Would this be a satisfactory system if this hole were plugged?
The problem is whether there is any satisfactory system given the likelihood of whiny Slashbots complaining about either loss of privacy, insecure maintenance of critical information, and threat to identity security. If the default posture is "it will be hacked" to any proposal for a necessary identification system such as this, how could such a system be designed so that these objections are unwarranted?
As we Americans move towards a national healthcare system, this question will need to be answered soon.
Where a publisher stands to make some money, gamers get screwed.
Is there a chance to fix this system?
As long as you approach the world with the attitude that it owes you something, there is no chance to fix the system. You will always be disappointed and feel "screwed".
If you have need for such an identification card and trackable number within the government database to allow you access to government services such as healthcare, what is the best identification system in that case?
The Marvell AP102 chip (PXA3xx series SOC) runs the OS on the Kinect side. There's no way the XBox could keep up with the necessary processing on its own.
Note also that the penalty for a -1 Troll is far more damaging than a +1 Insightful is beneficial.
A post with 10 moderations, of which 5 are -1 Troll and 5 are +1 Insightful, will have +-0 points, but the poster will most likely have had his karma reduced to Bad or Terrible. Any post that pertains to any mildly controversial subject, no matter how well argued, will reduce the karma of the poster. Given this negative feedback loop, only posters who spout along the lines of this site's zeitgeist are rewarded.
One man's insightful or interesting post is another man's troll. Given the relative weightings of the current karma system, Insightful, Interesting, and Funny posts are unequally and negatively balanced by the Troll and Flamebait moderations they attract. Funny moderations are worse in that they inflate post scores without a corresponding increase in karma, so they are ripe for the Overrated moderation which cannot be remedied in metamod. This leaves only Informative posts which are not prone to negative moderations, but that is only if the poster can refrain from giving any strong opinion.
A site full of Informative posts is great for what it is. However it is not really a great conversational environment where people are able to express strong feelings or argue with any vehemency. Unfortunately that is what Slashdot's negatively weighted moderation system has created. In order to eliminate the trolls here, they have taken measures that reduce the likelihood of good posts and increase the number of lukewarm, mediocre posts.
I remember when Yahoo! and AOL were the most important companies in their field.
AOL was so big that they bought media giant Time Warner. Yahoo! was so big they were the homepage of over 90% of the internet-savvy population.
The internet changed AOL so much that it became unrecognizable as that company that used to clog mailboxes with 3.5" floppies and CDs with their software. Google surpassed Yahoo!'s hierarchical solution with its ranking-based solution.
Now both companies are in their final years, looking for a way to survive into the next decade. But realistically, without an actual software infrastructure that can be deployed across various device domains, the companies have no compelling story to sell customers.
They will continue to see their users migrate to Google and Apple. The best they can truly hope for is to become yet another app on Android and iOS (YAAOAAI!). They will never again be the gate keepers they once were.
For almost all of my browsing needs, I use Chrome. I don't assume this protects me to any significant degree, but it at least gets me out of the way of these IE exploits, and that is useful.
However, IE is not just the browser application. Any application that incorporates the browser control (and there are many) could be a vector for this attack. The question becomes whether the settings in IE8 or IE9 that block script execution are applicable in those apps since they may rely on that functionality. If the settings carry over, then do my other apps become crippled? Or if they don't carry over, how at risk am I via those apps?
It must be prevented externally of IE itself. The AV software must be able to catch and block any script stepping out of its bounds, and if I can't trust the application to do that by itself, I must trust something else in the system to do that for me. If AVG is the only one that can block this problem, it may be that I am SOL since I won't install AVG.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. The old media want you to believe that the only way they can make money is by selling you their product, but frankly the world has changed and that distribution method is not only outdated but obsolete due to technologies like BitTorrent. In a nutshell, there is very little benefit in trying to sell an infinitely copyable item to people who can make their own copies.
Clearly people want the product. What they don't want is to have to pay for it. Surely an imaginative company like Vivid could find a way to distribute their product in this new paradigm.
The word "endangered" is used in several articles referencing this problem. However, no article provides the wild owls' population numbers. Endangered species should be protected, but it should be shown that the species are indeed endangered.
I'm sure Harry Potter did provide some impetus behind taking these animals as pets, especially among young children, but the problem in India is further exacerbated by the belief in the magical properties of the owls, especially tufted owls. The culture of taking these birds from the wild is longstanding, and not traceable back to Harry Potter at all.
A lot of people make the mistake of equating "Immaculate Conception" to the virgin birth of Jesus. Actually, it refers to the birth of Mary (mother of Jesus) being born without Original Sin. What the author is referring to is the Annunciation, which is the virgin conception of Jesus within Mary.
Be that as it may, should that be what we settle for? A government with no openness and ties to specific corporate vendors forever?
I don't particularly like Google as a company. I think they are kind of slimy and trade on their geek cred way too much, but I don't want them excluded from competition for government contracts.
