I don't think, "quickly" is the right word.
Constantine made Christianity the state religion in 324 AD, and the (West) Roman Empire ceased to exist in 476. That's 150 years apart. Or to put in in perspective, it's so far apart like the Civil War from us today.
I don't see any sanity in your reasoning. Everyone knew this case was at the SCOTUS, and everyone knew that patenting something that occurs naturally was not what patent law was supposed to do. Thus the stock had been tanking already at the time when the lawsuit became known. Stocks usually move at new information, not at confirmation of old information.
It runs like this: For two years, the vendor (not the manufacturer) has to warrant that the sold object keeps running except for normal tear and wear and the usual refills. The problem is that within the two years, the buyer can misuse the object in a way which causes the object to break preliminary. Thus there arises the necessity to determine who is responsible if the sold object breaks. The law states, that within the first six month, it's assumed that the fault causing the preliminary break was already present at the time of the sale, except proved otherwise (thus the vendor has to prove that the buyer mistreated the object). Within the remaining 18 month, it is assumed that the buyer mistreated the object, thus the buyer has to prove that the object was faulty at the time of the sale.
If the responsibility of the preliminary defect is put to the vendor (either by default within the first six month, or by proof of the buyer), the sale can be reversed, thus either the vendor hands back the money, or replaces the defective object with another one. The vendor still can ask for a repair attempt, but it's up to the buyer to agree.
Apple did offer a warranty that covers some of the above mentioned cases for additional money. This is not illegal. It was illegal not to tell the customer about the rights he had anyway and to make the impression that only with the extended warranty, the customer was entitled to those rights. This was considered a "culpa in contrahendo".
So don't do business in the U.S. or in most Western countries. Those countries have something called "rule of law", because as a general rule, you always have the right to bring something to court.
And no, I would never work for or deal with a business operated by you, where I have to fear to be mistreated, betrayed or otherwise illegally dealt with because you don't want to have the Law have a say how you handle people.
Unlike imaginary slaves, many real slaves actually chosed to become slaves. There were lots of people who sold themselves into slavery to pay off depts or similar. And it's still illegal to do so.
Following the Bible, killing a slave was considered a crime. Mistreating them to dead was considered a crime too. You find similar rules in Hammurapi's Law in Babylon, so I guess, they were quite common.
It is a fact that the person in question has interned on Black Swan. What you offer is a new contract with a Non Disclosure Agreement. It might not be cheap.
In USA the internship is the only way for somebody to enter the labour force and actually learn on a job that they could not otherwise land most likely.
You are so right. An internship is for actually learning on a job. Doing grunt work and fetching coffee is not learning. It's working simple tasks. And work has to be paid.
Of course compression is possible. But that's not the point. The point is that we produce more data each day than we will ever be able to store. It's simply impossible to recreate a whole day on Earth just from the data points we have stored. We simply have not enough storage space for all those data points. There is much more "dark data" than represented by single server logs. And even those can get large quite easy. I am administering for instance some servers who control the consoles for phone attendants. If I turn the logging up to "debug", they easily produce one GByte of logfiles each day. And that's only 10 attendants working. If we monitor the whole phone switch of maybe 1000 users, it's between 10 and 15 GBytes per day, thus we do extended logging for bug hunting only with an external harddrive attached. Yes, those logfiles compress fine, factors between 10 and 25 are easy. And we don't store any contents, just the metadata. And it's a client-server-setup, we have a single instance which actually sees the metadata of all communication within its sphere (not the actual payload, but that's another aspect).
It is so easy to pose questions whose answers need really large amounts of storage. Which IP addresses were online at what point in time? To answer that, we would need a bitmap of all (used) IP addresses and all time points, where 1 means "was online at time t" and 0 "was not online". If we estimate the number of actual used IP addresses as 2^30, and we want a granularity of one second, we have 86400 x 2^30 (or about 10^9) bits per day. Of course this data is easily compressible, we might reach factors up to 100 on that. But after that we still have one terabyte of data per day just for this single and simple question. And we don't even look for communication patterns other than being on- or offline.
Or imagine a town of 10x10 miles, with about on average 10,000 cars driving around simultanously. It might be built as a road network of ten crossings per road mile, making it a 100x100 network of roads, and the average trip length being 10 miles for each car, taking 1 hr. Each car thus produces 100 datapoints per hour, if we just log the blocks it is driving along, making it 24,000,000 for a day in the town.
