When I've sold even the tiniest companies, with just two or three employees, it took a few months from initial discussion to a public announcement. I'd be very surprised if a deal this size was done in a month or two. I'd think they probably had a memorandum of understanding, setting a price subject to due diligence, six months ago.
It seems you're thinking of Universal Product Codes (UPC), the bar code found on nearly every packaged product you buy. That's the most common use of bar codes.
You may notice that some products have two or three different bar codes on them, the UPC code that's scanned when you check out, and also others. At the bottom of the windshield on your car, you'll see your VIN as both human-readable numbers and also as a bar code. If you have a supermarket loyalty card, it probably has a bar code on the back identifying your card vs someone else's.
ONE thing that bar codes are used for is UPC, but they can be used for anything that's printable as text, and are used for many purposes, not just for UPC codes.
Next time you get tickets to a show, take a look and you'll probably see a bar code on the ticket, which is your specific ticket number.
As Drinkypoo said, no need for new hardware, this is all about configuration. If you have a great many devices, configuration could be difficult, but there is a short cut. It's called "anomaly detection". The firewall learns what's normal, and when unusual traffic starts it takes one of three different actions, depending on the level of risk it estimated. Snort os open source software that can do this.
Along with anomaly detection covering 90%, you might also add some manual rules.
We all know, and most of us are probably annoyed by, the collection of click-bait links at the end of every single story on CNN's site. That's too obvious to miss. It sounds like you probably haven't noticed even their front page stories are pretty pathetic. Here are as few stories that CNN os running as front page news right now. Tell me if you think this looks like a self-respecting news organization objectively reporting the news:
"Biggest Event in Human History" Imminent
Students fall over themselves to flee Trump How do you deal with Donald Trump?
Trump must address conflicts of interest
Sessions will undo decades of progress
Rates hit 2.75% APR (15 yr). Are you eligible?
We are witnessing the end of the liberal era
4 jaw-dropping cards charging 0% interest until 2018
Fox is a conservative news organization. CNN is well on it's way to becoming a tabloid.
The current system where it's not just subsidies, but we're actually required to burn food, is screwed up enough that it causes noticeable problems. If farmers can grow seaweed in ponds, and we can eat corn, many people would prefer that. I could definitely see that happening IF we can grow it in the US.
While *typically* with major open source projects it's easy to contact the developers, the license certainly doesn't guarantee that. What it DOES guarantee is that you're not up a creek without a paddle when the company goes out of business or drops the product. Any good programmer who knows the domain and language can fix or even customize the software for you.
> They are not intelligent and calling them that leads to an assumption of infallibility.
That's an interesting comment. I'd think the opposite. I'm intelligent, and often wrong. Gears are dumb, and always perform multiplication correctly, never giving the wrong result. To me, intelligence implies the ability to come up with different answers, some of which may be wrong. If it can't come up with unexpected answers, it's just a dumb machine, I'd think.
> Say, a Star Wars Star Destroyer going from low-earth to geocentric orbit in 'reasonable' time (30 minutes). Would the relative size of EM engine to Star Destroyer body be 1:10? Or 100:1?
Without actually doing the math, the drive would be at least millions to trillions of times bigger than the ship. There is so little thrust that it's extremely difficult to tell if there is any thrust.
Ending with a GRATUITOUS is bad. "Where is Bob at?" means exactly the same thing as "where is Bob?", so you shouldn't add "at" to the end, as it serves no purpose.
The other day I said that BeauHD posts crap. I compared him to that AKB guy who used to post ridiculous diatribes about hosts files, becuase he was apparently unaware of why hosts files didn't work and had to be replaced by DNS.
Anyway, I talked shit about BeauHD's submissions, so it's only fair that I now acknowledge this is a very interesting story that does belong on Slashdot. Much better than some other submissions.
They got in trouble because of how they abused their operating system monopoly to forcefully promote their browser.
