I think you're missing the definition of "crackdown" ("crack down: to repress, to take strong measures against"). Arresting 12 members of Anonymous is not going to repress them, and is not a strong measure.
Quality equipment helps. A proper digital SLR camera is a lot more ergonomic than a typical digital compact. It has a larger body which is easier to hold straight. It has a removable lens stuck on the front that extends the lens location forwards, reducing the likelihood of your arm getting in the way. It has a large lens, which you are likely to be able to see yourself reflected in. Also, the forward-protruding nature of the lens attachment will help you align it better. It will also have a lot higher resolution, meaning that you can more easily crop stuff out without a noticeable reduction in quality.
Of course it wasn't a DMCA takedown notice, the Daily Mail is based in the UK.
Doesn't matter where the Daily Mail is, it's where the infringement is taking place that's relevant. Techdirt have a designated infringement agent based in Sunnyvale, CA, so I assume they are a US publisher, hence any infringement that were taking place would be in the US and must therefore be dealt with under US law.
A DMCA takedown requires making a declaration under penalty of perjury, which you cannot legally do unless you understand the meaning of the declaration. This seems to suggest that monkeys cannot file DMCA takedowns, however easy they are to generate. They'd need to employ a lawyer to do it for them. And working for monkeys should be no problem to the kind of lawyer that will work for, say, the RIAA.
his two failures had enough mercury to poison, by EPA definitions, 5000 liters of water.
[citation needed]
Based on limited research, this appears to be wrong. The EPA does not appear to have a limit on mercury content of water. They do require individual states to set limits on methylmercury content of fish tissue, but this is entirely different.
I'm no lawyer but trash may not be free to grab until you put it out on the curb for pickup.
Also not a lawyer, but do read a lot about the law. What you're talking about is the common law concept of "conversion", which allows you to take somebody else's property without it being an offence if it is left in circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe it had been (intentionally) abandoned. Put in a bin and left for collection is one case (although if, say, you were to find a suit case with a large quantity of cash in there, you could be reasonably certain that it wasn't intentional so isn't legally up for grabs), but ther are others. For instance, being told that it will be thrown away.
The point: FB don't think MySQL is a problem. Only the article author does. Author suggests replacing MySQL with an in-memory database, and is presumably ignorant of quite how many TB of data Facebook handles.
PC's are fastly more powerful today then any console out there AND they iterate like crazy! Hasn't helped the number of games for that platform has it?
Erm. Yes. Gamespot lists around 15,000 titles available for PC, compared to about 1,750 for PS3 and about 4,000 for XBox/360. And that's just releases from major studios -- most independent producers only target PC, and aren't listed on gamespot.
Yea, except... you know... see if theres been a recent request from the same browser session for the main page.
Except there's no reliable way to detect if two requests are in the same browser session. Drop a cookie? Enough poeple disable them that you're going to piss people off by requiring them (particularly when your target market is people paranoid about privacy, which is what mailinator does). Require same address? There are ISPs out there who feed requests through a load balanced cluster of proxy servers, so the same person's requests can come from different addresses from second to second. Besides, what about anyone who gets the main page out of cache rather than a new copy?
Besides, that feature of gmail is so well known, I have a hard time believing any buyer and seller of email lists doesn't run 'sed s/\+.*@gmail.com/gmail.com/' over his list to dodge those filters.
I'm a long way from convicned. Looking at the addresses at my domain that receive spam, it seems most lists are curated with the attention to detail of a distracted 7 year old with ADHD. The number of times I see mail to addresses that would be valid if the first character hadn't been omitted, or have part of the address repeated ('julesules@mydomain'), or take two separate addresses and combine them ('julesmydomainpostmaster@mydomain'), it just seems to me nobody actually cares what's on those lists.
The hacker was able to create 2 million counterfeit BTC by manipulating the company's trading database after gaining access to a compromised administrator account on June 19
No, the hacker didn't create any counterfeit BTC. He only convinced Mt Gox that he had given them 2 million BTC to hold in escrow for him when in fact he hadn't. Which is a very different thing: the former would indicate a flaw in the entire system, whereas the latter is an isolated event that screwed up a single trader and has no real implications for other BTC users.
