If they want to avoid lawsuits/OSHA complaints from employees who have conditions that prevent them from working in extreme temperatures, they have to cool the ambient temperature in the primary work environment to 80 degrees or less, anyways.
Datacenter managers simply cannot allow an ambient temperature of 95 or higher, because it is a safety hazard, in that high temp exposure can cause serious physical harm to people.
Which means, that when they contain the cold air, they probably require additional air conditioning and ventilation systems to keep the working environment acceptable.
Running an additional system definitely consumes more energy. Without providing any redundancy, since the containment would prevent it assisting if there were a failure of the primary system.
Contain and exhaust your heated air, vent it up outside
That way it doesn't mix with the cold air much.
If you just contain your cold air, then you have a situation where the hot air is staying in the room, and that heat will be absorbed over a larger surface area, by all the things in your server room (including the Air handling units).
And more importantly, it was a community site, and you could use it to 'share' songs and playlists with friends.
The site would also choose songs for you and play you full-track previews, to help you discover new music to buy.
The point is what Lala allowed you to do was a massive superset of what iTunes allows.
Basically, Lala is a Web 2.0 site. iTunes is an old-style Web 1.0 storefront without any community features whatsoever.
It would be like the New York times buying out Slashdot, and closing down the site, in lieu of their own new 'News for Nerds' site, which doesn't have some of Slashdot's fancy features like user comments, Tagging, or Journals.
The foods the toys sold with are neither healthy nor unhealthy.
It's overall diets that are healthy or unhealthy.
Also, it is healthy to eat something with a large number of calories sometimes, as in on rare occasion, just with exercise, and not frequently.
It is not good to keep kids away from common food items, it may result in them indulging in them later in life, because they were 'forbidden fruit'
The California county's policy is fundamentally unhealthy, from a balanced diet point of view.
People who live happier lives, because they can enjoy themselves from time to time, with a tasty [but greasy salty] burger, or what have you, are better off for it.
Then you are probably at risk of looking suspicious, and it's a probably good idea to stay in well-lit areas and carry sufficient ID with you so that you can show who you are, if a law enforcement patrol chooses to stop you for questioning.
Or be sure you're in a city where there are non-drunk people on the streets at that hour.
This is also probably a risky thing to be doing, as in a criminal could target you, you might want to find a safer way of getting exercise, than walking around alone in the dark when there's noone or hardly anyone around.
It is generally in your best interest as a citizen to avoid doing suspicious things.
Suspicious things like sneaking around in public, strolling around at 3:00am, hiding in bushes, and visibly attempting to evade law enforcement.
Well, if you do not know the country's official language (English), and cannot answer questions asked in English, that is pretty suspicious, as in it suggests you are most likely an immigrant.
That combined with the officer seeing ya hiding in the back seat of a car or doing other things to avoid questioning, or some other similar situation, would probably count for reasonable suspicion.
The law really has nothing to do with whether a person has an accent or not.
That alone does not create reasonable suspicion that they are an illegal immigrant.
Of course if an officer overhears a person saying something that identifies them as having come into the country illegally, then that should arouse reasonable suspicion (self-admission)
The standards have never been that high for law enforcement.
When it comes to the police, they could always detain you regarding suspicion of a crime.
"Proven innocent" is a standard used in the courtroom, that applies to an extent.
Just about everywhere else you are not to be presumed innocent by law enforcement.
You don't have to be proven guilty to be arrested, or to have your effects search.
There is a bar that needs to be met, reasonable suspicion (to question you), demand you identify yourself, and a higher standard: probable cause, if a warrant is required for a search.
And reasonable belief that a suspect committed a crime or is committing a crime, to arrest.
Federal immigration law requires that all non-US citizens, including H-1B workers, to carry documentation, but 'no state until Arizona has made it a crime to not have that paperwork on your person,'
So it already was a crime.
The real news is a state is now making an effort to enforce the law, since the executive branch of the federal government has quite clearly failed to fulfill their constitutional duties on the matter, in regards to enforcing the US borders.
