It would get a lot less expensive if it was the only thing we were using oil for though. Oil isn't expensive because its being used to make pharmaceuticals or even plastics, its expensive because its being burned for power and transportation in massive quantities.
Seems like a reasonable way to avoid any issue is to pay them off a couple of times. It would prove that they can, in fact, deliver on their promise and it would also let you know if they are pulling and shit with a single encryption key.
I suppose they could be using a list of encryption keys and simply compare the encrypted key to a list of encrypted keys and then send the proper key back to the person who paid.
It seems like a lot of effort to go to though. Wouldn't it be easier to grow yourself a bot net (or rent time on one from another criminal organization) and use that to brute force the encryption key rather than coming up with an elaborate ruse to get the world at large to do it for you.
OK, I get what this is doing but what about this fear that the virus writers want us to factor the key? If they already have the private key (necessary to decrypt the random key if someone pays them off) then they dont need that key brute forced.
I'm trying to figure out what the risk is in brute forcing this key. If the virus writers have never restored someones machine that might show that they don't have the private key, but if that were the case I would assume it would be mentioned in the story.
And all of those things take up resources and energy... even the recycling.
Of coures so does a gas guzzling SUV. In fact they are probably even worse given that they are heavier. Hybrids are a fine thing but its not always the best idea to ditch a good working car for a newer car just to get a slightly better gas millage. Sometimes its not even the best thing for the environment, never mind your wallet.
If you want to help the environment, buy less stuff.
that sounds a little more in line with what I would expect though the "around town" numbers are a bit high. Of course your town might not be similar to the one the EPA assumes for millage estimates.
I don't recall ever having to do that. I dont recall the issue of religion comming up at all until I got to the eagle scout level and then it was really just a question in passing. I said that the aspect of the scout law that I had the most trouble with was "reverent" I could have chosen another one if I had wanted too.
Maybe in other parts of the country they do more religious stuff but with my troop the most religious we got was doing cleanup around the church that housed us for our weekly meeting.
Im an American and that statement jumped right out at me as being totally ridiculous. If it was a civic then maybe its "tiny" though I think "small" would be a more appropriate term saving "Tiny" for things like the smart car.
My girlfriends 86 450 honda rebel gets over 60mpg. That drag is really killing the efficency.
What are you riding?
Now admittedly my Harley only gets about 35mpg but its over powered and really not built for efficiency. I'm considering getting a larger rear pulley for it to get better gas millage. As it stands it has more power than it needs.
To be fair, most SUVs arent designed for off road driving. The smaller ones are built on car frames with car suspension so they dont fit the bill. Some of the largest ones like the Escalade are built entirely for looks and a smooth ride.
Sure there are off road capable SUVs but just because you have an SUV does not mean its capable of going off road.
when my family lived in central michigan they owned a chevy citation and a VW rabbit. 4x4s are not strictly required to live there.
Hell, I live in New England and I don't have an all wheel drive car, though I would like one its not necessary. I certainly wont be buying anything bigger than a sedan to get that AWD.
are those highway or city numbers? 24mpg seems low for an accord. Hell my passat gets over 30 on the highway. Maybe those are the city numbers. I mostly drive my car on the highway for commuting so I don't really think about city millage myself.
Remember, everything you buy as a negative impact on the planet.
Even those hybrids took a ton of energy to manufacture and ship. The batteries require heavy metals that are strip mined. It costs money because it uses resources.
Im not saying that a hybrid is a bad idea, but buying more stuff is not good for the environment. It might even be better to keep your lower millage vehicle than to buy a hybrid.
Now, if you need a new car then sure, pay a little extra for the hybrid, but if you have a perfectly serviceable car why waste the energy needed to create a whole new car.
He already owns the truck and usually insuring a second vehicle doesn't cost much more (since you can only destroy one at a time... at least in theory)
His best bet is to keep the truck to save the cost of renting one and buy a second small efficient car for use most of the time. If he didn't already have the truck it might be different but he is likely to get more value using it when he needs it than he will by selling it in todays market.
I was very impressed with the drivers in Germany. I saw some real dicks on the Autobahn but for the most part, in towns and cities the traffic was very reasonable. People yielded to pedestrians and drove safely.
The trip I was on took me from Amsterdam (few cars) through Germany where the drivers were wonderful and down to Venice where there are no cars. After these 2 weeks we moved on to Florence. As soon as we got out of the train station I realized that things were different here. I was so used to no cars or considerate cars that I easily could have been killed on those narrow streets with those crazy drivers.
I suspect they will have a different activation method for corporate accounts. At&t probably already has some kind of system in place for other smart phones.
I get both sides in this. On the one hand you are right that many people would just like to buy a few songs that are on the radio and leave it at that.
On the artist side though, its like selling the bottom right corner of a painting. Admitedly the Album is a dying artform these days (mostly due to MP3 players and shuffle) but there are still some artists who develop entire albums rather than just a few songs and some filler. These are the sort of thing thats meant to be listened to from start to finish. I can understand not wanting your album chopped up and sold piece by piece if you put that kind of effort into a whole album.
