The best way to not get caught, is to not do it. A very few hackers can actually make themselves untraceable. For the most part most of them just don't get hunted down because no one wants to put the resources to find them. Even with tough talk from Corporate Execs, and government officials, They usually just check to make sure the guy wasn't obviously dumb. But if they get hit hard enough to make tracking them down worth it, they could dig down and catch many more hackers who think they are doing a good job, while in truth they just ignored.
Well it is actually an average about 2 years of punishment, with most of them getting time out.
But if you think about it how much time should you really put someone in jail for in a white collar crime. The idea of a Jail is more about keeping dangerous/people who will run away people in a place where they cannot escape to create more harm to the community.
For punishment a year or two in jail, is often enough to get the idea what you did was wrong, enough time to break you. Especially for kids where a year seems like a much longer time then it would be for someone in their middle adult years.
When I say Large programs, I am talking in an early 1990's mind set. I don't mean things like SAS or Oracle. But things like FoxPro form programs, and VB programs, meant for a particular use.
not a program that takes your text and filters line that contains that text.
Having all these small self contained parts is part of Unix/Linux stability as there are less big parts to fail.
The traditional Unix approach to computing, having a lot of small programs that do simple thing, combined with "Everything as a file" makes these systems very good at automating stuff. While systems like VMS or Windows was designed to run larger programs, and access libraries.
This makes Linux/Unix very good at automation, as it makes it easy to combine a lot of simple steps and get them scheduled and run in order without having to do a lot of extra programming. To automate using other OS's it usually means you will need to write a program to do the work.
You don't anymore. The new version of the iPhone does all its stuff without having to connect to a computer. I haven't plugged my iPhone into a PC in years.
I just see it as a Service Pack Upgrade to the system. It isn't like We are going from Windows 8 to Windows 9. Just Windows 8 to 8.1.
Besides the speed of the update is well within your normal hardware upgrade cycle (every 4-6 years) It isn't like you will be expecting to get a new laptop from to run 8.1, as well the changes are not enough for most people to Pay for the upgrade.
Overall I don't see it as Microsoft saying anything bad about windows 8, instead of we listen to your advice and made the new version a little better.
There was a lot of terrible code that happened back then. From around 1996-2006 was a real low point in Quality Code. Before then Most Applications were DOS based, or mainframe based. Confined to forms that fit in 80x24/25 and did rather simple things. Then with Windows 95 release developers started a mad Rush to to make their Apps Windows Compatible. For many developers at this time, they didn't have much experience with Windows development and many developers were not really prepared for the complexities of win development. Tools like Visual Basic and Visual Fox Pro made such development easier, They tend to create code that had a lot of interesting compatibility problems, especially with people still using Windows 3.1 or earlier versions of windows, Windows at the time was in a lot of changes fixing problems (which broke hacked work around to other problems) 95, 98, ME, 2000 XP. All really had their own development issues. Post 2006 is when.NET started to kick and be popular in and fixing a lot of compatibility issues, with Windows. As well as more advanced development better made for the newer OS's that is less version dependent.
Well the issue with version numbers are Important. I actually like the new scheme it makes it much easier to see how up to date you are.
The problem was back with MS changing their version numbers after Windows NT 4/Windows 3.1 with 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, 2012.... While the Date of the release is better, a general version number Major.Minor.Patch is superior, as it can really help you decide to Upgrade or Not or how much effort will it be to upgrade.
Major: Big New features, Full Compatibility Check should be considered. Minor: Small Features, Check the Change log and check for effected areas for compatibility Patch: In general you should just upgrade, as it usually fixes problems, and security issues, little to no compatibility loss is expected.
Now if you have groups of products that suppose to work together Such as Java Runtime vs Java SDK it would be nice to have similar version numbers as a policy as to know that your SDK and Runtime doesn't need to be checked to compatibility across each other, as both are released at the same time, with the same number.
It isn't nearly always better to buy directly. When you buy directly the cost savings of middle man usually goes to the producing company. As the Price the customer pays is often based on Supply and Demand.