What about when exporting or interoperability is a feature in the original version, and the function is quietly disabled in an automatic update to the software that changes the data format at the same time significant features are added ?
I suppose so... and now that he's gone I wonder who they have managing it now, and whether/not Childs has been a scapegoat for mistakes made by his successors?
It's not a question of whether what he did was wrong or not.
The question is, did his actions rise to the level of criminal?
And if so, was the crime tampering
I say no way.
Failing to disclose information when asked is not tampering. It might be wrong to hide the information when asked, it might even be a crime, but not tampering.
OK, so no one can ever fire you. When can't you come up with an excuse to lock the equipment and walk off?
Software vendors do this all the time.
In the form of locking your data (and not providing any way for you to export it to an interoperable file format)
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Ah... well that is cool, but a big catch. Mounting an antenna somewhere is quite a tall order, seems like setup would be a real pain.
Could explain why it hasn't caught on so much...
If they want to avoid lawsuits/OSHA complaints from employees who have conditions that prevent them from working in extreme temperatures, they have to cool the ambient temperature in the primary work environment to 80 degrees or less, anyways. Datacenter managers simply cannot allow an ambient temperature of 95 or higher, because it is a safety hazard, in that high temp exposure can cause serious physical harm to people.
Which means, that when they contain the cold air, they probably require additional air conditioning and ventilation systems to keep the working environment acceptable.
Running an additional system definitely consumes more energy. Without providing any redundancy, since the containment would prevent it assisting if there were a failure of the primary system.
Contain and exhaust your heated air, vent it up outside
That way it doesn't mix with the cold air much.
If you just contain your cold air, then you have a situation where the hot air is staying in the room, and that heat will be absorbed over a larger surface area, by all the things in your server room (including the Air handling units).
Err.. wait.. don't you need Cable to use an EyeTV Tuner? Isn't the whole point that it's a Cable Tuner for the PC?
Lala allowed you to buy MP3s for download also.
And more importantly, it was a community site, and you could use it to 'share' songs and playlists with friends.
The site would also choose songs for you and play you full-track previews, to help you discover new music to buy.
The point is what Lala allowed you to do was a massive superset of what iTunes allows.
Basically, Lala is a Web 2.0 site. iTunes is an old-style Web 1.0 storefront without any community features whatsoever.
It would be like the New York times buying out Slashdot, and closing down the site, in lieu of their own new 'News for Nerds' site, which doesn't have some of Slashdot's fancy features like user comments, Tagging, or Journals.
Thanks to the VM backdoor in most hypervisors, a VM that is intent on leaking info can query the host for that info.
Info can also be leaked through characteristics of the Tor protocol itself.
When you connect using Tor, there is going to be an adjacent node that knows your IP address.
A machine that wants to leak its IP could initiate a finger-printable pattern designed to be picked up by a probe monitoring many Tor nodes.
The great thing about Tor is it is completely anonymous, so it is impossible for an exit node to ban anyone.
I think you have just bought into the hype.
Actual evidence shows that AAC sucks at 128K, and MP3 does much better in many cases.
With AAC you need at least 256K to get acceptable output.
Neither is the end-all be-all of music formats. You should be allowed to select the format for each song that sounds best.
Lala is not just a music store though, you could buy 'web tunes' and stream them online whenever you want.
You can also download Lala MusicMover and use it to upload all your songs to the web, then listen to whenever you like, without buying anything.
Lala is obviously a much better store, with much better aspects and features for the customers. iTunes is the one they should be shuttering.
256K AAC files are larger without a significant improvement in quality over a 128K MP3.
Also, 128K VBR MP3s are much higher quality than a 128K AAC, regardless of whether you use CBR or VBR encoding of the AAC.
The foods the toys sold with are neither healthy nor unhealthy.
It's overall diets that are healthy or unhealthy.
Also, it is healthy to eat something with a large number of calories sometimes, as in on rare occasion, just with exercise, and not frequently.
