things like policies on "unopened" email older than 180 days. Are we talking about the 'seen' flag being set? or the file being opened? yeah, of course government law enforcement agencies want the power to snoop on this kind of stuff but it sounds like theyre doing it without a warrant to get around the fact that most judges are completely ignorant about email and electronic communication.
then again judges have ruled in the past the FBI does not have this kind of broad jurisdiction to warrantlessly read email, so maybe they really are just ignoring the rulings?
either way, its been proven by multiple school shootings and a recent bombing that spy-on-the-whole-country technology is worthless. it doesnt help anyone prevent or prove crime, it only enables precrime and thoughtcrime to be used as fodder for law enforcement careers and budget proposals.
exists to generate private profit off public institutions like UC irvine the University of Pennsylvania. in July 2012 they floated the idea of selling student data to potential employers, and to date havent really turned much of a profit. interesting statement from John Doerr, Any revenue stream will be divided, with schools receiving a small percentage of revenue and 20% of gross profits according to wikipedia.
The advertiser supported model in my opinion is a terrible idea. Studies like citizenship and immigration could just serve as vehicles for targeted advertising from the Heritage Foundation, while child nutrition and cooking are all too easily worked into the budgets of companies like Unilever and Kraft. Advertisers have a history of steering content based on their interests (Sanjay Gupta mostly exists to ensure you get your daily dose of targeted pharmaceutical advertising)
i can offer some perspective to India. At first the whole thing seems a bit absurd and draconian, you might even be outraged over it. eventually stuff like this just becomes routine enough to find its way into inane stuff like farm subsidy bills, and aside from the occaional GPS device snuck onto some college kids car you really dont notice it at all. After a while you start to actively ignore the fact that your country runs secret torture camps and foreign prisons for people who say or do the wrong things. Finally you just stop challenging it alltogether and praise it as being something, hell anything your highly factioned, ineffective government can unilaterally agree upon as passable legislation. after a few years and high profile criminal acts like shootings and bombings, you begin to look back and conclude the entire spy-on-everyone thing as being a hopelessly useless effort on the part of the government to keep no one safe.
the american military has done this crap for 40 years. Threats are received, the enemy is downplayed and underestimated, they suddenly do something wildly advanced and unpredicted. Russias Tupolev was said to be incapable of intercontinental long range flight until we saw it soaring around canada, and at nearly twice its estimated speed. Insurgents basically scrolled through drone video like it was cable TV while we insisted they were just simple sand people. Iran was a perfectly acceptable state-sanctioned boogeyman. it was just itching for 'liberation' or 'freedom' or whatever pretext we need to re-establish regional power until they managed to land our drone at their airport of choice. yet we never seem to shit any big bricks, we just keep plodding away.
now we have north korea. from TFA:
North Korea has demonstrated its ability to build short- and medium-range missiles, and it has launched a small satellite into space. But neither of these achievements would necessarily allow it to reach the U.S. with a warhead.
so how many more steps will have to be completed before we land a competent assessment that north korea can send a warhead to the US? are we seriously going to entertain the idea that a country capable of launching a satellite into space is just 'faking it' when it comes to missile technology? Parent posts are probably correct: you're absolutely insane to parade real missiles in a public square if the goal of those missiles is to be highly mobile and undetectable in the face of a nation thats demonstrated numerous times its willingness to violate foreign sovreignity in the pursuit of furthering its interests.
sequestration cuts are getting a little close. Seriously, terrorism or communism. I only have enough patience for one government-sponsored boogey man at a time. Schedule it between the mandatory monthly fiscal cliff panic and the gay marriage thing if you could...or if you can roll it into some weird freedom war that works too.
for cad:
qcad, creo, sketchup, freecad, draftsight, brlcad, gcad, archimedes, and pythoncad.
for pretty pictures:
libre office, gimp, crita, cinepaint, and pixen
for word and excel, libreoffice.
for finite element analysis (assuming youre an engineer)
agros calculix codeaster dune elmer and febio
this is not even a complete list,
its not your fault for needing a computer to do your job. it is your fault for thinking there is only one very expensive way to skin a cat.
the very definition of 'proprietary software' indicates you dont have access to the code to calculate defect density, and even if you did you cannot independently verify the code you have is production code. how did the researchers quantify it?
