What criteria makes you think it is not a copyrightable work?
The person who makes boilerplate text has created:
An original work, if no one else had written that particular boiler plate text before
They authored it
The boiler plate is literary in nature, being as it is comprised of words, numbers, or verbal/numerical symbols,
and it is non-dramatic, being that it is not a work that is performed.
The boiler plate is fixed it into a tangible form (ASCII coded text stored on a computer disk)
The person who customizes boilerplate to send a letter has simply changed some blanks in the text, to personalize it,
creating a new letter that is a derivative of the boilerplate text
As long as nothing goes wrong with the instruments, and the flight guidance system.
Remember, there are other planes out there around airports,
And there can be things like unexpected 50kt crosswinds.
This is all assuming the plane is anywhere near an airport at the time something bad happened to the pilot, and nothing else went wrong with any passengers or the plane causing a need for an emergency landing under unusual circumstances.
Without an ILS signal, there is no autoland capability.
So the plane might not make it to the airport without the pilot dying, if no nearby airport has this capability.
Maybe so, except they haven't proposed the law yet to reduce the speed of key roads in the state to 5mph, so that the pass is actually required to get around.
Maybe this as more like the 16 year old girl who just gave her daddy a kiss after sneaking out at night and wrecking his brand new Porche a couple of weeks ago.
Who says the owner(s) of the car(s) and person(s) present at the accident won't still be the only persons liable if an accident occurs due to speeding?
Just because the driver didn't break any laws in injuring someone, doesn't mean the government is "liable" for this.
South v. Maryland; local law-enforcement have no duty to protect individuals, but only a general duty to enforce the laws
Only if the state has consented to this liability. The law that enables "speeding passes" could contain a liability shield for the state,
Due to Sovereign immunity,
the state itself cannot be held liable, unless the state has consented.
However, Youtube and all the other streaming sites just sometimes have hickups - the stream will just stop buffering at some point, of the prebuffering is so slow that you need to pause the video for five minutes before starting. This happens on desktop machines, laptops, everything...
Yes... I noticed this started becoming a problem after the Youtube<=>Google merger, at some point Google introduced the "New and Improved" player
You know, the one that made the volume control 10x as hard to use and unreliable, in that you could mouse over it, and click it, and sometimes nothing would happen -- the option would not appear for you to change volume?
Well, a heck of a lot of "buffering" issues seem to start at the same time.
Nowadays it's almost as if the player is lighting up the bar to indicate parts of the video are "downloaded" which aren't really downloaded yet.
Anyways, it may be a coincidental new Flash release around that time, but I agree there is major suckage with regards to "buffering" on many online video sites, and Flash has to claim some of the responsibility; if not a bug in Flash, then the fact it makes things so hard to do _right_, that most sites do it wrong.
Meanwhile, HP is trying it's 23rd swing at the 3par course, due to trying to charge such exorbitant equipment prices to businesses who are trying to save $$$.
I think this only makes sense really against workstations accidentally left unattended, lost cell phone, etc.
A real spammer has no difficulty logging right back in after being kicked off, assuming they know credentials.
Why would the spammer want to kick off legitimate user logins?
That would make it obvious to the legit user that their account is compromised. The spammer probably doesn't want that.
The spammer would prefer to send out more spam as long as the ignorant user is blithely unaware.
The user will not be effectively stopping the spam when they are unaware of their own account compromise.
The real owner's 'legitimate activity' will help mask the spammer's activity, and make the account continue to look legitimate to anyone who might otherwise ignore friend requests / other miscellany, suspecting a 'spam account'.
If the legit account owner does figure it out, and manage to figure out the 'kick other logins' feature and that they need to use it, I would be impressed.
The spammer will probably already have scraped their profile and taken advantage of the fact their e-mail password is probably the same, by the time they figure out a spammer was monkeying with their FB account.
Once the e-mail account's compromised... the spammer changes the e-mail password, then immediately initiates a password reset of the FB account.
Once all the passwords are changed, who cares if the legit user can kick off logins?
The spammer will just log right back in, so fast, it doesn't even matter.
This is more sensible: changing passwords should force all login sessions to end.
