Presumably finding the information requested takes a reasonably amount of effort and it thus costs.
There are various financial disclosure/reporting laws... does the ISP need to say that it has cost it $X
complying with NSA requests ?
I guess that that 440,000 square feet could be reduced to 100,000 square feet if they were running a sensible operating system on their servers, and their electricity bill would be cheaper.
I think that it is a good thing that guns are banned in the UK. Our police did not have easy access to them until a few years ago, now you see more with them - which is a bad thing.
If guns are difficult to get, then fewer people will have them to abuse and shoot someone with.
The ready availability of guns is a bad aspect of the USA. You would have much less gun crime if they were banned.
On the face of it she was found guilty of murder and compounded that by absconding from prison.
She claims that she is innocent, but she would say that any way. There is no way that the armchair sleuths on slashdot can come to any realisitic determination of the truth. I fully appreciate that 'the law' is on occasion incorectly applied... but that is another story.
What is interesting is that we have this story probably flagged up by the authorities. I suspect that it is to make us think that the ''big government databases'' are a good thing and that we should approve their continued use. What is buried are the stories where these databases have screwed up and inconvenienced (or worse) innocent people.
This 'deal' should be opened up and examined. If M$ is found to have provided the copies of MS Windows at below cost it should be taken to task using the anti dumping laws. All the financial aspects should be examined, including and 'free consultancy' and hardware donations/upgrades,...
To an extent this is moot since the investigation will proceed at a glacial pace and by the time that it concludes it will all be a done deal.
I would like to see an obligation for any corporation that releases (sells) anything that it DRM 'protected' to have to lodge an unencumbered copy with an appropriate national library. When the copyright expires the library will then make the unencumbered copy available to the public.
I will probably not see these copies released in my lifetime, but we must act to prevent these things being locked up for ever.
I argue strongly that the operating system should be unbundled, or at least the consumer offered the choice at the point of sale. Why: because I don't like having to pay the 'M$ tax' when I buy a new PC.
However: the XO comes with a bundled OS: Linux. Hmmmm, to be consistent should I not argue that the consumer should be able to choose what OS they want on their XO ?
The above is a matter of principle, not which is better or whatever.
I still don't know what I should think.... help please!
The trouble is that they are protecting their money and that they know that it is not worth your while to sue them, it would cost you more (in time if nothing else).
This is how corporations piss over their customers.
What restrictions come with the specification that we pay 10,000 Euros for? If there are restrictions on what we can do with the knowledge gained, then we can't use it. M$ could argue that publishing code written using their spec is the same as publishing their spec and so everyone who reads the code has to pay 10k Euros.
Until this is explained in full: we need to hold back on popping the champagne corks.
How good will the spec be? If it is anything like the OOXML one then there will still be huge holes. M$ is smart enough to only publish in the spec the bits that have been reverse engineered: this allows it to claim that it has revealed a lot without adding anything to what is known by the rest of us.
Do you remember the days when you could phone your local cinema and buy tickets without having to pay a phone booking fee ? Then one bright spark decided to milk the customer by adding the charge: by the time the customer learned about it... 'oh, what is this all about?, what the heck just pay it'.
It just added an extra pound on the ticket price... but that soon translates into a lot of extra profit.
Now they all do it. We just accept it as part of the price of going to see a film at the flicks.
I have a similar box, a koolu, it is fine for web browsing, word processing,... quite fast enough.
Leave it on for several hours and it hardly gets warm. A sealed box - this would make it excellent for dusy environments.
What does get warm is the external power supply - I wonder how many watts that consume ? 5 watts for the machine itself, something for the screen, something for the PSU. What is the total consumption ?
If they knowing sell on something with known defects (that copy of MS Vista) and it screws up someone's machine -- would they not be liable for any loss that they endured ?
The assumption seems to be that the passenger will be in the front seat. What happens if the passenger sits behind ?
It is not just kids who sit in the back, but others such as people being driven by a chauffeur or taxi driver.
What will kill this is the number of false negatives - they will be trying to fine many people on the basis of failure
of their system.
Because no one knows that it has happened to anyone else, there can be no oversight. All that we now need is a bent copper to go round collecting private commercial date (or other encrypted stuff of value) and start selling it. The copper never gets caught because the victims are not allowed to talk to other and so deduce that they are being scammed/robbed.
