I find it interesting that you start off stating "a two by four" isn't 2" by 4" and go on to advocate for a different measuring system.
The measuring system isn't the fault in the 2x4 example, and changing it would not magically correct that situation.
I also find it interesting that you compare:
Imperial: arbitrary and inconsistent............ Metric:................. consistent and logical
The metric system is based on arbitrary measurements and ratios as well. The size of the earth. The weight of a specific object (originally: the weight of a specific volume of a specific substance). The freezing/boiling point of a specific substance.*
At base, ALL units of measurement are arbitrarily defined. So yes, I acknowledge that you made no statement regarding the arbitrariness of the metric system nor the logic of the imperial system.
* Wikipedia corrects me: The Kelvin scale is the one used by SI, not Celsius.... except that the Kelvin scale is not particularly useful in everyday life. this link seems fairly useful about other cases where SI units are not in common use.
> multiple organisations that provide linux support
I would count it a failure of the "multiple sources" argument if I have to re-install the operating system to get it to work.
Could you point me to a resource that describes how to continue updating my Brand X Linux system through some other Linux distributor without having to install that other distributor's version of Linux entirely? I give points for any (brand x) -> (brand y) descriptions, but the grand prize goes to (any brand) -> (any other brand) solution description.
While I am confident that the various versions of Linux are interoperable, I'm not sufficiently conversant with Linux to know if they are subject to miscegenation or not.
Aluminum may be relatively inert as a battery, but the sodium hydroxide is anything but chemically inert. Much like the acid in the lead-acid battery you mention.
Is it still "butt simple" to wire up a PS3 with Linux or Windows 7 once it has been updated to version 3.21 of the firmware? No, really. I want to know. Can you do it without Sony getting all in your face about it?
> In their defence, the whole purpose for the vast majority of users when buying a PS3 was to have a gaming machine and some semblance of fair competition in multiplayer.
The purpose for the vast majority of users who bought the PS3 to use the "OtherOS" was to use Linux on the PS3. Enough of them felt that you should be able to use Linux AND play games on the PS3 that they have formed a class action lawsuit.
> They sell at a loss because they want you to buy games.
And yet, they sell them at a loss. If they didn't want to sell them at a loss, they would not do so.
>Homebrew has no real value on a PS3. Odd you should say that after posting that you'd worked on an astrophysics cluster project using PS3s. Especially since you use "Homebrew" as a placeholder for "not approved by Sony".
> If your definition of "freedom" includes being able to hide improper behavior from your neighbors, then yes, your freedom is in jeopardy.
If by improper you mean "anything your neighbors would disapprove of" then no, I don't think the dangers to freedom (not in quotes) is overblown.
Conspiring to overthrow the city council next election? Having wild rabbit sex before 9pm? Dress in overalls and then NOT go weeding your lawn?
>but the worst they will realistically be able to do is tell your neighbors.
And you suggest I NOT be worried? There are all sorts of ways to harass someone. As another poster mentioned, your neighbors may have to fear reciprocity. Watchers from a distance have no realistic fears of reprisal, and will do pretty much as they please.
Having been hauled into court because my car's license plate "was obscured" (equipment failure) by road grime and exhaust residue, I urge you to reconsider.
I have also heard reports that some of those license plate covers - that incidentally make it difficult for red light cameras to capture your license plate - have been outlawed.
Both pages offer such products, both pages acknowledge that some jurisdictions outlaw them. And you KNOW that they love to make examples of people seeming to evade attempts to enforce the law.
You may be right, but that doesn't mean that he would not be required to prove it in a court of law. 's why SLAPP legislation exists as well. Don't like what someone is doing? Sue them. Either you run them out of money and roll over them in court, or they settle "your way".
With Groklaw going off the air mid-may, I'll be losing shows like "SCO on Ice" and "Fun with Hotz and Sony". Maybe the new "Battle of the Corporate Stars" will fill my evenings.
The problem with this is that you are further away from *everywhere*. That is, you are further away from all landmarks equally. For all intents and purposes, then, you are saying you are "straight down" from where you really are. Even then, you are only affecting the last leg of the route. You only have limited control over who you directly connect to, and that would seem to provide the maximum bound over which you have control. Of course, if you have a single link to the outside world through your data center *elsewhere*, you can only be localized to the radius of that link.
Introducing a variable delay doesn't help the case unless the variable depends on the path. Enough samples can average the delay, thus negating the effect of a random delay.
> Facebook does not control the Internet. It only controls Facebook. You can "communicate" or "speak" on your own blog, open for anybody to see. Nobody controls that but you, and you don't need "your own server" to do that.
... Unless you are an ISP yourself, your ISP has control of your own server (in the sense that they can disconnect you). If you don't have your own server, then the server hosting your blog has similar power over your blog.
