It'd be really refreshing to see scientists develop a bit of altruism. It's the ultimate Open Source, and they'd be guaranteed decades, if not centuries, of good will and fame. That's worth a lot more than a few *possible* royalty checks.
Heard this on NPR on my way home from work yesterday:
"MIT has patented the process and is forming a company to develop the technology for market. Nocera also published his discovery in today's issue of the journal "Science."
Nocera: I open-sourced it right away. Because it's easy to do, you'll have the entire community across the world begin working on this."
Sounds like he did "open-source" it, or so he says. But where is the "source" ? Published in "Science" ? Can someone who subscribes to that magazine take a look? Does it seem like it contains all the details necessary to reproduce the technology?
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 1420N preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10. I was curious what the price difference was between the Vista models. The Vista models loaded with "Vista Home Premium" with the same hardware options were $50 more expensive.
What I don't understand is why the Vista model has more hardware options. It makes no sense that you can buy the Ubuntu-loaded 1420N with 4GB of RAM, but not 3GB of RAM, nor an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, nor a 320 GB hard drive.
... consumers will do anything to fight its implementation.
Most consumers I know see either:
Don't care about DRM, or
Never heard of DRM (even if they're currently using it).
Until there are a significantly large number (like.. uhm.. I don't know.. 524,288) of people complaining about every piece of DRM that comes out, it will never die. I'm rooting for these guys: http://defectivebydesign.org/
"We looked into this quickly and learned that it can only occur if a user knowingly provides their credentials," Ms. Boralv said. "Nevertheless, we have made some modifications to Gmail to help prevent these kinds of issues."
Is this really true? To me it looks like they were simply taking variables from a successful login process, and substituting them into a login process that would normally have failed.
1. MS pays the Sony DRM people to include gaping security holes.
2. MS makes sure the story on the holes breaks.
3. MS has their cronies post "boycott PS3" on Amazon, Slashdot, blogs, etc.
4. People decide to buy the XBox 360 instead of waiting for the PS3.
</ConspiracyTheory>
My answer would have been (had I been smart enough to solve it myself): "Set aside 18 coins and flip them all over. You'll have taken away x heads from the 18 total, and create 18 minus x heads when you flip them, so you'll be left with 18 - x heads in both groups"
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SuperBanana said:
It'd be really refreshing to see scientists develop a bit of altruism. It's the ultimate Open Source, and they'd be guaranteed decades, if not centuries, of good will and fame. That's worth a lot more than a few *possible* royalty checks.
Heard this on NPR on my way home from work yesterday:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/31/solar_storage/
"MIT has patented the process and is forming a company to develop the technology for market. Nocera also published his discovery in today's issue of the journal "Science."
Nocera: I open-sourced it right away. Because it's easy to do, you'll have the entire community across the world begin working on this."
Sounds like he did "open-source" it, or so he says. But where is the "source" ? Published in "Science" ? Can someone who subscribes to that magazine take a look? Does it seem like it contains all the details necessary to reproduce the technology?
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 1420N preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10. I was curious what the price difference was between the Vista models. The Vista models loaded with "Vista Home Premium" with the same hardware options were $50 more expensive.
What I don't understand is why the Vista model has more hardware options. It makes no sense that you can buy the Ubuntu-loaded 1420N with 4GB of RAM, but not 3GB of RAM, nor an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, nor a 320 GB hard drive.
Most consumers I know see either:
Until there are a significantly large number (like.. uhm.. I don't know.. 524,288) of people complaining about every piece of DRM that comes out, it will never die. I'm rooting for these guys: http://defectivebydesign.org/
Or did I miss something...
1. MS pays the Sony DRM people to include gaping security holes.
2. MS makes sure the story on the holes breaks.
3. MS has their cronies post "boycott PS3" on Amazon, Slashdot, blogs, etc.
4. People decide to buy the XBox 360 instead of waiting for the PS3.
</ConspiracyTheory>
This is a very effective measure to help stop this type of attack.
.htaccess to redirect to an executable.
Not if they use a serverside script or
Maybe it is just me, but I was unable to comprehend why your solution works. I used Perl to help me visualize it...
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tim@x1000:~/tmp$ perl -e '$a[$#a+1] = int rand 2 for 1..50; while(($ones = join("",@a) =~ tr/1/1/) != 18) { $ri = int rand($#a+1); $a[$ri] = $ones>18?0:1 } print "All: ",@a,"\n"; $g1 = join("",@a[0..17]); $g2 = join("",@a[18..$#a]); $g1c = $g1 =~ tr/1/1/; $g2c = $g2 =~ tr/1/1/; print "Group 1: $g1 ($g1c)\nGroup 2: $g2 ($g2c)\n"; $g1i = $g1; $g1i =~ tr/01/10/; $g1ic = $g1i =~ tr/1/1/; print "Group 1 Flipped: $g1i ($g1ic)\n"'
All: 0101011000010100101011000010010000110000010000111
Group 1: 010101100001010010 (7)
Group 2: 10110000100100001100000100001110 (11)
Group 1 Flipped: 101010011110101101 (11)
tim@x1000:~/tmp$
My answer would have been (had I been smart enough to solve it myself): "Set aside 18 coins and flip them all over. You'll have taken away x heads from the 18 total, and create 18 minus x heads when you flip them, so you'll be left with 18 - x heads in both groups"
The CPSC site lists the X1000 model as affected by the recall, but the HP site does not.
Are they trying to screw X1000 owners out of replacement batteries, or did they discover the X1000 battery packs are not effected?
I guess I'll have to wait till Monday to call and find out.