IMHO, it's really about a dying industry attempting to extract all of the liquidity from a market before it takes its last breath. Or if its anything like the BSA, its about a company that is "hired" as an enforcer that gets to keep anything it kills.
Riddle me this, if Rightscorp is setup like the BSA, then it may keep 100% of any claims it is able to prosecute. In the case of the BSA, they were initially funded by a consortium of software houses. But their business model is now funded 100% by their ability to prosecute incorrect licensing. The BSA is not required to turn over any of it's winnings to the partners. That means that if you installed Adobe Acrobat too many times, the BSA profits but Adobe does not.
Is Rightscorp setup the same way? A tool of the music industry that can hound it's own income with out paying those who stand to loose?
It will now be up to Cox to decide whether to pay up or try and get the case to the US Supreme Court (through the appellate process first). If and only, then it will be decided whether what Congress wrote into law actually means what it says as written in the law.
Gotta love these justices who add their own interpretation into statutory law.
Anybody remember CASE and the drag & drop promises of graphical programming of the 1990's? The at a high level these were great opportunities to both manage software development staff and supposedly increase productivity.
CASE failed because many assigned to the "design" role didn't have a deep enough understanding of the necessary components to produce a system, so many CASE tasks assigned were woefully under specified, and systems had so many gaps they weren't even functional.
Similarly the GUI drag & drop programming has only been successful in structural applications like designing entity relationship models. Anything past a simple loop and these technologies just don't support the complexity necessary to develop the applications of the time.
I think it was as much that stolen smart phones, especially with the ability to iPay, gWallet, Pay Pal, or what ever technology potentially opened up smart phone manufactures and application developers to new financial liabilities.
For this reason alone, a prudent smart phone manufacturer would want to ensure his/her customers were able to store sensitive financial information on the device and greatly limit the exposure to financial crime carried out by your average everyday pickpocket. Just think about how all of the credit card payment system are moving to "chip cards" that produce a one-time hash for the transaction instead of simply supplying 20 digits to identify a given card and expiration (and up to 24 with CVV).
Don't you know that prior to 2007, all capitol crimes went unpunished, because it was impossible to determine who had committed such? Then with the universal data gathering tool, created singularly by Steven Jobs, of Cupertino, California, no capitol crime went unavenged. That is until Tim Cook reversed this capability with encryption.
IMHO, Neil Young has settled in to the Old Man who's younger self was the same, except as the older man. From all the interviews I've seen, he's hated digital recording (cd's), doesn't like what MP3's do to music, and doesn't like streaming. Even though, as a singer/songwriter streaming will pay him just fine.
I really like your point about the C++ Master writing for a C++ Novice. I've always had that as a goal, make statements that are easy to read, but at the same time powerful.
One thing I've thought that is a most important feature of C++ are automatic variables, which leads to Acquisition is Initialization ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). In some ways C# (and.NET) has this ability, but Java definitely doesn't do so well. Resource allocation (pointers, mutexes, files, etc.) are some of the hardest things to keep track of in any language. Garbage collectors are fine, but even languages with these don't do so well with OS objects (files, semaphores, etc.). I think C++ shines when you can master this pattern and use it to make very readable and reliable programs.
So, I heard this story on the radio at 5:45 PM CDT yesterday. Slashdot, you were scooped by NPR. (On bot this story and the one on US Airport Screeners).
In my experience as a consultant, this is the case because Business Managers don't trust IT because:
1) The IT department inserts (perceived) too many non functional requirements on a project increasing cost or schedule. 1.a) (Perceived) The IT department doesn't care about the needs of the Business Manager's daily business. 2) Internally the IT department did not deliver on it's own projects within cost or schedule. 3) There's no way that an employee could be as smart as a consultant.
Having been a former IT employee and now a consultant, points 1, 1.a, & 2 are valid, point 3 is just bunk. Now being an consultant, I prefer to work with Business Managers because:
1) Business Managers have a vested interested in seeing a vendor project complete, where as IT typically does not, it's not their money or idea. 2) Business Managers will make time to meet with a vendor, where as IT typically think of vendors as hired hands, about as valuable as the lady who vaccuumes the floors every night.
The question is not breaking the key but determining the message underneath. The blocks are still only 128 bits in length, deducing these can be trivial, and that is how the HTTPS/SSL/TLS attach are accomplished, via known plain text attacks.
Today on CNN, the commentators after the Brennan press conference said that the CIA was correct in saying that no non-bad-guys were killed by drone strikes. That's because the CIA redefined bad-guys to be any human of fighting age (13-60). So, that means that Grandma and your kid brother are free to use encryption, because they definitely aren't terrorists. They get to keep their shoes on at the airport, so there you go!
Thanks TechyImmigrant! Lost track of the block size for a moment. Over the last three years, I've been developing a block cypher. I was surprised to see that AES sole security is XORing the key with mono-substitution translations of the plain text. The 128 bit version can be broken on my laptop...
Don't forget it is the NSA who approves what type of encryption are legal for citizens to own. In the case of AES relies solely that combining 256 random bits with 256 non random bits, sufficiently, is too difficult to decipher except for the most powerful computer systems.
