn't.
Just provide a simple, un-biased (to corporate interests) law that everybody can understand and you're all set.
Who'll verify that the law is un-biased? "Simple" is one thing, but what a few people in one place feel is "un-biased" will seem very biased to the people suffering from it. I'm sure the pharaohs didn't feel that their rule was unbiased (After all, it's only right that the only the Sons of Ra be given money and palaced), but if they'd taken a poll they might've learned otherwise. Same goes for the Tzars who got Bolsheviked, for the southerners who wanted to keep slaves, for the republicans who want to keep out gay marriage: from THEIR perspective, nobody's being hurt, but that's only because they aren't asking the opinions of the people being hurt.
Ask yourself: What's more likely to precipitate a revolution, a democracy or a dictatorship?
The people make stupid decisions and frequently haven't the slightest clue what they're talking about, but at least they don't say "Well just let us eat cake."
some people put their faith in God and some put their faith in the assumption that one kind of animal can give birth to another kind.
Some people put their faith in a book written by sheep farmers about somebody who isn't there, and some people put their faith in laboratories and scientists that save lives and make possible all the wonders in the world today.
The comparison is just as unbiased.
To say that someone is aggresive because they have a penis is the same thing as saying someone is pleasant because they have a vagina.
When a male gets castrated, you lose your sex drive and your aggression is correspondingly reduced.
When a female undergoes menopause, they have depression, anxiety, mood swings.
People are fundamentally affected by their biochemistry, and even if you want to wildly dichotomize it by saying "Essentialism says that someone is a certain way because of their biology, not their own free will, their experiences, or how they were raised", that doesn't change a thing.
OH MY GOD STUDENTS ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS!
Seriously, the kids using laptops in class are just the kids who'd be skipping otherwise. The RIAA isn't losing money when I download an album because I wouldn't have bought it at that price anyway, and the teacher isn't losing students when they screw around on a laptop in class because they wouldn't have paid attention anyway.
It is easy to bond a surfactant molecule to a dye
Did he end up with a dye attached to a surfactant, or a water-soluble pigment in the water solution between the attachments? I mean, a bubble is effectively a lamellar layer, right, (or maybe you could call it a micelle), so there's got to be water in there.
It's a water soluble lactone pigment, right, and it's colorless when the lactone goes back to being a hydroxy acid. So I figure that it's (somehow, I'm not sure how this would happen) got a long conjugated chain that's only conjugated when the lactone ring is closed. I mean, how else would that work?
This article gets really cool when they talk about the tech at the end. I'd guess he's using conjugated chains of differing lengths on either side of a lactone that degenerates, under certain conditions, to a non-conjugated ketone chain with big conjugated chunks on either side.
Like a dipropyl ketone, with a alkene chain at the terminal carbons, so that when said carbons link up into a lactone, it's a big conjugated structure, but otherwise it's not conjugated and so it's absorbing only nonvisible wavelengths. Cool.
Does it seem to anyone else that it could, given the right/wrong circumstances, easily reform into the dye? Such that, say, one day you're giving a presentation in front of a board of suit dudes and it's getting a little humid, and suddenly you've got blue polka dots on your shirt.
I wonder if it's honestly washing out, or just becoming invisible. Guess it's water-soluble so it must be washing out.
Well it would've been hard for them to enforce the patent law to begin with, given that (unless I'm mistaken) they didn't even own Compression Labs when they made the JPEG. It looks to me like Forgent bought out an old tech firm with a potentially lucrative patent that nobody'd been enforcing, with the intent of making a round of lawsuits for copyright infringement and making profit for no labor, just before the patent expired.
Which is to say, yeah, patent law needs rethinking.
That's true, but their protection from theft only goes as far as their ability to enforce the laws which prohibit it. And so when their ability to enforce the laws against theft is so pathetic, as in this case (what have YOU downloaded from bittorrent today?) they have to set their prices freakin LOW, while offering premium stuff, in order to successfully compete against the black market.
The price of paying for stuff is not worth the negligible security benefited (because the risk is negligible in the first place) by not stealing it.
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Right, I was expecting "It's War on Internet Usurpers if you don't get in line", with a few "Bitches" thrown in there. This is pretty laid back and beige.
Of course, it maybe just seems that way to me because I'm accustomed to internet exchanges where nobody cares about offense, and these people have countries on the line.
You're assuming that the only place to get the starter power is from oil or gas. What if it's solar energy?
