If you point me towards a locker full of drugs, then ya you can get charged. You can't get out of trouble just by claiming you didn't actually do anything, only provided information. If it is clear you are an accomplice, you can get charged.
Remember laws are written around the "reasonable person" standard, not the "overly pedantic geek" standard. So if you knew to point me to a particular locker, and you knew the combination to that locker, and that locker was full of drugs, what is a reasonable person to assume? That you had no idea the drugs were there, and had nothing to do with it? No not so much, they'll probably conclude that you were involved in a drug deal.
Now context and intent are important as well. For example if you knew about the drugs because you overheard someone talking about it, and you told a police officer with the intent of letting them foil a drug deal, then you are in the clear. However if you knew about the drugs because you had someone place them there, and told me with the intent to complete a drug deal then you are guilty.
You don't have to be directly involved in a crime to be culpable of that crime. If that were the case, we could never bust crime bosses who order murders since, after all, they don't actually murder people, just instruct others to do so.
No actually it is your problem. If Linux is a fragmented mess and it takes a lot of man hours to support all the distros, companies may just give it a miss.
Also, it is for a game that has already been on sale for awhile, thus many have already played it and aren't interested in re-buying it.
If they think there'll be massive sales on a new platform, well they are dumb. If they think there'll be massive sales on a new platform of a game that is old, they are doubly dumb.
In the event that it really was a case of Belize trying to set him up and him needing to get out, the US would almost certainly help him. It extends powerful protections to its citizens. He gets in the embassy, he's back in US territory and the rest isn't a big deal, given the US's resources.
However if you do a little digging you find that he's probably not on that good a terms with the US, and that's why he left. His move there wasn't because it is an unparalleled paradise or because he has ties there or something, it was because he was running from the US more or less.
Ya I have no problem with the idea, I have a problem with the "We're going to beat all of the things!" attitude.
Plus there's the whole comparing theoretical to actual numbers. That 90 GFlop number I posted is the actual, measured, performance on my system. It is running Linpack, compiled with the ICC, in Windows.
A verified real world result is very different from looking at the design and saying "Well best case theoretical it should be able to do X!"
It isn't a plastic gun any more than any other gun that has a plastic receiver is. The barrel, chamber, bolt, firing pin, hammer, etc, etc, etc are all still metal. This "OMG WE CAN PRINT A GUN!!!!11one" stuff is stupid.
Yes, you can make the receiver, the low stress part, out of plastic. Big deal, this has happened for a long time. The barrel and chamber are the parts that face stress. Try that and see how it goes... But fire it remotely if you value your face n' fingers.
Is is just the stripped lower that is plastic, or is it the whole thing including the buffer tube?
Remember that tube that the stock attaches to isn't just for that, it contains the recoil spring and buffer. The bolt carrier flies back against the buffer, in to that tube, and is then pushed back in to position by the spring. If it broke, you could get a face/arm full of spring and so on.
Compare it to a more modern processor. You want floating point performance? Take a look at a Sandy/Ivy Bridge. My 2600k, which I have set to run at 4GHz, gets about 90GFlops in Linpack. The reason is Intel's new AVX extension, which really is something to write home about for DP FP. Ivy Bridge is supposedly a bit more efficient per clock (I don't have one handy to test).
If you are bringing out a processor at some point in the future, you need to compare to the latest products your competitors have, since that is realistically what you face. You can't look at something two generations old, as the 920 is, and say "Well we compete well with that!" because if I'm looking at buying your new product, it is competing against other new products.
I think it is really because his "I'm running off to another country because of taxes!" shit appeals to many of the Rand-types that hang around on Slashdot.
It works quite well in 512MB in a VM. Try it on a hypervisor that can do dynamic memory some time (Hyper-V and ESX can). Set it to 512MB minimum and a plenty high max. Fire it up, watch it drop to 512MB used.
Also if you are planning on using XP in VMs you'd better either plan on taking them off the net or plan on moving to something else since support for it ends in 2014 and running a networked OS that doesn't get patches is a bad idea.
