When you actually know and work with the people who are supposed to get paid for this stuff, and your paycheck comes from that money too, it sorta rubs you a different way.
Well, if they didn't pay you for the work you did, then it's your fault for not specifying that you wanted to be paid up front like everybody else.
By the time a film has been converted to a digital form on a file sharing network, everybody involved in doing actual work on the film has already been paid, and the movie has almost always made a profit for the producers, even though the miracle of Hollywood Accounting allows the producers to claim they have never made a profit on any movie, ever.
Next, you'll claim that this will cause producers not to fund new movies, and so you won't get any new job offers. Since the number of movies being produced each year has increased for the past 5 years, and the total movie industry gross has also increased at the same time, it doesn't appear that file sharing is an issue with you getting paid. On a related note, the producers of The Expendables have about two dozen movies in development at this moment, including a sequel, so I don't think file sharing has hurt them enough to keep them from providing a lot of jobs, too.
As mentioned above, if you really, really must eliminate dupes then just store a hash and reject any generated seed that matches. Storing the key itself is insane.
On thing to watch out for here is that your hash needs to be at least as many bits as the seed, otherwise you might get too many false positive collisions.
Although such a false positive wouldn't jeopardize security, it might cause problems initializing a new token, if you really sell a lot of tokens.
There is no reason RSA couldn't just write these random numbers to write-only media and delete all other copies after sending them to the customer.
If it truly is "write-only media", then isn't that the same as/dev/null? In other words, if there is no way to read them back, then how would you have "the support people sneaker-net the numbers if the customer loses theirs"?
If by "write only" you meant "paper printouts" or "CD-ROM", I don't think you understand how to use paper or CD-ROMs correctly.
I have thought of non-transferable IP as perhaps a good policy, but then you'd get murdered so your patent would expire.
How do you murder a corporation?
Since most patents, registered copyrights, etc., are held not by individuals, but rather by companies, about the only thing preventing transfer would do is stop companies like Intellectual Ventures, but that might be worth it.
So what? That would mean that such a company is more efficient than its competitors
Do you really believe that a one-man outfit who produces one unit per week is "more efficient" than a machine shop that produces hundreds or thousands of units per week?
The point that you chose to completely miss is that when you classify both these companies as "manufacturing" with same limit on emissions, efficiency isn't being considered in any way. Often, even gross output isn't considered in a meaningful way (sort of like the magic rule that a business with 49 employees can avoid lots of regulations, while one with 50 has to follow them).
It would be merely an irrelevance that some people consider it a minor offense; what's important is that the punishment is applied consistently to all who are found guilty of the same offense.
Even with the current US Supreme Court, I don't think it would fly for a legislature to define jaywalking, petty theft, etc., as death penalty offenses, even if the punishment were applied consistently.
"Cruel and unusual" are defined similar to "pornography" as far as the courts are concerned...community standards (plus the ever popular "you know it when you see it").
Also, you have to pay to use Netflix and it's meant to be used by the household members of whoever's paying for it and nobody else.
So, if I invite my friends over to watch a Netflix movie, does that mean I have violated the TOS?
What if I start up a Netflix movie with a friend and have to leave...with no one from my "household" watching, that must be a violation, right? What if my friend picks out the movie by looking at my Netflix account? What if he actually clicks the mouse on the selection? None of this is much different from him logging in using my account. So, where does this sort of thing end?
A standard work year is 2080 hours, so the correct way to estimate is to take the daily rate and multiply by 2080 / 8. This gives between $341K and $427K.
Also, I'm not in the UK, but I suspect that a "daily" rate does expect at least 8 hours of work per day. In the US, contract labor tends to be billed hourly, so that it doesn't really matter how many hours you work per day, as long as you get the job done.
OCZ just paid for a little marketing to get their name at the front of the queue for a couple days.
One of the advantages of this OCZ solution using a PCI-e slot is that it can bypass the SATA bottleneck. For this particular setup, that might not matter, but for their SLC-based SSD Revo drives, you can get unbelievable performance.
