As reluctant as I am to defend this loathesome administration, you need to get your facts straight.
Condi Rice served as National Security Council staff director for Soviet and East European affairs in Bush 41's administration. By all accounts she did a very good job--as judged by her superiors Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Advisor, and the first President Bush. I think it's safe to say that a number of significant events in Soviet and East European affairs took place at this point in history, which I'll leave as an exercise for you to research. Do you think that maybe Rice had a hand in crafting the US response to those events, given her position?
Yes, Rice is black and female. So. What. Neither fact speaks to her qualifications to be National Security Advisor. Or is that a position that can only be held by a white male?
I think your racism and sexism is showing. (And no, your "male American of Japanese ancestry" comment does not insulate you.)
It's probably obvious, but it seems that Intel wants to remove the business stigma associated with beige boxes. Non-geeks just aren't going to want to have they typical Wintel box in their living room. Rightly or wrongly, marketeers believe this is the reason for the failure of the media PC.
Intel wants a platform to showcase their multimedia technologies. They can't convince Apple to use them, so offering a US$1 million prize is a lot cheaper than Intel doing it themselves.
At the moment they have Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Brothers and Sealab 2021. It's even easy to find, as they list "Adult Swim" as a seperate network.
The stuff they don't actually produce (read: Anime) will likely take some time, if it ever happens.
Wow...just wow. That's a pretty good troll, but why anyone would care about a comparison based on 10 year old hardware (the 8600) and at best 8 year old software (MacOS 9) is beyond me.
Being a vector for a virus doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be affected by it. It's a matter of accepting wireless connections from untrusted sources. Conceivably, you could include malicious code as part of an MP3, store it on a Zune and have it execute on the player when invoked or have it execute after syncing with your desktop.
By the way, I consider advertising to be malicious code. How long before we also see wireless broadcasts for Zunes that have something to sell you?
Again, this is all speculation. Perhaps Microsoft have learned their lesson and the security may turn out to be adequate.
As far as I know, the XBOX and XBOX 360 haven't been ravaged by virii. Besides, virii aren't the real problem with Windows anymore... it's trojans and social-engineering attacks that cause the vast majority of malware and stability problems.
Which proves the point. Ad-hoc wireless networks to share music. We can't judge the security measures that may or may not be in place yet, but that looks a lot like a socially engineered vulnerability to me.
"Dude, I just downloaded the hot new Christina Aguilera song and video. Let me share it with your Zune."
Assuming you can get the wireless networking to even work (with Microsoft's ad-hoc networking history that is NOT a given) how long do you think it will be before the first Zune virus appears?
Also, since the thing supports MP3 and AAC and uses USB to connect, why won't Microsoft support the Mac? It should be trivial to do, and it would eliminate so many complaints about it being a "closed" system. Obviously iPod supports Windows for the market share, but Apple can legitimately claim that they have the only product that supports Mac and Windows.
Why didn't he stop Hitler, Tojo and Stalin. Is he really for "Truth, Justice and the American Way," or just a spin-master?
I'm sure you didn't want a serious answer to this, but this is one of the things comics writers actually got right.
Put yourself in the time of WWII. You've got a world that parallels the real world, except it has beings in it who could end the war overnight. You've also got comics that deal with "real" soldiers that are selling fairly well. You do not want to trivialize the efforts of the people fighting the war. Propaganda was the order of the day. As most comics were read by young boys, you could argue that comics were a recruiting tool for future soldiers as well as a morale boosting bit of propaganda.
In any event, Superman didn't end the war because of a writer's convenience--in this case, the Spear of Destiny. Hitler acquired this mystical Norse artifact that placed a shield over the battlefields of Europe and Asia. Any superpowered being who entered the area would instantly fall under Hitler's control. The heroes knew this, and for the duration of the war they were mostly confined to fighting spies and subversives at home. The writers had their out, and they were still able to tell interesting stories and push the sale of war bonds, encourage conservation and inspire future soldiers.
Any geek who has read comics for any length of time knows that the superheroes of today are *much* less powerful than they were 40 - 50 years ago. I doubt if the laws of physics have changed. Perhaps the shift has been with writers finally understanding that they can only push the boundaries of reality so far.
