Go look at the slashdot hall of fame. It's a long shot, and it depends on the guy, but get him something political. A tiger, or an acre of rain forest, or whatever. Or a donation to the EFF, or Debian, or Gentoo, or Fedora, or Blender or Wikipedia or Mandrake or any of hundreds of worthy projects that he probably takes advantage of on a daily basis.
Geeks have money, and they buy exactly the toys they want when they want. You can't win buying him a gadget.
No, I don't disagree. "Effectively" was maybe not quite the right word choice -- "responsibly." That is, they shouldn't just dump out every running theory that they have. They should communicate things when they are reasonably sure, and when the effect of that information can best be mitigated.
Precisely. But isn't this too much too early?
Depends on whether you trust what they've said. They've said you don't need to be worried about your own box. I trust that. If you think they're lying or incompetent, that's a whole nother story.
Of course, we shouldn't jump to conclusions until we get more information, but really, I don't see an easy way out of this.
Why should you? They were cracked. The bad thing has already happen, so there is no easy way out. However, there *is* a *right* way out. And that includes telling people what they know as quickly and effectively as they can. Too much information too early can be a bad thing.
In short: have a little faith that they're dealing with this correctly, unless you've run a massively-used public box for years without a single compromise.
Even if the algorithm was to correctly identify all 10 words, it would still have to figure out what the association is and then correctly identify the words that fit the association. Assuming that it did correctly identify all of the words, at that point random guessing would yeild a success rate of 0.83%, less if it misidentifies even just one of the words. Combine something like this with a slightly smarter word obfuscator and I think it'd be something that would be very hard to beat...unless you're human, of course:)
Are you sure that's hard? Have you ever seen Google Sets? A program could take each pair of these words (of which there are 90), ask google for more words from that "set", and note which three words most commonly show up together, close to the top.
Moreover, your solution may be quite difficult for people who are not native english speakers.
Hey what's the deal with slashdot moderation? I used to read at +5 but now there're barely any comments there. I know this is offtopic, but did I miss a story about major changes or something?
Not only that, but Canadian privacy legislation almost certainly prevents them from requiring the photo. A business can only demand from their customers that information which is reasonably required in the running of their business. So they can ask for your address for warrantee purposes, but you can refuse and void your warrantee. They can ask for your postal code to track their purchaser's habits, but you can refuse and there's nothing they can do.
It is my understanding (IANAL) that these bars *cannot* demand a photo, and cannot refuse you entry for refusing to have your photo taken.
They probably *can* refuse you entry for refusing to let your licence be swiped, which is all that's really required for this networking thing to work. I'm not really sure why there're photos involved -- the police can always get that from the information on the mag strip on the licence, I would assume.
Don't get me wrong, I hate MS as much as the next guy
I'm really really tired of that cliche. "Don't get me wrong, I [negative verb] [somebody apparently nobody likes] as much as the next [person-type]."
It's like using "nowadays" when you mean "for all forseeable relevant past." Like "nowadays people think it'd be really upsetting of their houses being broken into and their stuff stolen."
That is all. Mod me to hell, 'cause this post is nothing but a cheap jab at a bad cliche.
Are those PR liars (and what else could such a "chief privacy officer" making such an outragous statement actually be?) all cranked out by the Forked Tongue Institute for Marketing & PR, or what?
Canadian companies larger than about 20 or 30 people are required by law to have a privacy officer. Thus calling the title PR-driven is at least somewhat mistaken.
The "never-end-in-a-preposition-rule" is essentially absurd. I've read better texts explaining the origin and absurdity better, but that's the best one I could find on short notice.
seriously crippling the U.S economy in the middle of trying to recover from a recession (maybe enough to make it a depression, and killing G.W.Bush's chances of re-election for good)
Is that what's referred to as a "manic depression"?:-)
Yeah, right. Reloaded was sure stingy on the effect. Like, geez. Only $100 mill. wtf.