...and Windows Activation Is Still Relevant?
seriously, its your own damn fault. If you're too lazy to use over 50 different flavours of BSD or Linux then i dont know how else to make personal computing work for you other than pay the mac store to make the bad time go away, or put up with steve as he pedals microsoft into the ground.
im sorry that sounded angry but its just frustrating to see these posts on slashdot when we all know about the alternatives. BSD, Linux, this is shit that has a core of dedicated developers who actually give a damn about your security and user experience. BSD has some of the best documentation around, and Linux has entire festivals and conferences that seriously want to help you do this. the game argument is practically irrelevant too; we have portal halflife and minecraft to name a few.
just, please, help us help you.
bipartisan effort working together to screw the common american. Major multinational corporations are entirely exempt from burdens like taxation, while wageslaves enjoy a cornucopia of arcane, recursive taxation. That some how we're not supposed to talk about class warfare, why we all make shit-tier pay, or what sand encrusted foreign clusterfuck our taxes are being shoveled into.
it leads me to believe Hollyoaks has it all wrong. That Tony Stark only runs around fixing problems he created in the first place. that Batman is just the billionaire boilerplate we've come to recognize as our perpetual prison industrial complex. That should a revolution ever befall this great nation it will start with a flaming Wal-Mart, and not stop until every mansion and chateau from marthas vinyard to kennebunkport is reduced to a smoldering pile of ash twisted wrought iron.
be available for request through FOIA? it cant possibly be that exclusive. Lm Activation Checklist and flight logs are public domain essentially. the rest of the shit on the auction site is kitsch like signatures, parachute material, cut up bible scrap, and even a medal. IMO it only serves to highlight the ridiculously underfunded state of space science and nasa in general.
not so.
there is indeed an astounding amount of shielding and grounding that go into an automobile. the alternator for example is quite possibly the loudest RF emitter onboard (direct coil ignition a damn close second.) car stereos are manufactured to explicitly withstand this condition, adn they do it very well despite having unbalanced speakers to drive. hard drives and wifi may fall under the Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement, but that is not stringent enough to make them an approved part of a car. the ECM encounters a tremendous amount of electromagnetic noise and crosstalk, but is entirely capable of continuous performance under this condition.
other conditions for your consideration: did you know certain electronics in the car are wired with cables that are impregnated with capsaicin? this prevents chewing by mice and rats. some data cables explicitly requre proprietary shielding applied at the factory because none exists to date for the application. other cables must be capable of withstanding hundreds of degrees of temperature changes or must operate in the presence of condensation (which does occur inside the dashboard, this is normal.)
and to answer the question, we mark up the car by selling luxury models. $1100 more in shocks, struts, engine mounts, tail lights, and what we term 'livery' inside the vehicle (shit like a 10 gig drive in the first place) mean we can charge $20,000 or more on top of whats basically just a 'base model'.
is more of a cult than an education vanguard these days. sheldrakes 'morphic resonance' bullshit for example. Taleb's account that TED has devolved into a three-ring circus in which educated scientists perform parlour trickery for the lay-person seems accurate. It should also be taken seriously that Nick Hanauer was shown the door after his talk pointed the audience to reconsider income inequality and taxation of the wealthiest; his talk was never published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#Controversies_and_criticism
car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity and data storage and entertainment streaming through the cloud
in english: car companies are and will continue to be behind the curve because most technology has to be tested to ensure it does not affect the engine control module, electronic stability computer, or other critical systems necessary to have a car in the 21st century. a 10gb drive may be ok, but a 1tb drive with different geometric characteristics may result in a current induction or RF interference that overrides TPMS and reports tires as too low, or for example triggers impact pre-sensors for the airbags (or worse, enabling a multistage airbag for a passenger under 45 pounds.) Having worked for a major asian automotive manufacturer, i've personally seen RF emitted from a hybrid vehicle transmission that caused unpredictable, unintentional airbag detonation. after 6 months of additional testing it had been resolved before the vehicle entered production, but the fix produced another bug that resulted in TBW signal corruption and a sharp vehicle accelleration, followed by a forced shutdown as the vehicle detected the condition.
