Well someone had time to act on it... otherwise it wouldn't be leaked. The leaks are pure pump and dump, it simply works best if the "information" is widely disseminated immediately rather than staggered. If it's done staggered buying/dumping frenzies are less extreme.
Analyst reports are mostly pump and dump schemes to begin with of course, this is just a little meta pump and dump scheme on top.
"American" capitalism in the end might benefit from the natural resources in the ground, but it will do American citizens very little good.
The US has the resources necessary to supply all it's citizens with a very high comfort of living (big house, two cars and lots of electrical appliances). What it lacks is a populous willing to put an economic system in place which will ensure that happens... free market capitalism has long stopped being able to ensure full employment at minimum wages necessary for the above mentioned level of comfort.
It all depends on the good old full employment theory. Personally I think the economy has long stopped being able to ensure full employment, and never will again. At the moment and for the foreseeable future the economy is a pyramid scheme... our feudal masters only need so many peons, adding peons just lowers the wages they pay us.
He went down the rabbit hole a little too far though... to a point where so few can follow him that he is designing hardware only he can use. Which is obviously going to be a hard sell.
If you're not in the database then you won't need to fear a planted sample either. Not being in the database reduces your risk both from false positive and from planted sample... being in the database is a pure lose/lose situation.
To make the analogy completely... you would have agreed to an EULA which said "we can repaint your car unless you opt out". The main thing which caused this was almost certainly that the ESRB rating the uncensored version wasn't bumped up, so it stopped making financial sense to maintain two versions.
An update is not just a bug fix. Free content expansions are also updates (we might call them free DLCs now, but that is newspeak). They could have just as easily added extra quests with explicit sex scenes without changing any of the existing content and almost everyone would agree it was an update, and as long as the ESRB rating stayed the same it wouldn't be false advertising either. You always leave yourself open to situations like this with automatic updates.
Ignoring the customer support for a moment... if the uncensored version would have had a different ESRB rating than the censored one you'd have a point, if not then you really did not. Automatic updates represent a risk which is on your own head, caveat emptor.
Was it the Witcher? (Got the same rating censored/uncensored.)
For less than the cost of the financial stimulus package, or the Iraq war for that matter, the US could produce almost all it's electricity with solar thermal plants with present level technology (and the cost for plants would probably be quartered by the time you are done because of economies of scale, so it would cost far less). Hugely reducing electricity costs in the US would probably do more for the economy than just about anything else the money could be spend on.
As a European I'm envious... the US really has it all, virtual dead deserts with round the year sunlight, a reserve currency which gives you nearly limitless free money to spend on these kinds of projects, and hell quite a nice supply of oil reserves as well... it's frankly a miracle how your politicians manage to fuck that kind of potential up.
Well you can already do that through CAs of course, but once we have DNSSEC I expect RFC4985 to get implemented into browsers at which point yes... the DNS server will be able to supply host keys. I expect the CAs are scared shitless at the prospect.
Uhuh, sure tough guy... you can use a MITM attack on SSH tunnels with pre-existing key pairs.
You're wrong... without reverse engineering the key from the physical device you can't get in the middle. To reverse engineer the key you have to dissolve chip cover, put probes on the naked die, try not to break it, find the key, put it back together and let the mark use it and THEN you can get in the middle... not a very practical attack.
iRay still does not replace the core rendering engine of Mental Ray... it's just a toy renderer for quick visualization, not a rendering engine for movie quality CGI.
The politically organized one, they act as a front... if they turn violent you have a group facing you. A group known to get very violent in an organized way, even against some pretty high visibility targets. Here in the Netherlands a group of Hells Angels came into a TV studio, beat some people up and forced the host to read a reclamation from an earlier statement they were a criminal organization.
From the other group you are only fearing one individual, even if he's serious it's still only one guy.
None of that matters? So if the note had been signed with "PS. I am a nigger." it would be perfectly fine to say "black gamers are more dangerous to my family than bikers"? The fact that he's worried about his family is no excuse to stop thinking. Gamers are not a danger to his family, a person who he assumes is a gamer might be a danger to his family. Although anyone with half a brain realises it's some chan-tard achieving just what he wanted... a shitstorm.
Land is not a thing which results from the fruit of your labour, it's a communal resource... the community allows ownership for convenience's sake, but to say there is no moral right to tax you for wanting to own land in one of the most expensive per m^2 areas in the world is stupid IMO. You can always just move, you will get a very good price for your home (otherwise the taxes wouldn't be so high).
"Strong" AI is the original intent of the word, modern AI research is just hijacking the term... calling these glorified expert systems and pattern recognition engines weak AI would have been more honest, more glamorous to hijack and add an adjective for the original meaning of course.
Lets assume for a moment you publish your code in the reproducible research sense, this will mean you also publish all the code necessary to compute the graphs in your papers... at that point I can at the very least determine if what you thought was significant in the initial results as explained in your papers is still there.
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Well someone had time to act on it ... otherwise it wouldn't be leaked. The leaks are pure pump and dump, it simply works best if the "information" is widely disseminated immediately rather than staggered. If it's done staggered buying/dumping frenzies are less extreme.
Analyst reports are mostly pump and dump schemes to begin with of course, this is just a little meta pump and dump scheme on top.
