The British government taxes profits made by gambling companies [this is additional to normal tax] - not the actual bets themselves. As a result there is no reason to locate the sites offshore.
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I disagree. Why should service providers have to pay to protect their data from stealing? It's like saying that I'm responsible for not using a more solid door lock if someone is breaking into my house.
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If you don't want me to view it, don't beam it into my house.
Install Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4/5, that'll almost certainly crash it with a solid 50/50 chance that the hard disk recovery software will convert your hard disk into one that needs recovering.
So, in my company, the box[es] that do RADIUS authentication aren't servers then?
We glued two old desktops together, installed linux + radiusd on both of them and wrote some easy admin tools. Then we deployed them. We're aiming to get automatic failover going between them too. Radius is mission critcal to us.
Why are these machines not servers, and why would it have been more cost effective for us to have bought two new machines to do this?
We've got three linux servers here. They were all shipped with NT Server, but P100-200 machines are a bit slow for that now. They're only doing small stuff, a little webserving, RADIUS, quake serving, some log file processing and a few other automated tasks, but we only ever bought NT Server for them.
We're vaguely thinking about a support contract to cover the day when the knowledgable person is out the office [me], especially as they don't cost much compared to NT Server.
I did that too, the internet was *damn* helpful since C60 had only been discovered about a year before there was virtually no information on it outside the major university libraries - which in my case was a 30 mile drive and a real hassle to get any info atall. God knows how people in Scotland did it.
I used the internet as a source and I got a stunning mark for it, not because I copied it but because it was a high quality reference source with real uptodate information that wasn't available to anyone outside of a major university.
The speed of light is relevant if you wish to play transcontinental games. From Camridge (UK) to West Coast USA it's something like 7000 miles - a 14000mile round trip which brings with it around 80msec of latency - that's over half your 150msec ping eaten already and makes a 100msec ping nothing more than a dream.
I can see the flicker on a TV[1] and in the cinema even when looking straight at the screen - most people can only see if from the corner of their eye.
I put it down to the fact I don't own a TV, and rarely use a screen with a refresh less than 85Hz. I suspect that you have to train your eyes / brain not to see the flicker in a TV, but for most of us this was done before we were aware that the flickered so we've never really been aware of it.
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Let's say I write a windows printer driver and GPL it. Using your logic, MS Word would have to be GPL'd, because word could use my printer driver.
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No, false.
The GPL states that a version of Word that *shipped* with your printer driver as part of Word then Word would have to be GPL'd.
Including your printer driver as a part of Word and advertising it as a program that prints to your printer is a violation. The decision to use the driver is made by the software company.
A different case is
Word ships, on the CD is an optional GPL'd program that will install the printer driver for your printer. Then your printer driver is not required for Word's operation and hence Word isn't a derivative product.
Word would be advertised as a program that can print to compatible drivers, drivers for some printers are included on the CD as seperate programs. The decision to use the driver is made by the user.
However, whats going on here is it's been packaged as the second case (after several attempts) but advertised as the infringing first case.
You should treat all data from the client as untrusted - you should store the entire game-state on the server and only send display information to the client. Then, no matter how badly the client is hacked, they can never do more than display additional information [e.g. transparent walls hack].
Re:The economic argument is pure sophistry.
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The difference in software is that all people who are capable of making use of the software are capable of duplicating it for free. This is not true for clothing or beer but it is for fire.
I'm a part time sound engineer in a small venue, we have about 1 gig per week and we routinely record them [unless asked not to]. From a single live recording we generally produce
5-10 copies of the Gig [1-2 CDs each] for use by the band members to improve future performances.
If some songs have come out well we then produce
10-100 copies of the best songs of the Gig for promotional & sale use.
Buying CD's in Jewel cases it works out at around $1.50 per disc to produce once you factor in the cost of high quality blanks, CD writers, hard disks & duds. [A CD writer lasts me between 100 - 1000 burns before it starts to get flaky].
This is all done on a 16 speed writer with better than average quality media for reliability.
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Not that that happens often with me. Within a year of working there, I've had 2 job offers, one invite to a woman's house boat, and 3 gifts mailed to me. But, hey, I guess I'm the exception.
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This is why there is noone good in tech support. If someone actually gives a series of helpful answers sooner or later one of the clients will offer them a job since competent people are so hard to find.
My advice would be take the other job.
I would like to say that your description squares with my Dell tech support experience - to get a monitor replaced we ended up using mutliple phones in rotation and always asking for the same person who quickly got pissed off that every call was about the same query. Monitor arrived early the next day though:)
Here is the source code for a program I wrote. It's a shame that it's a bunch of meaningless non-expressive symbols.
