Ever notice how high temps are "proof of AGW", but low temps are "just weather"?
Well, hate to tell you this, but one day's high temps are "just weather" too.
Is AGW happening? Probably. Is THIS proof? Nope, it's just weather. Local weather, at that....
That's why it's preferred to call it climate change.
Because "global warming" implies that extreme cold is impossible, when in fact, AGW actually means you not only get extreme heat, but extreme cold (polar vortex? That's balmy).
Basically weather gets more extreme - summers get hotter, summers get extremely cold, winters get summer hot, winters get arctic cold, etc.
In this particular case of Oracle vs Google regarding Java "IP" we are talking about API Headers. To anyone with some coding background, API Headers are a description of a system. They are not patentable, as patents require implementation. (In Europe software is considered "math", and atm not patentable at al) They should not be copyrightable, for the same reason that announcing you will write a book about Fire and Ice and Dragons is a description of a book, but not the book itself. This description should not grant you the right to be the sole author of books about Fire and Ice and Dragons.
I applaud Google in this fight, and I hope they fight till they win.
Which is good, because a lot of Linux headers are GPLv2. So if headers aren't copyrightable, then they can be lifted and used in proprietary apps as well.
It also means all those Linux APIs marked "GPL" (e.g., EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) are no long GPL only and can be used in proprietary kernel modules, too.
Android benefits, since Bionic no longer has to maintain a set of "clean" Linux header files.
And that's the problem - who ever wins, loses. Google wins, APIs are not copyrightable and thus, GPL doesn't apply anymore (GPL requires copyright). Oracle wins, well, we lose as well, though it makes GPL APIs require GPL.
I thought today's browser automatically remembered the contents of the text fields if you hit back and then go forward again (using the forward button, not clicking the link again)??
I mean, IE and FireFox remember the contents of text fields if I hit back (or backspace) and it goes back a page. Hit forward and boom, text I entered is still there.
Granted, it's not a behaviour that works 100% because of the way some websites work (especially rich text fields), but it seems to work fairly well..
As a bit of background, polygraphs don't work. They are glorified stress detectors so in some circumstances, they can detect the subject's fear of being caught in a lie. Much more often, they detect the stress of the interrogation with spikes every time the subject is pressed to answer immediately.
Polygraphs work. They're just graphing multiple biological signals (heart rate, skin conductivity, breathing, etc), hence the name, "poly" and "graph".
The real leap in logic is that a polygraph can be used to detect truthfulness (to which there is no causal link - while stress can be caused by lying, in general the exam itself overrides any possible stress indicators). The only real way they work is the interrogator catches the suspect in a contradiction (which is also non causal since the suspect may simply be tired or just wants to get it over).
There are lie detectors that DO work quite effectively (fMRIs, for example, are very effective since different areas of the brain are activated and easily detectable). They are, however, expensive to administer and fidgety since you need the suspect to stay relatively still.
Who cares about just the capital cost? You seem to be assuming that Iraq has zero Internet-based economy.
Given it's a Big Test, it probably follows like other Big Tests you see, like the ones in Asia (where cheating Is basically an art).
Effectively, it's the One Big Test That Determines Your Future (And If You Still Have Parents). The results of the test determine if you're going to Overseas University with Scholarship, Local University, Trade School, not going at all. Parents have disowned kids who don't make it to overseas university, and if your parents are rich enough and don't really care about the test results, they can pay your way through overseas university as well.
The pressure is so immense that there is a distinct increase in teenaged suicides, and well, the incentive to cheat is quite up there. So creative types invent all sorts of cheat equipment - from hidden radios and ear pieces through to hidden storage devices with displays.
And if you think shutting down the internet for a few hours is bad, a few places have requested that people stop what they're doing for those hours - even banning traffic to give the students quiet to do the exams.
16GB desktop (unregistered non-ecc ddr4) modules are now available at reasonable prices, so you should be able to do 64GB on a mainstream desktop platform and 128GB on a high end desktop platform now.
Not really.
Skylake desktop CPUs (just coming out) support 64GB - older CPUs topped out at 32GB of RAM.
128GB would require the use of Intel Xeon chips (server class), so it's not quite common yet. High end workstations with server CPUs may have the ability to take 128GB, but only the latest mainstream CPUs can take 64GB.
