The mac pro (not the ashtray version, don't know what that's like) is still a solid workstation. You can cram 64GB of ECC RAM in it quite happily. I don't know how long Apple will keep making things like that though, now it's evident there is a lot more money to be made in the consumer market.
True. Can't use it as a value store, but it seems to have found a niche for use in transfers. Party A buys bitcoin for dollars, transfers coin to party B, party B buys dollars with bitcoins.
Possible, but there's another explanation: Many companies just throw as many patents at the office as they can, including ones with no merit to them at all. The worst that can happen is rejection, for which there is no penalty at all, and even the most obviously junk patent has some shot of getting through. It may not stand up in court, but it can still be used to pad a portfolio.
Actually, no. The CoLP are very heavily influenced by corporate pressures, but not those ones. They work for a number of British corporations, most of them financial.
So this action is at the behest of the British record and film companies. There is some overlap, with a lot of them being multinational.
I use a squid proxy configured with a list of ad-and-tracking sites to block. There's also privoxy, which is made for that. If you've got a lot of computers and other devices or a whole family to protect, central filtering on the home server-router is easier than maintaining multiple adblock installs plus filters on android tablets, phones and iStuff.
'Securing the rights' is not that simple. In the case of a single corporate vendor, it's just a matter of negotiating payment: Microsoft or Apple hands over the money in return for the appropriate license, no problem. For open-source browsers it's a lot more difficult because there is the issue of project forking and customisation.
The Mozilla foundation could perhaps negotiate a cut-rate or even free license, yes. That's doable. But then what happens when someone else decides they would like to adapt Firefox? Now they can't, because they don't have permission to use those patented parts. It breaks the open-source development model: The code may be free, but you can't legally do much with it unless the MPEG LA grants permission, and they aren't going to give a free license to every five-employee company, let alone hobbyists and home users, and especially when many users are commercial. Plus that's only for the major browsers - are all the many obscure ones supposed to go begging for a free license and sublicensing (hah!) rights too? The only way out of this would be for the MPEG LA to simply relinquish all patent rights entirely, and that's not going to happen.
Obviously not if you just transfer the ISK to another character. But you can use it in less direct ways. A chain of transfers, some by ISK, some by one-sided market deals, some by dumping cargo at agreed-upon locations. Considering the sheer size of the data set, and assuming the characters are also being used for playing the game legitimately to generate sufficient noise, it could take weeks for someone to go through all the database just to come up with a list of suspects.
If they are that dumb, I'm not too scared of them. They might be able to shoot a few people, maybe even put together a rather pathetic bomb, but they aren't going to be slaughtering thousands.
It's widely rumored in EVE that the Russian mafia are involved. I don't know how true the stories are, but they are based on events Russian alliances spending tens of thousands of dollars of real money to maintain control of key areas, and rumors of people recieving death threats or finding the power cables to their homes cut during major battles.
It might just be people getting over-imaginative, but it isn't impossible. Online gaming combined with the grey market that certainly exists for PLEX could be a good means of money laundering and hard-to-trace payments.
Clever, aggressive, and at times outright illegal business practices. Windows may have won because of a lack of good competition (in part due to MS efforts to sabotage OS/2), but they also used a bundling technique to kill off competition for browser and media players, and a lock-in technique to achieve dominance for a time in media technology.
The old 'divx;-)' codec was actually just Microsoft's video codec with a hack. The codec was fine, but the decoder shipped with Windows was deliberately limited to only decode if the data was coming from an ASF/WMV file - so if you wanted to use this very advanced (for the time) codec, you had to use only Microsoft's encoders and playback software. Further, if you actually read the license for the ASF specification, one of the requirements for implementing it was that your software must not save video in any format other than ASF - making it impossible to legally transcode their Windows-playable-only format into anything else. That's why they threatened the creator of virtualdub with legal action. Lock-in tricks like that served to effectively place great barriers in the way of interopability. You could use linux or BSD - but you won't be able to play video, at least until someone cracks and rebrands the codec.
I've seen it used on many network diagrams, but by the time I was in university it generally refered to an internet connection. The visual meaning is clear enough. It means 'Something happens here, but the exact description is not important to this diagram.'
