Exactly. If these routers can crash being sent normal packets - even if they get a lot of them - then they're vulnerable to a DOS attack and should be recalled until they're fixed.
The problem with section 0 is it's missing an important term - the GPL covers linking as well, which isn't copying, distribution or modification. That's its most contentious part, because it tries to impose its restrictions not only on GPL code but on other code that happens to be part of the same package, but under a different license.
Personally, I don't have a problem with these tactics. If your project has grown to the point where you are concerned that you might get sued for copyright infringement, you probably can afford a commercial license. Alternatively, you can always use someone else's software.
Mysql want $200 a copy client license fees. We tried to negotiate, based on the fact that 90% of our codebase is opensource (mainly LGPL) but they wouldn't budge - at one point suggesting we owed them around $2billion in fees! (2 million copies out there we know of, $200 a copy).
We merely ditched mysql support like a hot potato. That's not good business sense for them, let alone tactics. The only people who can afford mysql licenses are single users or companies with very limited distribution models (and who can add $200 to the per-copy price without anybody complaining..).
The fact that major electronic retailers no longer put any effort whatsoever into pushing high defintion
What the *hell* are you blathering about?
Every electronics store larger than a corner shop is pushing it like mad.. you can't *move* on the high street for salesmen trying to get you to buy their latest HD kit.
There's no money in DVD or SD any more.. the prices are too low - and the stores know it. The profit is in HD.
In places they added fake text to make it look 'real'. eg. the Tram footage has the wrong text. The taxi firm doesn't even use CCTV... The castlefield footage is the most convincing - except the text is probably fake (it's not council CCTV.. totally different text.. and I don't think castlefield basin even has 21 cameras.. I've never seen more than 3).
I'm not persuaded they used *any* real CCTV at this point.
btw. Now that the link works it's obvious that is no 'high end' camera compared to professional CCTV kit. Quadruple the resolution, make it 50fps and add image stabilisation, proper colour balance and proper autofocus and you're getting there.
The ones I've seen take two pictures for speed measurement, and it's generally of the rear of the car (front ones don't work with motorcycles so are uncommon). It's stored internally on good old fashioned film and collected.
The latest ones I believe are fully digital but not wireless - they're hardwired to the control centre to an automatic system that issues tickets at the moment the offence happens.. so you'll have the photos posted to you the next day normally (along with a hefty fine and a license endorsement)... so no need to hack it:p
I've been in the Manchester CCTV center (which is a joint operation of the council and NCP who paid for it). Those cameras are pin sharp and lose none of their sharpness when zooming in... they can read a number plate 100 yards down the street - let alone across it - at night. Hell, these things can zoom into watches...
I've always half suspected the blurry black and white images were postprocessed to look like that, just to make people feel better about CCTV - I've met a lot of people who think they still use black and white cameras. Shops maybe do, but not the city council.
Recruiters in the UK just scan your CV for buzzwords and junk it. And don't expect them to understand anything other than MS Word.doc (definately not.docx) as their keyword strippers can only read that format.
A fun trick is to write "I have absolutely no knowledge of Html, Css or Javascript" and see how many web designer jobs they send you to (obviously change the keywords to suit your circumstances).
Some of them then reconstruct an entirely ficticious CV based on what they think the job wants and send that to the employer. I once travelled 300 miles to an interview - the recruiter had assured me multiple times that they were after a skilled programmer and I was perfect for the job. When I got there I was subjected to a written test on HTML/CSS programming! Turns out they were after a web designer, and the recruiter had said that I was a web designer with 10 years experience!!. After I stopped the interview explaining that the recruiter had lied to both of us, they showed me the CV that had been sent - it bore no relation to my CV at all.. they'd made one up and stuck my name on the top.
I've had similar things happen about half a dozen times (I had to laugh though when one of the made up CVs said I had 8 years Java experience - Java itself was only about 2 years old at the time).
I no longer use recruiters but contact companies directly myself (in fact now that I'm in the other position we will *not* be using recruiters for hiring new people, under any circumstances).
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The Iraq war and anti-Islam propaganda has started turning the knuckle-draggers here into nationalists.
And you want to move to *America* to avoid that???
Just ask for a sim-only contract. They're usually quite cheap and have no miminum contract. I have one - £15/mo with reasonable number of minutes and unlimited texts. I can't imagine you can't get the same where you are.
When you terminate doesn't matter to the provider. You're tied to a 12 or 18 month minimum contract (I believe in the US you have 2 year ones as well).
Take this N95 deal - free N95, 12 month contract, £17.50/mo for first 5 months, £35/mo for the the other 7. Total cost of contract £332.50 (calculations from dialaphone - haven't verified them).
No matter when you terminate O2 get exactly the same amount of money out of you. The phone is probably worth about £250 of that and the rest is network profit.
