As with most things it depends. For some products, like games, there may be no ongoing work that requires keeping the programmers on staff (baring patches/DLC.) For other products like operating systems/databases there's an ongoing need for enhancement which requires programmers to do that ongoing work.
I agree with you that this only makes sense for very large customers of hard drives. If Google really thinks this is a good idea they should approach one of the vendors with a long term commitment to buy the drives or a large investment for them to develop the drives. That's really the only way I see a Seagate or WD spending their time/money to develop a product that has no retail purpose and may have no commercial customers. Let the HD companies know it won't be a wasted investment and they'll come up with something that will help Google cut down on space/power usage for their HDs.
Yes, I can see that it's not something you want to happen but no lives were lost and it doesn't directly threaten anyone or even any property unlike oil spills. So I have a hard time thinking of this as one of the worst disasters of all time.
Depending on how hard it is to set up that merchant account they can do the same thing that is done with other similar crimes. Hire some person in need of money to set up the merchant account, funnel the money through that account and then leave that person holding the proverbial bag while the real criminals are far away by the time law enforcement tracks down the merchant account owner.
Even the streaming solution is somewhat solved in that Comcast and other cable companies provide a means for you to stream their On-Demand content to your PC/tablet/phone. Of course with Comcast that uses up part of your monthly bandwidth limit if you are streaming to a device on their network (that isn't a STB/Cablecard) so that's still an issue.
Your need for inline traps is a big reason: to move away from ClearQAM. After all that trap requires a truck roll to install, to remove it and to verify it's still there when there is an audit of the system. That means every time there is customer churn they have to do a truck roll. That's money that can be saved by moving away from ClearQAM since there's no worry about someone stealing free video service from the cable co. if everything is not in the clear.
Because they want to use that bandwidth for other services. Look at how DOCSIS 3.1 works and you can see that it's all about getting more use out of the same frequency bandwidth while ClearQAM is about utilizing the same frequencies for fewer channels but in the clear. I'm sure the move away from clearQAM for Comcast started out strictly as a way to make more money but now I think it's moved on to being about making more money by providing more services/channels/higher quality (HD over SD, 4K over HD).
Because it never works that one. Once various governmental agencies know that Apple has a way around their security they will continue to ask for Apple to help them break the security. So even if it was possible to do a one off patch just for this phone (and I doubt that is possible) the burden will be upon Apple to continue doing this forever going forward.
Also it won't be long before there are actual legal demands for Apple to put something in permanently once people know that Apple can do it. Right now Apple can say it isn't possible and use that to fight off those efforts but if they show it is possible (even if it is just to make it possible to brute force attack the phone) then it won't be long before Apple will have to implement a way in for all governmental agencies.
It feels more like for a number of Congressmen it is distasteful for any President to appoint a lifetime nominee to such an important position if they don't agree with his/her politics. Sadly that's been the state for some years. The fact is President Obama is the President and will remain so for a year so it's not like he's making an selection in the last few days of his Presidency.
It really doesn't matter who is the President. Congress should respect his/her choice and approve the nomination unless they can find strong grounds to reject a candidate.
The thing is that if they are actually terrorists and would try to attack people from the USA (whether civilian or military) if set free then you have another answer if they go free. At that point the military has the means and ability to kill them. So while we apparently aren't willing to kill them as prisoners the US can certainly (and would most likely) kill them once they were free and outside the USA.
I suspect most people do. You kind of have to if you are going to be active on a lot of sites because you eventually hit a point where coming up with a unique password that you can remember is next to impossible. Much like yourself I protect the important sites with unique passwords but sites that I don't care about may get the same password.
The problem is that too many people don't even protect the important sites that well and end up using a common password or a username/username combo as UN/PW or the same PW on their banking site and Facebook so if one is compromised the other is easily accessed should the thief wish to do so.
I have had Antivirus packages installed for years but usually have it turned off and only turn it on to check a download that I'm particularly worried about. Running Noscript and Adblock seems to be enough to stop most viruses and malware so that the only ones that make it to my system are those that I download. Those are found when I check the download with an A/V.
