The black market deals in trust, you know they'll deliver their service and support to you because they've delivered service and support to other people you know.
Obviously they might one day just pack up and leave with all your money but that's life in the black market for you.
It's also very interesting to see this behavior from a Swedish point of view, our equivalent of the word "sir" hasn't been in common use for atleast 50 years, we also don't use lastnames or titles if we can avoid it so the only way to sound polite without sounding like you belong to a b&w movie is by actually being polite:O
Since noone else seems to have explained this simple concept that's rather common in sweden it seems I'll have to do it.
In Sweden access to 100mb unlimited bandwith(or well technically it's usually 60 down 20 up but it's still unlimited) is rather common. So what people do is that they go together 5-20 people and chip in for an FTP server and put it in one of the persons with a good connection's house.
That way it's not horribly expensive for any of them but they all now got access to more file space then they should ever reasonably need, at this point they can contact "the scene" and offer their fileserver to them and in return they got access to all the new releases instantaneously since they're released on their server.
There's plenty of men that likes reading about sexual encounters, the difference is that men usually prefer short very graphic stories while the women are usually after much longer romantic fantasies.
While I agree that scheme (a) is completely moronic, I don't see how (b) or (c) will solve the main problem, which happens to be doctors giving bogus treatments to cover their asses wasting people's money.
The problem is I think defining the law in such a way that doctors do not get punished for things out of their control but do get punished for incompetence/malice.
It seems he's realized that his console is losing the console war by a wide margin and all the developers hate him. I think even he knows that hard to program for in no way implies more power.
It's moderately hard to write any c/c++ program without it ending up platform specific due to the fact you have to interact with the OS to some extent.
Also most companies seems to rely on Exchange which relies on windows and once you're on windows you don't care much about cross-platform anymore.
"And you don't even address the issue of someone NOT having any of those programs that depend upon the insecure configuration."
If you're not having any of the programs that depend on the insecure configurations then you're probably not using windows, get back on your linux/mac box already. The market for windows is almost exclusively people that depend on those programs.
Backwards compatibility makes it impossible to actually solve those security issues. If it stopped being backwards compatible it wouldn't really be windows.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd#Physical_details The smallest entity in a CD is called a frame, which consists of 33 bytes and contains six complete 16-bit stereo samples (two bytes × two channels × six samples: equals 24 bytes). The other nine bytes consist of eight CIRC error-correction bytes and one subcode byte, used for control and display. Each byte is translated into a 14-bit word using eight-to-fourteen modulation, which alternates with three-bit merging words. In total there are 33 × (14 + 3) = 561 bits. A 27-bit unique synchronization word is added, so that the number of bits in a frame totals 588 (of which only 192 bits are music).
These 588-bit frames are in turn grouped into sectors. Each sector contains 98 frames, totaling 98 × 24 = 2352 bytes of music. The CD is played at a speed of 75 sectors per second, which results in 176,400 bytes per second. Divided by two channels and two bytes per sample, this results in a sample rate of 44,100 samples per second.
It doesn't take millions of years for the body to create an antibody solution, generally it does it really fast. However the body keeps doing it for the specific strain and the strain is different each year.
The researchers have a huge advantage the body doesn't have, they can compare all the strains to find similarities and thus create a broad spectrum antibody.
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The black market deals in trust, you know they'll deliver their service and support to you because they've delivered service and support to other people you know.
Obviously they might one day just pack up and leave with all your money but that's life in the black market for you.
It's also very interesting to see this behavior from a Swedish point of view, our equivalent of the word "sir" hasn't been in common use for atleast 50 years, we also don't use lastnames or titles if we can avoid it so the only way to sound polite without sounding like you belong to a b&w movie is by actually being polite :O
Since noone else seems to have explained this simple concept that's rather common in sweden it seems I'll have to do it.
In Sweden access to 100mb unlimited bandwith(or well technically it's usually 60 down 20 up but it's still unlimited) is rather common. So what people do is that they go together 5-20 people and chip in for an FTP server and put it in one of the persons with a good connection's house.
That way it's not horribly expensive for any of them but they all now got access to more file space then they should ever reasonably need, at this point they can contact "the scene" and offer their fileserver to them and in return they got access to all the new releases instantaneously since they're released on their server.
There's no money to be had.
There's plenty of men that likes reading about sexual encounters, the difference is that men usually prefer short very graphic stories while the women are usually after much longer romantic fantasies.
meh, just make it like organ donarship. Something you can opt into in case you become unable to communicate.
Just asking a doctor shouldn't be horribly expensive, costs me about $30. Though I'm in a country with socialized medicine.
I'm not sure how your insurance works so what would happen if you'd get diagnosed with cancer or you'd have to undergo a major operation?
If those major expenses are covered by the insurance then your scheme makes sense : P
While I agree that scheme (a) is completely moronic, I don't see how (b) or (c) will solve the main problem, which happens to be doctors giving bogus treatments to cover their asses wasting people's money.
I don't know about your doctor, but mine does it to listen to my lungs.
The problem is I think defining the law in such a way that doctors do not get punished for things out of their control but do get punished for incompetence/malice.
Personally I'd like
C)Doctor goes in jail for Aggravated assault.
The relevant question is not how common the test is.
The relevant question is, would it have made any difference?
More then zero?
Doing rather sick things to people in the name of "Science" has been reasonably common.
The thing is, you can't completely absolve doctors of legal responsibility, what would stop them from killing and maiming people at will o.O?
Hard to program for gives no benefit in and off itself though.
It's all a question of, if we can get it to run X% better but it's Y% harder is it worth it?
Currently it looks like the PS3's X is to small for it's Y.
It seems he's realized that his console is losing the console war by a wide margin and all the developers hate him. I think even he knows that hard to program for in no way implies more power.
It's moderately hard to write any c/c++ program without it ending up platform specific due to the fact you have to interact with the OS to some extent.
Also most companies seems to rely on Exchange which relies on windows and once you're on windows you don't care much about cross-platform anymore.
I suspect that's part of the reason most companies don't write their proprietary enterprise applications for MacOs.
"And you don't even address the issue of someone NOT having any of those programs that depend upon the insecure configuration."
If you're not having any of the programs that depend on the insecure configurations then you're probably not using windows, get back on your linux/mac box already. The market for windows is almost exclusively people that depend on those programs.
Backwards compatibility makes it impossible to actually solve those security issues. If it stopped being backwards compatible it wouldn't really be windows.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd#Physical_details
The smallest entity in a CD is called a frame, which consists of 33 bytes and contains six complete 16-bit stereo samples (two bytes × two channels × six samples: equals 24 bytes). The other nine bytes consist of eight CIRC error-correction bytes and one subcode byte, used for control and display. Each byte is translated into a 14-bit word using eight-to-fourteen modulation, which alternates with three-bit merging words. In total there are 33 × (14 + 3) = 561 bits. A 27-bit unique synchronization word is added, so that the number of bits in a frame totals 588 (of which only 192 bits are music).
These 588-bit frames are in turn grouped into sectors. Each sector contains 98 frames, totaling 98 × 24 = 2352 bytes of music. The CD is played at a speed of 75 sectors per second, which results in 176,400 bytes per second. Divided by two channels and two bytes per sample, this results in a sample rate of 44,100 samples per second.
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You might want to actually read the paper before you debunk it.
It doesn't take millions of years for the body to create an antibody solution, generally it does it really fast. However the body keeps doing it for the specific strain and the strain is different each year.
The researchers have a huge advantage the body doesn't have, they can compare all the strains to find similarities and thus create a broad spectrum antibody.
Since the prosecution is trying to prove intent supporting the hackers would look rather bad.