What Elon is looking for here is export controls, and I would agree that we need to classify artificial intelligence as having the capability of becoming a threat to national security. Which means if you are developing AI in the United States and want to send the code to another country, you need the State Department to authorize that you're not putting bad technology in the hands of worse people.
WSJ Exec: "Anonymous is just a marketing buzzword right? Let's just make sure the legal team writes it up so that anyone who reads the TOS understands we're doing the exact opposite here."
Do you seriously think they exploited the webserver to replace text, but didn't bother copying all the system logs and installing a backdoor and rootkit? You're right, they did it for the lulz. It's too bad that MI-6 only has access to documented, patched vulnerabilities and this website will be back to impenetrable by foreign intelligence services status in no time.
A much better suggestion is to not allow flash to be installed. There are critical security vulnerabilities in like the last 100 versions of flash. Having the "latest patched version" doesn't make you much safer when new 0-day flash exploits are constantly being discovered.
"It is very certain that the Confederate government was never acknowledged by the United States as a de facto government in this sense. Nor was it acknowledged as such by other powers. No treaty was made by it with any civilized state. No obligations of a National character were created by it, binding after its dissolution, on the States which it represented, or on the National government. From a very early period of the civil war to its close, it was regarded as simply the military representative of the insurrection against the authority of the United States."
The State can be protected by the 14th Amendment on Civil War Debts (Yes, it was an insurrection against the Federal Government).
The Amendment was passed as part of a relief package for the "Reconstruction" of the Southern States and was pretty much entirely and explicitly for the relief of debts incurred by the States during the Civil War.
The quid-pro-quo outcome to the Northern States was that if they attempted another insurrection, that there would be a shortage of lenders anxious to hand them money.
Sony for example completely fucked up when it annouced "$50 fee to remove crapware".
Had they annouced that all laptops are now standard to NOT include crapware, and if you chose YES to install their crapware you would be eligible for $50 OFF the price tag, it would have been cheered by the community.
Yes, you typically get a yahoo or google toolbar as well as those half a dozen "click here to sign up" programs. The bright side of these programs is that they subsidize part of the cost of the computer. Annoying, definately.. but certainly innocous at worst and benifical at best. CD recording software? Last bundle I had included Nero, which I already use by choice and have a purchased license for. My last bundle also included Norton Internet Security as a free bundle, but it was only a 90-day trial, but I have a full license through my employer already. Yeah, I hate leaving on the crappy OEM software update bundle, knowing that by leaving this product running 24x7 I won't miss a semi-annual driver update. What a loss, and yes, Windows Update will find the driver anyways, so nothing lost and nothing gained.
If you really want to focus the discussion on business principles, then you would realize the cost of a satisfied, virus-free customer is far less than the profit derived from picking a anti-virus package to bundle. Don't underestimate or trivialize the amount of effort OEMs go through in picking out their software bundles. Some of the bundles are shit, some are for pure profit, and a lot is unnecessary for an individual user, but if you're selling to ten million people, one person's "bloat" is another's requirements.
I think the Cuba embargo doesn't accomplish anything, and the deletion is pointless. But I've got to ask the obvious question.. if it's a UK based travel agency, then why don't they register a.co.uk instead of.com and put their domain under the UK's authority instead of US authority. I mean I know having invented the fucking internet the US is pretty cool, but living in Germany, I don't see many German websites operating under.com instead of.de
Being Jewish I've just got to drop my two-cents in on this one.
For starters, Iran is the SECOND largest Jewish population in the Middle East. Why? Because of mass conversions and murder in the 19th century forced over a hundred thousand Jews to flee Iran for Israel. Which is what gave legs to the whole Zionist movement. Of course the remaining Jews are represented by a parliamentary who is obligated by law to support Iranian foreign policy and its Anti-Zionist position. Why should that be a problem? The government only has twice in the last 15 years published and distributed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is a completely anti-semitic forgery.