Also selling directly without using local vendors, you will need to expand your sales force to cover all the areas, and have to deal with a B2C model vs a B2B model. So your increase your own staff, which then will make your product much closer to the initial cost of selling to an other business at a discount and they mark it up by 10-20%
For example Sun Microsystems, use to sell to vendors who then resold their products often with some sort of value add. Sun Got very popular by the late 90's and Early 2000's so they decided to expand their direct sells, often competing with their own vendors. To get the little extra margin per unit. But what Sun didn't realize was that a lot of the customers were comfortable dealing with the vendors (smaller companies felt like bigger fish, medium to large companies could almost control these guys) So with the Vendors getting hurt by Sun, they changed their tactics to other systems such a Linux or Windows NT as a viable alternative. By just changing their marketing from Suns Balanced TCO vs. Showing how cheaper hardware and OS can lead to faster systems with a different TCO calculation. So Sun popularity began to drop.
I don't see Tesla as being unfair competition with other auto makers for selling directly, it is just their business model they will have to deal with the trade-offs and rewards for their choice. It isn't like the other companies who have independent dealers are suffering from it, as Tesla cars are not super cheap to be hijacking the market.
The issue is actually easy. Corporations are in it to make more money. They will try to do choices that will maximize their money. However Charities have a lot of addenda across them. Some of them are actually just like the corporation and are in it for the money, they will spend 70 cents for every dollar so they can keep 30 cents for every dollar. They are others who will say feed the children, so they can convince them to join their cult or religion.
I would be game, if I had a good list of what are good to eat bugs and bad to eat, and how to eat them, as well as good recipes to prepare them right.
I remember reading about some culture in South America, who ate bugs and other stuff we considered gross, then they got ill when we presented them with Spaghetti. After I read that, I realized how disgusting spaghetti looks, like a plate of bloody raw worms. (Oh I still eat it and like it, but I know how to look at things differently).
Would I munch on live meal worms? No my limit is eating anything alive. But if they were fried up, I would give it a shot.
We hear and see stories about bitter company rivals. However at the same time they are also partners. For the most part it is business it isn't personal. In areas where they are competing in the same spot, they will be quite bitter rivals, however if a different product supports the other company they will be best friends.
Why a Republican Bill. This seems to go against the core Republican Ideals of less government and regulation.
By saying to a Company you must offer goods and services this way, where the old way has no effect of health safety, for a product that is almost purely entertainment. Looks like big Government getting involved with the Corporations again.
Granted I would love the ability to have this, but I don't see this as needing a federal mandate. I figure competition from Online streaming would force the companies to change.
My guess TV Producers such as Fox has been in his ear, Because for the big producers will get all the stations while the newer smaller stations may not become popular enough to get noticed.
Until the 20th century, Most people were not expect to live past their 50's So before lung cancer hits, chances are you would be dead, for disease, infection, malnutrition, dehydration, killed in battle/hunting, general accidents...
I am not debating modern Cigarettes have been made to be unnaturally harmful, compared to natural tobacco. (That is why you see lower cancer rates with more natural sources pipes and cigars) Also Americans have a problem with moderation too. In some countries where smoking is popular they have 1 or 2 cigarettes a day. vs 1 or 2 packs a day.
It sounds like a new approach to the Potato clock.
However I would like to point out the trade off. If you are going to produce energy with plants, (Sound green and all) but you will probably need to strip forests to give enough sunlight, as well as irrigation. For these plants that will not grow too much, because most of their energy is being taken away. You are better off growing switchgrass or other material to produce energy.
I doubt RMS is affecting most if any the purchases. The Chromebook combines all the disadvantages of a table system, with the disadvantages of a laptop.
A country without much money to make mock-ups, and real nukes. Say a country that is isolated from the outside world with very few trading partners. Who tends of emphasize their military?
Well it is a real issue of how much of a gain will it be. Unlike them olden days before they got computers to move to computers. We are just moving from one software to an other. For the most part the old software and the new software isn't offering much of an improvement.
IE6 is a miserable browser however all those crazy activeX and browser particular programs that are using it to run, are doing their job. Moving off it to an other browsers and having to redo all the software to do the same thing is silly. Now if they can put off the upgrade to the point to when they really do. They will get the latest and greatest software with a slew a new features and benefits that could more easily justify the upgrade cost. But just moving you 10 year old app because it is old, isn't that good of a plan. What I really wish was Microsoft would allow multiple versions of IE to run on your system at once.
[sarcasm]Yes, like forcing the United States into a real finical crisis is a good idea for China Self interest.[/sarcasm]
China buys US Dollars to keep their own economy stable. Also the United States is their biggest buyer. Put all Americans in the poor house, you have lost your own economy.