I think this would be true for most people so long as they are smart enough to not click on random links or trust all the spam they get in email. That brings up another thing that helps is that I use Gmail and the spam blocker they have in place works very well. I can only think of a couple of emails over the years that were incorrectly marked as spam.
Indeed that is absurd since the value can easily go to zero the next year. Is the government going to give you back all the taxes that you have paid in over the previous years of owning a stock that had gone up in value before dropping to zero. (Think Enron as a perfect example of what can happen with stocks that you own and haven't sold.)
I would take each letter and send it on to each of the people behind this idea. That way they get to experience the joy of explaining why the letter is being sent to them and maybe realize just why such a letter might be a bad idea.
Actually the AAA games don't require the best card but you do need a decent GPU. A GTX 960 won't let you turn up all the graphical options with the latest games even at 1080P while a 970 would, and a GTX 980TI would let you run them at higher resolutions and maintain 60FPS. Now the top of the lines Titans are just overkill for any game that isn't horribly optimized and a great way to burn money given the performance boost over the 980TI per $$$ spent.
I don't see how you arrive at your conclusion unless you believe Blizzard had the contract at hand. They don't know what the arrangement was between the contractor and the company. The contractor may own full rights to the software. In any case Blizzard doesn't intend to compete with rival bots. I'm sure they just want to see how the bot works so they can figure out how best to detect and block any bots based off this code.
The same way you prevent any abuse. Good investigations by the authorities. I'm not sure how this system makes it any worse as far as abuse goes since people still have to report the crime and give details including their name, and the crime has to be investigated once the system flags a perp as a multiple offender.
That's as it should be. This isn't intended to replace the law enforcement community. If someone is sure a rape has occurred then they should report it and the police will investigate it at that time. However if someone isn't willing to go to police but thinks a rape may have occurred this is an alternative reporting system that gets it on record where it may help identify the perp. if someone else reports a similar rape. That's a good thing but it doesn't replace going to the police.
I'm not sure why you would want to punish the people allowing the prosecutors to resign. They should resign. That won't release them from being punished if they should be found to have tampered with or asked the lab to tamper with evidence.
You made an unjustified leap. Advertising that keeps going must be working and getting more people to buy the drugs. That I can agree on. The idea that more people buying a drug will lead to lower prices for each person is the leap that I can't agree with. It may lead to lower prices for the drug or if the company is selling more doses per month they may decide to keep the price the same and just pocket the money.
It's usually not the manufacturing that is so expensive but the research and testing needing to get the drug on the market. In this case neither company needs to do any research or additional testing with the FDA since the drug is well known and has been on the market for 60 years. That doesn't apply with a brand new drug which may have to go through years of testing even if the first version is perfect with no side effects.
If you are shooting in a competition and the weight variability is an issue but you otherwise like the gun then why not just put fewer bullets in the magazine? Sure you have to swap mags more often but you are going to need to do that anyway if you switch to a weapon with a smaller mag. I can't imagine any competition that allows you to choose your weapon but then forces you to always have a full mag.
I'm glad they don't verify the signatures as I mostly use my credit card at the local grocery store. They use one of those pads for you to sign and my signature when writing on glass looks nothing like my real signature. Not to say that my signature looks the same each time because it doesn't. Similar but often not that close.
I understand that there is a belief that they need to be where the talent is but a company like Google (as they are now) can easily bring in the talent to any city they wished to move to. The combination of the salaries they can offer and the cachet of working for Google will overcome the hurdle of not being in the Bay area. It's not going to happen but a company like Google could certainly do it. Hell, over the course of the next decade after such a move you would see a number of smaller businesses opening shop in the same area as Google providing more opportunities for those in the tech industry.
However don't pilots need some muscle development to be able to move within the airplane at high Gs? They don't need to be Arnold Schwarzenger level but they should be fit toned individuals which would add mass over the stereotypical 90 pound weakling. Think back to the test pilots that have been talked about over the years. None that I saw would be under even 150 pounds.