The DE-CIX, the largest internet exchange point in the world, passes on average 1,2 TBit/s of Internet traffic. If we log that and if we are able to compress it by a factor of 10, its logfiles would fill 10 Petabyte per day. The second largest, AMS-IX, comes close with an average of about 1 Tbit/s, another 8 Petabytes per day after compression. LINX has 0,9 Tbit/s, DataIX another 0,8 Tbit/s on average. And that's just Europe. And just public Internet peering. It doesn't account for any private peering. It doesn't account for any phone data except for VoIP links going over public exchange points. It doesn't account for any mobile provider data. It doesn't account for any data that normally would never leave local systems like billing data.
And only because people left in droves, the others started to wake up and demanded changes. When structures were starting to wither because people who kept those structures working, left, others knew that i) there are events and movements, the East German government couldn't control (anymore) ii) things definitely won't stay they way they were all the time and iii) the people themselves had to work for changes. There were situations which showed the helplessness of the East German government like the people storming the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw and the overrunning of the train stations in Dresden and Plauen and other towns where the trains from Prague to West Germany crossed East Germany, to jump into those trains. The first big demonstration that didn't get disolved by force happened on the evening of Oct 8 1989 in front of the damaged front of Dresden Hauptbahnhof (Terminal) with 12,000 people confronted by 5,000 policemen and secret forces in the wake of said trains full of fugitives, and reports of the peaceful talks between the demonstrants and the operation control of the police made it to Leipzig in the morning of Oct 9, being the ignitation of the great first Monday demonstration with 70,000 participants in Leipzig the same day.
I know what I am talking about because in our own family, we had people who left (the one brother), and people who worked for a change (the father and the other brother). Only because both kind of people existed, East Germany's ruling party was toppled.
The rules of the race card say, that whoever blames something on race is playing the race card. So whoever tells you that you can't say this about Barack H. Obama the same way than saying that about George W. Bush, because of Barack H. Obama being black, is playing the race card.
It actually worked well. When Hungary met with Austria to lower the controls at the hungarian-austrian border, so many East Germans flet, that the remaining people in Germany lost all fear against their own government, and started large demonstrations whose first slogan were "we will stay!" - and this was meant as a threat, and it was understood as a threat, causing the unravelling of East Germany.
Because some company tools are only available on Windows, especially some management software for the systems we build, I am forced to use Windows. There is even one tool to keep track of the tickets that runs only on Windows XP, thus I have to have a VMware on my company system just to fire up XP. But one of the first things to install on any fresh Windows for me is Cygwin - just to actually use Windows. rsync -av is still a backup tool that suits my needs perfectly.
(I wonder if ComWin runs on WINE, didn't try it yet.)
From a CS point of view, an user should never even touch or see the operating system. Everything is either application or shell. iOS and Android are so well received because they perfectioned this. You either are in an application, or you see the shell with the icons to choose the next app.
As they say in TFA: Calling it X12 or X20 or whatever will call in all the persons who care about X trying to meddle. Calling it Wayland will leave the others mainly uninterested, so the developer team can work on stuff.
If I drive to my brother's, I usually drive for an hour, make a 5 min stop, and then drive the next hour. This makes the 1000 km drive (ok, it's exactly 1028 km) a 8:40 h tour. here.com puts it at 8:42 h, which nicely fits my experiences. With some cars (especially some diesels) I can do the whole distance without a tank stop, otherwise I have to prolonge one stop to 10 mins for a refill - putting the trip at 8:45 h. With the Tesla S, I have to recharge every 300 km, which takes me about 40 mins each (ok, just 20 mins at the last recharge), adding another 1:40 h.
It just means, that I have to get up 1:40 h early. Or that I can drive 200 km less per day.
You still don't get me (and you don't get the gist of the post I was replying to in the first place).
Let me try to explain it again. Slowly.
And just for sh!tz and Googles, how many generations of hardware and/or software away before deep data tools will be able to provide the Government with anything they want to know about anyone they want to know it?
That's what I was talking about. It was a glimpse of a potential future, where really everything about us is stored, and not just timestamps of communication events. There is a hard limit of what can be stored about us. It's 10^91. There are no more bits storable in the whole universe. And I was trying to show how easy those 10^91 can be filled. Yes, a static image of a slashdot discussion at the point when no replys are allowed anymore gives a good account of the discussion itself, and who was replying what to whom. But that's not the whole story. That's a very small part of the story. It doesn't tell you anything about which articles I was reading, because there is no record of my readings. There is no record of which threads I was following thoroughly, and which ones I just scanned shortly. There is no record of posts I was starting, and cancelling. There is no record of the sites I was browsing for references.
I had a discussion with my son recently, where he asked me if what would happen when all possible designs for road signs are used. I told him that it is impossible to exhaust the possible space for road signs. My argument was as follows: Let road signs be designs in a 100x100 black and white pixel format. That means we have 2 to the power of 10,000 possible designs for road signs. That's about 10^3,000. If it was possible to create a version of such a road sign in a single elementary particle, we still would need 10^300 universes to just have one instance of each possible road sign design produced. Thus we will never exhaust the space of possible road signs. We can't make enough of them.