Still, I see this transition as fairly inevitable. The album has been dying for quite some time and the rise of the MP3 player is going to pretty much end it.
All of the lego starwars games I have played have been very good. I wouldn't be surprised if the Indiana Jones game was as well. Even if it is based on a movie.
I agree with you on a few of these points. Clearly a strict GPL wont mean the end of free software entirely. Plenty of places use stuff internally and that would continue. But use of free software by the public at large is probably going to require, at least in part, it being redistributed by commercial organizations.
Its not that a suddenly super tough GPL would kill free software but it might significantly slow its growth or result in a rise in less free commercial licenses.
I do agree with you that the courts are not likely to uphold a crazy interpretation of the GPL, at least, I hope not. My concern is mostly with new versions of the GPL getting more restrictive. Hopefully it wont be an issue, but people adopt these licenses before they are tested in court. All it would take is one bad ruling on a hypothetical GPL 4.0 to taint all software that uses that license (or really any GPL license). Businesses tend to stay away from things they think might burn them. A decade from now you want people saying "You wont get fired for choosing GPL" the way the used to talk about IBM.
This isn't a life or death issue for Free software but that doesn't mean its not a good idea to exercise some caution.
If the GPL gets too powerful it will not make Free Software ubiquitous. It will hamper its development.
What happens when there is real court backed evidence of the "viral" nature of the GPL? Companies will stop using software that is GPLed and will turn to closed source alternatives. Its great to promote freedom of choice and to protect free software but if it goes too far it could be damaging overall. The fact that there are big companies out there using GPL software is a very good thing. If the GPL gets too restrictive it will put an end to that.
People need to remember that more restrictive licenses are a double edged sword. Right now there may not be an issue but there might be in the future.
Near where I went to school there was a curvy bit of road where people often drove to fast. For a bout a month there was a cop car near there where you could see it coming into the section of road. It was a few days before I realized there was never a cop in the car.
The results seemed good though. People were driving through hat area a lot more slowly and from that point on they just put an actual cop in that spot from time to time to keep people honest.
I found the boxing in Wii sports to be a light impact cardio work out. Im usually a touch winded after a couple of fights. I wouldnt call it a work out but its a lot more interactive than Mike Tysons Punch Out.
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It would get a lot less expensive if it was the only thing we were using oil for though. Oil isn't expensive because its being used to make pharmaceuticals or even plastics, its expensive because its being burned for power and transportation in massive quantities.
Seems like a reasonable way to avoid any issue is to pay them off a couple of times. It would prove that they can, in fact, deliver on their promise and it would also let you know if they are pulling and shit with a single encryption key.
I suppose they could be using a list of encryption keys and simply compare the encrypted key to a list of encrypted keys and then send the proper key back to the person who paid.
It seems like a lot of effort to go to though. Wouldn't it be easier to grow yourself a bot net (or rent time on one from another criminal organization) and use that to brute force the encryption key rather than coming up with an elaborate ruse to get the world at large to do it for you.
OK, I get what this is doing but what about this fear that the virus writers want us to factor the key? If they already have the private key (necessary to decrypt the random key if someone pays them off) then they dont need that key brute forced.
I'm trying to figure out what the risk is in brute forcing this key. If the virus writers have never restored someones machine that might show that they don't have the private key, but if that were the case I would assume it would be mentioned in the story.
And all of those things take up resources and energy... even the recycling.
Of coures so does a gas guzzling SUV. In fact they are probably even worse given that they are heavier. Hybrids are a fine thing but its not always the best idea to ditch a good working car for a newer car just to get a slightly better gas millage. Sometimes its not even the best thing for the environment, never mind your wallet.
If you want to help the environment, buy less stuff.
that sounds a little more in line with what I would expect though the "around town" numbers are a bit high. Of course your town might not be similar to the one the EPA assumes for millage estimates.
I don't recall ever having to do that. I dont recall the issue of religion comming up at all until I got to the eagle scout level and then it was really just a question in passing. I said that the aspect of the scout law that I had the most trouble with was "reverent" I could have chosen another one if I had wanted too.
Maybe in other parts of the country they do more religious stuff but with my troop the most religious we got was doing cleanup around the church that housed us for our weekly meeting.
Im an American and that statement jumped right out at me as being totally ridiculous. If it was a civic then maybe its "tiny" though I think "small" would be a more appropriate term saving "Tiny" for things like the smart car.
My girlfriends 86 450 honda rebel gets over 60mpg. That drag is really killing the efficency.
What are you riding?
Now admittedly my Harley only gets about 35mpg but its over powered and really not built for efficiency. I'm considering getting a larger rear pulley for it to get better gas millage. As it stands it has more power than it needs.
When I had to pull out a $20 to pay for filling up my Motorcycle thats when I knew things were getting bad.
Don't you people have plows?
To be fair, most SUVs arent designed for off road driving. The smaller ones are built on car frames with car suspension so they dont fit the bill. Some of the largest ones like the Escalade are built entirely for looks and a smooth ride.