Not in the same way. Verdicts can still be reviewed. Even if the courts can't challenge findings of fact, they can challenge application of the law, which is the argument in this case. Also they can change the awards. That last one is real common. Juries tend to be very free with other people's money and the appellate courts often reign that in.
If you want a small sample, go have a look on Steam and see how many copies are floating out there (it is a Steamworks game so all PC copies are on it). Remember that the copy only appears in someone's account after they've paid for it.
I know there's this irrational need from some people to pretend like the game is a flop because it is a very samey shooter, but it isn't. It is a massive success. I'm not saying that is a good thing, I'm saying it is the truth. Trying to spin it doesn't change anything.
That is only the case on a criminal trial, and then only if nobody finds out about it before hand.
Jury nullification is not a legal right, it isn't something specifically granted to juries. It is a de facto ability in criminal trials due to the prohibition against double jeopardy. Once a jury has been impaneled, if the case is dismissed or an innocent verdict is returned, the case may never be brought for retrial. As such, the jury can nullify by returning an innocent verdict.
However for that matter, the judge can do the same. The judge can dismiss the case after the jury has been seated and that is it. Jeopardy applies, no retrial (there can be a retrial in the case of a mistrial, that is different).
Now, in the event the judge finds out that a juror is trying to ignore the law and persuade other jurors to do likewise, the judge can dismiss the juror and bring in an alternate, or declare a mistrial and have the case retried.
Also this only applies to innocent verdicts. If a jury finds someone guilty for reasons outside the law a judge can set aside the verdict, an appellate court can toss out the case, and so on. There is no prohibition against review of guilty verdicts and indeed it happens all the time, on many levels. Only innocent verdicts are unreviewable because of the fifth amendment.
However none of this matters in a civil case, because both sides can appeal. So regardless of what the jury finds, it can be appealed and thus reviewed. Doesn't matter if the jury finds the respondent responsible or not, it can be appealed.
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 did $500 million in sales on its first day alone. The game takes very little risk. It is just another CoD game. Minor tweaks and updates but it is basically the same formula that has won time and time again and yet again it has won big.
While it isn't true that it was zero risk, they did outlay a fair bit of money (8 figures) in development and marketing, it was pretty low risk. Past CoD games have done very well, there was no reason to believe this one wouldn't too and indeed it did.
In the games industry, the safe road often leads to great rewards. People seem to want that which they are familiar with.
Is the issue of having security clearance. When you get it, you agree (in the formal legal sense) not to release classified information under penalty of law. People with security clearance are held to a different standard than those without, when it comes to classified information.
So ya, a person in Manning's former position, a military member who has access to classified data, is held to a very different standard than civilians.
This isn't a very worthwhile mass market test. 0-day detection is an interesting stat, and not worthless, as is proactive testing (AV Comparitives does that, takes a 6 month old AV scanner and sees how it does against current threats) but it isn't really a concern for most people. Computer viruses spread, well, like viruses. Not a lot of people get exposed on day 0. So as long as your virus scanner is updated reasonably frequently, it does a reasonably good job with threats you are actually likely to face.
MSE is really and truly free. Or, perhaps more accurately the cost of it is included with a license of Windows. They don't want any more money for it, they don't try to upsell you, it does its job and that's that.
The others? They want you to buy the full version, so they have various ways of pestering you, some quite annoying. Heck AVG got to the point where even the paid version was highly annoying (I used to buy AVG, I buy ESET Smart Security now).
As such MSE is really the only free AV I recommend because it is well and truly free. You can do better, but only if you want to pay.
They are a distributor. Publishers put up the money for a game to be made, and handle marketing and all that. Wolfire is just a distributor.
I'm not hating on them for making money, just pointing out what is going on. If someone like Valve was doing this, well then sure people might be surprised. After all they've all the money in the world so if they started a special indy, DRM free, thing it would be because they believed in the cause.
However Wolfire has had little commercial success. They haven't released many games and the ones they have really haven't had much appeal. So then they came across something that makes them much more money, and they are going in on it far more.
