I used to store data on hundreds of DVDs. I found that you can cram 32 disks into a 30-disk cakebox, so I numbered them all in hex. That way the first digit identifies the box to look in.
The full naming scheme is [media type][number], so hard drive number sixteen is HDRV10.
Our main server is used as an active directory domain controller, file server, DNS, DHCP, runs the build management service, webserver for a configuration program... name that one!
Big companies might be able to afford a seperate server (Or more sensibly, virtual host) for every service, but in the smaller ones it's common for servers to do many, many tasks.
All very well until you run out of space and have to move them. Cute is awkward, functional can become misleading as locations and roles change... either way, problems abound.
I imagine it varies depending on police department, but I know that the standard procedure for a lot of them in cases of computer-related crime is to sieze everything even vaguely computer related - computers, laptops, mobile phones, backup drives, games consoles, keyboards, mice, cameras, monitors, modems. The officers who do the home search aren't techies - they aren't expected to know what is and isn't worth taking, espicially given that criminals may hide their data in obscure places like the SD card in a camera or on a roommate's computer. So if in doubt, they yank it out. Then let the computer forensics department get around to sorting through it all in a year or two. As an added advantage, the extreme social, personal and financial disruption to the suspect(s) gives them a powerful incentive to cooperate - guilty or innocent.
If they lost... if he found child porn while trying to download music, he was more likely than not using a p2p network. They'll just find some way to use copyright law against him. The only thing that can stop police in a case like this is the threat of really bad PR: Going to the press might be the best thing he could do.
Right now in China, Apple is in a trademark dispute with the makers of the iPAD - a desktop computer rather shamelessly named to steal publicity from their own product. Both are making products with similar names, both are in the same field. How do you resolve that? Sure, you could have some sort of body to decide independantly - but ultimatly, they'd need a way to enforce their decisions, and that means they need to weild real power over DNS. So long as anyone has that power (and someone must, for DNS to be at all functional) they can abuse it, or be threatened or forced into abusing it.
Today, a TV advert might tell people to visit their website at www.somecompany.com. Everyone knows it.
What if instead the TV advert, print advert, radio, etc were telling people to go to fg38gq4kuq234y0f283gfo4238624a3846ofgy.9247.asdli3? Sure, it might be a stable, eternal address unlike a raw IP... but it's hardly human-readable, and no marketing people in their right minds would ever allow their company to use such a name as their main means of customer contact. How do you build brand recognition into that?
It had a few technological issues too. The decay rate was dependant a lot on external conditions, so a lot of DVDs were already self-destructed before they were sent out due to improper storage.
The real mystery is the V. Is it for Video? Or Versatile? The truth is, it actually stands for both: The original spec was for 'versatile,' but video publishers swiftly started calling them 'video' discs instead.
But then how do you handle disputes? What happens when the World Wrestling Federation and World Wildlife Fund both claim WWF? What happens when some enterprising little scammer starts a company called Incorporated Bastard Millionare for the express purpose of beating IBM to their claim and forcing them to buy it off him at a hugely inflated price?
The robo-arm doesn't need 100% uptime. Sure, it'll break, but that's acceptable because it's easily fixed. The worst case would be it's something the call-out mechanic can't fix, and you have to go armless for a week while they ship you a new one.
I'm assuming the technology is standardised and common enough that you can actually call out the mechanic when it goes wrong, rather than have to wait for the arm's designer to come in person.
I've been hit by two takedowns and a false positive on contentID myself. One was actually a legitimate takedown (I used an old Disney cartoon to demonstrate some video filters I wrote), one was infringing but also a perfect textbook example of fair use (40 seconds from a 25-minute program with altered audio for purposes of noncommercial parody), and the contentID was a pure error (The 'offending' audio was so old it couldn't possibly have been copyrighted even in the US - about as old as you can get, with audio recording invented not that long before).
On the latter two I did appeal, but youtube never responded at all. Neither in the positive nor the negative - my complaint was simply ignored. So I closed my account in protest, and relocated my videos (Minus the infringing Disney cartoon) on a host I now rent. Where they shall forever languish in obscurity, because whenever people want to find video they go first to youtube now.
Facebook? Delete? Hah. Not likely. Facebook may remove images and comments from public view, but I am sure they keep them internally for analytics and advertising purposes.
Because Flickr is a US company, with servers in the US, employees in the US and management in the US. If you want DMCA-proof hosting, take your image to a company based elsewhere in the world. Just make sure you don't pick anywhere else with an equivilent law.
Because if they don't remove it immediatly, they become liable. Their role under the DMCA isn't to decide if the claim of infringement has merit - their role is to get it down as fast as possible, and then let the poster and complaintant sort it out in court between each other. This actually makes more sense than might at first be apparent - do you really want companies with no experts and no interest in law to make decisions as to what is infringing?
