Hey, I drive a 328i, and always use my signals and follow the rules of the road. Some of us buy the car for its quality and tech, not to be pretentious douchebags.
I call shenanigans. This type of breach shouldn't be remotely possible if the cardholder data environment (CDE) was behind a proper firewall as per the PCI specifications. That means that anything that stores card data has a VERY short whitelist of what it may communicate with, and then only on the bare-minimum of ports. And no, just a VLAN won't cut it there. All of the registers, card readers, internal servers, switches, etc on which the card data flows are required to be firewalled both inbound and outbound to the absolute bare-bones minimum possible. Someone, somewhere, trusted something internal to the network but outside of the CDE, that something was compromized, and out poured cardholder data like a firehose. Or they just said they firewalled and segmented without actually doing it.
HID lights are illegal to retrofit on any road-going vehicle not originally equipped with them in the USA for just that reason. They really do need an active aiming system that is careful not to shine the beams at other vehicles.
My 328i has xenon lights that are bright, but the car actively aims them away from other traffic. The beam is ALWAYS below the tail lights of any vehicle ahead of me, and I can watch the beam point away from oncoming vehicles.
VB.NET is actually C# without case sensitivity and curly braces. The scope rules are the same and all of the functionality is there. It just looks like BASIC and not C.
They make a boatload of cash on ad revenues, plus charging commercial entities for "reach" - ie, a "friend" of Coca Cola may not see many posts unless Coke ponies up the cash to reach X-number of eyes.
Sure, since grass cutting is an entirely parallelizeable problem and the cutting of each blade isn't dependent on any other blade. Now, let's assume that you have 16 lawns to cut. Would it be faster to make one monster 8-wide mower that can cut each in three passes then move to the next lawn, or would it be faster to send one mower to each and cut them each in parallel with 24-passes? Remember, there is overhead involved in the move from one lawn to the next.
More cores only helps when you are solving a problem that doesn't have any non-parallel parts to it. Multitasking different programs fits that description reasonably well (except for contention for a system resource, that is). Crunching a graphic can fit if the algorithm doesn't have any feedback in it.
Otherwise, cores will be waiting for something to do and you would be better off with fewer that are individually faster.
I use iFolder for this. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, and works reasonably well. The server was a bit of a pain to get set up though. It used to be a Novell product but has spun off as its own open source project. You can check it out at ifolder.com
The violation of rights isn't so much whether or not they have the object - it is how they used the original CAD files. If the files were licensed NC, and they used them commercially, the resulting object is evidence of violating the NC license.
A Brady violation is a big, big deal. And it's usually NOT a good idea to piss off the guy who has proof of wrongdoing - they just ensured that he will be a quite eager witness at their disbarrment proceedings.
If the systems were built better, then even admins couldn't get at stuff they aren't cleared for. I'd encrypt everything and store it as BLOBs in a database, and not on a normal filesystem. It is possible to build out such a system where the db admins are separate from the people who control permissions, with individual users able to access the decryption keys for the stuff they need.
I'd rather use the Datamatrix format instead. The density is much higher - up to 1556 bytes per barcode, and it can be encoded in either ASCII or binary forms.
...but here in the Pittsburgh PA area, the suburbs are only a few miles from Downtown. We do have upper middle-class areas within the city, but the vast majority of the population would rather live in a suburb to avoid the crowds and crime that bleeds out of the poor areas and their associated gang issues. My house is 15 miles from downtown, across the street from a golf course, costs me 775/mo in rent. You can't rent a shoebox in SF for that much.
Really, tech is going to move away from areas like Silicon Valley, the Bay area, etc. in favor of smaller cities across the country. Collaberation via the Internet makes it possible to group smart people regardless of geography - and cost of living DOES matter. Especially once you go past 30 years old and care less about the club scene and more about what you get for your money. And it is a good deal for employers to hire someone at 60k in Pittsburgh that they would have to pay 120k in CA - and the employee can have a higher standard of living too.
Shot shells can be linked to the firing weapon through impressions made by the bolt, extractor, firing pin, etc. The plastic part of the case is unlikely to be traceable, but the brass head is quite likely to be matchable.
They can keep trolling right along, but just need to restructure the deal as a contingency-fee based legal representation and file the suits in the name of the newspaper instead of the troll. Of course, that opens the paper up to damages on any counter-claims or fee awards if they bring a baseless suit, and unlike the shell company troll that Rightshaven was, actually do have assets that can be taken to satisfy such an award. And they will have to accept the PR hits that such suits would generate as well.
If the barrel and/or the slide is made of even the best plastic, I wouldn't trust it to take the 35ksi of a normal 9mm round even once. That application requires properly heat treated 4130 or 4140 steel (or 316 stainless).
In addition, the traffic laws themselves may have a tolerance built-in. For example, in Pennsylvania, the law mandates a 10-mph tolerance under most circumstances, and no court can accept a ticket for less than that over the limit.
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Hey, I drive a 328i, and always use my signals and follow the rules of the road. Some of us buy the car for its quality and tech, not to be pretentious douchebags.
