Most of the data will be anonymised anyway. You buy an Oyster card at the station and can put credit onto it at pretty much any corner shop for cash. Lots of people do it this way because cash is pretty convenient, so doing so isn't going to raise any suspicion.
Okay. But I think I do get it. Either that or I don;t get how I don't get it. Like the other reply said "It's something you participate in", so if I got a mask and went to the local Scientology centre to protest, I too would be Anonymous.
It seems so loose nit that just about anyone could claim to be part of anonymous. It's hardly an organisation. More the name of a movement. A bit like Lolcat or rick-rolling or any of other countless memes.
So - all you guys with guns, who maintain that they can protect us from a corrupt government. Where are you? We need some protecting from a corrupt government.
I think I'll wait a year. By then these should be available for £150 or so and the mid-range ones will have dropped below £200. It will be interesting to see if anyone develops software for these that they're not designed for.
Flash memory tends to be able to withstand well over the 2000Gs its rated for. Doesn't that count as consumer electronics? And it's not as though we care about any of the other components after the plane's crashed.
:) It's strange that space travel isn't seen as a sci-fi concept here but robotics is... I guess rocket ships were just never mentioned in every single issue of F&SF ever.
Perhaps the most common type of people that use Linux are now the ones that don't play games much anymore.
I think this is pretty much the entire argument in one sentence.
Linux users enjoy using an open source OS for all sorts of reasons. Either they like control or they like tinkering, or they just dislike giving money to large software companies, or any of a slew of other reasons. This is great. But most computer users don't think the same way. They really don't care which OS they're running. At least not directly. They want to play games or run MS Office or Photoshop or some other application that isn't available for Linux. They'll choose the application and then buy the computer and OS to run the application.
People who like playing PC games have decided they want to play Doom 3 or The Sims, or WoW. They buy a machine to run these games. This machine is a Windows PC. They're not going to run Linux. It's useless to them.
The writeup is misleading. It would be up to the website operator to ensure that they know who their users are. If they allow anonymous posting they will be fined. This only applies to websites operated out of Kentucky. That would be approximately non of them after this law gets passed.
Or maybe they won't. Considering thsi hasn't been implemented yet, it seems a little soon to be complaining about how long it takes since, so far, it doesn't.
HD-DVD differs from betamax in one important respect - Price! Before the format was confirmed dead you could buy the players for $200. Betamax never went that low. When it still looked viable it was two or three time that in 1980's dollars. In real terms this would be like a $1000+ piece of equipment.
Buying the losing format here just causes a minor inconvenience. Pus aside $20 a week and it will take less than 3 months to save up enough to cover the loss. Anyone who owns an HD DVD should find it pretty easy to cover that.
It's automatic. Claim copyright infringement and if they don't take it down then they're liable for the copyright infringement as well as the person who posted it. The poster can verify that they have the right to post it and youTube should put it up again.
It's a pretty crappy process but youTube are just following the law, and the law is inherently rubbish, not inherently evil, so there's no good reason for them not to obey it.
It is slightly faster to fly from London to Glasgow than to take the train. Train probably takes about 5 hours. Plane will take about 3 hours including check-in times and travel to/from the airport.
Why would they need to pirate the blueprints? Why not just go to the patent office, look up the patent, and implement a chip based off that? And would it be that hard to chop out the encryption part, or is the entire chip encrypted? I think the article got something mixed up.
Corporations are people! They're a collection of people working together as a single entity with group ownership of assets, and abstraction of responsibility. As such, they have freedom of speech, because the people who represent the corporation have freedom of speech.
It also makes some degree of sense to allow them legal entity status (although "personhood" is a bad word). It would be hopelessly inconvenient if the entire board of directors of a telephone company had to countersign every service agreement, or in the case of tort law, if a company was owed money for each shareholder to have to sue for their share.
Make an online version of Scrabble that behaves very similarly to Scrabulous. Test it thouroughly. Make a high quality product.
Sue Scrabulous for copyright and trademark infringement. Demand they hand over the Scrabulous trademark and domain. Slot in the online version of Scrabble as a replacement for Scrabulous. ???. Profit. This way they get all the benefit of Scrabulous's marketting for free, and can get that $25000 per month for themselves, without causing any inconvenience for their customers.
It makes sense to do an experiment. Even if something is obvious, it isn't always true (e.g. heavy objects obviously fall faster, but actually tend to fall at the same speed). It's also good to have actual measurable data to determine the effect of any attempts to reduce the traffic jams.
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Most of the data will be anonymised anyway. You buy an Oyster card at the station and can put credit onto it at pretty much any corner shop for cash. Lots of people do it this way because cash is pretty convenient, so doing so isn't going to raise any suspicion.
Okay. But I think I do get it. Either that or I don;t get how I don't get it. Like the other reply said "It's something you participate in", so if I got a mask and went to the local Scientology centre to protest, I too would be Anonymous.
Because I don't believe that guns are a solution.
The gun owners do, and often claim that gun ownership is essential to protect themselves from a corrupt government.
