All that will do is allow the rich guy whose family drove out of the area in a convoy (peeling off $1000 at the gas station on the way out) so neither the Mercedes nor the Hummer would get scratched to thump his chest and declare that the poor who got flooded and ended up caught in a riot later brought it upon themselves for not leaving.
For the first part of your response, it's called having discipline. I love looking at beautiful girls and I love sex, that doesn't mean I'm humping every girl I see in the street. Am I superhuman because I can resist a basic human desire that is third only to breathing and eating?
That's odd you would say that and then tell a story about how you failed twice to maintain that control so far (or if you want to count each meal, you've failed thousands of times). That's the thing. Anyone can resist any biological drive for a moment or two. Even breathing can be held briefly without distress.
Or, in other words, they can only fight the biological urge that is stronger than the sex drive and just under breathing for so long, then they relapse.
Some people overeat out of habit. Some have a stronger drive to eat. Some actually do eat pretty much what everyone else does or less and they gain weight anyway. Some people cut down eating and they lose weight and feel better. Others cut down and feel exhausted, get sick all the time, and their hair starts falling out all. Some are the opposite, they can't seem to stuff enough food down to gain weight.
There is hard scientific evidence that the gut flora have a lot to do with it.
There are a number of holy people who maintain that the breath control I just suggested is the way to attain enlightenment. They ACTUALLY strive for just that. They maintain that it becomes more natural after a while. They also live in abject poverty depending on charity from others because they can't make a living and do that too.
If you believe what you claim, how do you explain that even when people DO lose weight dieting, they almost inevitably gain it back and more within a few years?
Try this, breathe less. No, I didn't make an oblique reference to suicide, I mean breathe less. Just wait a little bit after you start feeling the breathing urge. Each time. For the rest of your life.
That is, make everything all about your breathing, or the lack thereof. Be sure to measure the amount of each breath. You wouldn't want to be a weak willed overbreather, would you?
So your suggestion is that they 'just' have to be naked and afraid for the rest of their lives? You think you're such a gift to mankind that they should subject themselves to that to meet your aesthetic values?
Naturally. They can't talk down to women anymore and can't use the N word, so they desperately need to cling to one group they can bad mouth and feel smugly superior to as if them not having the 'despised trait' has anything to do with an effort on their part.
You would be amazed at the larger printers. The last ones I saw were still using perforated paper. They pulled it up from the front, ran through the print heads and then over the top where it was collected. When going full speed, the paper didn't actually touch the roller at the top, it just flew over it.
Disabling security violations from physical access is very dangerous and undesirable. If you do that, how do you recover admin access if the credentials are lost? If you can suggest any solution to that, you have left physical access as an attack vector.
There are mitigations, however. There exists a well documented procedure over serial console to gain admin access to a Cisco router without the password. The catch is that to do so, you must take the router off line and so set off all the network monitors (you are running those, right?). Further, you will wipe out the configuration on the router when you do so.
That is perfectly adequate to make the tampering evident. The problem comes in if the response to the alarms is an immediate visit to the router to see what might have been done to the configs and to change the admin credentials and nothing else. That's how a replaced rommon could be a problem. Awareness of that vector will suggest reloading a known good copy.
Likewise, it comes in to play if an admin is fired for cause. Again, awareness that the rommon image could have been switched out will suggest that just reviewing the configs and changing the password is not enough.
So poorer people might end up waiting a while, which seems a bit unfair.
The other regions already do wait 6 months to a year. Not just for DVDs, but for release in theaters.
I wonder about other works besides entertainment though. Imagine the same system for patents: Price equalising patented medicines would essentially leave poorer people to die. (Actually, I'm not sure this hasn't been the case already.)
Sadly, that is a daily reality. It is somewhat balanced by other countries (India for example) granting their pharmaceutical manufacturers permission to violate some patents on essential medications.