TL;DR: your car has more technology than most people readily consider. slow and steady is a good thing.
when a product is hyped to death by futurists, plugged incessantly by bloggers, fetishized by cyberpunks and danced around by investors the only purpose in damning it as 'too nerdy' is to make it an even more appealing item for the mainstream 'nerds are sexy' culture.
but saddened it doesnt carry the same clout on websites like SOPA did.
today you might want to check out the open source app store for android (https://www.F-Droid.org) and kick your facebook account to the curb. LinkedIn is a recruiters dream, not an employment tool and is mostly spam anyhow. http://www.freeshell.org/ offers affordable email and web storage so you can start to ditch google.
godaddy.com doesnt care about your privacy (but we all know this.) maybe check out places like http://www.dreamhost.com/
your local book store will be more than willing to sell you a fresh paperback or luxurious hardbook copy of that e-book amazon just nicked from your device.
Lastly, maybe try linux if you havent? just search for it (https://www.duckduckgo.com is a good alternative engine that doesnt spy on you) and find a flavour you like.
while youre browsing, you might want to check out the EFF's suggestions to make sure you limit tracking and increase security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-protect-your-privacy-online
as people began to suddenly realize Amazon E-Books were actually more of a liability than their paper books, Amazon had to invent a new strategy to push them. Making them compatible with angry birds is a start, but its hard to avoid the fact you're just making an underpowered tablet now as opposed to an e-reader.
is that many 'best practices' are so undocumented and secretive that once you do find out about them as a security lead, it just becomes a ball of christmas lights to figure out the other moronic and insecure crap programmers are wholly convinced is pure and righteous. For example: string sanitization is a pretty wild goose chase.
I thought about helping you get back into your account...then i remembered that weird tirade about gay marriage and kenyan socialism you went on last year...and that time you wouldnt shut the fuck up about kony....and the farmville crap. Trust me, this is for your own good.
bad news: in the future google glass will make clandestine recordings of people.
good news: google glass owners will have devolved to ass-scratching mouth-breathing imbeciles incapable of understanding what the recording, connectivity, battery life, or funny headgear actually means at all.
bad news: most of my friends will have become too stupid to understand my VAX jokes:(
but seriously, you dont pander your product by pissing on something here at slashdot we know and love.
aiming to put clear water between the ProDesk3D and its "kit-like contemporaries."
i get it, "we're open (for business) and your little open source ideas are cute but dwarfed immeasurably by THE PRODUCT." Heres a hint. SCO tried this, Microsoft tried this, SUN tried this, and they all found out the competitive, more readily established 'kit-like contemporaries' called Linux eventually became an industry leading Juggernaut while their ProSuperUltraEnterprise offering became the lock-in standard for reverse engineering, assimilation and deprecation.
this is simple highschool physics. the real problem we need to research and investigate is why do beer bottles unexpectedly and inappropriately become empty. I have, as a scientist, conducted extensive research myself and have to date been unable to conclude a definitive cause. I implore slashdotters, if you have any experience in this phenomenon or have experienced it personally, please adhere to your diligence as scientists and provide additional research data. bottles, glasses and even steins will exhibit this behavior, so please consider this in your testing protocol.
and pardon the pun, by europes landfill bans. to think that somehow burning your trash is a more acceptable alternative is actually quite absurd. the arguments against it are compelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incinerator
credit cards have been digital currency for decades, wallstreet doesnt trade in physical bonds or stocks anymore, theives steal credit cards more than cash, and the concept of a 'processing fee' in an era of such ubiquitous computing is absurd. the easiest way to digital currency is to use the system in place and be gone with visa and mastercard endorsed 'debit' cards.