I don't think it will be for the Roadster, but more towards more normal consumer cars, probably planned in the future.
Having to drive 5 1/2 hours from VT to Niagara Falls NY and back to VT. I would love to have a basic "Autopilot" settings, that kept me at speed, in my lane on the highway, and not running into a car in front of me. I would be OK with having to change lanes myself and other more "advanced tasks" but the hours of tedium is just hard on my eyes, and my concentration. Just to be able to take my hand of the wheel and even for 5 or 10 minutes, with my attention off the road would make that time far more comfortable.
Somehow the idea on how a product is licensed will affect its quality is very absurd.
For most open source projects you will only have a small handful of contributors about the same many for a traditional software company. You got good developers and bad ones. Some OSS software is just crap, others strive to be excellent. The same with commercial applications too.
Any differences in the community vs commercial interest really tend to balance themselves out. You have a problem in your code. A small fraction of people will actually go into the source and fix it for themselves, as they risk having a separate fork and cannot upgrade their systems. A small fraction of people will pay the company extra money to fix the problem. Most will either decide if they can deal with the issue or not. And either not use the OSS project (reducing the popularity of the project and causing less involvement) or not buy the product making giving the software development firm less money to create software.
The real advantage of Free as in beer software vs commercial is the fact you can try a bunch of lemons before you make your final decision. For a comerical app you often need to pay up front and deal with what you got.
The close minded argument is the nature of the story. Is this the Best way. There is rarely a best way. It is a good way for some use cases but not always the best for every case.
So lets make the program intentional hard to use, just so we can claim the end user who doesn't like it is just stupid. I can and have used GIMP for some cases where I couldn't get my hand on Photoshop for some more advanced manipulations. It doesn't mean I like it, or think it is well designed. However Paint.NET covers 80% of what I need to do, and that 80% is very easy to work with. Photoshop does 99% of what I need to do that 80% I tend to do is easy to work with and that other 19% isn't that bad. GIMP on the other hand makes every basic feature as complicated as the advanced feature you need to use in photo shop.
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The best way to not get caught, is to not do it.
A very few hackers can actually make themselves untraceable. For the most part most of them just don't get hunted down because no one wants to put the resources to find them. Even with tough talk from Corporate Execs, and government officials, They usually just check to make sure the guy wasn't obviously dumb. But if they get hit hard enough to make tracking them down worth it, they could dig down and catch many more hackers who think they are doing a good job, while in truth they just ignored.
Well it is actually an average about 2 years of punishment, with most of them getting time out.
But if you think about it how much time should you really put someone in jail for in a white collar crime.
The idea of a Jail is more about keeping dangerous/people who will run away people in a place where they cannot escape to create more harm to the community.
For punishment a year or two in jail, is often enough to get the idea what you did was wrong, enough time to break you. Especially for kids where a year seems like a much longer time then it would be for someone in their middle adult years.
When I say Large programs, I am talking in an early 1990's mind set. I don't mean things like SAS or Oracle. But things like FoxPro form programs, and VB programs, meant for a particular use.
not a program that takes your text and filters line that contains that text.
Having all these small self contained parts is part of Unix/Linux stability as there are less big parts to fail.
The traditional Unix approach to computing, having a lot of small programs that do simple thing, combined with "Everything as a file" makes these systems very good at automating stuff. While systems like VMS or Windows was designed to run larger programs, and access libraries.
This makes Linux/Unix very good at automation, as it makes it easy to combine a lot of simple steps and get them scheduled and run in order without having to do a lot of extra programming. To automate using other OS's it usually means you will need to write a program to do the work.
Lets promote a GNU product, that shows that an Apple Product is Slowing Down Windows.
Sounds like a top story on Slashdot to me.
You don't anymore.
The new version of the iPhone does all its stuff without having to connect to a computer.
I haven't plugged my iPhone into a PC in years.
I just see it as a Service Pack Upgrade to the system. It isn't like We are going from Windows 8 to Windows 9. Just Windows 8 to 8.1.
Besides the speed of the update is well within your normal hardware upgrade cycle (every 4-6 years) It isn't like you will be expecting to get a new laptop from to run 8.1, as well the changes are not enough for most people to Pay for the upgrade.
Overall I don't see it as Microsoft saying anything bad about windows 8, instead of we listen to your advice and made the new version a little better.
