Not really related to stored data and passwords, but a friend of mine has a deal with his sister, that if he unexpectedly dies, she will clean all porn out of his apartment and get rid of it so the rest of the family will never know.
I notice this is moderated funny, but this is actually BANG ON. My housemate died suddenly earlier this year, and his family came for all his things a while later... in the meantime I cleaned all the porn off his desktop and laptop (had to break in as he was running passworded Windows XP) as I knew he had some.... alternative.... tastes that his very Catholic family would not like. I completely forgot about the approx. 20 CDs that were in his CD wallets alongside loads of feature films - and the family got them. Luckily the stuff on CDs was really the tamer kind of thing... only a little anecdote, but goes to show how close to the bone the parent comment is.
First, the amount of land required to grow enough oil for all the cars currently operating has been estimated to be about the same amount of land contained in the continental US, and I believe there are a couple of other uses people had in mind for that land too. I've seen similar estimates for the UK fleet vs. UK landmass.
Well those estimates would be absolutely worthless then. Primarily because whoever made them is way, way out - the average number of cars per person is fairly similar between the US and the UK, but the land area per person is considerably different (40 times the land, 5 times the people) - almost an order of magnitude.
But the US has 10,000 nuculear warheads, enough to 'overkill' the worlds pupulation 12x.
What? Nowhere near. Remember the majority of the worlds population does not live in major cities or towns but in rural areas. The 10,000 nukes the US has, combined with all the nukes the Russians have wouldn't even annhilate 50% of the worlds population directly. Nowhere near.
It's much more likely that there is a "tipping point" where the damage from a nuclear exchange cascades into a catastrophe for the species (us).
How, exactly? Ignoring the fact that the global economy would be gone, and all city centres and major surburban districts in approx. 10 - 15k cities (hint : there are a huge number of large towns and cities worldwide, much more than 15k) - I find it likely that after a short period of land grabbing and wars, we would have our agriculture and all region infrastructure primarily intact along with a reduction in population of maybe 25-50% depending on a number of factors. I would hazard a guess this would be very sustainable.
Could you provide any ideas as to why more than X bombs may become catastrophic to us as a species, as opposed to only those in large towns and cities, and those killed by in-fighting soon after?
That's interesting. Here in the UK, it would be illegal for companies to send me mailings based on that information in the first place. Saves them money on printing and postage, saves me money and time opting out.
Akamais system will cache anything it is asked to (other comments in this thread link to pages that tell you how to use Akamai to get around censorship of sites, or to cache your own material) so I guess all the DOSers would have to do is to tell each local Akamai box in each rack to cache, say, a few thousand large files each that they do not already cache?
In this way a few thousand bytes of http requests could make the Akamai servers *EACH* attempt to fetch terrabytes, or more, of data...
Perhaps I'm crazy but I've always felt an application which allows a brute force attack is flawed.
Surely by this point in software development it should be regarded as standard for every program to LOCK access for a given account after X consecutive failed logon attempts?
Even setting this to something arbitrarily high like, say 1000, is more than any user would ever try before asking for help, but much MUCH MUCH less than any dictionary attack would require. Combine this with the possibility of real time notification for admins (facilitated by email/inter application messaging, or a small add-on service for the OS) when more than Y accounts are locked for this reason in Z minutes, and as a community we'd effectively end all dictionary attacks - or at least turn them into DOS attacks, but at least we'd know it was going on...
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you guys would absolutely not believe the stuff this guy says about Free Software philosophy. He takes every single aspect of FOSS and gives it a sinister anti-business anti-America anti-puppy connotation.
That's exactly what it is. It empowers the individual to work for either his own benefit, or to work directly for the benefit of others without being tied into a proprietary system or organisation. It's a tool of the little man by philosophy, and as such AUTOMATICALLY it is anti-(big)-business and anti-(money)-American. American business leaders and investors live in a culture designed to extract work and wealth from everyone else in the country, while giving back *just* enough to ensure that the majority never question the status quo, or why a few people can "earn" more than a few million people.
Anything which empowers each person equally is obviously an "enemy" to anyone in this clique.
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If you could give me a pill and give me a toned body right now, the odds are much greater that I'd engage in much more exercise then I do now, even if it weren't strictly necessary. The hump is what stops me; I've tried several times to start an exercise program, but I've got so far to go before it's really fun and not boring that I never make it over that hump.
