Are you guys on the "innocent until proven guilty" standard over there?
Not at all. However in my opinion this is much more like a speeding ticket in which they take a picture of your number plate (or IP Address) and you can pay a fine, or challenge it; rather than being like a robbery.
virtualization for anything else is really just a fad, and it has nothing to do with qos or uptime
This is not true.
Suppose you have 8 different tasks (or users on Amazon) that each require the equivalent of one high end machine and you have 8 different high end machines. You could run each of the tasks on one machine and if that machine fails, the task fails. If you instead split each machine into 8 VMs and run one VM per physical machine per task and distribute the load between the machines at runtime; then if a single physical machine fails, the system doesn't go down.
It has an Ethernet and a Wifi module. Microsoft recently released a Kinect sdk that works with.NET, so you could write the portion of the code that uses Kinect on a PC in the same language that you use on the device and just send the data over TCP.
Can someone explain to me why US Treasuries should be rated AAA in the first place?
Money is paid out to investors out of new investor's money, and the cycle continues. Last time I checked, this is also known as a Ponzi Scheme and it is inevitable that it eventually collapses.
These are the same people who rated junk mortgage bonds as a good investment, so I'm not surprised.
So it's okay for that scumbag to threaten the lives of seniors, of poor people, of veterans, of anyone by threatening to let the nation default which means the checks wont be sent out to them?
Maybe people should have thought about that before voting for these people.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it be possible to get a pseudo random number generator and overwrite all the RAM on shutdown? Thus resolving that vulnerability.
Did they correct for the amount of media consumed for each person? Of course someone who pirates 50% of all media they consume, yet consumes a large amount of media is going to purchase more than someone who consumes far less.
So anyone could setup a fake profile with someone else's name, join one of these groups and then that person goes on the terrorism watch list? Sounds fair to me.
With an internet service provider, either the company should be liable for absolutely everything that passes through their network, and they should be free to allow and to block whatever they wish or they can claim "common carrier" status and waive liability, however they are required to allow everyone to use their network.
In my opinion the same should apply to financial institutions. Visa and MasterCard should be allowed to block payments if they like, but if they do discriminate then they should be held liable when they do let illegal transactions get processed.
The Bitcoin post just looks dumb; phony Bitcoins? doesn't exist; they're cryptographically signed, the whole post is ridiculous.
Think of BitCoins as money that is impossible to forge, and MtGox as essentially a bank. The "phony bitcoins" refers to a database entry on MtGox that said that one account had a large number of cash that never really existed in the first place. In theory all the database entries should sum up to the total amount of cash at MtGox, but in this case nothing stopped it.
As for Mailinator, couldn't one write a script that sent to a random email address at a particular domain e.g. adflas2343872938743@gmail.com and see if it bounces? If it bounces, it isn't a mailinator address.
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Are you guys on the "innocent until proven guilty" standard over there?
Not at all. However in my opinion this is much more like a speeding ticket in which they take a picture of your number plate (or IP Address) and you can pay a fine, or challenge it; rather than being like a robbery.
In addition, this law reduces the maximum penalty for copyright infringement from $50,000 to $15,000.
If you are in the right, you can still challenge this in court. An IP address isn't proof, but it is very strong evidence that someone did something.
...and I'm from New Zealand btw.
The US is huge compared to all of Western Europe and vastly larger than any single country there.
If only the US was split into different regions which were governed separately...
Manning didn't get away with treason, why should Scooter Libby?
Buy something worthless with something of equal value? I'd say yes it does.
The joke's on the person selling the land; they thought they were scamming someone out of something of value.
Dollars, BitCoins, what's the difference? :P
virtualization for anything else is really just a fad, and it has nothing to do with qos or uptime
This is not true.
Suppose you have 8 different tasks (or users on Amazon) that each require the equivalent of one high end machine and you have 8 different high end machines. You could run each of the tasks on one machine and if that machine fails, the task fails. If you instead split each machine into 8 VMs and run one VM per physical machine per task and distribute the load between the machines at runtime; then if a single physical machine fails, the system doesn't go down.
Doesn't it say in the EULA of essentially every single piece of software that you can return it for a refund if you don't agree?
Buy it with a credit card and if the store won't take it back, ask your bank to do a chargeback.
To reduce wifi interference from those pesky neighbours, duh.
I'm betting this works with kinect soon.
It has an Ethernet and a Wifi module. Microsoft recently released a Kinect sdk that works with .NET, so you could write the portion of the code that uses Kinect on a PC in the same language that you use on the device and just send the data over TCP.
...not after it pays it's other liabilities it doesn't.
And if it doesn't pay for those, there won't be a US for much longer.
Can someone explain to me why US Treasuries should be rated AAA in the first place?
Money is paid out to investors out of new investor's money, and the cycle continues. Last time I checked, this is also known as a Ponzi Scheme and it is inevitable that it eventually collapses.
These are the same people who rated junk mortgage bonds as a good investment, so I'm not surprised.
So it's okay for that scumbag to threaten the lives of seniors, of poor people, of veterans, of anyone by threatening to let the nation default which means the checks wont be sent out to them?
Maybe people should have thought about that before voting for these people.
Go ahead, mod me down, I have karma to burn.
Unlike with a utility such as the phone/internet company, it is trivial to create separate Google accounts, one for Gmail, one for Google+, etc.
I'd just like to be the first to say, "fuck Oracle".
I'm sorry to inform you but you are too late.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't it be possible to get a pseudo random number generator and overwrite all the RAM on shutdown? Thus resolving that vulnerability.
Did they correct for the amount of media consumed for each person? Of course someone who pirates 50% of all media they consume, yet consumes a large amount of media is going to purchase more than someone who consumes far less.
So anyone could setup a fake profile with someone else's name, join one of these groups and then that person goes on the terrorism watch list? Sounds fair to me.
Never buy another product. Money talks; bullshit walks. And we had the money.
FTFY.
With an internet service provider, either the company should be liable for absolutely everything that passes through their network, and they should be free to allow and to block whatever they wish or they can claim "common carrier" status and waive liability, however they are required to allow everyone to use their network.
In my opinion the same should apply to financial institutions. Visa and MasterCard should be allowed to block payments if they like, but if they do discriminate then they should be held liable when they do let illegal transactions get processed.
Don't you mean thrice? ;)
The Bitcoin post just looks dumb; phony Bitcoins? doesn't exist; they're cryptographically signed, the whole post is ridiculous.
Think of BitCoins as money that is impossible to forge, and MtGox as essentially a bank. The "phony bitcoins" refers to a database entry on MtGox that said that one account had a large number of cash that never really existed in the first place. In theory all the database entries should sum up to the total amount of cash at MtGox, but in this case nothing stopped it.
As for Mailinator, couldn't one write a script that sent to a random email address at a particular domain e.g. adflas2343872938743@gmail.com and see if it bounces? If it bounces, it isn't a mailinator address.
A few years ago my mobile provider (Vodafone) charged NZ$0.10 per 10kB block of data. That is NZ 41.9 million per 40GB or £21.6 million.
Luckily they are much less unreasonable now.
Simultaneously, they proved that it was not a good idea (as I remember friends saying, "Who are you talking to? I don't see him! Re-invite!")
That's an implementation issue, it's quite possible to write p2p chat software at least as good as existing centralized chat software.
They have to give a discount to poorer countries to get customers.
*ducks*
If all the states had the tax and so there would be no advantage to leaving California, why wouldn't Amazon continue the program?