That'd still show poor IT management. I can imagine you want to spare some addresses for potential future growth (making your subnets say 3-4 bits wider than necessary), but if you run out of a complete A-class network you're definitely doing something wrong.
Related: what happened to shareware? In the 1990s, the BBS and Fidonet era, shareware was really common. Nowadays often called "crippleware" which sounds far worse, it basically was a preview that was more or less functional. Register your copy (i.e. buy it), and you got full functionality. It was also usually registered to one's name - which didn't stop piracy of course.
I have heard it worked rather well in the US, but not so much in Europe. Payments were a big issue: it's very hard to make an international payment of like US$ 10, or equivalent in one's local currency. Bank charges for a remittance are usually higher than that amount. Also app stores didn't exist, so using your credit card to pay was also not an option. As a result it was for me, living in The Netherlands, usually simply impossible to register a shareware program, for the simple reason that there was no practical way to make a payment. The only way was to gather like 20, 30 people, and register as a group - but that was a lot of work for the organiser of course.
That payment issue is for me very important. Make it easy for people to pay, and it takes away another barrier to having them part with their money.
Nowadays the way for me to make money on an app would be to use the good old shareware model, plus the ease of payment provided by various app stores. The free version would have ads, maybe an interesting but non-essential feature disabled, and give links to the app store to buy the full version. Mobile platforms have good app stores, desktop platforms are still lagging in that respect but some are available. Being in an app store gives exposure plus an easy avenue for buyers to actually pay.
This should deter most would-be pirates, as there is not much reason to pirate an already-free app. And it gives those a reminder that they can get the full version easily and at little cost.
The DVD players I've bought in Hong Kong simply don't have region locking. No need to remove it or anything, it's not there to begin with. When you ask sales staff (which are usually rather incompetent to begin with) about region locking they usually have no idea what you're talking about.
Having a free trial period with limited time or limited features would probably help to ensure people can feel good about spending their money.
This, for me at least, would be key to even trying the program. I'm not going to buy software that I don't know will even work for me. There is so much out there! Good chance there's a free alternative.
App stores same. On the Google Play store I've never even looked at the Paid category. Yet I have paid apps: tried the free version, liked it very much, bought the "ad-free" version (not that it matters much to me: most of the time no data connection so no ads; I don't have a mobile data account, and only ever accidentally clicked on ads).
About to release a little Android app of my own. Ad supported, don't really expect anything from that part (AdMob doesn't show anythin on how much money you can expect for people clicking an ad), will have an ad-free paid version too. Same function, just without the ads.
The average consumer won't complain. And that's because, as TFS states, the purpose is not to restrict customers as much as it is to control channels.
In effect, DRM does not effect customers much, if at all. As soon as it would affect them (e.g. it doesn't play) they wouldn't buy. Or start protesting really loudly (e.g. Amazon retracting sales of e-books, like they did to 1984, or the problems with that computer game last week). DRM or no DRM doesn't make much of a difference to them. Which of course also shows how utterly useless DRM is, other than to restrict your sales channels.
and in those countries nowadays you're hard pressed to find a DVD player that actually supports those restrictions... most made-in-China players simply don't support DRM beyond the decryption part. Cheaper for the manufacturers (less software to write).
Plus the, presumably, excellent reference this employer can be for other jobs (or even a direct source of other jobs - either in that company, or elsewhere in the business).
How can it be defamation if it is only facts that they release?
I always thought defamation is related to unsubstantiated allegations against people, usually backed up by only some circumstantial evidence that can be interpreted many ways. But releasing actual facts (and FOIA requests are to gather factual information), that can not be called defamation. It may hurt certain people, it may put them out of their careers, and they will hate it. But defamation? No.
Isn't the very reason this FOIA thing was put together, was to force governments to release information they are reluctant to release for that very reason?
Of course. But then there are policies, and then there is the real world.
"Don't leave your visitor unattended!"
"But I'm just fetching him a cup of coffee..."
And when said "network maintenance" guy is there, even if someone is keeping a watchful eye on him, that someone likely doesn't know what the network maintenance guy is doing (or they could have done it by themselves).
OK, those uninvited notwithstanding, it is normal for companies to have visitors.
