Most blocking lists will ist the entire ISP if they'r causing a problem. SPEWS only lists the entire netblock. And often seem to list based on pretty arbitrary criteria. There are ISPs listed by SPEWS that last had a spammer several years ago but SPEWS continues to list them for reasons that are not shared by any other ISP, ISPs listed that haven't hosted spam, and ISPs that don't even exist any more. And the slight lack of logic of blocking email from addresses that only host websites.
That and SPEWS hasn't been updated for 4 months which suggests to a lot of people it's a dead list.
Will they always be? The cost of a chip has been falling consistently for the past 40 years. The minimum cost of a blank disc is roughly that of a sheet of plastic. The cost of every single part of manufacture has the potential to fall until the only substantial cost is that of raw materialsand transport. A silicon chip uses fewer raw materials than a blank CD, and is cheaper to transport.
So it could happen. Not saying it will but it's possible.
Make a standard that takes solid state memory, capable of arbitrary resolution and supports the best quality and the most most common formats. Make it cheap (no lasers or moving parts should help a fair bit). Initial market will be home videos and people with media on their PCs that they want to view on their television screen.
It will take a few years for media to become cheap enough for it to be worth releasing pre-recorded movies but if there's enough of a market without them then they will become too large a market for the movie industry to ignore.
There never was much of a war. People who had DVD+R drives bought DVD+R media and people who had DVD-R drives bought DVD-R media. The market can handle quite a few blank storage media formats - there are at least 4 commonly used types of flash - It's multiple formats of prerecorded media that takes up shelf space.
Yes, it's a disgusting overreach of US patent law into foreign jurisdictions.
But unless I misunderstand it, it oddly seems to only inconvenience US companies and companies with a substantial US prescence. Strange that the US government (or any other for that matter) would pass a law like that. I'd have expected to see an exception to patent enforcement for manufacture for export.
I understand Microsoft and the SFLC's position. I even understand the position that software should be patentable (I just disagree with it).
I just can't see any interpretation of any law that says that US patent law should apply to products that are produced nowhere within US jurisdiction. Or any other US law for that matter. Yet AT&T seem to be saying that this is the case.
We had a similar network setup at university. Accomodation was split into self contained flats of 5 or 6 people. We had 4 flats (in two buildings). And we used 50 Ohm Co-ax with BNC connectors. This meant that the network cable would go in and out again of each room that was connected, and was stretched between two buildings, between flat windows. It then went out of the flat, into the ceiling (we didn't want exposed cables in shared corridors), upstairs through some ducting and then into and out of two other flats. I think it later was extended downstairs into the final flat who decided to sign on later.
I think we ended up with about 200m of cable with a couple of dozen machines hanging off it.
The downside here was that any damage to any part of the network cable would bring down the entire network. We reduced this problem later by all pitching in for a game server/router.
Net Neutrality is a solution to a hypothetical problem that could exist. Not one that does exist. And it's not even the right solution to it. The right solution is to increase competition. On the other hand, any legislation will risk unintended consequences.
I am never going to approve of stopping people from doing what we want them to do just to stop them from doing what they're not going to do.
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
Seems to be a pretty common use of the word whatever Merriam Webster thinks.
Now you come to mention it, at school I was extremely well behaved. I almost never got into trouble except once. There was a little rule that struck me as horrendously unfair. I made a point of fragrantly ignoring the rule, and completely refusing to accept any punishment that would result from it. Ultimately, at school, all punishments except expulsion and suspension are voluntary, so I refused to accept any punishment for it. They knew I was one of the good kids. There was no way they could punish me for it in a way that would be remotely proportional to the offence. So I got away with it.
But employers don't even have the minor punishments to threaten people with. And they absolutely don't want to fire people unless they're providing negative value. Refusal to submit to drug testing just isn't going to reduce anyone's value enough to make the company want to get rid of them.
