Where is the controversy? If someone says the earth is the center of the universe, either they are dumb, or very conceited and really mean they are the center of the universe, but don't want to offend the rest of us. Oh wait, I get it now...
Relativity actually says that the Earth is in fact the centre of the universe, from Earth's perspective. It's exactly age of universe times speed of light from the borders of the Universe. That does not mean that Earth is special, however. The same is true for any other place in the universe.
Trouble with this is the carriers won't be able to run national ads with their pricing. Instead the price will have to be concealed until you're about to sign up. Some states (Nevada) you pay around 7%, whereas others (I think NY?) it's 25%. I'm still trying to figure out why the government finds it necessary to make a cell phone so expensive to have, even if your income is shit.
They could still run nationwide ads with the net price but quote the correct amount before you sign up.
Roll a dice. Each of the outcomes only has a probability of 16.p6 % (assuming a fair d6), which is fairly unlikely. Yet, there's a 100 % probability that you will obtain one of these unlikely results.
The Pirate Bay does not host any content but just links to content hosted elsewhere. It does not make the content available to a new public.
The content hosted elsewhere is not readily accessible to the public without the torrents (or "deep" links). By hosting torrents (or "deep" links), the Pirate Bay enables the public to access the content. Thus, the Pirate Bay does make the content available to a new public.
The Pirate Bay helps seeders to make the content available to the public. They are an accessory to the copyright infringement of others.
Well the target problem happened because someone managed to install skimming software on all of the computers. If the security of your checkout system is compromised then can't you just skim the pin number instead of trying to forge the signature?
The card terminal (with card reader and PIN entry) is usually a separate unit that is audited against security requirements of the financial institutions. While that does not mean it can't be hacked at all, it makes hacking much harder.
Why the hell would they switch to a pin system, rather than adding it as a second factor? The signature is useful for forensic analysis of the fraud after the fact.
Ignoring the fact that you didn't read or understand the ruling, typical EULAs have to be accepted for the purchase to be completed. Assuming you go to a store the order is either: You hand over the money. You get the DVD. You start the installer. You read and accept the EULA. The contract is done.
No, not according to German law. German law basically interprets clicking "I accept" as "F*** you, I just want to use the software I already paid for".
Licenseing is explicitly handled differently, but it has to be clearly noticeable that the underlying contract is a licensing contract and not a sales contract.
In the European Union, if you "buy" a software license online, it is not handled differently. According to the Court of Justice of the EU, the "the downloading of a copy of a computer program and the conclusion of a user licence agreement for that copy form an indivisible whole" (Judgement of 3 July 2012, C128/11, para. 44).
You can transfer domains to a different registrar.
Except, of course, if your previous registrar refuses the transfer-out due to outstanding payments - e.g. the payments for the $1850 service of which you did not opt out.
It should tell you something when mearly going to a website and viewing something can make you a criminal. It's not like torrenting where you can argue that by downloading, you're also uploading to others; they just went to a site and pressed play.
German courts kann tell the difference. No joking, that's what happened.
How is that different from hosting a web forum where anyone can post content.
If I post illegal content here, should Slashdot become liable because it "accepted the contribution and started spreading the [content] itsself"? Shouldn't Slashdot stop spreading "just anyone's" content "without verification"? Even worse, Slashdot allows posting as "Anyonymous Coward", and thereby facilitates such abuse.
I don't think that being able to upgrade really matters. In fact, even if you can upgrade, you will soon run into barriers.
I've upgraded my 2007 MacBook Pro to a 500 GB SSD and 6 GB RAM. The CPU and GPU or everything else can't be upgraded.
So where is a Retina MacBook Pro worse with respect to upgradeability? The SSD can also be swapped - and it's probably much easier than swapping the SSD on a 2007 MacBook Pro, which has the disk deep inside. Well, the RAM cannot be upgraded on the new model... but wait, I can't go beyond 6 GB on the old one, either (actually, it's already above the official 4GB limit). So if I order a Retina MacBook Pro with the maximum RAM, it does not make a difference at the end of the day.
That indicates to me that the US rules are in effect for the US, even if the work was copyrighted outside the US.
"Copyrighted outside the US" is nonsense. That's not how copyright law works. In fact, every work is copyrighted in every country according to the laws of that country. Even if a work was created in the UK, it is copyrightet under UK law, US law... and the law of any other country that has the concept of copyright.
