They do that by saying if you as a bank wish to interact with the US banking system you must pass data to the IRS on US citizen's. So if as a bank I have no wish to interact with the US banking system then I can tell the US government to go pound sand and there is nothing the US government can do about it.
Of course this is quite limiting for a large bank so they generally comply. However I would imagine that some of the smaller building societies in the UK for example don't do international banking with the USA and/or could exist quite happily not doing so and thus be under no compulsion to tell the IRS the details of the US citizens accounts.
You are assuming that is the case. It may well be, and would be technically easy to implement a system by which data held in the EU was encrypted using keys that are not available to Microsoft employees located in the USA. In fact with upcoming GDPR legislation that this is likely exactly what Microsoft have done otherwise it would be difficult for Microsoft to comply with the GDPR and that would make Azure/Office 365 illegal to use in the E.U. which is an extremely large market to just walk away from; which is why Microsoft are fighting this tooth and nail.
3. Every room inside a suite/unit of a building has it's own independent second source Heat/Cooling system. So if you like your unit 1 degree warmer than everyone else, you pay the extra money to run the gas fireplace or electric heaters (which waste a shit tonne of money)
Do you not have thermostatic radiator valves in the USA? Even in my small house I have different rooms at different temperatures with only one temperature of circulating heating water. While living in Scotland I have no requirement for air conditioning in my house the same is achievable for cooling with just one temperature of cold water too.
Even if it was an FAA requirement it would have zero impact on a Malaysian jet flying from Malaysia to China, over which the FAA have zero mandate. Heck it would not help with a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Athens either though it is considerably harder to disappear over Europe.
No in England and Wales you have a system. Here in Scotland we have a completely different legal system and any references to the Crown Prosecution Service are an immediate flag to that fact. There is no such thing as a UK legal system.
Really, I would imagine that lying to a law enforcement officer would be obstruction of a police investigation in most jurisdictions. Way safer to say nothing than lie. Though saying nothing is the best policy regardless.
Or just print the code on the DVD itself. The issue Disney fell foul of is that the code was on a separate physical piece of paper, which allowed Redbox to sell the separate physical item separately. Had the code been printed on the DVD/Bluray itself then Redbox would not have been able to resell the physical piece of paper with the code on. Serves Disney right for not reading the law and being cheapskates by using a separate piece of paper rather than printing on the physical disc.
I run login nodes for an HPC system at work and it is just like my personal severs frankly. Fail2ban cuts it down a lot, but I now rate limit the number of new SSH connections from an IP address at the firewall.
What would have been nice of the Echo Dot and possible the Echo (I don't have one so presume it's the same as the Dot) would have been if the 3.5mm jack also had an optical out. I would much rather use the DAC in my HiFi than the one in the Dot; it is of significantly better quality, not unsurprisingly as it cost many times the price of a Dot.
The other thing that is a nuisance is that if you plug in 3.5mm lead into the Dot then it cuts the internal speaker. Well my HiFi is not always on, so if I ask Alex for the weather forecast I would like it to play through the internal speaker. If I want to listen to some music then and only then do I want it to go through my HiFi, and then only if I tell her to use it.
Any competent storage administrators who understands about mean time to data loss (MTTDL) knows that there are still use cases even in 2018 where RAID5 makes sense. If my MTTDL is 20,000 years using a RAID5 why would I need to move to RAID6?
Sure if I am building a files system of a few hundred TB or more made of dozens of eight disk plus parity RAID arrays then RAID5 is inadequate. The problem is ignorant people have seen/heard storage administrators who make such petabyte scale file systems talk about RAID5 being inadequate and presumed without understanding the issue that it applies to all configurations and use cases of RAID5.
Further as an administrator of petabyte scale file systems I can tell you now that even RAID6 is out the window. The rebuild times are just too awful, it's all distributed RAID/dynamic disk pools (no consistent naming for the technology) these days.
Anyway need 4TB of RAID backed SSD, then 2D+P RAID5 made out of 2TB disks is a lot cheaper than a RAID1 made of 4TB disks and actually has a larger MTTDL so is better. I guess you could do a 4D+2P RAID6 of 1TB SSD's but you are burning a lot of drive slots their and you have more points of failure, and the MTTDL is not significantly better. You might go from 20,000 years to 25,000 years so who gives a dam. What you need to avoid is a MTTDL of 2 years or even 10 years. Frankly a MTTDL of 100 years makes me nervous, but 20,000 or 25,000 is all the same because the dam thing is backed up. If I *REALLY* care then you would use DIF/DIX that pushes it out way further.
