Last year after I was laid off from my job I was unable to even apply for unemployment. The unemployment office was so swamped that they stopped taking applications in person. You had to call a special number to do it. I didn't have a landline phone and and the wait time to get through was longer than the battery of my cell phone would last while on hold (5+ hours). Fortunately I wasn't picky and managed to get a job 2 states away before I maxed out my credit cards and ran out of money.
41%? I am not surprised at all. When I was younger, I used to know quite a few "pirates". Most of them had thousands pirated applications and games.
if 1 in 1000 is a raging "pirate", and 99.9% of the other people had no pirated software at all and a handful of legitimate pieces of software. You could easily get 41% or higher.
Most of these people were teens without significant income, so no sales are really lost. Only a generation of technically minded people familiar and enthusiastic about software they could not afford to learn on their own before entering the workplace.
When I was working in.NET, I would go home and play in java. Now that I am working in java, I go home and play in.NET.
Of course I rarely get the opportunity to sit down and do much coding, having a girlfriend and living near some of the most beautiful beaches in the world does that.
I seem to recall that the glue used to hold the dragon skin scales was water soluble and in long term tests the scales eventually migrated to the bottom of the vest?
Except that the one that is "pwned" is already strategically positioned inside your house. And you probably are not paying attention to your roomba while it snoops on you, or goes out of its way to vacuum up your valuables.
They are. http://www.embeddedflash.com/?p=571 That was linked from beagleboard.org a few days ago. Beagleboard uses the TI OMAP3530 processor using an ARM 8 core (and a bunch of other stuff).
Sure you can, all that is in the executable itself. All you have to do is view a hex dump to catch some of it, decompile/debug to find the rest.
That is besides the point. In this particular case, the software had a nice feature to phone home and download updates. When the code was stolen, they forgot to change or disable this feature.
Its like saying you can not tell if a movie you sell is copy written because you didn't watch it yourself. It has been known for a long time that green dam was stolen code, and they knowingly continued to distribute it.
Yes, you can often (but not always) tell if some source code was copied.
1: Comments. Sometimes when code is copied, they leave the same comments in, possibly even including the name of the author or original product. 2: Variable, method and class names. If these are left unchanged, it leaves a signature in the code. 3: Magic numbers/strings. Arbitrary assignment of the same value to magic numbers, enums or strings can demonstrate copy.
Yes, they actually did commit a crime. and yes I did RTFA. They reverse engineered the algorithm of the js package. That algorithm was essentially copy protection aka DRM. This is a federal felony under the DMCA.
They violated the DRM placed on the legally copyrighted software produced by bot net authors. They committed a US federal felony according to the DMCA.
It had a refreshing character, good actors and a decent storyline. It didn't rely on techno-babble or inventing new fields of science to solve every problem.
The actual FTC guidelines (Section V) don't use the word 'blog' in the guideline itself. Instead, they talk about 'endorsements' and define them like this:
(b) For purposes of this part, an endorsement means any advertising message (including verbal statements...
The Goauld who originally programmed the gates have a vested interest in keeping atmospheric venting to a minimum during standard transport due to the potential for accidents. They do however have a vested interest in being able to kill people attempting to flee through a gate, even after they have physically passed through.
Its average. Its not as good as Babylon 5 or firefly. Its better than 80% of the sci fi shows I have seen recently. Its was worse than the new Battlestar Galactica (that I enjoyed, but was not enthusiastic about) and better than Star Trek: The Next Generation (that I enjoyed as a child and then realized it was crap).
I have not seen this show. But it is likely one of two things.
1: its an outgoing wormhole? stargate wormholes are one directional, with the exception of a feedback signal from the destination gate. 2: its programmed into the bios of the stargate to filter what goes through. The standard programming prevents atmospheric pressure from venting through the gate for a variety of reasons (some gates are miles below the ocean at huge pressures and some are in the vacuum of space)
In general I find NewEgg to have a good range of reviews, positive and negative. There are quite a few products rated at 2 or 3 stars out of 5. And most with more than a handful of reviews have one or two "I got a dead part" reviews. Now, I do believe there to be some brand management shills posting positive reviews for their own products, but over time it should even out.
But what kind of battery life does that have? From my perspective a netbook has 5 to 8+ hours of use out of its battery. The cost is secondary, but generally under $500.
personally I am looking forwards to the proposed quad core arm 9 architecture cpu's. Should be able to match or exceed the power of a modern laptop at a tiny fraction of the wattage.
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Last year after I was laid off from my job I was unable to even apply for unemployment. The unemployment office was so swamped that they stopped taking applications in person. You had to call a special number to do it. I didn't have a landline phone and and the wait time to get through was longer than the battery of my cell phone would last while on hold (5+ hours). Fortunately I wasn't picky and managed to get a job 2 states away before I maxed out my credit cards and ran out of money.