I'm six foot four (just under 2 metres tall), almost perfect body mass ratio, I have had at least semi regular exercise all my life, a reasonable diet and I have to tell you that there are very few forms of exercise that are "really fun and not boring" - and those that are, you need at least ONE other person to engage in:)
I hope you don't read this post as condescending as what I'm about to say may sound blunt - but there is NO SUCH THING as a hump - exercise is HARD WORK, and if it doesn't feel like hard work then you're not exercising well.
Go out, start again - this time when you think you're hitting the hump, remember that it's just the same as it has been for the past few days/weeks/months and you've just got to work through it mentally. DO NOT tell yourself "it gets better on the other side" or some such crap - it's always hard work - the exercise is not the reward, the increased confidence, fitness and feeling of self-worth is the reward, and you will ONLY get that if it FEELS like hard work.
Get out there are do it - you're capable of it, and it's up to you to prove it.
The 21st century will belong to those who can think out of the box and stop making money for THE MAN, who work FOR THEMSELVES, and stop supporting those brane dead politicians and political parties who are in THE MAN's pockets.
So was the 20th. And the 19th. It's always the way.
Also most Custom Software doesn't bother with any sort of licensing basically as the programmer makes the code and sends it to the customer and they pay him for his hours the code is their they can do whatever they want with it.
I don't know if that is the case in the US, but that's definitely wrong in the UK. If a company pays a contractor/freelancer to write some code, the contractor/freelancer still OWNS the code in question UNLESS an agreement is signed transferring ownership of the work. - This catches many companies out.
Reading this thread, particularly posts about the Dead Mans Switch software and others bring back memories for me.
My housemate, Cip, passed away a few months ago suddenly due to a rare blood condition. I had to clean all "unsuitable" materials from his laptop before his family could have it, but his personal emails and other things - well, they never really occured to me.
Perhaps the strangest thing is seeing old emails to/from him, forum posts by him, and the weirdest thing of all is still possessing "replays" of Strategy games we both played in - I can still see how he played.
This is another example of why MS continues to dominate the scene. If MS take 6 months to fix an SSL bug, SO WHAT? 99.99% of their customers never even knew it existed, were never affected by it and will never hear of it. But when they hear something that insigificant and petty being used as a "reason" to "switch" you can damn well be certain that they will close their ears a little to all future arguments to switch, regardless of their credibility.
Lycos is the eighth largest web portal, with over three hundred subscribers. Their site features time and weather, email, search, an "About Us" page and a Terms of Service page. Definitely a bargain at $200 million.
You know what? Someone said that a few years back - "Y'know, Lycos is definitely a bargain at $12.5 BILLION". The truth is, it's not a bargain at $200 unless it's making $14 million a year clear profit bare minimum. AFAIK it's making a rather hefty loss at the moment. The only way it's a bargain is if the current management are not properly exploiting its' assets, but the truth is it has almost no assets, as so many earlier posters pointed out, they have had basically no R&D for several years...
those even able to 'stress out' about their jobs are in the upper 15%... everyone else is struggling to survive.
Suicide rates are far far higher in "westernised" countries - those in your "upper" 15% - than they are in the rest of the world. So why, if things are so much worse than us elsewhere in the world, do fewer people choose to end their suffering?
When a qualified lawyer in a specialist field cannot give a yes/no answer to a very VERY simple question, it goes a long way to explaining why we have so many problems with laws like the DMCA etc...
The question?
Is it legal to make and edit copies of commercial DVDs for personal use? What about loaning out the edited copies to friends?
Godwin:
Personally, I happen to believe that making copies of your own DVDs for your own personal use ought to be understood as legal. Ditto for edited copies, to a limited extent.
Our qualified lawyer has to use the following words: Personally Believe Ought Understood In order to distance himself from giving an actual answer.
So what is it? How the HELL do I as a consumer know if I am legally allowed to backup the film I just bought? IMO, the studios appear to be well on the road to winning.
We have about 1/3 of the well moderated comments on this thread talking about the dangers of going to a park at night.
Parks are some of the most beauitful areas of our world, and particularly in the city. They are not only beautiful during the day but also at night when everything looks different, wildlife acts differently etc.
