Or, if you only want to view the film a few times but not commit to a lifetime* license, you can buy it on Blu-Ray and wait for the key revokation fever to hit you.
The new NXT generation of Lego Mindstorms is open source.
You may download the source code for the operating system of the "intelligent brick".
They released an "SDK" as well as binary format specs to be used for making your own programming environment; that is, you can make your own tools that generate programs for your robots
They even released specifications and plans for the hardware in use, as well as documentation for the interfaces between sensors and the NXT, among other things.
How much more of a warm, fuzzy feeling can you get? Source for the above
Back then, you knew they didn't have to wait long; Turn 16, join the army, shoot all the stuff you want!
Kids today don't really lack discipline, what they lack is patience!
The flying pigs are actually 10 year old pigs in police uniforms with machine guns and a Slashdot editor getting mixed up with the avian pig and common pig.
Perhaps that this one Adobe developer has access to:
* Reference code (Indeed, he works with the people who write it)
* Format documentation (Again, he probably shares lunch room with the folks who define the format)
* A full-time job doing this, whereas the GNASH people probably have jobs that hinder their efforts somewhat
The US government - and just about any government - has always retained the right to inspect anything entering its borders
Inspect? Sure. Seize? No.
Granted, I suppose they take just about anything deemed illegal (for example if you bring more liquor than you are allowed across the border), but does "just about any government" allow its border control agents to confiscate arbitrary pieces of property with little or no justification and keep them until further notice?
On that note, what do they plan to do with the potentially huge masses of electronic gadgets and such that they confiscate? Impound car-lot style auctions? DoD-type secure destruction?
What the US authorities are doing at the borders are a good deterrant at least for me, personally. I am from Europe, and I grew up with the general sentiment being that the United States was the greatest thing in our culture. I had several classmates whose life plan was to simply "move to the USA", for no other reason than to... well... move to the USA.
In the last 15 years or so, that image has gone completely out the window. The perspective here now, at least for me and some part of my surroundings, is that the US is in a downward spiral. It's going down and it's going down soon. Obviously, everyone ha a different theory on what the problem is, and I don't understand enough economics and other such important stuff to tell the crap from the plausible ideas (armchair politics are the best, aren't they?).
What I do know, however, is that I will not be visiting the US anytime soon, which is a little saddening. It seems like a country built on some really clever thinking, that has ultimately turned to eating itself.
I don't like being treated as a criminal, and having my fingerprints recorded, my background thoroughly checked and my precious electronics "confiscated" doesn't sound like a step on the way to a pleasant place.
So you're saying pornography does not grant society a cultural benefit?
How many wars are prevented by cake?
What about money, how many wars are prevented by money?
And how many of the uber-aggressive war-bent leaders of the world are, by their stated beliefs, against pornography and other "immoral" things?
Don't you think at least a few of them would calm down and think of alternative solutions after a good few hours of non-stop masturbating took the edge off?
I say we should grant the presidents, prime ministers, etc of the world access to an all-you-can-eat porn buffet before any aggressive measures are discussed, it might help!
Calming them all down might not be a cultural benefit, but how many of them do you think would be so radically opposed to these "immoral" things after a year or two of this?
My first thought on the subject was "Intricate graphics", like drawings of people exposed to danger in some material that doesn't deteriorate heavily with time.
Two problems immediately spring to mind.
First: The signs themselves might be valuable (think copper, brass, etc), and left out in the open for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years they will certainly not stay attached to the ground. It's the way humans work.
Fine, let's imprint this on the vaults far underground that we don't expect a "primitive" civilization to be able to reach. Make it really hard to get inside them. Leave no apparent entrance, seal the whole thing with concrete riddled with these warnings in all conceivable and redundant ways to make sure we get the message across.
Second: What we depict in the signs (Say, somehow making an invisible lethal force apparent, somehow showing that while nothing seems to be there it will kill you nonetheless) might not be interpreted as we expect it to.
Perhaps it will be seen as some sign from god instead of a warning from older civilizations (Don't look at me like that, you know it will be taken as the word of a higher being by at least some future nutcase with or without an agenda).
Perhaps it will be ignored completely as either a fake or a deterrant.
Anything worth protecting with an invisible magical curse is worth prying open and stealing! Remember the pyramids? Monkey see, monkey want, monkey take.
Personally, I don't think we can "protect" our future tomb raiders from what we've hidden in these "treasure chambers" in any way other than to first ensure they receive all the information we have amassed about anything from biology to physics. Make sure that is stored in a more accessible (but still safe in the event of disasters/war/annihilation/etc) way that they will find when they are "ready". Multiple backups scattered across the globe, multiple formats that can be read with nothing but eyes and perhaps opposable thumbs to flip the pages.
I think we will eventually be wiped out by our own enormous hostility, and eventually some other civilization, indeed some other lifeform, might "inherit" the earth. Why not give them a jump start?
The question was not concerning what the *AA can or cannot do, but rather how the SSL encryption put in place by the Pirate Bay folks would constitute a "minimal" security increase for users not in sweden.