A Superman who can push the Earth out of its orbit isn't fun for a writer to work with, any more than it is for reader above the age of 5 to enjoy.
A specific incident that comes to mind, probably from the late '80's. I believe it was "Legion of Superheroes" #38, where the writer (Paul Levitz?) had Mon-El deliver a white dwarf star to Earth, as part of a complex plot, to act as a power source for one of Brainiac 5's experiments. The resulting letters page a few issues later completely humbled the writer, with the readers taking him to task for violating the many laws of physics that would have resulted in the Earth's complete destruction. Some readers went into great detail about where the author went wrong, and Levitz actually apologized.
Writers have to be more careful because their readers routinely take them to task when they go too far.
This would still be theft, as the paper Monopoly money has a physical presence, and presumably belongs to you. The real world value isn't so important.
This story is silly on so many levels. Have virtual worlds become so real to us that we've lost sight of the fact that it's all just a game? It's supposed to be entertainment.
Given the amount of particulate air pollution from that period, the cooling trend was likely the result of global dimming. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming ] To some degree this may have offset the effects of global warming, but after 30 years of concerted effort to limit particulate pollution, that offset has begun to erode.
Not only is the article positioning, as you say, it's also a directive. Ballmer has historically reacted to items in the press rather than showing much in the way of leadership on his own. He'll jump on this as the blueprint to success. The buyout portion is just a ruse.
Generating value for the shareholders starts by using the big cash pile to buy back stock. Then you layoff/outsource tons of employees, cutting your expenses further. Cut R&D too and suddenly the Street is very happy. And you look like a great manager.
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...if Windows were designed securely in the first place. This isn't a troll, just an observation.
In a sense everyone is trying to argue that Microsoft can't include additional security tools because they'd be accused of leveraging their monopoly. The enitire antivirus industry likely wouldn't exist, and this would be a moot point, if Windows were designed securely from the start.
What we seem to have now is pressure on Microsoft not to make things *too* much better because they would wipe out a lucrative business niche occupied by third parties. Microsoft is a slave to backwards compatibility, so they won't scrap everything and start from scratch. But they can't win because if they offer an antivirus solution they're leveraging their monopoly unfairly. Or they're an extortionist because they failed to secure Windows properly, but are getting more money from customers by forcing them to purchase their anti-malware solution.
OSX is better than Windows in terms of security. But Microsoft only have themselves to blame. They should break with backwards compatibility, buy themselves and Linux distro and layer the Windows GUI and APIs on top of it. Do it right and their security problems will be a thing of the past.
Console makers never get as much free advertising and marketing as they do when they're in conflict. It's not about survival, it's about generating interest.
To all of the/.ers who want to just remove the EDR. It's an integral part of the engine management computer. You can't remove it and have the car continue to function. I predict a future aftermarket business for replacement management computers without the data recording aspects.
But the answer to your question is no. A new law isn't needed.
The thing you have to realize is that there are very few "accidents" in traffic situations. There's a reason the police refer to them as "collisions" and not accidents--because usually someone has done/failed to do something that causes it. That usually involves recklessness or negligence on the part of the driver. Those actions ARE crimes, whether or not there was a specific intent to commit a crime. In my area the police are trained to immediately download the information from the EDR at the accident scene. No driver permission required, because it's part of the investigation of the cause of the collision. Police accident investigators have a handheld device that plugs into a port in the vehicle that downloads the data from the EDR for later analysis.
By the way, vehicles that are equipped with GPS services such as OnStar automatically call authorities in the event of a collision. Do you really believe that they couldn't also upload the EDR contents at the same time? I'm not saying they *do* that, but it's not inconceivable.
In a culture that is innundated with media reports of school shootings, amber alerts and the faces of missing children plastered on milk cartons, is it any wonder that parents want to feel as if their kids are constantly connected to them? Cell phones are an extension of the leashes they attach to toddlers. As long as their kids are within "reach", even when that reach is wireless, parents feel more secure.
It's a mistaken notion, of course. But it's the one marketers are using to get cell phones into the hands of younger and younger children.