Your argument is akin to argue, that it is possible to print all currently used road signs in a single book. I know that's possible. But that's not what I was talking about.
You've obviously not really understood what I am talking about.
Most information is not stored for a long time. For instance, the current state of the stack of your browser process is not (except the browser crashes right now, and a memory dump lands on your hard drive). If we really want to know what all users all over the world are doing with their browsers at any given time, we would have to store the memory dumps of all the browsers all the time. Lets say, we want a granularity of 1 sec, and the memory footprint of the average browser is 100 MBytes. Per browser, that means 84600 * 100 MBytes per day, which amounts to 8 Terabytes per person per day, or 3 Petabyte per person per year. If we have 3 billion internet users, the memory dumps would already amount to 10^31 bytes. And that's just for a year. Currently, we can store about 10^12 byte per cubic centimeter, thus a completely dense storage of just the world's browser states for one year would take 10^19 cubic centimeters or (given we store it in silicon chips) weigh 25 trillion metric tons.
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There is now one less scumbag alive making the entire world a better place.
Making the world a better place should be punished by dead?
I don't think, "quickly" is the right word. Constantine made Christianity the state religion in 324 AD, and the (West) Roman Empire ceased to exist in 476. That's 150 years apart. Or to put in in perspective, it's so far apart like the Civil War from us today.
I don't see any sanity in your reasoning. Everyone knew this case was at the SCOTUS, and everyone knew that patenting something that occurs naturally was not what patent law was supposed to do. Thus the stock had been tanking already at the time when the lawsuit became known. Stocks usually move at new information, not at confirmation of old information.
It runs like this: For two years, the vendor (not the manufacturer) has to warrant that the sold object keeps running except for normal tear and wear and the usual refills. The problem is that within the two years, the buyer can misuse the object in a way which causes the object to break preliminary. Thus there arises the necessity to determine who is responsible if the sold object breaks. The law states, that within the first six month, it's assumed that the fault causing the preliminary break was already present at the time of the sale, except proved otherwise (thus the vendor has to prove that the buyer mistreated the object). Within the remaining 18 month, it is assumed that the buyer mistreated the object, thus the buyer has to prove that the object was faulty at the time of the sale.
If the responsibility of the preliminary defect is put to the vendor (either by default within the first six month, or by proof of the buyer), the sale can be reversed, thus either the vendor hands back the money, or replaces the defective object with another one. The vendor still can ask for a repair attempt, but it's up to the buyer to agree.
Apple did offer a warranty that covers some of the above mentioned cases for additional money. This is not illegal. It was illegal not to tell the customer about the rights he had anyway and to make the impression that only with the extended warranty, the customer was entitled to those rights. This was considered a "culpa in contrahendo".
No. The parliament is the Legislative branch, the government is the Executive branch.
And no, I would never work for or deal with a business operated by you, where I have to fear to be mistreated, betrayed or otherwise illegally dealt with because you don't want to have the Law have a say how you handle people.
Unlike imaginary slaves, many real slaves actually chosed to become slaves. There were lots of people who sold themselves into slavery to pay off depts or similar. And it's still illegal to do so.
Following the Bible, killing a slave was considered a crime. Mistreating them to dead was considered a crime too. You find similar rules in Hammurapi's Law in Babylon, so I guess, they were quite common.
Yes. It's called tax evasion. If a for-profit business gets something of value (like unpaid work), it has to pay taxes on it.
It is a fact that the person in question has interned on Black Swan. What you offer is a new contract with a Non Disclosure Agreement. It might not be cheap.
In USA the internship is the only way for somebody to enter the labour force and actually learn on a job that they could not otherwise land most likely.
You are so right. An internship is for actually learning on a job. Doing grunt work and fetching coffee is not learning. It's working simple tasks. And work has to be paid.
It is so easy to pose questions whose answers need really large amounts of storage. Which IP addresses were online at what point in time? To answer that, we would need a bitmap of all (used) IP addresses and all time points, where 1 means "was online at time t" and 0 "was not online". If we estimate the number of actual used IP addresses as 2^30, and we want a granularity of one second, we have 86400 x 2^30 (or about 10^9) bits per day. Of course this data is easily compressible, we might reach factors up to 100 on that. But after that we still have one terabyte of data per day just for this single and simple question. And we don't even look for communication patterns other than being on- or offline.
Or imagine a town of 10x10 miles, with about on average 10,000 cars driving around simultanously. It might be built as a road network of ten crossings per road mile, making it a 100x100 network of roads, and the average trip length being 10 miles for each car, taking 1 hr. Each car thus produces 100 datapoints per hour, if we just log the blocks it is driving along, making it 24,000,000 for a day in the town.