I'll point out that the parent made essentially the same point: if your blog is on Blogspot or Blogger, you are beholden to said service. In that context, I don't understand how you say "nobody controls (your blog) but you".
Just to make the record complete, MAC addresses not only can be spoofed, there have been cases of duplicates happening in the wild.
And this is while we're still talking about physical NICs. Start in on VM "hardware" and the thought of universally unique MAC can be ashcanned instantly.
Using Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, for an example:
CEO Cleve L. Killingsworth gets 26% raise to $3.5m(citation)
Blue Cross Financial results for 2010: $13.4m profit on operating loss of $100.7m and investment profit of $111.4m
BCBSMA % of revenue going to administrative costs: 10%. (Presumably, this includes CEO wages.)
BCBSMA enrollment: 2.9 million members in December 2010.
The thing to remember about soaking the rich is that you're peeing into a very big pool. If you claw back the entirety of the CEO's salary, each member gets just over $1 more of coverage (or rebate) for that year.
Assume for the sake of argument that there are 30 CxO officers getting that same salary. There almost certainly aren't, but we'll pretend for exaggeration purposes. So to be 20% of your insurance premium, you have to be spending no more than $150/year on health insurance. (~$30/year / 20%).
$150/year health insurance is a fantasy. Average annual premium for an individual is over $2,000, for a family, $6,000. (cite)
Could BCBSMA have used a good portion of that $3.5m for coverage? Sure, they could have. But you would not have noticed the difference.
I find that Yamamoto may have put that in a diary entry, but as for actually speaking it? The movies are likely to have put the words in his mouth.... And then later shortened the quote.
There's a world of difference between working on "exercise code" and working on a "working app".
The sort of thing you're talking about is probably easier to find today, what with Sourceforge and other community projects, if you want a "research project" sort of task. Or perhaps an internship.
But the amount of instructor time that sort of thing requires per project also makes it unsuitable as an "exercise".
The reaction you describe (students arriving at the location they were warned off of) would seem to indicate that the system was not only not helpful, it was counter productive. And sadly, you can't simply use misdirection ("no, the shooter is over THERE, not here") to redirect the herd, that'd simply open you up to all kinds of liability.
The only use to the message you report is "tell us if you see anything suspicious". Providing details might give people expectations, cause people NOT to see something. "Aw, it happened across the way. Surely OUR Joe wasn't acting suspicious. We aren't anywhere near there."
You've addressed the technical SPOF issue, but you've not addressed the human SPOF issue: The whole idea of SSO is one set of credentials. When those credentials are compromised, everything protected by them is compromised at the same time.
That is, the IDEA of SSO is what creates a single point of failure.
The counter to this point of failure might be to institute/allow gradated/granulated credentials to the same account. They COULD all be the same (IE mimic SSO), but that would be a degenerate case.
But perhaps you were suggesting that with "more than one OpenID"?
Easier yet would be separating the "I want to set an alarm" path from the "I want to change the scripts" path. Having both functions in the same dialog is simply asking for trouble.
And hey, they were using custom software. It doesn't have to precisely follow the methods for creating an email template, does it?
And... why are people fixated on just the words? Why not make the "send alarm" button have Big Red Friendly Letters, a different button shape, or perhaps have the button slide away from the mouse, requiring the user stalk and corner it in order to click on it?
The Oregon bill limits the proposed requirement to businesses with $50m/year revenue. So startups would be allowed to continue until they become big enough to harvest...
Lockheed Martin (assuming oregon jurisdiction applied) would need to use products of company B, for the suit to apply.
Possibly, the product from B would need to/include/ the "misappropriated information technology". I was uncertain of the wording.
On the other hand, a) Lockheed Martin would have to defend itself regardless of the truth of the allegation, b) L.M. would have to prove compliance with "force your suppliers to submit to the BSA", and c) the law would permit Chinese company A to do an on-site inspection of L.M.'s products,/information technology/, files, records, etc. during discovery.
Sue someone, look at their IT and products. How great is that?
All they need to do is provide a local option that swaps models: The players become amazons (or valkyries, depending on your tastes) and the "flag babe" becomes "flag beefcake". See? Equal Opportunity Offender!
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I find it interesting that you start off stating "a two by four" isn't 2" by 4" and go on to advocate for a different measuring system.
The measuring system isn't the fault in the 2x4 example, and changing it would not magically correct that situation.
I also find it interesting that you compare:
Imperial: arbitrary and inconsistent ............ ................. consistent and logical
Metric:
The metric system is based on arbitrary measurements and ratios as well. The size of the earth. The weight of a specific object (originally: the weight of a specific volume of a specific substance). The freezing/boiling point of a specific substance.*
At base, ALL units of measurement are arbitrarily defined. So yes, I acknowledge that you made no statement regarding the arbitrariness of the metric system nor the logic of the imperial system.