If the alternative is to miss out on cool features like network multiplay, maybe that's a tradeoff that some people are willing to make.
I understand the concept of philosophical purity, but pragmatism has always led to a more comfortable existence. Extremist positions like the one you are espousing may be perfectly fine, but it denies the clear fact that there are definite benefits to the non-pure approach that come with whatever liabilities are inherent in such a system.
The US GDP was around 8.6 trillion dollars in 1998 while it is around 14.6 trillion today. That is an almost doubling of the size of our economy.
So taking that into account, a tripling of intelligence spending does outpace economic growth by 50%, and that seems bad. However you also need to consider the geopolitical climate we are in now after 9/11. A 50% increase in spending does not seem outrageous when that spending is directed towards specific needs like intelligence gathering.
This is not only an invasion of privacy, but it is also an incredible burden on the businesses who must retain the records. Having a mountain of data is only useful for fishing expeditions.
The right way to do this would be to allow for monitoring with the blessing of a warrant. If that is not enough, there is likely an overreach of law enforcement and it should be curtailed immediately.
There are too many privacy concerns, especially identity theft, that would make such a technology unacceptable to the general public, much less the governing bodies that would need to approve the devices. It's one thing to connect two devices explicitly via special applications. It's a completely different thing to have devices talk to each other, even if only for relay purposes, without the owners' knowledge.
There is another theory regarding the delay. Somehow Apple heard about how I wasn't interested in a white iPhone unless it also came with blowjobs from the Victoria Secret models. Apple has been unable to get them on board yet.
Every time I hear about NASA spending money on a boondoggle like manned space flight or dumping more money into a black hole like the Space Shuttle, I get so angry. That's my tax money being squandered on useless pet projects.
But then I hear about stuff like this. Where NASA is actually trying to do something that benefits Man, and not just feed their own egos. It makes me hopeful that we can get back on track with our space program.
Maybe all it took was less funding to bring out these imaginative ideas. I don't suppose that would work in other areas of our government... Or could it?
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Would this be a satisfactory system if this hole were plugged?
The problem is whether there is any satisfactory system given the likelihood of whiny Slashbots complaining about either loss of privacy, insecure maintenance of critical information, and threat to identity security. If the default posture is "it will be hacked" to any proposal for a necessary identification system such as this, how could such a system be designed so that these objections are unwarranted?
As we Americans move towards a national healthcare system, this question will need to be answered soon.
As long as you approach the world with the attitude that it owes you something, there is no chance to fix the system. You will always be disappointed and feel "screwed".
If you have need for such an identification card and trackable number within the government database to allow you access to government services such as healthcare, what is the best identification system in that case?
http://www.jbox.com/product/SNK041
Only in Japan, I suppose.
Stockholm syndrome.
Only my closest friends have my twitter information. I like it better this way.
The Marvell AP102 chip (PXA3xx series SOC) runs the OS on the Kinect side. There's no way the XBox could keep up with the necessary processing on its own.
The internal OS is WinCE, so the interface is either serial or USB.
Beyond that, there isn't much to it besides identifying the commands and responses. MS isn't particularly deft in hiding their protocols.
Note also that the penalty for a -1 Troll is far more damaging than a +1 Insightful is beneficial.
A post with 10 moderations, of which 5 are -1 Troll and 5 are +1 Insightful, will have +-0 points, but the poster will most likely have had his karma reduced to Bad or Terrible. Any post that pertains to any mildly controversial subject, no matter how well argued, will reduce the karma of the poster. Given this negative feedback loop, only posters who spout along the lines of this site's zeitgeist are rewarded.
One man's insightful or interesting post is another man's troll. Given the relative weightings of the current karma system, Insightful, Interesting, and Funny posts are unequally and negatively balanced by the Troll and Flamebait moderations they attract. Funny moderations are worse in that they inflate post scores without a corresponding increase in karma, so they are ripe for the Overrated moderation which cannot be remedied in metamod. This leaves only Informative posts which are not prone to negative moderations, but that is only if the poster can refrain from giving any strong opinion.
A site full of Informative posts is great for what it is. However it is not really a great conversational environment where people are able to express strong feelings or argue with any vehemency. Unfortunately that is what Slashdot's negatively weighted moderation system has created. In order to eliminate the trolls here, they have taken measures that reduce the likelihood of good posts and increase the number of lukewarm, mediocre posts.
I remember when Yahoo! and AOL were the most important companies in their field.
AOL was so big that they bought media giant Time Warner.
Yahoo! was so big they were the homepage of over 90% of the internet-savvy population.
The internet changed AOL so much that it became unrecognizable as that company that used to clog mailboxes with 3.5" floppies and CDs with their software. Google surpassed Yahoo!'s hierarchical solution with its ranking-based solution.
Now both companies are in their final years, looking for a way to survive into the next decade. But realistically, without an actual software infrastructure that can be deployed across various device domains, the companies have no compelling story to sell customers.
