Hymn changes your protected.m4p files to unencrypted AAC (.m4a) files, the same files that would be produced if you ripped a CD with iTunes. Unless new iPod firmware revisions prevent you from playing music that you ripped from CD, that front is pretty safe. A more realistic problem is that Apple changes the FairPlay encryption, but they've already done that once and Hymn caught up almost overnight.
I could see a password of substantial length made of a phrase. Say, 64+ characters, changed every two weeks might be fine. Especially if you have a well-read workforce, which might enjoy making note of significant passages.
Makes things even easier for crackers, just brute force passages from 1984 and you could crack everyone's new Slashdot password.
I still think you're trying to justify a personal morality issue through some absolute system of ethics that we all agree on and abide by. Personally I think hitting the cat would have been the lesser of two negatives, but to each his own.
You make a good point, but here's a few more things to consider that many people forget to figure in the equation.
* These can never be cheaper than plain glass, because no matter how far the price drops you can always build the same thing minus the solar collector and get it even cheaper
* When you spend more money to save in the long run, you are judging a present value versus multiple future values. To get an accurate number you need to take the initial price difference of the inefficient model and the efficient model, invest that at a given rate, and calculate the compound interest each year until the year that the efficient model would supposedly "pay itself off". Then take the cost savings each investment period from the more efficient model, and invest that in to a growing account at the same rate and figure out the compound interest on that for the same period. Graph it out in Excel and you might be surprised at the results, and think twice when someone tries to sell you something that will "pay itself off in x years".
One thing you've glazed over is the definition of morality. If you know for a fact that the stock prices of companies involved with prisons are going to go up, aren't you morally obligated to your family and yourself to invest in that company? Just like a company frivolously spending money is an immoral act that hurts shareholders, throwing away your own money by not making the smart investment could also be seen as an immoral act. The welfare and livelihood of potential inmates is a concern, but some people would argue that your family and your own well being would come before them.
You can, but since this would only be applicable to Windows where a binary is provided. Most distributions or individuals compile their own under Linux, and the architecture-specific compiling would make binary diffs impossible. It seems like the Mozilla team tries to find solutions that will work across all platforms for the most part.
No, you are mixing up cause and effect. Investing money in to companies or sectors that benefit from an increase in inmates does not cause more people to be thrown in jail. It just means you are able to recognize future trends and benefit from them.
This won't suffice as a full method of communication like calling someone up or sending someone an e-mail, because the two parties have to establish when the message is going to be sent, where it will be sent to, and how the recipient will pick up and decode the message. If that was done over a tapped VoIP line the fact that you encrypted and attempted to hide the payload is kind of beside the point.
You can't tell the difference between a well rebuilt transmission and a poorly rebuilt one? That's too bad. A good transmission is what you get when you take someone genuinely skilled in the art of Automotive Repair and a depth of knowledge in the problem domain and the tools to be used.
A bad transmission rebuild, on the other hand, is what you get when you give "Auto Repair For Dummies" to a physicist. The result may "work" for certain values of work, but the transmission will ultimately be unmaintainable, short-lived, not performance tuned, and generally very crappy.
It's similar to if I have a degree in Automotive Repair, and I go out and design a building. It may function (and even remain upright for a few years), but the design will ultimately fail, because I lack the deep skills necessary to do a good job.
Whenever I install a new system one of the packages I always emerge is mplayerplug-in. The latest releases have been great, and bring browser-embedded video playing in Linux at least up to par with the options in Windows, if not better. http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
The "big bad pharmaceutical companies" mentions have nothing to do with engineering viruses, I think you brought that one in to the thread. My problem with many of the drug companies is they insist on having all these special government protections (10 year patent lengths, ban free market competition across borders), then they go in to a third world country and dominate the market. Hypocrisy?
Excellent timing of this; the Spokesman Review had an article a few days ago about how grocery store names in Washington state who got shipped potentially bad meat from the Mad Cow epidemic are being withheld, and the newspapers were denied their information requests on some obscure grounds. I'd say the website attacks are being treated like any similar situation.
I'd put Webmin on my #1 list for best Linux admin tools. phpmysql is probably second (or the postgresql equivalent), and all the necessary toolkit apps like nmap, ethereal, netcat, etc.
The SEC isn't the only one who looks at a companies' books. Potential investors may want to see books that adhere to GAAP, and for start-ups we're not talking about "quite as profitable", we're talking about the difference between being in the black and red by a huge margin. Now a savvy investor would be able to look at the effect of the options expensing and understand this, but not every venture capitalist is a CPA/MBA.
Agreed. One of the best ways for a small company to offer performance based incentives is through options, and if you force businesses to start making wild guesses about the expense of the options you will see less and less managers and team leaders getting options, and back to the old "who cares how well you perform, here's a flat salary" method.
Actually options are a way of equity financing, not debt financing. The only debt incurred by offering options is what you paid to purchase them off the open market and move them to the reserves. Options are only an opportunity cost, and that's if your stock price rises.
Black-Scholes assumes the options are traded on an open market, which usually isn't the case for options offered to employees.
I agree that the full value of options shouldn't be expensed, where else in accounting are opportunity costs expensed out? Though I do think the original purchase of the stock for options needs to be recognized.
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Yes. An appointed CEO who can be ousted, and a board of directors that is elected by shareholders with voting stock.
Hymn changes your protected .m4p files to unencrypted AAC (.m4a) files, the same files that would be produced if you ripped a CD with iTunes. Unless new iPod firmware revisions prevent you from playing music that you ripped from CD, that front is pretty safe. A more realistic problem is that Apple changes the FairPlay encryption, but they've already done that once and Hymn caught up almost overnight.
