2. Follow someone with a tag on their cart through the door. When the alarm goes off, they wont bother check you, if even the other guy. Sell the items.
There will always be illegal immigration, as someone will always be willing to risk it, and someone will always be willing to hire at least some of them. But if hiring practices are cleaned up such that it becomes far more difficult to fill in a random SSN, and if enough people actually hiring those here illegally are not just warned or fined but instead sent to prison, as the law allows, the market for them would dry up. How many people are going to be willing to pay $10,000 and spend up to ten years in prison for each illegal immigrant hired? That is an amazingly insightful idea. However, I can see a problem in enforcement. How do you decide who did the hiring?
One solution is, if it is a corporation, the corporate charter is suspended until all illegal workers can be removed, and revoked indefinitely for repeat offenses. If it is a small business with a distinct owner, the owner is put under similar pressure, and possibly convicted of criminal offenses.
The difference between #1 and #2 is that #1 has the (slight) possibility of saving enough money to raise his financial and social outlooks.
#2 must work his entire life without any possibility of anything every getting better. (Although in actuality, many slave owners would allow their slaves to work extra for pay, eventually leading to them buying their own freedom)
However, herein lies the true difference between capitalist economy and every other economy - the possibility of improvement through hard work and determination.
Exactly what I was thinking. However, if you use the USB ports you could daisy chain these, allowing as many connections as you would like. Unfortunately, the total throughput would be limited to 480 Mbit/s.
The first application I though of would be for unobtrusive debugging/profiling, without the need for a whole separate computer (great for laptop use). The data gathering software could be fairly easily written to run on the dongle.
Other than that, diagnostics and security are the only applications I can think of.
Gold farmers are a cancer to MMO games. YES! I'm glad we agree.
That is why I say GO GOLD FARMERS!
Honestly. MMOGs are a leach on society. The more time people waste playing video games, the less time they spend learning and producing - the lifeblood of our economy.
If you want to be entertained, go play a sport. You will enjoy it a lot more, and be a lot healthier.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go play some DOD:S.
Currently, all our power sources are based off of something found in nature, but this doesn't necessarily have to be so. If we can find a fundamental particle reaction which is exothermic, and find out how to apply it to any material around us, we could convert currently useless material into a source for energy.
With a limitless energy supply, everything is just a matter of time and man power.
The core of the dispute is one of three patents issued to Woolston in 2000 and 2001 that were spawned from an original, or "parent," application he filed in April 1995.
The 1995 filing was several months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched the auction site using a combination of his own programming and software obtained for free over the Internet. Obviously, IANAL, but I don't understand how they can make a new patent from an old one, but still base the claim on the date of the original patent.
Even more importantly, I don't understand how/why a 6-7 year old patent still holds weight. It seems to me that patents like this should be 3-5 years. That should be plenty of time for a person to make enough money to pay for the time spent developing the idea. After that, if you can't handle the competition, then you wont last. Isn't that the idea of patents? To inspire invention, through temporary monopoly method or process?
Science was born out of religion, and ever since then has been competing with it to explain the universe. There is no way you can separate the two, when they often both try to explain the same phenomenon in competing ways.
Science only got to the point it is now through vicious struggle against religion. Maybe one day religion will no longer be an issue, but even then people will still have "wars" about science. Rather than despise it, I have come to accept it and see the good that comes of it. Only then, can you separate those who truly want to advance the state of humanity from those who only want more power for themselves.
Only those with no foresight kill in the name of their beliefs about the universe. Those who can think into the future realize it brings only more pain and suffering. The rest of us sit back and absorb as much as we can, knowing that one day in the future we will look back in awe at how we could be so divided on such a trivial issue.
Did you know our
primitive brains weren't
wired very well to
read this paragraph?
Scientific research
conducted by Walker Reading Technologies,
a small Minnesota startup that
has been studying our ability to
read for the last ten years,
has concluded that the natural
field of focus for our eyes is circular,
so our eyes view the printed page
as if we're peering through a straw.
And a very bad-behaving
straw at that,
because not only do our eyes
feed our brain
the words we're reading,
they're also uploading characters
and words from the two sentences
above and below the line we're reading. Ok this is going to take way to much space, and be way to hard to read... You get the point.