Sorry but the not safe to use anywhere argument is bunkum. Where in the constitution does it mention anything about safety in relation to the second amendment. If I want to drive my self propelled howitzer down to the artillery range and fire a W48 armed shell that's my business. If I am not you have restricted my right to bear arms.
It's all or nothing. Either my right to bear arms is not restricted or it is. Of course when the second amendment was written arms where muzzle loading cannon and flintlock pistols and riffles. I am quite sure if you demonstrated modern weapons to the founding fathers their views on the right to bear arms would have been very different.
Great so presumably their are no restrictions on me owning a M109 howitzer with some W48 rounds then? Frankly I can't imagine for one femtosecond that the founders would have thought that was a good idea. Heck I doubt given a demonstration of say a M61 or M134 would have thought it was a good idea for everyone to have the option of owning one. Their idea of arms would have been a long rifle and a muzzle loading cannon.
Interesting the FAQ from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines says terms is 20 years from international filing so unless they had a different system in the past they are telling lies and those patents long expired.
Better make sure they don't effect any devices located in the UK as unauthorised removal of software from a device is a criminal offence over here under the computer misuse act.
Depends. The DVD specification was published more than 20 years ago now. That is *ABSOLUTE* prior art. So any patent filed after that is in most sane places garbage junk. For the USA unless that subtitle patent was filed prior to 8th June 1995 and has an impressive extension it's also junk. Most of the DVD patents I believe apply to reading the physical discs, in particular things like a DVD-R disc that came out after the original standard.
However looking at that website I randomly took US 7,082,257, which it claims expires 18th December this year for expiration. Hum checking on the web it was filed 12th April 1996, which means as it was filed after the 8th June 1995, it expires 20 years after filing which was 13th April 2016. There are lots of false claims by people holding patents on their expiration dates.
Well I have never seen a MPEG2 video stream with an AAC sound track that has been produced commercially. DVD's use an AC3 soundtrack (at least all mine do with sometimes a DTS one as well) and here in the UK the broadcast MPEG2 via DVB-T is all MP2 soundtracks.
The AAC format has been evolving for a long time so what do you exactly mean by AAC? The original specification MPEG-2 Part 7 is free of patents,
Unfortunately there are lots of other AAC profiles that are still under patent protection, and the MPEG4 main profile one which was defined in 2003, is as I understand it the main one in use. At least that file you downloaded from the iTunes store is.
So that will go out of patent protection sometime in 2023, aka 20 years after the publication of the standard as that would be prior art. I don't know the exact date. However there is a possibility that a patent with a file date of before 8th June 1995 managed to get an extension such that the with grant date was after sometime in 2006, at which point it will still be valid, because it's exparation is 17 years after grant for a US patent. That would be an impressive 7 year extension but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility. I can't find a list of patents for AAC on the web to check however.
That will be the same time that H.264 goes patent free too. However note for example that HE-AAC2 is sometime in 2026 and there are AAC profiles that where defined as recently as 2012.
Brought a DVD, DVD player, BluRay player, digital TV, set top box in the last decade? Then you have paid an MPEG2 license fee for the privilege. Indirectly you have been paying for your over the air broadcaster to use MPEG2 to encode the TV you are watching. So yes you can now stop paying those fees.
The list seems to me quite long. How the hell there are still five Malaysian and two Philippines ones left god only knows. Most of the US ones expired a considerable period of time ago. There where just two left this year, one expired at the end of January and the last one yesterday.
The patents in question are apparerntly (according the MPEG-LA) below. How one finds out when they expire is an open question. I could find nothing about them on the web.
MY 118172-A MY 1289941 MY 141626-A MY 118444 MY 118734-A
Not sure about the latest boxes, but Roku's for a long time where same chipset as a Raspberry Pi and as such have hardware decoding though not available presumably for licensing reasons.
The act was also a crime in the UK and he was located in the UK and was a UK citizen. As such the crime should have been prosecuted in the UK in the first instance. Now a judge has admonished the CPS for not doing so and refused his extradition.
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They do that by saying if you as a bank wish to interact with the US banking system you must pass data to the IRS on US citizen's. So if as a bank I have no wish to interact with the US banking system then I can tell the US government to go pound sand and there is nothing the US government can do about it.