That's why I only started using iTunes after Hymn came out.
http://hymn-project.org/
So, anyone who is going to pirate this make sure to scramble those bytes, or just unpack the tgz then repackage it.
The pirates are slowed down for about 8 seconds while many legitimate customers are screwed over. Thanks Transgaming!
She's in charge of marketing the idea to you and me, that doesn't mean she designed the system.
I could see a password of substantial length made of a phrase. Say, 64+ characters, changed every two weeks might be fine. Especially if you have a well-read workforce, which might enjoy making note of significant passages.
Makes things even easier for crackers, just brute force passages from 1984 and you could crack everyone's new Slashdot password.
I still think you're trying to justify a personal morality issue through some absolute system of ethics that we all agree on and abide by. Personally I think hitting the cat would have been the lesser of two negatives, but to each his own.
You make a good point, but here's a few more things to consider that many people forget to figure in the equation.
* These can never be cheaper than plain glass, because no matter how far the price drops you can always build the same thing minus the solar collector and get it even cheaper
* When you spend more money to save in the long run, you are judging a present value versus multiple future values. To get an accurate number you need to take the initial price difference of the inefficient model and the efficient model, invest that at a given rate, and calculate the compound interest each year until the year that the efficient model would supposedly "pay itself off". Then take the cost savings each investment period from the more efficient model, and invest that in to a growing account at the same rate and figure out the compound interest on that for the same period. Graph it out in Excel and you might be surprised at the results, and think twice when someone tries to sell you something that will "pay itself off in x years".
One thing you've glazed over is the definition of morality. If you know for a fact that the stock prices of companies involved with prisons are going to go up, aren't you morally obligated to your family and yourself to invest in that company? Just like a company frivolously spending money is an immoral act that hurts shareholders, throwing away your own money by not making the smart investment could also be seen as an immoral act. The welfare and livelihood of potential inmates is a concern, but some people would argue that your family and your own well being would come before them.
You can, but since this would only be applicable to Windows where a binary is provided. Most distributions or individuals compile their own under Linux, and the architecture-specific compiling would make binary diffs impossible. It seems like the Mozilla team tries to find solutions that will work across all platforms for the most part.
No, you are mixing up cause and effect. Investing money in to companies or sectors that benefit from an increase in inmates does not cause more people to be thrown in jail. It just means you are able to recognize future trends and benefit from them.
Neither will the recipient.
This won't suffice as a full method of communication like calling someone up or sending someone an e-mail, because the two parties have to establish when the message is going to be sent, where it will be sent to, and how the recipient will pick up and decode the message. If that was done over a tapped VoIP line the fact that you encrypted and attempted to hide the payload is kind of beside the point.
You can't tell the difference between a well rebuilt transmission and a poorly rebuilt one? That's too bad. A good transmission is what you get when you take someone genuinely skilled in the art of Automotive Repair and a depth of knowledge in the problem domain and the tools to be used.
A bad transmission rebuild, on the other hand, is what you get when you give "Auto Repair For Dummies" to a physicist. The result may "work" for certain values of work, but the transmission will ultimately be unmaintainable, short-lived, not performance tuned, and generally very crappy.
It's similar to if I have a degree in Automotive Repair, and I go out and design a building. It may function (and even remain upright for a few years), but the design will ultimately fail, because I lack the deep skills necessary to do a good job.
Whenever I install a new system one of the packages I always emerge is mplayerplug-in. The latest releases have been great, and bring browser-embedded video playing in Linux at least up to par with the options in Windows, if not better. http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
Does this mean I'll have to mod my cellphone to add water-chilling as well? I wonder what Doom 3 will look like on the cellphone display...
The "big bad pharmaceutical companies" mentions have nothing to do with engineering viruses, I think you brought that one in to the thread. My problem with many of the drug companies is they insist on having all these special government protections (10 year patent lengths, ban free market competition across borders), then they go in to a third world country and dominate the market. Hypocrisy?
Rain on my parade will ya!!!
Excellent timing of this; the Spokesman Review had an article a few days ago about how grocery store names in Washington state who got shipped potentially bad meat from the Mad Cow epidemic are being withheld, and the newspapers were denied their information requests on some obscure grounds. I'd say the website attacks are being treated like any similar situation.
I'd put Webmin on my #1 list for best Linux admin tools. phpmysql is probably second (or the postgresql equivalent), and all the necessary toolkit apps like nmap, ethereal, netcat, etc.
The SEC isn't the only one who looks at a companies' books. Potential investors may want to see books that adhere to GAAP, and for start-ups we're not talking about "quite as profitable", we're talking about the difference between being in the black and red by a huge margin. Now a savvy investor would be able to look at the effect of the options expensing and understand this, but not every venture capitalist is a CPA/MBA.
Agreed. One of the best ways for a small company to offer performance based incentives is through options, and if you force businesses to start making wild guesses about the expense of the options you will see less and less managers and team leaders getting options, and back to the old "who cares how well you perform, here's a flat salary" method.
Actually options are a way of equity financing, not debt financing. The only debt incurred by offering options is what you paid to purchase them off the open market and move them to the reserves. Options are only an opportunity cost, and that's if your stock price rises.
Black-Scholes assumes the options are traded on an open market, which usually isn't the case for options offered to employees.
I agree that the full value of options shouldn't be expensed, where else in accounting are opportunity costs expensed out? Though I do think the original purchase of the stock for options needs to be recognized.
Where did it open Wednesday? I know there was a limited screening in New York a day or two early, but the national opening day was Friday June 25th.
It's good to know in the future we won't have to worry about programmer/designer complications like accessibility for people with disabilities.