People shouldn't be surprised if they decide they'd rather make money by selling bigger name stuff than sticking to principles.
One problem with AV is that as detection rate rises, so does false positive rate. So far, nobody has found a way around this. So some products go for heavy detection, Bitdefender being a good example. Fair enough, but it comes at the cost of more false positives (and it still isn't a 100% detection rate).
MS goes the other way. They go for low false positives, and in the last AV Comapritives test they had 0, but at a lower detection rate.
Why? Well because they are going for the mass market, the people who didn't want virus scanners. If the thing bothers them all the time with false positives, they'll turn it off, and then they have 0% detection. So instead they go for a lower detection rate, but with low false positives so people get some protection.
I'm not calling it the right answer, but you can see the logic.
And for that matter, I've found that in the real world, MSE seems to do better than Sophos, which is decidedly not free and very popular in enterprise.
The Humble Bundle changed, or sold out if you like, long ago. This isn't a real surprise. The Humble Bundle is run by Wolfire Games. Their previous, and pretty much only, product being Lugaru, a game with bad graphics where you play a ninja rabbit (yes, really). They've announced a couple other games, for example Overgrowth, but nothing has been released. Overgrowth was announced in 2008 and is still in alpha.
It should be no surprise they haven't had a ton of commercial success.
Well the Humble Bundle was quite a success. Most people left them a reasonable percentage as a tip, so they made quite a bit of money on it, and this has continued with later bundles. In general, the more a bundle sells, the more they make since most don't change the percentages.
So while the first bundle was purely indy titles that almost nobody had heard of (including their own) and source code was offered by some devs at certain levels, after that it has started going far more mainstream.
The reason is this isn't some big developer/publisher with tons of money that is doing this as a fun side thing, this is a little developer who has made FAR more doing this than ever on their games.
When the US has a military toy they want to talk about and advertise, there are all kinds of pictures of it. Take the F-22A for example. You can find pictures n' video n' all sorts of stuff from the government itself and from other sources. They couldn't shut up about the thing and how cool they thought it was.
Then on the other side there is something like this chopper. Not only did they never release any pictures, they never even said they had such a thing. It was completely secret. Even after the fact they still haven't said or released shit. They'll let people speculate but won't say a word.
So if Iran had a secret drone, the thing to do would be quiet about it. Say nothing, release nothing. If they have a drone that they want to show off, well then the thing to do is to show it off. Show pictures and video of it doing its thing, real ones.
If they fake shit up, people are going to call bullshit, as has happened.
Also I'm trying to figure out why a quad copter is supposed to be impressive. They will, literally, sell me one at the Verizon store. You have something that can do VTOL. Wow, good thing I can't get a toy that does that...
Do some research, and buy from vendors that don't do it. Sager is my choice. The assemble and sell Clevo laptops. Highly customized, great components, no crapware. Not really much more expensive, either. MSI was also good last time I bought one. Not 100% free of 3rd party stuff, but very little and none of it real crapware.
Not saying there's any validity to this story (it sounds like BS to me) but you can get shredders that shred to various standards. Fellowes sells shredders that are strip cut, cross cut, and micro cut (more or less makes powder). The reason is because the more intense the cut, the less amount of paper a given size of motor can handle. For example take three of their shredders, all with the same basic build and model number. The strip cut version can do 21 sheets at a time, the cross cut 14, the micro cut 10. Same motor, same general construction, only difference is the blade assembly.
It has nothing to do with size either. You can find large ones that are strip cut. Fellowes has a 35 sheet strip cut commercial model they sell (costs about $4k). The more you want the paper cut up, the more blades you have to have, thus the more resistance, thus the less it can handle at once.
As such businesses may choose the higher capacity, but less secure, shredders for some documents. They also cost less to buy.
That's also why micro cut shredders have never become all that popular. Their cost goes up again because of the more blades and they can't handle a lot at once.