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things like policies on "unopened" email older than 180 days. Are we talking about the 'seen' flag being set? or the file being opened? yeah, of course government law enforcement agencies want the power to snoop on this kind of stuff but it sounds like theyre doing it without a warrant to get around the fact that most judges are completely ignorant about email and electronic communication.
then again judges have ruled in the past the FBI does not have this kind of broad jurisdiction to warrantlessly read email, so maybe they really are just ignoring the rulings?
either way, its been proven by multiple school shootings and a recent bombing that spy-on-the-whole-country technology is worthless. it doesnt help anyone prevent or prove crime, it only enables precrime and thoughtcrime to be used as fodder for law enforcement careers and budget proposals.
exists to generate private profit off public institutions like UC irvine the University of Pennsylvania. in July 2012 they floated the idea of selling student data to potential employers, and to date havent really turned much of a profit. interesting statement from John Doerr, Any revenue stream will be divided, with schools receiving a small percentage of revenue and 20% of gross profits according to wikipedia.
The advertiser supported model in my opinion is a terrible idea. Studies like citizenship and immigration could just serve as vehicles for targeted advertising from the Heritage Foundation, while child nutrition and cooking are all too easily worked into the budgets of companies like Unilever and Kraft. Advertisers have a history of steering content based on their interests (Sanjay Gupta mostly exists to ensure you get your daily dose of targeted pharmaceutical advertising)
i can offer some perspective to India. At first the whole thing seems a bit absurd and draconian, you might even be outraged over it. eventually stuff like this just becomes routine enough to find its way into inane stuff like farm subsidy bills, and aside from the occaional GPS device snuck onto some college kids car you really dont notice it at all. After a while you start to actively ignore the fact that your country runs secret torture camps and foreign prisons for people who say or do the wrong things. Finally you just stop challenging it alltogether and praise it as being something, hell anything your highly factioned, ineffective government can unilaterally agree upon as passable legislation. after a few years and high profile criminal acts like shootings and bombings, you begin to look back and conclude the entire spy-on-everyone thing as being a hopelessly useless effort on the part of the government to keep no one safe.
now we have north korea. from TFA:
North Korea has demonstrated its ability to build short- and medium-range missiles, and it has launched a small satellite into space. But neither of these achievements would necessarily allow it to reach the U.S. with a warhead.
so how many more steps will have to be completed before we land a competent assessment that north korea can send a warhead to the US? are we seriously going to entertain the idea that a country capable of launching a satellite into space is just 'faking it' when it comes to missile technology? Parent posts are probably correct: you're absolutely insane to parade real missiles in a public square if the goal of those missiles is to be highly mobile and undetectable in the face of a nation thats demonstrated numerous times its willingness to violate foreign sovreignity in the pursuit of furthering its interests.
sequestration cuts are getting a little close.
Seriously, terrorism or communism. I only have enough patience for one government-sponsored boogey man at a time.
Schedule it between the mandatory monthly fiscal cliff panic and the gay marriage thing if you could...or if you can roll it into some weird freedom war that works too.
for cad:
qcad, creo, sketchup, freecad, draftsight, brlcad, gcad, archimedes, and pythoncad.
for pretty pictures:
libre office, gimp, crita, cinepaint, and pixen
for word and excel, libreoffice.
for finite element analysis (assuming youre an engineer)
agros calculix codeaster dune elmer and febio
this is not even a complete list,
its not your fault for needing a computer to do your job. it is your fault for thinking there is only one very expensive way to skin a cat.
the very definition of 'proprietary software' indicates you dont have access to the code to calculate defect density, and even if you did you cannot independently verify the code you have is production code. how did the researchers quantify it?