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As with most things it depends. For some products, like games, there may be no ongoing work that requires keeping the programmers on staff (baring patches/DLC.) For other products like operating systems/databases there's an ongoing need for enhancement which requires programmers to do that ongoing work.
I agree with you that this only makes sense for very large customers of hard drives. If Google really thinks this is a good idea they should approach one of the vendors with a long term commitment to buy the drives or a large investment for them to develop the drives. That's really the only way I see a Seagate or WD spending their time/money to develop a product that has no retail purpose and may have no commercial customers. Let the HD companies know it won't be a wasted investment and they'll come up with something that will help Google cut down on space/power usage for their HDs.
Yes, I can see that it's not something you want to happen but no lives were lost and it doesn't directly threaten anyone or even any property unlike oil spills. So I have a hard time thinking of this as one of the worst disasters of all time.
Depending on how hard it is to set up that merchant account they can do the same thing that is done with other similar crimes. Hire some person in need of money to set up the merchant account, funnel the money through that account and then leave that person holding the proverbial bag while the real criminals are far away by the time law enforcement tracks down the merchant account owner.
Even the streaming solution is somewhat solved in that Comcast and other cable companies provide a means for you to stream their On-Demand content to your PC/tablet/phone. Of course with Comcast that uses up part of your monthly bandwidth limit if you are streaming to a device on their network (that isn't a STB/Cablecard) so that's still an issue.
Your need for inline traps is a big reason: to move away from ClearQAM. After all that trap requires a truck roll to install, to remove it and to verify it's still there when there is an audit of the system. That means every time there is customer churn they have to do a truck roll. That's money that can be saved by moving away from ClearQAM since there's no worry about someone stealing free video service from the cable co. if everything is not in the clear.
Because they want to use that bandwidth for other services. Look at how DOCSIS 3.1 works and you can see that it's all about getting more use out of the same frequency bandwidth while ClearQAM is about utilizing the same frequencies for fewer channels but in the clear. I'm sure the move away from clearQAM for Comcast started out strictly as a way to make more money but now I think it's moved on to being about making more money by providing more services/channels/higher quality (HD over SD, 4K over HD).
Because it never works that one. Once various governmental agencies know that Apple has a way around their security they will continue to ask for Apple to help them break the security. So even if it was possible to do a one off patch just for this phone (and I doubt that is possible) the burden will be upon Apple to continue doing this forever going forward.
Also it won't be long before there are actual legal demands for Apple to put something in permanently once people know that Apple can do it. Right now Apple can say it isn't possible and use that to fight off those efforts but if they show it is possible (even if it is just to make it possible to brute force attack the phone) then it won't be long before Apple will have to implement a way in for all governmental agencies.
It feels more like for a number of Congressmen it is distasteful for any President to appoint a lifetime nominee to such an important position if they don't agree with his/her politics. Sadly that's been the state for some years. The fact is President Obama is the President and will remain so for a year so it's not like he's making an selection in the last few days of his Presidency.
It really doesn't matter who is the President. Congress should respect his/her choice and approve the nomination unless they can find strong grounds to reject a candidate.
The thing is that if they are actually terrorists and would try to attack people from the USA (whether civilian or military) if set free then you have another answer if they go free. At that point the military has the means and ability to kill them. So while we apparently aren't willing to kill them as prisoners the US can certainly (and would most likely) kill them once they were free and outside the USA.
I suspect most people do. You kind of have to if you are going to be active on a lot of sites because you eventually hit a point where coming up with a unique password that you can remember is next to impossible. Much like yourself I protect the important sites with unique passwords but sites that I don't care about may get the same password. The problem is that too many people don't even protect the important sites that well and end up using a common password or a username/username combo as UN/PW or the same PW on their banking site and Facebook so if one is compromised the other is easily accessed should the thief wish to do so.