It is not good to keep kids away from common food items, it may result in them indulging in them later in life, because they were 'forbidden fruit'
The California county's policy is fundamentally unhealthy, from a balanced diet point of view.
People who live happier lives, because they can enjoy themselves from time to time, with a tasty [but greasy salty] burger, or what have you, are better off for it.
hmmm... so it's just a formality before the federal authorities just start releasing them due to high workload and inability to process them all.
And the illegals wind up in some other state such as Texas or New York.
Now I see what all the protests are really about...
People from other states who don't want to get saddled with Arizona's illegals.
That's because you are "special". And by special, I mean your IQ is about 15.
If you were smarter, you would notice that's just the icon on your desktop, and the actual program isn't working right.
Then you are probably at risk of looking suspicious, and it's a probably good idea to stay in well-lit areas and carry sufficient ID with you so that you can show who you are, if a law enforcement patrol chooses to stop you for questioning.
Or be sure you're in a city where there are non-drunk people on the streets at that hour.
This is also probably a risky thing to be doing, as in a criminal could target you, you might want to find a safer way of getting exercise, than walking around alone in the dark when there's noone or hardly anyone around.
It is generally in your best interest as a citizen to avoid doing suspicious things. Suspicious things like sneaking around in public, strolling around at 3:00am, hiding in bushes, and visibly attempting to evade law enforcement.
Well, if you do not know the country's official language (English), and cannot answer questions asked in English, that is pretty suspicious, as in it suggests you are most likely an immigrant.
That combined with the officer seeing ya hiding in the back seat of a car or doing other things to avoid questioning, or some other similar situation, would probably count for reasonable suspicion.
The law really has nothing to do with whether a person has an accent or not. That alone does not create reasonable suspicion that they are an illegal immigrant.
Of course if an officer overhears a person saying something that identifies them as having come into the country illegally, then that should arouse reasonable suspicion (self-admission)
The standards have never been that high for law enforcement.
When it comes to the police, they could always detain you regarding suspicion of a crime. "Proven innocent" is a standard used in the courtroom, that applies to an extent.
Just about everywhere else you are not to be presumed innocent by law enforcement.
You don't have to be proven guilty to be arrested, or to have your effects search.
There is a bar that needs to be met, reasonable suspicion (to question you), demand you identify yourself, and a higher standard: probable cause, if a warrant is required for a search.
And reasonable belief that a suspect committed a crime or is committing a crime, to arrest.
Federal immigration law requires that all non-US citizens, including H-1B workers, to carry documentation, but 'no state until Arizona has made it a crime to not have that paperwork on your person,'
So it already was a crime.
The real news is a state is now making an effort to enforce the law, since the executive branch of the federal government has quite clearly failed to fulfill their constitutional duties on the matter, in regards to enforcing the US borders.
For every app accepted there were 100 rejected
You think it's emulating a cigarette you're blowing?
Hint: this is a modification of an existing app, where 'suck' turned into 'blow' and fellatio changed into smoking.
I don't know this for a fact, just an educated guess :)
Makes sense for the developer to modify the app to be acceptable to Apple's more attuned tastes, and their key demographic.
They can only do that when you agree to it.
Oh?
What about when exporting or interoperability is a feature in the original version, and the function is quietly disabled in an automatic update to the software that changes the data format at the same time significant features are added ?
I suppose so... and now that he's gone I wonder who they have managing it now, and whether/not Childs has been a scapegoat for mistakes made by his successors?
It's not a question of whether what he did was wrong or not.
The question is, did his actions rise to the level of criminal?
And if so, was the crime tampering
I say no way. Failing to disclose information when asked is not tampering. It might be wrong to hide the information when asked, it might even be a crime, but not tampering.
That's probably part of what the '$200,000' in costs to the city was.
Why are there no public records of everything that happened during this trial?
Holding it for ransom? When? I don't believe he was demanding anything in exchange for the passwords.
OK, so no one can ever fire you. When can't you come up with an excuse to lock the equipment and walk off?
Software vendors do this all the time. In the form of locking your data (and not providing any way for you to export it to an interoperable file format)