More and more companies are being found to have behaved badly and are fined, just today Barclays is fined £290m. The company pays it and probably keeps going on other scams for which individuals earn large bonuses or commissions, nobody really suffers, the company just makes a little less profit that year.
The only way of altering behaviour is to fine the individuals who are behind the scams. Only when these crooks start loosing their houses and pensions will they stop thieving. Their primary interest is themselves, not the company. Hit them where it matters to them - then, and only then, might the regulators truly find their teeth.
since my old one was over heating. I'm not a gamer, I don't need a great spec. My first criterion was: ''Not Nnidia''. Quite simply: I don't want a kernel that is tainted. There are plenty of other cards to choose from.
I just remove the hard disks before returning for RMA repair - for exactly this reason. They sometimes ask why - I just reply ''security'' and get few complaints.
Alan Archibald, QC, acting for Apple, told the court it was irrelevant how many iPads had been sold or returned because Apple had offered to provide full refunds, so there was no loss to customers.
“What conceiveable damage might there be?”, he said.
How about:
* Time lost trying to get 4G to work. This could be considerable since most people will first assume that it not working is, somehow, their fault
* Time lost by friends and work colleges
* Cost of returning to the Apple shop to return the item: time and petrol
Only counting words that are entirely lower case my/usr/share/dict/words has 355543 lines which is some 19 bits. However: I would not know most of them. Estimates on vocabulary size are ''10,000-12,000 words for a 16-year-old, and 20,000-25,000 for a college graduate''. Lets be a pessimist and take 10,000 words. Ignoring the small words my phrase contained 5 words, so the number of permutations is about 10,000^5 which is about 10^21 combinations.
Using their Massive Cracking of 10^14 guesses/second - my pass phrase would take some 10^6 seconds or 11 days to crack. Not many organisations have the computational hardware for Massive Cracking, so I am probably reasonably save from all except CIA/GCHQ - and they would probably get me by other ways.
I took the advice from XKCD and I now use nonsense pass-phrases, eg ''purple grass grows on my bedroom ceiling''. It is not too hard to remember, does not contain special characters (other than spaces) since they are hard to remember. grc.com says that that pass-phrase has a search space of 6.94 x 10^70 and that the Massive Cracking Array Scenario (one hundred trillion guesses per second) would take 2.21 hundred billion trillion trillion trillion centuries -- that is good enough for me.
No: Amazon just picks the first few targets carefully... targets that cannot afford the $5,000,000 lawyers fees to defend against the bloody obvious, so they give in. Then with a few precedents under their belt they are better armed to go against bigger fish. Even if they loose they can cause mayhem at a competitor in the 2 years that it takes to litigate.
This alleged rape case has meant that rape is what people think about when they hear about wikileaks - rather than the crimes/... that wikileaks has exposed. Wikileaks itself has also taken its eyes off the ball.
As a way of diverting attention from the real issues the rape case & extradition has been very successful.
This law is actually very sensible. There are exemptions for non-tracking cookies, stuff like session tokens used by online shops or banks, misc preferences and so forth.
That is the whole point: there is not an exemption for session cookies -- only an exemption where they are strictly necessary -- which is a very high standard, also the legislation does not distinguish between a site specific session cookie and a 3rd party cross site cookie. This is what is stupid about it.
Where the setting of a cookie is deemed 'important' rather than 'strictly
necessary', those collecting the information are still obliged to provide
information about the device to the potential service recipient and obtain
consent.
Note the v3, they keep on tweaking what they expect people to do.
that the Rockstar Consortium sues a few high profile companies and causes a lot of damage and mayhem. Then, maybe (hopefully), the uproar will be so loud that the politicians will need to heed it above the whisperings of the lobbyists and will have to admit the stupidity of the current patent system so sanity will prevail and they will fix it. However: I fear that I am just dreaming and that we will just slowly die the death of 1,000 patent lawsuits:-(
if facebook has been a good investment. All sorts of sounding off by ''experts'' on the basis of some volatility in the first few days of trading is nothing but hot air. Only the future can tell, I am not arrogant enough to pretend that I know & I can't remember where I put my crystal ball.
Nothing, it's just that Apple's position has always been that if you want to sell anything through an app on their platform they get a 30% cut.
They do this because Apple claims that it is Apple bringing the clients to the app_developer/service_provider. People seem to accept this distorted view.
In reality: a big reason that iPlatforms are successful are because of the apps, where would these gadgets be without Angry Birds, Drop box, etc ?
By buying through apple I would accept the same sort of transaction fee that the credit card companies charge merchants, but 30% is just taking the piss.
