It's hard to separate all the "data" from the apps on Windows, but you can separate most on Windows 7 with no tools other than the original install media.
After installing the OS and adding your "data" drive, boot to the Windows 7 rescue mode and open the command prompt, and copy the "C:\Users" and "C:\ProgramData" to the data drive, fix the links so that everything points to the new drive, and edit a few registry locations.
There are also Microsoft tools to do this during the install.
Nicotene, in and of itself, may or may not be a carcinogen. From the Wikipedia page:
The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties.
Apparently there's something other than nicotine in tobacco that's quite carcinogenic, then, as there is no smoke involved in smokeless tobacco, yet cancer of the lips and gums for users of such products is far beyond coincidence.
My own Windows 7 PC at home wakes from sleep in about 8 seconds from cold to desktop, how much faster do you want?
Since waking from sleep doesn't involve the hard drive very much, it's not really a good indicator of hard drive speed. Waking from hibernation, OTOH, uses the hard drive a lot.
So any new technology for memory de-duping is impressive because, traditionally, it just ain't done. Which directly contradicts the content of your original post.
For those who are still confused, the big difference between the various shared library-type schemes and memory de-dupilication is passive vs. active.
Shared libraries (or executables) take advantage of the fact that when you load an program multiple times, the same bits are obviously being loaded each time and so it's just a reference count increment.
For memory de-duplication, during idle times, the hypervisor creates hashes of all the used memory pages and if any duplicates are found they are replaced with the same sort of reference count as in the shared library approach. This would allow me to do something like copy the "vi" command to my home directory and rename it "edit", but the system will figure out that it's the same pages as the real "vi", so those pages will only be in memory once for all users.
As far as I know, only hypervisors use the active memory de-duplication approach...no regular OS does what I suggested in my "vi" example.
Yes, generally. It [LSD] has no known LD50 (ie, a dosage where 50% of people who take that dose die), and has never killed anyone by overdose (same as with pot).
It took me a while to figure out you were referring to LSD, because nicotine certainly does have an LD50 and has killed a wide variety of animals (usually as a component of some sort of pesticide).
There must be some amount of other chemicals in that "water vapor" or else these devices wouldn't be any different from sticking your head over a humidifier.
Anecdotal only, but I can smell something in the air when one of these devices is around me. Last I checked, water was odorless (no jokes about some river near you, please).
Plus, of course, that you have 21 movies taking up 50GB, or less than 2.5GB per movie. Either the movies are short, or they are being compressed to hell.
2.5GB for a DVD-quality 2-hour movie is just fine, if you use MPEG-4 (even plain...H.264 isn't required).
That size is only an issue if you also include ultra-high-bitrate audio or multiple audio streams. My DVD rips of LotR take about 4.5GB per 4 hour movie, with DTS sound plus 3 lower bitrate AC3 commentary tracks.
Technically incorrect. If you enter an intersection, even on green, and cannot clearly/reasonably exit the intersection before the red light (usually meaning traffic is piled up in front of you) then you can be cited. Presumably it's for blocking traffic vs running the red, but it might be up to the officer and/or judge.
It's pretty much the same in most states (based on the 8-10 that I lived in or near and know the law), but it usually only enforced inside cities (e.g., "don't block the box"). And, every time it is enforced, it's by a human who saw the driver blatently ignored the part of the law about "if you can safely stop before entering the intersection" because the traffic wasn't actually flowing freely.
Red light cameras with short yellows lead to far too many bad driving decisions (stopping early, rushing to beat the light, etc.).
3. vibration dampening neoprene mounts dampen any vibration before it causes noise. Vibrating sheet metal is a great source of very annoying noise and strategically placed vibration dampeners are very important.
If your case has issues with vibrating sheet metal, then it's not a very good case. Good HTPC cases are made of aluminum so that each surface can be much thicker while still keeping the weight down.
4. Intelligent Fan control: We implemented the PWM (pulse width modulation) scheme to control fan speed throughout the system so that the fans would spin down (in a coordinated way) under normal use and only spin up when needed under heavy load (or in a closed cabinet where airflow is limited).