Of course this is quite limiting for a large bank so they generally comply. However I would imagine that some of the smaller building societies in the UK for example don't do international banking with the USA and/or could exist quite happily not doing so and thus be under no compulsion to tell the IRS the details of the US citizens accounts.
You are assuming that is the case. It may well be, and would be technically easy to implement a system by which data held in the EU was encrypted using keys that are not available to Microsoft employees located in the USA. In fact with upcoming GDPR legislation that this is likely exactly what Microsoft have done otherwise it would be difficult for Microsoft to comply with the GDPR and that would make Azure/Office 365 illegal to use in the E.U. which is an extremely large market to just walk away from; which is why Microsoft are fighting this tooth and nail.
3. Every room inside a suite/unit of a building has it's own independent second source Heat/Cooling system. So if you like your unit 1 degree warmer than everyone else, you pay the extra money to run the gas fireplace or electric heaters (which waste a shit tonne of money)
Do you not have thermostatic radiator valves in the USA? Even in my small house I have different rooms at different temperatures with only one temperature of circulating heating water. While living in Scotland I have no requirement for air conditioning in my house the same is achievable for cooling with just one temperature of cold water too.
Even if it was an FAA requirement it would have zero impact on a Malaysian jet flying from Malaysia to China, over which the FAA have zero mandate. Heck it would not help with a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Athens either though it is considerably harder to disappear over Europe.
Sorry Mary Poppins would disagree :-)
No in England and Wales you have a system. Here in Scotland we have a completely different legal system and any references to the Crown Prosecution Service are an immediate flag to that fact. There is no such thing as a UK legal system.
Really, I would imagine that lying to a law enforcement officer would be obstruction of a police investigation in most jurisdictions. Way safer to say nothing than lie. Though saying nothing is the best policy regardless.
Or just print the code on the DVD itself. The issue Disney fell foul of is that the code was on a separate physical piece of paper, which allowed Redbox to sell the separate physical item separately. Had the code been printed on the DVD/Bluray itself then Redbox would not have been able to resell the physical piece of paper with the code on. Serves Disney right for not reading the law and being cheapskates by using a separate piece of paper rather than printing on the physical disc.
I moved SSH to a none standard port made no fricking difference.
I run login nodes for an HPC system at work and it is just like my personal severs frankly. Fail2ban cuts it down a lot, but I now rate limit the number of new SSH connections from an IP address at the firewall.
A simpler solution would have been to print the code on the physical DVD/Bluray rather than a piece of paper.
What would have been nice of the Echo Dot and possible the Echo (I don't have one so presume it's the same as the Dot) would have been if the 3.5mm jack also had an optical out. I would much rather use the DAC in my HiFi than the one in the Dot; it is of significantly better quality, not unsurprisingly as it cost many times the price of a Dot.
The other thing that is a nuisance is that if you plug in 3.5mm lead into the Dot then it cuts the internal speaker. Well my HiFi is not always on, so if I ask Alex for the weather forecast I would like it to play through the internal speaker. If I want to listen to some music then and only then do I want it to go through my HiFi, and then only if I tell her to use it.
Any competent storage administrators who understands about mean time to data loss (MTTDL) knows that there are still use cases even in 2018 where RAID5 makes sense. If my MTTDL is 20,000 years using a RAID5 why would I need to move to RAID6?
Sure if I am building a files system of a few hundred TB or more made of dozens of eight disk plus parity RAID arrays then RAID5 is inadequate. The problem is ignorant people have seen/heard storage administrators who make such petabyte scale file systems talk about RAID5 being inadequate and presumed without understanding the issue that it applies to all configurations and use cases of RAID5.
Further as an administrator of petabyte scale file systems I can tell you now that even RAID6 is out the window. The rebuild times are just too awful, it's all distributed RAID/dynamic disk pools (no consistent naming for the technology) these days.
Anyway need 4TB of RAID backed SSD, then 2D+P RAID5 made out of 2TB disks is a lot cheaper than a RAID1 made of 4TB disks and actually has a larger MTTDL so is better. I guess you could do a 4D+2P RAID6 of 1TB SSD's but you are burning a lot of drive slots their and you have more points of failure, and the MTTDL is not significantly better. You might go from 20,000 years to 25,000 years so who gives a dam. What you need to avoid is a MTTDL of 2 years or even 10 years. Frankly a MTTDL of 100 years makes me nervous, but 20,000 or 25,000 is all the same because the dam thing is backed up. If I *REALLY* care then you would use DIF/DIX that pushes it out way further.