The two people who will use this legitimately and are technically savvy enough to figure out this feature and know what an IP address is, will really appreciate it.
80% of the public will have no clue, unless this is presented when you login, listing "Other recent logins".
They'll have no clue about IPs still, or how to use this.
Since the average user is going to have their e-mail password be the same as their FB password, single-use e-mailed passwords does not buy much at all.
A captcha would probably be a stronger protection measure.
A captcha and a 'security question' the user setup in advance.
Is there even such a thing as a 'classroom' that can properly accomadate 200 students, and not just be a professor in a fishtank talking to the wall?
Sounds more like a theatre, concert hall, place where attendees of a show might sleep while a suit gives a keynote, presidential address,
or a church, than a classroom...
Professor: This is the gospel according to (book publisher)
Students: [eyes glazed over] Glory and praise to you oh Calculus
Professor: [canned speech]
Professor: The word of Leibnitz
Students: [barely awake] Thanks be to Math
I don't think bandwidth is the issue, the article says:
using Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One over a local Wi-Fi network connected to a 25-Mbps Verizon FiOS broadband connection, mobile expert Kevin Tofel found that videos were slow to load, if they loaded at all
So, that means... either the phone's WiFi is extremely flawwed and substandard, Verizon FiOS wasn't living up to its promises, OR
the issue with the phone was something other than a network bottleneck.
There could be a bottleneck in the phone's ability to use a fast connection, or a bottleneck in terms of CPU required to render that video using Flash.
or an I/O bottleneck loading all that stuff into the phone's RAM and such
But there is generally plenty of bandwidth in a WiFi environment to load a video.
Otherwise, the PCs would be having issues as well (which they are not)
The problem is that a lot of people don't have a whole lot to do at work. It's not their fault they company doesn't know how to make full use of their resources. This is how many large companies work. Each person has a small menial task that has to get done. When something comes into their queue, they need to complete the task. And then they are left sitting until another task comes into their queue. You might say the solution is to have less people working, so you can fill up the queue faster, less downtime. Maybe all the work that is being done by 10 people could get done by a single person. But here's the problem. You'd have to find a person who could be trained to do all 10 of those jobs.
Having every person doing only a few jobs assures you are not overworking people, which helps ensure they do their jobs properly.
If someone is physically working every single moment, they are going to get worn out quickly.
People do need breaks.
The real question should be: Is the person playing the facebook game, getting all their work done?
And... is the amount of work they are assigned a reasonable amount, or their responsibility coverage a reasonable amount?
If they are spending over 10% of the workday playing around, and the quality of their work is poor, they are not getting a reasonable amount of work done, or they cannot take an urgent call because they are playing a game, then there is something to complain about, otherwise...
I don't doubt some of these games get played at work by some people.
But I would suggest the reason they are popular, as opposed to say random flash games out on the web,
is instead because they are on a popular social networking website. And some of them have social elements where friends are encouraged to invite friends, and "help each other"
Just enough people have to be exposed to it and get addicted...
Given three data centres each in a different continent, and a query on three (parts of) tables, each located in one of these three data centres, how can you make sure that the result in Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable, all in finite time? This is far from a trivial problem, especially in the real world situation that a network can be unavailable for minutes at a time.
The problem you have stated is something more complex than the problem of scaling datasets...
Scaling database sizes does not necessarily mean building three datacenters and splitting your tables into parts..
If you have enough money, you can use one datacenter, one part.
Amazon's issue is splitting a database up between multiple datacenters, so they can better serve different areas.
That's nice, but it's a separate issue from scaling SQL and scaling ACID for performance with large datasets.
That is: Amazon's problem is not the major scaling problem that drives most people to NoSQL, this 'division' problem is a problem separating responsibility of a workload to multiple remote independent database servers, and maintaining the transactional integrity.
This is far from a trivial problem, especially in the real world situation that a network can be unavailable for minutes at a time.
It's far from trivial, and inherent when you want to separate responsibility for a database in a transactional system between multiple autonomous nodes.
If your network connection to other datacenters is unavailable, and someone requests to "write data", you only have a few options , and none of them are particularly friendly to the users of the application.