HAVING a monopoly isn't illegal, and certainly TRYING to have one isn't illegal. ABUSING a monopoly in certain specific ways is illegal. They had a monopoly on the desktop OS, more or less. Enough that when they told Dell and HP "you may not sell computers with Windows and also provide Netscape", Dell and HP had no choice but to comply. Microsoft basically made it "illegal" to pre-install any browser other than IE. You're not allowed to abuse a monopoly in one area (operating systems) in order to unfairly gain a monopoly in another area (browsers).
In addition, Microsoft did other unfair, anticompetitive things like for a while IE would refuse to download Netscape. Netscape couldn't be pre-installed, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that, and it couldn't be downloaded on a fresh Windows system, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that.
At my company, we VERY rarely print anything, or receive anything on paper. I think that's related to the fact that we have offices in several countries, with which we interact regularly. Paper is poor way of getting information from Texas to Colombia and Ukraine. As more companies become geographically dispersed, their use of paper will reduce further.
True, you shouldn't EAT nuclear waste, cleaning products, paint thinner, swimming pool chorine, nails, dirt, etc. I tell my two-year-old "we only put FOOD in our mouth."
Read some of the recent articles by the elder statesmen of the environmentalist movement, such as one of the founders of Greenpeace. They are now acknowledging that they spread a lot of FUD about waste. Here are the two biggest lies:
Intentionally conflating alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. They really hyped things up, through out a lot of numbers and such, about "radiation", carefully cherry-picking things about completely different types of radiation, while making it sound like all the statements went together. Of course you know there are different types of radiation - light from a light bulb is radiation, warmth radiating from a fireplace is radiation. When discussing nuclear waste, the two main types are alpha and beta. Here's the funny thing - alpha is stopped by almost anything - tissue paper, a few centimeters of air, moisture in the air, etc. Unless you press the uranium against your skin, the alpha can't get to you. So when any old 1980s article talks about radiation, ask "are they taking about ALPHA radiation, the kind that's blocked by even tissue paper?" Often they are.
The even bigger lie is intentionally conflating short half-life with long half-life. You know a candle radiates visible light, heat, uv, etc. Gunpowder radiates the same wavelengths - light, heat, etc. The difference between a candle and a bomb is that the candle releases the energy slowly, a little bit a time, while gunpowder releases it's energy quickly. So quickly, in fact, that there's a dangerous amount of energy, for about 50 milliseconds. Nuclear materials are the same. Some release their energy quickly, so there's a dangerous amount of radiation for a short time. Roughly 14 days, in one common case. Other nuclear materials release their energy incredibly slowly, over thousands of years. At any given time, the slow ones are releasing such a small amount of energy you could WEAR the waste on your head all day and it would have absolutely zero effect. In fact I, and many others, DO wear tritium on our belts.
There is waste that releases enough radiation in a year to be dangerous, and there's other waste that releases so little as at a time that it takes a thousand years before most of it is used up. Dumping the energy fast is like a firecracker which burns metal powder very quickly - it's dangerous, for a very short period of time. Releasing it over a thousand years is like the heat generated as a bolt rusts - it's an almost indetectable, and completely safe, level of energy being released.
It's really it like showing somebody a firecracker and saying "this is metal oxydizing" (true) and "the metal in your car could oxydize at any moment" (also true, your car is oxydizing all the time).
Raenex, I'm posting this as a reply to your old post so that you'll probably be the only person to see it.
I figure APK is an attention whore, and a troll. He actually stalks me a bit, and I competely ignore him, pretending I've filtered his posts with Tampermonkey, so I don't even see him taking all kinds of shit to me. Today I decided to have some fun.
I'm thinking that since he's an attention whore who has a thing for me, two things that would really bug him would be if people a) forgot he's even around anymore, and b) couldn't even remember his name.
Thus "that guy who used to post years ago, ABC or whatever", that should troll his dumb ass pretty good.:)
Yes indeed. This for anyone who didn't notice the "BeauHD" tag. That's Slashdot's tag for "complete amd utter bullshit.