"American" capitalism in the end might benefit from the natural resources in the ground, but it will do American citizens very little good.
The US has the resources necessary to supply all it's citizens with a very high comfort of living (big house, two cars and lots of electrical appliances). What it lacks is a populous willing to put an economic system in place which will ensure that happens ... free market capitalism has long stopped being able to ensure full employment at minimum wages necessary for the above mentioned level of comfort.
A rising tide will not lift a sinking ship ... as long as trade isn't balanced you keep sinking.
It all depends on the good old full employment theory. Personally I think the economy has long stopped being able to ensure full employment, and never will again. At the moment and for the foreseeable future the economy is a pyramid scheme ... our feudal masters only need so many peons, adding peons just lowers the wages they pay us.
So is pinching an idea or an implementation?
He went down the rabbit hole a little too far though ... to a point where so few can follow him that he is designing hardware only he can use. Which is obviously going to be a hard sell.
If you're not in the database then you won't need to fear a planted sample either. Not being in the database reduces your risk both from false positive and from planted sample ... being in the database is a pure lose/lose situation.
To make the analogy completely ... you would have agreed to an EULA which said "we can repaint your car unless you opt out". The main thing which caused this was almost certainly that the ESRB rating the uncensored version wasn't bumped up, so it stopped making financial sense to maintain two versions.
An update is not just a bug fix. Free content expansions are also updates (we might call them free DLCs now, but that is newspeak). They could have just as easily added extra quests with explicit sex scenes without changing any of the existing content and almost everyone would agree it was an update, and as long as the ESRB rating stayed the same it wouldn't be false advertising either. You always leave yourself open to situations like this with automatic updates.
Ignoring the customer support for a moment ... if the uncensored version would have had a different ESRB rating than the censored one you'd have a point, if not then you really did not. Automatic updates represent a risk which is on your own head, caveat emptor.
Was it the Witcher? (Got the same rating censored/uncensored.)
For less than the cost of the financial stimulus package, or the Iraq war for that matter, the US could produce almost all it's electricity with solar thermal plants with present level technology (and the cost for plants would probably be quartered by the time you are done because of economies of scale, so it would cost far less). Hugely reducing electricity costs in the US would probably do more for the economy than just about anything else the money could be spend on.
As a European I'm envious ... the US really has it all, virtual dead deserts with round the year sunlight, a reserve currency which gives you nearly limitless free money to spend on these kinds of projects, and hell quite a nice supply of oil reserves as well ... it's frankly a miracle how your politicians manage to fuck that kind of potential up.
10 km/s in freefall in vacuum shouldn't be too hard, and you can lock on the laser at a small lasing power and then pulse it while on target.
That's a bit non sequitur ... because they had a protected directory for _scanner drivers_ in Windows XP they licensed the patents??? WTF???
Damnit, wrong RFC ... I meant 4398.
Well you can already do that through CAs of course, but once we have DNSSEC I expect RFC4985 to get implemented into browsers at which point yes ... the DNS server will be able to supply host keys. I expect the CAs are scared shitless at the prospect.
Uhuh, sure tough guy ... you can use a MITM attack on SSH tunnels with pre-existing key pairs.
You're wrong ... without reverse engineering the key from the physical device you can't get in the middle. To reverse engineer the key you have to dissolve chip cover, put probes on the naked die, try not to break it, find the key, put it back together and let the mark use it and THEN you can get in the middle ... not a very practical attack.
I assume they use Havok, both Intel owned ya know.
iRay still does not replace the core rendering engine of Mental Ray ... it's just a toy renderer for quick visualization, not a rendering engine for movie quality CGI.
The politically organized one, they act as a front ... if they turn violent you have a group facing you. A group known to get very violent in an organized way, even against some pretty high visibility targets. Here in the Netherlands a group of Hells Angels came into a TV studio, beat some people up and forced the host to read a reclamation from an earlier statement they were a criminal organization.
From the other group you are only fearing one individual, even if he's serious it's still only one guy.
None of that matters? So if the note had been signed with "PS. I am a nigger." it would be perfectly fine to say "black gamers are more dangerous to my family than bikers"? The fact that he's worried about his family is no excuse to stop thinking. Gamers are not a danger to his family, a person who he assumes is a gamer might be a danger to his family. Although anyone with half a brain realises it's some chan-tard achieving just what he wanted ... a shitstorm.
Maybe you are remembering him from his clerks 1/2 days? A quick search turned up this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzvlLyHV4s0
That's quite obese ...
Land is not a thing which results from the fruit of your labour, it's a communal resource ... the community allows ownership for convenience's sake, but to say there is no moral right to tax you for wanting to own land in one of the most expensive per m^2 areas in the world is stupid IMO. You can always just move, you will get a very good price for your home (otherwise the taxes wouldn't be so high).
"Strong" AI is the original intent of the word, modern AI research is just hijacking the term ... calling these glorified expert systems and pattern recognition engines weak AI would have been more honest, more glamorous to hijack and add an adjective for the original meaning of course.
Lets assume for a moment you publish your code in the reproducible research sense, this will mean you also publish all the code necessary to compute the graphs in your papers ... at that point I can at the very least determine if what you thought was significant in the initial results as explained in your papers is still there.
Wirecard is a viable alternative.
Moral rights do not trump fair use AFAIK.