I could buy into that argument, but in this case it would be multi-million dollar remedial training. It might be worth the money to learn new lessons, but not to correct what amounts to either incompetence or willful disregard of the law.
Nail on the head. The recent trend towards use of debit cards attached to checking accounts is worrying; if used fraudulently you can be liable to $500 or more. On the other hand, a traditional credit card comes with a $50 max liability if the card is lost/stolen, and if the card numbers are stolen (but not the card) then you have $0 liability. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the shift toward debit cards is supported wholeheartedly by the banks wanting to reduce their losses to theft -- they give you a nice shiny debit card with a credit card company logo as proof of trustworthiness and ease-of-use, and never mention your increased exposure.
A lot of the stuff that can hurt them the most isn't going to be video, it'll be all manner of personal / confidential files.. and that stuff is tiny compared to the video.
If someone stole one disk from a RAID array, rebuilt it, then stole another.. it could be done. If someone stole a set of disks from an array of Amazon's S3 service it might (ignoring any encryption) contain a similar mix of data.
If I was working in IT for Sony and wanted to steal their data -- assuming I had physical access -- I'd go for stealing disks off arrays if they use them for fault-tolerant redundancy. Write up the disk replacement as a failure, take it home. Get enough of the array and you're set. Obviously this requires them to have overlooked the need for securing the disks against physical theft with encryption.
Your employer could have held the information, but every system involved with access & storage would have to meet physical and electronic security requirements. Outsourcing is cheaper, and a business structured around PHI-compliance would have an interest in minimizing their liability.
The OP made a huge mistake by including personal details in the question -- typical/. users apparently can't answer a legitimate inquiry when there's fodder for sniping and irrelevant arguments to hand.
I think you misread the post. Yes, Steam's Big Picture mode is for home theater-style setups -- but the question wasn't about that. He was asking about siting the computer in another room and piping the USB, sound and video to the living room.
High-quality conductors can improve performance, but only a bit, in this case; when it comes to length the problem isn't resistance, it's the capacitance of the wire (which is a function purely of length). The longer the run length the higher the current needs to be to achieve the same voltage. Ethernet's run length limits are based on calculations to determine the point at which the signal in dB is too low to be reliably received. The latency he experienced probably wasn't to do with the length itself, but with the fact the packets had to be retransmitted multiple times before they were successfully received.
She's less likely to mind the gaming if he's hanging out with her while playing. Still.. it's a perfect opportunity to get permission to build a man-cave.
TRIM is already implemented in firmware; what the OS sends to the drive are "hints" indicating blocks which have become free and require clearing. Without the OS sending those hints I don't see how the SSD would know which blocks are safe to clear; doing so requires reading the drive's file system, which is why the OS has always been involved.
It's a declarative sentence, any conditions narrowing scope should have been included in the (absent) part of the sentence called a clause. You're confusing written English with conversational English. That sentence would have been read and understood if one person said/typed it to someone else during an interactive conversation; using that type of sentence structure on a forum/group conversation thread is ambiguous and can lead to multiple contradictory meanings.
It's a declarative sentence, the scope is global unless a clause is used to restrict it. Likewise, the use of "this" (as pronoun) in this context requires that the noun to which is refers be used *in the same sentence* because otherwise it renders the sentence so ambiguous as to be useless -- two people can read the same sentence and come away with opposing messages.
You don't even have to look as far as eBay, those same counterfeit cards are also available on Amazon.com. You can even get them "Fulfilled by Amazon"; I called to complain and was told "we just distribute what the sellers send to our warehouse" -- if that argument wouldn't keep a fence out of prison why should Amazon get to use it to profit from fake goods?
Also, even though you can still get 4GB microsd cards every fake I've seen has been an 8GB one; do you think perhaps that's because it's easier to add the "12" without needing to scrape off the "4" first?
So when Big Cable gets wind of my community considering putting in FTTH, and they invariably engage in their traditional filth-throwing, can I sue them for tortious interference because they're causing me financial hardship? Provided my house is technically "for sale" at the time, of course.
There are countless people across the world making knock-off props (both theatrical AND nautical, as if you'd mistake the two...) and the quality can vary wildly. The stuff she shows in the video looks OK, but that just means she knows how to download a 3D model from the internet and print it. People who make really good copies of famous paintings are still artists, and it's only forgery if you try to pass off the dupe as original content; so while the question of whether she's stealing IP is in the air.. I guess she's an artist *if* she make the models herself, which isn't clarified in the video.
Regardless, her products are derivative -- I would expect that she either had some novel take on prop-making, or made them from trash/scrap metal/something unique, or designed her own props from scratch instead of copying pop culture items, for her to be featured on/. -- and this "article" must have a reason for being posted which isn't apparent.
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I could buy into that argument, but in this case it would be multi-million dollar remedial training. It might be worth the money to learn new lessons, but not to correct what amounts to either incompetence or willful disregard of the law.
Nail on the head. The recent trend towards use of debit cards attached to checking accounts is worrying; if used fraudulently you can be liable to $500 or more. On the other hand, a traditional credit card comes with a $50 max liability if the card is lost/stolen, and if the card numbers are stolen (but not the card) then you have $0 liability. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the shift toward debit cards is supported wholeheartedly by the banks wanting to reduce their losses to theft -- they give you a nice shiny debit card with a credit card company logo as proof of trustworthiness and ease-of-use, and never mention your increased exposure.
