on a harder task.. calculate all primes under 32 bits and populate a vector with the results.
Yes, but a simpler task e.g. determine if a handful of 16 bit values are prime can afford this sort of inefficiency. Attempting to divide by every value from 0 to 256 isn't going to take long. The code may take several hundred times as long to run for the novice but if that means it takes a second rather than 10 milliseconds, which for a lot of cases will be good enough. You might have lost very little by doing things cheaply.
Assembly language still works under Windows. The low level system calls are generally going to be a very small part the code. It wouldn't take that long to port it. It would just take longer than using a lazy half-assed solution like Dosbox.
She was slightly underhand at the way she did it but lying to people isn't against the rules for an undercover reporter.
By its nature, Defcon attracts a certain number of criminals - in fact this is part of what makes it attractive to security professionals. It's not really breaking journalisitic ethcs to report on lawbreaking.
Why should it have to go that far? If someone walks into me, I could potentially have them charged for battery. Leave it up to a judge and jury to decide whether it was an accident, whether I suffered injury and whether the other person needs to be punished. I wouldn't let it go that far though. It'sa quite obvious that they're not going to be found guilty and insisting on charging them would be ludicrously petty.
But you can easily argue that recording the entire movie and posting it on a torrent site also "promotes" the movie ...
Where do you draw the line?
But this is where the whole fair use argument comes in. one of the test for fair use is the amount used. More importantly, another is the possible impact it will have through displacement of sales. Recording the entire movie clearly has the potential to displace a sale. The fair use doctrine is quite deliberately a little vague on where the specific boundaries are, and instead uses the "reasonable person" test. However, it would be hard to draw a reasonable boundary where 20 seconds of footage and a whole movie are both on the same side.
Not particularly. A similar level of sensationalism to Fox I believe. Highly sensationalist and very much inclined to take things out of context. Elton probably commented in an offhand way that he didn't really like the internet much and the Sun decided to extrapolate.
I expect the spammer is typically a third party. They're contracted to send out the spam. He doesn;t realy care whether the spam is servinfg a purpose or not but as long as he's been paid he'll spam.
He did accurately predict that Apple would switch to x86 though. Granted, he's been predicting this for years and even a broken clock is right twice a day, but this might eventually happen too.
I don't see why they would recode with different codecs if they didn't have to
Not sure, but they certainly did. EarlyBlu-ray releases used MPEG2 and you could tell.
This is a guess, but I get the impression that the Blu-Ray consortium provided a set of tools that does the whole process of creating a Blu-ray DVD from source and the HD-DVD consortium provided their own set of tools. The tools do the compression and the early version of the Blu-Ray tools didn't offer all the codecs.
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HD-DVD has no region coding crap. And it's not backed by Sony (A company that amazed the world by being more evil than Microsoft).
Possibly. These patents are sometimes pretty specific, and may well cover a specific design of part of a parallel system not employed by Transputers. Without looking at the patent we can't be sure.
Anyone willing to watch a camcorder bootleg of a movie is not going to shell out for the product anyhow.
It sounds logical, but speaking for my circle of friends, the heaviest pirates seem to be the people who are most likely to see a film several times and buy a hell of a lot of DVDs.
People are still quite entitled to be offended at the suggestion that they should pay for a demo. Or for anything else for that matter. XBox magazine come across as being incredibly money-grabbing.
Criminal complaint? Nobody has to accept your email!
I always love comments like this. It's nice to believe that every lawyer in the country might think, "Oh, golly. They have a point, and out of literally thousands of laws on the books, there isn't one that might be appropriate"
Many countries use an adversarial system. That means that they will be making a really strong argument that the DNSBL owner is guilty of extortion. And by making demands from a US company they are trading in the US. That means US law applies.
Other countries have a different legal system, but they will consider whether listing an organisation as a spammer and demanding money to remove them from the list whether they are still sending spam or not is extortion.
There are two reasons for a blacklist. Reason 1 is simply to identify probable spam sources. Reason 2 is political. It's a boycott of certain organisations whose policies the maintainer decides are reprehensible. Make sure you use the right sort. If you agree with the political motivations of the maintainer, use the second type by all means but make sure you know the reason things are being blocked.
The problem with several DNSBLs is that they are the second type masquerading as the first type. Since most probable spam sources correspond well to those organisations with reprehensible policies, they tend to be difficult to distinguish. You will often find that some otherwise legitimate emails are blocked because the ISP is also hosting a phishing website, or hosting a company involved in some sort of mail fraud. This is all well and good unless you're under the impression that the BL will block spam.
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Well, people did. Your inner control freak must be very happy.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Actually that's not totally true, but telling people not to use a product may backfire if it means more people have heard of the product.
A geek managed to watch and not interfere while someone with less experience than them assembled a PC!
Have you any idea how difficult this is? We're all control freaks.
They produce software that generally does a competent job at a price that many people can afford.
Microsoft is just a company with good and bad aspects. They are not evil incarnate. Stop apologising for being pleased with the news!
on a harder task.. calculate all primes under 32 bits and populate a vector with the results.