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If you point me towards a locker full of drugs, then ya you can get charged. You can't get out of trouble just by claiming you didn't actually do anything, only provided information. If it is clear you are an accomplice, you can get charged.
Remember laws are written around the "reasonable person" standard, not the "overly pedantic geek" standard. So if you knew to point me to a particular locker, and you knew the combination to that locker, and that locker was full of drugs, what is a reasonable person to assume? That you had no idea the drugs were there, and had nothing to do with it? No not so much, they'll probably conclude that you were involved in a drug deal.
Now context and intent are important as well. For example if you knew about the drugs because you overheard someone talking about it, and you told a police officer with the intent of letting them foil a drug deal, then you are in the clear. However if you knew about the drugs because you had someone place them there, and told me with the intent to complete a drug deal then you are guilty.
You don't have to be directly involved in a crime to be culpable of that crime. If that were the case, we could never bust crime bosses who order murders since, after all, they don't actually murder people, just instruct others to do so.
No actually it is your problem. If Linux is a fragmented mess and it takes a lot of man hours to support all the distros, companies may just give it a miss.
Also, it is for a game that has already been on sale for awhile, thus many have already played it and aren't interested in re-buying it.
If they think there'll be massive sales on a new platform, well they are dumb. If they think there'll be massive sales on a new platform of a game that is old, they are doubly dumb.
In the event that it really was a case of Belize trying to set him up and him needing to get out, the US would almost certainly help him. It extends powerful protections to its citizens. He gets in the embassy, he's back in US territory and the rest isn't a big deal, given the US's resources.
However if you do a little digging you find that he's probably not on that good a terms with the US, and that's why he left. His move there wasn't because it is an unparalleled paradise or because he has ties there or something, it was because he was running from the US more or less.
Ya I have no problem with the idea, I have a problem with the "We're going to beat all of the things!" attitude.
Plus there's the whole comparing theoretical to actual numbers. That 90 GFlop number I posted is the actual, measured, performance on my system. It is running Linpack, compiled with the ICC, in Windows.
A verified real world result is very different from looking at the design and saying "Well best case theoretical it should be able to do X!"
It isn't a plastic gun any more than any other gun that has a plastic receiver is. The barrel, chamber, bolt, firing pin, hammer, etc, etc, etc are all still metal. This "OMG WE CAN PRINT A GUN!!!!11one" stuff is stupid.
Yes, you can make the receiver, the low stress part, out of plastic. Big deal, this has happened for a long time. The barrel and chamber are the parts that face stress. Try that and see how it goes... But fire it remotely if you value your face n' fingers.
Is is just the stripped lower that is plastic, or is it the whole thing including the buffer tube?
Remember that tube that the stock attaches to isn't just for that, it contains the recoil spring and buffer. The bolt carrier flies back against the buffer, in to that tube, and is then pushed back in to position by the spring. If it broke, you could get a face/arm full of spring and so on.
Compare it to a more modern processor. You want floating point performance? Take a look at a Sandy/Ivy Bridge. My 2600k, which I have set to run at 4GHz, gets about 90GFlops in Linpack. The reason is Intel's new AVX extension, which really is something to write home about for DP FP. Ivy Bridge is supposedly a bit more efficient per clock (I don't have one handy to test).
If you are bringing out a processor at some point in the future, you need to compare to the latest products your competitors have, since that is realistically what you face. You can't look at something two generations old, as the 920 is, and say "Well we compete well with that!" because if I'm looking at buying your new product, it is competing against other new products.
I think it is really because his "I'm running off to another country because of taxes!" shit appeals to many of the Rand-types that hang around on Slashdot.
It works quite well in 512MB in a VM. Try it on a hypervisor that can do dynamic memory some time (Hyper-V and ESX can). Set it to 512MB minimum and a plenty high max. Fire it up, watch it drop to 512MB used.
Also if you are planning on using XP in VMs you'd better either plan on taking them off the net or plan on moving to something else since support for it ends in 2014 and running a networked OS that doesn't get patches is a bad idea.