41%? I am not surprised at all. When I was younger, I used to know quite a few "pirates". Most of them had thousands pirated applications and games.
if 1 in 1000 is a raging "pirate", and 99.9% of the other people had no pirated software at all and a handful of legitimate pieces of software. You could easily get 41% or higher.
Most of these people were teens without significant income, so no sales are really lost. Only a generation of technically minded people familiar and enthusiastic about software they could not afford to learn on their own before entering the workplace.
This is pretty much what I do.
When I was working in .NET, I would go home and play in java. .NET.
Now that I am working in java, I go home and play in
Of course I rarely get the opportunity to sit down and do much coding, having a girlfriend and living near some of the most beautiful beaches in the world does that.
I seem to recall that the glue used to hold the dragon skin scales was water soluble and in long term tests the scales eventually migrated to the bottom of the vest?
Except that the one that is "pwned" is already strategically positioned inside your house. And you probably are not paying attention to your roomba while it snoops on you, or goes out of its way to vacuum up your valuables.
Don't forget that he will intimidate you into apologizing for getting shot.
That wrench probably cost at least $50
They are. http://www.embeddedflash.com/?p=571
That was linked from beagleboard.org a few days ago.
Beagleboard uses the TI OMAP3530 processor using an ARM 8 core (and a bunch of other stuff).
What? don't you believe in the crystal spheres? Sounds heretical to me. ;)
The moon orbits about the gravitational center of a system of n bodies. So does the earth, so does the sun, so does the galaxy.
Sure you can, all that is in the executable itself. All you have to do is view a hex dump to catch some of it, decompile/debug to find the rest.
That is besides the point. In this particular case, the software had a nice feature to phone home and download updates. When the code was stolen, they forgot to change or disable this feature.
Its like saying you can not tell if a movie you sell is copy written because you didn't watch it yourself. It has been known for a long time that green dam was stolen code, and they knowingly continued to distribute it.
Yes, you can often (but not always) tell if some source code was copied.
1: Comments. Sometimes when code is copied, they leave the same comments in, possibly even including the name of the author or original product.
2: Variable, method and class names. If these are left unchanged, it leaves a signature in the code.
3: Magic numbers/strings. Arbitrary assignment of the same value to magic numbers, enums or strings can demonstrate copy.
oh... sorry about the multiple replies, I didn't notice that you were the parent author for both posts.
I am pointing out that it is a crime, not that it should be a crime.
All creative works (software included) are under copyright from the moment they are published under US law (most other western nations as well).
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1393007&cid=29649223&art_pos=1
Yes, they actually did commit a crime. and yes I did RTFA. They reverse engineered the algorithm of the js package. That algorithm was essentially copy protection aka DRM. This is a federal felony under the DMCA.
They violated the DRM placed on the legally copyrighted software produced by bot net authors. They committed a US federal felony according to the DMCA.
It had a refreshing character, good actors and a decent storyline. It didn't rely on techno-babble or inventing new fields of science to solve every problem.
The actual FTC guidelines (Section V) don't use the word 'blog' in the guideline itself. Instead, they talk about 'endorsements' and define them like this:
(b) For purposes of this part, an endorsement means any advertising message (including
verbal statements...
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The Goauld who originally programmed the gates have a vested interest in keeping atmospheric venting to a minimum during standard transport due to the potential for accidents. They do however have a vested interest in being able to kill people attempting to flee through a gate, even after they have physically passed through.
Its average. Its not as good as Babylon 5 or firefly. Its better than 80% of the sci fi shows I have seen recently. Its was worse than the new Battlestar Galactica (that I enjoyed, but was not enthusiastic about) and better than Star Trek: The Next Generation (that I enjoyed as a child and then realized it was crap).
I have not seen this show. But it is likely one of two things.
1: its an outgoing wormhole? stargate wormholes are one directional, with the exception of a feedback signal from the destination gate.
2: its programmed into the bios of the stargate to filter what goes through. The standard programming prevents atmospheric pressure from venting through the gate for a variety of reasons (some gates are miles below the ocean at huge pressures and some are in the vacuum of space)
In general I find NewEgg to have a good range of reviews, positive and negative. There are quite a few products rated at 2 or 3 stars out of 5. And most with more than a handful of reviews have one or two "I got a dead part" reviews. Now, I do believe there to be some brand management shills posting positive reviews for their own products, but over time it should even out.
But what kind of battery life does that have? From my perspective a netbook has 5 to 8+ hours of use out of its battery. The cost is secondary, but generally under $500.
Thats not nearly as impressive as I would have hoped.
personally I am looking forwards to the proposed quad core arm 9 architecture cpu's. Should be able to match or exceed the power of a modern laptop at a tiny fraction of the wattage.