But hey, it's legal to be Jewish! Of course, you're not allowed to celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday, a 10,000 year jewish tradition. Nope, the Sabbath for Iranian Jews is on Friday, in accordance with the Qu'ran. I'm sure the Jewish children will be taught the important traditions of Judaism at their Jewish Schools, right? Oops, wrong again. Jewish schools are not allowed to have Jewish Headmasters. They're all run by Muslims.
Well, at least they still have their Rabbis. Wrong again, there hasn't been a Rabbi in Iran for nearly 20 years. You're right though, they're also "allowed" to be Jewish in Iran, but heavily discriminated against and even have to pay special taxes for making all the muslims too uncomfortable.
They're also put under intense surveillance, interrogated for suspected connections to "zionists" and "imperalist americans": a charge punishable by death.
If it's all so bad, then why don't they leave? That's easily, it's pretty much illegal in Iran for an entire Jewish family to leave the country on travel. If you try to emigrate, the government has your family held hostage, and suddenly they're conspiring with zionists. Congratulations, you just killed your father. The End.
It makes it easier on the CPU, but you're still consuming the power to decode. I'm sure it helps to a degree, but "quite a bit easier" on power consumption is still an over statement.
"Then watch for the C&C traffic, and *poof* there's the 'inner circle' you want"
I thought all the storm communication was encrypted. Doesn't that throw a wrench into your ability to actually see what the fuck the botnet is doing?
I think you miss the point that AMD no longer has to entirely fund re-fabrication of plants by itself, that the OTHER companies that use the fabrication plants will absorb part of the costs, combined with the flexibility of dumping off an older plant and picking up a newer plant without ANY added costs.
They can not only focus their core compentancy on design, more importantly they can focus the huge fucking piles of cash that normally would be spent on re-fitting a fab plant or buying a new facility on research and development, allowing them to design better and more innovative chips. It's positive harmonic feedback when one of the most advanced microprocessor designers can focus all their resources on designing microprocessors. It's like a doctor spends two-thirds of his time filling out paperwork to comply with federal and state regulations and one-third of his time treating patients. It's only a positive scenario when that doctor out-sources transcription, administration, and billing. Intel had a decade long lock on the market and over a hundred fifty billion dollars in cash. They can afford to build and sell fab plants all they want. AMD has one tenth of that. They need to be lean to compete.
Has anyone considered that a company like AMD might be able to negotiate a zero-sum cost conversion to fabless?
These companies that run 65 or 45nm plants for fabless semiconductor companies can run them non-stop at full capacity and never have to worry about exess inventory, demand, et al. They just fill their quotas for various manufacturers.
The biggest problem these companies face is taking more orders than they are capable of producing therefore their clients face production delays. I'm sure you've heard of those before.
All this comes down to one very solid pricinple, when they have such constant and heavy output, their plant is quite profitable. Taking a customer like AMD provides a tremendous client, and screams profitibility for these companies. Perhaps it is just possible this sort of leverage gives AMD the ability to negotiate manufacturing at an equal cost to their current manufacturing costs without the huge capital outlays for having in-house fabrication.
I'm a stock owner in AMD, Intel, and Nvidia and I've been saying since AMD's mutli-billion dollar purchase of ATI that they need to not only regain their profitibility, but get about a billion dollars of cash reserves before I buy more AMD shares. If they sell some of their older fab plants and outsource the low end chips while focusing their New York plant to 45nm and looking for the potential to outsource even lower fab sizes in the future they will very quickly become a very attractive company to investors.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I haven't seen it asked in the comments so far. Doesn't establishing a man in the middle change the effective resistance of the line?
I would think that at the point a tap or splice or however else you planned to insert eve, that if only momentarily, the resistance of the line would be dramatically altered, and quite easily detectable.
That's assuming you could measure the resistance of Alice and Bob without affecting the resistance of the circuit, which I also would think impossible.
I mean there's little point in creating a secure circuit based on wire resistance that doesn't panic when the expected resistance changes.
There's a registry file you can use to re-enable this feature. Unfortuantely, I'm browsing from my work computer and I'm filtered from giving you a working link to it but seek, and ye shall find. Just think of what websites might have a list of user:pass formed URLs and check there.
