I'm in two minds over this. Assuming this is an actual glitch in the drivers causing the problems.
On one hand, AMD should fix it. On the other hand, AMD graphics cards are pretty popular. Their game should be designed to work on what they can reasonably expect their users to have.
Possibly. Oddly the summary mentions military in the headline, and twice in the text, directly referring to the police drones, whereas the article only refers to the military as an example of usage of unmanned drones.
The question is whether most Linux developers really care that much. Linux is big and strong enough, that a modified version in a specific product is unlikely to have anything important Linux really needs. Most likely it will be modifications to work with some highly specific hardware.
The purchasers of the hardware might be interested in the source code if they want to hack it, but aside from that, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference to developers, who just want to hack code.
I think they were expecting to find a smoking gun. Some evidence that makes it incontrovertible that Megaupload set up the service to facilitate copyright infringement. They presumably felt that it was an open and shut case, and all they needed to do was raid the servers, and collect the evidence.
Unfortunately they probably haven't. Megaupload appears to have been operating within the law. I suspect a fairly substantial chunk of what's stored there is legitimate, or at least not provably copyright infringing. They're also up against someone who's a lot more legally savvy than the kids who ran TPB, and were possibly a bit overconfident.
I trust Fox are honest with their advertisers and are absolutely clear with them on exactly what percentage of the viewers will actually watch the advertising.
But when you have London suggesting context, it could be the Boston closest to London rather than the largest one.
If you talked about going to the Midlands, buying a computer for an arts project, and then mentioned the Mac, it would be a lot less obvious what you were referring to.
Plus, adding extra context information is rarely a bad idea.
There are techniques. The hands image could just be an application designed with hands in mind and makes an assumption about shape. For hands passing over each other, there are various computer vision techniques that can make good inferences.
Well? Clearly some people would rather pirate than wait. However amoral and impatient you see it, they're not going to stop. They don't have a problem here. HBO has the problem. If HBO wants people to stop they'll need a better tactic than telling people off for not wanting to wait.
If you had, well....you start to realize how stupid the general public is, and wonder how they managed to not drown looking up at a rainstorm with their mouths open.
That just means they were previously even more stupid.
IQ test certainly seem to be showing a gradual increase, as do other tests correlated to intelligence. The thing is, the really stupid people stand out.
But that's a legal definition, not an assessment of how useful a service is for money laundering, or how it's actually done in practice by people with an interest in not getting caught.
Clearly bitcoin could be used for money laundering. So can lots of other things. Is there a reason to pick bitcoin over the others? I speculate that there is. The person I responded to argued that the logging of transactions would make it less useful.
I'm not sure how money laundering works, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The main point is that there's poor connection between who the buyers and sellers are and who is giving and receiving actual money.
People use real estate for money laundering and that's as traceable. Bitcoins have the advantage that they can be split up easily, merged with legitimate funds, bought and sold through legitimate channels, lent, borrowed, and shorted. This makes it a lot easier to obfuscate where the money came from in the first place.
Yeah, but I think that's more about some of them being libertarians who just dream of a currency without eeeevil government rather than having explicit interest in it as a means of making money.
If you hadn't been successful, if, perhaps your education was poor, and you needed to work 60 hours a week from the age of 16 just to survive, with no way of improving your lot, would you genuinely accept that this is a fair and just way of running society?
Because people who are in that position tend not to think so. Is it just a coincidence that most libertarians seem to be the fairly wealthy who have, typically, benefited greatly from society?
The thing is, even for people who are totally moral and scrupulous, and don't pirate, this will still affect sales. It makes the DVD marginally less desirable. There will be a point where there's enough advertising, warnings and so on that it puts people off.
If they're law abiding, they won't pirate. This doesn't mean they're going to buy the DVD. They have the option to do neither. People deciding not to buy the things is hardly desirable either.
The ship wouldn't be stateless. I don't think that's even legally possible.
It would fly flag of convenience of a tax haven somewhere. Although if you're going to do that, I'm not sure I see a good reason not to incorporate in the Bahamas. Or Gibraltar or Singapore for that matter, since proximity to Europe or Asia is probably no less useful than proximity to the US. They're also places that have established infrastructure and no difficulty attracting talent due to a pleasant climate and good facilities.
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That only works out to a few tens of thousands of GPUs used for bitcoin mining.
GPUs may be an important part of the bitcoin network, but the bitcoin network is a tiny part of GPU sales.
I'm in two minds over this. Assuming this is an actual glitch in the drivers causing the problems.
On one hand, AMD should fix it. On the other hand, AMD graphics cards are pretty popular. Their game should be designed to work on what they can reasonably expect their users to have.
Have found white noise easy to ignore and capable of blocking out distractions. I wonder where that would fall on your continuum.