What if you start one of these from a solar panel, and use energy derived from it to start a bunch of other ones? It's a good idea if it works.
From TFA:
"The system being tested by Transport Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Department of Transportation, uses a global positioning satellite device installed in the car to monitor the car's speed and position."
"The agency is also testing another system that warns drivers with a voice alarm and a light whenever they start to speed"
It's being tested. That means if it results in lots of people getting in wrecks all the time, they will probably modify it not to do so, what with wrecks being generally not profitable to the DoT (canadian or otherwise). Plus they are doing the thing where they buzz a light and say "John Spartan fined 1 credit for violation of the profanity statute".
If you want to be pissed at it for being invasive and not allowing you to break the law, just say so. You don't have to phrase the gripe in terms of things that you think will convince law people.
That's why they use that funny phrase, "being tested".
Before writing, huge chunks of information were passed on in oral histories, in the form of songs and poems(recall that somebody, somewhere, had Gilgamesh memorized in its entirety). If there's a rhyme formula like that, in which the entire original piece is written, then if you forget this or that piece of information there are a limited amount of words (not to mention concepts) that might fit. It's easier to remember because you can, to some extent, derive any missing word from the words surrounding it.
Add in rhythm and tone, and you have two more aspects that are associated with these pieces of information- just getting to that point in the song triggers that memory better than thinking "Man, I wish I knew what that piece of information was". Like a song whose title is in the lyrics, but you can't recall said title without running through the lyrics until you get to that point.
A song is a good way of remembering things. And it makes it less likely that you'll forget it after the final exam.
OSI Reference Model layers mnemonics
APSTNDP Aliens Probably Stole the Ninja Dew Pop
APSTNDP All People Seem To Need Data Processing
APSTNDP All Pirate Ships Take No Darn Prisoners
PDNTSPA Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away (backwards)
(Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, Physical)
But in this case they aren't serving as "honeypots" (nonfunctional things meant to simulate the vulnerabilities of the functional thing so as to protect from specific attackers) but rather people being tested for pathogens, to identify for patheogens.
It's a totally different thing because it's not a sacrificial lamb. What you're describing here is just a sort of a survey of existing pathogens in the community, and immunizing against them. In fact this is basically what is done today when we immunize masses of people: you take people who get sick, check what they're sick with, and give healthy people a vaccine against it.
I don't think this would work. Humans are susceptible to viruses, A) because the virus adsorbs to and infects certain cells in their body, and B) because of behaviors that put them in contact with the virus.
For instance, if you go to India and get Cholera in the yearly cholera-go-round, it requires both that Cholera successfully reverse the osmolarity of your intestines, and that you dip your toe in the poopy Ganges (or some other reservoir of watery cholera diarrhea). If you time travel back to the 1920s and get Smallpox, it's because A) smallpox is lysing skin cells wherever it falls, and B) you let somebody infected with smallpox breathe on you, and so the airborne pathogen got inside your windpipe.
So the reason that these honeypots work to cull Spam mail, for instance, or perhaps viruses, is because they're effectively out there dipping their toes in the poopy Ganges that is the internet. They're behavior-wise exposing themselves to pathogens.
But if you had biological honeypots (say, a little modified pig strapped to a pipe that scientists occasionally tested), where would you place them? Certainly in known sources of the virus, to perhaps catch new mutations, but this wouldn't really give you any way to catch fresh new ones, nor a way to differentiate new ones from old ones. If you wanted to catch new ones, you'd have to have the honeypot duplicating all the unsafe, pathogen-risking behaviors that humans do.
And who wants to spend time talking to a pig-fetus strapped to a pipe?
Is that $50 figure for the flash memory the retail price? Because the manufacturers aren't going to be getting the parts at Best Buy, they'll be making them themselves. And isn't it possible that rather than using flash, they could go entirely old school and use a 1GB hard drive, such that I might have seen on my '92 Acer Aspire? I can't imagine that would be costly, either to sublet or to manufacture.
If you can get a 1GB flash card for $50 on newegg, I'm sure you can get it cheaper if it's wholesale and not flash specific.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to just design a non-modular, solid processor, board and memory? I don't know much tech so I wouldn't know, but it seems that mass-producing most of the guts would both make it cheaper and make assembly easier.
You're right that your or I would have a hell of a time putting it together from storebought parts for $100, but manufacturing parts specific for the price and getting the materials wholesale? I'd be astonished if you couldn't.
Just provide a simple, un-biased (to corporate interests) law that everybody can understand and you're all set.