The DE-CIX, the largest internet exchange point in the world, passes on average 1,2 TBit/s of Internet traffic. If we log that and if we are able to compress it by a factor of 10, its logfiles would fill 10 Petabyte per day. The second largest, AMS-IX, comes close with an average of about 1 Tbit/s, another 8 Petabytes per day after compression. LINX has 0,9 Tbit/s, DataIX another 0,8 Tbit/s on average. And that's just Europe. And just public Internet peering. It doesn't account for any private peering. It doesn't account for any phone data except for VoIP links going over public exchange points. It doesn't account for any mobile provider data. It doesn't account for any data that normally would never leave local systems like billing data.
I know what I am talking about because in our own family, we had people who left (the one brother), and people who worked for a change (the father and the other brother). Only because both kind of people existed, East Germany's ruling party was toppled.
It's very simple, if you look at it.
It actually worked well. When Hungary met with Austria to lower the controls at the hungarian-austrian border, so many East Germans flet, that the remaining people in Germany lost all fear against their own government, and started large demonstrations whose first slogan were "we will stay!" - and this was meant as a threat, and it was understood as a threat, causing the unravelling of East Germany.
(I wonder if ComWin runs on WINE, didn't try it yet.)
From a CS point of view, an user should never even touch or see the operating system. Everything is either application or shell. iOS and Android are so well received because they perfectioned this. You either are in an application, or you see the shell with the icons to choose the next app.
You can try a set of different tools, and maybe you will find out that the hammer works best. You don't need to believe in the Power Of The Hammer.
And more, you can actually calculating the time of the Big Bang without believing in it. It's just a case of What-if?
Science can tells us how it might have happened, but cannot tell us for a fact that it did happen that way.
Religion claiming it could doesn't make it so. But as Charles S. Peirce already observed, nothing can tell us for a fact it happened that way.
It was invented here. A large share of the Wayland developers are ex-X11-developers. They know X11 from the inside.
As they say in TFA: Calling it X12 or X20 or whatever will call in all the persons who care about X trying to meddle. Calling it Wayland will leave the others mainly uninterested, so the developer team can work on stuff.
It just means, that I have to get up 1:40 h early. Or that I can drive 200 km less per day.
Let me try to explain it again. Slowly.
And just for sh!tz and Googles, how many generations of hardware and/or software away before deep data tools will be able to provide the Government with anything they want to know about anyone they want to know it?
That's what I was talking about. It was a glimpse of a potential future, where really everything about us is stored, and not just timestamps of communication events. There is a hard limit of what can be stored about us. It's 10^91. There are no more bits storable in the whole universe. And I was trying to show how easy those 10^91 can be filled. Yes, a static image of a slashdot discussion at the point when no replys are allowed anymore gives a good account of the discussion itself, and who was replying what to whom. But that's not the whole story. That's a very small part of the story. It doesn't tell you anything about which articles I was reading, because there is no record of my readings. There is no record of which threads I was following thoroughly, and which ones I just scanned shortly. There is no record of posts I was starting, and cancelling. There is no record of the sites I was browsing for references.
I had a discussion with my son recently, where he asked me if what would happen when all possible designs for road signs are used. I told him that it is impossible to exhaust the possible space for road signs. My argument was as follows: Let road signs be designs in a 100x100 black and white pixel format. That means we have 2 to the power of 10,000 possible designs for road signs. That's about 10^3,000. If it was possible to create a version of such a road sign in a single elementary particle, we still would need 10^300 universes to just have one instance of each possible road sign design produced. Thus we will never exhaust the space of possible road signs. We can't make enough of them.
Your argument is akin to argue, that it is possible to print all currently used road signs in a single book. I know that's possible. But that's not what I was talking about.
Most information is not stored for a long time. For instance, the current state of the stack of your browser process is not (except the browser crashes right now, and a memory dump lands on your hard drive). If we really want to know what all users all over the world are doing with their browsers at any given time, we would have to store the memory dumps of all the browsers all the time. Lets say, we want a granularity of 1 sec, and the memory footprint of the average browser is 100 MBytes. Per browser, that means 84600 * 100 MBytes per day, which amounts to 8 Terabytes per person per day, or 3 Petabyte per person per year. If we have 3 billion internet users, the memory dumps would already amount to 10^31 bytes. And that's just for a year. Currently, we can store about 10^12 byte per cubic centimeter, thus a completely dense storage of just the world's browser states for one year would take 10^19 cubic centimeters or (given we store it in silicon chips) weigh 25 trillion metric tons.