Possibly. Oddly the summary mentions military in the headline, and twice in the text, directly referring to the police drones, whereas the article only refers to the military as an example of usage of unmanned drones.
The question is whether most Linux developers really care that much. Linux is big and strong enough, that a modified version in a specific product is unlikely to have anything important Linux really needs. Most likely it will be modifications to work with some highly specific hardware.
The purchasers of the hardware might be interested in the source code if they want to hack it, but aside from that, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference to developers, who just want to hack code.
I think they were expecting to find a smoking gun. Some evidence that makes it incontrovertible that Megaupload set up the service to facilitate copyright infringement. They presumably felt that it was an open and shut case, and all they needed to do was raid the servers, and collect the evidence.
Unfortunately they probably haven't. Megaupload appears to have been operating within the law. I suspect a fairly substantial chunk of what's stored there is legitimate, or at least not provably copyright infringing. They're also up against someone who's a lot more legally savvy than the kids who ran TPB, and were possibly a bit overconfident.
Most of the articles are based off a single report, or other articles that accept this as fact.
Channel 4's Fact Check has looked into it, and largely considered it unverified guess.
Wikipedia mentions 60000 government cameras which may or may not be particularly high since there's nothing to compare it with.
I trust Fox are honest with their advertisers and are absolutely clear with them on exactly what percentage of the viewers will actually watch the advertising.
But when you have London suggesting context, it could be the Boston closest to London rather than the largest one.
If you talked about going to the Midlands, buying a computer for an arts project, and then mentioned the Mac, it would be a lot less obvious what you were referring to.
Plus, adding extra context information is rarely a bad idea.
I think fraud's a little ore complicated than that. Unless he gained directly from it to the homeowner's detriment it probably isn't.
Being prosecuted for a crime probably doesn't count as detrimental under the law..
Doesn't it typically make half of what you say right?
They're not patenting mathematics. That's not possible. They're patenting applications for the mathematics.
It depends what you're doing. For coarse gestures, it's great. But this seems to allow mouse like precision.
There are techniques. The hands image could just be an application designed with hands in mind and makes an assumption about shape. For hands passing over each other, there are various computer vision techniques that can make good inferences.
Well? Clearly some people would rather pirate than wait. However amoral and impatient you see it, they're not going to stop. They don't have a problem here. HBO has the problem. If HBO wants people to stop they'll need a better tactic than telling people off for not wanting to wait.
Yes. I put it badly. I'll link to Wikipedia's page on the Flynn effect instead
If you had, well....you start to realize how stupid the general public is, and wonder how they managed to not drown looking up at a rainstorm with their mouths open.
That just means they were previously even more stupid.
IQ test certainly seem to be showing a gradual increase, as do other tests correlated to intelligence. The thing is, the really stupid people stand out.
But that's a legal definition, not an assessment of how useful a service is for money laundering, or how it's actually done in practice by people with an interest in not getting caught.
Clearly bitcoin could be used for money laundering. So can lots of other things. Is there a reason to pick bitcoin over the others? I speculate that there is. The person I responded to argued that the logging of transactions would make it less useful.
I'm not sure how money laundering works, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The main point is that there's poor connection between who the buyers and sellers are and who is giving and receiving actual money.
People use real estate for money laundering and that's as traceable. Bitcoins have the advantage that they can be split up easily, merged with legitimate funds, bought and sold through legitimate channels, lent, borrowed, and shorted. This makes it a lot easier to obfuscate where the money came from in the first place.
Yeah, but I think that's more about some of them being libertarians who just dream of a currency without eeeevil government rather than having explicit interest in it as a means of making money.
Travel through Mexico or Canada. Or hire a boat or charter a plane.
Except it seems to lose a certain legitimacy when you decide to do so only at a time when you'll be paying high taxes.
If you hadn't been successful, if, perhaps your education was poor, and you needed to work 60 hours a week from the age of 16 just to survive, with no way of improving your lot, would you genuinely accept that this is a fair and just way of running society?
Because people who are in that position tend not to think so. Is it just a coincidence that most libertarians seem to be the fairly wealthy who have, typically, benefited greatly from society?
The thing is, even for people who are totally moral and scrupulous, and don't pirate, this will still affect sales. It makes the DVD marginally less desirable. There will be a point where there's enough advertising, warnings and so on that it puts people off.
If they're law abiding, they won't pirate. This doesn't mean they're going to buy the DVD. They have the option to do neither. People deciding not to buy the things is hardly desirable either.
The ship wouldn't be stateless. I don't think that's even legally possible.
It would fly flag of convenience of a tax haven somewhere. Although if you're going to do that, I'm not sure I see a good reason not to incorporate in the Bahamas. Or Gibraltar or Singapore for that matter, since proximity to Europe or Asia is probably no less useful than proximity to the US. They're also places that have established infrastructure and no difficulty attracting talent due to a pleasant climate and good facilities.