I can't believe they would scrap that many chips over something so stupid. There must have been some bug in the chips that they needed fix and this saves face...
The old mainframe days are full of stories about water cooled computers that they never solved the leak problem with.
There is a reason nobody uses water cooling any more: A number of huge multi-year development efforts have failed because they couldn't make water cooling work. A single microscopic leak can ruin the entire computer!
If you want something to re-enforce your first bullet, you should point out that copy protection is basically cryptography. I can give two examples of cryptographics systems that the creators relied upon because they > they were unbreakable: Enigma and JNC (Japanese Naval Code). That assumption was a major contributor to the German and Jananese defeat in WWII. It is highly likely that any encryption scheme will eventually fail (probably within a few years). [Anybody know of any examples of an encryption scheme that has held for 5 years? 10 years?
I'be been telling anybody who will listen that the only workable scheme is to put a royalty on blank media and device the fairest scheme possible for setting the rates and distributing the royalties. It's not perfect, but it is technically feasible and it won't cripple innovation. It also won't inconvenience (or screw) the customers. Something most other players in this arena don't bother to think about.
MP3 files designed to destroy your speakers. All it would take is a very high level 21KhZ tone injected in the encoding process every time there is a cymbol in the music. Almost nobody can hear the high frequency, but it will melt tweeters.
Why is it that every time this story gets repeated the poster never seems to notice that Intel is not suing for money, just an injunction to keep the guy from Spamming them?
Global Van Lines and probably some of the other moving companies have special crews and vans that do nothing but move large electronics packages. They aren't cheap, but they are a lot more reliable than anything else...
I haven't run into anybody who sent the authorization two hours later, but I probably only get around to trying about 20% of the demos I download.
Why?
My links menu is so full I don't want to link to something, now unless I know it's useful. When I trip across what looks like an interesting demo, I DL it while I have the page in front of me and then never actually have the time to try it out. The other thing that happens is I start running the program and realize it is going to take me a huge amount of time to Grok it out without documentation; so, I give up and keep using what I've already got...
If you had read the artical, you would have noted that US courts have held that linking to an image and presenting it as your own IS copyright theft. [As opposed to just pointing to another web page.]
If you file with the copyright office in advance, you can collect punative damages that amount to big bucks. Even if you don't, you can collect fair market value from everybody who copies. Just send out some bills...
At first guess, one would think throttling P2P protocols would have a more than linear affect on total bandwidth usage, because it would keep super-nodes out of their network. I'll bet that's what they are trying to do, anyway.
BUT, it could backfire. It's possible that keeping super nodes off the network would actually cause more expensive (outside their network) traffic and actually increase their expenses.
If I was an author and I have the choice of linking to a store that pushed used books in place of my new ones or linking to a site that promotes new books, which one am I going to pick. DUH.
Why should an author send business to a site that is going to lure the customer away from paying the author?
How much is this going to affect Amazon.com's sales? Not much (if at all), because most customers don't start at the author's site in the first place. You will note that the Author's Guild is not threatening to pull product from Amazon.com... I'm sure Jeff B. got a good laugh out of that letter.
IANAL, but I suspect one is enough if it's being shared. Of course the liability is $150,000 per song; so, that wouldn't get into really huge fines.
It might be OK if permissions are set up so that only an employee can access the songs they bring in AND there is a published public policy that everything put in that area is the employees private property (which would probably have liabilities most companies don't want to go near). If nothing else, that would probably let the company take an ISP exemption under the DMCA...
Of course, they really only go after the places where they are going to make enough money to pay the lawyers, but still $150,000 per copy can pay a lotta lawyers.
It was really low that they didn't refund his ADC account.
They don't have any choice about accepting code, because effectively, he can't assign copyrights for his changes. Even if his parents sign for it, he could void the assignment after he turned 18 -- or at least would have a good shot at it, given that he wasn't paid for his work...
But, they should have been a lot nicer about it and at least had the lawyers explain what the problem was and maybe shipped him a free computer or something...