------- BEGIN CODE -----------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$notlibel = endofrant;
The MPAA are child pornographers. They rape innoncent children, including their own offspring. They secretly hoard chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
endofrant
;
if ($notlibel) {
print "We thing the MPAA are great";
}
--------- END CODE -----------
I'm a reasonable pianist and I buy sheet music from time to time. However, if there is only one song in the book I'll simply pick it up off the shelf, play it on a piano there and go home. I can usually remember most of the song.
I didn't say you used a match to light the cigarette.
You may have lit it off another cigarette, another random burning source. The point is that the cost of duplicating fire is zero - just like IP. If duplicating fire doesn't steal off the bloke who creates matches how come duplicating a random piece of IP steals off an IP creator?
My point is, stealing is absolutely the wrong term for this.
Of course this loses the spirit of the competition [design a universal compressor which is clearly impossible] but wins the other competition of 'how do I make the arrogant prick look like a fool'
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You will therefore find a match, ON AVERAGE, at a distance of about 2^99 bits into PI
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And hence *on average* you win the competition.
In n entries you will win n/2 times and lose n/2 times - admittedly you will tend to expand the data - the amount the data expands on average in the losing cases is greater than the average saving in the winning cases. However, that doesn't matter here. Providing we can shrink the data in better than 1 in every 50 attempts we will end up making a profit.
If the guy wanted to have a winning money source he should have made the prize $199.
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The British government taxes profits made by gambling companies [this is additional to normal tax] - not the actual bets themselves. As a result there is no reason to locate the sites offshore.
I think it's a difference between active and inactive piracy.
I modify a box to not pay -> I've circumvented their system for gain -> bad
They are giving me stuff I didn't pay for -> That's their own bloody fault -> ok
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I disagree. Why should service providers have to pay to protect their data from stealing? It's like saying that I'm responsible for not using a more solid door lock if someone is breaking into my house.
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If you don't want me to view it, don't beam it into my house.
The point is nothing can propogate faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
The vacuum bit is quite important.
Easy to crash it,
Install Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4/5, that'll almost certainly crash it with a solid 50/50 chance that the hard disk recovery software will convert your hard disk into one that needs recovering.
So you've proved that violent people watch more violent movies more than non violent people.
How precisely does this demonstrate that violent movies cause violence in the viewer?
So, in my company, the box[es] that do RADIUS authentication aren't servers then?
We glued two old desktops together, installed linux + radiusd on both of them and wrote some easy admin tools. Then we deployed them. We're aiming to get automatic failover going between them too. Radius is mission critcal to us.
Why are these machines not servers, and why would it have been more cost effective for us to have bought two new machines to do this?
We've got three linux servers here. They were all shipped with NT Server, but P100-200 machines are a bit slow for that now. They're only doing small stuff, a little webserving, RADIUS, quake serving, some log file processing and a few other automated tasks, but we only ever bought NT Server for them.
We're vaguely thinking about a support contract to cover the day when the knowledgable person is out the office [me], especially as they don't cost much compared to NT Server.
But it does
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If you didn't want hyperlinked documents why are you on the web with a browser?
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If you didn't want spam, why do you accept email?
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That was analog recording at its finest...
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No it's not, it's digital copying with n representations per digit rather than 2 like binary.
Analog copying would be a photocopier, it's possible that the millionth hand copied book could be identical to the first.
Salters A Level Chemistry Paper 3?
I did that too, the internet was *damn* helpful since C60 had only been discovered about a year before there was virtually no information on it outside the major university libraries - which in my case was a 30 mile drive and a real hassle to get any info atall. God knows how people in Scotland did it.
I used the internet as a source and I got a stunning mark for it, not because I copied it but because it was a high quality reference source with real uptodate information that wasn't available to anyone outside of a major university.
The speed of light is relevant if you wish to play transcontinental games. From Camridge (UK) to West Coast USA it's something like 7000 miles - a 14000mile round trip which brings with it around 80msec of latency - that's over half your 150msec ping eaten already and makes a 100msec ping nothing more than a dream.
I can see the flicker on a TV[1] and in the cinema even when looking straight at the screen - most people can only see if from the corner of their eye.
I put it down to the fact I don't own a TV, and rarely use a screen with a refresh less than 85Hz. I suspect that you have to train your eyes / brain not to see the flicker in a TV, but for most of us this was done before we were aware that the flickered so we've never really been aware of it.