Not in the same way. Verdicts can still be reviewed. Even if the courts can't challenge findings of fact, they can challenge application of the law, which is the argument in this case. Also they can change the awards. That last one is real common. Juries tend to be very free with other people's money and the appellate courts often reign that in.
If you want a small sample, go have a look on Steam and see how many copies are floating out there (it is a Steamworks game so all PC copies are on it). Remember that the copy only appears in someone's account after they've paid for it.
I know there's this irrational need from some people to pretend like the game is a flop because it is a very samey shooter, but it isn't. It is a massive success. I'm not saying that is a good thing, I'm saying it is the truth. Trying to spin it doesn't change anything.
That is only the case on a criminal trial, and then only if nobody finds out about it before hand.
Jury nullification is not a legal right, it isn't something specifically granted to juries. It is a de facto ability in criminal trials due to the prohibition against double jeopardy. Once a jury has been impaneled, if the case is dismissed or an innocent verdict is returned, the case may never be brought for retrial. As such, the jury can nullify by returning an innocent verdict.
However for that matter, the judge can do the same. The judge can dismiss the case after the jury has been seated and that is it. Jeopardy applies, no retrial (there can be a retrial in the case of a mistrial, that is different).
Now, in the event the judge finds out that a juror is trying to ignore the law and persuade other jurors to do likewise, the judge can dismiss the juror and bring in an alternate, or declare a mistrial and have the case retried.
Also this only applies to innocent verdicts. If a jury finds someone guilty for reasons outside the law a judge can set aside the verdict, an appellate court can toss out the case, and so on. There is no prohibition against review of guilty verdicts and indeed it happens all the time, on many levels. Only innocent verdicts are unreviewable because of the fifth amendment.
However none of this matters in a civil case, because both sides can appeal. So regardless of what the jury finds, it can be appealed and thus reviewed. Doesn't matter if the jury finds the respondent responsible or not, it can be appealed.
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 did $500 million in sales on its first day alone. The game takes very little risk. It is just another CoD game. Minor tweaks and updates but it is basically the same formula that has won time and time again and yet again it has won big.
While it isn't true that it was zero risk, they did outlay a fair bit of money (8 figures) in development and marketing, it was pretty low risk. Past CoD games have done very well, there was no reason to believe this one wouldn't too and indeed it did.
In the games industry, the safe road often leads to great rewards. People seem to want that which they are familiar with.
Is the issue of having security clearance. When you get it, you agree (in the formal legal sense) not to release classified information under penalty of law. People with security clearance are held to a different standard than those without, when it comes to classified information.
So ya, a person in Manning's former position, a military member who has access to classified data, is held to a very different standard than civilians.
This isn't a very worthwhile mass market test. 0-day detection is an interesting stat, and not worthless, as is proactive testing (AV Comparitives does that, takes a 6 month old AV scanner and sees how it does against current threats) but it isn't really a concern for most people. Computer viruses spread, well, like viruses. Not a lot of people get exposed on day 0. So as long as your virus scanner is updated reasonably frequently, it does a reasonably good job with threats you are actually likely to face.
MSE is really and truly free. Or, perhaps more accurately the cost of it is included with a license of Windows. They don't want any more money for it, they don't try to upsell you, it does its job and that's that.
The others? They want you to buy the full version, so they have various ways of pestering you, some quite annoying. Heck AVG got to the point where even the paid version was highly annoying (I used to buy AVG, I buy ESET Smart Security now).
As such MSE is really the only free AV I recommend because it is well and truly free. You can do better, but only if you want to pay.
They are a distributor. Publishers put up the money for a game to be made, and handle marketing and all that. Wolfire is just a distributor.
I'm not hating on them for making money, just pointing out what is going on. If someone like Valve was doing this, well then sure people might be surprised. After all they've all the money in the world so if they started a special indy, DRM free, thing it would be because they believed in the cause.
However Wolfire has had little commercial success. They haven't released many games and the ones they have really haven't had much appeal. So then they came across something that makes them much more money, and they are going in on it far more.