I've heard time and time again from NoSQL fans that it's ok to put your database on the public internet over HTTP with no locks.
Really? Are you sure you're not confusing NoSQL fans with blethering idiots who jump on any bandwagon they think will make them look hip?
In fact, early versions of CouchDB didn't have security.
Yes, but it only accepted connectsion from localhost, which is adequate security for about 90% of applications (ie, web services or three-tier services where everything running on the same machine is trusted). And even if this weren't the case, it would still be considered standard practice to have your server behind a firewall that prevented external connections to anything other than defined public services.
Not $2B. Maybe $2M, but I'd be surprised even at that.
What does bandwidth for that much usage run?
Say an average user plays 10 hours per week, so they're looking at 6x10^9 player hours per annum. Total usage is probably around 10MB per player hour, so about 6x10^13 bytes of transfer per annum, which equates to about 15 megabits per second. OK, there'll be substantial bursts at a much higher rate, but it looks like 1Gb/s would be enough to cope with their demand. Bought directly from reputable datacenters, an uncapped link of this capacity would usually cost about $500/month, so a drop in the ocean compared to other costs.
Infrastructure to support the servers is a bitch too.
Still trivial compared to the revenue. Almost the entire cost of running WoW will be in areas you haven't touched yet: support staff, marketing, the dev team. Figure they're probably employing about 1,000 people with an average salary of maybe $30K => $30M, plus overheads to employ them, so figure $50M. Advertising budget probably runs to ten times that.
What's wrong with simply saying "online"? They're putting the patient records online.
Because there's an additional implication. If I have a record about you here on my computer, I can put it online by simply running some kind of server on this machine and opening a hole in my firewall for it. To put it "in the cloud" I have to contract with a third party to host it somewhere else, so that everyone (including me) accesses it remotely rather than using the original local copy.
"Cloud" => "subcontracted IT service delivered remotely via the Internet"
After years of development, the C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998
C++ didn't exist as a standardized language till 13 years ago. It was in development before then.
The word "iteration" is normally interpreted in this context to mean "a small chunk of an ongoing development process that ends with a public release". The first iteration of C++ development ended when Stroustrup first released Cfront to the public, some time around 1983.
they mentioned in passing that Bitcoin is already being used to purchase stolen credit card numbers
I would also imagine that stolen credit card numbers are regularly used to purchase bitcoin. I can only imagine that this is a bit of a headache for the bitcoin vendors.
Do you seriously believe Bitcoin is a currency? Two cases and plenty of evidence says it is a ponzi scheme.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment scheme, where you invest money with a central banker who returns it to you plus interest, but lies about where the interest came from (he will claim it is the result of careful investment, etc, but in fact it is the money from more recent investors).
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is intended to allow anonymous money transfers across the Internet. No money is held centrally, nobody is lying about where any money you get is coming from, and above all else nobody (that I've seen) is suggesting using it as an investment scheme.
The MP3 format was first published in 1993. Other than changes and improvements made since then, any patent on the basics *should* therefore have been filed by 1994, and expire by 2014 (unless it was delayed for longer than 3 years before the patent was granted).
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I think you're missing the definition of "crackdown" ("crack down: to repress, to take strong measures against"). Arresting 12 members of Anonymous is not going to repress them, and is not a strong measure.
Quality equipment helps. A proper digital SLR camera is a lot more ergonomic than a typical digital compact. It has a larger body which is easier to hold straight. It has a removable lens stuck on the front that extends the lens location forwards, reducing the likelihood of your arm getting in the way. It has a large lens, which you are likely to be able to see yourself reflected in. Also, the forward-protruding nature of the lens attachment will help you align it better. It will also have a lot higher resolution, meaning that you can more easily crop stuff out without a noticeable reduction in quality.