BeauHD almost makes one wish we could trade him for that guy who used to post those stupid misinformed hosts file tirades years ago, ABC or whatever he was called.
> cost Apple $260 to make, then costs another $350 to replace under warranty, and they only get to keep $495 of the $695 retail price of the original sale?... So they're assuming a $115 loss (before facilities, taxes, and paryoll) on every 32GB iPhone 7 sold?
You're pretending every single phone they make has to be replaced under warranty? Never go full retard. I'm not sure why you bothered to write anything further after you already went there - it's pretty clear your post wouldn't be worth reading.
If you'd like to know their actual costs and margins, rather than completely making shit up, their annual report is right there on their web site.
You forgot to account for most of the costs. The marginal cost to build one more iPhone, parts and assembly, is about $260. Those 100,000 engineers working for Apple don't work for free, though. Their two big facilities in Cupertino cost about $8 billion, in total their office buildings cost over $15 billion. (Mortgaged and leased for few hundred million per year.) Those Apple stores in the mall? Not free.
Assuming you buy your iPhone at another retailer, rather than the Apple store, the retailer might get $200 to pay their rent, employees, advertising, etc.
When a phome breaks after 6 six months it cost Apple $350 to replace it.
If there were an organization similar to UL, but testing for safety and security of IT products, it's value would depend on what the group DID, not who provided the initial funding.
Note again I didn't say these companies would test and approve products. Rather, they have an interest in having the internet secure for everyone, so they might put up some cash to seed an independent testing organization. (Example: IoT ddos attacks flow through Comcast's network, costing them money.
History shows that they can and do produce valuable, open standards when they work together and agree. See for example OpenStack.
Would every device be *required* to be tested and certified? No, requirements, forcing people to do things, is the domain of governments. People choose to buy UL listed products because UL has earned their trust. Corporations additionally use UL listed and certified products because they know choosing otherwise is intentionally choosing products that may not be safe - exposing them to liability. People would choose routers, ip cameras, and IoT thermostats certified by Internet Laboratories only if IL earned their trust, like UL has.
Agreed, that was a stupid comment. Of course an autonomous car, which os hurling toward me at 75 MPH, should have different standards than an IoT refrigerator, and biomedical devices implanted in my body should another set of standards. Perhaps the standards for biomedical implants could include also the standards for consumer electronics by reference - "In addition to the 60 points listed below, medical devices must also meet consumer electronics standard #1235 ".
Something like UL, but focused on security, would be great. Insurance companies established Underwriters Laboratories and the National Fire Protection Association in order to reduce their costs stemming from fires, injuries, and death. I don't see an obviously similar group for information security. Google, Amazon, and Comcast would all benefit from reducing attacks, so perhaps they could found an organition similar to Underwriters Laboratories.
The sellers a) engaged in unlawful acts which b) harmed Amazon's business. Amazon can therefore sue for damages. proving the amount of damages will be tricky, that may be negotiated.
> Shouldn't Amazon just spot them, shut them down
Yes, Amazon should close the scammers' accounts, and they do, then the scammer sets up a new account the next morning.
> pass along any relevant information to law enforcement and the trademark holders and let THEM handle it?
In one of the two cases mentioned in TFA, the trademark holder did join Amazon in the suit. That combines the trademark holder's clear legal rights with Amazon's lawyers, money, and data - potentially a powerful combination.
I don't know what GP did, but you can put a bootloader called "grub" on a USB or SD card and tell it to boot Windows from some other drive. The BIOS/EFI boots grub, which is just a few kilobytes, then grub takes over. The grub entry looks something like:
Slashdot Mirror
When I've sold even the tiniest companies, with just two or three employees, it took a few months from initial discussion to a public announcement. I'd be very surprised if a deal this size was done in a month or two. I'd think they probably had a memorandum of understanding, setting a price subject to due diligence, six months ago.