Of course, there are plenty of not so rich people here in the U.S. that go without medication as well. To the point that statistically, they will die years sooner than wealthier people. Growing numbers are forced to buy needed medication on the black market. (You know the gouging is extreme when the black market is CHEAPER).
Copyright does do a great deal of damage. That's why at the beginning, it was kept short. The longer it grows, the more damage it does.
You can bet that whatever metrics the PHB puts in place, none will measure the cost of seagull management or the distractions caused by cheaping out on office space or following the flavor of the week productivity theory.
Excessive reliance on metrics in a call center costs money. Once they tighten up too much, incidents of customers getting 'accidentally' disconnected go up and customer satisfaction goes down. It also results in more escalations and a busier customer retention department.
Naturally, it creates a situation where they cannot see the forest for the trees. They don't manage to measure what percentage of their advertising budget gets effectively burned in a fire due to bad word of mouth created by support metrics.
But sales of media tend to ramp down over time. At some point, if they can't region code, it becomes more profitable to further lower the price in the richer regions in order to get many more sales elsewhere.
Similarly, the "Disney Vault" is a good argument to put a publish or perish clause in copyright law.
It would encourage them to initially price for the richer market, but as sales began to slump, they would be strongly encouraged to lower prices until finally, it was priced suitably for the poorest region. Any other policy would be leaving money on the table. Instead, with region restrictions, they effectively set a floor price in each region (and so further damage an already broken market).
They would be the first to complain if we 'region coded' labor.
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All that will do is allow the rich guy whose family drove out of the area in a convoy (peeling off $1000 at the gas station on the way out) so neither the Mercedes nor the Hummer would get scratched to thump his chest and declare that the poor who got flooded and ended up caught in a riot later brought it upon themselves for not leaving.
For the first part of your response, it's called having discipline. I love looking at beautiful girls and I love sex, that doesn't mean I'm humping every girl I see in the street. Am I superhuman because I can resist a basic human desire that is third only to breathing and eating?
That's odd you would say that and then tell a story about how you failed twice to maintain that control so far (or if you want to count each meal, you've failed thousands of times). That's the thing. Anyone can resist any biological drive for a moment or two. Even breathing can be held briefly without distress.
Fundamentally, all filesystems are object based, it's just that the object is called a 'block'
Or, in other words, they can only fight the biological urge that is stronger than the sex drive and just under breathing for so long, then they relapse.
Some people overeat out of habit. Some have a stronger drive to eat. Some actually do eat pretty much what everyone else does or less and they gain weight anyway. Some people cut down eating and they lose weight and feel better. Others cut down and feel exhausted, get sick all the time, and their hair starts falling out all. Some are the opposite, they can't seem to stuff enough food down to gain weight.
There is hard scientific evidence that the gut flora have a lot to do with it.
They did related things (and probably very useful) but it's not the same. TFA is about a filter that removes the actual pathogens from the blood.
I'm guessing that by 'did' you mean you were not able to continue it 24/7 for the rest of your life as the 'just eat crowd' demands of others.
Side note, I do practice yogic breathing, just not 24/7 forever.
There are a number of holy people who maintain that the breath control I just suggested is the way to attain enlightenment. They ACTUALLY strive for just that. They maintain that it becomes more natural after a while. They also live in abject poverty depending on charity from others because they can't make a living and do that too.
If you believe what you claim, how do you explain that even when people DO lose weight dieting, they almost inevitably gain it back and more within a few years?
Try this, breathe less. No, I didn't make an oblique reference to suicide, I mean breathe less. Just wait a little bit after you start feeling the breathing urge. Each time. For the rest of your life.
That is, make everything all about your breathing, or the lack thereof. Be sure to measure the amount of each breath. You wouldn't want to be a weak willed overbreather, would you?
So your suggestion is that they 'just' have to be naked and afraid for the rest of their lives? You think you're such a gift to mankind that they should subject themselves to that to meet your aesthetic values?
Naturally. They can't talk down to women anymore and can't use the N word, so they desperately need to cling to one group they can bad mouth and feel smugly superior to as if them not having the 'despised trait' has anything to do with an effort on their part.