You know, people keep making fun of Ted Stevens for his series of tubes comment. Given, he is completely tech-illiterate, but series of tubes isn't that far off when you consider how much of the backbone is fiber-optic cable. Fiber-optic cable pretty much is a tube - for light. It has a core through which the substance (light in this case) travels, and a shell which holds the substance in. Sounds like a tube to me.
If you're going to make fun of Ted Stevens speech - make fun of how he called an email an "internet" multiple times.
So you are saying that they let it crash so that they can collect data about why it crashes, when they COULD just prevent it from crashing in the first place by simply calling the file corrupt and not bothering trying to open it.
Yeah, that makes sense.*/sarcasm*
They don't need to collect info about corrupt files. They need to collect info on crashes.
Or you could check the file for the malicious code and throw an exception before running it.
Of course, this is only a hack to fix the bug. The correct solution is to make sure that when you make an assumption (ex: header X length is less than 256 bytes) that you ASSERT it. If it fails the assertion, you throw an exception and either try to recover, or give up and close the document and present an error to the user. It should not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CRASH!!!
Like others have said before me, if a program crashes, it almost always means something was altered/written to that shouldn't have been. If someone takes the time to figure out how to alter it in just the right way, he can compensate the box (ex: find a way to branch to code you implanted and run it. This can be done an infinite number of ways, and all it takes is some hard work and a certain cleverness to pull off.)
The people who are saying "a crash doesn't necessarily mean a security issue" have a flawed understanding of how exploits work. They all start by finding a crash - then its just a matter of time and effort to actually use the crash to run unauthorized code.
Even if the function names had NOT been obvious, it still would have been relatively trivial to crack the system purely due to the fact that everything was executed on the PC. You could easily find the password verify function by breaking when the fake password was accessed.
In order for this to be secure, the USB stick must do the password check and either unlock it or send an error ALL in hardware unalterable by the PC. This could easily be done with a cheap microcontroller, or specially designed chip.
The Secustick has security similar to a webpage with a javascript login - easily cracked by someone with the patience to follow the code.
I love to hear about such a wonderful use of our tax dollars. First, we spend thousands of dollars on cameras, then later decide that using them is against the law....
We start with high speed atoms and light, and end with low speed atoms and no light; isn't the energy being destroyed? You actually DO end up with light. More energetic light, to be more specific.
It can almost be simplified to classical collision physics. The photon hits the atom and bounces off, slowing down the atom and in turn, the photon "speeds up" (gets red shifted).
Basically, if you are an advocate of nuclear power as clean power, well then you should probably turn your fandom towards the biggest nuclear power plant in the solar system...of course, I've personally got no problem with some breeder and a couple dozen pebble-bed reactors - just saying;) I haven't run the numbers, but I would be willing to bet it would be just as cheap to use a breeder reactor that recycles the waste, and send the recyclable waste on a rocket to the center of the sun, than it would be to use photo-cells to capture the same amount of energy from the sun directly.
Not the mention the fact that you are comparing nuclear fission to nuclear fusion.
The fact of the matter is, fission power plants are safe and clean (when done right, which is no longer a problem). Even if fusion power plants ever become a usable source of energy, they may NEVER catch up in the safe factor. Fusion reactors are extremely complex - orders of magnitude more complex than fission rectors.
The only reason people still seem to fear fission plants is the nuclear waste (and by people, I am referring to those halfway educated on the subject). However, the problem of waste has been basically solved - especially if you refine and recycle the waste so that the ACTUAL waste is much less, and much less deadly.
As you can probably tell, I am a supporter of nuclear energy, and I think it is important that everyone be educated on the subject. It should be covered in high schools, and there should be a mass marketing push to educate the mass majority of the HUGE advantages.
You'd be surprised how much technology comes from the porn industry.
Not when it comes to the internet.
Fry: Wow. In my day, the only reason people went on the Internet was pornography.
Professor Farnsworth: Actually, that's still the case.
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Thats because the people in business now didn't grow up using computers for everything. Wait until the generation being born now grows up - paper will be a thing of the past. Already, classrooms are being taken over by computers (maybe not in public middle schools, but definately in private middle schools and colleges).