It's so sad that so many people believe parks should not be visited at night... and how many believe it is the game makers responsiblity to keep people away from parks at night - surely it's the responsibility of no-one except (potential) criminals who may be there, and the police + management organisations whos job it is to keep those areas safe.
Instead of moaning or crowing about potential law suits for location based games, try lobbying your representatives to raise taxes and spend it on more police presence.
Reducing the number of potential choices available to someone makes them more likely to make a choice
If you present someone with a large number of choices, they immediately perceive that as requiring a large amount of work on their part in order to discern which choice they "should" take. They may choose instead to not make a choice at all.
At some point they will encounter a website/system/shop/application that presents them with fewer choices, and if they should choose one, they will then stick with that particular supplier/provider until something very significant happens to make them reconsider.
The secret is not to simply to reduce the number of choices though, it is to offer someone only the most compelling choices, and only allow them to see other choices if they explicitly desire to do so. One can further help (or mitigate the effect of a large number of choices) by providing guidance alongside the choices - though this guidance needs to be instantly digestible, requiring little to no effort.
What if the information IS worth 600-600000 dollars? Thats IF they get caught, so its a good gamble if it's worth it. I don't know about mainland Europe, but in the UK repeat offenders have their license to trade revoked. In other words, your business is *ended*.
A german study found that EVERY german power plant would suffer a meltdown if attacked by a commercial airliner with half a tank of kerosine. Are there similar studies in the US?
Do you have a link? Because a UK study into this found that an airliner with half a tank of kerosine and significant amounts of explosives onboard would not make even a dent in our reactors - while flying fairly fast a commercial airliner has only limited mass and cannot penetrate into anything "meaty" in the process.
I would be surprised if the German ones were different, as much of the same expertise and guidelines were used in their construction - most of them are designed with a limited amount of hardening in mind to prevent military attack.
The trend is obvious - the larger studios are moving - sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly - to consoles, that is if they weren't doing significant console development already.
I believe we'll see any games which provide an experience that can be easily controlled with the console joypad systems (and that will appeal to the console player market - there is definitely some cross-over in these demographics) move, for the most part, to consoles over the next 5-10 years. It's simply too attractive for the big developers to ignore the consoles - standard hardware, little non-commercial piracy, higher margins and combined marketing initiatives are big sells for them.
We will continue to see strategy games, FPS games and console "ports" on the PCs, but the exit of the major players will make way for the international independent gaming scene to surge forward using the now-emptying PC as its platform for success.
In short, I see a sudden exodus of large studios from PC to console being a good thing for innovation in PC gaming.
Most of the questions on this thread seem to be running along the lines of "What happens if there is already a TLD called.xyz" or answering that question.
I'd like to put another forward: Why, when ICANN decides to introduce the TLD.xyz can it not award the contract to the registry that has already been running that TLD for years (on an albeit smaller scale), thus keeping costs low by using existing infrastructure, keeping pre-registrants happy by not having name conflicts, and avoiding the risks of using a registrar with no track record or with insipid interests?
Or hold on one second, does ICANN get a flying shedload of money from this? Like, UKP45,000 for *just an application* to run a new domain, and much, much, much, much more for a succesful application?
It seems to me that people at ICANN are abusing their monopoly status granted by the US Govt in order to entice bribes out of other companies in return for smaller monopolies. Somebody, somewhere in ICANN knows where that money is going - it's not needed as ICANN runs itself fine on current funs, so *WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?*
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I notice this is moderated funny, but this is actually BANG ON. My housemate died suddenly earlier this year, and his family came for all his things a while later... in the meantime I cleaned all the porn off his desktop and laptop (had to break in as he was running passworded Windows XP) as I knew he had some.... alternative.... tastes that his very Catholic family would not like.
I completely forgot about the approx. 20 CDs that were in his CD wallets alongside loads of feature films - and the family got them.
Luckily the stuff on CDs was really the tamer kind of thing... only a little anecdote, but goes to show how close to the bone the parent comment is.
Well those estimates would be absolutely worthless then. Primarily because whoever made them is way, way out - the average number of cars per person is fairly similar between the US and the UK, but the land area per person is considerably different (40 times the land, 5 times the people) - almost an order of magnitude.
Could you provide any ideas as to why more than X bombs may become catastrophic to us as a species, as opposed to only those in large towns and cities, and those killed by in-fighting soon after?