Anyhow, you probably won't see that much art up there - as a condition for Google to scan it, the right to post it online is Google, and a lot of more famous art and museums don't particularly want that. So you're not likely going to see the Mona Lisa scanned like that - the Louvre would rather you look at it in person or at low res photos they authorize.
A lot of people abandoned SourceForge because they started bundling crap with all the installers. Does their scanner catch those as well, or are they going to blame the project owners for what SF did to their binaries?
This is a beautiful bug! Having the scan engine loaded into the kernel is sheer lunacy. Yet even more evidence on why AntiVirus is a useless and dangerous program to have running on your system.
Well, on one hand, it does make some sense. Windows still has the equivalent of a system call table, but it is hookable and the antivirus program will monitor who's hooking the system calls. In addition, it too will hook the system calls to be able to scan files the second they're downloaded as well as be able to block creation of processes using infected files, which helps block infection. It also means many user-space tricks are no longer valid (a user space scanner is vulnerable to malware that can hide itself inside the kernel).
So it does make some sense to have a part of your scanner inside the kernel itself.
Of course, the downside is your scanner is now the target of.attack because well, it's a nice juicy place to attack.
Recently, my copy of Skype for Business has been terminating abruptly. This is on my PC at work, maintained by my company. I can understand Microsoft not maintaining the Linux or "home" version of Skype, but I would expect their business version to be robust and reliable.
That's the problem, actually.
Skype for Business is really a re-branding of Lync, Microsoft's other conferencing solution. And basically managing to screw it up like how they tried to unify Skype and MSN Messenger. At least the latter was text chat and Microsoft managed to get a gateway going (you could do voice and video on MSN, but it wasn't used heavily)
Then Microsoft rebranded Lync as Skype for Business, integrated its functionality into Skype and all heck broke loose and the two really weren't meant to interoperate well. The user lists merged, but try having a multi-way conference between Skype and Lync users and hilarity ensues as randomly one group or the other fails to get voice, video or other data.
Compare with companies like Royal Dutch Shell which pay 7-8% dividend yield and are less subject to consumer whims.
Well, of course the oil industry pays well. Tobacco too - if you haven't invested in the tobacco industry, you're missing out on a lot of cash. (It's why they call those tobacco-less, oil-less and other such sin-free funds "ethical funds", which have a markedly lower rate of return.). And technology is the worst sector to invest in because the rate of return is very low - even Apple, considered to be one of the top companies in the area, only barely met the rate of return of other industries like the financial sector.
Oil is subject to consumer whims, it's just that the consumer hasn't wised up to it yet. Demand for gasoline is considered relatively inelastic - you can jack the price up and demand will barely drop. Sure you'll get a lot of grumbling from motorists, but hey, more money for shareholders.
The dominant reason Apple is able to charge more is because people are willing to pay more for their software. (No it isn't because of "marketing" - marketing is not magic pixie dust - there has to be products that people like behind any marketing) Apple's software is what really makes their products unique. There is only one company that has made substantial profits selling Android phones (Samsung) and there is no particular reason to believe Nokia would have been able to capture substantial profits on the Android platform. Even Samsung makes far less profit than Apple. For Nokia to really be profitable they needed software that made their phones different from everyone else's. Nokia knew this but were unable to fix the problem. There was really very little upside for Nokia on the Android platform and a large chance they would end up with little to no profits.
Actually, Samsung beat Apple in profits a few years ago. Though they did it the hard way - basically by sheer volume of phones shipped. Apple only had around 6 phone models on sale, while Samsung had over 100+ over the year. (2014, Samsung averaged 3 new phones a week, and 1 new tablet a week).
Apple makes more money per phone, while Samsung makes less and makes it up in volume. It's just like Dell and Apple - Dell moves way more PCs than Apple, yet their profits on both were comparable (were, because Dell is now private).
And yes, software is key. Nokia had Symbian, while nice, was being rapidly out-classed by both iOS and Android (Nokia's rapidly dropping market share attests to this, and it doesn't help that application developers were dropping Symbian at the first opportunity). It's not that Symbian was lacking (they weren't, at least compared to early iOS) but it wasn't as easy to develop for and there wasn't a standard distribution system (plus the user had to download it on their PC, then sync their phone in order to install it).
