The military was the last bastion of "pen and paper" score tracking. Thanks to Apple's great products and a little ingenuity, the DoD finally has a tool to automatically keep track of scores. All we need now is a database for it to upload to automatically via wireless, and we can have a global real-time kill count and score!
but lol to every major service that promised streaming coverage. Unfortunately you had to wait in line at every major news outlet, and any that offered it without a line was like watching a 2 hour slideshow that only had 4 slides.
Guess I will just have to watch it later tonight when its on youtube.
If I hadn't already posted and wasn't short a mod point, I would have upped this. You don't even need step 1.5 in most cases. The cost to record music has plummeted. You don't need high profile labels anymore to back your album. You can record it digitally in your basement for a small upfront cost that you never need to pay again. I have heard basement digital recordings that are almost indistinguishable from big-time huge studio recordings.
Thank god judges are starting to turn up the heat on the RIAA. We really do need more judges like this presiding over these cases. This judge took a step back and asked, "If someone downloads a song, would that mean there is a lost sale? Not always."
It does not logically follow, by any stretch of the imagination, that a downloaded song is a lost sale. In fact, it may be more logical to conclude that a downloaded song is a gained sale. Maybe not in the sense that I ran to iTunes to download it for $1, but maybe if I liked the song, I went to a concert, or bought a hoodie... both of which put more money in the pocket of the actual artist than the record label.
Record labels eat ~95% of the money taken in by music sales. This means that "supporting the artist by buying their music" is simply wrong. The artist sees almost none of the money from direct music sales. People, if you want to support your favorite artists, buy a shirt or go see a show. They see almost 100% of that money back, minus the cost of the roadie to see it at a show or the venue they held the show at.
Indeed. This thing is a LONG way off. By the time they get this out the door to hospitals for use, someone will have an instant test coming out and we should just be fast-tracking that.
I work for a company that makes such devices and clinical trials and testing are not even close to the last step. Clinical trials are the beta test, so to speak, and often mean you have months and months of bug fixing and documentation to do. Take a device intended to diagnose patients, and you can multiple that by years. Fourteen years might seem funny, but its actually somewhat accurate. My company has been working on a product for nine years now seeking US approval.
From experience, it seems that every university is going to have a bit of its own software to distribute anyway. From SSH clients to Kerberos-enabled printers...
Actually, my school's network requires naught but that you register your computer. There is no SSH clients to install, no printer software, no certificates... nothing. Maybe its a one-of-a-kind network, but my feeling is that they should all be this way. It seems to be the easiest to manage, setup, repair, and maintain. If you aren't doing it this way, you are likely doing it wrong.
You and I both know its NEVER as simple as this. Multitudes of different software and hardware configurations mean that it is almost never as simple as "install and go". Many users are going to mixup, messup, or otherwise make it so that they can not continue the instructions without some form of guided help.
Hell, my mother can read and I could giver her a step by step instruction sheet for going from a turned off computer to running mozilla and she would still mess something up.
Most uni's don't want to face downtime they can't control. Residential networks make it easy to set up services that students need without the hassle of diving out VPN software and having to troubleshoot that all day. Furthermore, your average college student won't even know what VPN means let alone how to install, run, and use one. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
In my opinion, the best thing a university can do at this point is do what all the smart ones did: ignore anything having to do with copyright laws, dmca, or regulations. The man will come down but uni's have good lawyers and they can/will win.
This is just another classic case of the RIAA buying themselves a law.
This is one of the stories that is good to throw out there if you want a quick bit of fame. It's easy research because it is kind of like a "duh" type of thing. You will feel more aggression psychologically, but that doesn't mean you are more likely to kill or hurt anyone.
While there is likely a link, it does not mean that playing violent video games means you kill people. Many will try to jump to this conclusion, many will fail.
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret. No one knows how it works exactly, there are some that just read it better than others.
No one knows how to bend the economy in certain directions, they just take stabs in the dark and hope for the best.
I don't know how one can assume that, when the man shows up, the best idea is to shred every piece of evidence but something tells me its in fact the exact opposite. Sure you may not go to jail for whatever it is they are after you for, but instead go down for tampering or destroying evidence. I can't decide which is better but something tells me you can avoid both by, ya know, taking up good business practices.