A long time ago, I interviewed with a company that made electronic cash registers. We were chatting at the end of the interview and I mentioned my best computer salesmen story. Well, they one-upped me with this:
The salesman had taken one of the few prototypes they had to a demo at a large hotel chain. The demo is going well and then one of the hotel people asks the question, "Will it pass the Coke test?". The salesman doesn't have a clue what the Coke test is, but in true salesman form, he answers "Yes." The hotel buyer proceeds to pick up a can of Coke, pop the tab and dump it down the keyboard of the very expensive prototype... Needless to say, that prototype never worked again. The real amazing part of the story is that the Hotel bought a lot of them -- with the newly designed rubber matt over the keyboard... I gather that particular salesman never made up answers to questions after that, too...
Guess what. I've heard that most of HP's customers still run the 32 bit operating system on the 64 bit computers because the 32 bit OS is faster.
Performance is very dependent on cache footprint size. In some applications I have worked on (lots of small processes), it was very dependent on stack frame size: When you go to 64 bits, the minimum stack frame size doubles. So does the size of all the registers saves (i.e., context switches). This is all stuff that one can't control from the application.
Actually, the way CDs are produced can affect the playback quality in cheap players: The lower frequency components of the jitter in the digital data feeds through the power supply rails into the analog electronics. It doesn't happen with players that have good grounding an power supply regulation (but there pretty much aren't any). It also doesn't happen if you use the digital outputs of the drive. Of course the D/A converter can still be sensitive to bit pattern jitter in the digital stream....
I once had that tried on me. I told them I would sign it if they gave me an exemption for peotry and musical compositions (I am a musician and a songwriter). They said they'd get back to me and I never signed ANYTHING. [Whoever it was in the legal department would never want to admit they had written the contract that poorly in the first place.]
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I can't believe they would scrap that many chips over something so stupid. There must have been some bug in the chips that they needed fix and this saves face...
It answer inverse DNS with "203.62.158.32".
The old mainframe days are full of stories about water cooled computers that they never solved the leak problem with.
There is a reason nobody uses water cooling any more: A number of huge multi-year development efforts have failed because they couldn't make water cooling work. A single microscopic leak can ruin the entire computer!
Notice that she got the rates wrong by two orders of magnitude....
If you want something to re-enforce your first bullet, you should point out that copy protection is basically cryptography. I can give two examples of cryptographics systems that the creators relied upon because they > they were unbreakable: Enigma and JNC (Japanese Naval Code). That assumption was a major contributor to the German and Jananese defeat in WWII. It is highly likely that any encryption scheme will eventually fail (probably within a few years). [Anybody know of any examples of an encryption scheme that has held for 5 years? 10 years?
I'be been telling anybody who will listen that the only workable scheme is to put a royalty on blank media and device the fairest scheme possible for setting the rates and distributing the royalties. It's not perfect, but it is technically feasible and it won't cripple innovation. It also won't inconvenience (or screw) the customers. Something most other players in this arena don't bother to think about.
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I wonder what effect this is having on the brain cancer rate in Japan?
MP3 files designed to destroy your speakers. All it would take is a very high level 21KhZ tone injected in the encoding process every time there is a cymbol in the music. Almost nobody can hear the high frequency, but it will melt tweeters.
I expected more from such a talented crew...
It seems to me that NFS satisfies the major points of this patent. Beyond that, it's pretty obvious to a normal practitioner.
Why is it that every time this story gets repeated the poster never seems to notice that Intel is not suing for money, just an injunction to keep the guy from Spamming them?
It's already been used successfully by large ISPs (AOL), but you can only sue for damages; so, it's only practical if you are a huge ISP.
Global Van Lines and probably some of the other moving companies have special crews and vans that do nothing but move large electronics packages. They aren't cheap, but they are a lot more reliable than anything else...
I haven't run into anybody who sent the authorization two hours later, but I probably only get around to trying about 20% of the demos I download.
Why?
My links menu is so full I don't want to link to something, now unless I know it's useful. When I trip across what looks like an interesting demo, I DL it while I have the page in front of me and then never actually have the time to try it out. The other thing that happens is I start running the program and realize it is going to take me a huge amount of time to Grok it out without documentation; so, I give up and keep using what I've already got...