On the other hand, you can be confident that if the upload were by someone with a lot of money and influence, flickr would have found some way to stall - if not, the official Disney channel on youtube would have been pulled a hundred times over by activists fileing fraudulent takedowns just to prove how easily the system can be abused. It's the same old legal situation as it has always been: The law is written to protect all equally, but in reality it protects you a lot more if you've deep pockets and friends in high places.
That's how politics is done. If you want A, you demand A, B, C, D, E and F... knowing that your opponents will argue strongly, and not give up until they have something of a victory. So they defeat you on B, C, D, E and F, and declare themselves successful - but you get away with A, which is what you wanted all along. Everything else was just to play the game.
They had a witness who watched him, CCTV coverage of the console room and computer logs. Open and shut case - espicially with the public (those who survive) out for blood. It takes a lot for one person to achieve a body count measured in Hitlers.
It isn't morally ambiguous, because the writers tell the viewer he is doing the right thing. It's morally dumb, because the movie's idea of 'the right thing' would actually be a global disaster of record-breaking proportions, and possibly the collapse of civilisation itsself - but the writers shy away from addressing that and instead, in the ultimate insult, just have a news reporter tell the audience that there were 'no human casualties.'
Planes crash, cars out of control drive into houses, the power grid goes offline with controllers dead at their consoles, doctors collapse across their patients on the operating table, babies are crushed as their parent-surrogates fall on them. Disease returns. The luddites sieze their chance and riot, launching on a spree of arson and destruction across the country, uncontained by a police force too afraid of death to take them on in combat. People in care homes are left abandoned for days. Food delivery in cities becomes impossible with roads clogged solid. War, famine, pestilance and death, all unleahed by our heroic Pandora. And it's all ok, because where were NO FUCKING HUMAN CASUALTIES!
- Organics do not use interchangeable parts. You can make it work with horrible immunosurpressent hackery, but it's messy.
That really outweighs everything else. If the new robo-arm breaks, you take it to the shop where they figure out which component has failed, yank it out and stick in a new one. Maintainance is only a problem if you are going somewhere isolated where you won't be able to get it to an expert easily to do the diagnosis.
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I used to store data on hundreds of DVDs. I found that you can cram 32 disks into a 30-disk cakebox, so I numbered them all in hex. That way the first digit identifies the box to look in.
The full naming scheme is [media type][number], so hard drive number sixteen is HDRV10.
Our main server is used as an active directory domain controller, file server, DNS, DHCP, runs the build management service, webserver for a configuration program... name that one!
Big companies might be able to afford a seperate server (Or more sensibly, virtual host) for every service, but in the smaller ones it's common for servers to do many, many tasks.
All very well until you run out of space and have to move them. Cute is awkward, functional can become misleading as locations and roles change... either way, problems abound.
We use a boring systematic naming system: A site prefix, and a server number. I'm always losing track of what each one does.
I imagine it varies depending on police department, but I know that the standard procedure for a lot of them in cases of computer-related crime is to sieze everything even vaguely computer related - computers, laptops, mobile phones, backup drives, games consoles, keyboards, mice, cameras, monitors, modems. The officers who do the home search aren't techies - they aren't expected to know what is and isn't worth taking, espicially given that criminals may hide their data in obscure places like the SD card in a camera or on a roommate's computer. So if in doubt, they yank it out. Then let the computer forensics department get around to sorting through it all in a year or two. As an added advantage, the extreme social, personal and financial disruption to the suspect(s) gives them a powerful incentive to cooperate - guilty or innocent.
If they lost... if he found child porn while trying to download music, he was more likely than not using a p2p network. They'll just find some way to use copyright law against him. The only thing that can stop police in a case like this is the threat of really bad PR: Going to the press might be the best thing he could do.
It doesn't say *where* he was downloading music from. Quite possibly a p2p network of some form, and he just got falsely-named file.
I don't think Hull is under federal jurisdiction.
Right now in China, Apple is in a trademark dispute with the makers of the iPAD - a desktop computer rather shamelessly named to steal publicity from their own product. Both are making products with similar names, both are in the same field. How do you resolve that? Sure, you could have some sort of body to decide independantly - but ultimatly, they'd need a way to enforce their decisions, and that means they need to weild real power over DNS. So long as anyone has that power (and someone must, for DNS to be at all functional) they can abuse it, or be threatened or forced into abusing it.
Marketing issues though.
Today, a TV advert might tell people to visit their website at www.somecompany.com. Everyone knows it.
What if instead the TV advert, print advert, radio, etc were telling people to go to fg38gq4kuq234y0f283gfo4238624a3846ofgy.9247.asdli3? Sure, it might be a stable, eternal address unlike a raw IP... but it's hardly human-readable, and no marketing people in their right minds would ever allow their company to use such a name as their main means of customer contact. How do you build brand recognition into that?