Of course it wasn't a DMCA takedown notice, the Daily Mail is based in the UK.
Doesn't matter where the Daily Mail is, it's where the infringement is taking place that's relevant. Techdirt have a designated infringement agent based in Sunnyvale, CA, so I assume they are a US publisher, hence any infringement that were taking place would be in the US and must therefore be dealt with under US law.
But a DMCA takedown is a lot easier, clearly.
A DMCA takedown requires making a declaration under penalty of perjury, which you cannot legally do unless you understand the meaning of the declaration. This seems to suggest that monkeys cannot file DMCA takedowns, however easy they are to generate. They'd need to employ a lawyer to do it for them. And working for monkeys should be no problem to the kind of lawyer that will work for, say, the RIAA.
his two failures had enough mercury to poison, by EPA definitions, 5000 liters of water.
[citation needed]
Based on limited research, this appears to be wrong. The EPA does not appear to have a limit on mercury content of water. They do require individual states to set limits on methylmercury content of fish tissue, but this is entirely different.
I'm no lawyer but trash may not be free to grab until you put it out on the curb for pickup.
Also not a lawyer, but do read a lot about the law. What you're talking about is the common law concept of "conversion", which allows you to take somebody else's property without it being an offence if it is left in circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe it had been (intentionally) abandoned. Put in a bin and left for collection is one case (although if, say, you were to find a suit case with a large quantity of cash in there, you could be reasonably certain that it wasn't intentional so isn't legally up for grabs), but ther are others. For instance, being told that it will be thrown away.
Yes.
The point: FB don't think MySQL is a problem. Only the article author does. Author suggests replacing MySQL with an in-memory database, and is presumably ignorant of quite how many TB of data Facebook handles.
even genuine Apple iPhones are manufactured in a factory in China
Probably, in fact, the same factory that manufactures the clones...
PC's are fastly more powerful today then any console out there AND they iterate like crazy! Hasn't helped the number of games for that platform has it?
Erm. Yes. Gamespot lists around 15,000 titles available for PC, compared to about 1,750 for PS3 and about 4,000 for XBox/360. And that's just releases from major studios -- most independent producers only target PC, and aren't listed on gamespot.
The only mandatory information in the public profile is name and age
Thereby ensuring that a large percentage of sign ups lie about one, or both.
Particularly as if you specify your age as less than 13, they will delete your entire Google account.
Yea, except ... you know ... see if theres been a recent request from the same browser session for the main page.
Except there's no reliable way to detect if two requests are in the same browser session. Drop a cookie? Enough poeple disable them that you're going to piss people off by requiring them (particularly when your target market is people paranoid about privacy, which is what mailinator does). Require same address? There are ISPs out there who feed requests through a load balanced cluster of proxy servers, so the same person's requests can come from different addresses from second to second. Besides, what about anyone who gets the main page out of cache rather than a new copy?
Besides, that feature of gmail is so well known, I have a hard time believing any buyer and seller of email lists doesn't run 'sed s/\+.*@gmail.com/gmail.com/' over his list to dodge those filters.
I'm a long way from convicned. Looking at the addresses at my domain that receive spam, it seems most lists are curated with the attention to detail of a distracted 7 year old with ADHD. The number of times I see mail to addresses that would be valid if the first character hadn't been omitted, or have part of the address repeated ('julesules@mydomain'), or take two separate addresses and combine them ('julesmydomainpostmaster@mydomain'), it just seems to me nobody actually cares what's on those lists.
Interesting post, but a point of inaccuracy:
The hacker was able to create 2 million counterfeit BTC by manipulating the company's trading database after gaining access to a compromised administrator account on June 19
No, the hacker didn't create any counterfeit BTC. He only convinced Mt Gox that he had given them 2 million BTC to hold in escrow for him when in fact he hadn't. Which is a very different thing: the former would indicate a flaw in the entire system, whereas the latter is an isolated event that screwed up a single trader and has no real implications for other BTC users.