The real problem was seen during the iPhone announcement in 2007 - Nokia, Microsoft and RIM (Blackberry) both scoffed at it thinking it wasn't going to matter. Instead of seeing it as a threat, or to try to compete with it, they rested. By the time they realized that the iPhone and Android fad were not going away, it was too late.
Not sure if they're available in the rest of Canada.
As as with any generic products, some of them are excellent and better than known brands, some of them are just okay and some of them you just need to stay away from.
In the rest of Canada, "No Name" is actually the store brand of the Real Canadian Superstore. I see it all the time, only in Superstore.
All the other stores have it as well - Walmart has Great Value, Safeway has Compliments, etc.
Store brand/white label/generic goods have been around a long time and practically everything pre-packaged has a store brand version. They're always cheaper, and depending on the item can often be superior to the name brand. And a lot of them actually ARE name brand products - they're made in the same factories, the only difference is the packaging (Safeway batteries were Duracell, for example). Of course, no company will reveal this information, but it can be gleaned by things like recalls and such.
The Gates Foundation funds education, including education for girls.
An educated populous is the greatest threat to a theocracy.
This is what naming Gates is all about.
Yeah, but that has nothing to do with harming the US economy. And given how it's run, Gates probably spends very little time managing it, so even if the Gates are murdered, the foundation's work continues on.
And for the big companies, there already are succession plans.
To harm the US economy by killing one or two targets is extremely tough. You could try to devastate the ground reference station of GPS, given its use in the economy, but given it's US Air Force and all, well, that's a bit difficult. (GPS is now a cornerstone of much economic activity, so disrupting it would have an effect).
You could try taking down retail giants like Amazon, but Amazon again is widely distributed and even Bezos probably doesn't spend much time on day to day management, so you'd have to kill Amazon's datacenters.
Perhaps a more juicy target would be Google, for their reach is immense and taking Google down will break wide swaths of the Internet. But again, Google's infrastructure is pretty distributed as well.
Tim Cook might be a target - he's openly gay, and leads a very popular company, so he's pretty much the only target that might disrupt things a bit
Unless things have changed Drastically since I went to college, the BULK of college students are poor. Buying things from amazon are not high on their priority list. When you are robbed blind by the college for overpriced tuition, overpriced housing, and obscenemy overpriced textbooks... you dont have money for things from Amazon.com
Uh, the best way to save on textbooks is to order them THROUGH Amazon!
Overpriced textbooks, yes, but Amazon usually has a good discount over the bookstore. In fact, I think when Amazon introduced textbooks into their lineup the sales at the bookstores dropped dramatically.
I think the other packages are from discounted textbook retailers as well (there was the case of the student who was reselling textbooks he bought overseas)
SFC says ZFS is a GPL violation and "âoeAlmost Thereâ is More Painful Than Proprietary" (see https://sfconservancy.org/blog... )
If so, surely we need to drop the "GNU" bit, since it is now merely a GNU system over another proprietary (or at least not FOSS, because it is a GPL violation) kernel? Or will rms continue to want crediting for distributions which violate (in his opinion) the very license he created?
No, it's not a GPL violation. The real problem is ZFS is CDDL licensed, while Linux is GPLv2 licensed. Both are open and free software licenses, but both have incompatible restrictions - CDDL code cannot be included in GPL code and vice-versa.
The only solution is that NO distribution can include binary versions of ZFS on their Linux distributions because of the incompatibility. So you work around it because the license are only covering distribution - if the user doesn't distribute it, everything is A-OK. So a user can compile CDDL code into the kernel just fine, they just can't distribute the resulting binaries because it's a violation of both GPL and CDDL since you cannot satisfy both simultaneously.
If you're deploying internal VM images, you're technically not distributing so even that is OK, though it gets much trickier if you're using a cloud service. It also is a technical violation if you distribute the image to say, a contractor. In theory, you're fine as long as said contractor is using your equipment, but it gets very murky very quickly (i.e., it is distribution if you give the VM image containing both to a contractor to run on his personally owned computer).
But, given people trade movies and music freely, I'm guessing most people wouldn't have much of an issue with that either (violating open-source licenses is fine as it puts you under "all rights reserved" copyright, but distribution is technically copyright violation or piracy).
Al least in any sane system, and Windows has started, a few decades late, to use sound OS design practices. So no, not "full control"./blockquotes.
Depends on the process.