Still impossible to tie it to a MAC address with any certainty that that MAC address corresponds to the same person now as it did then. For instance, say CompOnwer 1 owns Comp A with MAC 1 uploads a bunch of crap on kazaa. RIAA gets to requesting the info but lags. In the mean time, Comp A is sold to another person on the same campus, becoming CompOwner 2 owning Comp A with MAC 1. The way DHCP works, they are likely to end up with the same IP and same MAC address but its a totally different person.
Psychologically speaking, the very act of going to prison(even if its minimum security)can be highly damaging. There is no telling what caused this guy to snap but its likely that he didn't sit there and stew about it and decide to do it on his own. It was likely a snap decision brought on by q pretty high amount of stress and depression.
Not justifying it, just stating that its not so cut and dry as a simple choice to kill your family.
It's likely that one of them will have the money and legal prowess to fight the good fight. Not to mention, it seems like this would be a sure-fire win for anyone willing to fight it. Counter-sue for legal fees anyone?
I almost forgot to mention. My company keeps lists of highly desired features on our future releases in a database... does that count? The vaguery of the whole thing lends itself to ridiculousness.
Wishlists are an obvious toy... used by everyone from little kids doing their Christmas list, to parents on their way to the grocery store. It only serves to follow that web based users wishing to track a list have it be stored on a database... considering there is no where else to reliably store it.
This approach really isn't feasible in certain markets, even though I can agree it would help. For instance, my company develops health care diagnostic solutions, some of which are heavily regulated. While many of our tools and products could highly benefit from this design approach, federal regulations simply make it an impossibility.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that many other markets are regulated in a similar fashion that prevents this.
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The military was the last bastion of "pen and paper" score tracking. Thanks to Apple's great products and a little ingenuity, the DoD finally has a tool to automatically keep track of scores. All we need now is a database for it to upload to automatically via wireless, and we can have a global real-time kill count and score!
but lol to every major service that promised streaming coverage. Unfortunately you had to wait in line at every major news outlet, and any that offered it without a line was like watching a 2 hour slideshow that only had 4 slides.
Guess I will just have to watch it later tonight when its on youtube.
If I hadn't already posted and wasn't short a mod point, I would have upped this. You don't even need step 1.5 in most cases. The cost to record music has plummeted. You don't need high profile labels anymore to back your album. You can record it digitally in your basement for a small upfront cost that you never need to pay again. I have heard basement digital recordings that are almost indistinguishable from big-time huge studio recordings.
Thank god judges are starting to turn up the heat on the RIAA. We really do need more judges like this presiding over these cases. This judge took a step back and asked, "If someone downloads a song, would that mean there is a lost sale? Not always."
It does not logically follow, by any stretch of the imagination, that a downloaded song is a lost sale. In fact, it may be more logical to conclude that a downloaded song is a gained sale. Maybe not in the sense that I ran to iTunes to download it for $1, but maybe if I liked the song, I went to a concert, or bought a hoodie... both of which put more money in the pocket of the actual artist than the record label.
Record labels eat ~95% of the money taken in by music sales. This means that "supporting the artist by buying their music" is simply wrong. The artist sees almost none of the money from direct music sales. People, if you want to support your favorite artists, buy a shirt or go see a show. They see almost 100% of that money back, minus the cost of the roadie to see it at a show or the venue they held the show at.
Indeed. This thing is a LONG way off. By the time they get this out the door to hospitals for use, someone will have an instant test coming out and we should just be fast-tracking that.
I work for a company that makes such devices and clinical trials and testing are not even close to the last step. Clinical trials are the beta test, so to speak, and often mean you have months and months of bug fixing and documentation to do. Take a device intended to diagnose patients, and you can multiple that by years. Fourteen years might seem funny, but its actually somewhat accurate. My company has been working on a product for nine years now seeking US approval.
Rebuilt woolly mammoths duking it out with mutant space spiders?!?
I'll bring popcorn!!
they landed in my pool! I got them right here. Why are they covered in grease?
From experience, it seems that every university is going to have a bit of its own software to distribute anyway. From SSH clients to Kerberos-enabled printers...