So go elsewhere for your phone, or flash it with the generic firmware.
I've never heard of a provider locking out ringtones or blocking picture transfers (which since half of those go via bluetooth would be rather difficult).
I did have one phone where they'd disabled the VOIP client.. took 10 minutes to reenable it.
You could then buy it in a bubble package at Walmart. Motorola, Samsung, LG, Nokia would have sales reps calling on Walmart, Target and other retailers selling them phones in huge volume to sell us without any bundling, and there would then be significant competition.
What, you can't do that in the US? In Europe we can walk into any supermarket and walk out with a contract free phone 5 minutes later. They're not free but they're fairly cheap - competition keeps the prices down.
One GOOD thing that has happened in the last year, the IPHONE came out.
Previously, you signed up for a longish contract and you got the phone free.
With the iphone, sign up for a longish contract and you pay full price for the phone.
Nah their client sucks.. it's the kind of thing you only use once unless unless you really enjoy waiting about 3 weeks for your patches. The fastest way to get it with the client is to switch of the p2p and go direct to blizzard. The fastest way overall is wait a few hours for the mirror sites to get it and download it at full speed from them - that's what I expect most people do.
It's a lot more sophisticated than teletext - it's a whole application language... probably the nearest analogy would be a dvd VOB file, but with live video streams instead of fixed mpeg channels.
Millions (Is it billions by now?) of mobile phones run Java.. so low cost devices most definately do.
Real time systems are too time critical for these high level languages that are around these days, but that's not exactly news and is unrelated to the article surely? Unless you're under the impression that 'interactive' TV services are somehow realtime?
That's not two way.. it's strictly one way - you select what stream you want and there are standards so that all digital STB/TVs can use the same data.
Two way would involve a back channel for eg. voting on 'who wants to be a bad singer XVIII'.
Well it is... It's another copy, they haven't given you the right to make that copy, hence breach of copyright.
Personally I think renting music is a stupid idea... especially for that price (listen to the same song 10 times and you might as well have paid itunes price for it..)
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Exactly. If these routers can crash being sent normal packets - even if they get a lot of them - then they're vulnerable to a DOS attack and should be recalled until they're fixed.
The problem with section 0 is it's missing an important term - the GPL covers linking as well, which isn't copying, distribution or modification. That's its most contentious part, because it tries to impose its restrictions not only on GPL code but on other code that happens to be part of the same package, but under a different license.
Personally, I don't have a problem with these tactics. If your project has grown to the point where you are concerned that you might get sued for copyright infringement, you probably can afford a commercial license. Alternatively, you can always use someone else's software.
Mysql want $200 a copy client license fees. We tried to negotiate, based on the fact that 90% of our codebase is opensource (mainly LGPL) but they wouldn't budge - at one point suggesting we owed them around $2billion in fees! (2 million copies out there we know of, $200 a copy).
We merely ditched mysql support like a hot potato. That's not good business sense for them, let alone tactics. The only people who can afford mysql licenses are single users or companies with very limited distribution models (and who can add $200 to the per-copy price without anybody complaining..).
1GB in a day is going to hit hard on most caps... I'm on 5GB (albeit unlimited evenings/weekends) but even if yours was 20GB it's a reasonable chunk.
The standard for a billion has been 10^9 all over the world now for some years. The older value was abandoned in the UK in 1974.
The fact that major electronic retailers no longer put any effort whatsoever into pushing high defintion
What the *hell* are you blathering about?
Every electronics store larger than a corner shop is pushing it like mad.. you can't *move* on the high street for salesmen trying to get you to buy their latest HD kit.
There's no money in DVD or SD any more.. the prices are too low - and the stores know it. The profit is in HD.
In places they added fake text to make it look 'real'. eg. the Tram footage has the wrong text. The taxi firm doesn't even use CCTV... The castlefield footage is the most convincing - except the text is probably fake (it's not council CCTV.. totally different text.. and I don't think castlefield basin even has 21 cameras.. I've never seen more than 3).
I'm not persuaded they used *any* real CCTV at this point.
btw. Now that the link works it's obvious that is no 'high end' camera compared to professional CCTV kit. Quadruple the resolution, make it 50fps and add image stabilisation, proper colour balance and proper autofocus and you're getting there.
The ones I've seen take two pictures for speed measurement, and it's generally of the rear of the car (front ones don't work with motorcycles so are uncommon). It's stored internally on good old fashioned film and collected.
:p
The latest ones I believe are fully digital but not wireless - they're hardwired to the control centre to an automatic system that issues tickets at the moment the offence happens.. so you'll have the photos posted to you the next day normally (along with a hefty fine and a license endorsement)... so no need to hack it
I've been in the Manchester CCTV center (which is a joint operation of the council and NCP who paid for it). Those cameras are pin sharp and lose none of their sharpness when zooming in... they can read a number plate 100 yards down the street - let alone across it - at night. Hell, these things can zoom into watches...