There was a lot of terrible code that happened back then. .NET started to kick and be popular in and fixing a lot of compatibility issues, with Windows. As well as more advanced development better made for the newer OS's that is less version dependent.
From around 1996-2006 was a real low point in Quality Code.
Before then Most Applications were DOS based, or mainframe based. Confined to forms that fit in 80x24/25 and did rather simple things. Then with Windows 95 release developers started a mad Rush to to make their Apps Windows Compatible. For many developers at this time, they didn't have much experience with Windows development and many developers were not really prepared for the complexities of win development. Tools like Visual Basic and Visual Fox Pro made such development easier, They tend to create code that had a lot of interesting compatibility problems, especially with people still using Windows 3.1 or earlier versions of windows, Windows at the time was in a lot of changes fixing problems (which broke hacked work around to other problems) 95, 98, ME, 2000 XP. All really had their own development issues.
Post 2006 is when
Well the issue with version numbers are Important.
I actually like the new scheme it makes it much easier to see how up to date you are.
The problem was back with MS changing their version numbers after Windows NT 4/Windows 3.1 with 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, 2012....
While the Date of the release is better, a general version number Major.Minor.Patch is superior, as it can really help you decide to Upgrade or Not or how much effort will it be to upgrade.
Major: Big New features, Full Compatibility Check should be considered.
Minor: Small Features, Check the Change log and check for effected areas for compatibility
Patch: In general you should just upgrade, as it usually fixes problems, and security issues, little to no compatibility loss is expected.
Now if you have groups of products that suppose to work together Such as Java Runtime vs Java SDK it would be nice to have similar version numbers as a policy as to know that your SDK and Runtime doesn't need to be checked to compatibility across each other, as both are released at the same time, with the same number.
It isn't nearly always better to buy directly.
When you buy directly the cost savings of middle man usually goes to the producing company. As the Price the customer pays is often based on Supply and Demand.
Also selling directly without using local vendors, you will need to expand your sales force to cover all the areas, and have to deal with a B2C model vs a B2B model. So your increase your own staff, which then will make your product much closer to the initial cost of selling to an other business at a discount and they mark it up by 10-20%
For example Sun Microsystems, use to sell to vendors who then resold their products often with some sort of value add. Sun Got very popular by the late 90's and Early 2000's so they decided to expand their direct sells, often competing with their own vendors. To get the little extra margin per unit. But what Sun didn't realize was that a lot of the customers were comfortable dealing with the vendors (smaller companies felt like bigger fish, medium to large companies could almost control these guys) So with the Vendors getting hurt by Sun, they changed their tactics to other systems such a Linux or Windows NT as a viable alternative. By just changing their marketing from Suns Balanced TCO vs. Showing how cheaper hardware and OS can lead to faster systems with a different TCO calculation. So Sun popularity began to drop.
I don't see Tesla as being unfair competition with other auto makers for selling directly, it is just their business model they will have to deal with the trade-offs and rewards for their choice. It isn't like the other companies who have independent dealers are suffering from it, as Tesla cars are not super cheap to be hijacking the market.
The issue is actually easy.
Corporations are in it to make more money. They will try to do choices that will maximize their money. However Charities have a lot of addenda across them. Some of them are actually just like the corporation and are in it for the money, they will spend 70 cents for every dollar so they can keep 30 cents for every dollar. They are others who will say feed the children, so they can convince them to join their cult or religion.
I would be game, if I had a good list of what are good to eat bugs and bad to eat, and how to eat them, as well as good recipes to prepare them right.
I remember reading about some culture in South America, who ate bugs and other stuff we considered gross, then they got ill when we presented them with Spaghetti. After I read that, I realized how disgusting spaghetti looks, like a plate of bloody raw worms. (Oh I still eat it and like it, but I know how to look at things differently).
Would I munch on live meal worms? No my limit is eating anything alive. But if they were fried up, I would give it a shot.
We hear and see stories about bitter company rivals. However at the same time they are also partners.
For the most part it is business it isn't personal.
In areas where they are competing in the same spot, they will be quite bitter rivals, however if a different product supports the other company they will be best friends.
Microsoft Fought OS's while partnered in Office.
Why a Republican Bill. This seems to go against the core Republican Ideals of less government and regulation.
By saying to a Company you must offer goods and services this way, where the old way has no effect of health safety, for a product that is almost purely entertainment. Looks like big Government getting involved with the Corporations again.