I call shenanigans. This type of breach shouldn't be remotely possible if the cardholder data environment (CDE) was behind a proper firewall as per the PCI specifications. That means that anything that stores card data has a VERY short whitelist of what it may communicate with, and then only on the bare-minimum of ports. And no, just a VLAN won't cut it there. All of the registers, card readers, internal servers, switches, etc on which the card data flows are required to be firewalled both inbound and outbound to the absolute bare-bones minimum possible. Someone, somewhere, trusted something internal to the network but outside of the CDE, that something was compromized, and out poured cardholder data like a firehose. Or they just said they firewalled and segmented without actually doing it.
If you don't empty out the PO box, after about 2-4 weeks the Post Office will simply return whatever is in there to the sender. That idea won't work.
HID lights are illegal to retrofit on any road-going vehicle not originally equipped with them in the USA for just that reason. They really do need an active aiming system that is careful not to shine the beams at other vehicles.
My 328i has xenon lights that are bright, but the car actively aims them away from other traffic. The beam is ALWAYS below the tail lights of any vehicle ahead of me, and I can watch the beam point away from oncoming vehicles.
VB.NET is actually C# without case sensitivity and curly braces. The scope rules are the same and all of the functionality is there. It just looks like BASIC and not C.
You can't fry anything on Jupiter. It doesn't have a solid surface to stand on.
BMW has that. It's called launch control.
They make a boatload of cash on ad revenues, plus charging commercial entities for "reach" - ie, a "friend" of Coca Cola may not see many posts unless Coke ponies up the cash to reach X-number of eyes.
This idea makes far too much sense for anyone to ever implement it.
Sure, since grass cutting is an entirely parallelizeable problem and the cutting of each blade isn't dependent on any other blade. Now, let's assume that you have 16 lawns to cut. Would it be faster to make one monster 8-wide mower that can cut each in three passes then move to the next lawn, or would it be faster to send one mower to each and cut them each in parallel with 24-passes? Remember, there is overhead involved in the move from one lawn to the next.
More cores only helps when you are solving a problem that doesn't have any non-parallel parts to it. Multitasking different programs fits that description reasonably well (except for contention for a system resource, that is). Crunching a graphic can fit if the algorithm doesn't have any feedback in it.
Otherwise, cores will be waiting for something to do and you would be better off with fewer that are individually faster.
I use iFolder for this. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, and works reasonably well. The server was a bit of a pain to get set up though. It used to be a Novell product but has spun off as its own open source project. You can check it out at ifolder.com
The violation of rights isn't so much whether or not they have the object - it is how they used the original CAD files. If the files were licensed NC, and they used them commercially, the resulting object is evidence of violating the NC license.
It's really that simple.
At least there is one issue that I agree with the President on. Broccoli makes me happy!
A Brady violation is a big, big deal. And it's usually NOT a good idea to piss off the guy who has proof of wrongdoing - they just ensured that he will be a quite eager witness at their disbarrment proceedings.
If the systems were built better, then even admins couldn't get at stuff they aren't cleared for. I'd encrypt everything and store it as BLOBs in a database, and not on a normal filesystem. It is possible to build out such a system where the db admins are separate from the people who control permissions, with individual users able to access the decryption keys for the stuff they need.
I'd rather use the Datamatrix format instead. The density is much higher - up to 1556 bytes per barcode, and it can be encoded in either ASCII or binary forms.
...but here in the Pittsburgh PA area, the suburbs are only a few miles from Downtown. We do have upper middle-class areas within the city, but the vast majority of the population would rather live in a suburb to avoid the crowds and crime that bleeds out of the poor areas and their associated gang issues. My house is 15 miles from downtown, across the street from a golf course, costs me 775/mo in rent. You can't rent a shoebox in SF for that much.
Really, tech is going to move away from areas like Silicon Valley, the Bay area, etc. in favor of smaller cities across the country. Collaberation via the Internet makes it possible to group smart people regardless of geography - and cost of living DOES matter. Especially once you go past 30 years old and care less about the club scene and more about what you get for your money. And it is a good deal for employers to hire someone at 60k in Pittsburgh that they would have to pay 120k in CA - and the employee can have a higher standard of living too.
Shot shells can be linked to the firing weapon through impressions made by the bolt, extractor, firing pin, etc. The plastic part of the case is unlikely to be traceable, but the brass head is quite likely to be matchable.
I have about 100k lines of VBA code in Access that would be downright painful to rewrite in .NET, and completely unwritable on any *Nix platform.
Nothing like some good old-fashioned astroturfing!
They can keep trolling right along, but just need to restructure the deal as a contingency-fee based legal representation and file the suits in the name of the newspaper instead of the troll. Of course, that opens the paper up to damages on any counter-claims or fee awards if they bring a baseless suit, and unlike the shell company troll that Rightshaven was, actually do have assets that can be taken to satisfy such an award. And they will have to accept the PR hits that such suits would generate as well.
Not at all... highways cost somewhere around $10 - 50 million a mile to build. He basically donated a few inches.
If the barrel and/or the slide is made of even the best plastic, I wouldn't trust it to take the 35ksi of a normal 9mm round even once. That application requires properly heat treated 4130 or 4140 steel (or 316 stainless).
In addition, the traffic laws themselves may have a tolerance built-in. For example, in Pennsylvania, the law mandates a 10-mph tolerance under most circumstances, and no court can accept a ticket for less than that over the limit.