(a) Server delays SELECT queries, until the network is available again, so you don't get to read any data until servers can actually connect back together and arrive at a new consistent state that they definitely agree about.
(b) SELECT queries still work but return old data, some servers delay new INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/ALTERs, until the network is available again, so all servers can move to the next database state.
(c) Servers reach some advance agreement utilizing a clustering algorithm, about which writes can be done immediately by which server, when some servers are isolated, you apply (a) or (b) to anything that requires updating (or seeing respectively) data outside the local server's responsibility.
So yes, it is hard to avoid violating ACID in clustering scenarios.
But I do not equate 'clustering' and 'scaling'.
Doubtful, but economic pressures will cause such phones to stop taking cash, eventually, so less service is required.
When you swipe your CC to use the pay phone, you will be identified
And public phones are rapidly disappearing, at most places, other than hotels/airports, where surveillance is already quite robust.
If you take legal action against them for asking for your SSN, you can be rest assured, your identity will be known, which is what you were maybe trying to avoid, or was it?
Aww..../me acts disappointed you didn't mention the ease of secretly cloning the SIM card of someone walking by 15 feet away, using cellphone scanners.
An expired patent number on a product has positive social benefit. If anything, we should require the manufacturer to continue affixing the patent number to the product for a period after the patent expires. This lets you know how to reproduce the product, which you now have the right to do.
Yes. I think the law should be changed, so it's OK to affix an expired patent number, as long as you print the expiration by the number, for example "Pat No 1,234,567. Expires XX/YY/ZZ
Should not incur a fine, as long as the expiration date is included and truthful.
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What criteria makes you think it is not a copyrightable work?
The person who makes boilerplate text has created:
The person who customizes boilerplate to send a letter has simply changed some blanks in the text, to personalize it, creating a new letter that is a derivative of the boilerplate text
As long as nothing goes wrong with the instruments, and the flight guidance system. Remember, there are other planes out there around airports,
And there can be things like unexpected 50kt crosswinds.
This is all assuming the plane is anywhere near an airport at the time something bad happened to the pilot, and nothing else went wrong with any passengers or the plane causing a need for an emergency landing under unusual circumstances.
Without an ILS signal, there is no autoland capability.
So the plane might not make it to the airport without the pilot dying, if no nearby airport has this capability.
So maybe they should take on co-pilots trained to double as a flight attendant in case of an emergency?
As far as safety is concerned, I think hardly anything is more important on board than that the plane does not crash.
And something unexpected can happen to a pilot to prevent them from flying the plane.
This is like suggesting using 4 hard disks in RAID0 on your mission critical database server, instead of 8 hard disks in RAID10, to save money.
And claiming your data is just as safe and performance is just as good, either way.
Maybe so, except they haven't proposed the law yet to reduce the speed of key roads in the state to 5mph, so that the pass is actually required to get around.
Maybe this as more like the 16 year old girl who just gave her daddy a kiss after sneaking out at night and wrecking his brand new Porche a couple of weeks ago.
"Yes, that was nice, thanks"
"No, you're still grounded."
There is no rhyme or reason to it because Anonymous is a disorganized swarm made up of people of all ages and cultures.
Fail. There is a rhyme and a reason, you just don't seem to understand the Anonymous collective or what drives it :-)
How about real 'windows'?
Have a fake window that goes to a vent/shaft to the roof or a real window, where sunlight is directed in through a series of mirrors.
Implement whatever security mechanisms you like to make sure no animals or anything else can intrude the shafts
Oh yeah, and don't use flickering fluorescents or other lighting with extreme brightness or extreme color temperatures
As in these
Who says the owner(s) of the car(s) and person(s) present at the accident won't still be the only persons liable if an accident occurs due to speeding? Just because the driver didn't break any laws in injuring someone, doesn't mean the government is "liable" for this. South v. Maryland; local law-enforcement have no duty to protect individuals, but only a general duty to enforce the laws
Only if the state has consented to this liability. The law that enables "speeding passes" could contain a liability shield for the state, Due to Sovereign immunity, the state itself cannot be held liable, unless the state has consented.