Well, one of the point of caching on an SSD-type memory has to be the fact that your cache is non-volatile. So when you power up your drive the next day, the cache is still there. Why not doing write-caching then?
Write caching to an SSD would be slightly dangerous, but not really if you have a UPS.
Basically, the write would happen to the SSD, and then eventually be copied to the hard disk. That "eventually" doesn't have to be a very long time, though, as even a gigabyte can likely be written in the background in less than 30 seconds. Once that has happened, the cache would be consistent, and you don't have "data spread on a 'cache' SSD drive and on the physical drive" like you are worried about. The hard drive would have all the data, while the SSD would merely have a copy of some parts of the data, so moving the hard drive would be no problem.
Not to tell there's not a lot of glaring fraud there but, did you stop to think how is it that a given type of business is allowd to emit 100 tons of CO2 (provided no fraud is involved)?
Yes, because the classifications of businesses are screwed up, so that you can end up with any "manufacturing" company getting a certain minimum allotment, even if that company is a one-man outfit who builds furniture by hand, with no power tools.
Although legally you need to purchase licenses for your software that requires such a purchase, you can download it all from the internet for free and still have proper functionality. See what I did there? Same thing as you.
No, because in this case, the company has purchased the actual software licenses from the orginal creator of the software, and installed them, and it works. If the software creator didn't want the software to work unless it was an "upgrade", then the install should check for a previous version.
Since Microsoft has done that before, I suspect that any wording in the volume license that implies that they are upgrades only is probably not what Microsoft meant.
Also, I suspect that you haven't actually downloaded a recent Microsoft OS from a torrent (or other unauthorized source) and had it activated succsessfully and ended up with a non-compromised OS. Although, I guess that being a spam-bot is "proper functionality" in some people's eyes as far as Windows is concerned.
That is what they explicitly mean, at least in many states (that, "and if faster traffic than me comes up behind, I should get to the right and let them pass to my left").
Yeah, it's that second part that is ignored, because everyone thinks they are either driving "the fastest" (and if they aren't this second, they want to be, so they won't move right), or "fast enough" (which means they won't move right because anybody faster than them is "unsafe", and they don't want to encourage that).
I'm perfectly fine with them changing the default... but MAKE IT CONFIGURABLE! It'd just have to be one file in/etc, so one could easily jack with it for migrations. How difficult is that?!? Who knows, maybe it already exists and I just couldn't find it?
One is that glossy is brighter than matte. Matte screens do reduce the transmission of light. That is a reason laptops hopped on the glossy thing to early, more transmission means less power usage.
As far as I can tell, most laptops are set at about 50% brightness when calibrated correctly, and I can't imagine a matte screen would reduce transmission so much that it would mean you couldn't get enough brightness when calibrated.
And, for crazy people who want to use their laptop in bright sunlight...matte may transmit less so that you have to turn the brightness up more, but it's offset by the lack of glare.
Because, obviously, giving your employees something they'd find pleasant to look at is just unthinkable, right?
Unless it costs the same or increases productivity, yeah, it is.
The whole point of a business is to make money, and every dollar you spend has to be justified. The justification can certainly be "it looks pretty", but any business that makes enough decisions that way won't be in business very long.
Not really, no –that's pretty standard for an IT department's upgrade cycle.
That's standard for what an IT department should do, but the reality is that you see 5-7 year upgrade cycles all the time, and it's likely to get worse as Core i5 and higher becomes the standard, since there's not a whole lot of up from there in terms of real-world needs.
Out of all the posts I've seen that say "carbon offsets are not real" (and I'll admit, the ones I've seen are few and far between, so maybe I've missed this next part), I've never a post explaining why they are not real.
The #1 reason carbon offsets are likely not real is the massive amount of fraud involved in the "business".