It seems you're thinking of Universal Product Codes (UPC), the bar code found on nearly every packaged product you buy. That's the most common use of bar codes.
You may notice that some products
have two or three different bar codes on them, the UPC code that's scanned when you check out, and also others. At the bottom of the windshield on your car, you'll see your VIN as both human-readable numbers and also as a bar code. If you have a supermarket loyalty card, it probably has a bar code on the back identifying your card vs someone else's.
ONE thing that bar codes are used for is UPC, but they can be used for anything that's printable as text, and are used for many purposes, not just for UPC codes.
Next time you get tickets to a show, take a look and you'll probably see a bar code on the ticket, which is your specific ticket number.
As Drinkypoo said, no need for new hardware, this is all about configuration. If you have a great many devices, configuration could be difficult, but there is a short cut. It's called "anomaly detection". The firewall learns what's normal, and when unusual traffic starts it takes one of three different actions, depending on the level of risk it estimated. Snort os open source software that can do this.
Along with anomaly detection covering 90%, you might also add some manual rules.
We all know, and most of us are probably annoyed by, the collection of click-bait links at the end of every single story on CNN's site. That's too obvious to miss. It sounds like you probably haven't noticed even their front page stories are pretty pathetic. Here are as few stories that CNN os running as front page news right now. Tell me if you think this looks like a self-respecting news organization objectively reporting the news:
"Biggest Event in Human History" Imminent
Students fall over themselves to flee Trump
How do you deal with Donald Trump?
Trump must address conflicts of interest
Sessions will undo decades of progress
Rates hit 2.75% APR (15 yr). Are you eligible?
We are witnessing the end of the liberal era
4 jaw-dropping cards charging 0% interest until 2018
Fox is a conservative news organization. CNN is well on it's way to becoming a tabloid.
The current system where it's not just subsidies, but we're actually required to burn food, is screwed up enough that it causes noticeable problems. If farmers can grow seaweed in ponds, and we can eat corn, many people would prefer that. I could definitely see that happening IF we can grow it in the US.
While *typically* with major open source projects it's easy to contact the developers, the license certainly doesn't guarantee that. What it DOES guarantee is that you're not up a creek without a paddle when the company goes out of business or drops the product. Any good programmer who knows the domain and language can fix or even customize the software for you.
> They are not intelligent and calling them that leads to an assumption of infallibility.
That's an interesting comment. I'd think the opposite. I'm intelligent, and often wrong. Gears are dumb, and always perform multiplication correctly, never giving the wrong result. To me, intelligence implies the ability to come up with different answers, some of which may be wrong. If it can't come up with unexpected answers, it's just a dumb machine, I'd think.
> Say, a Star Wars Star Destroyer going from low-earth to geocentric orbit in 'reasonable' time (30 minutes). Would the relative size of EM engine to Star Destroyer body be 1:10? Or 100:1?
Without actually doing the math, the drive would be at least millions to trillions of times bigger than the ship. There is so little thrust that it's extremely difficult to tell if there is any thrust.
> preposition ending. i know.
Ending with a GRATUITOUS is bad. "Where is Bob at?" means exactly the same thing as "where is Bob?", so you shouldn't add "at" to the end, as it serves no purpose.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries...
The other day I said that BeauHD posts crap. I compared him to that AKB guy who used to post ridiculous diatribes about hosts files, becuase he was apparently unaware of why hosts files didn't work and had to be replaced by DNS.
Anyway, I talked shit about BeauHD's submissions, so it's only fair that I now acknowledge this is a very interesting story that does belong on Slashdot. Much better than some other submissions.
They got in trouble because of how they abused their operating system monopoly to forcefully promote their browser.