* Wikipedia corrects me: The Kelvin scale is the one used by SI, not Celsius. ... except that the Kelvin scale is not particularly useful in everyday life. this link seems fairly useful about other cases where SI units are not in common use.
> Actually....most common peoples to be lacking digits...shop teachers.
Shop teacher: (prideful) We have room in the shop for 10 people at a time to work on their projects!
PTA oversight parent: This is a really big shop you have here. It looks like there is room for way more than ten people here.
Shop teacher: I didn't say 1, I said 10!
Parent: Um... do you mean... a hundred?
Shop teacher: That's what I said! 10!
> multiple organisations that provide linux support
I would count it a failure of the "multiple sources" argument if I have to re-install the operating system to get it to work.
Could you point me to a resource that describes how to continue updating my Brand X Linux system through some other Linux distributor without having to install that other distributor's version of Linux entirely? I give points for any (brand x) -> (brand y) descriptions, but the grand prize goes to (any brand) -> (any other brand) solution description.
While I am confident that the various versions of Linux are interoperable, I'm not sufficiently conversant with Linux to know if they are subject to miscegenation or not.
The same could be said for any email on the phone. Text. Copyrighted by default.
But the same could also be said re copyright of physical written evidence copied for the use of the prosecution and/or defense.
I suspect copyright issues are held in abeyance as regards evidence in investigations. But I do not know.
Aluminum may be relatively inert as a battery, but the sodium hydroxide is anything but chemically inert. Much like the acid in the lead-acid battery you mention.
Is it still "butt simple" to wire up a PS3 with Linux or Windows 7 once it has been updated to version 3.21 of the firmware? No, really. I want to know. Can you do it without Sony getting all in your face about it?
I find that interesting in that there are four copies of the signature page, each signed by a separate person, and none signed by the judge.
> In their defence, the whole purpose for the vast majority of users when buying a PS3 was to have a gaming machine and some semblance of fair competition in multiplayer.
The purpose for the vast majority of users who bought the PS3 to use the "OtherOS" was to use Linux on the PS3. Enough of them felt that you should be able to use Linux AND play games on the PS3 that they have formed a class action lawsuit.
> They sell at a loss because they want you to buy games.
And yet, they sell them at a loss. If they didn't want to sell them at a loss, they would not do so.
>Homebrew has no real value on a PS3.
Odd you should say that after posting that you'd worked on an astrophysics cluster project using PS3s. Especially since you use "Homebrew" as a placeholder for "not approved by Sony".
> If your definition of "freedom" includes being able to hide improper behavior from your neighbors, then yes, your freedom is in jeopardy.
If by improper you mean "anything your neighbors would disapprove of" then no, I don't think the dangers to freedom (not in quotes) is overblown.
Conspiring to overthrow the city council next election? Having wild rabbit sex before 9pm? Dress in overalls and then NOT go weeding your lawn?
>but the worst they will realistically be able to do is tell your neighbors.
And you suggest I NOT be worried? There are all sorts of ways to harass someone. As another poster mentioned, your neighbors may have to fear reciprocity. Watchers from a distance have no realistic fears of reprisal, and will do pretty much as they please.
Having been hauled into court because my car's license plate "was obscured" (equipment failure) by road grime and exhaust residue, I urge you to reconsider.
I have also heard reports that some of those license plate covers - that incidentally make it difficult for red light cameras to capture your license plate - have been outlawed.
http://www.phantomplate.com/print_delaware.html
http://www.banoggle.com/products/ontrack/photo-blur.aspx
Both pages offer such products, both pages acknowledge that some jurisdictions outlaw them. And you KNOW that they love to make examples of people seeming to evade attempts to enforce the law.
You may be right, but that doesn't mean that he would not be required to prove it in a court of law. 's why SLAPP legislation exists as well. Don't like what someone is doing? Sue them. Either you run them out of money and roll over them in court, or they settle "your way".
With Groklaw going off the air mid-may, I'll be losing shows like "SCO on Ice" and "Fun with Hotz and Sony". Maybe the new "Battle of the Corporate Stars" will fill my evenings.
The problem with this is that you are further away from *everywhere*. That is, you are further away from all landmarks equally. For all intents and purposes, then, you are saying you are "straight down" from where you really are. Even then, you are only affecting the last leg of the route. You only have limited control over who you directly connect to, and that would seem to provide the maximum bound over which you have control. Of course, if you have a single link to the outside world through your data center *elsewhere*, you can only be localized to the radius of that link.