Choice snippets: o A 17-minute battle sequence alone cost over $40 million.
o The 1.4-mile, three-lane loop highway was built specifically for the chase scene on the decommissioned Alameda Point Navy Base at a cost of around $30 million. It was destroyed when filming was complete.
o It was reported that Keanu Reeves volunteered to give up a claim to a share of ticket sales amounting to around $38 million when producers feared that the film would never recoup the cost of the special effects.
TiVo's now just as recognizable as "Xeroxing" a document
Yeah, right. 'cause my parents have heard of a TiVo.
TiVo is absolutely nowhere *near* as recognizable as Xerox, which is probably still even less recognizable than Kleenex.
Maybe, concievably, amongst 18-25 yo middle & upper class males you have 50% recognition of that term. Amongst the same group I bet you have 80% for Xerox and 90% for Kleenex.
Admittedly I pulled those numbers out of the air, but you've got a twisted sense of reality if you think TiVo is as recognizable of a brand as Xerox and Kleenex.
Consider: Supposing oil didn't become scarce enough to drive for several hundred or thousand years. We would pollute the earth to the point where it was unlivable. It's only if we have the happy coincidence that oil becomes hard to find at a rate that is fast enough that we don't hit the earth's tolerance for changing CO_2 levels in the atmosphere that your explanation works. That is, there is more than simply accessibility of oil to consider, there is also the pollution of the planet. That's what environmentalism is about -- stopping the pollution *before* the market forces of oil force us to do so.
When I worked at the NRC, we were developing some software that tried to find holes in a knowledge-base. We once discussed the scenario of creating something good enough that it could find patentable ideas, and then just letting it run and generate IP for the NRC.
as Michael Moore pointed out in 'Bowling for Columbine' Canada has a much higher per capita gun ownership rate compared to the US and has nowhere near the amount of violent crime that the US has.
He did not say that. If you paid careful attention to the numbers, he said 7,000,000 guns in canada (per 30,000,000 people) and about one gun per person in the states.
My biggest gripe with that film is that he threw numbers around, and unless you were quick at contextualizing them by dividing by population, you were left with a skewed impression of reality.
Undoubtedly this correction will be lost in the noise, and Moore's misrepresentation will live on. Oh well.
No, but it gives them the defence that the product has substantial non-infringing use. (Since the product has presumably sold, and thus presumably been used, and no infringing use has been discovered, we are lead (dragged?) to the conclusion that people must be using it for some *gasp* legitimate, fair-use purpose.
Slashdot should just engage in the traditional day of rest on Sundays, instead of running all this crap.:-)
-Rob
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Of course there's a catch-all tip. There always is.:-) Make your resume about you, but also representative of you. Be honest. If you put value in being holistic, then write down your unrelated hobbies (I do.) If you put value in buzzwords, put down buzzwords. If you're focussed purely on getting money, then read a book about how to make a good resume and follow it.
Have you ever noticed that the editors don't seem to edit the quoted text? I like that. I think they should take the best/first submission. Moreover, did you notice that the story was from a Japanese source? And that they "by/for" mistake is one easily made by someone who (probably) speaks more languages than you do? Did you have any trouble at all understanding the story? Would you prefer slashdot stories take another 8 hours to hit, so they can be vetted by an editor? Slashdot is ad hoc (both in the literal and colloquial sense of ad hoc...) news. If you want cleanly editted news, read ZDNet. Notice how they don't have as much variety or community?
It's easy to have lightweight regulation around that. One company, one frequency. Or, no more than one frequency for each distinct (= prepared separately, if at the same location) broadcast. No hopping frequencies once you're set up, unless you negotiate with the person whose frequency you're hopping onto. Lightweight, low-maintenance, easy to stop abuse.
'Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD, watch a recorded DVD at a friend's house, or store a copy of a television show for more than a day'
Guess that means they don't need any new laws. Which, in turn, means they can stop buying congress critters. I'm sure their accounting departments will be glad to hear that.
(Point being, this is as transparent as usual for Valenti. The things implied by this quote don't bear out at all.)
Slashdot Mirror
You know what?