Even the cackling psychopath harms others as a side effect of his own benefit.
Negligent is when they don't bother to consider if others will be harmed or not. Unless, of course, it's willful ignorance.
You would be amazed at the larger printers. The last ones I saw were still using perforated paper. They pulled it up from the front, ran through the print heads and then over the top where it was collected. When going full speed, the paper didn't actually touch the roller at the top, it just flew over it.
The problem is externalities. Too many companies happily make $10 themselves while doing $50 in damage to other people.
OTOH, government could get rid of at least the part of the DMCA that allows companies like Xerox to make the region coding stick.
Disabling security violations from physical access is very dangerous and undesirable. If you do that, how do you recover admin access if the credentials are lost? If you can suggest any solution to that, you have left physical access as an attack vector.
There are mitigations, however. There exists a well documented procedure over serial console to gain admin access to a Cisco router without the password. The catch is that to do so, you must take the router off line and so set off all the network monitors (you are running those, right?). Further, you will wipe out the configuration on the router when you do so.
That is perfectly adequate to make the tampering evident. The problem comes in if the response to the alarms is an immediate visit to the router to see what might have been done to the configs and to change the admin credentials and nothing else. That's how a replaced rommon could be a problem. Awareness of that vector will suggest reloading a known good copy.
Likewise, it comes in to play if an admin is fired for cause. Again, awareness that the rommon image could have been switched out will suggest that just reviewing the configs and changing the password is not enough.
It's worked out very well for companies that have gone that route.
Somewhere, right now there are probably 2 or more young drivers jokingly following the instructions on how to speed.
They probably don't expect it to be a problem. Honestly, neither do I.
The more important difference is that the speeding could theoretically lead to someone's death, the copyright infringement could not.
So you're saying C would never allow failure to free the mallocs? I'm not aware of that dialect, please enlighten us!
So poorer people might end up waiting a while, which seems a bit unfair.
The other regions already do wait 6 months to a year. Not just for DVDs, but for release in theaters.
I wonder about other works besides entertainment though. Imagine the same system for patents: Price equalising patented medicines would essentially leave poorer people to die. (Actually, I'm not sure this hasn't been the case already.)
Sadly, that is a daily reality. It is somewhat balanced by other countries (India for example) granting their pharmaceutical manufacturers permission to violate some patents on essential medications.
Of course, there are plenty of not so rich people here in the U.S. that go without medication as well. To the point that statistically, they will die years sooner than wealthier people. Growing numbers are forced to buy needed medication on the black market. (You know the gouging is extreme when the black market is CHEAPER).
Copyright does do a great deal of damage. That's why at the beginning, it was kept short. The longer it grows, the more damage it does.
You can bet that whatever metrics the PHB puts in place, none will measure the cost of seagull management or the distractions caused by cheaping out on office space or following the flavor of the week productivity theory.
Excessive reliance on metrics in a call center costs money. Once they tighten up too much, incidents of customers getting 'accidentally' disconnected go up and customer satisfaction goes down. It also results in more escalations and a busier customer retention department.
Naturally, it creates a situation where they cannot see the forest for the trees. They don't manage to measure what percentage of their advertising budget gets effectively burned in a fire due to bad word of mouth created by support metrics.
But sales of media tend to ramp down over time. At some point, if they can't region code, it becomes more profitable to further lower the price in the richer regions in order to get many more sales elsewhere.
Similarly, the "Disney Vault" is a good argument to put a publish or perish clause in copyright law.
It would encourage them to initially price for the richer market, but as sales began to slump, they would be strongly encouraged to lower prices until finally, it was priced suitably for the poorest region. Any other policy would be leaving money on the table. Instead, with region restrictions, they effectively set a floor price in each region (and so further damage an already broken market).
They would be the first to complain if we 'region coded' labor.
That was more persuasive before we proved that the NSA was spying on everyone with the help of their corporate friends.