If you read the artical, you would know that this has been ruled illegal by the courts. Send them a bill.
You can also get auctions cancelled on e-Bay by claiming DMCA copyright violations.
If you had read the artical, you would have noted that US courts have held that linking to an image and presenting it as your own IS copyright theft. [As opposed to just pointing to another web page.]
If you file with the copyright office in advance, you can collect punative damages that amount to big bucks. Even if you don't, you can collect fair market value from everybody who copies. Just send out some bills...
At first guess, one would think throttling P2P protocols would have a more than linear affect on total bandwidth usage, because it would keep super-nodes out of their network. I'll bet that's what they are trying to do, anyway.
BUT, it could backfire. It's possible that keeping super nodes off the network would actually cause more expensive (outside their network) traffic and actually increase their expenses.
If I was an author and I have the choice of linking to a store that pushed used books in place of my new ones or linking to a site that promotes new books, which one am I going to pick. DUH.
Why should an author send business to a site that is going to lure the customer away from paying the author?
How much is this going to affect Amazon.com's sales? Not much (if at all), because most customers don't start at the author's site in the first place. You will note that the Author's Guild is not threatening to pull product from Amazon.com... I'm sure Jeff B. got a good laugh out of that letter.
IANAL, but I suspect one is enough if it's being shared. Of course the liability is $150,000 per song; so, that wouldn't get into really huge fines.
It might be OK if permissions are set up so that only an employee can access the songs they bring in AND there is a published public policy that everything put in that area is the employees private property (which would probably have liabilities most companies don't want to go near). If nothing else, that would probably let the company take an ISP exemption under the DMCA...
Of course, they really only go after the places where they are going to make enough money to pay the lawyers, but still $150,000 per copy can pay a lotta lawyers.
I only got three instead of the usual 20-30...
It was really low that they didn't refund his ADC account.
They don't have any choice about accepting code, because effectively, he can't assign copyrights for his changes. Even if his parents sign for it, he could void the assignment after he turned 18 -- or at least would have a good shot at it, given that he wasn't paid for his work...
But, they should have been a lot nicer about it and at least had the lawyers explain what the problem was and maybe shipped him a free computer or something...
A long time ago, I interviewed with a company that made electronic cash registers. We were chatting at the end of the interview and I mentioned my best computer salesmen story. Well, they one-upped me with this:
The salesman had taken one of the few prototypes they had to a demo at a large hotel chain. The demo is going well and then one of the hotel people asks the question, "Will it pass the Coke test?". The salesman doesn't have a clue what the Coke test is, but in true salesman form, he answers "Yes." The hotel buyer proceeds to pick up a can of Coke, pop the tab and dump it down the keyboard of the very expensive prototype... Needless to say, that prototype never worked again. The real amazing part of the story is that the Hotel bought a lot of them -- with the newly designed rubber matt over the keyboard... I gather that particular salesman never made up answers to questions after that, too...
Guess what. I've heard that most of HP's customers still run the 32 bit operating system on the 64 bit computers because the 32 bit OS is faster.
Performance is very dependent on cache footprint size. In some applications I have worked on (lots of small processes), it was very dependent on stack frame size: When you go to 64 bits, the minimum stack frame size doubles. So does the size of all the registers saves (i.e., context switches). This is all stuff that one can't control from the application.
Actually, the way CDs are produced can affect the playback quality in cheap players: The lower frequency components of the jitter in the digital data feeds through the power supply rails into the analog electronics. It doesn't happen with players that have good grounding an power supply regulation (but there pretty much aren't any). It also doesn't happen if you use the digital outputs of the drive. Of course the D/A converter can still be sensitive to bit pattern jitter in the digital stream....
I once had that tried on me. I told them I would sign it if they gave me an exemption for peotry and musical compositions (I am a musician and a songwriter). They said they'd get back to me and I never signed ANYTHING. [Whoever it was in the legal department would never want to admit they had written the contract that poorly in the first place.]