Introducing a variable delay doesn't help the case unless the variable depends on the path. Enough samples can average the delay, thus negating the effect of a random delay.
> Facebook does not control the Internet. It only controls Facebook. You can "communicate" or "speak" on your own blog, open for anybody to see. Nobody controls that but you, and you don't need "your own server" to do that.
I'll point out that the parent made essentially the same point: if your blog is on Blogspot or Blogger, you are beholden to said service. In that context, I don't understand how you say "nobody controls (your blog) but you".
Just to make the record complete, MAC addresses not only can be spoofed, there have been cases of duplicates happening in the wild.
And this is while we're still talking about physical NICs. Start in on VM "hardware" and the thought of universally unique MAC can be ashcanned instantly.
Using Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, for an example:
CEO Cleve L. Killingsworth gets 26% raise to $3.5m(citation)
Blue Cross Financial results for 2010: $13.4m profit on operating loss of $100.7m and investment profit of $111.4m
BCBSMA % of revenue going to administrative costs: 10%. (Presumably, this includes CEO wages.)
BCBSMA enrollment: 2.9 million members in December 2010.
The thing to remember about soaking the rich is that you're peeing into a very big pool. If you claw back the entirety of the CEO's salary, each member gets just over $1 more of coverage (or rebate) for that year.
Assume for the sake of argument that there are 30 CxO officers getting that same salary. There almost certainly aren't, but we'll pretend for exaggeration purposes. So to be 20% of your insurance premium, you have to be spending no more than $150/year on health insurance. (~$30/year / 20%).
$150/year health insurance is a fantasy. Average annual premium for an individual is over $2,000, for a family, $6,000. (cite)
Could BCBSMA have used a good portion of that $3.5m for coverage? Sure, they could have. But you would not have noticed the difference.
I find that Yamamoto may have put that in a diary entry, but as for actually speaking it? The movies are likely to have put the words in his mouth. ... And then later shortened the quote.
There's a world of difference between working on "exercise code" and working on a "working app".
The sort of thing you're talking about is probably easier to find today, what with Sourceforge and other community projects, if you want a "research project" sort of task. Or perhaps an internship.
But the amount of instructor time that sort of thing requires per project also makes it unsuitable as an "exercise".
The reaction you describe (students arriving at the location they were warned off of) would seem to indicate that the system was not only not helpful, it was counter productive. And sadly, you can't simply use misdirection ("no, the shooter is over THERE, not here") to redirect the herd, that'd simply open you up to all kinds of liability.
The only use to the message you report is "tell us if you see anything suspicious". Providing details might give people expectations, cause people NOT to see something. "Aw, it happened across the way. Surely OUR Joe wasn't acting suspicious. We aren't anywhere near there."
You've addressed the technical SPOF issue, but you've not addressed the human SPOF issue: The whole idea of SSO is one set of credentials. When those credentials are compromised, everything protected by them is compromised at the same time.
That is, the IDEA of SSO is what creates a single point of failure.
The counter to this point of failure might be to institute/allow gradated/granulated credentials to the same account. They COULD all be the same (IE mimic SSO), but that would be a degenerate case.
But perhaps you were suggesting that with "more than one OpenID"?
Easier yet would be separating the "I want to set an alarm" path from the "I want to change the scripts" path. Having both functions in the same dialog is simply asking for trouble.
And hey, they were using custom software. It doesn't have to precisely follow the methods for creating an email template, does it?
And... why are people fixated on just the words? Why not make the "send alarm" button have Big Red Friendly Letters, a different button shape, or perhaps have the button slide away from the mouse, requiring the user stalk and corner it in order to click on it?
This is just the sort of case where you lawyer up first, THEN determine if you can sue and on what basis.
IANAL and I wouldn't care to give legal advice on that particular problem.
The Oregon bill limits the proposed requirement to businesses with $50m/year revenue. So startups would be allowed to continue until they become big enough to harvest...
Having recently looked at the Oregon version, your scenario fails:
Lockheed Martin (assuming oregon jurisdiction applied) would need to use products of company B, for the suit to apply.
Possibly, the product from B would need to /include/ the "misappropriated information technology". I was uncertain of the wording.
On the other hand, a) Lockheed Martin would have to defend itself regardless of the truth of the allegation, b) L.M. would have to prove compliance with "force your suppliers to submit to the BSA", and c) the law would permit Chinese company A to do an on-site inspection of L.M.'s products, /information technology/, files, records, etc. during discovery.
Sue someone, look at their IT and products. How great is that?
All they need to do is provide a local option that swaps models: The players become amazons (or valkyries, depending on your tastes) and the "flag babe" becomes "flag beefcake". See? Equal Opportunity Offender!