Who'll verify that the law is un-biased? "Simple" is one thing, but what a few people in one place feel is "un-biased" will seem very biased to the people suffering from it. I'm sure the pharaohs didn't feel that their rule was unbiased (After all, it's only right that the only the Sons of Ra be given money and palaced), but if they'd taken a poll they might've learned otherwise. Same goes for the Tzars who got Bolsheviked, for the southerners who wanted to keep slaves, for the republicans who want to keep out gay marriage: from THEIR perspective, nobody's being hurt, but that's only because they aren't asking the opinions of the people being hurt.
Ask yourself: What's more likely to precipitate a revolution, a democracy or a dictatorship?
The people make stupid decisions and frequently haven't the slightest clue what they're talking about, but at least they don't say "Well just let us eat cake."
You're right, I hadn't thought of that. After all, I absolutely trust this government to act with my interests in mind at all times.
This is one of those awesome posts where the entire blurb, article, and every comment are absolutely indecipherable to me.
Ouch. Score one for the badguys.
some people put their faith in God and some put their faith in the assumption that one kind of animal can give birth to another kind. Some people put their faith in a book written by sheep farmers about somebody who isn't there, and some people put their faith in laboratories and scientists that save lives and make possible all the wonders in the world today. The comparison is just as unbiased.
To say that someone is aggresive because they have a penis is the same thing as saying someone is pleasant because they have a vagina. When a male gets castrated, you lose your sex drive and your aggression is correspondingly reduced. When a female undergoes menopause, they have depression, anxiety, mood swings. People are fundamentally affected by their biochemistry, and even if you want to wildly dichotomize it by saying "Essentialism says that someone is a certain way because of their biology, not their own free will, their experiences, or how they were raised", that doesn't change a thing.
OH MY GOD STUDENTS ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS! Seriously, the kids using laptops in class are just the kids who'd be skipping otherwise. The RIAA isn't losing money when I download an album because I wouldn't have bought it at that price anyway, and the teacher isn't losing students when they screw around on a laptop in class because they wouldn't have paid attention anyway.
It is easy to bond a surfactant molecule to a dye Did he end up with a dye attached to a surfactant, or a water-soluble pigment in the water solution between the attachments? I mean, a bubble is effectively a lamellar layer, right, (or maybe you could call it a micelle), so there's got to be water in there. It's a water soluble lactone pigment, right, and it's colorless when the lactone goes back to being a hydroxy acid. So I figure that it's (somehow, I'm not sure how this would happen) got a long conjugated chain that's only conjugated when the lactone ring is closed. I mean, how else would that work?
So does this mean I'll have an easier time getting in the MIT grad school?
Can't you just dehydrate a ketone alcohol?
This article gets really cool when they talk about the tech at the end. I'd guess he's using conjugated chains of differing lengths on either side of a lactone that degenerates, under certain conditions, to a non-conjugated ketone chain with big conjugated chunks on either side. Like a dipropyl ketone, with a alkene chain at the terminal carbons, so that when said carbons link up into a lactone, it's a big conjugated structure, but otherwise it's not conjugated and so it's absorbing only nonvisible wavelengths. Cool. Does it seem to anyone else that it could, given the right/wrong circumstances, easily reform into the dye? Such that, say, one day you're giving a presentation in front of a board of suit dudes and it's getting a little humid, and suddenly you've got blue polka dots on your shirt. I wonder if it's honestly washing out, or just becoming invisible. Guess it's water-soluble so it must be washing out.
Right that's just what I said, only I worded it better.
Making the bubbles colored probably wouldn't have been so hard if he had the slightest clue what he was doing, though.
Oh yea you're right, that's less cumbersome.
Well it would've been hard for them to enforce the patent law to begin with, given that (unless I'm mistaken) they didn't even own Compression Labs when they made the JPEG. It looks to me like Forgent bought out an old tech firm with a potentially lucrative patent that nobody'd been enforcing, with the intent of making a round of lawsuits for copyright infringement and making profit for no labor, just before the patent expired. Which is to say, yeah, patent law needs rethinking.
That's true, but their protection from theft only goes as far as their ability to enforce the laws which prohibit it. And so when their ability to enforce the laws against theft is so pathetic, as in this case (what have YOU downloaded from bittorrent today?) they have to set their prices freakin LOW, while offering premium stuff, in order to successfully compete against the black market. The price of paying for stuff is not worth the negligible security benefited (because the risk is negligible in the first place) by not stealing it.