Yes, but a simpler task e.g. determine if a handful of 16 bit values are prime can afford this sort of inefficiency. Attempting to divide by every value from 0 to 256 isn't going to take long. The code may take several hundred times as long to run for the novice but if that means it takes a second rather than 10 milliseconds, which for a lot of cases will be good enough. You might have lost very little by doing things cheaply.
Assembly language still works under Windows. The low level system calls are generally going to be a very small part the code. It wouldn't take that long to port it. It would just take longer than using a lazy half-assed solution like Dosbox.
She was slightly underhand at the way she did it but lying to people isn't against the rules for an undercover reporter.
By its nature, Defcon attracts a certain number of criminals - in fact this is part of what makes it attractive to security professionals. It's not really breaking journalisitic ethcs to report on lawbreaking.
I'd like a share of royalties every time I recommend a movie. Can I have that?
Why should it have to go that far? If someone walks into me, I could potentially have them charged for battery. Leave it up to a judge and jury to decide whether it was an accident, whether I suffered injury and whether the other person needs to be punished. I wouldn't let it go that far though. It'sa quite obvious that they're not going to be found guilty and insisting on charging them would be ludicrously petty.
But you can easily argue that recording the entire movie and posting it on a torrent site also "promotes" the movie
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Where do you draw the line?
But this is where the whole fair use argument comes in. one of the test for fair use is the amount used. More importantly, another is the possible impact it will have through displacement of sales. Recording the entire movie clearly has the potential to displace a sale. The fair use doctrine is quite deliberately a little vague on where the specific boundaries are, and instead uses the "reasonable person" test. However, it would be hard to draw a reasonable boundary where 20 seconds of footage and a whole movie are both on the same side.
I don't know how reliable the SUN is.
Not particularly. A similar level of sensationalism to Fox I believe. Highly sensationalist and very much inclined to take things out of context. Elton probably commented in an offhand way that he didn't really like the internet much and the Sun decided to extrapolate.
I expect the spammer is typically a third party. They're contracted to send out the spam. He doesn;t realy care whether the spam is servinfg a purpose or not but as long as he's been paid he'll spam.
Thanks for that, on behalf of my self and other people who are a bit slow today.
A PIN perhaps.
He did accurately predict that Apple would switch to x86 though. Granted, he's been predicting this for years and even a broken clock is right twice a day, but this might eventually happen too.
I don't see why they would recode with different codecs if they didn't have to
Not sure, but they certainly did. EarlyBlu-ray releases used MPEG2 and you could tell.
This is a guess, but I get the impression that the Blu-Ray consortium provided a set of tools that does the whole process of creating a Blu-ray DVD from source and the HD-DVD consortium provided their own set of tools. The tools do the compression and the early version of the Blu-Ray tools didn't offer all the codecs.
HD-DVD has no region coding crap. And it's not backed by Sony (A company that amazed the world by being more evil than Microsoft).
This is a great resource but it's all a little heavy going.
It there a site that summarises the key points for the benefit of the stupid?
This term is overused considerably in law. The "harm" is that it's cost them money. Seems like there's actually quite an easy fix; Money should do it.
Possibly. These patents are sometimes pretty specific, and may well cover a specific design of part of a parallel system not employed by Transputers. Without looking at the patent we can't be sure.
Anyone willing to watch a camcorder bootleg of a movie is not going to shell out for the product anyhow.
It sounds logical, but speaking for my circle of friends, the heaviest pirates seem to be the people who are most likely to see a film several times and buy a hell of a lot of DVDs.
People are still quite entitled to be offended at the suggestion that they should pay for a demo. Or for anything else for that matter. XBox magazine come across as being incredibly money-grabbing.
Criminal complaint? Nobody has to accept your email!
I always love comments like this. It's nice to believe that every lawyer in the country might think, "Oh, golly. They have a point, and out of literally thousands of laws on the books, there isn't one that might be appropriate"
Many countries use an adversarial system. That means that they will be making a really strong argument that the DNSBL owner is guilty of extortion. And by making demands from a US company they are trading in the US. That means US law applies.
Other countries have a different legal system, but they will consider whether listing an organisation as a spammer and demanding money to remove them from the list whether they are still sending spam or not is extortion.
There are two reasons for a blacklist. Reason 1 is simply to identify probable spam sources. Reason 2 is political. It's a boycott of certain organisations whose policies the maintainer decides are reprehensible. Make sure you use the right sort. If you agree with the political motivations of the maintainer, use the second type by all means but make sure you know the reason things are being blocked.
The problem with several DNSBLs is that they are the second type masquerading as the first type. Since most probable spam sources correspond well to those organisations with reprehensible policies, they tend to be difficult to distinguish. You will often find that some otherwise legitimate emails are blocked because the ISP is also hosting a phishing website, or hosting a company involved in some sort of mail fraud. This is all well and good unless you're under the impression that the BL will block spam.