I suggest you ask KFC just how well using DHL is working out for them in the UK at the moment.
Sorry but the not safe to use anywhere argument is bunkum. Where in the constitution does it mention anything about safety in relation to the second amendment. If I want to drive my self propelled howitzer down to the artillery range and fire a W48 armed shell that's my business. If I am not you have restricted my right to bear arms.
It's all or nothing. Either my right to bear arms is not restricted or it is. Of course when the second amendment was written arms where muzzle loading cannon and flintlock pistols and riffles. I am quite sure if you demonstrated modern weapons to the founding fathers their views on the right to bear arms would have been very different.
Great so presumably their are no restrictions on me owning a M109 howitzer with some W48 rounds then? Frankly I can't imagine for one femtosecond that the founders would have thought that was a good idea. Heck I doubt given a demonstration of say a M61 or M134 would have thought it was a good idea for everyone to have the option of owning one. Their idea of arms would have been a long rifle and a muzzle loading cannon.
Interesting the FAQ from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines says terms is 20 years from international filing so unless they had a different system in the past they are telling lies and those patents long expired.
Better make sure they don't effect any devices located in the UK as unauthorised removal of software from a device is a criminal offence over here under the computer misuse act.
Depends. The DVD specification was published more than 20 years ago now. That is *ABSOLUTE* prior art. So any patent filed after that is in most sane places garbage junk. For the USA unless that subtitle patent was filed prior to 8th June 1995 and has an impressive extension it's also junk. Most of the DVD patents I believe apply to reading the physical discs, in particular things like a DVD-R disc that came out after the original standard.
However looking at that website I randomly took US 7,082,257, which it claims expires 18th December this year for expiration. Hum checking on the web it was filed 12th April 1996, which means as it was filed after the 8th June 1995, it expires 20 years after filing which was 13th April 2016. There are lots of false claims by people holding patents on their expiration dates.
Well I have never seen a MPEG2 video stream with an AAC sound track that has been produced commercially. DVD's use an AC3 soundtrack (at least all mine do with sometimes a DTS one as well) and here in the UK the broadcast MPEG2 via DVB-T is all MP2 soundtracks.
The AAC format has been evolving for a long time so what do you exactly mean by AAC? The original specification MPEG-2 Part 7 is free of patents,
Unfortunately there are lots of other AAC profiles that are still under patent protection, and the MPEG4 main profile one which was defined in 2003, is as I understand it the main one in use. At least that file you downloaded from the iTunes store is.
So that will go out of patent protection sometime in 2023, aka 20 years after the publication of the standard as that would be prior art. I don't know the exact date. However there is a possibility that a patent with a file date of before 8th June 1995 managed to get an extension such that the with grant date was after sometime in 2006, at which point it will still be valid, because it's exparation is 17 years after grant for a US patent. That would be an impressive 7 year extension but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility. I can't find a list of patents for AAC on the web to check however.
That will be the same time that H.264 goes patent free too. However note for example that HE-AAC2 is sometime in 2026 and there are AAC profiles that where defined as recently as 2012.
Brought a DVD, DVD player, BluRay player, digital TV, set top box in the last decade? Then you have paid an MPEG2 license fee for the privilege. Indirectly you have been paying for your over the air broadcaster to use MPEG2 to encode the TV you are watching. So yes you can now stop paying those fees.
The list seems to me quite long. How the hell there are still five Malaysian and two Philippines ones left god only knows. Most of the US ones expired a considerable period of time ago. There where just two left this year, one expired at the end of January and the last one yesterday.
The patents in question are apparerntly (according the MPEG-LA) below. How one finds out when they expire is an open question. I could find nothing about them on the web.
MY 118172-A
MY 1289941
MY 141626-A
MY 118444
MY 118734-A
PH 1-1993-47458
PH 1-1995-50216
Nope MPEG2 used AC3 which expired last year from memory, a bit before MP3.
Not sure about the latest boxes, but Roku's for a long time where same chipset as a Raspberry Pi and as such have hardware decoding though not available presumably for licensing reasons.
The act was also a crime in the UK and he was located in the UK and was a UK citizen. As such the crime should have been prosecuted in the UK in the first instance. Now a judge has admonished the CPS for not doing so and refused his extradition.