I've heard time and time again from NoSQL fans that it's ok to put your database on the public internet over HTTP with no locks.
Really? Are you sure you're not confusing NoSQL fans with blethering idiots who jump on any bandwagon they think will make them look hip?
In fact, early versions of CouchDB didn't have security.
Yes, but it only accepted connectsion from localhost, which is adequate security for about 90% of applications (ie, web services or three-tier services where everything running on the same machine is trusted). And even if this weren't the case, it would still be considered standard practice to have your server behind a firewall that prevented external connections to anything other than defined public services.
What does it cost to maintain servers?
Not $2B. Maybe $2M, but I'd be surprised even at that.
What does bandwidth for that much usage run?
Say an average user plays 10 hours per week, so they're looking at 6x10^9 player hours per annum. Total usage is probably around 10MB per player hour, so about 6x10^13 bytes of transfer per annum, which equates to about 15 megabits per second. OK, there'll be substantial bursts at a much higher rate, but it looks like 1Gb/s would be enough to cope with their demand. Bought directly from reputable datacenters, an uncapped link of this capacity would usually cost about $500/month, so a drop in the ocean compared to other costs.
Infrastructure to support the servers is a bitch too.
Still trivial compared to the revenue. Almost the entire cost of running WoW will be in areas you haven't touched yet: support staff, marketing, the dev team. Figure they're probably employing about 1,000 people with an average salary of maybe $30K => $30M, plus overheads to employ them, so figure $50M. Advertising budget probably runs to ten times that.
What's wrong with simply saying "online"? They're putting the patient records online.
Because there's an additional implication. If I have a record about you here on my computer, I can put it online by simply running some kind of server on this machine and opening a hole in my firewall for it. To put it "in the cloud" I have to contract with a third party to host it somewhere else, so that everyone (including me) accesses it remotely rather than using the original local copy.
"Cloud" => "subcontracted IT service delivered remotely via the Internet"
The term is useful, even if a little stupid.
How else are you going to clean the cat?
With a roll of carpet, a bag, and a vacuum cleaner, of course.
You mean like when he gets pulled over and the police man asks for his driver's license? Yeah, that never happens to white people.
The white person won't get a $100 fine for not being able to prove he's there legally.
After years of development, the C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998
C++ didn't exist as a standardized language till 13 years ago. It was in development before then.
The word "iteration" is normally interpreted in this context to mean "a small chunk of an ongoing development process that ends with a public release". The first iteration of C++ development ended when Stroustrup first released Cfront to the public, some time around 1983.
they mentioned in passing that Bitcoin is already being used to purchase stolen credit card numbers
I would also imagine that stolen credit card numbers are regularly used to purchase bitcoin. I can only imagine that this is a bit of a headache for the bitcoin vendors.
I'm supposed to hate electronic voting, but support a wholly electronic currency?
I think you missed the memo. You're supposed to hate diebold, not electronic voting. E-voting as done (for example) in India, is considered good.
Do you seriously believe Bitcoin is a currency? Two cases and plenty of evidence says it is a ponzi scheme.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment scheme, where you invest money with a central banker who returns it to you plus interest, but lies about where the interest came from (he will claim it is the result of careful investment, etc, but in fact it is the money from more recent investors).
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is intended to allow anonymous money transfers across the Internet. No money is held centrally, nobody is lying about where any money you get is coming from, and above all else nobody (that I've seen) is suggesting using it as an investment scheme.
I fail to see any parallels.
Hilary Clinton vs Sarah Palin at the next election would be hilarious and an unbeatable demonstration that America has totally jumped the shark.
I think you guys did that when you elected Ronald Reagan. I mean, WTF?
people that prioritize speed don't buy hybrids and people that buy hybrids obviously didn't consider speed to be a priority.
Really?
The MP3 format was first published in 1993. Other than changes and improvements made since then, any patent on the basics *should* therefore have been filed by 1994, and expire by 2014 (unless it was delayed for longer than 3 years before the patent was granted).