An antivirus/malware scanner may very well run with elevated privileges since it needs to be able to scan files the user doesn't have direct access to. Thus, it's possible that a carefully crafted 7z file can be used to run code in an elevated mode...
(it's why IE always has to move files when its done downloading - the file save dialog is done by a higher integrity process, and the file is downloaded to a temporary location first (the only writable area a low integrity process has) and moved by the higher integrity process.
Do you have any links on that? That is interesting. I'm running process explorer now to try and see how that works...
The FBI is saying they actively exploit a flaw in Firefox but won't say what that flaw is. This course of action actively deters people from using firefox. Mozilla can't dispute the FBIs claim since there is no evidence given. If the FBI won't disclose the vulnerability I sure hope they can sued for libel since that's exactly what is left.
It's probably sitting in their security Bugzilla, to be honest. Firefox is a security nightmare - so much so that Pwn2Own this year decided to not accept Firefox flaws anymore - Firefox is too easy a target.
The major web browsers have all started shedding privileges when they run - especially on Windows with its low integrity mode where it's restricted in its interactions with users and other windows and even the filesystem (it's why IE always has to move files when its done downloading - the file save dialog is done by a higher integrity process, and the file is downloaded to a temporary location first (the only writable area a low integrity process has) and moved by the higher integrity process. Any drive-by downloads are stuck in the temporary location, and any regular download triggers the high integrity process which cannot be interacted with by the low integrity process.).
Firefox doesn't exploit those features at all. Chrome does as well.
Let's be real. This stuff is not being "recycled". Oh, there might be some places pulling some precious metals out of the mix, but most of it is just plastic and metals that no one has any interest in recycling. There would be a lot less waste if devices were more modular, and standards were not constantly changing, but I don't know how you get companies to build stuff like that.
Actually, smelters love e-waste - it's concentration of precious materials is equal to or higher than mining dirt.
And people don't care about plastic because a lot of it may or may not be recyclable. But metal is most definitely recyclable and again, it's easier to smelt e-waste than dig fresh metal out of the ground.
e-waste stuff is purer, generates less slag and is often quite desitable - steel and aluminum are very desirable.
It's actually worse in Germany because you don't have to own the copyright or be authorized by the copyright holder.
All you have to do is forward the money to the copyright holder in the end. So the end result is you get a bunch of rabid companies who do nothing but scan for people committing copyright infringement, then sending demand letters for compensation "acting on behalf" of the actual copyright holder.
"Having a completely arbitrary worldwide event in a practical plague area that causes horrible birth defects in the infected is fucking stupid."
Fucking stupid is not using condoms in that situation.
Except Zika is not just sexually transmitted - it can be transmitted by mosquitoes, too. So even if you decided to go wild and use protection, you can still come back infected by being bitten by an infected mosquito.
Then you return home, and a local mosquito bites you, and it's now infected, which then goes to infect other people.
In fact, until recently we didn't realize it was also sexually transmitted.
So no, no amount of protection will keep you safe from Zika.
To be fair, coffee-making is a serious business in Italy.
They designed and built an espresso maker for the ISS. That was complex enough. But they also had to design cups that work in space because you don't drink espresso out of a bag. Without gravity, a traditional cup doesn't work too well - the current solution uses a specially shaped cup that uses surface tension to hold the liquid inside it, with a special spout that lets you suck it in like you drink coffee normally.
You know what I don't get? I don't get why Amazon's videos are limited in distribution to US and UK.
I get why Prime Video is US only - most of the content Amazon has to license and those licenses are geo-blocked. But considering Amazon is producing the show, they own the content and thus the worldwide distribution rights. But Amazon doesn't make it available. Even as a dim perk for those with Prime.
That would be like Netflix geo-restricting the content they produce... (which they don't - all the Netflix-produced content is available everywhere there's Netflix - because Netflix made it, they own the distribution rights and they gave themselves exclusive worldwide distribution rights).
Sure, Amazon will have barely any content for other countries, but there's no way to see Amazon content without downloading it.
No one is ever going to get a decent game of of a app store. You're going to get simple tablet/phone like games that don't need performance.
I think Valve would disagree with it, considering they ran one of the very first "app stores" on the internet... and their games aren't simple ones either.
And until recently, it actually was quite difficult ot get onto their app store.
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That's why it's preferred to call it climate change.