However, Youtube and all the other streaming sites just sometimes have hickups - the stream will just stop buffering at some point, of the prebuffering is so slow that you need to pause the video for five minutes before starting. This happens on desktop machines, laptops, everything...
Yes... I noticed this started becoming a problem after the Youtube<=>Google merger, at some point Google introduced the "New and Improved" player
You know, the one that made the volume control 10x as hard to use and unreliable, in that you could mouse over it, and click it, and sometimes nothing would happen -- the option would not appear for you to change volume?
Well, a heck of a lot of "buffering" issues seem to start at the same time. Nowadays it's almost as if the player is lighting up the bar to indicate parts of the video are "downloaded" which aren't really downloaded yet.
Anyways, it may be a coincidental new Flash release around that time, but I agree there is major suckage with regards to "buffering" on many online video sites, and Flash has to claim some of the responsibility; if not a bug in Flash, then the fact it makes things so hard to do _right_, that most sites do it wrong.
And gets a Hole in one
Meanwhile, HP is trying it's 23rd swing at the 3par course, due to trying to charge such exorbitant equipment prices to businesses who are trying to save $$$.
Sorry, HP, you lose.
I think this only makes sense really against workstations accidentally left unattended, lost cell phone, etc. A real spammer has no difficulty logging right back in after being kicked off, assuming they know credentials.
Why would the spammer want to kick off legitimate user logins? That would make it obvious to the legit user that their account is compromised. The spammer probably doesn't want that.
The spammer would prefer to send out more spam as long as the ignorant user is blithely unaware. The user will not be effectively stopping the spam when they are unaware of their own account compromise.
The real owner's 'legitimate activity' will help mask the spammer's activity, and make the account continue to look legitimate to anyone who might otherwise ignore friend requests / other miscellany, suspecting a 'spam account'.
If the legit account owner does figure it out, and manage to figure out the 'kick other logins' feature and that they need to use it, I would be impressed.
The spammer will probably already have scraped their profile and taken advantage of the fact their e-mail password is probably the same, by the time they figure out a spammer was monkeying with their FB account.
Once the e-mail account's compromised... the spammer changes the e-mail password, then immediately initiates a password reset of the FB account.
Once all the passwords are changed, who cares if the legit user can kick off logins? The spammer will just log right back in, so fast, it doesn't even matter.
This is more sensible: changing passwords should force all login sessions to end.
The two people who will use this legitimately and are technically savvy enough to figure out this feature and know what an IP address is, will really appreciate it.
80% of the public will have no clue, unless this is presented when you login, listing "Other recent logins".
They'll have no clue about IPs still, or how to use this.
Since the average user is going to have their e-mail password be the same as their FB password, single-use e-mailed passwords does not buy much at all.
A captcha would probably be a stronger protection measure. A captcha and a 'security question' the user setup in advance.
Is there even such a thing as a 'classroom' that can properly accomadate 200 students, and not just be a professor in a fishtank talking to the wall?
Sounds more like a theatre, concert hall, place where attendees of a show might sleep while a suit gives a keynote, presidential address, or a church, than a classroom...
Professor: This is the gospel according to (book publisher)
Students: [eyes glazed over] Glory and praise to you oh Calculus
Professor: [canned speech]
Professor: The word of Leibnitz
Students: [barely awake] Thanks be to Math
I don't think bandwidth is the issue, the article says: using Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One over a local Wi-Fi network connected to a 25-Mbps Verizon FiOS broadband connection, mobile expert Kevin Tofel found that videos were slow to load, if they loaded at all
So, that means... either the phone's WiFi is extremely flawwed and substandard, Verizon FiOS wasn't living up to its promises, OR the issue with the phone was something other than a network bottleneck.
There could be a bottleneck in the phone's ability to use a fast connection, or a bottleneck in terms of CPU required to render that video using Flash. or an I/O bottleneck loading all that stuff into the phone's RAM and such
But there is generally plenty of bandwidth in a WiFi environment to load a video. Otherwise, the PCs would be having issues as well (which they are not)
The problem is that a lot of people don't have a whole lot to do at work. It's not their fault they company doesn't know how to make full use of their resources. This is how many large companies work. Each person has a small menial task that has to get done. When something comes into their queue, they need to complete the task. And then they are left sitting until another task comes into their queue. You might say the solution is to have less people working, so you can fill up the queue faster, less downtime. Maybe all the work that is being done by 10 people could get done by a single person. But here's the problem. You'd have to find a person who could be trained to do all 10 of those jobs.
