Someone on reddit pointed out that Amy likely has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and is not necessarily bipolar.
ODD is characterized by four or more of the following behaviors for a period of at least 6 months:
(1) often loses temper
(2) often argues with adults
(3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
(4) often deliberately annoys people
(5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
(6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful
(8) is often spiteful or vindictive
Regardless of what you think about the show, this episode is a stark departure from the usual fare.
Right from the start, Gordon praises them for their spotless kitchen and well-organized fridge.
He then samples some of the menu only to discover that it's improperly prepared, that the recipes are confused, that the wait staff is regularly mistreated, and that everything goes into the trash, untouched by customers who wait literally hours for the food they ordered.
The problem in this kitchen is the people, and he gave up on them.
It's not enough. We need to actually challenge the validity of those patents even after they're granted; because all too often, they're still granted without enough review.
We ought to set up some kind of public fund that goes into researching prior art and filing challenges with the patent office to have the patents overturned as they are approved.
If we can get upwards of 70% of patents thrown out or rewritten within the first year, surely it will affect the change the patent office so desperately needs in the short term, so we can work toward reform (and perhaps abolition) in the long term.
According to Brocious himself, the company has known about this vulnerability for at least 3 years.
That's three years that they had to issue a fix.
And this vulnerability is so trivial, that anyone with even a modicum of electrical knowledge and minimal programming experience can overcome it. There is, simply, no reason this vulnerability should still be in shipping locks.
Three. Years.
They have no excuses. They should be paying for this.
The lock itself doesn't use any encryption, and the cards use a very weak 32-bit encryption based on the site code. The lock itself exposes everything via the programming port on the bottom. When I say everything, I mean that includes the site code (the unique code for the hotel) and everything that's in active memory.
Unlocking it is a simple matter of finding the sitecode and issuing an unlock request.
Especially in light of Judge Posner's recent dismissal of Apple v. Motorola, wherein he said that competition is a legally permissible harm and was not valid justification for an injunction.
At least with the Humble Bundle, I'm guaranteed that all or nearly all of the games will have native Linux ports. With Indie Royale, it's a crapshoot - if I'm not lucky enough to get a Linux port of a game, there's a good chance it won't work in Wine either.
According to Mike Pall, they're disabling the executable virtual memory APIs on Win32/ARM, and restricting all new apps to a trusted sandbox.
As a technical restriction, that does unfortunately mean that none of the modern JavaScript interpreters (or any JIT component) will be able to function. Therefore, no Mozilla Firefox.
I can understand their motivations here (ARM is quite a different beast from x86, and the APIs do need to evolve for these other platforms), but it's far less nefarious than anyone is suggesting.
It seems to me that they should dump SEED and use the SSL or TLS standards. They work well enough, and the export restrictions no longer apply to them.
The problem was that while Windows was the most-deployed OS in the country at the time, US Government export controls on encryption standards prevented anything with stronger than 40-bit encryption from being allowed to enter their country.
They came up with SEED because they needed strong crypto. The fact that the AtiveX control is the only way to use it is an artifact of that effort. They essentially had no choice at the time.
SEED is so old now that it's probably exceptionally difficult to port it to current browsers that support NPAPI or Pepper, both of which differ subtly from the original API SEED was developed against for Netscape browsers.
If you're going to blame someone, blame the US Gov't.
The inhibition of communication necessarily destabilizes societal cohesiveness. But preventing the proliferation of new communication maintains the existing level of cohesion.
If they cared about societal cohesiveness, they'd make free and uninhibited communication the new status quo.
... as content producers and distributors, they rely on the very freedoms and fair use exceptions that they are constantly seeking to curtail.
As sad as the eventuality would be, it would amuse me immensely if they succeeded in curtailing Fair Use. Watching their own ability to produce and distribute become curtailed to the point where they can no longer profit from their content would be hilarious.
Re: Amy is bi-polar
Someone on reddit pointed out that Amy likely has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and is not necessarily bipolar.
ODD is characterized by four or more of the following behaviors for a period of at least 6 months:
(1) often loses temper
(2) often argues with adults
(3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
(4) often deliberately annoys people
(5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
(6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful
(8) is often spiteful or vindictive
She's eight for eight.
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It took me the whole afternoon to watch it. I couldn't handle how awful that woman is.
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Regardless of what you think about the show, this episode is a stark departure from the usual fare.
Right from the start, Gordon praises them for their spotless kitchen and well-organized fridge.