There are many documented cases of sales of "carbon offsets" where nothing at all is done, or the same tree is "planted" for 50 different offsets. In addition, there is the whole point you mention that even if the seller does something, does it really "offset" the original carbon dioxide release?
Last, it's possible to sell carbon offsets just because you don't pollute as much as you are legally allowed to. In other words, if your type of business is allowed to emit 100 tons of CO2 every year, and for whatever reason you only emit 10 tons, you can sell 90 tons of "carbon offsets" so that other companies that can't comply with regulations are covered.
I think the new LTE phones are going to be able to do both simultaneously.
Yes, the Verizon "4G" LTE phones can do voice and data simultaneously. It's still a pain in the butt if you don't have a bluetooth headset, but it does work.
Why a stopwatch wants access to my calls and read/write on the SD card, I don't know,
Many apps that need access to "phone calls" are doing so to be good resource users, and to follow some Android UI conventions.
Knowing if you are talking on the phone or not allows the app to change its behavior to not bother you, use less CPU cycles, etc. And, this sort of thing is why there are so many complaints about the overly-broad permission groups on Android...you can't know the "in-call state" without being given permission to "phone calls".
I do wonder if they still base all of these decisions on Nielsen ratings alone.
Ratings are definitely a large factor, but the cost of the show per rating point is the most important thing. So, a cheap show can do relatively poorly and still survive (which is why "reality" programming is so prevalent). In the same way, if the show is produced by the network, the ratings can be much lower without cancellation. This is because the secondary markets like syndication and DVD will also put money into the network pocket.
To be honest, though, what I have seen lately is that if a show is not in the top 30 for ratings on any of "the big 4", it's a candidate for cancellation, and the smarter the show is, the more likely it's not going to be in the top 30.
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Not only did it make money, but it made enough to convince a studio to green-light a sequel.
When you actually know and work with the people who are supposed to get paid for this stuff, and your paycheck comes from that money too, it sorta rubs you a different way.
Well, if they didn't pay you for the work you did, then it's your fault for not specifying that you wanted to be paid up front like everybody else.
By the time a film has been converted to a digital form on a file sharing network, everybody involved in doing actual work on the film has already been paid, and the movie has almost always made a profit for the producers, even though the miracle of Hollywood Accounting allows the producers to claim they have never made a profit on any movie, ever.
Next, you'll claim that this will cause producers not to fund new movies, and so you won't get any new job offers. Since the number of movies being produced each year has increased for the past 5 years, and the total movie industry gross has also increased at the same time, it doesn't appear that file sharing is an issue with you getting paid. On a related note, the producers of The Expendables have about two dozen movies in development at this moment, including a sequel, so I don't think file sharing has hurt them enough to keep them from providing a lot of jobs, too.
As mentioned above, if you really, really must eliminate dupes then just store a hash and reject any generated seed that matches. Storing the key itself is insane.
On thing to watch out for here is that your hash needs to be at least as many bits as the seed, otherwise you might get too many false positive collisions.
Although such a false positive wouldn't jeopardize security, it might cause problems initializing a new token, if you really sell a lot of tokens.
There is no reason RSA couldn't just write these random numbers to write-only media and delete all other copies after sending them to the customer.
If it truly is "write-only media", then isn't that the same as /dev/null? In other words, if there is no way to read them back, then how would you have "the support people sneaker-net the numbers if the customer loses theirs"?
If by "write only" you meant "paper printouts" or "CD-ROM", I don't think you understand how to use paper or CD-ROMs correctly.
I have thought of non-transferable IP as perhaps a good policy, but then you'd get murdered so your patent would expire.
How do you murder a corporation?
Since most patents, registered copyrights, etc., are held not by individuals, but rather by companies, about the only thing preventing transfer would do is stop companies like Intellectual Ventures, but that might be worth it.
So what? That would mean that such a company is more efficient than its competitors
Do you really believe that a one-man outfit who produces one unit per week is "more efficient" than a machine shop that produces hundreds or thousands of units per week?