Having every person doing only a few jobs assures you are not overworking people, which helps ensure they do their jobs properly.
If someone is physically working every single moment, they are going to get worn out quickly. People do need breaks.
The real question should be: Is the person playing the facebook game, getting all their work done?
And... is the amount of work they are assigned a reasonable amount, or their responsibility coverage a reasonable amount?
If they are spending over 10% of the workday playing around, and the quality of their work is poor, they are not getting a reasonable amount of work done, or they cannot take an urgent call because they are playing a game, then there is something to complain about, otherwise...
I don't doubt some of these games get played at work by some people.
But I would suggest the reason they are popular, as opposed to say random flash games out on the web, is instead because they are on a popular social networking website. And some of them have social elements where friends are encouraged to invite friends, and "help each other"
Just enough people have to be exposed to it and get addicted...
Yes.. I anxiously await a complete implementation....
Given three data centres each in a different continent, and a query on three (parts of) tables, each located in one of these three data centres, how can you make sure that the result in Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable, all in finite time? This is far from a trivial problem, especially in the real world situation that a network can be unavailable for minutes at a time.
The problem you have stated is something more complex than the problem of scaling datasets...
Scaling database sizes does not necessarily mean building three datacenters and splitting your tables into parts..
If you have enough money, you can use one datacenter, one part.
Amazon's issue is splitting a database up between multiple datacenters, so they can better serve different areas.
That's nice, but it's a separate issue from scaling SQL and scaling ACID for performance with large datasets.
That is: Amazon's problem is not the major scaling problem that drives most people to NoSQL, this 'division' problem is a problem separating responsibility of a workload to multiple remote independent database servers, and maintaining the transactional integrity.
This is far from a trivial problem, especially in the real world situation that a network can be unavailable for minutes at a time.
It's far from trivial, and inherent when you want to separate responsibility for a database in a transactional system between multiple autonomous nodes. If your network connection to other datacenters is unavailable, and someone requests to "write data", you only have a few options , and none of them are particularly friendly to the users of the application.
(a) Server delays SELECT queries, until the network is available again, so you don't get to read any data until servers can actually connect back together and arrive at a new consistent state that they definitely agree about.
(b) SELECT queries still work but return old data, some servers delay new INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/ALTERs, until the network is available again, so all servers can move to the next database state.
(c) Servers reach some advance agreement utilizing a clustering algorithm, about which writes can be done immediately by which server, when some servers are isolated, you apply (a) or (b) to anything that requires updating (or seeing respectively) data outside the local server's responsibility.
So yes, it is hard to avoid violating ACID in clustering scenarios. But I do not equate 'clustering' and 'scaling'.
Are cell phones so unpopular in india, so few people have them that it's actually economically feasible for the government to do that?
Or there are a heck of a lot of cheaply paid government officials, or India is extremely extremely wealthy...
Doubtful, but economic pressures will cause such phones to stop taking cash, eventually, so less service is required. When you swipe your CC to use the pay phone, you will be identified
And public phones are rapidly disappearing, at most places, other than hotels/airports, where surveillance is already quite robust.
If you take legal action against them for asking for your SSN, you can be rest assured, your identity will be known, which is what you were maybe trying to avoid, or was it?
as it's very easy to get forged documents.
Aww.... /me acts disappointed you didn't mention the ease of secretly cloning the SIM card of someone walking by 15 feet away, using cellphone scanners.
An expired patent number on a product has positive social benefit. If anything, we should require the manufacturer to continue affixing the patent number to the product for a period after the patent expires. This lets you know how to reproduce the product, which you now have the right to do.
Yes. I think the law should be changed, so it's OK to affix an expired patent number, as long as you print the expiration by the number, for example "Pat No 1,234,567. Expires XX/YY/ZZ
Should not incur a fine, as long as the expiration date is included and truthful.