People coming for business discussions, people coming to do building maintenance (various contractors), etc. Getting through the door is pretty easy. Getting on their LAN (wireless) is pretty easy (may not even have to get through the door for that). Getting on their LAN (wired) is a little harder - but a little social engineering and say pretending to be a network maintenance guy will usually get you really far, especially in larger companies where not everybody knows everybody.
I'm sure a determined attacker will just social-engineer their way in, and after the visit there is a second backdoor but now one that's accessible from the outside as well.
Another thing that I haven't seen mentioned here: motivation for the developers. Having a great number of users for your project will definitely motivate you to go on. And I think it may also attract relatively more users that want to become contributors.
And on a road you can expect these signs. You're not required to look out for them. You're not even required to have a working speedometer in your car. You just have to make sure that you stay within the limit.
It's easily translated to copyrights: you have to make sure you stay within the limit of what is acceptable. Copying the text to your computer for display in the browser is of course legal. Storing extracts for own use is most definitely legal - quoting other people's work is normally allowed under copyright laws. Storing complete pages for own use, well ymmv. Not sure about that.
There is no need for a notice for that. You're just exercising your rights when copying a quote. And the copyright holder can not take away those legal rights just by posting a notice.
At least in Netherlands towns have local taxes. Not as percentage of income or an extra VAT or whatever, but they charge taxes for sewage, waste disposal, real estate, etc. Those taxes form a large part of the income of the local government.
Now you should also look at the difference in quality of driving schools.
Many Americans find it scary to drive in Europe because we drive so fast (your 100 km/h speed limit, which in Germany is for most secondary roads, is higher than the US speed limit on motorways!) and on so narrow roads (their roads are wider). Or so close to the water edge, or doing 70-80 km/hr on a single lane road on top of a dyke.
Yet the accident rate (on a per km basis) in Europe is far lower. I think it really helps that you must take lessons from a qualified instructor until you pass your driving exam, which is typically at least 40 hours of lessons, instead of just a few introductory lessons after which you can get a learner's license and hit the road just with someone with a license to "supervise" you.
That's true, but irrelevant to the issue of following the law. Don't break the law, and you'll never need to challenge a ticket or worry about whose mercy you are at.
The fact that you CAN challenge tickets implies that the ticketing system is not infallible. Speeding tickets have been given to the wrong car (e.g. it was the one taking over that should get it).
You make your decision way too late. You make the decision way before you are at the traffic light, when it is still green: "at that point if not turned yellow yet I move on, if turn yellow before that point I stop." Especially when you're driving such heavy loads, because as you say yourself you need time to stop.
And if you have an excessively long time to break, then you should not be trying to drive at maximum speed anyway. The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a requirement to go at that speed. It may irritate other road users if you go under the limit, but that's not your problem. Your problem is to drive safely. And if you can not do so when going at the speed limit, you have to slow down, like when approaching intersections. Or do you also take your corners at the same speed a passenger car does?
If water becomes scarce enough in heavily populated areas to justify transporting it continental distances, I very much doubt anyone is going to be interested in protecting your property rights. You'll be trampled by a flood of refugees fleeing the drought.
China is doing just that already: they have these massive south-to-north water diversion projects, indeed to transport water from one end of the country all the way to the other end, in huge quantities. No problems with refugees because of water. No problems with property rights because of water (of course there are other problems when it comes to property rights there, but that's not the point of this discussion).
I don't think it will have a strong impact, as this vegetation is usually mosses and maybe some low shrubs. It is still pretty cold up there, so no lush forests or anything. It should be more like tundra. Slow growing stuff for sure.
Also with the greenery creeping further north, how about the other types of vegetation, do they also creep up north? And with that I mean stuff like forests, that have a northern limit due to temperature, are they expanding north, too? And if expanding north, does that also mean they lose ground on the south to other types of vegetation?
It definitely is one of the many unknown or poorly known variables in a climate model. 4-6 degrees (roughly 100 km per degree, so 400-600 km) in 30 years is a huge movement. Animals don't normally migrate this fast, and may be left behind, causing extinctions.
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That'd still show poor IT management. I can imagine you want to spare some addresses for potential future growth (making your subnets say 3-4 bits wider than necessary), but if you run out of a complete A-class network you're definitely doing something wrong.
Make it easy to buy, that's an important one.