I have had Antivirus packages installed for years but usually have it turned off and only turn it on to check a download that I'm particularly worried about. Running Noscript and Adblock seems to be enough to stop most viruses and malware so that the only ones that make it to my system are those that I download. Those are found when I check the download with an A/V. I think this would be true for most people so long as they are smart enough to not click on random links or trust all the spam they get in email. That brings up another thing that helps is that I use Gmail and the spam blocker they have in place works very well. I can only think of a couple of emails over the years that were incorrectly marked as spam.
Indeed that is absurd since the value can easily go to zero the next year. Is the government going to give you back all the taxes that you have paid in over the previous years of owning a stock that had gone up in value before dropping to zero. (Think Enron as a perfect example of what can happen with stocks that you own and haven't sold.)
I would take each letter and send it on to each of the people behind this idea. That way they get to experience the joy of explaining why the letter is being sent to them and maybe realize just why such a letter might be a bad idea.
Actually the AAA games don't require the best card but you do need a decent GPU. A GTX 960 won't let you turn up all the graphical options with the latest games even at 1080P while a 970 would, and a GTX 980TI would let you run them at higher resolutions and maintain 60FPS. Now the top of the lines Titans are just overkill for any game that isn't horribly optimized and a great way to burn money given the performance boost over the 980TI per $$$ spent.
I don't see how you arrive at your conclusion unless you believe Blizzard had the contract at hand. They don't know what the arrangement was between the contractor and the company. The contractor may own full rights to the software. In any case Blizzard doesn't intend to compete with rival bots. I'm sure they just want to see how the bot works so they can figure out how best to detect and block any bots based off this code.
The same way you prevent any abuse. Good investigations by the authorities. I'm not sure how this system makes it any worse as far as abuse goes since people still have to report the crime and give details including their name, and the crime has to be investigated once the system flags a perp as a multiple offender.
That's as it should be. This isn't intended to replace the law enforcement community. If someone is sure a rape has occurred then they should report it and the police will investigate it at that time. However if someone isn't willing to go to police but thinks a rape may have occurred this is an alternative reporting system that gets it on record where it may help identify the perp. if someone else reports a similar rape. That's a good thing but it doesn't replace going to the police.
I'm not sure why you would want to punish the people allowing the prosecutors to resign. They should resign. That won't release them from being punished if they should be found to have tampered with or asked the lab to tamper with evidence.
You made an unjustified leap. Advertising that keeps going must be working and getting more people to buy the drugs. That I can agree on. The idea that more people buying a drug will lead to lower prices for each person is the leap that I can't agree with. It may lead to lower prices for the drug or if the company is selling more doses per month they may decide to keep the price the same and just pocket the money.
It's usually not the manufacturing that is so expensive but the research and testing needing to get the drug on the market. In this case neither company needs to do any research or additional testing with the FDA since the drug is well known and has been on the market for 60 years. That doesn't apply with a brand new drug which may have to go through years of testing even if the first version is perfect with no side effects.
If you are shooting in a competition and the weight variability is an issue but you otherwise like the gun then why not just put fewer bullets in the magazine? Sure you have to swap mags more often but you are going to need to do that anyway if you switch to a weapon with a smaller mag. I can't imagine any competition that allows you to choose your weapon but then forces you to always have a full mag.
I'm glad they don't verify the signatures as I mostly use my credit card at the local grocery store. They use one of those pads for you to sign and my signature when writing on glass looks nothing like my real signature. Not to say that my signature looks the same each time because it doesn't. Similar but often not that close.
I understand that there is a belief that they need to be where the talent is but a company like Google (as they are now) can easily bring in the talent to any city they wished to move to. The combination of the salaries they can offer and the cachet of working for Google will overcome the hurdle of not being in the Bay area. It's not going to happen but a company like Google could certainly do it. Hell, over the course of the next decade after such a move you would see a number of smaller businesses opening shop in the same area as Google providing more opportunities for those in the tech industry.
However don't pilots need some muscle development to be able to move within the airplane at high Gs? They don't need to be Arnold Schwarzenger level but they should be fit toned individuals which would add mass over the stereotypical 90 pound weakling. Think back to the test pilots that have been talked about over the years. None that I saw would be under even 150 pounds.