I was implying that someone sharing files is very similar to someone who entraps people. It seems like the only thing missing from the argument is intent to entrap and entrapment is not allowed.
In other words the situation that led folks to download shared files is a little too similar to entrapment in my mind.
Sorry for the poor logic flow there. Hopefully that made sense;)
5 years. 10 Years. Anything sane would be nice I agree.
Where is the crime committed by people who do share files? They aren't forcing these folks to come in and take them. The people taking the files are committing the crime.
LIMITED time to gain return on investment. None of this infinity minus one year crap. Give them 5 years of royalties and then it's open season. Products would have to be innovative to survive. Something that is missing in many products these days.
Stop persecuting people who share files and persecute those that download them. Since when is leaving your garage door open a crime? You prosecute the person who steals from your open garage, not the home owner who leaves the garage door open. They should be prosecuting those that download the files, not those that share them. Seems to me that folks who share files out are similar to those using entrapment to lure someone into a crime. IANAL, but isn't a case thrown out if someone uses entrapment to lure someone into a crime?
They should also be required to prove how many songs were downloaded rather than some made up number that sounds impressive.
It's more likely this agent is nothing more complex than a monitor to ensure you have a proper virus scan and dat version, and possibly a required firewall product. Did they give you any information on what the agent does? I would think they could disclose at least some information about it.
Failing that, buy a cellular card and skip the local network.
The poorer folks aren't buying imports for the most part except for possibly luxury items like toys. Food will always be cheaper domestically and that would be their primary purchase with clothing probably following that up, but those purchases would be much fewer and far between. The simple fact is that foreign competitors have an unfair advantage right now because they are exporting far more into the US than they are consuming. Taxing those imports keeps that under control, and keeps money within the US economy, which in turn stimulates the economy locally, which in turn raises pay levels and disposable income.
It's not an individual. It's a company threatening to move all of it's workforce offshore, meaning it would give nothing back to the community, which in turn makes it a leach on society.
There are valid reasons to tax imports, otherwise you end up lopsided, much like we already are today with China. It keeps the cost of imports on par with local goods and stops all of your cash from leaving the company on imports.
I would also be a valid tool for preventing this kind of abuse of the system, or threats of pulling out their work force overseas.
Then why not just tax imports, and classify MS products as an import if their majority labor force is overseas? See how he likes it if his product costs shoot through the roof. America is a cash cow as most of the Chinese copies are pirated anyway.
Let him move offshore and then penalize him for doing so. Nothing more patriotic than that...
The idea is simple. If the government offers health care at a REASONABLE cost (no $20 dollar Tylenol or $20 dollar boxes of tissues), then the industry has to follow in order to compete effectively. If the government plan regulates costs, they have no choice but to compete or they simply go out of business. It's stated to be common knowledge that the US subsidizes drug costs for poorer nations as well as those that already have socialized medicine. We are in essence paying more than our fair share.
How else do you think they can offer to cut 10 TRILLION dollars of the cost of care they provide? They are gouging the public and have for decades. I'm absolutely sure they could cut even more, but then it would become too painful for them.
Agreed. Note I said interpretation. Apparently it's still not clear enough to some. The FS is within the spec. The apps are not.
I just wonder why folks aren't putting pressure on the app developers to fix those apps that are still not patched for this. How long has this been a known issue?
Yes, it is your fault for not making a backup. NO PC is guaranteed to not require a backup no matter what OS or Filesystem you run. To think otherwise is foolish, so yes, you are to blame for that. You are also to blame if you are powering your PC of via the Power Button instead of waiting for it to do a proper shutdown. Who sits there and watches their PC power down? Why are you so concerned about how long it takes? You're just begging for disaster with such computing habits. Start the shutdown and walk away.
Are you to blame for the data loss root cause? No, and I never said you were (unless your an app developer that is). The issue has been well documented for months. If the apps your using are still not patched for those apps requiring critical system writes then the app designers are to blame for your data loss. Have you contacted them to complain?
If your Linux box is crashing that often and you have no backups, the only person you have to blame is yourself. If something is that mission critical you should be using a more stable branch for one and backups should alleviate the potential for data loss if it occurs (including an FS that is either tested with known good apps that aren't exposed to this, or by using a different OS that doesn't see this issue). Crashes should be very few and far between in any case.
If the specification allows this kind of gray interpretation it should be clarified to resolve it forcibly either in favor of the FS or in favor of the app designers, but either way it is written to spec while the apps are not.
I'm sorry for getting on the hate wagon, but what 'good' is there in a church in the middle of the poorest neighborhoods looking like the playboy mansion? It's obscene how much money the church collects. If they were good organizations, they would put that money to good purpose like the neighborhoods they take from.