And to think... I've always though I have low self esteem:)
True, but finding a replacement for me would be a lot more hassle for them than not finding a replacement. Especially when I do my job well enough and the only insubordination is a refusal to perform an action that is completely outside of any possible interpretation of my job description.
Do you really want a law breaker "dealing with dangerous (from a proliferation standpoint) materials and experiments critical to national security". If it weren't illegal, you might have a point. However, it is illegal, so someone who smokes pot is already showing that they have a penchant for ignoring laws that they don't think apply to them.
So should we sack all government employees who receive a speeding ticket? Should we give extra scrutiny to make sure they haven't cheated on their taxes? Should we also do random testing for other crimes, and randomly polygraph test employees on recent murders?
I'd tell them to get stuffed (in exactly those words), if they implemented drug testing at my place of work. I do my job to the best of my ability. I know full well that my value to them is higher than the amount they pay me whether I take drugs or not. If they want to get rid of me, it will cost them more than it costs me. I really don't get it.
I think this is a response to criticisms from C programmers about most modern languages, rather than a benefit over C.
Not exactly a recommendation that the core language apparently is so weak that these can't be put into libraries.
Some of this is useful enough to be built in. stl and the like are pretty handy but sometimes it feels a bit of a kludge. Plus, built-in allows better optimistations for specific cases.
Obviously both C and C++ have function pointers.
Yes, and the syntax is horrible. D makes this a lot nicer.
Displacement also sells cars, and a 2-stroke of a comparable power output will have about half the displacement so you have a consumer education curve as well.
This is more of an American attitude. Europe and Japan have a very large market for small city cars where the buyers aren't so concerned about power and really don't give a fig about engine size as long as it works well enough on a test drive. Fuel efficiency and reliability in this market are a lot more important. The costs of developing a new engine aren't prohibitive. Take the Smart car as an example - 3 cylinder engine and a paltry 698cc, but really quite popular.
As an aside, if the common public are pirates, maybe we should refer to the **AAs as Vikings or Raiders or something.
Hey! I like being a pirate. Look at what the MPAA members have done to villify the concept. The Dread Pirate Roberts and Captain Jack Sparrow. Even when they're bad guys, the pirates are usually pretty cool villians, leaders of men and highly worthy of respect.
he Milgram experiment didn't involve guys in trenchcoats threatening to kill you and your entire family if you don't do your "duty".
Neither did Nazi Germany. You can't rule entirely by fear. If there is too much intimidation, then there will be resentment, and everyone will know there will be resentment. Recruiting for a resistance movement would be trivial. Just ask anyone not wearing a trenchcoat to join.
There are much more subtle ways to gain obedience, and the Nazis had some of the finest psychologists in the world. You have to put people in a position where they trust the person in charge, and actually want to please them. Saying "no" to people in a position of authority is extremely difficult. It's the way we're wired.
It should have been obvious to the Sony rep that he wasn't dealing with some soccer mom, and he could have saved himself just by saying, "Nah, I'm just messin' with ya. I'll figure out if I can replace it." or something like that.
I think in this conversation, the "soccer mom" was the Sony Rep. I reckon he actually believed the locking up was intentional. Maybe someone told him. Maybe he came up with the idea all by himself. Either that or he assumed that everyone else was really really stupid and would buy his explanation.
It's manipulative and perhaps a little dishonest, but companies have been doing this sort of thing for years.
Surely it's not suddenly newsworthy behavious just because MS have done it. If Google did something so underhand I'd see the problem, but this is what we expect from MS.
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Most blocking lists will ist the entire ISP if they'r causing a problem. SPEWS only lists the entire netblock. And often seem to list based on pretty arbitrary criteria. There are ISPs listed by SPEWS that last had a spammer several years ago but SPEWS continues to list them for reasons that are not shared by any other ISP, ISPs listed that haven't hosted spam, and ISPs that don't even exist any more. And the slight lack of logic of blocking email from addresses that only host websites.
That and SPEWS hasn't been updated for 4 months which suggests to a lot of people it's a dead list.