...and Windows Activation Is Still Relevant?
seriously, its your own damn fault. If you're too lazy to use over 50 different flavours of BSD or Linux then i dont know how else to make personal computing work for you other than pay the mac store to make the bad time go away, or put up with steve as he pedals microsoft into the ground.
im sorry that sounded angry but its just frustrating to see these posts on slashdot when we all know about the alternatives. BSD, Linux, this is shit that has a core of dedicated developers who actually give a damn about your security and user experience. BSD has some of the best documentation around, and Linux has entire festivals and conferences that seriously want to help you do this. the game argument is practically irrelevant too; we have portal halflife and minecraft to name a few.
just, please, help us help you.
bipartisan effort working together to screw the common american. Major multinational corporations are entirely exempt from burdens like taxation, while wageslaves enjoy a cornucopia of arcane, recursive taxation. That some how we're not supposed to talk about class warfare, why we all make shit-tier pay, or what sand encrusted foreign clusterfuck our taxes are being shoveled into.
it leads me to believe Hollyoaks has it all wrong. That Tony Stark only runs around fixing problems he created in the first place. that Batman is just the billionaire boilerplate we've come to recognize as our perpetual prison industrial complex. That should a revolution ever befall this great nation it will start with a flaming Wal-Mart, and not stop until every mansion and chateau from marthas vinyard to kennebunkport is reduced to a smoldering pile of ash twisted wrought iron.
be available for request through FOIA? it cant possibly be that exclusive. Lm Activation Checklist and flight logs are public domain essentially. the rest of the shit on the auction site is kitsch like signatures, parachute material, cut up bible scrap, and even a medal. IMO it only serves to highlight the ridiculously underfunded state of space science and nasa in general.
not so.
there is indeed an astounding amount of shielding and grounding that go into an automobile. the alternator for example is quite possibly the loudest RF emitter onboard (direct coil ignition a damn close second.) car stereos are manufactured to explicitly withstand this condition, adn they do it very well despite having unbalanced speakers to drive. hard drives and wifi may fall under the Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement, but that is not stringent enough to make them an approved part of a car. the ECM encounters a tremendous amount of electromagnetic noise and crosstalk, but is entirely capable of continuous performance under this condition.
other conditions for your consideration: did you know certain electronics in the car are wired with cables that are impregnated with capsaicin? this prevents chewing by mice and rats. some data cables explicitly requre proprietary shielding applied at the factory because none exists to date for the application. other cables must be capable of withstanding hundreds of degrees of temperature changes or must operate in the presence of condensation (which does occur inside the dashboard, this is normal.)
and to answer the question, we mark up the car by selling luxury models. $1100 more in shocks, struts, engine mounts, tail lights, and what we term 'livery' inside the vehicle (shit like a 10 gig drive in the first place) mean we can charge $20,000 or more on top of whats basically just a 'base model'.
is more of a cult than an education vanguard these days. sheldrakes 'morphic resonance' bullshit for example. Taleb's account that TED has devolved into a three-ring circus in which educated scientists perform parlour trickery for the lay-person seems accurate. It should also be taken seriously that Nick Hanauer was shown the door after his talk pointed the audience to reconsider income inequality and taxation of the wealthiest; his talk was never published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#Controversies_and_criticism
car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity and data storage and entertainment streaming through the cloud
in english: car companies are and will continue to be behind the curve because most technology has to be tested to ensure it does not affect the engine control module, electronic stability computer, or other critical systems necessary to have a car in the 21st century. a 10gb drive may be ok, but a 1tb drive with different geometric characteristics may result in a current induction or RF interference that overrides TPMS and reports tires as too low, or for example triggers impact pre-sensors for the airbags (or worse, enabling a multistage airbag for a passenger under 45 pounds.) Having worked for a major asian automotive manufacturer, i've personally seen RF emitted from a hybrid vehicle transmission that caused unpredictable, unintentional airbag detonation. after 6 months of additional testing it had been resolved before the vehicle entered production, but the fix produced another bug that resulted in TBW signal corruption and a sharp vehicle accelleration, followed by a forced shutdown as the vehicle detected the condition.