The point that you chose to completely miss is that when you classify both these companies as "manufacturing" with same limit on emissions, efficiency isn't being considered in any way. Often, even gross output isn't considered in a meaningful way (sort of like the magic rule that a business with 49 employees can avoid lots of regulations, while one with 50 has to follow them).
It would be merely an irrelevance that some people consider it a minor offense; what's important is that the punishment is applied consistently to all who are found guilty of the same offense.
Even with the current US Supreme Court, I don't think it would fly for a legislature to define jaywalking, petty theft, etc., as death penalty offenses, even if the punishment were applied consistently.
"Cruel and unusual" are defined similar to "pornography" as far as the courts are concerned...community standards (plus the ever popular "you know it when you see it").
Also, you have to pay to use Netflix and it's meant to be used by the household members of whoever's paying for it and nobody else.
So, if I invite my friends over to watch a Netflix movie, does that mean I have violated the TOS?
What if I start up a Netflix movie with a friend and have to leave...with no one from my "household" watching, that must be a violation, right? What if my friend picks out the movie by looking at my Netflix account? What if he actually clicks the mouse on the selection? None of this is much different from him logging in using my account. So, where does this sort of thing end?
A standard work year is 2080 hours, so the correct way to estimate is to take the daily rate and multiply by 2080 / 8. This gives between $341K and $427K.
Also, I'm not in the UK, but I suspect that a "daily" rate does expect at least 8 hours of work per day. In the US, contract labor tends to be billed hourly, so that it doesn't really matter how many hours you work per day, as long as you get the job done.
OCZ just paid for a little marketing to get their name at the front of the queue for a couple days.
One of the advantages of this OCZ solution using a PCI-e slot is that it can bypass the SATA bottleneck. For this particular setup, that might not matter, but for their SLC-based SSD Revo drives, you can get unbelievable performance.
Well, one of the point of caching on an SSD-type memory has to be the fact that your cache is non-volatile. So when you power up your drive the next day, the cache is still there. Why not doing write-caching then?
Write caching to an SSD would be slightly dangerous, but not really if you have a UPS.
Basically, the write would happen to the SSD, and then eventually be copied to the hard disk. That "eventually" doesn't have to be a very long time, though, as even a gigabyte can likely be written in the background in less than 30 seconds. Once that has happened, the cache would be consistent, and you don't have "data spread on a 'cache' SSD drive and on the physical drive" like you are worried about. The hard drive would have all the data, while the SSD would merely have a copy of some parts of the data, so moving the hard drive would be no problem.
Not to tell there's not a lot of glaring fraud there but, did you stop to think how is it that a given type of business is allowd to emit 100 tons of CO2 (provided no fraud is involved)?
Yes, because the classifications of businesses are screwed up, so that you can end up with any "manufacturing" company getting a certain minimum allotment, even if that company is a one-man outfit who builds furniture by hand, with no power tools.
Although legally you need to purchase licenses for your software that requires such a purchase, you can download it all from the internet for free and still have proper functionality. See what I did there? Same thing as you.
No, because in this case, the company has purchased the actual software licenses from the orginal creator of the software, and installed them, and it works. If the software creator didn't want the software to work unless it was an "upgrade", then the install should check for a previous version.
Since Microsoft has done that before, I suspect that any wording in the volume license that implies that they are upgrades only is probably not what Microsoft meant.
Also, I suspect that you haven't actually downloaded a recent Microsoft OS from a torrent (or other unauthorized source) and had it activated succsessfully and ended up with a non-compromised OS. Although, I guess that being a spam-bot is "proper functionality" in some people's eyes as far as Windows is concerned.
That is what they explicitly mean, at least in many states (that, "and if faster traffic than me comes up behind, I should get to the right and let them pass to my left").
Yeah, it's that second part that is ignored, because everyone thinks they are either driving "the fastest" (and if they aren't this second, they want to be, so they won't move right), or "fast enough" (which means they won't move right because anybody faster than them is "unsafe", and they don't want to encourage that).