But: Apple get away with it because: (a) the cost is on the service providers, not the individual consumer; (b) apple deals with the app providers one by one, and each has little negotiating power because Apple has done a divide and rule. The only way that Apple would change its mind is if a large fraction of the app providers were to act together (aka like a trade union against a large employer), but that just isn't going to happen.
That is how science works: people testing other people's ideas and results. I don't know about your use of the word ''dissent'', since that implies ideological views, these are the very antithesis of the scientific method.
Climate change isn't understood well enough for there to be a unanimous consensus.
''Unanimous'' is a very high bar, one lone odd ball stops uninamity. What we should be looking for is what proportion experts in the field agree on the main points.
We now have many more climate scientists who agree that there is a climate warming problem than the number of experts who agreed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. However: great political action and spending was put to bashing Iraq, much more than has been put to addressing climate change -- which is something of far greater danger than Iraq ever was. But that is politics for you.
Terrorists, rogue nations and paedophiles are the usual justifications for large expense or intrusion to privacy. I feel sure that these things can be pressed into service here... after all: think about the children!
PS: have they contacted RIAA for suggestions yet ?
some people have more grandchildren than others - evolution favours those people. Some ''traditional'' pressures physical are not so important (eg: resistance to polio, the ability to run fast & catch a meal,...) others have become more important (ability to live while grossly overweight).
The mental pressures (ie differences) are often overlooked, eg: ability to produce lots of kids in a high pressure urban environment. Good mental ability seems selected against: those with good education tend to have fewer kids. The need to feel to work hard to produce much needed food for the family is not important, the ''social'' will provide the food if you don't; in fact since (in countries like the UK) the more kids you have the more money you have thrown at you: I fear that we are breeding people who are ignorant and don't work.
I expect to get flamed for the above: unfortunately the numbers seem to support my thesis.
It's not even a new discovery - it was discovered late 19th century, i.e. more than a century ago.
Protozoans were discovered 150 years ago, but they have been hard to investigate. It seems that there may be several different groups that are all classified protozoans, some may be very different from others -- RTFA.
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Then you will have something to do for the next 25 years - discussing if the cat is probably dead yet.
I suppose lots of food & water might be needed as well. Anyone know a breed of cat that might live 25 years ?
will it be to have the USA send back to New Zealand those FBI officers who we now know committed illegal acts when they were last in New Zealand ?
I can't see the USA giving this any attention other than to laugh at it .... but what would they say if it were the other way round ?
More and more companies are being found to have behaved badly and are fined, just today Barclays is fined £290m. The company pays it and probably keeps going on other scams for which individuals earn large bonuses or commissions, nobody really suffers, the company just makes a little less profit that year.
The only way of altering behaviour is to fine the individuals who are behind the scams. Only when these crooks start loosing their houses and pensions will they stop thieving. Their primary interest is themselves, not the company. Hit them where it matters to them - then, and only then, might the regulators truly find their teeth.
Since the makers of Apple bling are now paid $285 a month, something that you could earn in 24 hours at $11.91/hour.
since my old one was over heating. I'm not a gamer, I don't need a great spec. My first criterion was: ''Not Nnidia''. Quite simply: I don't want a kernel that is tainted. There are plenty of other cards to choose from.
Ket ... although that would probably be enough to brand me a terrorist.
I just remove the hard disks before returning for RMA repair - for exactly this reason. They sometimes ask why - I just reply ''security'' and get few complaints.
How about:
I'll keep this comment short.
Only counting words that are entirely lower case my /usr/share/dict/words has 355543 lines which is some 19 bits. However: I would not know most of them. Estimates on vocabulary size are ''10,000-12,000 words for a 16-year-old, and 20,000-25,000 for a college graduate''. Lets be a pessimist and take 10,000 words. Ignoring the small words my phrase contained 5 words, so the number of permutations is about 10,000^5 which is about 10^21 combinations.
Using their Massive Cracking of 10^14 guesses/second - my pass phrase would take some 10^6 seconds or 11 days to crack. Not many organisations have the computational hardware for Massive Cracking, so I am probably reasonably save from all except CIA/GCHQ - and they would probably get me by other ways.
Can anyone give a better estimate ?
https://xkcd.com/936/
I took the advice from XKCD and I now use nonsense pass-phrases, eg ''purple grass grows on my bedroom ceiling''. It is not too hard to remember, does not contain special characters (other than spaces) since they are hard to remember. grc.com says that that pass-phrase has a search space of 6.94 x 10^70 and that the Massive Cracking Array Scenario (one hundred trillion guesses per second) would take 2.21 hundred billion trillion trillion trillion centuries -- that is good enough for me.
I would not use Virgin as an ISP if there was any sort of alternative -- I would rather stay at ADSL2 and accept a lower speed. Virgin: just say no!