That, plus the increase in technology over that span of 30 years, and you can be sure that things will be done electronicly.
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For once, I actually know what the ??? is:
1. Collect underpants and put in shirt/pants.
2. Follow someone with a tag on their cart through the door. When the alarm goes off, they wont bother check you, if even the other guy. Sell the items.
3. Profit!
One solution is, if it is a corporation, the corporate charter is suspended until all illegal workers can be removed, and revoked indefinitely for repeat offenses. If it is a small business with a distinct owner, the owner is put under similar pressure, and possibly convicted of criminal offenses.
The difference between #1 and #2 is that #1 has the (slight) possibility of saving enough money to raise his financial and social outlooks.
#2 must work his entire life without any possibility of anything every getting better. (Although in actuality, many slave owners would allow their slaves to work extra for pay, eventually leading to them buying their own freedom)
However, herein lies the true difference between capitalist economy and every other economy - the possibility of improvement through hard work and determination.
I've noticed that a lot of ancient rulers had the habit of erasing previous rulers from historical existence. Very 1984-esque.
I guess they wanted people to think they were immortal and had always been, and will always be their ruler.
You laugh, but my next-door-neighbor just got out his shotgun, white robes, and bible (in that order).
Exactly what I was thinking. However, if you use the USB ports you could daisy chain these, allowing as many connections as you would like. Unfortunately, the total throughput would be limited to 480 Mbit/s.
The first application I though of would be for unobtrusive debugging/profiling, without the need for a whole separate computer (great for laptop use). The data gathering software could be fairly easily written to run on the dongle.
Other than that, diagnostics and security are the only applications I can think of.
That is why I say GO GOLD FARMERS!
Honestly. MMOGs are a leach on society. The more time people waste playing video games, the less time they spend learning and producing - the lifeblood of our economy.
If you want to be entertained, go play a sport. You will enjoy it a lot more, and be a lot healthier.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go play some DOD:S.
This is exactly my view of the situation.
Our biggest problem is finding a power source.
Currently, all our power sources are based off of something found in nature, but this doesn't necessarily have to be so. If we can find a fundamental particle reaction which is exothermic, and find out how to apply it to any material around us, we could convert currently useless material into a source for energy.
With a limitless energy supply, everything is just a matter of time and man power.
The 1995 filing was several months before eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched the auction site using a combination of his own programming and software obtained for free over the Internet. Obviously, IANAL, but I don't understand how they can make a new patent from an old one, but still base the claim on the date of the original patent.
Even more importantly, I don't understand how/why a 6-7 year old patent still holds weight. It seems to me that patents like this should be 3-5 years. That should be plenty of time for a person to make enough money to pay for the time spent developing the idea. After that, if you can't handle the competition, then you wont last. Isn't that the idea of patents? To inspire invention, through temporary monopoly method or process?
Science was born out of religion, and ever since then has been competing with it to explain the universe. There is no way you can separate the two, when they often both try to explain the same phenomenon in competing ways.
Science only got to the point it is now through vicious struggle against religion. Maybe one day religion will no longer be an issue, but even then people will still have "wars" about science. Rather than despise it, I have come to accept it and see the good that comes of it. Only then, can you separate those who truly want to advance the state of humanity from those who only want more power for themselves.
Only those with no foresight kill in the name of their beliefs about the universe. Those who can think into the future realize it brings only more pain and suffering. The rest of us sit back and absorb as much as we can, knowing that one day in the future we will look back in awe at how we could be so divided on such a trivial issue.
primitive brains weren't
wired very well to
read this paragraph?
Scientific research
conducted by Walker Reading Technologies,
a small Minnesota startup that
has been studying our ability to
read for the last ten years,
has concluded that the natural
field of focus for our eyes is circular,
so our eyes view the printed page
as if we're peering through a straw.
And a very bad-behaving
straw at that,
because not only do our eyes
feed our brain
the words we're reading,
they're also uploading characters
and words from the two sentences
above and below the line we're reading. Ok this is going to take way to much space, and be way to hard to read... You get the point.
I have a solution!
All we have to do is clone the participants, and use the clones. Then when the study is done, just dispose of the clone!