More likely it's an extension of the versioning system available in Aperture. It wouldn't be the first time Apple has taken the functionality of an application and extended it throughout the OS.
Given that this is a developers' conference they would have said ZFS if it were ZFS.
As if advertising in almost every other aspect of our lives wasn't bad enough. We now have to subject kids to it during "family time" and give 7 year olds virtual credit cards. What better way to teach kids responsible spending habits than by giving them cards that magically replenish their currency value without any effort on your part?
As a civil matter, the standard of proof is based on a "preponderance of the evidence". It's not the same "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard that is used in criminal cases. The MPAA will have to convince a judge (or jury--which one is chosen depends on a number of factors) that this specific person performed the actions they say he did, and that they suffered damages as a result. If you want to look at it in a simplistic way, the MPAA have to be able to convince the judge/jury of their side to a greater than 50% standard in order to win.
We don't know what proof the MPAA has, but a sharp lawyer will almost certainly force them to reveal their detection methods in court. That proof doesn't have to be absolute, but it will have to be better than "this IP address was used to download our content." As others have said, his IP address could have been hijacked. Even if it wasn't, if Hogan lives with anyone else they will have no chance of winning if they didn't specify Hogan and all members of his household as parties in the suit.
As for already owning a copy of the movie in question, that can be very useful if he can prove he bought it before the MPAA says he downloaded it. A check of his credit card records might provide that. If he bought the movie, why would he need to download it? Remember, it's all about convincing the judge/jury within the close boundaries of the 50% standard.
Hogan should take on this fight. He's got every chance of winning it and helping to put an end to an unreasonable extortion scheme.
That judgement should be made when his life is over. So far he's established his robber baron credentials pretty well. But we should all hope that he is as successful in his philanthropic efforts as he has been in business. If he is, he will be remembered with Carnegie and Vanderbilt. Then "great" will apply.
"The universe is vast, and we are so small. In the end there is only one thing we can truly control...whether we are good, or evil."
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You can go pink, but don't be surprised if someone thinks it's for National Coming Out Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coming_Out_D ay/
As reluctant as I am to defend this loathesome administration, you need to get your facts straight.
Condi Rice served as National Security Council staff director for Soviet and East European affairs in Bush 41's administration. By all accounts she did a very good job--as judged by her superiors Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Advisor, and the first President Bush. I think it's safe to say that a number of significant events in Soviet and East European affairs took place at this point in history, which I'll leave as an exercise for you to research. Do you think that maybe Rice had a hand in crafting the US response to those events, given her position?
Yes, Rice is black and female. So. What. Neither fact speaks to her qualifications to be National Security Advisor. Or is that a position that can only be held by a white male?
I think your racism and sexism is showing. (And no, your "male American of Japanese ancestry" comment does not insulate you.)
Because you're still required to declare all foreign holdings and earnings at income tax time.
It's probably obvious, but it seems that Intel wants to remove the business stigma associated with beige boxes. Non-geeks just aren't going to want to have they typical Wintel box in their living room. Rightly or wrongly, marketeers believe this is the reason for the failure of the media PC.
Intel wants a platform to showcase their multimedia technologies. They can't convince Apple to use them, so offering a US$1 million prize is a lot cheaper than Intel doing it themselves.
At the moment they have Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Brothers and Sealab 2021. It's even easy to find, as they list "Adult Swim" as a seperate network.
The stuff they don't actually produce (read: Anime) will likely take some time, if it ever happens.
Wow...just wow. That's a pretty good troll, but why anyone would care about a comparison based on 10 year old hardware (the 8600) and at best 8 year old software (MacOS 9) is beyond me.
Being a vector for a virus doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be affected by it. It's a matter of accepting wireless connections from untrusted sources. Conceivably, you could include malicious code as part of an MP3, store it on a Zune and have it execute on the player when invoked or have it execute after syncing with your desktop.
By the way, I consider advertising to be malicious code. How long before we also see wireless broadcasts for Zunes that have something to sell you?
Again, this is all speculation. Perhaps Microsoft have learned their lesson and the security may turn out to be adequate.