Instead it's more the rule to see churches fitted to the hilt with palatial facades. IMO, this whole religion thing is obscene, regardless of which religion it is. Perhaps small town churches still show some sort of modesty, but any mid to large city will be filled with huge mega-churches designed for strictly one purpose; to separate the needful from their hard earned money.
That is a common mistake. They state right on the bottle that they do not prevent infection. They reduce the viral load to undetectable levels (beneath the test threshold) but they do not eliminate the virus and they do not prevent infection. There are people who are exposed to the virus who will take a sort of day after regimen to hopefully prevent infection but it's not proven to work (how would you ever get test subjects to agree?)
This advance is interesting in that it causes the body to produce an antibody permanently via synthetic means. Much like taking an antibiotic pill for a few weeks. I have to wonder if/when the body would stop producing antibodies or if it would continually produce them for the remainder of the recipients life.
I didn't say you had to ship off hourly tapes. What hat did you pull that out of? You can use a mirror for minor recovery. We're talking about DR here, not a simple restore of an hourly type data request. The entire site for these folks is gone, not some data set for a transaction 3 hours ago, but everything.
As to tapes getting lost in transit, that happens very rarely given the tracking techniques in use by folks like FedEx and UPS. Even so, you wouldn't have only a single set of tapes with all of your data on it, you would have an established rotation of data. Every company I have worked for uses this method. Some used daily, some weekly, some monthly, etc, but all shipped tapes off site at regular routines and cycled them out yearly, or every 7 years depending on the type of data and retention requirements.
Why would you need to take that risk? It's standard business practice to just make a tape and ship it off site. The cost of shipping the tapes isn't worth the risk of leaving the backups on an internet connected box in my opinion.
I think I understand what your saying and it makes sense.
A = 1
A = A + 1
If you ran the first line on Core 1 and the second on Core 2, how would it know that the second line would need to be processed after the first (other than it's place in the code itself).
I wonder if they are using this parallel process only for isolated threads then? I thought any modern OS already did this? Does anyone know exactly how they are tweaking the OS to better multitask among cores (In semi-technical Laymen's terms)? I wonder if this technology is being openly discussed in detail around on the net. Not guesswork but actual technical knowledge as to what they've done?
I see a lot of talk about programming data structures, but what if their tackling this at a much lower level? Taken to a simple extreme description, each core is simply processing a single task at a time for X number of clock cycles or less (although I understand they can process multiple tasks via piping or somesuch). There is already a balancing act between the CPU and memory as it has to sync I/O between the two due to differing clock speeds. What if they are doing something similar here?
By that I mean tackling this at a low level so that the bits it breaks up among the worker 'cores' are extremely small bits of instruction out of the larger whole, not whole chunks of data structures or routines themselves but rather individual instructions?
Apologies if I'm butchering this horribly as I'm not a low level programmer. I feel like I'm stumbling about verbally trying to figure out how to say it.
I'd rather see them pursue and split the cable company Television division from the telcomm. This has more impact on my usage than MS's operating system.
I saw it this weekend and was totally blown away. More so than Wrath of Kahn, or First Contact. Gone is the corney moral preaching that might have been useful in the 1960's and 70's. I'll give them that. In this way it is not true to the original. This one is much more 'real' in the way that people act and re-act. Much more human. The effects are top notch, the action is more like a summer block bluster than a series sci-fi movie. Hell, you don't even have to be a fan of Trek to enjoy this one. If you are a fan of TOS, then the scenes with Nemoy will tug at you on a personal level. I'm not the convention type, but I've grown up on trek. I actually got a little choked up on some of his scenes. Totally weirded me out.
I think the Trekkies are all up in arms because their little Trek bibles they cling to with religious fervor are now out the window. I agree with the above post. A reboot was needed and definitely due.
Being a fan of every series (minus Deep Space Nine..that one sucked from the get go), I would put this movie at the top of any Trek film and I've seen them all from The Motion Picture to Nemesis at the theaters (yes I'm that old) and this one easily tops any of them. I don't see them starting off a new series based on this, but I could definitely see a few more movies sparked from this one.
Both my company and my personal cell phone supports visual voicemail. I think this is more the trend. A hybrid of text and voice. At a glance you can quickly see who called, and at what time. It works just like an inbox. Just click on whatever message you want to hear.
They have already proven that this is possible on the event horizon of a black hole. It drags space time around the hole in a dragging motion due to the extreme gravity waves so that anything within that space time could conceivably move faster than the speed of light relative to an outside observer.
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I was implying that someone sharing files is very similar to someone who entraps people. It seems like the only thing missing from the argument is intent to entrap and entrapment is not allowed. In other words the situation that led folks to download shared files is a little too similar to entrapment in my mind. Sorry for the poor logic flow there. Hopefully that made sense ;)
Not the same thing. It's not a crime to have something stolen. It's a crime to steal.