I'm more cynical: I believe that the vast majority of people couldn't care one bit about internet privacy until it affects them personally and directly. The only people using mesh networking and encrypted p2p are pirates and enthusiastic activists.
The cloud isn't technological. There are a few enabling technologies like virtualisation, but the cloud itsself is a business model. It's just a new, upmarket term for 'outsourcing to a specialist contractor.'
Thought up some more: Furrymuck, latitude and SPR much passwords. EVE online password. two IRC nameserv passwords. Work computer bios passwords. Work network switch passwords. Combination to my wall safe. Unlock code for my phone. Unlock code for my tablet. Two internet banking passwords. Somewhere out there, a disused Second Life account from before I concluded it is crap.
Three mail accounts. Laptop bios, laptop login, laptop root. Several encrypted archival hard drives. Slashdot login. The Register account. Furaffinity account. Home server user password, home server drive encryption password, home server root password. Minecraft account. Ukfur forum password. Work user password. Work domain admin password. Work test user account passwords. Ebuyer account password. Ebay password. Paypal password. GPG private key password. Retroshare private key password. Three sites I'd rather not mention. 1and1 hosting password. Domain name registrar password.
That's just what I can remember right now, so it's probably around half of what I actually have. How do I remember so many? I don't. Very few humans are capable of that. It's bordering on impossible. You need to either have a list somewhere written down, or reuse passwords a lot. Neither option is ideal - both introduce security vulnerabilities.
By tradition in the US, the president takes personal blame and credit for everything that government does and does not do - regardless of actual involvement.
Look at the size of the thing. You could do it, yes - not a wire cage, too heavy, more of a net supported by poles. But building and maintaining the thing would cost a fortune
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The mac pro (not the ashtray version, don't know what that's like) is still a solid workstation. You can cram 64GB of ECC RAM in it quite happily. I don't know how long Apple will keep making things like that though, now it's evident there is a lot more money to be made in the consumer market.
"Why bother investing in a huge corp network when you can't trust it anyway?"
Redundency in security.
True. Can't use it as a value store, but it seems to have found a niche for use in transfers. Party A buys bitcoin for dollars, transfers coin to party B, party B buys dollars with bitcoins.
The US allows patents not just on software, but on business methods too. JPMorgan probably has a great many business patents.
Possible, but there's another explanation: Many companies just throw as many patents at the office as they can, including ones with no merit to them at all. The worst that can happen is rejection, for which there is no penalty at all, and even the most obviously junk patent has some shot of getting through. It may not stand up in court, but it can still be used to pad a portfolio.
Absolutely nothing. Copyright issues aren't even on the public debate radar here.
Actually, no. The CoLP are very heavily influenced by corporate pressures, but not those ones. They work for a number of British corporations, most of them financial.
So this action is at the behest of the British record and film companies. There is some overlap, with a lot of them being multinational.
I use a squid proxy configured with a list of ad-and-tracking sites to block. There's also privoxy, which is made for that. If you've got a lot of computers and other devices or a whole family to protect, central filtering on the home server-router is easier than maintaining multiple adblock installs plus filters on android tablets, phones and iStuff.
That's now how irony works.
"Just because you have a 3 digit UID does not excuse"
A 3-digit UID excuses anything.
'Securing the rights' is not that simple. In the case of a single corporate vendor, it's just a matter of negotiating payment: Microsoft or Apple hands over the money in return for the appropriate license, no problem. For open-source browsers it's a lot more difficult because there is the issue of project forking and customisation.
The Mozilla foundation could perhaps negotiate a cut-rate or even free license, yes. That's doable. But then what happens when someone else decides they would like to adapt Firefox? Now they can't, because they don't have permission to use those patented parts. It breaks the open-source development model: The code may be free, but you can't legally do much with it unless the MPEG LA grants permission, and they aren't going to give a free license to every five-employee company, let alone hobbyists and home users, and especially when many users are commercial. Plus that's only for the major browsers - are all the many obscure ones supposed to go begging for a free license and sublicensing (hah!) rights too? The only way out of this would be for the MPEG LA to simply relinquish all patent rights entirely, and that's not going to happen.