I'm perfectly fine with them changing the default... but MAKE IT CONFIGURABLE! It'd just have to be one file in /etc, so one could easily jack with it for migrations. How difficult is that?!? Who knows, maybe it already exists and I just couldn't find it?
You mean like /etc/login.defs?
"SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT"
The problem with those signs is that people translate them to "slower traffic than me keep right", regardless of their speed.
One is that glossy is brighter than matte. Matte screens do reduce the transmission of light. That is a reason laptops hopped on the glossy thing to early, more transmission means less power usage.
As far as I can tell, most laptops are set at about 50% brightness when calibrated correctly, and I can't imagine a matte screen would reduce transmission so much that it would mean you couldn't get enough brightness when calibrated.
And, for crazy people who want to use their laptop in bright sunlight...matte may transmit less so that you have to turn the brightness up more, but it's offset by the lack of glare.
6GB DDR3-1333MHz SODIMM [2 DIMMs]
Does this seem weird to anyone else? I've never seen a 3GB DIMM in my life, so they must use a 4GB and 2GB, but that's very strange.
Because, obviously, giving your employees something they'd find pleasant to look at is just unthinkable, right?
Unless it costs the same or increases productivity, yeah, it is.
The whole point of a business is to make money, and every dollar you spend has to be justified. The justification can certainly be "it looks pretty", but any business that makes enough decisions that way won't be in business very long.
Not really, no –that's pretty standard for an IT department's upgrade cycle.
That's standard for what an IT department should do, but the reality is that you see 5-7 year upgrade cycles all the time, and it's likely to get worse as Core i5 and higher becomes the standard, since there's not a whole lot of up from there in terms of real-world needs.
Windows volume licenses are *upgrade* licenses. They still require a full or oem license for the machine.
Although legally they might, they do not for proper activation and functionality.
Out of all the posts I've seen that say "carbon offsets are not real" (and I'll admit, the ones I've seen are few and far between, so maybe I've missed this next part), I've never a post explaining why they are not real.
The #1 reason carbon offsets are likely not real is the massive amount of fraud involved in the "business".
There are many documented cases of sales of "carbon offsets" where nothing at all is done, or the same tree is "planted" for 50 different offsets. In addition, there is the whole point you mention that even if the seller does something, does it really "offset" the original carbon dioxide release?
Last, it's possible to sell carbon offsets just because you don't pollute as much as you are legally allowed to. In other words, if your type of business is allowed to emit 100 tons of CO2 every year, and for whatever reason you only emit 10 tons, you can sell 90 tons of "carbon offsets" so that other companies that can't comply with regulations are covered.
I think the new LTE phones are going to be able to do both simultaneously.
Yes, the Verizon "4G" LTE phones can do voice and data simultaneously. It's still a pain in the butt if you don't have a bluetooth headset, but it does work.
Why a stopwatch wants access to my calls and read/write on the SD card, I don't know,
Many apps that need access to "phone calls" are doing so to be good resource users, and to follow some Android UI conventions.
Knowing if you are talking on the phone or not allows the app to change its behavior to not bother you, use less CPU cycles, etc. And, this sort of thing is why there are so many complaints about the overly-broad permission groups on Android...you can't know the "in-call state" without being given permission to "phone calls".
I do wonder if they still base all of these decisions on Nielsen ratings alone.
Ratings are definitely a large factor, but the cost of the show per rating point is the most important thing. So, a cheap show can do relatively poorly and still survive (which is why "reality" programming is so prevalent). In the same way, if the show is produced by the network, the ratings can be much lower without cancellation. This is because the secondary markets like syndication and DVD will also put money into the network pocket.
To be honest, though, what I have seen lately is that if a show is not in the top 30 for ratings on any of "the big 4", it's a candidate for cancellation, and the smarter the show is, the more likely it's not going to be in the top 30.