Go look at the slashdot hall of fame. It's a long shot, and it depends on the guy, but get him something political. A tiger, or an acre of rain forest, or whatever. Or a donation to the EFF, or Debian, or Gentoo, or Fedora, or Blender or Wikipedia or Mandrake or any of hundreds of worthy projects that he probably takes advantage of on a daily basis.
Geeks have money, and they buy exactly the toys they want when they want. You can't win buying him a gadget.
Disagree... but so do you (?)
No, I don't disagree. "Effectively" was maybe not quite the right word choice -- "responsibly." That is, they shouldn't just dump out every running theory that they have. They should communicate things when they are reasonably sure, and when the effect of that information can best be mitigated.
Precisely. But isn't this too much too early?
Depends on whether you trust what they've said. They've said you don't need to be worried about your own box. I trust that. If you think they're lying or incompetent, that's a whole nother story.
-Rob
Of course, we shouldn't jump to conclusions until we get more information, but really, I don't see an easy way out of this.
Why should you? They were cracked. The bad thing has already happen, so there is no easy way out. However, there *is* a *right* way out. And that includes telling people what they know as quickly and effectively as they can. Too much information too early can be a bad thing.
In short: have a little faith that they're dealing with this correctly, unless you've run a massively-used public box for years without a single compromise.
-Rob
Are you sure that's hard? Have you ever seen Google Sets? A program could take each pair of these words (of which there are 90), ask google for more words from that "set", and note which three words most commonly show up together, close to the top.
Moreover, your solution may be quite difficult for people who are not native english speakers.
-Rob
Hey what's the deal with slashdot moderation? I used to read at +5 but now there're barely any comments there. I know this is offtopic, but did I miss a story about major changes or something?
Not only that, but Canadian privacy legislation almost certainly prevents them from requiring the photo. A business can only demand from their customers that information which is reasonably required in the running of their business. So they can ask for your address for warrantee purposes, but you can refuse and void your warrantee. They can ask for your postal code to track their purchaser's habits, but you can refuse and there's nothing they can do.
It is my understanding (IANAL) that these bars *cannot* demand a photo, and cannot refuse you entry for refusing to have your photo taken.
They probably *can* refuse you entry for refusing to let your licence be swiped, which is all that's really required for this networking thing to work. I'm not really sure why there're photos involved -- the police can always get that from the information on the mag strip on the licence, I would assume.
Don't get me wrong, I hate MS as much as the next guy
I'm really really tired of that cliche. "Don't get me wrong, I [negative verb] [somebody apparently nobody likes] as much as the next [person-type]."
It's like using "nowadays" when you mean "for all forseeable relevant past." Like "nowadays people think it'd be really upsetting of their houses being broken into and their stuff stolen."
That is all. Mod me to hell, 'cause this post is nothing but a cheap jab at a bad cliche.
-Rob
Anybody have screenshots of this in action? ;-)
-Rob
Are those PR liars (and what else could such a "chief privacy officer" making such an outragous statement actually be?) all cranked out by the Forked Tongue Institute for Marketing & PR, or what?
Canadian companies larger than about 20 or 30 people are required by law to have a privacy officer. Thus calling the title PR-driven is at least somewhat mistaken.
-Rob
guage
Gauge, even.
tard.
-Rob
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000195.htm
:-)
The "never-end-in-a-preposition-rule" is essentially absurd. I've read better texts explaining the origin and absurdity better, but that's the best one I could find on short notice.
Murphy strikes again.
-Rob
seriously crippling the U.S economy in the middle of trying to recover from a recession (maybe enough to make it a depression, and killing G.W.Bush's chances of re-election for good)
:-)
Is that what's referred to as a "manic depression"?
-Rob
Yeah, right. Reloaded was sure stingy on the effect. Like, geez. Only $100 mill. wtf.
Choice snippets:
o A 17-minute battle sequence alone cost over $40 million.
o The 1.4-mile, three-lane loop highway was built specifically for the chase scene on the decommissioned Alameda Point Navy Base at a cost of around $30 million. It was destroyed when filming was complete.
o It was reported that Keanu Reeves volunteered to give up a claim to a share of ticket sales amounting to around $38 million when producers feared that the film would never recoup the cost of the special effects.
o The special effects cost $100 million U.S.
google hits on "Xerox": 2,980,000
google hits on "TiVo": 451,000
google hits on "Kleenex": 164,000
google hits on "Bread": 5,470,000
google hits on "Internet": 143,000,000
Clearly more people eat internet than know what bread is.
