That's part of the issue. If you break the TOS, you have voided the contract granting permission to access a computer system. If you access it, you are accessing a computer system without authorisation - a criminal offence in the US under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Legally, it's really no different from cracking your way in. That's why the maximum penalty he was threatened with was so high, and why there is such an outcry: The law used was not intended to criminalise violating a website TOS, but it implicitly does just that.
Digital in the technological sense. The quote was speaking in a business sense. The two fields have very different meanings for the word. In business, 'digital' could be defined as 'decoupled from a single physical medium.'
Any kind of autonomous attack decision is abuseable in itsself for propaganda purposes. All the defender need do is place their radio jammer in a school. Signal out, drone jammed, counterattack launched, and by the next morning news channels around the world are running the story of how the US air force slaughtered hundreds of innocent children in a bungled attack.
With the rate of advance, it shouldn't be impossible to make a drone resistant to that. GPS can be easily augmented with intertial/beacon/landmark/compass navigation. Good enough for a 'fly here, bomb this, come back' mission.
Seriously. I've tried to google, and the most informative things I find are other people asking the same question. Nowhere on the HP site does it actually say what this technology is, though they do seem to insist on putting a (tm) after every use of the term. There's a lot of marketing rubbish like "With Beats Audio(tm) on board, the richest, most dynamic sound on a laptop is at your fingertips." But nothing that actually says what Beats Audio is or does. The best I've come up with is http://tunelab.com/2012/01/09/what-exactly-is-beats-audio-update-an-answer/ - which suggests that it's just a trademarked name for a few changes as trivial as changing the headphone jack surround from metal to plastic (which most have anyway) and installing common-sense things like putting the headphone amp away from any noisy digital traces.
It's not an awards show. It's an advertising campaign. Nothing but a big event various studios fund to slap a 'Go watch this!' stamp on their own products. The big awards have little if anything to do with the actual quality of the movie - it's all business.
As evidence of this claim, I just point out that Transformers won three oscars. Two of them for the sound.
If you're compiling a collection of 'zealot moments.' I'd suggest the Betamax case in the US (In which Sony attempted to ban the VCR) and it's UK equivilent with the Amstrad dual-cassette deck. But if you're looking for age, the oldest I can think of would be in 1905-06, when one of the artist associations of the day called for a ban on a new-fangled technology, the player piano, arguing that it would end creativity in the music industry: People would just listen to the same rolls over and over until the end of time.
Back in the day, you could just fire up a portscanner looking for netbios shares and gain trivial access to C drive on many computers. I used to do that quite often - then find the desktop folder and leave a text file there explaining the security flaw and urging the user to fix it.
They didn't have need to, really. The power of Napster's p2p model was to eliminate hosting costs - the amount of data Napster shifted would have cost a fortune by conventional means. But if you're running a business, that's not an issue. iTunes doesn't use p2p. The only thing that the industry should have learned from Napster was that customers really want convenience and speed.
You need enough that you won't need to use them. The world is fairly peaceful right now - the old threat of Russia dimmed, China seems intent on ecodenomic success rather than military conquest for their future, and any other nuclear power the US is on generally good terms with. But you can't be sure that'll stay forever. What'll happen if, in ten years, a Russian president comes to power on an anti-west platform, calling for a return to the glory days? Or if North Korea gets nuclear weapons? If that happens, the only thing protecting the US from attack is the assurance that if anyone is dumb enough to nuke one of their cities, they are ready to hit back at the attacker so hard their ashes will glow in the dark. Maintaining peace by the threat of overwhelming firepower isn't exactly the most tactful of solutions, but it seems to work. Regional conflicts have abounded since the invention of nuclear weapons, but no-one is foolish enough to start World War 3.
They are ineffective. And the only way to make them effective in the age of the internet is to make them draconian. You can't hope to enforce a law against a crime so trivial to commit and commonplace if you need to worry about things like proof, verified evidence, a fair hearing or all the other things usually seen as legal rights. Just like you can't hope to stop people shareing memory sticks full of music with their friends unless you ban the technology to make those copies, or at least impose a penalty far out of proportion so you can ruin a few lives as examples to the rest of the population. That is the price of effective copyright, and I'm not willing to pay it.
Adblock RL: Replaces all billboards, posters and other advertising with blank space. Social-app: Automatically recognises the faces of everyone you are supposed to know and overlays name and a history of recent interactions, allowing you to pretend you care enough to remember who they are. Nudievision: Construct a 3d model of figures and overlay, effectively removing clothing. Pure Eyes: Blocks any sexual images, including women showing more flesh than would be considered modest in an Amish town. Marketed at the super-devout Christian market. Halal Eyes: Actually just Pure Eyes with the logo changed, but marketed to Muslims instead. Child compass: Receives GPS position from offspring's mobile phone and maintains a continually updated directional indicator to aid to recapture when they run off. Pedofinder: For every face seen, perform automatic lookup in public sex offender databases. A vital app for all paranoid parents so they know when to shun people. Gaydar: Tags an icon over any other Gaydar user.