Because "global warming" implies that extreme cold is impossible, when in fact, AGW actually means you not only get extreme heat, but extreme cold (polar vortex? That's balmy).
Basically weather gets more extreme - summers get hotter, summers get extremely cold, winters get summer hot, winters get arctic cold, etc.
Which is good, because a lot of Linux headers are GPLv2. So if headers aren't copyrightable, then they can be lifted and used in proprietary apps as well.
It also means all those Linux APIs marked "GPL" (e.g., EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) are no long GPL only and can be used in proprietary kernel modules, too.
Android benefits, since Bionic no longer has to maintain a set of "clean" Linux header files.
And that's the problem - who ever wins, loses. Google wins, APIs are not copyrightable and thus, GPL doesn't apply anymore (GPL requires copyright). Oracle wins, well, we lose as well, though it makes GPL APIs require GPL.
It's a very messy situation.
I thought today's browser automatically remembered the contents of the text fields if you hit back and then go forward again (using the forward button, not clicking the link again)??
I mean, IE and FireFox remember the contents of text fields if I hit back (or backspace) and it goes back a page. Hit forward and boom, text I entered is still there.
Granted, it's not a behaviour that works 100% because of the way some websites work (especially rich text fields), but it seems to work fairly well..
Doesn't Chrome remember it?
It's not the first time. We had this discussion years ago...
In 2013...
http://www.ibtimes.com/googles...
A year later they outsell the iPad in schools...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Polygraphs work. They're just graphing multiple biological signals (heart rate, skin conductivity, breathing, etc), hence the name, "poly" and "graph".
The real leap in logic is that a polygraph can be used to detect truthfulness (to which there is no causal link - while stress can be caused by lying, in general the exam itself overrides any possible stress indicators). The only real way they work is the interrogator catches the suspect in a contradiction (which is also non causal since the suspect may simply be tired or just wants to get it over).
There are lie detectors that DO work quite effectively (fMRIs, for example, are very effective since different areas of the brain are activated and easily detectable). They are, however, expensive to administer and fidgety since you need the suspect to stay relatively still.
Given it's a Big Test, it probably follows like other Big Tests you see, like the ones in Asia (where cheating Is basically an art).
Effectively, it's the One Big Test That Determines Your Future (And If You Still Have Parents). The results of the test determine if you're going to Overseas University with Scholarship, Local University, Trade School, not going at all. Parents have disowned kids who don't make it to overseas university, and if your parents are rich enough and don't really care about the test results, they can pay your way through overseas university as well.
The pressure is so immense that there is a distinct increase in teenaged suicides, and well, the incentive to cheat is quite up there. So creative types invent all sorts of cheat equipment - from hidden radios and ear pieces through to hidden storage devices with displays.
And if you think shutting down the internet for a few hours is bad, a few places have requested that people stop what they're doing for those hours - even banning traffic to give the students quiet to do the exams.
Not really.
Skylake desktop CPUs (just coming out) support 64GB - older CPUs topped out at 32GB of RAM.
128GB would require the use of Intel Xeon chips (server class), so it's not quite common yet. High end workstations with server CPUs may have the ability to take 128GB, but only the latest mainstream CPUs can take 64GB.
Anyhow, you probably won't see that much art up there - as a condition for Google to scan it, the right to post it online is Google, and a lot of more famous art and museums don't particularly want that. So you're not likely going to see the Mona Lisa scanned like that - the Louvre would rather you look at it in person or at low res photos they authorize.
A lot of people abandoned SourceForge because they started bundling crap with all the installers. Does their scanner catch those as well, or are they going to blame the project owners for what SF did to their binaries?
Well, on one hand, it does make some sense. Windows still has the equivalent of a system call table, but it is hookable and the antivirus program will monitor who's hooking the system calls. In addition, it too will hook the system calls to be able to scan files the second they're downloaded as well as be able to block creation of processes using infected files, which helps block infection. It also means many user-space tricks are no longer valid (a user space scanner is vulnerable to malware that can hide itself inside the kernel).
So it does make some sense to have a part of your scanner inside the kernel itself.
Of course, the downside is your scanner is now the target of .attack because well, it's a nice juicy place to attack.
That's the problem, actually.