HAVING a monopoly isn't illegal, and certainly TRYING to have one isn't illegal. ABUSING a monopoly in certain specific ways is illegal. They had a monopoly on the desktop OS, more or less. Enough that when they told Dell and HP "you may not sell computers with Windows and also provide Netscape", Dell and HP had no choice but to comply. Microsoft basically made it "illegal" to pre-install any browser other than IE. You're not allowed to abuse a monopoly in one area (operating systems) in order to unfairly gain a monopoly in another area (browsers).
In addition, Microsoft did other unfair, anticompetitive things like for a while IE would refuse to download Netscape. Netscape couldn't be pre-installed, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that, and it couldn't be downloaded on a fresh Windows system, because Microsoft wouldn't allow that.
At my company, we VERY rarely print anything, or receive anything on paper. I think that's related to the fact that we have offices in several countries, with which we interact regularly. Paper is poor way of getting information from Texas to Colombia and Ukraine. As more companies become geographically dispersed, their use of paper will reduce further.
True, you shouldn't EAT nuclear waste, cleaning products, paint thinner, swimming pool chorine, nails, dirt, etc. I tell my two-year-old "we only put FOOD in our mouth."
Read some of the recent articles by the elder statesmen of the environmentalist movement, such as one of the founders of Greenpeace. They are now acknowledging that they spread a lot of FUD about waste. Here are the two biggest lies:
Intentionally conflating alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. They really hyped things up, through out a lot of numbers and such, about "radiation", carefully cherry-picking things about completely different types of radiation, while making it sound like all the statements went together. Of course you know there are different types of radiation - light from a light bulb is radiation, warmth radiating from a fireplace is radiation. When discussing nuclear waste, the two main types are alpha and beta. Here's the funny thing - alpha is stopped by almost anything - tissue paper, a few centimeters of air, moisture in the air, etc. Unless you press the uranium against your skin, the alpha can't get to you. So when any old 1980s article talks about radiation, ask "are they taking about ALPHA radiation, the kind that's blocked by even tissue paper?" Often they are.
The even bigger lie is intentionally conflating short half-life with long half-life. You know a candle radiates visible light, heat, uv, etc. Gunpowder radiates the same wavelengths - light, heat, etc. The difference between a candle and a bomb is that the candle releases the energy slowly, a little bit a time, while gunpowder releases it's energy quickly. So quickly, in fact, that there's a dangerous amount of energy, for about 50 milliseconds. Nuclear materials are the same. Some release their energy quickly, so there's a dangerous amount of radiation for a short time. Roughly 14 days, in one common case. Other nuclear materials release their energy incredibly slowly, over thousands of years. At any given time, the slow ones are releasing such a small amount of energy you could WEAR the waste on your head all day and it would have absolutely zero effect. In fact I, and many others, DO wear tritium on our belts.
There is waste that releases enough radiation in a year to be dangerous, and there's other waste that releases so little as at a time that it takes a thousand years before most of it is used up. Dumping the energy fast is like a firecracker which burns metal powder very quickly - it's dangerous, for a very short period of time. Releasing it over a thousand years is like the heat generated as a bolt rusts - it's an almost indetectable, and completely safe, level of energy being released.
It's really it like showing somebody a firecracker and saying "this is metal oxydizing" (true) and "the metal in your car could oxydize at any moment" (also true, your car is oxydizing all the time).
Raenex, I'm posting this as a reply to your old post so that you'll probably be the only person to see it.
I figure APK is an attention whore, and a troll. He actually stalks me a bit, and I competely ignore him, pretending I've filtered his posts with Tampermonkey, so I don't even see him taking all kinds of shit to me. Today I decided to have some fun.
I'm thinking that since he's an attention whore who has a thing for me, two things that would really bug him would be if people a) forgot he's even around anymore, and b) couldn't even remember his name.
Thus "that guy who used to post years ago, ABC or whatever", that should troll his dumb ass pretty good. :)
Yes indeed. This for anyone who didn't notice the "BeauHD" tag. That's Slashdot's tag for "complete amd utter bullshit.