[1] Except on my friends 100Hz TV which is fine.
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Let's say I write a windows printer driver and GPL it. Using your logic, MS Word would have to be GPL'd, because word could use my printer driver.
"
No, false.
The GPL states that a version of Word that *shipped* with your printer driver as part of Word then Word would have to be GPL'd.
Including your printer driver as a part of Word and advertising it as a program that prints to your printer is a violation. The decision to use the driver is made by the software company.
A different case is
Word ships, on the CD is an optional GPL'd program that will install the printer driver for your printer. Then your printer driver is not required for Word's operation and hence Word isn't a derivative product.
Word would be advertised as a program that can print to compatible drivers, drivers for some printers are included on the CD as seperate programs. The decision to use the driver is made by the user.
However, whats going on here is it's been packaged as the second case (after several attempts) but advertised as the infringing first case.
Don't trust the client.
You should treat all data from the client as untrusted - you should store the entire game-state on the server and only send display information to the client. Then, no matter how badly the client is hacked, they can never do more than display additional information [e.g. transparent walls hack].
The difference in software is that all people who are capable of making use of the software are capable of duplicating it for free. This is not true for clothing or beer but it is for fire.
Why?
I thought it was to categorize it as a home computer and avoid a games machine tax in some parts of the world knocking about 2% off Sony's costs.
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I didn't break in! I walked through the guys back door which he forgot to close.
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If you come and park a tractor on my front lawn - which is not locked - is it tresspass?
Burn copies of Live Concerts.
I'm a part time sound engineer in a small venue, we have about 1 gig per week and we routinely record them [unless asked not to]. From a single live recording we generally produce
5-10 copies of the Gig [1-2 CDs each] for use by the band members to improve future performances.
If some songs have come out well we then produce
10-100 copies of the best songs of the Gig for promotional & sale use.
Buying CD's in Jewel cases it works out at around $1.50 per disc to produce once you factor in the cost of high quality blanks, CD writers, hard disks & duds. [A CD writer lasts me between 100 - 1000 burns before it starts to get flaky].
This is all done on a 16 speed writer with better than average quality media for reliability.
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:)
Not that that happens often with me. Within a year of working there, I've had 2 job offers, one invite to a woman's house boat, and 3 gifts mailed to me. But, hey, I guess I'm the exception.
"
This is why there is noone good in tech support. If someone actually gives a series of helpful answers sooner or later one of the clients will offer them a job since competent people are so hard to find.
My advice would be take the other job.
I would like to say that your description squares with my Dell tech support experience - to get a monitor replaced we ended up using mutliple phones in rotation and always asking for the same person who quickly got pissed off that every call was about the same query. Monitor arrived early the next day though
I contend that programs aren't expressive.
Hence they can't libelous or slanderous.
Here is the source code for a program I wrote. It's a shame that it's a bunch of meaningless non-expressive symbols.
------- BEGIN CODE -----------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$notlibel = endofrant;
The MPAA are child pornographers. They rape innoncent children, including their own offspring. They secretly hoard chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
endofrant
;
if ($notlibel) {
print "We thing the MPAA are great";
}
--------- END CODE -----------
I've wondered if I'll ever get sued.
I'm a reasonable pianist and I buy sheet music from time to time. However, if there is only one song in the book I'll simply pick it up off the shelf, play it on a piano there and go home. I can usually remember most of the song.
Is that a copyright violation?
I didn't say you used a match to light the cigarette.
You may have lit it off another cigarette, another random burning source. The point is that the cost of duplicating fire is zero - just like IP. If duplicating fire doesn't steal off the bloke who creates matches how come duplicating a random piece of IP steals off an IP creator?
My point is, stealing is absolutely the wrong term for this.
Ignore the last bit
Supply it at random.
50% of the time you're wrong and lose your $100
50% of the time you're right and win $5000
Of course this loses the spirit of the competition [design a universal compressor which is clearly impossible] but wins the other competition of 'how do I make the arrogant prick look like a fool'
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You will therefore find a match, ON AVERAGE, at a distance of about 2^99 bits into PI
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And hence *on average* you win the competition.
In n entries you will win n/2 times and lose n/2 times - admittedly you will tend to expand the data - the amount the data expands on average in the losing cases is greater than the average saving in the winning cases. However, that doesn't matter here. Providing we can shrink the data in better than 1 in every 50 attempts we will end up making a profit.
If the guy wanted to have a winning money source he should have made the prize $199.