My post was intended to explain just how this added SSL encryption would help you, the scurvy sea dog, protect yourself against eavesdropping agents of different sorts, and more importantly how it would not.
If you read it again a few times before mouthing off, you'll see that I never said the *AA is looking at your HTTP data, but rather that they (hopefully) base their litigations and such on what you share with your peers in the swarm (the allegedly illegal stuff).
It would, however, not be a far cry to assume that the US government in one way or another (Say, NSA?) is looking at what you do, and as far as I understand, they get payed to look for pirates as well (Who buys your laws?) as "terrorists" and the like. SSL encryption of TPB web servers would mean that they can see whom you are talking to (The Pirate Bay) but not what you are talking about.
The SSL encryption would presumably only be between you and the Pirate Bay web server\tracker. This would prevent the RIAA from seeing what you download from them (20kB.torrent files, tracker data while seeding\leeching), but the actual files you swap via the bittorrent protocol are not further secured by this.
There are encyption options for that too, but what the Pirate Bay folks are announcing here does not affect how you communicate with other peers (Which, presumably, is what the *AAs are busting you for)
...MOTHER of her friend. Right, so the grandmother and grandfather of this friend didn't ensure their child (the mother you highlighted) was behaving appropriately online?
The one we used, "Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction" by Ralph Grimaldi (ISBN 0-321-21103-0) deals with the RSA cryptosystem, and in the course this was a prominently featured subject.
Agreed, moving files remotely could probably be a problem on its own, but assume you could do that and get a root shell running on the login screen.
And even ignoring that, you would still need physical access to use the newly exploited shell. and if instead of using cmd.exe you use, say, a simple telnet server or some other form of "service" that windows perhaps already has supplied you with? If you can move stuff around in the system directory, what stops you from even putting your own.exe there?
Even still, I have to agree with all the other posters who question the newsworthiness of this. Who's surprised that you can take over an OS and bypass authentication when you are allowed to modify the very sequence of events that determines your identity (physical access == game over)?
A few phrases that convey the same meaning, although not a completely perfect translation:
"Come to think about it,..."
"Upon further consideration..."
"Actually..."
Slashdot Mirror
Or, if you only want to view the film a few times but not commit to a lifetime* license, you can buy it on Blu-Ray and wait for the key revokation fever to hit you.
And they say the consumer has too few choices...
*lifetime of the storage media
The new NXT generation of Lego Mindstorms is open source.
You may download the source code for the operating system of the "intelligent brick".
They released an "SDK" as well as binary format specs to be used for making your own programming environment; that is, you can make your own tools that generate programs for your robots
They even released specifications and plans for the hardware in use, as well as documentation for the interfaces between sensors and the NXT, among other things.
How much more of a warm, fuzzy feeling can you get?
Source for the above
Back then, you knew they didn't have to wait long; Turn 16, join the army, shoot all the stuff you want!
Kids today don't really lack discipline, what they lack is patience!
...because people are fucking sheep.
Let's hope they have OTHER hobbies as well...
He's an Apple consumer? iPhones, iPods and MacBooks are comfortably devoid of sharp corners. Coincidence?
The flying pigs are actually 10 year old pigs in police uniforms with machine guns and a Slashdot editor getting mixed up with the avian pig and common pig.
Fixed that for you.
Perhaps that this one Adobe developer has access to:
* Reference code (Indeed, he works with the people who write it)
* Format documentation (Again, he probably shares lunch room with the folks who define the format)
* A full-time job doing this, whereas the GNASH people probably have jobs that hinder their efforts somewhat
Is that a good enough guess?
Oh yeah? Well it turned me into a NEWT!
The US government - and just about any government - has always retained the right to inspect anything entering its borders
Inspect? Sure. Seize? No.
Granted, I suppose they take just about anything deemed illegal (for example if you bring more liquor than you are allowed across the border), but does "just about any government" allow its border control agents to confiscate arbitrary pieces of property with little or no justification and keep them until further notice?
On that note, what do they plan to do with the potentially huge masses of electronic gadgets and such that they confiscate? Impound car-lot style auctions? DoD-type secure destruction?
What the US authorities are doing at the borders are a good deterrant at least for me, personally. I am from Europe, and I grew up with the general sentiment being that the United States was the greatest thing in our culture. I had several classmates whose life plan was to simply "move to the USA", for no other reason than to... well... move to the USA.
In the last 15 years or so, that image has gone completely out the window. The perspective here now, at least for me and some part of my surroundings, is that the US is in a downward spiral. It's going down and it's going down soon. Obviously, everyone ha a different theory on what the problem is, and I don't understand enough economics and other such important stuff to tell the crap from the plausible ideas (armchair politics are the best, aren't they?).
What I do know, however, is that I will not be visiting the US anytime soon, which is a little saddening. It seems like a country built on some really clever thinking, that has ultimately turned to eating itself.
I don't like being treated as a criminal, and having my fingerprints recorded, my background thoroughly checked and my precious electronics "confiscated" doesn't sound like a step on the way to a pleasant place.