Skype for Business is really a re-branding of Lync, Microsoft's other conferencing solution. And basically managing to screw it up like how they tried to unify Skype and MSN Messenger. At least the latter was text chat and Microsoft managed to get a gateway going (you could do voice and video on MSN, but it wasn't used heavily)
Then Microsoft rebranded Lync as Skype for Business, integrated its functionality into Skype and all heck broke loose and the two really weren't meant to interoperate well. The user lists merged, but try having a multi-way conference between Skype and Lync users and hilarity ensues as randomly one group or the other fails to get voice, video or other data.
Well, of course the oil industry pays well. Tobacco too - if you haven't invested in the tobacco industry, you're missing out on a lot of cash. (It's why they call those tobacco-less, oil-less and other such sin-free funds "ethical funds", which have a markedly lower rate of return.). And technology is the worst sector to invest in because the rate of return is very low - even Apple, considered to be one of the top companies in the area, only barely met the rate of return of other industries like the financial sector.
Oil is subject to consumer whims, it's just that the consumer hasn't wised up to it yet. Demand for gasoline is considered relatively inelastic - you can jack the price up and demand will barely drop. Sure you'll get a lot of grumbling from motorists, but hey, more money for shareholders.
Actually, Samsung beat Apple in profits a few years ago. Though they did it the hard way - basically by sheer volume of phones shipped. Apple only had around 6 phone models on sale, while Samsung had over 100+ over the year. (2014, Samsung averaged 3 new phones a week, and 1 new tablet a week).
Apple makes more money per phone, while Samsung makes less and makes it up in volume. It's just like Dell and Apple - Dell moves way more PCs than Apple, yet their profits on both were comparable (were, because Dell is now private).
And yes, software is key. Nokia had Symbian, while nice, was being rapidly out-classed by both iOS and Android (Nokia's rapidly dropping market share attests to this, and it doesn't help that application developers were dropping Symbian at the first opportunity). It's not that Symbian was lacking (they weren't, at least compared to early iOS) but it wasn't as easy to develop for and there wasn't a standard distribution system (plus the user had to download it on their PC, then sync their phone in order to install it).
The real problem was seen during the iPhone announcement in 2007 - Nokia, Microsoft and RIM (Blackberry) both scoffed at it thinking it wasn't going to matter. Instead of seeing it as a threat, or to try to compete with it, they rested. By the time they realized that the iPhone and Android fad were not going away, it was too late.
In the rest of Canada, "No Name" is actually the store brand of the Real Canadian Superstore. I see it all the time, only in Superstore.
All the other stores have it as well - Walmart has Great Value, Safeway has Compliments, etc.
Store brand/white label/generic goods have been around a long time and practically everything pre-packaged has a store brand version. They're always cheaper, and depending on the item can often be superior to the name brand. And a lot of them actually ARE name brand products - they're made in the same factories, the only difference is the packaging (Safeway batteries were Duracell, for example). Of course, no company will reveal this information, but it can be gleaned by things like recalls and such.
Yeah, but that has nothing to do with harming the US economy. And given how it's run, Gates probably spends very little time managing it, so even if the Gates are murdered, the foundation's work continues on.
And for the big companies, there already are succession plans.
To harm the US economy by killing one or two targets is extremely tough. You could try to devastate the ground reference station of GPS, given its use in the economy, but given it's US Air Force and all, well, that's a bit difficult. (GPS is now a cornerstone of much economic activity, so disrupting it would have an effect).
You could try taking down retail giants like Amazon, but Amazon again is widely distributed and even Bezos probably doesn't spend much time on day to day management, so you'd have to kill Amazon's datacenters.
Perhaps a more juicy target would be Google, for their reach is immense and taking Google down will break wide swaths of the Internet. But again, Google's infrastructure is pretty distributed as well.
Tim Cook might be a target - he's openly gay, and leads a very popular company, so he's pretty much the only target that might disrupt things a bit
Uh, the best way to save on textbooks is to order them THROUGH Amazon!
Overpriced textbooks, yes, but Amazon usually has a good discount over the bookstore. In fact, I think when Amazon introduced textbooks into their lineup the sales at the bookstores dropped dramatically.
I think the other packages are from discounted textbook retailers as well (there was the case of the student who was reselling textbooks he bought overseas)
No, it's not a GPL violation. The real problem is ZFS is CDDL licensed, while Linux is GPLv2 licensed. Both are open and free software licenses, but both have incompatible restrictions - CDDL code cannot be included in GPL code and vice-versa.