I've always half suspected the blurry black and white images were postprocessed to look like that, just to make people feel better about CCTV - I've met a lot of people who think they still use black and white cameras. Shops maybe do, but not the city council.
It took that long to chop him up into little pringle shaped slices.
Recruiters in the UK just scan your CV for buzzwords and junk it. And don't expect them to understand anything other than MS Word .doc (definately not .docx) as their keyword strippers can only read that format.
A fun trick is to write "I have absolutely no knowledge of Html, Css or Javascript" and see how many web designer jobs they send you to (obviously change the keywords to suit your circumstances).
Some of them then reconstruct an entirely ficticious CV based on what they think the job wants and send that to the employer. I once travelled 300 miles to an interview - the recruiter had assured me multiple times that they were after a skilled programmer and I was perfect for the job. When I got there I was subjected to a written test on HTML/CSS programming! Turns out they were after a web designer, and the recruiter had said that I was a web designer with 10 years experience!!. After I stopped the interview explaining that the recruiter had lied to both of us, they showed me the CV that had been sent - it bore no relation to my CV at all.. they'd made one up and stuck my name on the top.
I've had similar things happen about half a dozen times (I had to laugh though when one of the made up CVs said I had 8 years Java experience - Java itself was only about 2 years old at the time).
I no longer use recruiters but contact companies directly myself (in fact now that I'm in the other position we will *not* be using recruiters for hiring new people, under any circumstances).
The Iraq war and anti-Islam propaganda has started turning the knuckle-draggers here into nationalists.
And you want to move to *America* to avoid that???
Just ask for a sim-only contract. They're usually quite cheap and have no miminum contract. I have one - £15/mo with reasonable number of minutes and unlimited texts. I can't imagine you can't get the same where you are.
When you terminate doesn't matter to the provider. You're tied to a 12 or 18 month minimum contract (I believe in the US you have 2 year ones as well).
Take this N95 deal - free N95, 12 month contract, £17.50/mo for first 5 months, £35/mo for the the other 7. Total cost of contract £332.50 (calculations from dialaphone - haven't verified them).
No matter when you terminate O2 get exactly the same amount of money out of you. The phone is probably worth about £250 of that and the rest is network profit.
So go elsewhere for your phone, or flash it with the generic firmware.
I've never heard of a provider locking out ringtones or blocking picture transfers (which since half of those go via bluetooth would be rather difficult).
I did have one phone where they'd disabled the VOIP client.. took 10 minutes to reenable it.
You could then buy it in a bubble package at Walmart.
Motorola, Samsung, LG, Nokia would have sales reps calling on Walmart, Target and other retailers selling them phones in huge volume to sell us without any bundling, and there would then be significant competition.
What, you can't do that in the US? In Europe we can walk into any supermarket and walk out with a contract free phone 5 minutes later. They're not free but they're fairly cheap - competition keeps the prices down.
One GOOD thing that has happened in the last year, the IPHONE came out.
Previously, you signed up for a longish contract and you got the phone free.
With the iphone, sign up for a longish contract and you pay full price for the phone.
I fail to see why this is a good thing.
It means they're not mutually exclusive at all.
eg. "Did you vote for George Bush or are you a Terrorist?"
That's a false dichotomy - rather more subtle variations of the above are used all the time by politicians and marketing bods.
Nah their client sucks.. it's the kind of thing you only use once unless unless you really enjoy waiting about 3 weeks for your patches. The fastest way to get it with the client is to switch of the p2p and go direct to blizzard. The fastest way overall is wait a few hours for the mirror sites to get it and download it at full speed from them - that's what I expect most people do.
Yes, but a 16 or 17 year old taking pictures of themselves would be guilty of distributing child pornography. The law is disjointed like that.
A photo of a perfectly legal sex act between two 17 year olds would itself be considered paedophilia in the UK.
It's a lot more sophisticated than teletext - it's a whole application language... probably the nearest analogy would be a dvd VOB file, but with live video streams instead of fixed mpeg channels.
Millions (Is it billions by now?) of mobile phones run Java.. so low cost devices most definately do.
Real time systems are too time critical for these high level languages that are around these days, but that's not exactly news and is unrelated to the article surely? Unless you're under the impression that 'interactive' TV services are somehow realtime?
That's not two way.. it's strictly one way - you select what stream you want and there are standards so that all digital STB/TVs can use the same data.
Two way would involve a back channel for eg. voting on 'who wants to be a bad singer XVIII'.
last.fm ripoff. Nice slashvertisement though.
Well it is... It's another copy, they haven't given you the right to make that copy, hence breach of copyright.
Personally I think renting music is a stupid idea... especially for that price (listen to the same song 10 times and you might as well have paid itunes price for it..)