I think that's less to do with the video standard than the very impressive quality of x264. It's taken years of tweaking to get it working so well.
Obviously not if you just transfer the ISK to another character. But you can use it in less direct ways. A chain of transfers, some by ISK, some by one-sided market deals, some by dumping cargo at agreed-upon locations. Considering the sheer size of the data set, and assuming the characters are also being used for playing the game legitimately to generate sufficient noise, it could take weeks for someone to go through all the database just to come up with a list of suspects.
There's a thriving grey market for PLEX - and even if the money is of dubious legality, you won't have the police going after it.
There's no doubt it could be done - the real question is how the efficiency compares to more traditional laundering means.
SL is actually a very bad place to go for that. Literacy standards are very low compare to other communities.
If they are that dumb, I'm not too scared of them. They might be able to shoot a few people, maybe even put together a rather pathetic bomb, but they aren't going to be slaughtering thousands.
It's widely rumored in EVE that the Russian mafia are involved. I don't know how true the stories are, but they are based on events Russian alliances spending tens of thousands of dollars of real money to maintain control of key areas, and rumors of people recieving death threats or finding the power cables to their homes cut during major battles.
It might just be people getting over-imaginative, but it isn't impossible. Online gaming combined with the grey market that certainly exists for PLEX could be a good means of money laundering and hard-to-trace payments.
Clever, aggressive, and at times outright illegal business practices. Windows may have won because of a lack of good competition (in part due to MS efforts to sabotage OS/2), but they also used a bundling technique to kill off competition for browser and media players, and a lock-in technique to achieve dominance for a time in media technology.
The old 'divx ;-)' codec was actually just Microsoft's video codec with a hack. The codec was fine, but the decoder shipped with Windows was deliberately limited to only decode if the data was coming from an ASF/WMV file - so if you wanted to use this very advanced (for the time) codec, you had to use only Microsoft's encoders and playback software. Further, if you actually read the license for the ASF specification, one of the requirements for implementing it was that your software must not save video in any format other than ASF - making it impossible to legally transcode their Windows-playable-only format into anything else. That's why they threatened the creator of virtualdub with legal action. Lock-in tricks like that served to effectively place great barriers in the way of interopability. You could use linux or BSD - but you won't be able to play video, at least until someone cracks and rebrands the codec.
I've seen it used on many network diagrams, but by the time I was in university it generally refered to an internet connection. The visual meaning is clear enough. It means 'Something happens here, but the exact description is not important to this diagram.'
I'm more cynical: I believe that the vast majority of people couldn't care one bit about internet privacy until it affects them personally and directly. The only people using mesh networking and encrypted p2p are pirates and enthusiastic activists.
The cloud isn't technological. There are a few enabling technologies like virtualisation, but the cloud itsself is a business model. It's just a new, upmarket term for 'outsourcing to a specialist contractor.'
Thought up some more: Furrymuck, latitude and SPR much passwords. EVE online password. two IRC nameserv passwords. Work computer bios passwords. Work network switch passwords. Combination to my wall safe. Unlock code for my phone. Unlock code for my tablet. Two internet banking passwords. Somewhere out there, a disused Second Life account from before I concluded it is crap.
At least I don't have a facebook account.
Clumsy is precisely the problem.
Three mail accounts. Laptop bios, laptop login, laptop root. Several encrypted archival hard drives. Slashdot login. The Register account. Furaffinity account. Home server user password, home server drive encryption password, home server root password. Minecraft account. Ukfur forum password. Work user password. Work domain admin password. Work test user account passwords. Ebuyer account password. Ebay password. Paypal password. GPG private key password. Retroshare private key password. Three sites I'd rather not mention. 1and1 hosting password. Domain name registrar password.
That's just what I can remember right now, so it's probably around half of what I actually have. How do I remember so many? I don't. Very few humans are capable of that. It's bordering on impossible. You need to either have a list somewhere written down, or reuse passwords a lot. Neither option is ideal - both introduce security vulnerabilities.
By tradition in the US, the president takes personal blame and credit for everything that government does and does not do - regardless of actual involvement.
Look at the size of the thing. You could do it, yes - not a wire cage, too heavy, more of a net supported by poles. But building and maintaining the thing would cost a fortune