This is purely my opinion, but I have found that disabling any system that changes the fan speed on the fly leads to a less annoying HTPC. Although it might be slightly noisier all the time, the ramp up and spin down can often be more noticable. It's also possible to hit a boundary temperature where the fan spins up/down/up/down/up/etc. in a rapid cycle (around 4-10 seconds), and this is really annoying. It's only really a problem if there's a large difference in noise between the slow and fast fan speeds, and PWM does reduce this effect.
5. Elimination of most moving parts in addition to reducing power (and heat), the elimination of optical drives and harddrives means the elimination of the noise they generate.
This also seriously reduces the utility of the unit. First, it means the network will be the source of all your content, which means you need to have a "server" somewhere else in your house for your personal content. That means you could forgo the HTPC completely and just use long cables from the "server" and get the same results.
It also means that you'll need some other device to play DVDs or Blu-Ray, or else be forced to rip everything to your server before playing. For media you own, this is not a hardship. For rentals or when a friend brings a movie over, it's a real pain.
It's not hard to build a high-performance HTPC that is very complete and still very quiet, but you can't do it for under $300, since a good, solid HTPC case is at least $100. But, for around $600, you can not only have a quiet HTPC, but one that will play most games, too.
The only real question is do they make lots of money and squash competition legally, by delivering a better product and out-classing their competitors, without violating any applicable laws.
This is where morality also comes into play for a company.
There are many ways to not break any laws (or at least not in such a way that it can be proven that you broke them) but still do the "wrong" thing. Today, I suspect the #1 thing that companies do that is immoral is to "buy" various elected officials so that it's even easier to compete (since will be far fewer "applicable laws" after a while).
Or, you've got the reverse where a company gets a law created that allows them to keep out competition. Telecommunications in the US is a classic example of how this has hurt the consumer.
Personally I'd say that a good company is one that makes money, keeps growing, and keeps its investors happy. If they do all those things, then likely they're also providing jobs and being a productive part of the economy.
So would a company that made lots of money and squashed competition leading to fewer and less diverse jobs (and thus less chance for employees to find a better paying job) be "good" or "evil"?
It's a pretty basic part of economics that shows that more employers is better for employees, and usually better for the overall economy, as innovation only tends to happen because of competition.
You need to look closely at the Civil War, the events that led up to it, and how it had long(a decade at least) been the attitude of the majority of Americans that slavery was wrong.
Like the current US military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Civil War had little to do with the surface excuses.
The reality is that the Civil War was mostly about economics, with the human rights issue being far less important.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
It's still rarely economically sensible to purchase a hybrid (from the point of view of the individual ROI).
I drive a 2001 Ford F150 pickup truck that gets about 17mpg. Yes, that sucks, but if you need to do pickup stuff (hauling dirty things), there are very few alternatives.
With that out of the way, if a Toyota Prius were useful to me and I purchased one, it would cost me about $20,000 net (after trade-in of my truck, plus taxes, minus tax credit, etc.). I drive about 10,000 miles a year. At $4/gallon, it costs me about $2,400/year to fuel my truck. It would cost about $800/year for the same mileage on a Prius.
That means it would take me over 12 years to make up the investment of a hybrid for better mileage. It would be even longer if I kept my perfectly functional truck for doing "truck things" while still purchasing the hybrid for the rest of my driving. If you are going to buy a new car anyway, then it's not as bad, but there's still a large premium for hybrids. For models that have a hybrid alternative, the premium can be as much as $15,000 (for full-sized pickup trucks), and it's not uncommon for the difference to be $5-8K. For example, the Ford Fusion is about $6K less when equipped comparably to the Fusion hybrid, and only costs about $700 more per year in fuel. That's still 8 years until payback.
It's pretty much the same when comparing any hybrid and non-hybrid vehicles from the same class. Only the stripped-down base model Toyota Prius is competitive in pricing against similar models. Part of that is because the Prius is one of the few hybrids that does offer a base version. Even other Toyota hybrids all start a step or two up in standard features.
She had an unassailable morally correct position, and legally correct one too, according to our constitution.
At the time Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus, it had been determined that the US Constitution said that "separate but equal" was perfectly acceptable.
So, no, she was not legally correct. And, although times have changed and now the vast majority of people know she also had the moral high ground, at that time and in that place the majority quite likely believed that she not only was breaking the law, but also "uppity" (and far more hateful slurs).