That's interesting. Here in the UK, it would be illegal for companies to send me mailings based on that information in the first place.
Saves them money on printing and postage, saves me money and time opting out.
Akamais system will cache anything it is asked to (other comments in this thread link to pages that tell you how to use Akamai to get around censorship of sites, or to cache your own material) so I guess all the DOSers would have to do is to tell each local Akamai box in each rack to cache, say, a few thousand large files each that they do not already cache?
In this way a few thousand bytes of http requests could make the Akamai servers *EACH* attempt to fetch terrabytes, or more, of data...
Perhaps I'm crazy but I've always felt an application which allows a brute force attack is flawed.
Surely by this point in software development it should be regarded as standard for every program to LOCK access for a given account after X consecutive failed logon attempts?
Even setting this to something arbitrarily high like, say 1000, is more than any user would ever try before asking for help, but much MUCH MUCH less than any dictionary attack would require. Combine this with the possibility of real time notification for admins (facilitated by email/inter application messaging, or a small add-on service for the OS) when more than Y accounts are locked for this reason in Z minutes, and as a community we'd effectively end all dictionary attacks - or at least turn them into DOS attacks, but at least we'd know it was going on...
That's exactly what it is. It empowers the individual to work for either his own benefit, or to work directly for the benefit of others without being tied into a proprietary system or organisation.
It's a tool of the little man by philosophy, and as such AUTOMATICALLY it is anti-(big)-business and anti-(money)-American.
American business leaders and investors live in a culture designed to extract work and wealth from everyone else in the country, while giving back *just* enough to ensure that the majority never question the status quo, or why a few people can "earn" more than a few million people.
Anything which empowers each person equally is obviously an "enemy" to anyone in this clique.
I'm six foot four (just under 2 metres tall), almost perfect body mass ratio, I have had at least semi regular exercise all my life, a reasonable diet and I have to tell you that there are very few forms of exercise that are "really fun and not boring" - and those that are, you need at least ONE other person to engage in
I hope you don't read this post as condescending as what I'm about to say may sound blunt - but there is NO SUCH THING as a hump - exercise is HARD WORK, and if it doesn't feel like hard work then you're not exercising well.
Go out, start again - this time when you think you're hitting the hump, remember that it's just the same as it has been for the past few days/weeks/months and you've just got to work through it mentally. DO NOT tell yourself "it gets better on the other side" or some such crap - it's always hard work - the exercise is not the reward, the increased confidence, fitness and feeling of self-worth is the reward, and you will ONLY get that if it FEELS like hard work.
Get out there are do it - you're capable of it, and it's up to you to prove it.
So was the 20th. And the 19th. It's always the way.
I don't know if that is the case in the US, but that's definitely wrong in the UK. If a company pays a contractor/freelancer to write some code, the contractor/freelancer still OWNS the code in question UNLESS an agreement is signed transferring ownership of the work. - This catches many companies out.
It's about 5% faster at the same clock speeds? Using the same amount of power?
So nothing spectacular?
Reading this thread, particularly posts about the Dead Mans Switch software and others bring back memories for me.
My housemate, Cip, passed away a few months ago suddenly due to a rare blood condition. I had to clean all "unsuitable" materials from his laptop before his family could have it, but his personal emails and other things - well, they never really occured to me.
Perhaps the strangest thing is seeing old emails to/from him, forum posts by him, and the weirdest thing of all is still possessing "replays" of Strategy games we both played in - I can still see how he played.
Such an interesting topic...
99.99% of their customers never even knew it existed, were never affected by it and will never hear of it.
But when they hear something that insigificant and petty being used as a "reason" to "switch" you can damn well be certain that they will close their ears a little to all future arguments to switch, regardless of their credibility.
You know what? Someone said that a few years back - "Y'know, Lycos is definitely a bargain at $12.5 BILLION".
The truth is, it's not a bargain at $200 unless it's making $14 million a year clear profit bare minimum. AFAIK it's making a rather hefty loss at the moment.
The only way it's a bargain is if the current management are not properly exploiting its' assets, but the truth is it has almost no assets, as so many earlier posters pointed out, they have had basically no R&D for several years...
Suicide rates are far far higher in "westernised" countries - those in your "upper" 15% - than they are in the rest of the world.