Seriously, I've got nowhere near the capital that Intel has, but I have every official email ever sent through my mail servers. Our email policy is "Leave a copy of messages on the server" and "Remove from server when deleted from deleted items". Then they are told to keep official emails at least 30 days, and delete personal emails. Every week, a script archives the mail folders and every month those archives are backed up. I've had to go through emails three years old before to show details of discussions on projects. I think the Federal guidelines of keeping emails is definately smart for business. I hardly think it's worthwhile for ISPs to have to archive tons of spam. Fix the spam problem, and then maybe we'll talk.
Didn't Microsoft fail miserably with their pay as you go computing model? What's their obsession with this? It's like we already have enough software that's pay as you go, just look at the limited term licenses out there, compatibility issues that require version upgrades, etc.
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I bought a Pioneer plasma screen back in 2003 and it took no less than four months before I started getting burn in. I began leaving on a bright grey screen generated by my computer on it (second monitor output, grey desktop w no icons) and it reduced the effect but never wholly eliminated it. After about a year of owning this television, I began experiencing red/blue snow where there was supposed to be black. I literally threw it out, and have been using LCD ever since without complaint. Also, some of the newest generation LCD screens display at 120 hz, and alternate an all black frame between frames, this greatly increases contrast and eliminates motion blur. I think it's Samsung that is making these, I saw a demo a few months back and was quite impressed.
People have been demanding 100mbit ethernet to home connections for 10 years. His idea that because people want a service, they're going to get it and get it fast holds absolutely no substational understanding of industry or history. Like the giants they are, they walk slowly and clumsily, often destroying whatever loomed in their paths. Their heads in the clouds, they only distantly hear the cries of the people below them.
The movie studios all make quite a significant fortune on distribution. They're not going to voluntarily give up this kingdom until they can replace it with a more profitable model for themselves. The author knew this was the case, yet rang so optimistic about their cooperation with cable industry to sound the demise of the optical disc. It's clearly the rantings of a fanboy at work.
Lastly, there are many things that a packaged product like the optical disc offers consumers that blazing fast internet downloads do not. For starters, the user isn't required to pay a hefty monthly service fee for an outrageously fast connection required to download the movies even in 48 hours, and there is no technology in sight that can beam the movies to my television, faster than I can walk to blockbuster or HMV and rent/buy the movie myself. So when I decide after a long day of work that I want to spend the evening at home with the missus and curl up on a couch with that movie I've heard about that is playing on that movie channel that I don't subscribe to..
The user lastly attempts to convey how much less expensive all these subscription services are in comparison to the dreaded optical disc.. well even saving $10 a disc (which the studios would not allow to happen even in ten years) there's still little money to be saved when it might requires an additional $80 of monthly premium subscriptions over a standard service. You would have to be purchasing 100 movies a year to achieve a marginal savings of $40.. and we all know there isn't 100 movies a year worth buying.
I would have a chat with the legal department, and find out personal liability issues, and if it is possible to indemnify yourself against adverse potential effects. Not only is this smart as a CYA move, it will also certainly raise the issue again with the senior partners as to "why is the IT guy seeking to mitigate his liability in the event of a catastrophy?" They would then advise from a legal perspective the reprocussions of them having not heeded your advice, and any cost/benefit comparisons of action vs non-action would then be weighed against the different spectrum of action vs legal action.
Fortunately for you, many companies are structured in a way as to prevent employees from personal liability in the performance of their duties so long as they did not act in a criminal manner, so resignation to "avoid" lawsuit might be throwing the baby out with the bath. It's always frusterating to see an urgent need unaddressed, but not every company plays the 'safety first' motto. Oddly, I would think a CPA would.
I'm all for both types of screening as well. Oddly enough I've been selected for 'random' searches four of my last five flights, and three times I was in military uniform. Am I the only one that finds it strange that it would be necessary to perform extra searches on military or law enforcement before boarding a plane?