TL;DR: your car has more technology than most people readily consider. slow and steady is a good thing.
http://adblockplus.org/
that'll be $2 please.
when a product is hyped to death by futurists, plugged incessantly by bloggers, fetishized by cyberpunks and danced around by investors the only purpose in damning it as 'too nerdy' is to make it an even more appealing item for the mainstream 'nerds are sexy' culture.
but saddened it doesnt carry the same clout on websites like SOPA did.
today you might want to check out the open source app store for android (https://www.F-Droid.org) and kick your facebook account to the curb.
LinkedIn is a recruiters dream, not an employment tool and is mostly spam anyhow.
http://www.freeshell.org/ offers affordable email and web storage so you can start to ditch google.
godaddy.com doesnt care about your privacy (but we all know this.) maybe check out places like http://www.dreamhost.com/
your local book store will be more than willing to sell you a fresh paperback or luxurious hardbook copy of that e-book amazon just nicked from your device.
Lastly, maybe try linux if you havent? just search for it (https://www.duckduckgo.com is a good alternative engine that doesnt spy on you) and find a flavour you like.
while youre browsing, you might want to check out the EFF's suggestions to make sure you limit tracking and increase security
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-protect-your-privacy-online
as people began to suddenly realize Amazon E-Books were actually more of a liability than their paper books, Amazon had to invent a new strategy to push them. Making them compatible with angry birds is a start, but its hard to avoid the fact you're just making an underpowered tablet now as opposed to an e-reader.
is that many 'best practices' are so undocumented and secretive that once you do find out about them as a security lead, it just becomes a ball of christmas lights to figure out the other moronic and insecure crap programmers are wholly convinced is pure and righteous. For example: string sanitization is a pretty wild goose chase.
I thought about helping you get back into your account...then i remembered that weird tirade about gay marriage and kenyan socialism you went on last year...and that time you wouldnt shut the fuck up about kony....and the farmville crap. Trust me, this is for your own good.
bad news: in the future google glass will make clandestine recordings of people. :(
good news: google glass owners will have devolved to ass-scratching mouth-breathing imbeciles incapable of understanding what the recording, connectivity, battery life, or funny headgear actually means at all.
bad news: most of my friends will have become too stupid to understand my VAX jokes
aiming to put clear water between the ProDesk3D and its "kit-like contemporaries."
i get it, "we're open (for business) and your little open source ideas are cute but dwarfed immeasurably by THE PRODUCT." Heres a hint. SCO tried this, Microsoft tried this, SUN tried this, and they all found out the competitive, more readily established 'kit-like contemporaries' called Linux eventually became an industry leading Juggernaut while their ProSuperUltraEnterprise offering became the lock-in standard for reverse engineering, assimilation and deprecation.
a few hundred years ago you could still be executed for science.
this is simple highschool physics. the real problem we need to research and investigate is why do beer bottles unexpectedly and inappropriately become empty.
I have, as a scientist, conducted extensive research myself and have to date been unable to conclude a definitive cause. I implore slashdotters, if you have any experience in this phenomenon or have experienced it personally, please adhere to your diligence as scientists and provide additional research data. bottles, glasses and even steins will exhibit this behavior, so please consider this in your testing protocol.
and pardon the pun, by europes landfill bans. to think that somehow burning your trash is a more acceptable alternative is actually quite absurd. the arguments against it are compelling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incinerator
credit cards have been digital currency for decades, wallstreet doesnt trade in physical bonds or stocks anymore, theives steal credit cards more than cash, and the concept of a 'processing fee' in an era of such ubiquitous computing is absurd. the easiest way to digital currency is to use the system in place and be gone with visa and mastercard endorsed 'debit' cards.