At various times in the history of the US, it was "moral" to take people who looked different in some way and either segregate them or imprison them (e.g., native Americans or people of Japanese descent). Today, most would feel these things are immoral, but on September 12, 2001, I suspect that many felt that any Muslim should be treated exactly the same as the Japanese on the west coast in WW2.
Regardless of how heinous an act is, if 90% of people believe it is OK, it is--by definition--moral. And, morals change, so "piracy" (i.e., copyright infringement over the Internet) today might be immoral, while 5 years from now it either isn't, or doesn't exist because laws have changed or the market has changed.
It makes much more sense to buy the CD, rip it (at higher bitrates than Apple provides) and resell it, for a per-song price closer to $0.25.
An immediate per-song cost of $0.25. A hell of a lot higher if you ever get charged for your copyright violations.
It's fair use, not a copyright violation.
No, fair use doesn't apply too something you don't own.
Time-shifting, format-shifting, etc., as fair use all rely on the assumption that you have the right to the content in some format. Once you sell the original, you have no right to that content any more, and are technically required to destroy any copies you have made for personal use.
It gets greyer if you own a vinyl album and in some way temporarily obtain a copy of the CD and rip that. I'd call it fair use, but I'm not a judge or jury.
He based it solely on, and his protests in, highly moral principles and actions. That's why his opposition worked. He had the moral high ground and he kept it.
Once you bring the word "moral" into the discussion, then "opinion" also enters into it.
A lady who is riding in the part of the bus where current law makes it illegal for her to ride because of her skin color is "moral" today to the vast majority of people, but when it happened, there were a lot more people who just thought she was "some damn scofflaw".
Today, there is a growing opinon (i.e., morality) that says grossly overcharging for a product is wrong (i.e., immoral). In many cases of vital (milk, bread, etc.) and even not-so-vital (gasoline, batteries, etc.) items, there are even "price gouging" laws preventing such things.
Economics also shows time and again that lowering the price of non-scarce goods results in more than enough extra sales to not just keep but increase your profits. Steam and their half-price sales that generate 10 times the volume (and thus 5x the gross income) are a great example. The real issue is that the publishers (game for Steam and book for Amazon) think that by jacking up the price on "new" product (in the case of books, it just may be "new to eBook") will result in early adopters paying more and thus maximize the profit. In reality, many people either wait for the prrice to be reduced anyway or choose some other form of entertainment as a place to spend their money. I'm one of those.
Buying a Kindle (or other eBook reader) won't cause me to miss any meals or otherwise cause me any financial hardship. Over the past couple of months, I've spent at least 20x the price of a Kindle on hobbies. But, because the only real value in eBooks is the shelf savings (really, new fiction hardbacks can be had for about 20% more than the $15 price the publishers want for eBooks), I don't have a reader.
One of the biggest issues is that my wife also reads the books we own. That means we'd need two readers and the ability to transfer books between the readers (so that when she was out of the country last week, we could both still read). Add a 3rd reader to the household who likes the same genres and now eBooks become impossible to justify financially ($15*3 = $45/eBook vs. $30 full retail/hardback).
Is it possible for a Bittorrent tracker to make IPs appear in the swarm that aren't actually representing any actual clients?
Yes.
It's also not guaranteed that a peer in the swam is downloading or uploading. The only way to be 99% sure is to send/receive to/from a given peer. But, if you don't send/receive 100% of the content to/from that single peer, it would be hard to claim copyright infringement, as you couldn't prove a full copy had been shared by that IP address.
I don't know about you, but even with my very fast connection, it would take me a long time to download 50,000 copies of a movie. And, it'd be insanely difficult to make sure that I downloaded it from exactly 50,000 unique peers.
Encryption only fixes third-party snooping/throttling.
Malicious peers can use encryption too:)
True, but if the lawsuits are based on information from a P2P peer run by the copyright holder, then they better have really good techs that can prove their peer never uploaded any data.
If they did upload data, then either all the copies are authorized (assuming they had the right to distribute), or they are liable for contributory infringement (i.e., "making available"). In either case, everyone who was sued can blame them with the claim that "I didn't know it was illegal...I thought it was a free download from the company that made the movie (and I was right)".