The is completely stupid - it puts us good buys at risk and does little to deter the bad buys.
Looking at a scene with blurred out faces will detract from the view, humans are very sensitive to problems with faces.
Google should find people who are willing for their faces to be used this way. Using the same face would be kind of disturbing, so a selection of faces would be needed, perhaps to roughly match the face that is being replaced (hair colour, race, sex,...).
Think of the fun that we could have: a kind of Google powered Where's Wally.
There could even be a market for this: budding politicians, wannabe starlets who might pay to have their face become recognised or become familiar.
Did all of the bloggers expose personal data, or did just one or a few do so ?
I suspect it was a few, the hospital is using this as an excuse to go after all of the bloggers and get their names.
The hospital management is more interested in shooting messagers than fixing issues in it's health care.
I quite agree, however there is great emphasis on shooting the messager rather than dealing with the real issue.
If no one talks about a problem then it doesn't exist.
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Presumably finding the information requested takes a reasonably amount of effort and it thus costs. There are various financial disclosure/reporting laws ... does the ISP need to say that it has cost it $X
complying with NSA requests ?
Anyone got some real comparison numbers ?
If guns are difficult to get, then fewer people will have them to abuse and shoot someone with.
The ready availability of guns is a bad aspect of the USA. You would have much less gun crime if they were banned.
What is interesting is that we have this story probably flagged up by the authorities. I suspect that it is to make us think that the ''big government databases'' are a good thing and that we should approve their continued use. What is buried are the stories where these databases have screwed up and inconvenienced (or worse) innocent people.
To an extent this is moot since the investigation will proceed at a glacial pace and by the time that it concludes it will all be a done deal.
UK retailer tesco recently released a Linux PC with similar specs. Is this start of a new trend ?
Doesn't Miguel work for Novell ? We all know how they relate to Microsoft!
I will probably not see these copies released in my lifetime, but we must act to prevent these things being locked up for ever.
However: the XO comes with a bundled OS: Linux. Hmmmm, to be consistent should I not argue that the consumer should be able to choose what OS they want on their XO ?
The above is a matter of principle, not which is better or whatever.
I still don't know what I should think .... help please!
If enough people do that their scam will be bust!
This is how corporations piss over their customers.
and how long does such storage last before bits go bad ?
What restrictions come with the specification that we pay 10,000 Euros for? If there are restrictions on what we can do with the knowledge gained, then we can't use it. M$ could argue that publishing code written using their spec is the same as publishing their spec and so everyone who reads the code has to pay 10k Euros.
Until this is explained in full: we need to hold back on popping the champagne corks.
How good will the spec be? If it is anything like the OOXML one then there will still be huge holes. M$ is smart enough to only publish in the spec the bits that have been reverse engineered: this allows it to claim that it has revealed a lot without adding anything to what is known by the rest of us.
Now they all do it. We just accept it as part of the price of going to see a film at the flicks.
You appear to be trying to have sex with me, can I help ?
Would you like sex with me as a woman or a man ?
Would you like it frontal or anal ?
Aarrrgh!!!!
What does get warm is the external power supply - I wonder how many watts that consume ? 5 watts for the machine itself, something for the screen, something for the PSU. What is the total consumption ?
If they knowing sell on something with known defects (that copy of MS Vista) and it screws up someone's machine -- would they not be liable for any loss that they endured ?
You can't have a copyright on something generic, however you could have a patent on it -- at least in those countries that allow such stupidities.
What will kill this is the number of false negatives - they will be trying to fine many people on the basis of failure of their system.
The is completely stupid - it puts us good buys at risk and does little to deter the bad buys.
Google should find people who are willing for their faces to be used this way. Using the same face would be kind of disturbing, so a selection of faces would be needed, perhaps to roughly match the face that is being replaced (hair colour, race, sex, ...).
Think of the fun that we could have: a kind of Google powered Where's Wally .
There could even be a market for this: budding politicians, wannabe starlets who might pay to have their face become recognised or become familiar.
I suspect it was a few, the hospital is using this as an excuse to go after all of the bloggers and get their names. The hospital management is more interested in shooting messagers than fixing issues in it's health care.
I quite agree, however there is great emphasis on shooting the messager rather than dealing with the real issue. If no one talks about a problem then it doesn't exist.
Does it really matter where the changes are made -- as long as interoperation is improved and it doesn't mean Linux breaking any RFCs/... ?