Which proves the point. Ad-hoc wireless networks to share music. We can't judge the security measures that may or may not be in place yet, but that looks a lot like a socially engineered vulnerability to me.
"Dude, I just downloaded the hot new Christina Aguilera song and video. Let me share it with your Zune."
Now sync that with your desktop/laptop.
Assuming you can get the wireless networking to even work (with Microsoft's ad-hoc networking history that is NOT a given) how long do you think it will be before the first Zune virus appears?
Also, since the thing supports MP3 and AAC and uses USB to connect, why won't Microsoft support the Mac? It should be trivial to do, and it would eliminate so many complaints about it being a "closed" system. Obviously iPod supports Windows for the market share, but Apple can legitimately claim that they have the only product that supports Mac and Windows.
Best. Tie Clip. Ever.
I'm sure you didn't want a serious answer to this, but this is one of the things comics writers actually got right.
Put yourself in the time of WWII. You've got a world that parallels the real world, except it has beings in it who could end the war overnight. You've also got comics that deal with "real" soldiers that are selling fairly well. You do not want to trivialize the efforts of the people fighting the war. Propaganda was the order of the day. As most comics were read by young boys, you could argue that comics were a recruiting tool for future soldiers as well as a morale boosting bit of propaganda.
In any event, Superman didn't end the war because of a writer's convenience--in this case, the Spear of Destiny. Hitler acquired this mystical Norse artifact that placed a shield over the battlefields of Europe and Asia. Any superpowered being who entered the area would instantly fall under Hitler's control. The heroes knew this, and for the duration of the war they were mostly confined to fighting spies and subversives at home. The writers had their out, and they were still able to tell interesting stories and push the sale of war bonds, encourage conservation and inspire future soldiers.
Any geek who has read comics for any length of time knows that the superheroes of today are *much* less powerful than they were 40 - 50 years ago. I doubt if the laws of physics have changed. Perhaps the shift has been with writers finally understanding that they can only push the boundaries of reality so far.
A Superman who can push the Earth out of its orbit isn't fun for a writer to work with, any more than it is for reader above the age of 5 to enjoy.
A specific incident that comes to mind, probably from the late '80's. I believe it was "Legion of Superheroes" #38, where the writer (Paul Levitz?) had Mon-El deliver a white dwarf star to Earth, as part of a complex plot, to act as a power source for one of Brainiac 5's experiments. The resulting letters page a few issues later completely humbled the writer, with the readers taking him to task for violating the many laws of physics that would have resulted in the Earth's complete destruction. Some readers went into great detail about where the author went wrong, and Levitz actually apologized.
Writers have to be more careful because their readers routinely take them to task when they go too far.
This would still be theft, as the paper Monopoly money has a physical presence, and presumably belongs to you. The real world value isn't so important.
This story is silly on so many levels. Have virtual worlds become so real to us that we've lost sight of the fact that it's all just a game? It's supposed to be entertainment.
Given the amount of particulate air pollution from that period, the cooling trend was likely the result of global dimming. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming ] To some degree this may have offset the effects of global warming, but after 30 years of concerted effort to limit particulate pollution, that offset has begun to erode.
At least, as soon as Vista is out the door.
Not only is the article positioning, as you say, it's also a directive. Ballmer has historically reacted to items in the press rather than showing much in the way of leadership on his own. He'll jump on this as the blueprint to success. The buyout portion is just a ruse.
Generating value for the shareholders starts by using the big cash pile to buy back stock. Then you layoff/outsource tons of employees, cutting your expenses further. Cut R&D too and suddenly the Street is very happy. And you look like a great manager.
...if Windows were designed securely in the first place. This isn't a troll, just an observation.
In a sense everyone is trying to argue that Microsoft can't include additional security tools because they'd be accused of leveraging their monopoly. The enitire antivirus industry likely wouldn't exist, and this would be a moot point, if Windows were designed securely from the start.