So why, if things are so much worse than us elsewhere in the world, do fewer people choose to end their suffering?
The question?
Our qualified lawyer has to use the following words:
Personally
Believe
Ought
Understood
In order to distance himself from giving an actual answer.
So what is it? How the HELL do I as a consumer know if I am legally allowed to backup the film I just bought?
IMO, the studios appear to be well on the road to winning.
So when an employee steals from his company, he gets jailtime, or a prosecution and record at the very least.
When a company steals from ALL of its employees they get....?
We have about 1/3 of the well moderated comments on this thread talking about the dangers of going to a park at night.
Parks are some of the most beauitful areas of our world, and particularly in the city. They are not only beautiful during the day but also at night when everything looks different, wildlife acts differently etc.
It's so sad that so many people believe parks should not be visited at night... and how many believe it is the game makers responsiblity to keep people away from parks at night - surely it's the responsibility of no-one except (potential) criminals who may be there, and the police + management organisations whos job it is to keep those areas safe.
Instead of moaning or crowing about potential law suits for location based games, try lobbying your representatives to raise taxes and spend it on more police presence.
It most certainly is about choices.
Reducing the number of potential choices available to someone makes them more likely to make a choice
If you present someone with a large number of choices, they immediately perceive that as requiring a large amount of work on their part in order to discern which choice they "should" take. They may choose instead to not make a choice at all.
At some point they will encounter a website/system/shop/application that presents them with fewer choices, and if they should choose one, they will then stick with that particular supplier/provider until something very significant happens to make them reconsider.
The secret is not to simply to reduce the number of choices though, it is to offer someone only the most compelling choices, and only allow them to see other choices if they explicitly desire to do so. One can further help (or mitigate the effect of a large number of choices) by providing guidance alongside the choices - though this guidance needs to be instantly digestible, requiring little to no effort.
What if the information IS worth 600-600000 dollars? Thats IF they get caught, so its a good gamble if it's worth it.
I don't know about mainland Europe, but in the UK repeat offenders have their license to trade revoked.
In other words, your business is *ended*.
A german study found that EVERY german power plant would suffer a meltdown if attacked by a commercial airliner with half a tank of kerosine. Are there similar studies in the US?
Do you have a link? Because a UK study into this found that an airliner with half a tank of kerosine and significant amounts of explosives onboard would not make even a dent in our reactors - while flying fairly fast a commercial airliner has only limited mass and cannot penetrate into anything "meaty" in the process.
I would be surprised if the German ones were different, as much of the same expertise and guidelines were used in their construction - most of them are designed with a limited amount of hardening in mind to prevent military attack.
The trend is obvious - the larger studios are moving - sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly - to consoles, that is if they weren't doing significant console development already.
I believe we'll see any games which provide an experience that can be easily controlled with the console joypad systems (and that will appeal to the console player market - there is definitely some cross-over in these demographics) move, for the most part, to consoles over the next 5-10 years. It's simply too attractive for the big developers to ignore the consoles - standard hardware, little non-commercial piracy, higher margins and combined marketing initiatives are big sells for them.
We will continue to see strategy games, FPS games and console "ports" on the PCs, but the exit of the major players will make way for the international independent gaming scene to surge forward using the now-emptying PC as its platform for success.
In short, I see a sudden exodus of large studios from PC to console being a good thing for innovation in PC gaming.
Most of the questions on this thread seem to be running along the lines of "What happens if there is already a TLD called .xyz" or answering that question.
.xyz can it not award the contract to the registry that has already been running that TLD for years (on an albeit smaller scale), thus keeping costs low by using existing infrastructure, keeping pre-registrants happy by not having name conflicts, and avoiding the risks of using a registrar with no track record or with insipid interests?
I'd like to put another forward:
Why, when ICANN decides to introduce the TLD
Or hold on one second, does ICANN get a flying shedload of money from this? Like, UKP45,000 for *just an application* to run a new domain, and much, much, much, much more for a succesful application?
It seems to me that people at ICANN are abusing their monopoly status granted by the US Govt in order to entice bribes out of other companies in return for smaller monopolies. Somebody, somewhere in ICANN knows where that money is going - it's not needed as ICANN runs itself fine on current funs, so *WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?*
If this is true ... they should be full of bacterial fossils.
But only if there were bacteria there in the first place?!?!