Discs are and always will be cheaper than RAM.
Will they always be? The cost of a chip has been falling consistently for the past 40 years. The minimum cost of a blank disc is roughly that of a sheet of plastic. The cost of every single part of manufacture has the potential to fall until the only substantial cost is that of raw materialsand transport. A silicon chip uses fewer raw materials than a blank CD, and is cheaper to transport.
So it could happen. Not saying it will but it's possible.
It's the wrong format.
Make a standard that takes solid state memory, capable of arbitrary resolution and supports the best quality and the most most common formats. Make it cheap (no lasers or moving parts should help a fair bit). Initial market will be home videos and people with media on their PCs that they want to view on their television screen.
It will take a few years for media to become cheap enough for it to be worth releasing pre-recorded movies but if there's enough of a market without them then they will become too large a market for the movie industry to ignore.
There never was much of a war. People who had DVD+R drives bought DVD+R media and people who had DVD-R drives bought DVD-R media. The market can handle quite a few blank storage media formats - there are at least 4 commonly used types of flash - It's multiple formats of prerecorded media that takes up shelf space.
Thanks for the explanation.
Yes, it's a disgusting overreach of US patent law into foreign jurisdictions.
But unless I misunderstand it, it oddly seems to only inconvenience US companies and companies with a substantial US prescence. Strange that the US government (or any other for that matter) would pass a law like that. I'd have expected to see an exception to patent enforcement for manufacture for export.
I understand Microsoft and the SFLC's position. I even understand the position that software should be patentable (I just disagree with it).
I just can't see any interpretation of any law that says that US patent law should apply to products that are produced nowhere within US jurisdiction. Or any other US law for that matter. Yet AT&T seem to be saying that this is the case.
Fantastic! I can wardrive from the comfort of my living room. Just let the hotspots come to me.
How exactly is that possible? Typo, I assume....
Well, it could be interesting to watch if it used a few K of video memory:)
We had a similar network setup at university. Accomodation was split into self contained flats of 5 or 6 people. We had 4 flats (in two buildings). And we used 50 Ohm Co-ax with BNC connectors. This meant that the network cable would go in and out again of each room that was connected, and was stretched between two buildings, between flat windows. It then went out of the flat, into the ceiling (we didn't want exposed cables in shared corridors), upstairs through some ducting and then into and out of two other flats. I think it later was extended downstairs into the final flat who decided to sign on later.
I think we ended up with about 200m of cable with a couple of dozen machines hanging off it.
The downside here was that any damage to any part of the network cable would bring down the entire network. We reduced this problem later by all pitching in for a game server/router.
Net Neutrality is a solution to a hypothetical problem that could exist. Not one that does exist. And it's not even the right solution to it. The right solution is to increase competition. On the other hand, any legislation will risk unintended consequences.
I am never going to approve of stopping people from doing what we want them to do just to stop them from doing what they're not going to do.
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
Seems to be a pretty common use of the word whatever Merriam Webster thinks.
We've already had information fatique, compassion fatigue, and, ironically, buzzword fatigue. Now we have social network fatigue.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to get fatigue fatigue.
Excellent point.
Now you come to mention it, at school I was extremely well behaved. I almost never got into trouble except once. There was a little rule that struck me as horrendously unfair. I made a point of fragrantly ignoring the rule, and completely refusing to accept any punishment that would result from it. Ultimately, at school, all punishments except expulsion and suspension are voluntary, so I refused to accept any punishment for it. They knew I was one of the good kids. There was no way they could punish me for it in a way that would be remotely proportional to the offence. So I got away with it.
But employers don't even have the minor punishments to threaten people with. And they absolutely don't want to fire people unless they're providing negative value. Refusal to submit to drug testing just isn't going to reduce anyone's value enough to make the company want to get rid of them.
And to think... I've always though I have low self esteem:)
I thought the $150 000 was per title infringed rather than per copy. Surely AllOfMp3 doesn't have that many songs available.