Actually, my school's network requires naught but that you register your computer. There is no SSH clients to install, no printer software, no certificates... nothing. Maybe its a one-of-a-kind network, but my feeling is that they should all be this way. It seems to be the easiest to manage, setup, repair, and maintain. If you aren't doing it this way, you are likely doing it wrong.
You and I both know its NEVER as simple as this. Multitudes of different software and hardware configurations mean that it is almost never as simple as "install and go". Many users are going to mixup, messup, or otherwise make it so that they can not continue the instructions without some form of guided help.
Hell, my mother can read and I could giver her a step by step instruction sheet for going from a turned off computer to running mozilla and she would still mess something up.
Most uni's don't want to face downtime they can't control. Residential networks make it easy to set up services that students need without the hassle of diving out VPN software and having to troubleshoot that all day. Furthermore, your average college student won't even know what VPN means let alone how to install, run, and use one. This is a nightmare waiting to happen. In my opinion, the best thing a university can do at this point is do what all the smart ones did: ignore anything having to do with copyright laws, dmca, or regulations. The man will come down but uni's have good lawyers and they can/will win. This is just another classic case of the RIAA buying themselves a law.
This is one of the stories that is good to throw out there if you want a quick bit of fame. It's easy research because it is kind of like a "duh" type of thing. You will feel more aggression psychologically, but that doesn't mean you are more likely to kill or hurt anyone.
While there is likely a link, it does not mean that playing violent video games means you kill people. Many will try to jump to this conclusion, many will fail.
If this were the case, /. better stop publishing stories about the Great Firewall of China... considering this is almost exactly the same thing.
Just because it doesn't pertain to America, doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret. No one knows how it works exactly, there are some that just read it better than others.
No one knows how to bend the economy in certain directions, they just take stabs in the dark and hope for the best.
Something tells me we are on our way to a de-referencing error. Best re-think the program flow here before the compiler pukes.
I don't know how one can assume that, when the man shows up, the best idea is to shred every piece of evidence but something tells me its in fact the exact opposite. Sure you may not go to jail for whatever it is they are after you for, but instead go down for tampering or destroying evidence. I can't decide which is better but something tells me you can avoid both by, ya know, taking up good business practices.
This only compounds the fact that a loghost doesn't really help whether you have it or not.
Still impossible to tie it to a MAC address with any certainty that that MAC address corresponds to the same person now as it did then. For instance, say CompOnwer 1 owns Comp A with MAC 1 uploads a bunch of crap on kazaa. RIAA gets to requesting the info but lags. In the mean time, Comp A is sold to another person on the same campus, becoming CompOwner 2 owning Comp A with MAC 1. The way DHCP works, they are likely to end up with the same IP and same MAC address but its a totally different person.
I find long keys to protect funny files are best. For instance, the key:
"Hithisisagoodpasswordforprotectingmyfilezyoubetterkn0wthepassword"
To protect a single text file which reads:
"Waste of time"
Unfortunately for Africans, this is one of those movie parts we wish was just in a movie. It's much too bad that its actually true.
"Attention: You are now escaping. Please turn back immediately."
Psychologically speaking, the very act of going to prison(even if its minimum security)can be highly damaging. There is no telling what caused this guy to snap but its likely that he didn't sit there and stew about it and decide to do it on his own. It was likely a snap decision brought on by q pretty high amount of stress and depression.
Not justifying it, just stating that its not so cut and dry as a simple choice to kill your family.
It's likely that one of them will have the money and legal prowess to fight the good fight. Not to mention, it seems like this would be a sure-fire win for anyone willing to fight it. Counter-sue for legal fees anyone?
I almost forgot to mention. My company keeps lists of highly desired features on our future releases in a database... does that count? The vaguery of the whole thing lends itself to ridiculousness.
Wishlists are an obvious toy... used by everyone from little kids doing their Christmas list, to parents on their way to the grocery store. It only serves to follow that web based users wishing to track a list have it be stored on a database... considering there is no where else to reliably store it.
This approach really isn't feasible in certain markets, even though I can agree it would help. For instance, my company develops health care diagnostic solutions, some of which are heavily regulated. While many of our tools and products could highly benefit from this design approach, federal regulations simply make it an impossibility.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that many other markets are regulated in a similar fashion that prevents this.