It had a few technological issues too. The decay rate was dependant a lot on external conditions, so a lot of DVDs were already self-destructed before they were sent out due to improper storage.
The real mystery is the V. Is it for Video? Or Versatile? The truth is, it actually stands for both: The original spec was for 'versatile,' but video publishers swiftly started calling them 'video' discs instead.
And as I replied to the first person to point this out: They are digital, but they aren't Digital(tm).
But it isn't Digital(tm).
Slashdot stips the unicode trademark symbol. Shame on them!
Noone uses .us though, because it lacks brand recognition and marketing value.
But then how do you handle disputes? What happens when the World Wrestling Federation and World Wildlife Fund both claim WWF? What happens when some enterprising little scammer starts a company called Incorporated Bastard Millionare for the express purpose of beating IBM to their claim and forcing them to buy it off him at a hugely inflated price?
The robo-arm doesn't need 100% uptime. Sure, it'll break, but that's acceptable because it's easily fixed. The worst case would be it's something the call-out mechanic can't fix, and you have to go armless for a week while they ship you a new one.
I'm assuming the technology is standardised and common enough that you can actually call out the mechanic when it goes wrong, rather than have to wait for the arm's designer to come in person.
I've been hit by two takedowns and a false positive on contentID myself. One was actually a legitimate takedown (I used an old Disney cartoon to demonstrate some video filters I wrote), one was infringing but also a perfect textbook example of fair use (40 seconds from a 25-minute program with altered audio for purposes of noncommercial parody), and the contentID was a pure error (The 'offending' audio was so old it couldn't possibly have been copyrighted even in the US - about as old as you can get, with audio recording invented not that long before).
On the latter two I did appeal, but youtube never responded at all. Neither in the positive nor the negative - my complaint was simply ignored. So I closed my account in protest, and relocated my videos (Minus the infringing Disney cartoon) on a host I now rent. Where they shall forever languish in obscurity, because whenever people want to find video they go first to youtube now.
Facebook? Delete? Hah. Not likely. Facebook may remove images and comments from public view, but I am sure they keep them internally for analytics and advertising purposes.
Because Flickr is a US company, with servers in the US, employees in the US and management in the US. If you want DMCA-proof hosting, take your image to a company based elsewhere in the world. Just make sure you don't pick anywhere else with an equivilent law.
Because if they don't remove it immediatly, they become liable. Their role under the DMCA isn't to decide if the claim of infringement has merit - their role is to get it down as fast as possible, and then let the poster and complaintant sort it out in court between each other. This actually makes more sense than might at first be apparent - do you really want companies with no experts and no interest in law to make decisions as to what is infringing?
On the other hand, you can be confident that if the upload were by someone with a lot of money and influence, flickr would have found some way to stall - if not, the official Disney channel on youtube would have been pulled a hundred times over by activists fileing fraudulent takedowns just to prove how easily the system can be abused. It's the same old legal situation as it has always been: The law is written to protect all equally, but in reality it protects you a lot more if you've deep pockets and friends in high places.
It does if you can afford to hire a skilled lawyer specialised in copyright law and pay any court fees.
That's how politics is done. If you want A, you demand A, B, C, D, E and F... knowing that your opponents will argue strongly, and not give up until they have something of a victory. So they defeat you on B, C, D, E and F, and declare themselves successful - but you get away with A, which is what you wanted all along. Everything else was just to play the game.
They had a witness who watched him, CCTV coverage of the console room and computer logs. Open and shut case - espicially with the public (those who survive) out for blood. It takes a lot for one person to achieve a body count measured in Hitlers.
It isn't morally ambiguous, because the writers tell the viewer he is doing the right thing. It's morally dumb, because the movie's idea of 'the right thing' would actually be a global disaster of record-breaking proportions, and possibly the collapse of civilisation itsself - but the writers shy away from addressing that and instead, in the ultimate insult, just have a news reporter tell the audience that there were 'no human casualties.'
Planes crash, cars out of control drive into houses, the power grid goes offline with controllers dead at their consoles, doctors collapse across their patients on the operating table, babies are crushed as their parent-surrogates fall on them. Disease returns. The luddites sieze their chance and riot, launching on a spree of arson and destruction across the country, uncontained by a police force too afraid of death to take them on in combat. People in care homes are left abandoned for days. Food delivery in cities becomes impossible with roads clogged solid. War, famine, pestilance and death, all unleahed by our heroic Pandora. And it's all ok, because where were NO FUCKING HUMAN CASUALTIES!
On the other hand:
- Organics do not use interchangeable parts. You can make it work with horrible immunosurpressent hackery, but it's messy.
That really outweighs everything else. If the new robo-arm breaks, you take it to the shop where they figure out which component has failed, yank it out and stick in a new one. Maintainance is only a problem if you are going somewhere isolated where you won't be able to get it to an expert easily to do the diagnosis.