5 years. 10 Years. Anything sane would be nice I agree.
Where is the crime committed by people who do share files? They aren't forcing these folks to come in and take them. The people taking the files are committing the crime.
LIMITED time to gain return on investment. None of this infinity minus one year crap. Give them 5 years of royalties and then it's open season. Products would have to be innovative to survive. Something that is missing in many products these days.
Stop persecuting people who share files and persecute those that download them. Since when is leaving your garage door open a crime? You prosecute the person who steals from your open garage, not the home owner who leaves the garage door open. They should be prosecuting those that download the files, not those that share them. Seems to me that folks who share files out are similar to those using entrapment to lure someone into a crime. IANAL, but isn't a case thrown out if someone uses entrapment to lure someone into a crime?
They should also be required to prove how many songs were downloaded rather than some made up number that sounds impressive.
It's more likely this agent is nothing more complex than a monitor to ensure you have a proper virus scan and dat version, and possibly a required firewall product. Did they give you any information on what the agent does? I would think they could disclose at least some information about it. Failing that, buy a cellular card and skip the local network.
I for one welcome our new Zombie Apocalypse Overlords...
The poorer folks aren't buying imports for the most part except for possibly luxury items like toys. Food will always be cheaper domestically and that would be their primary purchase with clothing probably following that up, but those purchases would be much fewer and far between. The simple fact is that foreign competitors have an unfair advantage right now because they are exporting far more into the US than they are consuming. Taxing those imports keeps that under control, and keeps money within the US economy, which in turn stimulates the economy locally, which in turn raises pay levels and disposable income.
It's not an individual. It's a company threatening to move all of it's workforce offshore, meaning it would give nothing back to the community, which in turn makes it a leach on society.
There are valid reasons to tax imports, otherwise you end up lopsided, much like we already are today with China. It keeps the cost of imports on par with local goods and stops all of your cash from leaving the company on imports.
I would also be a valid tool for preventing this kind of abuse of the system, or threats of pulling out their work force overseas.
Then why not just tax imports, and classify MS products as an import if their majority labor force is overseas? See how he likes it if his product costs shoot through the roof. America is a cash cow as most of the Chinese copies are pirated anyway. Let him move offshore and then penalize him for doing so. Nothing more patriotic than that...
The idea is simple. If the government offers health care at a REASONABLE cost (no $20 dollar Tylenol or $20 dollar boxes of tissues), then the industry has to follow in order to compete effectively. If the government plan regulates costs, they have no choice but to compete or they simply go out of business. It's stated to be common knowledge that the US subsidizes drug costs for poorer nations as well as those that already have socialized medicine. We are in essence paying more than our fair share.
How else do you think they can offer to cut 10 TRILLION dollars of the cost of care they provide? They are gouging the public and have for decades. I'm absolutely sure they could cut even more, but then it would become too painful for them.
I for one welcome our new sub-sonic human/mouse hybrid overlords.
Agreed. Note I said interpretation. Apparently it's still not clear enough to some. The FS is within the spec. The apps are not.
I just wonder why folks aren't putting pressure on the app developers to fix those apps that are still not patched for this. How long has this been a known issue?
Yes, it is your fault for not making a backup. NO PC is guaranteed to not require a backup no matter what OS or Filesystem you run. To think otherwise is foolish, so yes, you are to blame for that. You are also to blame if you are powering your PC of via the Power Button instead of waiting for it to do a proper shutdown. Who sits there and watches their PC power down? Why are you so concerned about how long it takes? You're just begging for disaster with such computing habits. Start the shutdown and walk away.
Are you to blame for the data loss root cause? No, and I never said you were (unless your an app developer that is). The issue has been well documented for months. If the apps your using are still not patched for those apps requiring critical system writes then the app designers are to blame for your data loss. Have you contacted them to complain?
If your Linux box is crashing that often and you have no backups, the only person you have to blame is yourself. If something is that mission critical you should be using a more stable branch for one and backups should alleviate the potential for data loss if it occurs (including an FS that is either tested with known good apps that aren't exposed to this, or by using a different OS that doesn't see this issue). Crashes should be very few and far between in any case.
If the specification allows this kind of gray interpretation it should be clarified to resolve it forcibly either in favor of the FS or in favor of the app designers, but either way it is written to spec while the apps are not.
Why does everyone keep speaking about EXT4 as if it's broken? It's working exactly as designed. It's the applications that need fixing, no?
I'm sorry for getting on the hate wagon, but what 'good' is there in a church in the middle of the poorest neighborhoods looking like the playboy mansion? It's obscene how much money the church collects. If they were good organizations, they would put that money to good purpose like the neighborhoods they take from.