No more ethical dilemma!!
have you ever heard of the equator? It doesn't have seasons. (Well... thats a bit of a stretch of the truth, but its not that far off.)
You know, people keep making fun of Ted Stevens for his series of tubes comment. Given, he is completely tech-illiterate, but series of tubes isn't that far off when you consider how much of the backbone is fiber-optic cable. Fiber-optic cable pretty much is a tube - for light. It has a core through which the substance (light in this case) travels, and a shell which holds the substance in. Sounds like a tube to me.
If you're going to make fun of Ted Stevens speech - make fun of how he called an email an "internet" multiple times.
Linux users looking for open source 3D graphics drivers is NOT 5% of the market. Its not even 0.1% of the market.
Hey, thats better than just regular ol' Mediocre isn't it?
So you are saying that they let it crash so that they can collect data about why it crashes, when they COULD just prevent it from crashing in the first place by simply calling the file corrupt and not bothering trying to open it.
Yeah, that makes sense.*/sarcasm*
They don't need to collect info about corrupt files. They need to collect info on crashes.
Or you could check the file for the malicious code and throw an exception before running it.
Of course, this is only a hack to fix the bug. The correct solution is to make sure that when you make an assumption (ex: header X length is less than 256 bytes) that you ASSERT it. If it fails the assertion, you throw an exception and either try to recover, or give up and close the document and present an error to the user. It should not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CRASH!!!
Like others have said before me, if a program crashes, it almost always means something was altered/written to that shouldn't have been. If someone takes the time to figure out how to alter it in just the right way, he can compensate the box (ex: find a way to branch to code you implanted and run it. This can be done an infinite number of ways, and all it takes is some hard work and a certain cleverness to pull off.)
The people who are saying "a crash doesn't necessarily mean a security issue" have a flawed understanding of how exploits work. They all start by finding a crash - then its just a matter of time and effort to actually use the crash to run unauthorized code.
Even if the function names had NOT been obvious, it still would have been relatively trivial to crack the system purely due to the fact that everything was executed on the PC. You could easily find the password verify function by breaking when the fake password was accessed.
In order for this to be secure, the USB stick must do the password check and either unlock it or send an error ALL in hardware unalterable by the PC. This could easily be done with a cheap microcontroller, or specially designed chip.
The Secustick has security similar to a webpage with a javascript login - easily cracked by someone with the patience to follow the code.
I love to hear about such a wonderful use of our tax dollars. First, we spend thousands of dollars on cameras, then later decide that using them is against the law....
Awesome.
It can almost be simplified to classical collision physics. The photon hits the atom and bounces off, slowing down the atom and in turn, the photon "speeds up" (gets red shifted).
If you really need to stop someone (like someone trying to kill you), the size of the bullet really doesn't matter. just shoot them in the head.
.22 should be a enough for you to get away.
However for most common purposes (if someone is trying to mug you), putting one in the foot/leg with a
Not the mention the fact that you are comparing nuclear fission to nuclear fusion.
The fact of the matter is, fission power plants are safe and clean (when done right, which is no longer a problem). Even if fusion power plants ever become a usable source of energy, they may NEVER catch up in the safe factor. Fusion reactors are extremely complex - orders of magnitude more complex than fission rectors.
The only reason people still seem to fear fission plants is the nuclear waste (and by people, I am referring to those halfway educated on the subject). However, the problem of waste has been basically solved - especially if you refine and recycle the waste so that the ACTUAL waste is much less, and much less deadly.
As you can probably tell, I am a supporter of nuclear energy, and I think it is important that everyone be educated on the subject. It should be covered in high schools, and there should be a mass marketing push to educate the mass majority of the HUGE advantages.
Not when it comes to the internet.
Fry: Wow. In my day, the only reason people went on the Internet was pornography.
Professor Farnsworth: Actually, that's still the case.
Thats because the people in business now didn't grow up using computers for everything. Wait until the generation being born now grows up - paper will be a thing of the past. Already, classrooms are being taken over by computers (maybe not in public middle schools, but definately in private middle schools and colleges).
That, plus the increase in technology over that span of 30 years, and you can be sure that things will be done electronicly.