1) doesn't always work. I've only had one thing confiscated by US customs: A shilling. It's an obsolete coin, no longer legal tender anywhere in the world. Just a little disc of cheap metal. I posted one to a collector in the US. The envelope arrived, but the coin was gone: They actually forwarded on an empty envelope! I'm guessing because of the rule against importing currency. A shilling isn't currency, and hasn't been for decades, but the American inspector presumably wasn't familiar with disused British coinage.
How would gun control make a difference? Are you proposing that when the customs thug takes your boat, you should shoot them and drive it off into the sunset? Because the government has a lot more guns than you, and a police force highly trained in their use. Unless you are planning on holding a full-blown revolution and storming Washington, your guns aren't going to protect you from the government.
The one that hit Russia blew out a few windows, but that's all. The kinetic energy is proportional to mass though, and thus scales with diameter cubed: One just a little bit larger would do a great deal more damage. Double the size to 30 meters, eight times the bang.
I work full time. I can barely afford my rent. It's a bit more than a cupboard, but strangely enough all the cupboards cost exactly the same as this. Regardless of landlord. I think that's some sort of informal price fixing going on, where they all decided it would be to their collective benefit never to offer anything under £500/pcm.
It doesn't make sense, unless you need a very highly skilled workforce or your workforce is small compared to value of the goods manufactured. Foxconn, for example, is in the process of moving part of their manufacturing operations back into the US - but this is only practical because they are also replacing most of their workers with robots. Robots don't demand pay, so the local cost of labor doesn't matter.
Even if open immigration was permitted everywhere, there would still be practical issues maintaining segregation of working populations. Language and cultural barriers.
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That's part of the issue. If you break the TOS, you have voided the contract granting permission to access a computer system. If you access it, you are accessing a computer system without authorisation - a criminal offence in the US under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Legally, it's really no different from cracking your way in. That's why the maximum penalty he was threatened with was so high, and why there is such an outcry: The law used was not intended to criminalise violating a website TOS, but it implicitly does just that.
Digital in the technological sense. The quote was speaking in a business sense. The two fields have very different meanings for the word. In business, 'digital' could be defined as 'decoupled from a single physical medium.'
It's straining the limits of computer vision algorithms today just determining if the target is a building.
Any kind of autonomous attack decision is abuseable in itsself for propaganda purposes. All the defender need do is place their radio jammer in a school. Signal out, drone jammed, counterattack launched, and by the next morning news channels around the world are running the story of how the US air force slaughtered hundreds of innocent children in a bungled attack.
With the rate of advance, it shouldn't be impossible to make a drone resistant to that. GPS can be easily augmented with intertial/beacon/landmark/compass navigation. Good enough for a 'fly here, bomb this, come back' mission.
So... how many confirmed terrorist attacks have these scanners actually stopped, that previous procedures wouldn't have? How about drugs smuggling?
Seriously. I've tried to google, and the most informative things I find are other people asking the same question. Nowhere on the HP site does it actually say what this technology is, though they do seem to insist on putting a (tm) after every use of the term. There's a lot of marketing rubbish like "With Beats Audio(tm) on board, the richest, most dynamic sound on a laptop is at your fingertips." But nothing that actually says what Beats Audio is or does. The best I've come up with is http://tunelab.com/2012/01/09/what-exactly-is-beats-audio-update-an-answer/ - which suggests that it's just a trademarked name for a few changes as trivial as changing the headphone jack surround from metal to plastic (which most have anyway) and installing common-sense things like putting the headphone amp away from any noisy digital traces.
It's not an awards show. It's an advertising campaign. Nothing but a big event various studios fund to slap a 'Go watch this!' stamp on their own products. The big awards have little if anything to do with the actual quality of the movie - it's all business.
As evidence of this claim, I just point out that Transformers won three oscars. Two of them for the sound.
I was slightly wrong about the betamax case: I remembered Sony was involved, but mistakenly placed them on the wrong side.
I had it backwards. I recalled Sony was involved, but put them on the wrong side.
If you're compiling a collection of 'zealot moments.' I'd suggest the Betamax case in the US (In which Sony attempted to ban the VCR) and it's UK equivilent with the Amstrad dual-cassette deck. But if you're looking for age, the oldest I can think of would be in 1905-06, when one of the artist associations of the day called for a ban on a new-fangled technology, the player piano, arguing that it would end creativity in the music industry: People would just listen to the same rolls over and over until the end of time.