Farewell, USA, I hardly knew ye!
Before looking up "Burma Shave," I could have sworn you just made a joke about self immolation...
So you're saying pornography does not grant society a cultural benefit?
How many wars are prevented by cake?
What about money, how many wars are prevented by money?
And how many of the uber-aggressive war-bent leaders of the world are, by their stated beliefs, against pornography and other "immoral" things?
Don't you think at least a few of them would calm down and think of alternative solutions after a good few hours of non-stop masturbating took the edge off?
I say we should grant the presidents, prime ministers, etc of the world access to an all-you-can-eat porn buffet before any aggressive measures are discussed, it might help!
Calming them all down might not be a cultural benefit, but how many of them do you think would be so radically opposed to these "immoral" things after a year or two of this?
I think you might mean Mecano
My first thought on the subject was "Intricate graphics", like drawings of people exposed to danger in some material that doesn't deteriorate heavily with time.
Two problems immediately spring to mind.
First: The signs themselves might be valuable (think copper, brass, etc), and left out in the open for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years they will certainly not stay attached to the ground. It's the way humans work.
Fine, let's imprint this on the vaults far underground that we don't expect a "primitive" civilization to be able to reach. Make it really hard to get inside them. Leave no apparent entrance, seal the whole thing with concrete riddled with these warnings in all conceivable and redundant ways to make sure we get the message across.
Second: What we depict in the signs (Say, somehow making an invisible lethal force apparent, somehow showing that while nothing seems to be there it will kill you nonetheless) might not be interpreted as we expect it to.
Perhaps it will be seen as some sign from god instead of a warning from older civilizations (Don't look at me like that, you know it will be taken as the word of a higher being by at least some future nutcase with or without an agenda).
Perhaps it will be ignored completely as either a fake or a deterrant.
Anything worth protecting with an invisible magical curse is worth prying open and stealing! Remember the pyramids? Monkey see, monkey want, monkey take.
Personally, I don't think we can "protect" our future tomb raiders from what we've hidden in these "treasure chambers" in any way other than to first ensure they receive all the information we have amassed about anything from biology to physics. Make sure that is stored in a more accessible (but still safe in the event of disasters/war/annihilation/etc) way that they will find when they are "ready". Multiple backups scattered across the globe, multiple formats that can be read with nothing but eyes and perhaps opposable thumbs to flip the pages.
I think we will eventually be wiped out by our own enormous hostility, and eventually some other civilization, indeed some other lifeform, might "inherit" the earth. Why not give them a jump start?
I modded you all up already.
...oh, crap.
eselectrolytes?
I always thought Nero Burning ROM was a really clever name. The icon of the flaming colosseum kind of overdid and gave it away though.
The question was not concerning what the *AA can or cannot do, but rather how the SSL encryption put in place by the Pirate Bay folks would constitute a "minimal" security increase for users not in sweden.
My post was intended to explain just how this added SSL encryption would help you, the scurvy sea dog, protect yourself against eavesdropping agents of different sorts, and more importantly how it would not.
If you read it again a few times before mouthing off, you'll see that I never said the *AA is looking at your HTTP data, but rather that they (hopefully) base their litigations and such on what you share with your peers in the swarm (the allegedly illegal stuff).
It would, however, not be a far cry to assume that the US government in one way or another (Say, NSA?) is looking at what you do, and as far as I understand, they get payed to look for pirates as well (Who buys your laws?) as "terrorists" and the like. SSL encryption of TPB web servers would mean that they can see whom you are talking to (The Pirate Bay) but not what you are talking about.
The SSL encryption would presumably only be between you and the Pirate Bay web server\tracker. This would prevent the RIAA from seeing what you download from them (20kB .torrent files, tracker data while seeding\leeching), but the actual files you swap via the bittorrent protocol are not further secured by this.
There are encyption options for that too, but what the Pirate Bay folks are announcing here does not affect how you communicate with other peers (Which, presumably, is what the *AAs are busting you for)
...MOTHER of her friend. Right, so the grandmother and grandfather of this friend didn't ensure their child (the mother you highlighted) was behaving appropriately online?The one we used, "Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction" by Ralph Grimaldi (ISBN 0-321-21103-0) deals with the RSA cryptosystem, and in the course this was a prominently featured subject.
Evict?
And even ignoring that, you would still need physical access to use the newly exploited shell. and if instead of using cmd.exe you use, say, a simple telnet server or some other form of "service" that windows perhaps already has supplied you with? If you can move stuff around in the system directory, what stops you from even putting your own
Even still, I have to agree with all the other posters who question the newsworthiness of this.
Who's surprised that you can take over an OS and bypass authentication when you are allowed to modify the very sequence of events that determines your identity (physical access == game over)?
A few phrases that convey the same meaning, although not a completely perfect translation: ..."
"Come to think about it,
"Upon further consideration..."
"Actually..."
What, no slackware love?
That's great stuff!
Thank you VERY much for sharing that, I just lost any free time for the next few years.