Sure there are off road capable SUVs but just because you have an SUV does not mean its capable of going off road.
when my family lived in central michigan they owned a chevy citation and a VW rabbit. 4x4s are not strictly required to live there.
Hell, I live in New England and I don't have an all wheel drive car, though I would like one its not necessary. I certainly wont be buying anything bigger than a sedan to get that AWD.
are those highway or city numbers? 24mpg seems low for an accord. Hell my passat gets over 30 on the highway. Maybe those are the city numbers. I mostly drive my car on the highway for commuting so I don't really think about city millage myself.
Remember, everything you buy as a negative impact on the planet.
Even those hybrids took a ton of energy to manufacture and ship. The batteries require heavy metals that are strip mined. It costs money because it uses resources.
Im not saying that a hybrid is a bad idea, but buying more stuff is not good for the environment. It might even be better to keep your lower millage vehicle than to buy a hybrid.
Now, if you need a new car then sure, pay a little extra for the hybrid, but if you have a perfectly serviceable car why waste the energy needed to create a whole new car.
He already owns the truck and usually insuring a second vehicle doesn't cost much more (since you can only destroy one at a time... at least in theory)
His best bet is to keep the truck to save the cost of renting one and buy a second small efficient car for use most of the time. If he didn't already have the truck it might be different but he is likely to get more value using it when he needs it than he will by selling it in todays market.
I was very impressed with the drivers in Germany. I saw some real dicks on the Autobahn but for the most part, in towns and cities the traffic was very reasonable. People yielded to pedestrians and drove safely.
The trip I was on took me from Amsterdam (few cars) through Germany where the drivers were wonderful and down to Venice where there are no cars. After these 2 weeks we moved on to Florence. As soon as we got out of the train station I realized that things were different here. I was so used to no cars or considerate cars that I easily could have been killed on those narrow streets with those crazy drivers.
I suspect they will have a different activation method for corporate accounts. At&t probably already has some kind of system in place for other smart phones.
I get both sides in this. On the one hand you are right that many people would just like to buy a few songs that are on the radio and leave it at that.
On the artist side though, its like selling the bottom right corner of a painting. Admitedly the Album is a dying artform these days (mostly due to MP3 players and shuffle) but there are still some artists who develop entire albums rather than just a few songs and some filler. These are the sort of thing thats meant to be listened to from start to finish. I can understand not wanting your album chopped up and sold piece by piece if you put that kind of effort into a whole album.
Still, I see this transition as fairly inevitable. The album has been dying for quite some time and the rise of the MP3 player is going to pretty much end it.
But man... goldeneye was a damn good game.
All of the lego starwars games I have played have been very good. I wouldn't be surprised if the Indiana Jones game was as well. Even if it is based on a movie.
I agree with you on a few of these points. Clearly a strict GPL wont mean the end of free software entirely. Plenty of places use stuff internally and that would continue. But use of free software by the public at large is probably going to require, at least in part, it being redistributed by commercial organizations.
Its not that a suddenly super tough GPL would kill free software but it might significantly slow its growth or result in a rise in less free commercial licenses.
I do agree with you that the courts are not likely to uphold a crazy interpretation of the GPL, at least, I hope not. My concern is mostly with new versions of the GPL getting more restrictive. Hopefully it wont be an issue, but people adopt these licenses before they are tested in court. All it would take is one bad ruling on a hypothetical GPL 4.0 to taint all software that uses that license (or really any GPL license). Businesses tend to stay away from things they think might burn them. A decade from now you want people saying "You wont get fired for choosing GPL" the way the used to talk about IBM.
This isn't a life or death issue for Free software but that doesn't mean its not a good idea to exercise some caution.
if they would sell me the real DVD for 5 buck I would buy a lot more DVDs and I wouldn't use on demand or video rental services very much at all.
Unfortunately thats not going to happen. Its not about the cost to produce the disk, its about the cost to produce the content.
If the GPL gets too powerful it will not make Free Software ubiquitous. It will hamper its development.
What happens when there is real court backed evidence of the "viral" nature of the GPL? Companies will stop using software that is GPLed and will turn to closed source alternatives. Its great to promote freedom of choice and to protect free software but if it goes too far it could be damaging overall. The fact that there are big companies out there using GPL software is a very good thing. If the GPL gets too restrictive it will put an end to that.
People need to remember that more restrictive licenses are a double edged sword. Right now there may not be an issue but there might be in the future.
Near where I went to school there was a curvy bit of road where people often drove to fast. For a bout a month there was a cop car near there where you could see it coming into the section of road. It was a few days before I realized there was never a cop in the car.
The results seemed good though. People were driving through hat area a lot more slowly and from that point on they just put an actual cop in that spot from time to time to keep people honest.
Really the "War on Drugs" was Nixons doing, but Regan really kicked up the offensive a notch or 2.
I found the boxing in Wii sports to be a light impact cardio work out. Im usually a touch winded after a couple of fights. I wouldnt call it a work out but its a lot more interactive than Mike Tysons Punch Out.