But that's just weasel-words to get around the real issue: Ubisoft have added a dependency on a component which is otherwise completely unrelated to the game. If you're playing a single-player game, your internet connection shouldn't matter. In fact, a single-player game is exactly the kind of thing you might decide to do if your internet connection does go down in order to pass the time while you wait for it to be fixed.
Absolutely true.
I wasn't saying what Ubisoft has done is right, and I was thinking more in terms of an online multiplayer game where you probably shouldn't play it 24/7/365, and that other Internet outages are far more likely to be an issue than their servers.
I have TCP sessions to/from multiple locations throughout the world (using some really high-tech software...ssh) that log any connection issues and reconnect after a dropped connection. It's not uncommon for these sessions to remain up for 30 days at a time.
As long as the re-connect is on the first try (10 seconds after the drop), I consider it just "something on the Internet", and not likely to be a real outage of my FiOS.
By doing this, there's really no reason to run any high-tech malware detector, as this assumes you have two machines that are identical in every way except one might have malware while the other is known to be clean. If that's the case, just clone the one that is known to be clean and you now have two known clean machines.
In other words, there is no way to use an external machine to assist you in determining things like memory used by a process because you can't have both a clean machine and one infected by malware and have them identical enough to get a meaningful comparison.
There is no 'empty space' in a rpogram's code segment.
There very often is, as pages are 4096 bytes (at least, normal pages on x86 are this size), and it's rare to have code completely fill the page.
Since all the protections on x86 are at the page level, malware can hide in the bytes after the real executable. This type of technique has been used for years (malware used to hide in the file slack on floppy disks).
I think these people have all understood the article quite well, and are pointing out real flaws with this scanning method.
The #1 flaw is the assumption that an exact byte count of what is running can be known if malware is also running on the system.
If malware is actively running, then if scanning code calls any outside functions, the results must be considered tainted. Since there is no way for code that does not query the OS to even guess about what else is loaded in RAM, sufficiently intelligent malware will be able to hide itself from any scan. Hell, you can't even determine how much RAM is in a computer running in x86 protected mode without calling some OS or BIOS function, either of which can be hooked by the malware.
One of the other assumptions is that the time it takes to compute a hash of RAM on a particular machine can be known with enough precision to detect that it is being "delayed" by malware.
Last, there is one piece of code that can never be swapped out to disk, and will likely show up as malware as it refuses to be overwritten: the code that swaps and restores pages to/from disk.
Most brands (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, etc) come with decent warranties anyway.
A three-year warranty is nice, but doesn't mean you'll get a motherboard that isn't going to destroy the CPU (or other component) because the voltage regulators crap out. Sure, you get a new motherboard, but you don't get all the other stuff replaced.
Spending $250+ on an enthusiast motherboard with all solid caps for a $500 HTPC project is absurd.
You can get motherboards with that quality of components for far less than that.
$150 will get you this board (which I have, because I want to do some light gaming on my HTPC), and nothing in this category is more than $150, and many are very reliable boards.
But, if you're only spending $500 on an HTPC, you're probably not getting things like a nice case, remote control, BluRay drive, etc., and you're relying on thousands of dollars of server somewhere else for your media storage.
There's no way that an home user can afford five nines internet access, so even if it isn't the authentication server end that's a problem, well, you're screwed anyway.
Do you really need to play "Assassins Creed 2" continuously with only 5 minutes of downtime every year? If so, I suspect that your Internet connection is the least of your issues.
Even three nines (eight hours of downtime per year) is more than reasonable for a normal home connection. That might even be good enough for a DRM server.
I'm at about four nines from Verizon FiOS (about 5 hours of downtime in the 3 years I've had the service).
So if a woman (or a man) does want 16th of a rich partner vs 100% of a poor one I'm sure she can already find such a relationship today. In fact, I hear Tiger Woods has a few positions open these days...
He's already played all 18 holes and is in the dog^H^H^Hclubhouse now.
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It's hard to separate all the "data" from the apps on Windows, but you can separate most on Windows 7 with no tools other than the original install media.
