Many countries recognize the moral rights of artists in addition to commercial copyrights. The Pirate Party's platform is a 5 year term of commercial copyright. The right of attribution is a moral right of the artist.
If Forgent deliberately withheld this info about prior art, that's a good case for fraud. Is a patent application equivalent to a sworn legal statement under oath?
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition is okay, but try loading the firewall too (the bundle is called Symantec Client Security). All the processes use over 100MB of RAM. The interface is clean, but the bloat is still there.
We aren't talking about air, water or food here... You don't need an MP3 to survive
It's a little more complicated than that. I, as one person, may not need one particular MP3 to survive. However, in aggregate music, art, science and philosophy form culture, and we, as a society, need culture to survive as an advanced civilization. We need those things to inspire us with dreams and aspirations, to make us see past our own insignificant lives, to leave a legacy for future generations.
Some forms of art are expensive, like making movies, but other forms like music and creative writing are very inexpensive. A motivated hobbyist can do a pretty decent job at music or writing. What the studios have done is positioned themselves as the gatekeepers and the toll booths of culture. Sure, they do provide a service of filtering out crappy content (crappy in the sense of unpolished and poorly produced), but the value of that service is all out of proportion to their tax on culture.
If the show is not likely to sell out, you can always buy tickets at the venue's box office for $25. Everywhere else, you'll be paying the 70% Ticketmaster tax. They're a monopoly in the worst possible way. Pearl Jam tried to fight them and lost.
PC manufacturers these days are little more than system integrators. They basically slap a brand name label on a bunch of outsourced components. They generally don't own chip fabs and don't have the expertise to reverse-engineer, modify, and tape out a complex, off-the-shelf chip like a southbridge or TPM. Other posters have suggested that it may be easier to backdoor every single unit of a mass-produced chip rather than mod a chip destined for your target organization. The combination of low production numbers and high complexity is a sure recipe for bugginess.
Assuming that is the plan, then the risk isn't at the PC manufacturer. The risk is at the chipset manufacturer. A bug on the motherboard is much easier to detect than a bug in the chipset. If a chip is backdoored, any PC made with that chip is at risk whether it's made by Dell, HP or Lenovo.
Also, the easy way around this is to not use the TPM for disk encryption. You could do it all in software.
He's talking about this anti-terrorism bill passed in 1996. It does presage parts of the Patriot Act, but its restrictions on civil liberties are a tiny fraction of what the Patriot Act accomplished. To equate the two would be to point out the speck in your neighbor's eye while igoring the log in your own eye.
In addition to astronomical upfront costs you have astronomical maintenance costs to replace worn out components of the reactor. This will help with that.
I think achieving energy breakeven is just an engineering problem. Once you scale up the reactor to a certain size then it breaks even.
Correct. All chips are mass produced. It's amazingly expensive and complex to refab an off-the-shelf chip like a TCPA module or southbridge, and it would require inside knowledge at the chipset manufacturer which is not the PC manufacturer. Maybe it's possible with a less complex chip like the keyboard controller. Maybe you could subvert one of the chips with a parasitic modchip (similar to a console modchip), maybe even an internal modchip inside the chip package but on a separate die. Either way, you'd have to sneak it into the supply chain somehow, probably as a complete motherboard, and having a US-owned or foreign-owned brand makes little difference.
The differences between a homo sapien and earlier ancestors like australopithecus are not that complex. They can easily be explained by neotany, the retention of juvenile physical characteristics by the adult of the species. That's how we domesticated wolves and bred them into dogs. A wolf pup is about as tame as a dog, but there's no way to keep an adult wolf as a household pet. If you looked at them superficially you might think a wolf, a Basset Hound and a Pekinese are so different that they couldn't possibly come from the same ancestor, but they do. By activating different growth rates for different parts of the body, you can end up with a wide variety of shapes from a common ancestor.
In a similar way, humans are a primate species with an extended infancy. Among other things, that means more time for our brains to grow to a bigger size and the loss of body hair compared to other adult primates.
I know the telcos are probably the biggest customers of network equipment, but what are the chances of content providers (Google, Yahoo, colo-providers, etc.) banding together to boycott any network equipment company that lobbies for tiered Internet? You can probably find one manufacturer who'd back off on lobbying in exchange for Google's business.
Yes, the headlines saying "humans" are just dumb. They're probably talking about species like Australopithecus which are far from being humans. They evolved a pelvis that enabled them to walk upright, but their brains were 35% the size of a human brain.
True. Given the limited supply of early 360s, Microsoft could've gotten away with charging that much too, but not since production finally caught up a few months ago. Unfortunately for Sony, I don't think they can afford to cut prices that soon with that expensive Bluray drive.