Related: what happened to shareware? In the 1990s, the BBS and Fidonet era, shareware was really common. Nowadays often called "crippleware" which sounds far worse, it basically was a preview that was more or less functional. Register your copy (i.e. buy it), and you got full functionality. It was also usually registered to one's name - which didn't stop piracy of course.
I have heard it worked rather well in the US, but not so much in Europe. Payments were a big issue: it's very hard to make an international payment of like US$ 10, or equivalent in one's local currency. Bank charges for a remittance are usually higher than that amount. Also app stores didn't exist, so using your credit card to pay was also not an option. As a result it was for me, living in The Netherlands, usually simply impossible to register a shareware program, for the simple reason that there was no practical way to make a payment. The only way was to gather like 20, 30 people, and register as a group - but that was a lot of work for the organiser of course.
That payment issue is for me very important. Make it easy for people to pay, and it takes away another barrier to having them part with their money.
Nowadays the way for me to make money on an app would be to use the good old shareware model, plus the ease of payment provided by various app stores. The free version would have ads, maybe an interesting but non-essential feature disabled, and give links to the app store to buy the full version. Mobile platforms have good app stores, desktop platforms are still lagging in that respect but some are available. Being in an app store gives exposure plus an easy avenue for buyers to actually pay.
This should deter most would-be pirates, as there is not much reason to pirate an already-free app. And it gives those a reminder that they can get the full version easily and at little cost.
The DVD players I've bought in Hong Kong simply don't have region locking. No need to remove it or anything, it's not there to begin with. When you ask sales staff (which are usually rather incompetent to begin with) about region locking they usually have no idea what you're talking about.
Having a free trial period with limited time or limited features would probably help to ensure people can feel good about spending their money.
This, for me at least, would be key to even trying the program. I'm not going to buy software that I don't know will even work for me. There is so much out there! Good chance there's a free alternative.
App stores same. On the Google Play store I've never even looked at the Paid category. Yet I have paid apps: tried the free version, liked it very much, bought the "ad-free" version (not that it matters much to me: most of the time no data connection so no ads; I don't have a mobile data account, and only ever accidentally clicked on ads).
About to release a little Android app of my own. Ad supported, don't really expect anything from that part (AdMob doesn't show anythin on how much money you can expect for people clicking an ad), will have an ad-free paid version too. Same function, just without the ads.
The average consumer won't complain. And that's because, as TFS states, the purpose is not to restrict customers as much as it is to control channels.
In effect, DRM does not effect customers much, if at all. As soon as it would affect them (e.g. it doesn't play) they wouldn't buy. Or start protesting really loudly (e.g. Amazon retracting sales of e-books, like they did to 1984, or the problems with that computer game last week). DRM or no DRM doesn't make much of a difference to them. Which of course also shows how utterly useless DRM is, other than to restrict your sales channels.
and in those countries nowadays you're hard pressed to find a DVD player that actually supports those restrictions... most made-in-China players simply don't support DRM beyond the decryption part. Cheaper for the manufacturers (less software to write).
Classified information and open governments don't go well together. People in the government should know that.
Yet in this case there is quite some embarrassing information out there already, so it should be time for that government to come clean anyway.
This.
Plus the, presumably, excellent reference this employer can be for other jobs (or even a direct source of other jobs - either in that company, or elsewhere in the business).
How can it be defamation if it is only facts that they release?
I always thought defamation is related to unsubstantiated allegations against people, usually backed up by only some circumstantial evidence that can be interpreted many ways. But releasing actual facts (and FOIA requests are to gather factual information), that can not be called defamation. It may hurt certain people, it may put them out of their careers, and they will hate it. But defamation? No.
Isn't the very reason this FOIA thing was put together, was to force governments to release information they are reluctant to release for that very reason?
I'd say so, yes. One is a technical issue, the other a social one.
Was it a backdoor hack? Or just some employee with regular access to the system abusing his privileges?
Of course. But then there are policies, and then there is the real world.
"Don't leave your visitor unattended!"
"But I'm just fetching him a cup of coffee..."
And when said "network maintenance" guy is there, even if someone is keeping a watchful eye on him, that someone likely doesn't know what the network maintenance guy is doing (or they could have done it by themselves).
OK, those uninvited notwithstanding, it is normal for companies to have visitors.