Back in the day, you could just fire up a portscanner looking for netbios shares and gain trivial access to C drive on many computers. I used to do that quite often - then find the desktop folder and leave a text file there explaining the security flaw and urging the user to fix it.
They didn't have need to, really. The power of Napster's p2p model was to eliminate hosting costs - the amount of data Napster shifted would have cost a fortune by conventional means. But if you're running a business, that's not an issue. iTunes doesn't use p2p. The only thing that the industry should have learned from Napster was that customers really want convenience and speed.
You need enough that you won't need to use them. The world is fairly peaceful right now - the old threat of Russia dimmed, China seems intent on ecodenomic success rather than military conquest for their future, and any other nuclear power the US is on generally good terms with. But you can't be sure that'll stay forever. What'll happen if, in ten years, a Russian president comes to power on an anti-west platform, calling for a return to the glory days? Or if North Korea gets nuclear weapons? If that happens, the only thing protecting the US from attack is the assurance that if anyone is dumb enough to nuke one of their cities, they are ready to hit back at the attacker so hard their ashes will glow in the dark. Maintaining peace by the threat of overwhelming firepower isn't exactly the most tactful of solutions, but it seems to work. Regional conflicts have abounded since the invention of nuclear weapons, but no-one is foolish enough to start World War 3.
They are ineffective. And the only way to make them effective in the age of the internet is to make them draconian. You can't hope to enforce a law against a crime so trivial to commit and commonplace if you need to worry about things like proof, verified evidence, a fair hearing or all the other things usually seen as legal rights. Just like you can't hope to stop people shareing memory sticks full of music with their friends unless you ban the technology to make those copies, or at least impose a penalty far out of proportion so you can ruin a few lives as examples to the rest of the population. That is the price of effective copyright, and I'm not willing to pay it.
Adblock RL: Replaces all billboards, posters and other advertising with blank space.
Social-app: Automatically recognises the faces of everyone you are supposed to know and overlays name and a history of recent interactions, allowing you to pretend you care enough to remember who they are.
Nudievision: Construct a 3d model of figures and overlay, effectively removing clothing.
Pure Eyes: Blocks any sexual images, including women showing more flesh than would be considered modest in an Amish town. Marketed at the super-devout Christian market.
Halal Eyes: Actually just Pure Eyes with the logo changed, but marketed to Muslims instead.
Child compass: Receives GPS position from offspring's mobile phone and maintains a continually updated directional indicator to aid to recapture when they run off.
Pedofinder: For every face seen, perform automatic lookup in public sex offender databases. A vital app for all paranoid parents so they know when to shun people.
Gaydar: Tags an icon over any other Gaydar user.
The exchange rate fluctuates wildly. Bitcoin is a niche currency, so this is to be expected.
1) doesn't always work. I've only had one thing confiscated by US customs: A shilling. It's an obsolete coin, no longer legal tender anywhere in the world. Just a little disc of cheap metal. I posted one to a collector in the US. The envelope arrived, but the coin was gone: They actually forwarded on an empty envelope! I'm guessing because of the rule against importing currency. A shilling isn't currency, and hasn't been for decades, but the American inspector presumably wasn't familiar with disused British coinage.
How would gun control make a difference? Are you proposing that when the customs thug takes your boat, you should shoot them and drive it off into the sunset? Because the government has a lot more guns than you, and a police force highly trained in their use. Unless you are planning on holding a full-blown revolution and storming Washington, your guns aren't going to protect you from the government.
The one that hit Russia blew out a few windows, but that's all. The kinetic energy is proportional to mass though, and thus scales with diameter cubed: One just a little bit larger would do a great deal more damage. Double the size to 30 meters, eight times the bang.
I work full time. I can barely afford my rent. It's a bit more than a cupboard, but strangely enough all the cupboards cost exactly the same as this. Regardless of landlord. I think that's some sort of informal price fixing going on, where they all decided it would be to their collective benefit never to offer anything under £500/pcm.
You'd better make sure your products are marketed well, because your competitor is selling a slightly-lower-quality version for a fifth the price.
It doesn't make sense, unless you need a very highly skilled workforce or your workforce is small compared to value of the goods manufactured. Foxconn, for example, is in the process of moving part of their manufacturing operations back into the US - but this is only practical because they are also replacing most of their workers with robots. Robots don't demand pay, so the local cost of labor doesn't matter.
Even if open immigration was permitted everywhere, there would still be practical issues maintaining segregation of working populations. Language and cultural barriers.
I would happily live in a moderately sized cupboard and forgo all international travel if it meant I could work for just two days a week.