Thus, if the doctor becomes PD in the UK, that only means that it is PD with respect to uses (such as copying) performed in the UK. If it's not PD in the US at the same time, then you infringe on US copyright laws if you do the same in the US.
"Negotiate" is a loose term - really it's just some fixed resistances across the data pins that set USB charging mode. This can be built into the plug without any extra copper in the cable.
For dump power supplies, it's "just some fixed resistances" between data pins. That's a shortcut for chargers that don't want to implement the USB protocol. Computers, however, do use the data lines for the intended purpose. With computers, the amount of power that can be drawn is negotiated between the computer and the devices.
A culture where people follow rules religiously helps. You won't find a German jaywalking. You won't even find a German crossing the road in the middle of the night when no one is around if at the crosswalk the man is red.
I was passing a huge truck that was driving slowly on a two-lane road. I was executing a proper high-speed pass on the other side of the road. In order to pass the truck going 50 in a 70 zone, I needed to drive faster than him. The faster I drive, the less time I spend in on-coming traffic on the wrong side of the road. I needed to drive 90 to pass the very long truck in under two miles. But my car refused to go more than 70. So it took me four miles pass him.
If you can't savely overtake without exceeding the speed limit, you must not.
Fukushima is a fairly large province in which the nuclear power plants are located. The larger part of the province - including the city of Fukushima - has not been evacuated.
That does not help if you don't log out. In this case, the stolen cookie remains valid until the thief lets it expire by no longer using it.
The only way to make this attack impossible is to provide the user with an overview of all valid cookies and an option to log out some or all of them. As an alternative (or better: in addition), all remembered logins should expire after a reasonable time (e.g. a month) on the server side and without an option to renew them without entering the password.
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Which assumes there's still someone around releasing updates
What about an EOL date that's calculated from the date of the last update?
No update for 12 months = EOL.
Where is the controversy? If someone says the earth is the center of the universe, either they are dumb, or very conceited and really mean they are the center of the universe, but don't want to offend the rest of us. Oh wait, I get it now...
Relativity actually says that the Earth is in fact the centre of the universe, from Earth's perspective. It's exactly age of universe times speed of light from the borders of the Universe. That does not mean that Earth is special, however. The same is true for any other place in the universe.
Darwin is right.
So it's just a tale of one woman being bitchy to another.
That's a sexist remark, you know?
Trouble with this is the carriers won't be able to run national ads with their pricing. Instead the price will have to be concealed until you're about to sign up. Some states (Nevada) you pay around 7%, whereas others (I think NY?) it's 25%. I'm still trying to figure out why the government finds it necessary to make a cell phone so expensive to have, even if your income is shit.
They could still run nationwide ads with the net price but quote the correct amount before you sign up.
Roll a dice. Each of the outcomes only has a probability of 16.p6 % (assuming a fair d6), which is fairly unlikely. Yet, there's a 100 % probability that you will obtain one of these unlikely results.
IMO, you can argue either way:
Well the target problem happened because someone managed to install skimming software on all of the computers. If the security of your checkout system is compromised then can't you just skim the pin number instead of trying to forge the signature?
The card terminal (with card reader and PIN entry) is usually a separate unit that is audited against security requirements of the financial institutions. While that does not mean it can't be hacked at all, it makes hacking much harder.
Why the hell would they switch to a pin system, rather than adding it as a second factor? The signature is useful for forensic analysis of the fraud after the fact.
Is it? Really?
Do the Germans have a single, very long, really angry-sounding, word for 'this software is licensed, not sold'? Inquiring minds want to know.
Kaufvertrag!
Yes, that just means "sales contract". Because the 'this software is licensed, not sold' meme does not work under German law.
Ignoring the fact that you didn't read or understand the ruling, typical EULAs have to be accepted for the purchase to be completed. Assuming you go to a store the order is either: You hand over the money. You get the DVD. You start the installer. You read and accept the EULA. The contract is done.
No, not according to German law. German law basically interprets clicking "I accept" as "F*** you, I just want to use the software I already paid for".
Licenseing is explicitly handled differently, but it has to be clearly noticeable that the underlying contract is a licensing contract and not a sales contract.
In the European Union, if you "buy" a software license online, it is not handled differently. According to the Court of Justice of the EU, the "the downloading of a copy of a computer program and the conclusion of a user licence agreement for that copy form an indivisible whole" (Judgement of 3 July 2012, C128/11, para. 44).