People shouldn't be surprised if they decide they'd rather make money by selling bigger name stuff than sticking to principles.
One problem with AV is that as detection rate rises, so does false positive rate. So far, nobody has found a way around this. So some products go for heavy detection, Bitdefender being a good example. Fair enough, but it comes at the cost of more false positives (and it still isn't a 100% detection rate).
MS goes the other way. They go for low false positives, and in the last AV Comapritives test they had 0, but at a lower detection rate.
Why? Well because they are going for the mass market, the people who didn't want virus scanners. If the thing bothers them all the time with false positives, they'll turn it off, and then they have 0% detection. So instead they go for a lower detection rate, but with low false positives so people get some protection.
I'm not calling it the right answer, but you can see the logic.
And for that matter, I've found that in the real world, MSE seems to do better than Sophos, which is decidedly not free and very popular in enterprise.
The Humble Bundle changed, or sold out if you like, long ago. This isn't a real surprise. The Humble Bundle is run by Wolfire Games. Their previous, and pretty much only, product being Lugaru, a game with bad graphics where you play a ninja rabbit (yes, really). They've announced a couple other games, for example Overgrowth, but nothing has been released. Overgrowth was announced in 2008 and is still in alpha.
It should be no surprise they haven't had a ton of commercial success.
Well the Humble Bundle was quite a success. Most people left them a reasonable percentage as a tip, so they made quite a bit of money on it, and this has continued with later bundles. In general, the more a bundle sells, the more they make since most don't change the percentages.
So while the first bundle was purely indy titles that almost nobody had heard of (including their own) and source code was offered by some devs at certain levels, after that it has started going far more mainstream.
The reason is this isn't some big developer/publisher with tons of money that is doing this as a fun side thing, this is a little developer who has made FAR more doing this than ever on their games.
When the US has a military toy they want to talk about and advertise, there are all kinds of pictures of it. Take the F-22A for example. You can find pictures n' video n' all sorts of stuff from the government itself and from other sources. They couldn't shut up about the thing and how cool they thought it was.
Then on the other side there is something like this chopper. Not only did they never release any pictures, they never even said they had such a thing. It was completely secret. Even after the fact they still haven't said or released shit. They'll let people speculate but won't say a word.
So if Iran had a secret drone, the thing to do would be quiet about it. Say nothing, release nothing. If they have a drone that they want to show off, well then the thing to do is to show it off. Show pictures and video of it doing its thing, real ones.
If they fake shit up, people are going to call bullshit, as has happened.
Also I'm trying to figure out why a quad copter is supposed to be impressive. They will, literally, sell me one at the Verizon store. You have something that can do VTOL. Wow, good thing I can't get a toy that does that...
Game was released and works fine, and has done decent Steam sales after the release. It's had pretty good reviews by the press too.
Do some research, and buy from vendors that don't do it. Sager is my choice. The assemble and sell Clevo laptops. Highly customized, great components, no crapware. Not really much more expensive, either. MSI was also good last time I bought one. Not 100% free of 3rd party stuff, but very little and none of it real crapware.
Vote with your wallet.
This guy makes up shit left and right and passes it off as truth.
Not saying there's any validity to this story (it sounds like BS to me) but you can get shredders that shred to various standards. Fellowes sells shredders that are strip cut, cross cut, and micro cut (more or less makes powder). The reason is because the more intense the cut, the less amount of paper a given size of motor can handle. For example take three of their shredders, all with the same basic build and model number. The strip cut version can do 21 sheets at a time, the cross cut 14, the micro cut 10. Same motor, same general construction, only difference is the blade assembly.
It has nothing to do with size either. You can find large ones that are strip cut. Fellowes has a 35 sheet strip cut commercial model they sell (costs about $4k). The more you want the paper cut up, the more blades you have to have, thus the more resistance, thus the less it can handle at once.
As such businesses may choose the higher capacity, but less secure, shredders for some documents. They also cost less to buy.
That's also why micro cut shredders have never become all that popular. Their cost goes up again because of the more blades and they can't handle a lot at once.