I don't care whether they protect me or not. I'd like to see them stick my their word and protect themselves.
It seems so loose nit that just about anyone could claim to be part of anonymous. It's hardly an organisation. More the name of a movement. A bit like Lolcat or rick-rolling or any of other countless memes.
So - all you guys with guns, who maintain that they can protect us from a corrupt government. Where are you? We need some protecting from a corrupt government.
I think I'll wait a year. By then these should be available for £150 or so and the mid-range ones will have dropped below £200. It will be interesting to see if anyone develops software for these that they're not designed for.
Flash memory tends to be able to withstand well over the 2000Gs its rated for. Doesn't that count as consumer electronics? And it's not as though we care about any of the other components after the plane's crashed.
NASA is metric. So is Canada. They just need to mention this to a few of their suppliers and everything will be fine.
.0254mm?
How do US manufacturers handle foreign components? Do they just use all American parts, or do they just have specifications in multiples of
:) It's strange that space travel isn't seen as a sci-fi concept here but robotics is... I guess rocket ships were just never mentioned in every single issue of F&SF ever.
Perhaps the most common type of people that use Linux are now the ones that don't play games much anymore.
I think this is pretty much the entire argument in one sentence.
Linux users enjoy using an open source OS for all sorts of reasons. Either they like control or they like tinkering, or they just dislike giving money to large software companies, or any of a slew of other reasons. This is great. But most computer users don't think the same way. They really don't care which OS they're running. At least not directly. They want to play games or run MS Office or Photoshop or some other application that isn't available for Linux. They'll choose the application and then buy the computer and OS to run the application.
People who like playing PC games have decided they want to play Doom 3 or The Sims, or WoW. They buy a machine to run these games. This machine is a Windows PC. They're not going to run Linux. It's useless to them.
What can you do in DX that you can't do in OpenGL?
The writeup is misleading. It would be up to the website operator to ensure that they know who their users are. If they allow anonymous posting they will be fined. This only applies to websites operated out of Kentucky. That would be approximately non of them after this law gets passed.
I always assumed that the solar system was put together in the configuration it was because I was born in September. This is a serious blow to my ego.
Or maybe they won't. Considering thsi hasn't been implemented yet, it seems a little soon to be complaining about how long it takes since, so far, it doesn't.
HD-DVD differs from betamax in one important respect - Price! Before the format was confirmed dead you could buy the players for $200. Betamax never went that low. When it still looked viable it was two or three time that in 1980's dollars. In real terms this would be like a $1000+ piece of equipment.
Buying the losing format here just causes a minor inconvenience. Pus aside $20 a week and it will take less than 3 months to save up enough to cover the loss. Anyone who owns an HD DVD should find it pretty easy to cover that.
It's automatic. Claim copyright infringement and if they don't take it down then they're liable for the copyright infringement as well as the person who posted it. The poster can verify that they have the right to post it and youTube should put it up again.
It's a pretty crappy process but youTube are just following the law, and the law is inherently rubbish, not inherently evil, so there's no good reason for them not to obey it.
It is slightly faster to fly from London to Glasgow than to take the train. Train probably takes about 5 hours. Plane will take about 3 hours including check-in times and travel to/from the airport.
Why would they need to pirate the blueprints? Why not just go to the patent office, look up the patent, and implement a chip based off that? And would it be that hard to chop out the encryption part, or is the entire chip encrypted? I think the article got something mixed up.
After the court reversed its decision, and wikileaks got its domain back, everyone lost interest. It seems nobody actually cares about Julius Baer.
Corporations are people! They're a collection of people working together as a single entity with group ownership of assets, and abstraction of responsibility. As such, they have freedom of speech, because the people who represent the corporation have freedom of speech.
It also makes some degree of sense to allow them legal entity status (although "personhood" is a bad word). It would be hopelessly inconvenient if the entire board of directors of a telephone company had to countersign every service agreement, or in the case of tort law, if a company was owed money for each shareholder to have to sue for their share.
My experimental data would appear to contradict your assertion.
This is why experimental data is so important.
Make an online version of Scrabble that behaves very similarly to Scrabulous. Test it thouroughly. Make a high quality product.
Sue Scrabulous for copyright and trademark infringement. Demand they hand over the Scrabulous trademark and domain. Slot in the online version of Scrabble as a replacement for Scrabulous. ???. Profit. This way they get all the benefit of Scrabulous's marketting for free, and can get that $25000 per month for themselves, without causing any inconvenience for their customers.
The responses to my comment tell me that I'm really not cut out to be a security expert. Which is fine. I don't mind being told I'm wrong.
It's just a shame MS are hiring people like me for their security.
Mine too, but somehow, when dropping a pencil and a bottle of water, they seem to hit the ground at the same time:P
I said they tend to fall at the same speed. In practice, most dropped objects will fall a short enough distance that air resistance is negligible.
It makes sense to do an experiment. Even if something is obvious, it isn't always true (e.g. heavy objects obviously fall faster, but actually tend to fall at the same speed). It's also good to have actual measurable data to determine the effect of any attempts to reduce the traffic jams.