After installing the OS and adding your "data" drive, boot to the Windows 7 rescue mode and open the command prompt, and copy the "C:\Users" and "C:\ProgramData" to the data drive, fix the links so that everything points to the new drive, and edit a few registry locations.
There are also Microsoft tools to do this during the install.
Nicotene, in and of itself, may or may not be a carcinogen. From the Wikipedia page:
The carcinogenic properties of nicotine in standalone form, separate from tobacco smoke, have not been evaluated by the IARC, and it has not been assigned to an official carcinogen group. The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties.
Apparently there's something other than nicotine in tobacco that's quite carcinogenic, then, as there is no smoke involved in smokeless tobacco, yet cancer of the lips and gums for users of such products is far beyond coincidence.
My own Windows 7 PC at home wakes from sleep in about 8 seconds from cold to desktop, how much faster do you want?
Since waking from sleep doesn't involve the hard drive very much, it's not really a good indicator of hard drive speed. Waking from hibernation, OTOH, uses the hard drive a lot.
So any new technology for memory de-duping is impressive because, traditionally, it just ain't done. Which directly contradicts the content of your original post.
For those who are still confused, the big difference between the various shared library-type schemes and memory de-dupilication is passive vs. active.
Shared libraries (or executables) take advantage of the fact that when you load an program multiple times, the same bits are obviously being loaded each time and so it's just a reference count increment.
For memory de-duplication, during idle times, the hypervisor creates hashes of all the used memory pages and if any duplicates are found they are replaced with the same sort of reference count as in the shared library approach. This would allow me to do something like copy the "vi" command to my home directory and rename it "edit", but the system will figure out that it's the same pages as the real "vi", so those pages will only be in memory once for all users.
As far as I know, only hypervisors use the active memory de-duplication approach...no regular OS does what I suggested in my "vi" example.
Yes, generally. It [LSD] has no known LD50 (ie, a dosage where 50% of people who take that dose die), and has never killed anyone by overdose (same as with pot).
It took me a while to figure out you were referring to LSD, because nicotine certainly does have an LD50 and has killed a wide variety of animals (usually as a component of some sort of pesticide).
The "smoke" you see is water vapor.
There must be some amount of other chemicals in that "water vapor" or else these devices wouldn't be any different from sticking your head over a humidifier.
Anecdotal only, but I can smell something in the air when one of these devices is around me. Last I checked, water was odorless (no jokes about some river near you, please).
Plus, of course, that you have 21 movies taking up 50GB, or less than 2.5GB per movie. Either the movies are short, or they are being compressed to hell.
2.5GB for a DVD-quality 2-hour movie is just fine, if you use MPEG-4 (even plain...H.264 isn't required).
That size is only an issue if you also include ultra-high-bitrate audio or multiple audio streams. My DVD rips of LotR take about 4.5GB per 4 hour movie, with DTS sound plus 3 lower bitrate AC3 commentary tracks.
Technically incorrect. If you enter an intersection, even on green, and cannot clearly/reasonably exit the intersection before the red light (usually meaning traffic is piled up in front of you) then you can be cited. Presumably it's for blocking traffic vs running the red, but it might be up to the officer and/or judge.
It's pretty much the same in most states (based on the 8-10 that I lived in or near and know the law), but it usually only enforced inside cities (e.g., "don't block the box"). And, every time it is enforced, it's by a human who saw the driver blatently ignored the part of the law about "if you can safely stop before entering the intersection" because the traffic wasn't actually flowing freely.
Red light cameras with short yellows lead to far too many bad driving decisions (stopping early, rushing to beat the light, etc.).
3. vibration dampening neoprene mounts dampen any vibration before it causes noise. Vibrating sheet metal is a great source of very annoying noise and strategically placed vibration dampeners are very important.
If your case has issues with vibrating sheet metal, then it's not a very good case. Good HTPC cases are made of aluminum so that each surface can be much thicker while still keeping the weight down.
4. Intelligent Fan control: We implemented the PWM (pulse width modulation) scheme to control fan speed throughout the system so that the fans would spin down (in a coordinated way) under normal use and only spin up when needed under heavy load (or in a closed cabinet where airflow is limited).