Instead it's more the rule to see churches fitted to the hilt with palatial facades. IMO, this whole religion thing is obscene, regardless of which religion it is. Perhaps small town churches still show some sort of modesty, but any mid to large city will be filled with huge mega-churches designed for strictly one purpose; to separate the needful from their hard earned money.
I just can't help but think of the whole Jesus and the Money Changers incident.
Sounds eerily familiar, no?
That is a common mistake. They state right on the bottle that they do not prevent infection. They reduce the viral load to undetectable levels (beneath the test threshold) but they do not eliminate the virus and they do not prevent infection. There are people who are exposed to the virus who will take a sort of day after regimen to hopefully prevent infection but it's not proven to work (how would you ever get test subjects to agree?)
This advance is interesting in that it causes the body to produce an antibody permanently via synthetic means. Much like taking an antibiotic pill for a few weeks. I have to wonder if/when the body would stop producing antibodies or if it would continually produce them for the remainder of the recipients life.
I didn't say you had to ship off hourly tapes. What hat did you pull that out of? You can use a mirror for minor recovery. We're talking about DR here, not a simple restore of an hourly type data request. The entire site for these folks is gone, not some data set for a transaction 3 hours ago, but everything.
As to tapes getting lost in transit, that happens very rarely given the tracking techniques in use by folks like FedEx and UPS. Even so, you wouldn't have only a single set of tapes with all of your data on it, you would have an established rotation of data. Every company I have worked for uses this method. Some used daily, some weekly, some monthly, etc, but all shipped tapes off site at regular routines and cycled them out yearly, or every 7 years depending on the type of data and retention requirements.
Why would you need to take that risk? It's standard business practice to just make a tape and ship it off site. The cost of shipping the tapes isn't worth the risk of leaving the backups on an internet connected box in my opinion.
If it's on the internet, then it is exposed.
I think I understand what your saying and it makes sense.
A = 1
A = A + 1
If you ran the first line on Core 1 and the second on Core 2, how would it know that the second line would need to be processed after the first (other than it's place in the code itself).
I wonder if they are using this parallel process only for isolated threads then? I thought any modern OS already did this? Does anyone know exactly how they are tweaking the OS to better multitask among cores (In semi-technical Laymen's terms)? I wonder if this technology is being openly discussed in detail around on the net. Not guesswork but actual technical knowledge as to what they've done?
I see a lot of talk about programming data structures, but what if their tackling this at a much lower level? Taken to a simple extreme description, each core is simply processing a single task at a time for X number of clock cycles or less (although I understand they can process multiple tasks via piping or somesuch). There is already a balancing act between the CPU and memory as it has to sync I/O between the two due to differing clock speeds. What if they are doing something similar here?
By that I mean tackling this at a low level so that the bits it breaks up among the worker 'cores' are extremely small bits of instruction out of the larger whole, not whole chunks of data structures or routines themselves but rather individual instructions?
Apologies if I'm butchering this horribly as I'm not a low level programmer. I feel like I'm stumbling about verbally trying to figure out how to say it.
I'd rather see them pursue and split the cable company Television division from the telcomm. This has more impact on my usage than MS's operating system.
I for one welcome our new Trekkie Overlords...
On a personal note, this movie Kicks Ass!
I saw it this weekend and was totally blown away. More so than Wrath of Kahn, or First Contact. Gone is the corney moral preaching that might have been useful in the 1960's and 70's. I'll give them that. In this way it is not true to the original. This one is much more 'real' in the way that people act and re-act. Much more human. The effects are top notch, the action is more like a summer block bluster than a series sci-fi movie. Hell, you don't even have to be a fan of Trek to enjoy this one. If you are a fan of TOS, then the scenes with Nemoy will tug at you on a personal level. I'm not the convention type, but I've grown up on trek. I actually got a little choked up on some of his scenes. Totally weirded me out.
I think the Trekkies are all up in arms because their little Trek bibles they cling to with religious fervor are now out the window. I agree with the above post. A reboot was needed and definitely due.
Being a fan of every series (minus Deep Space Nine..that one sucked from the get go), I would put this movie at the top of any Trek film and I've seen them all from The Motion Picture to Nemesis at the theaters (yes I'm that old) and this one easily tops any of them. I don't see them starting off a new series based on this, but I could definitely see a few more movies sparked from this one.
It's hot.
Both my company and my personal cell phone supports visual voicemail. I think this is more the trend. A hybrid of text and voice. At a glance you can quickly see who called, and at what time. It works just like an inbox. Just click on whatever message you want to hear.
Voice mail is not dead. It's just evolving.
They have already proven that this is possible on the event horizon of a black hole. It drags space time around the hole in a dragging motion due to the extreme gravity waves so that anything within that space time could conceivably move faster than the speed of light relative to an outside observer.