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What Elon is looking for here is export controls, and I would agree that we need to classify artificial intelligence as having the capability of becoming a threat to national security. Which means if you are developing AI in the United States and want to send the code to another country, you need the State Department to authorize that you're not putting bad technology in the hands of worse people.
WSJ Exec: "Anonymous is just a marketing buzzword right? Let's just make sure the legal team writes it up so that anyone who reads the TOS understands we're doing the exact opposite here."
Do you seriously think they exploited the webserver to replace text, but didn't bother copying all the system logs and installing a backdoor and rootkit? You're right, they did it for the lulz. It's too bad that MI-6 only has access to documented, patched vulnerabilities and this website will be back to impenetrable by foreign intelligence services status in no time.
A much better suggestion is to not allow flash to be installed. There are critical security vulnerabilities in like the last 100 versions of flash. Having the "latest patched version" doesn't make you much safer when new 0-day flash exploits are constantly being discovered.
You might find the legal annotations on the 14th
Amendment useful:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/37.html
"Sec. 4 was undoubtedly inspired by the desire to put beyond question the obligations of the Government issued during the Civil War"
It is BEYOND QUESTION that the debt is invalid according to the Supreme Court.
Thorington V Smith in 1868 states:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=75&invol=1
"It is very certain that the Confederate government was never acknowledged by the United States as a de facto government in this sense. Nor was it acknowledged as such by other powers. No treaty was made by it with any civilized state. No obligations of a National character were created by it, binding after its dissolution, on the States which it represented, or on the National government. From a very early period of the civil war to its close, it was regarded as simply the military representative of the insurrection against the authority of the United States."
Quite simply, the woman has a worthless lawyer.
Wow, you're definately not a lawyer.
The State can be protected by the 14th Amendment on Civil War Debts (Yes, it was an insurrection against the Federal Government).
The Amendment was passed as part of a relief package for the "Reconstruction" of the Southern States and was pretty much entirely and explicitly for the relief of debts incurred by the States during the Civil War.
The quid-pro-quo outcome to the Northern States was that if they attempted another insurrection, that there would be a shortage of lenders anxious to hand them money.
Sony for example completely fucked up when it annouced "$50 fee to remove crapware".
Had they annouced that all laptops are now standard to NOT include crapware, and if you chose YES to install their crapware you would be eligible for $50 OFF the price tag, it would have been cheered by the community.
Yes, you typically get a yahoo or google toolbar as well as those half a dozen "click here to sign up" programs. The bright side of these programs is that they subsidize part of the cost of the computer. Annoying, definately.. but certainly innocous at worst and benifical at best. CD recording software? Last bundle I had included Nero, which I already use by choice and have a purchased license for. My last bundle also included Norton Internet Security as a free bundle, but it was only a 90-day trial, but I have a full license through my employer already. Yeah, I hate leaving on the crappy OEM software update bundle, knowing that by leaving this product running 24x7 I won't miss a semi-annual driver update. What a loss, and yes, Windows Update will find the driver anyways, so nothing lost and nothing gained.
If you really want to focus the discussion on business principles, then you would realize the cost of a satisfied, virus-free customer is far less than the profit derived from picking a anti-virus package to bundle. Don't underestimate or trivialize the amount of effort OEMs go through in picking out their software bundles. Some of the bundles are shit, some are for pure profit, and a lot is unnecessary for an individual user, but if you're selling to ten million people, one person's "bloat" is another's requirements.
I think the Cuba embargo doesn't accomplish anything, and the deletion is pointless. But I've got to ask the obvious question.. if it's a UK based travel agency, then why don't they register a .co.uk instead of .com and put their domain under the UK's authority instead of US authority. I mean I know having invented the fucking internet the US is pretty cool, but living in Germany, I don't see many German websites operating under .com instead of .de
For starters, Iran is the SECOND largest Jewish population in the Middle East. Why? Because of mass conversions and murder in the 19th century forced over a hundred thousand Jews to flee Iran for Israel. Which is what gave legs to the whole Zionist movement. Of course the remaining Jews are represented by a parliamentary who is obligated by law to support Iranian foreign policy and its Anti-Zionist position. Why should that be a problem? The government only has twice in the last 15 years published and distributed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is a completely anti-semitic forgery.