This is purely my opinion, but I have found that disabling any system that changes the fan speed on the fly leads to a less annoying HTPC. Although it might be slightly noisier all the time, the ramp up and spin down can often be more noticable. It's also possible to hit a boundary temperature where the fan spins up/down/up/down/up/etc. in a rapid cycle (around 4-10 seconds), and this is really annoying. It's only really a problem if there's a large difference in noise between the slow and fast fan speeds, and PWM does reduce this effect.
5. Elimination of most moving parts in addition to reducing power (and heat), the elimination of optical drives and harddrives means the elimination of the noise they generate.
This also seriously reduces the utility of the unit. First, it means the network will be the source of all your content, which means you need to have a "server" somewhere else in your house for your personal content. That means you could forgo the HTPC completely and just use long cables from the "server" and get the same results.
It also means that you'll need some other device to play DVDs or Blu-Ray, or else be forced to rip everything to your server before playing. For media you own, this is not a hardship. For rentals or when a friend brings a movie over, it's a real pain.
It's not hard to build a high-performance HTPC that is very complete and still very quiet, but you can't do it for under $300, since a good, solid HTPC case is at least $100. But, for around $600, you can not only have a quiet HTPC, but one that will play most games, too.
The only real question is do they make lots of money and squash competition legally, by delivering a better product and out-classing their competitors, without violating any applicable laws.
This is where morality also comes into play for a company.
There are many ways to not break any laws (or at least not in such a way that it can be proven that you broke them) but still do the "wrong" thing. Today, I suspect the #1 thing that companies do that is immoral is to "buy" various elected officials so that it's even easier to compete (since will be far fewer "applicable laws" after a while).
Or, you've got the reverse where a company gets a law created that allows them to keep out competition. Telecommunications in the US is a classic example of how this has hurt the consumer.
Personally I'd say that a good company is one that makes money, keeps growing, and keeps its investors happy. If they do all those things, then likely they're also providing jobs and being a productive part of the economy.
So would a company that made lots of money and squashed competition leading to fewer and less diverse jobs (and thus less chance for employees to find a better paying job) be "good" or "evil"?
It's a pretty basic part of economics that shows that more employers is better for employees, and usually better for the overall economy, as innovation only tends to happen because of competition.
You need to look closely at the Civil War, the events that led up to it, and how it had long(a decade at least) been the attitude of the majority of Americans that slavery was wrong.
Like the current US military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Civil War had little to do with the surface excuses.
The reality is that the Civil War was mostly about economics, with the human rights issue being far less important.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
It's still rarely economically sensible to purchase a hybrid (from the point of view of the individual ROI).
I drive a 2001 Ford F150 pickup truck that gets about 17mpg. Yes, that sucks, but if you need to do pickup stuff (hauling dirty things), there are very few alternatives.
With that out of the way, if a Toyota Prius were useful to me and I purchased one, it would cost me about $20,000 net (after trade-in of my truck, plus taxes, minus tax credit, etc.). I drive about 10,000 miles a year. At $4/gallon, it costs me about $2,400/year to fuel my truck. It would cost about $800/year for the same mileage on a Prius.
That means it would take me over 12 years to make up the investment of a hybrid for better mileage. It would be even longer if I kept my perfectly functional truck for doing "truck things" while still purchasing the hybrid for the rest of my driving. If you are going to buy a new car anyway, then it's not as bad, but there's still a large premium for hybrids. For models that have a hybrid alternative, the premium can be as much as $15,000 (for full-sized pickup trucks), and it's not uncommon for the difference to be $5-8K. For example, the Ford Fusion is about $6K less when equipped comparably to the Fusion hybrid, and only costs about $700 more per year in fuel. That's still 8 years until payback.
It's pretty much the same when comparing any hybrid and non-hybrid vehicles from the same class. Only the stripped-down base model Toyota Prius is competitive in pricing against similar models. Part of that is because the Prius is one of the few hybrids that does offer a base version. Even other Toyota hybrids all start a step or two up in standard features.
She had an unassailable morally correct position, and legally correct one too, according to our constitution.
At the time Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus, it had been determined that the US Constitution said that "separate but equal" was perfectly acceptable.