Put agents *actually* in the field at risk, puts Europeans at risk in the event that terrorists attempt a rescue or kidnap locals to coerce the local government to release prisoners, put American service members and civilians at risk by interfering with interrogations (torture not required) involving time sensitive information."
The secret prisons were never disclosed with enough specificity to endanger any operations. All we know are former military bases in two Eastern European countries. In any case they would likely be heavily-guarded, hard targets. The chance of a terrorist commando raid to bust out their buddies is approximately zero. The chance of terrorist kidnapping local civilians to ransom for their buddies is also approximately zero. The governments of those two Eastern European countries have no leverage with the US to negotiate a release, and the CIA is unpopular enough as it is in Europe.
BTW the ticking timebomb scenario that you imply by "time sensitive information" is a load of crap. Most of the high-value targets were captured in 2002. Not going to get much fresh info out of them this year. The Wall Street terror alert of Oct 2004 was based on 4 year old pictures, basically pre-9/11 target recon.
We had a ballot initiative to expand the DNA database of felony suspects to include anyone arrested. The previous law only required samples from the ones convicted. It passed with 62% voting yes. Voters are dumb. You can't lose if you sell something as tough on crime. BTW the California law requires a cheek swab, no blood sample.
If you want a greater evil, it's coal. It's by far the most widely used fuel for electrical generation in the US, and it's more evil than poking kittens. Coal can almost be considered a default choice for electricity because it's cheap, plentiful, and most environmental costs are externalized.
The chemical dyes in recordable DVDs do have a scent, but pressed DVDs are just plastic and aluminum. This may put a damper on small to medium size pirate operations that record cams onto DVD-Rs and friends trading with each other for free, but it won't stop the professional pirates with DVD pressing plants. This also means the dogs will hit on any package with recordable DVDs: legit data, blank media and pirated movies. You can easily DDoS the system by shipping a blank DVD in every FedEx package.
from the MPAA press release:
They were amazingly successful at identifying packages containing DVDs, which were opened and checked by HM Customs' representatives. While all were legitimate shipments on the day, our message to anyone thinking about shipping counterfeit DVDs through the FedEx network is simple: you're going to get caught.
You nailed it there. Like the PS2, the PS3 has a very short window where it might be useful as a movie player. On one side, HD-DVD and Bluray media are very early in the adoption curve even by November '06. On the other side, standalone players will get more affordable over time. By the time they hit $200, nobody will care about playing HD movies on a PS3.
The most radical approach comes from an unexpected source--Microsoft Research. In effect, the Microsoft approach discards the concept of an operating system as a single program running in kernel mode plus some collection of user processes running in user mode, and replaces it with a system written in new type-safe languages that do not have all the pointer and other problems associated with C and C++.
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I don't know if the store has stairs to a regular entrance, but in any case they'd have to have stairs for the emergency exits.
Many countries recognize the moral rights of artists in addition to commercial copyrights. The Pirate Party's platform is a 5 year term of commercial copyright. The right of attribution is a moral right of the artist.
If Forgent deliberately withheld this info about prior art, that's a good case for fraud. Is a patent application equivalent to a sworn legal statement under oath?
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition is okay, but try loading the firewall too (the bundle is called Symantec Client Security). All the processes use over 100MB of RAM. The interface is clean, but the bloat is still there.
We aren't talking about air, water or food here... You don't need an MP3 to survive
It's a little more complicated than that. I, as one person, may not need one particular MP3 to survive. However, in aggregate music, art, science and philosophy form culture, and we, as a society, need culture to survive as an advanced civilization. We need those things to inspire us with dreams and aspirations, to make us see past our own insignificant lives, to leave a legacy for future generations.
Some forms of art are expensive, like making movies, but other forms like music and creative writing are very inexpensive. A motivated hobbyist can do a pretty decent job at music or writing. What the studios have done is positioned themselves as the gatekeepers and the toll booths of culture. Sure, they do provide a service of filtering out crappy content (crappy in the sense of unpolished and poorly produced), but the value of that service is all out of proportion to their tax on culture.
If the show is not likely to sell out, you can always buy tickets at the venue's box office for $25. Everywhere else, you'll be paying the 70% Ticketmaster tax. They're a monopoly in the worst possible way. Pearl Jam tried to fight them and lost.
PC manufacturers these days are little more than system integrators. They basically slap a brand name label on a bunch of outsourced components. They generally don't own chip fabs and don't have the expertise to reverse-engineer, modify, and tape out a complex, off-the-shelf chip like a southbridge or TPM. Other posters have suggested that it may be easier to backdoor every single unit of a mass-produced chip rather than mod a chip destined for your target organization. The combination of low production numbers and high complexity is a sure recipe for bugginess.
Assuming that is the plan, then the risk isn't at the PC manufacturer. The risk is at the chipset manufacturer. A bug on the motherboard is much easier to detect than a bug in the chipset. If a chip is backdoored, any PC made with that chip is at risk whether it's made by Dell, HP or Lenovo.