There was a case where Best Buy (long time ago when 100MB Zip disk were the rage) re-sold Zip-disks containing someone's pr0n stash. So the source of the media doesn't really matter.
Any media, no matter what it's packaging can be a vector for viruses. USB is the most heinous because a device could be the size of a micro BlueTooth tranciever, report it self as a keyboard, and install gigabytes of virus code on a computer system. There's no bigger risk to security than physical contact.
Mexico really got the short end of the stick, but it happened for a couple of reasons. First off was the nationalization of oil production. US oil and gas companies had explored and drilled for oil and were reaping the benefits of harvesting it. Then the government declared these oil operations were owned by the government (part of a socialist movement, still alive in Mexico today).
Although Mexico was one of the most stable Latin American countries from 1920-1970, the oil crisis of the 1970's (caused by Nixion's decision to take the US of the gold standard and cause US currency to be 100% fiat) caused major inflation during that time period. This causes Mexico to default on its external debt, in 1982. Through out the '80s, the result was inflation and devaluation, causing major harm to many Mexicans who did not have inflation protection based on debt obligations (i.e. the common man).
Sub-living wage is pushing it. I think the goal is to keep programers at a wage similar to other "office workers." But in reality programers are more like engineers, who like accountants and actuaries receiver a higher pay scale than your average human-resources wonk.
As a US citizen, I can't agree with you more. We have perceived immigration issues, because millions of people have entered on foot or otherwise across the southern boarder without stopping at an immigration station to register. All because there is so much money to be had from performing manual labor compared to any type of employment in many so called Latin American countries. This, of course, is illegal, because laws were enacted to keep undesirables out of the country.
So at the same time, a law that is ineffective in discouraging people from entering without legal documentation, discourages many who would normally immigrate with complete authorization because the process is too cumbersome and limited. I personally don't know what a better process would be, but contribution the non-black-market economy is good for everyone, in the end.
I live in Nebraska and a lawyer friend of mine told me that non-compete clauses have little weight because there has to be parity between the contracted parties. So, unless you have a golden parachute that will pay you for your time during your non-compete duration, the company can sue your new employer, but will loose. This doesn't mean that you won't get socially blackballed for taking your client list with you to your next job.
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Straws, Grasping at. Look it up people! ;)
These scientists did awful things with DNA
IMHO, it's really about a dying industry attempting to extract all of the liquidity from a market before it takes its last breath. Or if its anything like the BSA, its about a company that is "hired" as an enforcer that gets to keep anything it kills.
Riddle me this, if Rightscorp is setup like the BSA, then it may keep 100% of any claims it is able to prosecute. In the case of the BSA, they were initially funded by a consortium of software houses. But their business model is now funded 100% by their ability to prosecute incorrect licensing. The BSA is not required to turn over any of it's winnings to the partners. That means that if you installed Adobe Acrobat too many times, the BSA profits but Adobe does not.
Is Rightscorp setup the same way? A tool of the music industry that can hound it's own income with out paying those who stand to loose?
That's right.
It will now be up to Cox to decide whether to pay up or try and get the case to the US Supreme Court (through the appellate process first). If and only, then it will be decided whether what Congress wrote into law actually means what it says as written in the law.
Gotta love these justices who add their own interpretation into statutory law.
If that's true, then every electronic device should logically be considered a bomb. Time to get two sticks and rub them together!
Anybody remember CASE and the drag & drop promises of graphical programming of the 1990's? The at a high level these were great opportunities to both manage software development staff and supposedly increase productivity.
CASE failed because many assigned to the "design" role didn't have a deep enough understanding of the necessary components to produce a system, so many CASE tasks assigned were woefully under specified, and systems had so many gaps they weren't even functional.
Similarly the GUI drag & drop programming has only been successful in structural applications like designing entity relationship models. Anything past a simple loop and these technologies just don't support the complexity necessary to develop the applications of the time.
I think it was as much that stolen smart phones, especially with the ability to iPay, gWallet, Pay Pal, or what ever technology potentially opened up smart phone manufactures and application developers to new financial liabilities.
For this reason alone, a prudent smart phone manufacturer would want to ensure his/her customers were able to store sensitive financial information on the device and greatly limit the exposure to financial crime carried out by your average everyday pickpocket. Just think about how all of the credit card payment system are moving to "chip cards" that produce a one-time hash for the transaction instead of simply supplying 20 digits to identify a given card and expiration (and up to 24 with CVV).
Don't you know that prior to 2007, all capitol crimes went unpunished, because it was impossible to determine who had committed such? Then with the universal data gathering tool, created singularly by Steven Jobs, of Cupertino, California, no capitol crime went unavenged. That is until Tim Cook reversed this capability with encryption.
Get your facts straight people!
IMHO, Neil Young has settled in to the Old Man who's younger self was the same, except as the older man. From all the interviews I've seen, he's hated digital recording (cd's), doesn't like what MP3's do to music, and doesn't like streaming. Even though, as a singer/songwriter streaming will pay him just fine.