The only solution is that NO distribution can include binary versions of ZFS on their Linux distributions because of the incompatibility. So you work around it because the license are only covering distribution - if the user doesn't distribute it, everything is A-OK. So a user can compile CDDL code into the kernel just fine, they just can't distribute the resulting binaries because it's a violation of both GPL and CDDL since you cannot satisfy both simultaneously.
If you're deploying internal VM images, you're technically not distributing so even that is OK, though it gets much trickier if you're using a cloud service. It also is a technical violation if you distribute the image to say, a contractor. In theory, you're fine as long as said contractor is using your equipment, but it gets very murky very quickly (i.e., it is distribution if you give the VM image containing both to a contractor to run on his personally owned computer).
But, given people trade movies and music freely, I'm guessing most people wouldn't have much of an issue with that either (violating open-source licenses is fine as it puts you under "all rights reserved" copyright, but distribution is technically copyright violation or piracy).
The developer documentation on low integrity IE is at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
More details on process explorer seeing IE - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
It's not perfect - there are known escape mechanisms, but the idea is pretty sound.
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/...
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/...
I believe Chrome also uses this mechanism when available (for Chrome, now always since XP support is dropped).
It's probably sitting in their security Bugzilla, to be honest. Firefox is a security nightmare - so much so that Pwn2Own this year decided to not accept Firefox flaws anymore - Firefox is too easy a target.
The major web browsers have all started shedding privileges when they run - especially on Windows with its low integrity mode where it's restricted in its interactions with users and other windows and even the filesystem (it's why IE always has to move files when its done downloading - the file save dialog is done by a higher integrity process, and the file is downloaded to a temporary location first (the only writable area a low integrity process has) and moved by the higher integrity process. Any drive-by downloads are stuck in the temporary location, and any regular download triggers the high integrity process which cannot be interacted with by the low integrity process.).
Firefox doesn't exploit those features at all. Chrome does as well.
Actually, smelters love e-waste - it's concentration of precious materials is equal to or higher than mining dirt.
And people don't care about plastic because a lot of it may or may not be recyclable. But metal is most definitely recyclable and again, it's easier to smelt e-waste than dig fresh metal out of the ground.
e-waste stuff is purer, generates less slag and is often quite desitable - steel and aluminum are very desirable.
It's actually worse in Germany because you don't have to own the copyright or be authorized by the copyright holder.
All you have to do is forward the money to the copyright holder in the end. So the end result is you get a bunch of rabid companies who do nothing but scan for people committing copyright infringement, then sending demand letters for compensation "acting on behalf" of the actual copyright holder.
Except Zika is not just sexually transmitted - it can be transmitted by mosquitoes, too. So even if you decided to go wild and use protection, you can still come back infected by being bitten by an infected mosquito.
Then you return home, and a local mosquito bites you, and it's now infected, which then goes to infect other people.
In fact, until recently we didn't realize it was also sexually transmitted.
So no, no amount of protection will keep you safe from Zika.
They designed and built an espresso maker for the ISS. That was complex enough. But they also had to design cups that work in space because you don't drink espresso out of a bag. Without gravity, a traditional cup doesn't work too well - the current solution uses a specially shaped cup that uses surface tension to hold the liquid inside it, with a special spout that lets you suck it in like you drink coffee normally.
There's a photo of it near the bottom.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/ISS_Sci...
Coffee is serious business.
You know what I don't get? I don't get why Amazon's videos are limited in distribution to US and UK.
I get why Prime Video is US only - most of the content Amazon has to license and those licenses are geo-blocked. But considering Amazon is producing the show, they own the content and thus the worldwide distribution rights. But Amazon doesn't make it available. Even as a dim perk for those with Prime.
That would be like Netflix geo-restricting the content they produce... (which they don't - all the Netflix-produced content is available everywhere there's Netflix - because Netflix made it, they own the distribution rights and they gave themselves exclusive worldwide distribution rights).
Sure, Amazon will have barely any content for other countries, but there's no way to see Amazon content without downloading it.
I think Valve would disagree with it, considering they ran one of the very first "app stores" on the internet... and their games aren't simple ones either.
And until recently, it actually was quite difficult ot get onto their app store.