And the $150000 is a maximum. I doubt the court would consider this "just" if it meant AllOfMp3 had to pay more the country's GDP.
no one is indispensable.
True, but finding a replacement for me would be a lot more hassle for them than not finding a replacement. Especially when I do my job well enough and the only insubordination is a refusal to perform an action that is completely outside of any possible interpretation of my job description.
Do you really want a law breaker "dealing with dangerous (from a proliferation standpoint) materials and experiments critical to national security". If it weren't illegal, you might have a point. However, it is illegal, so someone who smokes pot is already showing that they have a penchant for ignoring laws that they don't think apply to them.
So should we sack all government employees who receive a speeding ticket? Should we give extra scrutiny to make sure they haven't cheated on their taxes? Should we also do random testing for other crimes, and randomly polygraph test employees on recent murders?
I'd tell them to get stuffed (in exactly those words), if they implemented drug testing at my place of work. I do my job to the best of my ability. I know full well that my value to them is higher than the amount they pay me whether I take drugs or not. If they want to get rid of me, it will cost them more than it costs me. I really don't get it.
Couple of points:
* native code speed
I think this is a response to criticisms from C programmers about most modern languages, rather than a benefit over C.
Not exactly a recommendation that the core language apparently is so weak that these can't be put into libraries.
Some of this is useful enough to be built in. stl and the like are pretty handy but sometimes it feels a bit of a kludge. Plus, built-in allows better optimistations for specific cases.
Obviously both C and C++ have function pointers.
Yes, and the syntax is horrible. D makes this a lot nicer.
Displacement also sells cars, and a 2-stroke of a comparable power output will have about half the displacement so you have a consumer education curve as well.
This is more of an American attitude. Europe and Japan have a very large market for small city cars where the buyers aren't so concerned about power and really don't give a fig about engine size as long as it works well enough on a test drive. Fuel efficiency and reliability in this market are a lot more important. The costs of developing a new engine aren't prohibitive. Take the Smart car as an example - 3 cylinder engine and a paltry 698cc, but really quite popular.
But why are 2-strokes particularly desirable?
As an aside, if the common public are pirates, maybe we should refer to the **AAs as Vikings or Raiders or something.
Hey! I like being a pirate. Look at what the MPAA members have done to villify the concept. The Dread Pirate Roberts and Captain Jack Sparrow. Even when they're bad guys, the pirates are usually pretty cool villians, leaders of men and highly worthy of respect.
he Milgram experiment didn't involve guys in trenchcoats threatening to kill you and your entire family if you don't do your "duty".
Neither did Nazi Germany. You can't rule entirely by fear. If there is too much intimidation, then there will be resentment, and everyone will know there will be resentment. Recruiting for a resistance movement would be trivial. Just ask anyone not wearing a trenchcoat to join.
There are much more subtle ways to gain obedience, and the Nazis had some of the finest psychologists in the world. You have to put people in a position where they trust the person in charge, and actually want to please them. Saying "no" to people in a position of authority is extremely difficult. It's the way we're wired.
It should have been obvious to the Sony rep that he wasn't dealing with some soccer mom, and he could have saved himself just by saying, "Nah, I'm just messin' with ya. I'll figure out if I can replace it." or something like that.
I think in this conversation, the "soccer mom" was the Sony Rep. I reckon he actually believed the locking up was intentional. Maybe someone told him. Maybe he came up with the idea all by himself. Either that or he assumed that everyone else was really really stupid and would buy his explanation.
I have poured hot grits down my pants. Thank you.
Fair enough. I'm curious though. What did you use yours for? Mine was mostly a games machine so the OS didn't really matter too much.
It's manipulative and perhaps a little dishonest, but companies have been doing this sort of thing for years.
Surely it's not suddenly newsworthy behavious just because MS have done it. If Google did something so underhand I'd see the problem, but this is what we expect from MS.