I really like your point about the C++ Master writing for a C++ Novice. I've always had that as a goal, make statements that are easy to read, but at the same time powerful.
One thing I've thought that is a most important feature of C++ are automatic variables, which leads to Acquisition is Initialization ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). In some ways C# (and .NET) has this ability, but Java definitely doesn't do so well. Resource allocation (pointers, mutexes, files, etc.) are some of the hardest things to keep track of in any language. Garbage collectors are fine, but even languages with these don't do so well with OS objects (files, semaphores, etc.). I think C++ shines when you can master this pattern and use it to make very readable and reliable programs.
So Slashdot, why did I hear about this story on NPR Marketplace yesterday afternoon first?
So, I heard this story on the radio at 5:45 PM CDT yesterday. Slashdot, you were scooped by NPR. (On bot this story and the one on US Airport Screeners).
In my experience as a consultant, this is the case because Business Managers don't trust IT because:
1) The IT department inserts (perceived) too many non functional requirements on a project increasing cost or schedule.
1.a) (Perceived) The IT department doesn't care about the needs of the Business Manager's daily business.
2) Internally the IT department did not deliver on it's own projects within cost or schedule.
3) There's no way that an employee could be as smart as a consultant.
Having been a former IT employee and now a consultant, points 1, 1.a, & 2 are valid, point 3 is just bunk. Now being an consultant, I prefer to work with Business Managers because:
1) Business Managers have a vested interested in seeing a vendor project complete, where as IT typically does not, it's not their money or idea.
2) Business Managers will make time to meet with a vendor, where as IT typically think of vendors as hired hands, about as valuable as the lady who vaccuumes the floors every night.
In my defense, I was on my cell phone, in the private cell phone usage room.
How do they expect to repel the Mongol Hoard that doesn't know how to swim?
The question is not breaking the key but determining the message underneath. The blocks are still only 128 bits in length, deducing these can be trivial, and that is how the HTTPS/SSL/TLS attach are accomplished, via known plain text attacks.
Today on CNN, the commentators after the Brennan press conference said that the CIA was correct in saying that no non-bad-guys were killed by drone strikes. That's because the CIA redefined bad-guys to be any human of fighting age (13-60). So, that means that Grandma and your kid brother are free to use encryption, because they definitely aren't terrorists. They get to keep their shoes on at the airport, so there you go!
Thanks TechyImmigrant! Lost track of the block size for a moment. Over the last three years, I've been developing a block cypher. I was surprised to see that AES sole security is XORing the key with mono-substitution translations of the plain text. The 128 bit version can be broken on my laptop...
Don't forget it is the NSA who approves what type of encryption are legal for citizens to own. In the case of AES relies solely that combining 256 random bits with 256 non random bits, sufficiently, is too difficult to decipher except for the most powerful computer systems.
There was a case where Best Buy (long time ago when 100MB Zip disk were the rage) re-sold Zip-disks containing someone's pr0n stash. So the source of the media doesn't really matter.
Any media, no matter what it's packaging can be a vector for viruses. USB is the most heinous because a device could be the size of a micro BlueTooth tranciever, report it self as a keyboard, and install gigabytes of virus code on a computer system. There's no bigger risk to security than physical contact.
Or for that matter "made in China" and sold by a US brand. Are there any consumer electronics that are not?
By the way, would a "Made in Russia" tag be a worse or better?
Mexico really got the short end of the stick, but it happened for a couple of reasons. First off was the nationalization of oil production. US oil and gas companies had explored and drilled for oil and were reaping the benefits of harvesting it. Then the government declared these oil operations were owned by the government (part of a socialist movement, still alive in Mexico today).
Although Mexico was one of the most stable Latin American countries from 1920-1970, the oil crisis of the 1970's (caused by Nixion's decision to take the US of the gold standard and cause US currency to be 100% fiat) caused major inflation during that time period. This causes Mexico to default on its external debt, in 1982. Through out the '80s, the result was inflation and devaluation, causing major harm to many Mexicans who did not have inflation protection based on debt obligations (i.e. the common man).
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Sub-living wage is pushing it. I think the goal is to keep programers at a wage similar to other "office workers." But in reality programers are more like engineers, who like accountants and actuaries receiver a higher pay scale than your average human-resources wonk.
As a US citizen, I can't agree with you more. We have perceived immigration issues, because millions of people have entered on foot or otherwise across the southern boarder without stopping at an immigration station to register. All because there is so much money to be had from performing manual labor compared to any type of employment in many so called Latin American countries. This, of course, is illegal, because laws were enacted to keep undesirables out of the country.
So at the same time, a law that is ineffective in discouraging people from entering without legal documentation, discourages many who would normally immigrate with complete authorization because the process is too cumbersome and limited. I personally don't know what a better process would be, but contribution the non-black-market economy is good for everyone, in the end.
I live in Nebraska and a lawyer friend of mine told me that non-compete clauses have little weight because there has to be parity between the contracted parties. So, unless you have a golden parachute that will pay you for your time during your non-compete duration, the company can sue your new employer, but will loose. This doesn't mean that you won't get socially blackballed for taking your client list with you to your next job.