I'm no fan of the TSA, but: how can we quantify the effect of simply having *some form* of security to deter the less-suicidal ones?
Yea, El Al flights are safe; they also have missile countermeasures packages on their aircraft. Safe, sure.. but have you seen their ticket prices?
I'd rather not fly on a plane where the pilots are put in the position of needing to do anything besides actually fly the plane.
A lot of the stuff that can hurt them the most isn't going to be video, it'll be all manner of personal / confidential files.. and that stuff is tiny compared to the video.
Assuming the disks were part of an array for redundancy, how many disks would have to be stolen before you could rebuild the remainder?
If someone stole one disk from a RAID array, rebuilt it, then stole another.. it could be done. If someone stole a set of disks from an array of Amazon's S3 service it might (ignoring any encryption) contain a similar mix of data.
To add, I mean steal one disk, rebuild. Repeat for next disk.
If I was working in IT for Sony and wanted to steal their data -- assuming I had physical access -- I'd go for stealing disks off arrays if they use them for fault-tolerant redundancy. Write up the disk replacement as a failure, take it home. Get enough of the array and you're set. Obviously this requires them to have overlooked the need for securing the disks against physical theft with encryption.
Your employer could have held the information, but every system involved with access & storage would have to meet physical and electronic security requirements. Outsourcing is cheaper, and a business structured around PHI-compliance would have an interest in minimizing their liability.
The OP made a huge mistake by including personal details in the question -- typical /. users apparently can't answer a legitimate inquiry when there's fodder for sniping and irrelevant arguments to hand.
I think you misread the post. Yes, Steam's Big Picture mode is for home theater-style setups -- but the question wasn't about that. He was asking about siting the computer in another room and piping the USB, sound and video to the living room.
She should also be glad that at least he isn't secretly a serial killer then, too?
High-quality conductors can improve performance, but only a bit, in this case; when it comes to length the problem isn't resistance, it's the capacitance of the wire (which is a function purely of length). The longer the run length the higher the current needs to be to achieve the same voltage. Ethernet's run length limits are based on calculations to determine the point at which the signal in dB is too low to be reliably received. The latency he experienced probably wasn't to do with the length itself, but with the fact the packets had to be retransmitted multiple times before they were successfully received.
Actually, the propagation still takes place at the speed of light. You mistakenly appended "in a vacuum" to the phrase.
She's less likely to mind the gaming if he's hanging out with her while playing. Still.. it's a perfect opportunity to get permission to build a man-cave.
TRIM is already implemented in firmware; what the OS sends to the drive are "hints" indicating blocks which have become free and require clearing. Without the OS sending those hints I don't see how the SSD would know which blocks are safe to clear; doing so requires reading the drive's file system, which is why the OS has always been involved.
It's a declarative sentence, any conditions narrowing scope should have been included in the (absent) part of the sentence called a clause. You're confusing written English with conversational English. That sentence would have been read and understood if one person said/typed it to someone else during an interactive conversation; using that type of sentence structure on a forum/group conversation thread is ambiguous and can lead to multiple contradictory meanings.
You can't go back to square one, it hasn't been cleared for rewriting yet.
It's a declarative sentence, the scope is global unless a clause is used to restrict it. Likewise, the use of "this" (as pronoun) in this context requires that the noun to which is refers be used *in the same sentence* because otherwise it renders the sentence so ambiguous as to be useless -- two people can read the same sentence and come away with opposing messages.
You don't even have to look as far as eBay, those same counterfeit cards are also available on Amazon.com. You can even get them "Fulfilled by Amazon"; I called to complain and was told "we just distribute what the sellers send to our warehouse" -- if that argument wouldn't keep a fence out of prison why should Amazon get to use it to profit from fake goods? Also, even though you can still get 4GB microsd cards every fake I've seen has been an 8GB one; do you think perhaps that's because it's easier to add the "12" without needing to scrape off the "4" first?
Plenty of people can't spend the next decade stuck on 3 mbps, while waiting for a rollout that they "hope" will come someday.
So when Big Cable gets wind of my community considering putting in FTTH, and they invariably engage in their traditional filth-throwing, can I sue them for tortious interference because they're causing me financial hardship? Provided my house is technically "for sale" at the time, of course.
There are countless people across the world making knock-off props (both theatrical AND nautical, as if you'd mistake the two...) and the quality can vary wildly. The stuff she shows in the video looks OK, but that just means she knows how to download a 3D model from the internet and print it. People who make really good copies of famous paintings are still artists, and it's only forgery if you try to pass off the dupe as original content; so while the question of whether she's stealing IP is in the air.. I guess she's an artist *if* she make the models herself, which isn't clarified in the video. Regardless, her products are derivative -- I would expect that she either had some novel take on prop-making, or made them from trash/scrap metal/something unique, or designed her own props from scratch instead of copying pop culture items, for her to be featured on /. -- and this "article" must have a reason for being posted which isn't apparent.