Granted I would love the ability to have this, but I don't see this as needing a federal mandate. I figure competition from Online streaming would force the companies to change.
My guess TV Producers such as Fox has been in his ear, Because for the big producers will get all the stations while the newer smaller stations may not become popular enough to get noticed.
Until the 20th century, Most people were not expect to live past their 50's
So before lung cancer hits, chances are you would be dead, for disease, infection, malnutrition, dehydration, killed in battle/hunting, general accidents...
I am not debating modern Cigarettes have been made to be unnaturally harmful, compared to natural tobacco. (That is why you see lower cancer rates with more natural sources pipes and cigars) Also Americans have a problem with moderation too. In some countries where smoking is popular they have 1 or 2 cigarettes a day. vs 1 or 2 packs a day.
It sounds like a new approach to the Potato clock.
However I would like to point out the trade off. If you are going to produce energy with plants, (Sound green and all) but you will probably need to strip forests to give enough sunlight, as well as irrigation. For these plants that will not grow too much, because most of their energy is being taken away. You are better off growing switchgrass or other material to produce energy.
I doubt RMS is affecting most if any the purchases.
The Chromebook combines all the disadvantages of a table system, with the disadvantages of a laptop.
A country without much money to make mock-ups, and real nukes.
Say a country that is isolated from the outside world with very few trading partners. Who tends of emphasize their military?
Well it is a real issue of how much of a gain will it be. Unlike them olden days before they got computers to move to computers. We are just moving from one software to an other. For the most part the old software and the new software isn't offering much of an improvement.
IE6 is a miserable browser however all those crazy activeX and browser particular programs that are using it to run, are doing their job. Moving off it to an other browsers and having to redo all the software to do the same thing is silly. Now if they can put off the upgrade to the point to when they really do. They will get the latest and greatest software with a slew a new features and benefits that could more easily justify the upgrade cost. But just moving you 10 year old app because it is old, isn't that good of a plan.
What I really wish was Microsoft would allow multiple versions of IE to run on your system at once.
We can keep it up for a while if needed. The trick is to know more then you let on.
[sarcasm]Yes, like forcing the United States into a real finical crisis is a good idea for China Self interest.[/sarcasm]
China buys US Dollars to keep their own economy stable. Also the United States is their biggest buyer. Put all Americans in the poor house, you have lost your own economy.
I don't think it will be for the Roadster, but more towards more normal consumer cars, probably planned in the future.
Having to drive 5 1/2 hours from VT to Niagara Falls NY and back to VT. I would love to have a basic "Autopilot" settings, that kept me at speed, in my lane on the highway, and not running into a car in front of me. I would be OK with having to change lanes myself and other more "advanced tasks" but the hours of tedium is just hard on my eyes, and my concentration. Just to be able to take my hand of the wheel and even for 5 or 10 minutes, with my attention off the road would make that time far more comfortable.
So hows that Kool-Aid?
Somehow the idea on how a product is licensed will affect its quality is very absurd.
For most open source projects you will only have a small handful of contributors about the same many for a traditional software company. You got good developers and bad ones. Some OSS software is just crap, others strive to be excellent. The same with commercial applications too.
Any differences in the community vs commercial interest really tend to balance themselves out.
You have a problem in your code. A small fraction of people will actually go into the source and fix it for themselves, as they risk having a separate fork and cannot upgrade their systems. A small fraction of people will pay the company extra money to fix the problem. Most will either decide if they can deal with the issue or not. And either not use the OSS project (reducing the popularity of the project and causing less involvement) or not buy the product making giving the software development firm less money to create software.
The real advantage of Free as in beer software vs commercial is the fact you can try a bunch of lemons before you make your final decision. For a comerical app you often need to pay up front and deal with what you got.
The close minded argument is the nature of the story. Is this the Best way. There is rarely a best way. It is a good way for some use cases but not always the best for every case.
So lets make the program intentional hard to use, just so we can claim the end user who doesn't like it is just stupid. I can and have used GIMP for some cases where I couldn't get my hand on Photoshop for some more advanced manipulations. It doesn't mean I like it, or think it is well designed.
However Paint.NET covers 80% of what I need to do, and that 80% is very easy to work with. Photoshop does 99% of what I need to do that 80% I tend to do is easy to work with and that other 19% isn't that bad. GIMP on the other hand makes every basic feature as complicated as the advanced feature you need to use in photo shop.