They will continue to see their users migrate to Google and Apple. The best they can truly hope for is to become yet another app on Android and iOS (YAAOAAI!). They will never again be the gate keepers they once were.
For almost all of my browsing needs, I use Chrome. I don't assume this protects me to any significant degree, but it at least gets me out of the way of these IE exploits, and that is useful.
However, IE is not just the browser application. Any application that incorporates the browser control (and there are many) could be a vector for this attack. The question becomes whether the settings in IE8 or IE9 that block script execution are applicable in those apps since they may rely on that functionality. If the settings carry over, then do my other apps become crippled? Or if they don't carry over, how at risk am I via those apps?
It must be prevented externally of IE itself. The AV software must be able to catch and block any script stepping out of its bounds, and if I can't trust the application to do that by itself, I must trust something else in the system to do that for me. If AVG is the only one that can block this problem, it may be that I am SOL since I won't install AVG.
Ever since AVG decided to break compatibility with previous versions and introduce nagware in their current products, I have decided to avoid Grisoft.
Are there AV solutions available that handle this latest problem yet? Does MS Security Essentials do it?
I'm going to have to disagree with you. The old media want you to believe that the only way they can make money is by selling you their product, but frankly the world has changed and that distribution method is not only outdated but obsolete due to technologies like BitTorrent. In a nutshell, there is very little benefit in trying to sell an infinitely copyable item to people who can make their own copies.
Clearly people want the product. What they don't want is to have to pay for it. Surely an imaginative company like Vivid could find a way to distribute their product in this new paradigm.
The original source for this article, an article by the World Wildlife Fund's TRAFFIC division, explains this problem as one of illegal trading in the birds and the illegal capturing of wild owls.
http://www.wwfindia.org/news_facts/?4940/Black-magic-behind-illegal-owl-trade-in-India
The word "endangered" is used in several articles referencing this problem. However, no article provides the wild owls' population numbers. Endangered species should be protected, but it should be shown that the species are indeed endangered.
I'm sure Harry Potter did provide some impetus behind taking these animals as pets, especially among young children, but the problem in India is further exacerbated by the belief in the magical properties of the owls, especially tufted owls. The culture of taking these birds from the wild is longstanding, and not traceable back to Harry Potter at all.
A lot of people make the mistake of equating "Immaculate Conception" to the virgin birth of Jesus. Actually, it refers to the birth of Mary (mother of Jesus) being born without Original Sin. What the author is referring to is the Annunciation, which is the virgin conception of Jesus within Mary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception
How sad that the phone is so insecure that malicious code could run.
Too bad they don't really have a way to turn off programs that have already overwritten system code.
Be that as it may, should that be what we settle for? A government with no openness and ties to specific corporate vendors forever?
I don't particularly like Google as a company. I think they are kind of slimy and trade on their geek cred way too much, but I don't want them excluded from competition for government contracts.
If the alternative is to miss out on cool features like network multiplay, maybe that's a tradeoff that some people are willing to make.
I understand the concept of philosophical purity, but pragmatism has always led to a more comfortable existence. Extremist positions like the one you are espousing may be perfectly fine, but it denies the clear fact that there are definite benefits to the non-pure approach that come with whatever liabilities are inherent in such a system.
The US GDP was around 8.6 trillion dollars in 1998 while it is around 14.6 trillion today. That is an almost doubling of the size of our economy.
So taking that into account, a tripling of intelligence spending does outpace economic growth by 50%, and that seems bad. However you also need to consider the geopolitical climate we are in now after 9/11. A 50% increase in spending does not seem outrageous when that spending is directed towards specific needs like intelligence gathering.
This is not only an invasion of privacy, but it is also an incredible burden on the businesses who must retain the records. Having a mountain of data is only useful for fishing expeditions.
The right way to do this would be to allow for monitoring with the blessing of a warrant. If that is not enough, there is likely an overreach of law enforcement and it should be curtailed immediately.
There are too many privacy concerns, especially identity theft, that would make such a technology unacceptable to the general public, much less the governing bodies that would need to approve the devices. It's one thing to connect two devices explicitly via special applications. It's a completely different thing to have devices talk to each other, even if only for relay purposes, without the owners' knowledge.
MySpace?.. I liked it better when it was called Facebook!
There is another theory regarding the delay. Somehow Apple heard about how I wasn't interested in a white iPhone unless it also came with blowjobs from the Victoria Secret models. Apple has been unable to get them on board yet.
Every time I hear about NASA spending money on a boondoggle like manned space flight or dumping more money into a black hole like the Space Shuttle, I get so angry. That's my tax money being squandered on useless pet projects.
But then I hear about stuff like this. Where NASA is actually trying to do something that benefits Man, and not just feed their own egos. It makes me hopeful that we can get back on track with our space program.
Maybe all it took was less funding to bring out these imaginative ideas. I don't suppose that would work in other areas of our government... Or could it?
Propaganda??