He then samples some of the menu only to discover that it's improperly prepared, that the recipes are confused, that the wait staff is regularly mistreated, and that everything goes into the trash, untouched by customers who wait literally hours for the food they ordered.
The problem in this kitchen is the people, and he gave up on them.
Re: Re: We need to challenge it
It's not enough. We need to actually challenge the validity of those patents even after they're granted; because all too often, they're still granted without enough review.
We need to challenge it
We ought to set up some kind of public fund that goes into researching prior art and filing challenges with the patent office to have the patents overturned as they are approved.
If we can get upwards of 70% of patents thrown out or rewritten within the first year, surely it will affect the change the patent office so desperately needs in the short term, so we can work toward reform (and perhaps abolition) in the long term.
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Any person who would spread fear - terror - is engaging in terrorism.
People who detonate explosives in public places to destroy and cause death and chaos do it not to kill people, but to instill fear. Terror.
People who tell us who we should fear, instill fear in those who listen to them. Terror.
Terrorism is fear-mongering, whatever its form.
Re: Re: But, I thought...
.... Which is terrorism.
But, I thought...
Isn't the Counter-Terrorism Task Force supposed to protect us from fear-mongering, and not behave like terrorists themselves?
We really need to do something about these terrorists.
Spreading needless fear and discord within Congress should be a crime.
We shouldn't tolerate terrorists like Mr. Mike Rogers. Not within this land!
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According to Brocious himself, the company has known about this vulnerability for at least 3 years.
That's three years that they had to issue a fix.
And this vulnerability is so trivial, that anyone with even a modicum of electrical knowledge and minimal programming experience can overcome it. There is, simply, no reason this vulnerability should still be in shipping locks.
Three. Years.
They have no excuses. They should be paying for this.
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It sounds simple, because it is.
The lock itself doesn't use any encryption, and the cards use a very weak 32-bit encryption based on the site code. The lock itself exposes everything via the programming port on the bottom. When I say everything, I mean that includes the site code (the unique code for the hotel) and everything that's in active memory.
Unlocking it is a simple matter of finding the sitecode and issuing an unlock request.
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But then Jobs said, "Android is stealing from us," and that he would "bury" Google for daring to do so.
We have a word for that: Hypocrisy.
Koh's decision is strange...
Especially in light of Judge Posner's recent dismissal of Apple v. Motorola, wherein he said that competition is a legally permissible harm and was not valid justification for an injunction.
Re: Lets not forget...
They also don't often have Linux support.
At least with the Humble Bundle, I'm guaranteed that all or nearly all of the games will have native Linux ports. With Indie Royale, it's a crapshoot - if I'm not lucky enough to get a Linux port of a game, there's a good chance it won't work in Wine either.
It's more of a technical reason for them to disallow other browsers
According to Mike Pall, they're disabling the executable virtual memory APIs on Win32/ARM, and restricting all new apps to a trusted sandbox.
As a technical restriction, that does unfortunately mean that none of the modern JavaScript interpreters (or any JIT component) will be able to function. Therefore, no Mozilla Firefox.
I can understand their motivations here (ARM is quite a different beast from x86, and the APIs do need to evolve for these other platforms), but it's far less nefarious than anyone is suggesting.
As much as I hate to admit that.
Double the warnings
Double the reasons not to buy!
Now I have even more reasons to save my money and not consume video! Thanks DHS!
Re: And that's why Korean internet sucks so much.
It seems to me that they should dump SEED and use the SSL or TLS standards. They work well enough, and the export restrictions no longer apply to them.
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Nothing.
The problem was that while Windows was the most-deployed OS in the country at the time, US Government export controls on encryption standards prevented anything with stronger than 40-bit encryption from being allowed to enter their country.
They came up with SEED because they needed strong crypto. The fact that the AtiveX control is the only way to use it is an artifact of that effort. They essentially had no choice at the time.
SEED is so old now that it's probably exceptionally difficult to port it to current browsers that support NPAPI or Pepper, both of which differ subtly from the original API SEED was developed against for Netscape browsers.
If you're going to blame someone, blame the US Gov't.
They're not safeguarding cohesiveness of society
It's the cohesiveness of the status quo.
The inhibition of communication necessarily destabilizes societal cohesiveness. But preventing the proliferation of new communication maintains the existing level of cohesion.
If they cared about societal cohesiveness, they'd make free and uninhibited communication the new status quo.
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As sad as the eventuality would be, it would amuse me immensely if they succeeded in curtailing Fair Use. Watching their own ability to produce and distribute become curtailed to the point where they can no longer profit from their content would be hilarious.
Serves them right.