he report states that around a third of Swiss citizens over 15 years old download pirated music, movies and games from the Internet. However, these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary.
This is what many just don't get. People don't have an unlimited amount of money. The ridicolus amounts of money that publishers claim to use due to piracy doesn't exist. Most of the time, the amount of what people spend on entertainment is constant. When they can pirate films and music for free, they will spend the remainder to go to cinemas and concerts. Of course, that changes the structure of the whole business, with new players entering and the old ones losing money, and those who can't change will try to use legislation to stay in business.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is an expert on cyberhacking too. This likely is a big FUD generated by this government-employed guy to make America seem more powerful. Conficker did much more damage to the US to be worth doing something like that.
Exactly. By contacting them, presumably through a non-anonymous email account, you already made a wrong decision. Companies will never admit they were wrong, and if anyone would hack them in the future you will be the first one to blame. Even professional security researchers can be silenced by legal threats, you won't be an exception. Just leave it alone, it's far too risky to rely on a companies goodwill. And if you ever want to do something similar again, the most important part is to remain anonymous the whole time: send them an anonymous email detailing the vulnerability, possible ways to fix it, and give them some time (e.g. a month) to do so. After said time, if the vulnerability still exists, hack them, and publish the proof of concept, also anonymously.
They say that each phonon involves the coherent vibration of about 1016 atoms, corresponding to a region of the crystal about 0.05 millimetres wide and 0.25 millimetres long — large enough to see with the naked eye.
Problem is, if someone actually saw them the experiment wouldn't work.
That's exactly what makes science interesting, when new better models show that some of the data previously disposed as junk can also be predicted. But making a perfect model would require infinite resources, so sometimes tradeoffs has to be made.
Most scientific topics are like this, there is too much raw data to analize it all. But a good scientist can spot the patterns and can distinguish between important stuff and noise.
His point is, the sea level rise, if happens, will be slow enough for humanity to react. The Dutch seem to live just fine below sea level, so it's not impossible.
And things like Chernobyl are fine examples that safety weren't taken very seriously in socialism either. Oh, you were thinking of the idealistic utopian socialism?
No, it's an ecological problem that doesn't have one simple solution, but requires advances in technology, society, politics and many other areas of life to work together. Betting everything on fusion is very risky.
While an all-powerful world government would certainly not work, there are some global issues that should be handled by an international organization, like ecological problems or Internet regulations.
a common political structure? A disaster waiting to happen.
It might be just me, but I think that the EU politicians tend to make much more rational decisions than the European national ones. The current crisis is not because of the EU, it's because of the mistakes of certain national governments. And if the EU had more power, we might have been able to prevent it.
Now even if we only discuss the practical side of the problem, I would say convincing millions is still more plausible then treating said millions with ridiculosly expensive gene therapy every few years.
The problem with picking a specific trade is that the majority won't care about it, so they can pass laws that only hurt small groups of people without taking a big reputation hit, thus transforming democracy into mob rule.
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This is what many just don't get. People don't have an unlimited amount of money. The ridicolus amounts of money that publishers claim to use due to piracy doesn't exist. Most of the time, the amount of what people spend on entertainment is constant. When they can pirate films and music for free, they will spend the remainder to go to cinemas and concerts. Of course, that changes the structure of the whole business, with new players entering and the old ones losing money, and those who can't change will try to use legislation to stay in business.
Added to this: in Africa, a significant portion of children are born with HIV. How are they supposed to prevent getting infected?
And a preventive gene therapy wouldn't be of much use in this case.
These weren't normal mice, but ones with altered "human-like" immune system. Normal mice can't even catch HIV, so don't worry.
Or doesn't have a well, fireplace and backup generator. Sadly, most industrial systems are vulnerable to similar attacks.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is an expert on cyberhacking too. This likely is a big FUD generated by this government-employed guy to make America seem more powerful. Conficker did much more damage to the US to be worth doing something like that.
Yeah, these C&C-type RTSes are about micromanagement, not strategy.
How on Earth got these 3 consecutive trolls get modded up?
Exactly. By contacting them, presumably through a non-anonymous email account, you already made a wrong decision. Companies will never admit they were wrong, and if anyone would hack them in the future you will be the first one to blame. Even professional security researchers can be silenced by legal threats, you won't be an exception. Just leave it alone, it's far too risky to rely on a companies goodwill.
And if you ever want to do something similar again, the most important part is to remain anonymous the whole time: send them an anonymous email detailing the vulnerability, possible ways to fix it, and give them some time (e.g. a month) to do so. After said time, if the vulnerability still exists, hack them, and publish the proof of concept, also anonymously.
Problem is, if someone actually saw them the experiment wouldn't work.
That's exactly what makes science interesting, when new better models show that some of the data previously disposed as junk can also be predicted. But making a perfect model would require infinite resources, so sometimes tradeoffs has to be made.
Most scientific topics are like this, there is too much raw data to analize it all. But a good scientist can spot the patterns and can distinguish between important stuff and noise.
His point is, the sea level rise, if happens, will be slow enough for humanity to react. The Dutch seem to live just fine below sea level, so it's not impossible.
And things like Chernobyl are fine examples that safety weren't taken very seriously in socialism either. Oh, you were thinking of the idealistic utopian socialism?
No, it's an ecological problem that doesn't have one simple solution, but requires advances in technology, society, politics and many other areas of life to work together. Betting everything on fusion is very risky.
While an all-powerful world government would certainly not work, there are some global issues that should be handled by an international organization, like ecological problems or Internet regulations.
a common political structure? A disaster waiting to happen.
It might be just me, but I think that the EU politicians tend to make much more rational decisions than the European national ones. The current crisis is not because of the EU, it's because of the mistakes of certain national governments. And if the EU had more power, we might have been able to prevent it.
Hey, it's perfectly okay because it's not Microsoft that's doing it but Google.
Now even if we only discuss the practical side of the problem, I would say convincing millions is still more plausible then treating said millions with ridiculosly expensive gene therapy every few years.
The problem with picking a specific trade is that the majority won't care about it, so they can pass laws that only hurt small groups of people without taking a big reputation hit, thus transforming democracy into mob rule.
And there are already much better ways to prevent getting infected with HIV.
The only problem is that it's not self contained yet, with the battery, air pump and command module being tethered to it.
You have many different countries so you can choose between different legal systems by changing location.
Well, if obeying the laws shouldn't be mandatory...
While it's impossible to run a red light when both lights are green/yellow, it won't reduce the number of accidents.
Yeah, it shouldn't be that hard to uncrop a picture.