What we seem to have now is pressure on Microsoft not to make things *too* much better because they would wipe out a lucrative business niche occupied by third parties. Microsoft is a slave to backwards compatibility, so they won't scrap everything and start from scratch. But they can't win because if they offer an antivirus solution they're leveraging their monopoly unfairly. Or they're an extortionist because they failed to secure Windows properly, but are getting more money from customers by forcing them to purchase their anti-malware solution.
OSX is better than Windows in terms of security. But Microsoft only have themselves to blame. They should break with backwards compatibility, buy themselves and Linux distro and layer the Windows GUI and APIs on top of it. Do it right and their security problems will be a thing of the past.
"War is good for business."
Console makers never get as much free advertising and marketing as they do when they're in conflict. It's not about survival, it's about generating interest.
To all of the /.ers who want to just remove the EDR. It's an integral part of the engine management computer. You can't remove it and have the car continue to function. I predict a future aftermarket business for replacement management computers without the data recording aspects.
But the answer to your question is no. A new law isn't needed.
The thing you have to realize is that there are very few "accidents" in traffic situations. There's a reason the police refer to them as "collisions" and not accidents--because usually someone has done/failed to do something that causes it. That usually involves recklessness or negligence on the part of the driver. Those actions ARE crimes, whether or not there was a specific intent to commit a crime. In my area the police are trained to immediately download the information from the EDR at the accident scene. No driver permission required, because it's part of the investigation of the cause of the collision. Police accident investigators have a handheld device that plugs into a port in the vehicle that downloads the data from the EDR for later analysis.
By the way, vehicles that are equipped with GPS services such as OnStar automatically call authorities in the event of a collision. Do you really believe that they couldn't also upload the EDR contents at the same time? I'm not saying they *do* that, but it's not inconceivable.
In a culture that is innundated with media reports of school shootings, amber alerts and the faces of missing children plastered on milk cartons, is it any wonder that parents want to feel as if their kids are constantly connected to them? Cell phones are an extension of the leashes they attach to toddlers. As long as their kids are within "reach", even when that reach is wireless, parents feel more secure.
It's a mistaken notion, of course. But it's the one marketers are using to get cell phones into the hands of younger and younger children.
More likely it's an extension of the versioning system available in Aperture. It wouldn't be the first time Apple has taken the functionality of an application and extended it throughout the OS.
Given that this is a developers' conference they would have said ZFS if it were ZFS.
As if advertising in almost every other aspect of our lives wasn't bad enough. We now have to subject kids to it during "family time" and give 7 year olds virtual credit cards. What better way to teach kids responsible spending habits than by giving them cards that magically replenish their currency value without any effort on your part?
As a civil matter, the standard of proof is based on a "preponderance of the evidence". It's not the same "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard that is used in criminal cases. The MPAA will have to convince a judge (or jury--which one is chosen depends on a number of factors) that this specific person performed the actions they say he did, and that they suffered damages as a result. If you want to look at it in a simplistic way, the MPAA have to be able to convince the judge/jury of their side to a greater than 50% standard in order to win.
We don't know what proof the MPAA has, but a sharp lawyer will almost certainly force them to reveal their detection methods in court. That proof doesn't have to be absolute, but it will have to be better than "this IP address was used to download our content." As others have said, his IP address could have been hijacked. Even if it wasn't, if Hogan lives with anyone else they will have no chance of winning if they didn't specify Hogan and all members of his household as parties in the suit.
As for already owning a copy of the movie in question, that can be very useful if he can prove he bought it before the MPAA says he downloaded it. A check of his credit card records might provide that. If he bought the movie, why would he need to download it? Remember, it's all about convincing the judge/jury within the close boundaries of the 50% standard.
Hogan should take on this fight. He's got every chance of winning it and helping to put an end to an unreasonable extortion scheme.
That judgement should be made when his life is over. So far he's established his robber baron credentials pretty well. But we should all hope that he is as successful in his philanthropic efforts as he has been in business. If he is, he will be remembered with Carnegie and Vanderbilt. Then "great" will apply.
"The universe is vast, and we are so small. In the end there is only one thing we can truly control...whether we are good, or evil."
That not even Microsoft's air force can shoot straight.
The University of Alberta is in Edmonton.
Shut your f**kin' face monkey f**ker!