No: Amazon just picks the first few targets carefully ... targets that cannot afford the $5,000,000 lawyers fees to defend against the bloody obvious, so they give in. Then with a few precedents under their belt they are better armed to go against bigger fish. Even if they loose they can cause mayhem at a competitor in the 2 years that it takes to litigate.
This alleged rape case has meant that rape is what people think about when they hear about wikileaks - rather than the crimes/... that wikileaks has exposed. Wikileaks itself has also taken its eyes off the ball.
As a way of diverting attention from the real issues the rape case & extradition has been very successful.
This law is actually very sensible. There are exemptions for non-tracking cookies, stuff like session tokens used by online shops or banks, misc preferences and so forth.
That is the whole point: there is not an exemption for session cookies -- only an exemption where they are strictly necessary -- which is a very high standard, also the legislation does not distinguish between a site specific session cookie and a 3rd party cross site cookie. This is what is stupid about it.
See: cookies_guidance_v3 page 12:
Where the setting of a cookie is deemed 'important' rather than 'strictly necessary', those collecting the information are still obliged to provide information about the device to the potential service recipient and obtain consent.
Note the v3, they keep on tweaking what they expect people to do.
that the Rockstar Consortium sues a few high profile companies and causes a lot of damage and mayhem. Then, maybe (hopefully), the uproar will be so loud that the politicians will need to heed it above the whisperings of the lobbyists and will have to admit the stupidity of the current patent system so sanity will prevail and they will fix it. However: I fear that I am just dreaming and that we will just slowly die the death of 1,000 patent lawsuits :-(
Is this not somewhat akin to trying to measure the depth of a saucepan of boiling water ?
if facebook has been a good investment. All sorts of sounding off by ''experts'' on the basis of some volatility in the first few days of trading is nothing but hot air. Only the future can tell, I am not arrogant enough to pretend that I know & I can't remember where I put my crystal ball.
Nothing, it's just that Apple's position has always been that if you want to sell anything through an app on their platform they get a 30% cut.
They do this because Apple claims that it is Apple bringing the clients to the app_developer/service_provider. People seem to accept this distorted view. In reality: a big reason that iPlatforms are successful are because of the apps, where would these gadgets be without Angry Birds, Drop box, etc ? By buying through apple I would accept the same sort of transaction fee that the credit card companies charge merchants, but 30% is just taking the piss.
But: Apple get away with it because: (a) the cost is on the service providers, not the individual consumer; (b) apple deals with the app providers one by one, and each has little negotiating power because Apple has done a divide and rule. The only way that Apple would change its mind is if a large fraction of the app providers were to act together (aka like a trade union against a large employer), but that just isn't going to happen.
People should dissent, people should disagree.
That is how science works: people testing other people's ideas and results. I don't know about your use of the word ''dissent'', since that implies ideological views, these are the very antithesis of the scientific method.
Climate change isn't understood well enough for there to be a unanimous consensus.
''Unanimous'' is a very high bar, one lone odd ball stops uninamity. What we should be looking for is what proportion experts in the field agree on the main points. We now have many more climate scientists who agree that there is a climate warming problem than the number of experts who agreed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. However: great political action and spending was put to bashing Iraq, much more than has been put to addressing climate change -- which is something of far greater danger than Iraq ever was. But that is politics for you.
Terrorists, rogue nations and paedophiles are the usual justifications for large expense or intrusion to privacy. I feel sure that these things can be pressed into service here ... after all: think about the children!
PS: have they contacted RIAA for suggestions yet ?
some people have more grandchildren than others - evolution favours those people. Some ''traditional'' pressures physical are not so important (eg: resistance to polio, the ability to run fast & catch a meal, ...) others have become more important (ability to live while grossly overweight).
The mental pressures (ie differences) are often overlooked, eg: ability to produce lots of kids in a high pressure urban environment. Good mental ability seems selected against: those with good education tend to have fewer kids. The need to feel to work hard to produce much needed food for the family is not important, the ''social'' will provide the food if you don't; in fact since (in countries like the UK) the more kids you have the more money you have thrown at you: I fear that we are breeding people who are ignorant and don't work.
I expect to get flamed for the above: unfortunately the numbers seem to support my thesis.
It's not even a new discovery - it was discovered late 19th century, i.e. more than a century ago.
Protozoans were discovered 150 years ago, but they have been hard to investigate. It seems that there may be several different groups that are all classified protozoans, some may be very different from others -- RTFA.
I suppose that versign will be grabbing .idiots and .greedybastards for their own use -- they seem accurate descriptions of why they are doing this.
Will all CPU instruction be given the same time allowance, or will it be a case of to each according to its need?