So, no, she was not legally correct. And, although times have changed and now the vast majority of people know she also had the moral high ground, at that time and in that place the majority quite likely believed that she not only was breaking the law, but also "uppity" (and far more hateful slurs).
At various times in the history of the US, it was "moral" to take people who looked different in some way and either segregate them or imprison them (e.g., native Americans or people of Japanese descent). Today, most would feel these things are immoral, but on September 12, 2001, I suspect that many felt that any Muslim should be treated exactly the same as the Japanese on the west coast in WW2.
Regardless of how heinous an act is, if 90% of people believe it is OK, it is--by definition--moral. And, morals change, so "piracy" (i.e., copyright infringement over the Internet) today might be immoral, while 5 years from now it either isn't, or doesn't exist because laws have changed or the market has changed.
It makes much more sense to buy the CD, rip it (at higher bitrates than Apple provides) and resell it, for a per-song price closer to $0.25.
An immediate per-song cost of $0.25. A hell of a lot higher if you ever get charged for your copyright violations.
It's fair use, not a copyright violation.
No, fair use doesn't apply too something you don't own.
Time-shifting, format-shifting, etc., as fair use all rely on the assumption that you have the right to the content in some format. Once you sell the original, you have no right to that content any more, and are technically required to destroy any copies you have made for personal use.
It gets greyer if you own a vinyl album and in some way temporarily obtain a copy of the CD and rip that. I'd call it fair use, but I'm not a judge or jury.
He based it solely on, and his protests in, highly moral principles and actions. That's why his opposition worked. He had the moral high ground and he kept it.
Once you bring the word "moral" into the discussion, then "opinion" also enters into it.
A lady who is riding in the part of the bus where current law makes it illegal for her to ride because of her skin color is "moral" today to the vast majority of people, but when it happened, there were a lot more people who just thought she was "some damn scofflaw".
Today, there is a growing opinon (i.e., morality) that says grossly overcharging for a product is wrong (i.e., immoral). In many cases of vital (milk, bread, etc.) and even not-so-vital (gasoline, batteries, etc.) items, there are even "price gouging" laws preventing such things.
Economics also shows time and again that lowering the price of non-scarce goods results in more than enough extra sales to not just keep but increase your profits. Steam and their half-price sales that generate 10 times the volume (and thus 5x the gross income) are a great example. The real issue is that the publishers (game for Steam and book for Amazon) think that by jacking up the price on "new" product (in the case of books, it just may be "new to eBook") will result in early adopters paying more and thus maximize the profit. In reality, many people either wait for the prrice to be reduced anyway or choose some other form of entertainment as a place to spend their money. I'm one of those.
Buying a Kindle (or other eBook reader) won't cause me to miss any meals or otherwise cause me any financial hardship. Over the past couple of months, I've spent at least 20x the price of a Kindle on hobbies. But, because the only real value in eBooks is the shelf savings (really, new fiction hardbacks can be had for about 20% more than the $15 price the publishers want for eBooks), I don't have a reader.
One of the biggest issues is that my wife also reads the books we own. That means we'd need two readers and the ability to transfer books between the readers (so that when she was out of the country last week, we could both still read). Add a 3rd reader to the household who likes the same genres and now eBooks become impossible to justify financially ($15*3 = $45/eBook vs. $30 full retail/hardback).
Is it possible for a Bittorrent tracker to make IPs appear in the swarm that aren't actually representing any actual clients?
Yes.
It's also not guaranteed that a peer in the swam is downloading or uploading. The only way to be 99% sure is to send/receive to/from a given peer. But, if you don't send/receive 100% of the content to/from that single peer, it would be hard to claim copyright infringement, as you couldn't prove a full copy had been shared by that IP address.
I don't know about you, but even with my very fast connection, it would take me a long time to download 50,000 copies of a movie. And, it'd be insanely difficult to make sure that I downloaded it from exactly 50,000 unique peers.
Encryption only fixes third-party snooping/throttling. Malicious peers can use encryption too :)
True, but if the lawsuits are based on information from a P2P peer run by the copyright holder, then they better have really good techs that can prove their peer never uploaded any data.