Also, the easy way around this is to not use the TPM for disk encryption. You could do it all in software.
He's talking about this anti-terrorism bill passed in 1996. It does presage parts of the Patriot Act, but its restrictions on civil liberties are a tiny fraction of what the Patriot Act accomplished. To equate the two would be to point out the speck in your neighbor's eye while igoring the log in your own eye.
In addition to astronomical upfront costs you have astronomical maintenance costs to replace worn out components of the reactor. This will help with that.
I think achieving energy breakeven is just an engineering problem. Once you scale up the reactor to a certain size then it breaks even.
Correct. All chips are mass produced. It's amazingly expensive and complex to refab an off-the-shelf chip like a TCPA module or southbridge, and it would require inside knowledge at the chipset manufacturer which is not the PC manufacturer. Maybe it's possible with a less complex chip like the keyboard controller. Maybe you could subvert one of the chips with a parasitic modchip (similar to a console modchip), maybe even an internal modchip inside the chip package but on a separate die. Either way, you'd have to sneak it into the supply chain somehow, probably as a complete motherboard, and having a US-owned or foreign-owned brand makes little difference.
It's not like the PCs weren't made in China when the division was owned by IBM.
I mean boycott buying Cisco for their own internal use. I know. They're probably a small customer compared to the telcos.
The differences between a homo sapien and earlier ancestors like australopithecus are not that complex. They can easily be explained by neotany, the retention of juvenile physical characteristics by the adult of the species. That's how we domesticated wolves and bred them into dogs. A wolf pup is about as tame as a dog, but there's no way to keep an adult wolf as a household pet. If you looked at them superficially you might think a wolf, a Basset Hound and a Pekinese are so different that they couldn't possibly come from the same ancestor, but they do. By activating different growth rates for different parts of the body, you can end up with a wide variety of shapes from a common ancestor.
In a similar way, humans are a primate species with an extended infancy. Among other things, that means more time for our brains to grow to a bigger size and the loss of body hair compared to other adult primates.
I know the telcos are probably the biggest customers of network equipment, but what are the chances of content providers (Google, Yahoo, colo-providers, etc.) banding together to boycott any network equipment company that lobbies for tiered Internet? You can probably find one manufacturer who'd back off on lobbying in exchange for Google's business.
Yes, the headlines saying "humans" are just dumb. They're probably talking about species like Australopithecus which are far from being humans. They evolved a pelvis that enabled them to walk upright, but their brains were 35% the size of a human brain.
True. Given the limited supply of early 360s, Microsoft could've gotten away with charging that much too, but not since production finally caught up a few months ago. Unfortunately for Sony, I don't think they can afford to cut prices that soon with that expensive Bluray drive.
"1) Secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe
Put agents *actually* in the field at risk, puts Europeans at risk in the event that terrorists attempt a rescue or kidnap locals to coerce the local government to release prisoners, put American service members and civilians at risk by interfering with interrogations (torture not required) involving time sensitive information."
The secret prisons were never disclosed with enough specificity to endanger any operations. All we know are former military bases in two Eastern European countries. In any case they would likely be heavily-guarded, hard targets. The chance of a terrorist commando raid to bust out their buddies is approximately zero. The chance of terrorist kidnapping local civilians to ransom for their buddies is also approximately zero. The governments of those two Eastern European countries have no leverage with the US to negotiate a release, and the CIA is unpopular enough as it is in Europe.
BTW the ticking timebomb scenario that you imply by "time sensitive information" is a load of crap. Most of the high-value targets were captured in 2002. Not going to get much fresh info out of them this year. The Wall Street terror alert of Oct 2004 was based on 4 year old pictures, basically pre-9/11 target recon.
We had a ballot initiative to expand the DNA database of felony suspects to include anyone arrested. The previous law only required samples from the ones convicted. It passed with 62% voting yes. Voters are dumb. You can't lose if you sell something as tough on crime. BTW the California law requires a cheek swab, no blood sample.
If you want a greater evil, it's coal. It's by far the most widely used fuel for electrical generation in the US, and it's more evil than poking kittens. Coal can almost be considered a default choice for electricity because it's cheap, plentiful, and most environmental costs are externalized.
They play it? Remember this is Customs, so they can search whatever they want.
from the MPAA press release:
You nailed it there. Like the PS2, the PS3 has a very short window where it might be useful as a movie player. On one side, HD-DVD and Bluray media are very early in the adoption curve even by November '06. On the other side, standalone players will get more affordable over time. By the time they hit $200, nobody will care about playing HD movies on a PS3.
The chemical energy of the battery is stored in the anodes and cathodes which are usually solids, not in the electrolyte, which can be liquid.