But hey, it's legal to be Jewish! Of course, you're not allowed to celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday, a 10,000 year jewish tradition. Nope, the Sabbath for Iranian Jews is on Friday, in accordance with the Qu'ran. I'm sure the Jewish children will be taught the important traditions of Judaism at their Jewish Schools, right? Oops, wrong again. Jewish schools are not allowed to have Jewish Headmasters. They're all run by Muslims.
Well, at least they still have their Rabbis. Wrong again, there hasn't been a Rabbi in Iran for nearly 20 years. You're right though, they're also "allowed" to be Jewish in Iran, but heavily discriminated against and even have to pay special taxes for making all the muslims too uncomfortable.
They're also put under intense surveillance, interrogated for suspected connections to "zionists" and "imperalist americans": a charge punishable by death.
If it's all so bad, then why don't they leave? That's easily, it's pretty much illegal in Iran for an entire Jewish family to leave the country on travel. If you try to emigrate, the government has your family held hostage, and suddenly they're conspiring with zionists. Congratulations, you just killed your father. The End.
It makes it easier on the CPU, but you're still consuming the power to decode. I'm sure it helps to a degree, but "quite a bit easier" on power consumption is still an over statement.
"Then watch for the C&C traffic, and *poof* there's the 'inner circle' you want" I thought all the storm communication was encrypted. Doesn't that throw a wrench into your ability to actually see what the fuck the botnet is doing?
I think you miss the point that AMD no longer has to entirely fund re-fabrication of plants by itself, that the OTHER companies that use the fabrication plants will absorb part of the costs, combined with the flexibility of dumping off an older plant and picking up a newer plant without ANY added costs.
They can not only focus their core compentancy on design, more importantly they can focus the huge fucking piles of cash that normally would be spent on re-fitting a fab plant or buying a new facility on research and development, allowing them to design better and more innovative chips. It's positive harmonic feedback when one of the most advanced microprocessor designers can focus all their resources on designing microprocessors. It's like a doctor spends two-thirds of his time filling out paperwork to comply with federal and state regulations and one-third of his time treating patients. It's only a positive scenario when that doctor out-sources transcription, administration, and billing. Intel had a decade long lock on the market and over a hundred fifty billion dollars in cash. They can afford to build and sell fab plants all they want. AMD has one tenth of that. They need to be lean to compete.
These companies that run 65 or 45nm plants for fabless semiconductor companies can run them non-stop at full capacity and never have to worry about exess inventory, demand, et al. They just fill their quotas for various manufacturers.
The biggest problem these companies face is taking more orders than they are capable of producing therefore their clients face production delays. I'm sure you've heard of those before.
All this comes down to one very solid pricinple, when they have such constant and heavy output, their plant is quite profitable. Taking a customer like AMD provides a tremendous client, and screams profitibility for these companies. Perhaps it is just possible this sort of leverage gives AMD the ability to negotiate manufacturing at an equal cost to their current manufacturing costs without the huge capital outlays for having in-house fabrication.
I'm a stock owner in AMD, Intel, and Nvidia and I've been saying since AMD's mutli-billion dollar purchase of ATI that they need to not only regain their profitibility, but get about a billion dollars of cash reserves before I buy more AMD shares. If they sell some of their older fab plants and outsource the low end chips while focusing their New York plant to 45nm and looking for the potential to outsource even lower fab sizes in the future they will very quickly become a very attractive company to investors.
I would think that at the point a tap or splice or however else you planned to insert eve, that if only momentarily, the resistance of the line would be dramatically altered, and quite easily detectable.
That's assuming you could measure the resistance of Alice and Bob without affecting the resistance of the circuit, which I also would think impossible.
I mean there's little point in creating a secure circuit based on wire resistance that doesn't panic when the expected resistance changes.
There's a registry file you can use to re-enable this feature. Unfortuantely, I'm browsing from my work computer and I'm filtered from giving you a working link to it but seek, and ye shall find. Just think of what websites might have a list of user:pass formed URLs and check there.