If they did upload data, then either all the copies are authorized (assuming they had the right to distribute), or they are liable for contributory infringement (i.e., "making available"). In either case, everyone who was sued can blame them with the claim that "I didn't know it was illegal...I thought it was a free download from the company that made the movie (and I was right)".
But that's just weasel-words to get around the real issue: Ubisoft have added a dependency on a component which is otherwise completely unrelated to the game. If you're playing a single-player game, your internet connection shouldn't matter. In fact, a single-player game is exactly the kind of thing you might decide to do if your internet connection does go down in order to pass the time while you wait for it to be fixed.
Absolutely true.
I wasn't saying what Ubisoft has done is right, and I was thinking more in terms of an online multiplayer game where you probably shouldn't play it 24/7/365, and that other Internet outages are far more likely to be an issue than their servers.
Yes, I do monitor continuously.
I have TCP sessions to/from multiple locations throughout the world (using some really high-tech software...ssh) that log any connection issues and reconnect after a dropped connection. It's not uncommon for these sessions to remain up for 30 days at a time.
As long as the re-connect is on the first try (10 seconds after the drop), I consider it just "something on the Internet", and not likely to be a real outage of my FiOS.
If we start from a known clean machine
By doing this, there's really no reason to run any high-tech malware detector, as this assumes you have two machines that are identical in every way except one might have malware while the other is known to be clean. If that's the case, just clone the one that is known to be clean and you now have two known clean machines.
In other words, there is no way to use an external machine to assist you in determining things like memory used by a process because you can't have both a clean machine and one infected by malware and have them identical enough to get a meaningful comparison.
There is no 'empty space' in a rpogram's code segment.
There very often is, as pages are 4096 bytes (at least, normal pages on x86 are this size), and it's rare to have code completely fill the page.
Since all the protections on x86 are at the page level, malware can hide in the bytes after the real executable. This type of technique has been used for years (malware used to hide in the file slack on floppy disks).
Suffice it to say, you haven't understood it yet.
I think these people have all understood the article quite well, and are pointing out real flaws with this scanning method.
The #1 flaw is the assumption that an exact byte count of what is running can be known if malware is also running on the system.
If malware is actively running, then if scanning code calls any outside functions, the results must be considered tainted. Since there is no way for code that does not query the OS to even guess about what else is loaded in RAM, sufficiently intelligent malware will be able to hide itself from any scan. Hell, you can't even determine how much RAM is in a computer running in x86 protected mode without calling some OS or BIOS function, either of which can be hooked by the malware.
One of the other assumptions is that the time it takes to compute a hash of RAM on a particular machine can be known with enough precision to detect that it is being "delayed" by malware.
Last, there is one piece of code that can never be swapped out to disk, and will likely show up as malware as it refuses to be overwritten: the code that swaps and restores pages to/from disk.
Most brands (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, etc) come with decent warranties anyway.
A three-year warranty is nice, but doesn't mean you'll get a motherboard that isn't going to destroy the CPU (or other component) because the voltage regulators crap out. Sure, you get a new motherboard, but you don't get all the other stuff replaced.
Spending $250+ on an enthusiast motherboard with all solid caps for a $500 HTPC project is absurd.
You can get motherboards with that quality of components for far less than that.
$150 will get you this board (which I have, because I want to do some light gaming on my HTPC), and nothing in this category is more than $150, and many are very reliable boards.
But, if you're only spending $500 on an HTPC, you're probably not getting things like a nice case, remote control, BluRay drive, etc., and you're relying on thousands of dollars of server somewhere else for your media storage.
There's no way that an home user can afford five nines internet access, so even if it isn't the authentication server end that's a problem, well, you're screwed anyway.
Do you really need to play "Assassins Creed 2" continuously with only 5 minutes of downtime every year? If so, I suspect that your Internet connection is the least of your issues.
Even three nines (eight hours of downtime per year) is more than reasonable for a normal home connection. That might even be good enough for a DRM server.
I'm at about four nines from Verizon FiOS (about 5 hours of downtime in the 3 years I've had the service).
So if a woman (or a man) does want 16th of a rich partner vs 100% of a poor one I'm sure she can already find such a relationship today. In fact, I hear Tiger Woods has a few positions open these days...
He's already played all 18 holes and is in the dog^H^H^Hclubhouse now.