TiVo's now just as recognizable as "Xeroxing" a document
Yeah, right. 'cause my parents have heard of a TiVo.
TiVo is absolutely nowhere *near* as recognizable as Xerox, which is probably still even less recognizable than Kleenex.
Maybe, concievably, amongst 18-25 yo middle & upper class males you have 50% recognition of that term. Amongst the same group I bet you have 80% for Xerox and 90% for Kleenex.
Admittedly I pulled those numbers out of the air, but you've got a twisted sense of reality if you think TiVo is as recognizable of a brand as Xerox and Kleenex.
-Rob
Nothing to see here, move along.
Close, but not quite.
Consider: Supposing oil didn't become scarce enough to drive for several hundred or thousand years. We would pollute the earth to the point where it was unlivable. It's only if we have the happy coincidence that oil becomes hard to find at a rate that is fast enough that we don't hit the earth's tolerance for changing CO_2 levels in the atmosphere that your explanation works. That is, there is more than simply accessibility of oil to consider, there is also the pollution of the planet. That's what environmentalism is about -- stopping the pollution *before* the market forces of oil force us to do so.
-Rob
That a computer filed the application?
When I worked at the NRC, we were developing some software that tried to find holes in a knowledge-base. We once discussed the scenario of creating something good enough that it could find patentable ideas, and then just letting it run and generate IP for the NRC.
Of course, we never got that far..:-)
-Rob
as Michael Moore pointed out in 'Bowling for Columbine' Canada has a much higher per capita gun ownership rate compared to the US and has nowhere near the amount of violent crime that the US has.
He did not say that. If you paid careful attention to the numbers, he said 7,000,000 guns in canada (per 30,000,000 people) and about one gun per person in the states.
My biggest gripe with that film is that he threw numbers around, and unless you were quick at contextualizing them by dividing by population, you were left with a skewed impression of reality.
Undoubtedly this correction will be lost in the noise, and Moore's misrepresentation will live on. Oh well.
-Rob
No, but it gives them the defence that the product has substantial non-infringing use. (Since the product has presumably sold, and thus presumably been used, and no infringing use has been discovered, we are lead (dragged?) to the conclusion that people must be using it for some *gasp* legitimate, fair-use purpose.
-Rob
Slashdot should just engage in the traditional day of rest on Sundays, instead of running all this crap. :-)
-Rob
Of course there's a catch-all tip. There always is.
-Rob
Have you ever noticed that the editors don't seem to edit the quoted text? I like that. I think they should take the best/first submission. Moreover, did you notice that the story was from a Japanese source? And that they "by/for" mistake is one easily made by someone who (probably) speaks more languages than you do? Did you have any trouble at all understanding the story? Would you prefer slashdot stories take another 8 hours to hit, so they can be vetted by an editor? Slashdot is ad hoc (both in the literal and colloquial sense of ad hoc...) news. If you want cleanly editted news, read ZDNet. Notice how they don't have as much variety or community?
Just wondering.
-Rob
It's easy to have lightweight regulation around that. One company, one frequency. Or, no more than one frequency for each distinct (= prepared separately, if at the same location) broadcast. No hopping frequencies once you're set up, unless you negotiate with the person whose frequency you're hopping onto. Lightweight, low-maintenance, easy to stop abuse.
-Rob
'Americans may not be able to copy a song off a CD, watch a recorded DVD at a friend's house, or store a copy of a television show for more than a day'
Guess that means they don't need any new laws. Which, in turn, means they can stop buying congress critters. I'm sure their accounting departments will be glad to hear that.
(Point being, this is as transparent as usual for Valenti. The things implied by this quote don't bear out at all.)
-Rob
uhhh..size? :-)
.*Math.*[Faculty|Department] at most schools is 1/10th of the size of the Math Faculty of Waterloo.
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-Rob