BeauHD almost makes one wish we could trade him for that guy who used to post those stupid misinformed hosts file tirades years ago, ABC or whatever he was called.
> cost Apple $260 to make, then costs another $350 to replace under warranty, and they only get to keep $495 of the $695 retail price of the original sale? ... So they're assuming a $115 loss (before facilities, taxes, and paryoll) on every 32GB iPhone 7 sold?
You're pretending every single phone they make has to be replaced under warranty? Never go full retard. I'm not sure why you bothered to write anything further after you already went there - it's pretty clear your post wouldn't be worth reading.
If you'd like to know their actual costs and margins, rather than completely making shit up, their annual report is right there on their web site.
You forgot to account for most of the costs. The marginal cost to build one more iPhone, parts and assembly, is about $260. Those 100,000 engineers working for Apple don't work for free, though. Their two big facilities in Cupertino cost about $8 billion, in total their office buildings cost over $15 billion. (Mortgaged and leased for few hundred million per year.) Those Apple stores in the mall? Not free.
Assuming you buy your iPhone at another retailer, rather than the Apple store, the retailer might get $200 to pay their rent, employees, advertising, etc.
When a phome breaks after 6 six months it cost Apple $350 to replace it.
If there were an organization similar to UL, but testing for safety and security of IT products, it's value would depend on what the group DID, not who provided the initial funding.
Note again I didn't say these companies would test and approve products. Rather, they have an interest in having the internet secure for everyone, so they might put up some cash to seed an independent testing organization. (Example: IoT ddos attacks flow through Comcast's network, costing them money.
History shows that they can and do produce valuable, open standards when they work together and agree. See for example OpenStack.
Would every device be *required* to be tested and certified? No, requirements, forcing people to do things, is the domain of governments. People choose to buy UL listed products because UL has earned their trust. Corporations additionally use UL listed and certified products because they know choosing otherwise is intentionally choosing products that may not be safe - exposing them to liability. People would choose routers, ip cameras, and IoT thermostats certified by Internet Laboratories only if IL earned their trust, like UL has.
Agreed, that was a stupid comment. Of course an autonomous car, which os hurling toward me at 75 MPH, should have different standards than an IoT refrigerator, and biomedical devices implanted in my body should another set of standards. Perhaps the standards for biomedical implants could include also the standards for consumer electronics by reference - "In addition to the 60 points listed below, medical devices must also meet consumer electronics standard #1235 ".
Something like UL, but focused on security, would be great.
Insurance companies established Underwriters Laboratories and the National Fire Protection Association in order to reduce their costs stemming from fires, injuries, and death. I don't see an obviously similar group for information security. Google, Amazon, and Comcast would all benefit from reducing attacks, so perhaps they could found an organition similar to Underwriters Laboratories.
Personally, I deny, vehemently, that San Francisco will be underwater by 2020. There are many, many claims that are climate change hoaxes.
There is also legitimate reason to be concerned about a very slow increase in temperature.
That *would* be better PR, to remove extremist accounts.
The sellers a) engaged in unlawful acts which b) harmed Amazon's business. Amazon can therefore sue for damages. proving the amount of damages will be tricky, that may be negotiated.
> Shouldn't Amazon just spot them, shut them down
Yes, Amazon should close the scammers' accounts, and they do, then the scammer sets up a new account the next morning.
> pass along any relevant information to law enforcement and the trademark holders and let THEM handle it?
In one of the two cases mentioned in TFA, the trademark holder did join Amazon in the suit. That combines the trademark holder's clear legal rights with Amazon's lawyers, money, and data - potentially a powerful combination.
I don't know what GP did, but you can put a bootloader called "grub" on a USB or SD card and tell it to boot Windows from some other drive. The BIOS/EFI boots grub, which is just a few kilobytes, then grub takes over. The grub entry looks something like:
menuentry "Windows" {
insmod chain
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd1,1)
chainloader +1
}