You can transfer domains to a different registrar.
Except, of course, if your previous registrar refuses the transfer-out due to outstanding payments - e.g. the payments for the $1850 service of which you did not opt out.
It should tell you something when mearly going to a website and viewing something can make you a criminal. It's not like torrenting where you can argue that by downloading, you're also uploading to others; they just went to a site and pressed play.
German courts kann tell the difference. No joking, that's what happened.
How is that different from hosting a web forum where anyone can post content.
If I post illegal content here, should Slashdot become liable because it "accepted the contribution and started spreading the [content] itsself"? Shouldn't Slashdot stop spreading "just anyone's" content "without verification"?
Even worse, Slashdot allows posting as "Anyonymous Coward", and thereby facilitates such abuse.
I don't think that being able to upgrade really matters. In fact, even if you can upgrade, you will soon run into barriers.
I've upgraded my 2007 MacBook Pro to a 500 GB SSD and 6 GB RAM. The CPU and GPU or everything else can't be upgraded.
So where is a Retina MacBook Pro worse with respect to upgradeability? The SSD can also be swapped - and it's probably much easier than swapping the SSD on a 2007 MacBook Pro, which has the disk deep inside. Well, the RAM cannot be upgraded on the new model... but wait, I can't go beyond 6 GB on the old one, either (actually, it's already above the official 4GB limit). So if I order a Retina MacBook Pro with the maximum RAM, it does not make a difference at the end of the day.
That indicates to me that the US rules are in effect for the US, even if the work was copyrighted outside the US.
"Copyrighted outside the US" is nonsense. That's not how copyright law works. In fact, every work is copyrighted in every country according to the laws of that country. Even if a work was created in the UK, it is copyrightet under UK law, US law ... and the law of any other country that has the concept of copyright.
Thus, if the doctor becomes PD in the UK, that only means that it is PD with respect to uses (such as copying) performed in the UK. If it's not PD in the US at the same time, then you infringe on US copyright laws if you do the same in the US.
"Negotiate" is a loose term - really it's just some fixed resistances across the data pins that set USB charging mode. This can be built into the plug without any extra copper in the cable.
For dump power supplies, it's "just some fixed resistances" between data pins. That's a shortcut for chargers that don't want to implement the USB protocol.
Computers, however, do use the data lines for the intended purpose. With computers, the amount of power that can be drawn is negotiated between the computer and the devices.
Wrong, UK Motorways have a lower death rate.
http://www.abd.org.uk/safest_roads.htm
Seriously, two seconds on google.
Please don't disturbe his religious beliefs with facts.
A culture where people follow rules religiously helps. You won't find a German jaywalking. You won't even find a German crossing the road in the middle of the night when no one is around if at the crosswalk the man is red.
Are you trying to be funny?
I was passing a huge truck that was driving slowly on a two-lane road. I was executing a proper high-speed pass on the other side of the road. In order to pass the truck going 50 in a 70 zone, I needed to drive faster than him. The faster I drive, the less time I spend in on-coming traffic on the wrong side of the road. I needed to drive 90 to pass the very long truck in under two miles. But my car refused to go more than 70. So it took me four miles pass him.
If you can't savely overtake without exceeding the speed limit, you must not.
That is the perfect example of an ad hominem attack. Point out why their research is flawed,
He did:
Like all nuclear spin stories, it assumes that no nuclear accidents happen. Count in chernobyl and Fukusima and you get a different story, ...
Actually...
Fukushima is a fairly large province in which the nuclear power plants are located. The larger part of the province - including the city of Fukushima - has not been evacuated.
No no no, you don't understand. That 100% rate just proves how good and trustworthy the whole secret system is!
There is actually some truth in that statement.
A 100% (or near 100%) rate can have two reasons:
Actually, its "several millions" in Germany alone. The worldwide estimate is more like half a billion, according to this Golem.de article (in German).
That does not help if you don't log out. In this case, the stolen cookie remains valid until the thief lets it expire by no longer using it.
The only way to make this attack impossible is to provide the user with an overview of all valid cookies and an option to log out some or all of them. As an alternative (or better: in addition), all remembered logins should expire after a reasonable time (e.g. a month) on the server side and without an option to renew them without entering the password.