Seriously, I've got nowhere near the capital that Intel has, but I have every official email ever sent through my mail servers. Our email policy is "Leave a copy of messages on the server" and "Remove from server when deleted from deleted items". Then they are told to keep official emails at least 30 days, and delete personal emails. Every week, a script archives the mail folders and every month those archives are backed up. I've had to go through emails three years old before to show details of discussions on projects. I think the Federal guidelines of keeping emails is definately smart for business. I hardly think it's worthwhile for ISPs to have to archive tons of spam. Fix the spam problem, and then maybe we'll talk.
Didn't Microsoft fail miserably with their pay as you go computing model? What's their obsession with this? It's like we already have enough software that's pay as you go, just look at the limited term licenses out there, compatibility issues that require version upgrades, etc.
I bought a Pioneer plasma screen back in 2003 and it took no less than four months before I started getting burn in. I began leaving on a bright grey screen generated by my computer on it (second monitor output, grey desktop w no icons) and it reduced the effect but never wholly eliminated it. After about a year of owning this television, I began experiencing red/blue snow where there was supposed to be black. I literally threw it out, and have been using LCD ever since without complaint. Also, some of the newest generation LCD screens display at 120 hz, and alternate an all black frame between frames, this greatly increases contrast and eliminates motion blur. I think it's Samsung that is making these, I saw a demo a few months back and was quite impressed.
People have been demanding 100mbit ethernet to home connections for 10 years. His idea that because people want a service, they're going to get it and get it fast holds absolutely no substational understanding of industry or history. Like the giants they are, they walk slowly and clumsily, often destroying whatever loomed in their paths. Their heads in the clouds, they only distantly hear the cries of the people below them. The movie studios all make quite a significant fortune on distribution. They're not going to voluntarily give up this kingdom until they can replace it with a more profitable model for themselves. The author knew this was the case, yet rang so optimistic about their cooperation with cable industry to sound the demise of the optical disc. It's clearly the rantings of a fanboy at work. Lastly, there are many things that a packaged product like the optical disc offers consumers that blazing fast internet downloads do not. For starters, the user isn't required to pay a hefty monthly service fee for an outrageously fast connection required to download the movies even in 48 hours, and there is no technology in sight that can beam the movies to my television, faster than I can walk to blockbuster or HMV and rent/buy the movie myself. So when I decide after a long day of work that I want to spend the evening at home with the missus and curl up on a couch with that movie I've heard about that is playing on that movie channel that I don't subscribe to.. The user lastly attempts to convey how much less expensive all these subscription services are in comparison to the dreaded optical disc.. well even saving $10 a disc (which the studios would not allow to happen even in ten years) there's still little money to be saved when it might requires an additional $80 of monthly premium subscriptions over a standard service. You would have to be purchasing 100 movies a year to achieve a marginal savings of $40.. and we all know there isn't 100 movies a year worth buying.
A public vote would create a system where to power of the vote is stolen from hte people anyways. You've just created a conundrum.
I would have a chat with the legal department, and find out personal liability issues, and if it is possible to indemnify yourself against adverse potential effects. Not only is this smart as a CYA move, it will also certainly raise the issue again with the senior partners as to "why is the IT guy seeking to mitigate his liability in the event of a catastrophy?" They would then advise from a legal perspective the reprocussions of them having not heeded your advice, and any cost/benefit comparisons of action vs non-action would then be weighed against the different spectrum of action vs legal action.
Fortunately for you, many companies are structured in a way as to prevent employees from personal liability in the performance of their duties so long as they did not act in a criminal manner, so resignation to "avoid" lawsuit might be throwing the baby out with the bath. It's always frusterating to see an urgent need unaddressed, but not every company plays the 'safety first' motto. Oddly, I would think a CPA would.
I'm all for both types of screening as well. Oddly enough I've been selected for 'random' searches four of my last five flights, and three times I was in military uniform. Am I the only one that finds it strange that it would be necessary to perform extra searches on military or law enforcement before boarding a plane?