People coming for business discussions, people coming to do building maintenance (various contractors), etc. Getting through the door is pretty easy. Getting on their LAN (wireless) is pretty easy (may not even have to get through the door for that). Getting on their LAN (wired) is a little harder - but a little social engineering and say pretending to be a network maintenance guy will usually get you really far, especially in larger companies where not everybody knows everybody.
Can you trust your visitors?
Including uninviteted, secretive visitors?
I'm sure a determined attacker will just social-engineer their way in, and after the visit there is a second backdoor but now one that's accessible from the outside as well.
That's just because you don't know the difference between a corner and an edge.
Another thing that I haven't seen mentioned here: motivation for the developers. Having a great number of users for your project will definitely motivate you to go on. And I think it may also attract relatively more users that want to become contributors.
And on a road you can expect these signs. You're not required to look out for them. You're not even required to have a working speedometer in your car. You just have to make sure that you stay within the limit.
It's easily translated to copyrights: you have to make sure you stay within the limit of what is acceptable. Copying the text to your computer for display in the browser is of course legal. Storing extracts for own use is most definitely legal - quoting other people's work is normally allowed under copyright laws. Storing complete pages for own use, well ymmv. Not sure about that.
There is no need for a notice for that. You're just exercising your rights when copying a quote. And the copyright holder can not take away those legal rights just by posting a notice.
At least in Netherlands towns have local taxes. Not as percentage of income or an extra VAT or whatever, but they charge taxes for sewage, waste disposal, real estate, etc. Those taxes form a large part of the income of the local government.
Now you should also look at the difference in quality of driving schools.
Many Americans find it scary to drive in Europe because we drive so fast (your 100 km/h speed limit, which in Germany is for most secondary roads, is higher than the US speed limit on motorways!) and on so narrow roads (their roads are wider). Or so close to the water edge, or doing 70-80 km/hr on a single lane road on top of a dyke.
Yet the accident rate (on a per km basis) in Europe is far lower. I think it really helps that you must take lessons from a qualified instructor until you pass your driving exam, which is typically at least 40 hours of lessons, instead of just a few introductory lessons after which you can get a learner's license and hit the road just with someone with a license to "supervise" you.
That's true, but irrelevant to the issue of following the law. Don't break the law, and you'll never need to challenge a ticket or worry about whose mercy you are at.
The fact that you CAN challenge tickets implies that the ticketing system is not infallible. Speeding tickets have been given to the wrong car (e.g. it was the one taking over that should get it).
You make your decision way too late. You make the decision way before you are at the traffic light, when it is still green: "at that point if not turned yellow yet I move on, if turn yellow before that point I stop." Especially when you're driving such heavy loads, because as you say yourself you need time to stop.
And if you have an excessively long time to break, then you should not be trying to drive at maximum speed anyway. The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a requirement to go at that speed. It may irritate other road users if you go under the limit, but that's not your problem. Your problem is to drive safely. And if you can not do so when going at the speed limit, you have to slow down, like when approaching intersections. Or do you also take your corners at the same speed a passenger car does?
If water becomes scarce enough in heavily populated areas to justify transporting it continental distances, I very much doubt anyone is going to be interested in protecting your property rights. You'll be trampled by a flood of refugees fleeing the drought.
China is doing just that already: they have these massive south-to-north water diversion projects, indeed to transport water from one end of the country all the way to the other end, in huge quantities. No problems with refugees because of water. No problems with property rights because of water (of course there are other problems when it comes to property rights there, but that's not the point of this discussion).
Make that most of the population of the world.
People generally live near water, rivers or shorelines, and especially there where rivers reach shorelines.
I don't think it will have a strong impact, as this vegetation is usually mosses and maybe some low shrubs. It is still pretty cold up there, so no lush forests or anything. It should be more like tundra. Slow growing stuff for sure.
Also with the greenery creeping further north, how about the other types of vegetation, do they also creep up north? And with that I mean stuff like forests, that have a northern limit due to temperature, are they expanding north, too? And if expanding north, does that also mean they lose ground on the south to other types of vegetation?
It definitely is one of the many unknown or poorly known variables in a climate model. 4-6 degrees (roughly 100 km per degree, so 400-600 km) in 30 years is a huge movement. Animals don't normally migrate this fast, and may be left behind, causing extinctions.