There is nothing "fundamental" about selling softwares---bunches of codes that can be copied at a fraction of a cent. There might be question whether a completed software becomes public good or private property, but that's far from being settled...
Big shocker that this garbage is coming out of Berkeley. First of all, you equate the value of software to the cost of duplicating it. Pretty convenient that you can ignore the cost of creating it in the first place. And as for software being a public or private good, that's why we have licenses. If you create the software, you get to decide which license to use. What an amazing system!
Informative? If you bet $237 on red and black, if it comes up red, you lose $237 and win $237. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. You might as well have NOT BET AT ALL. The same if comes up black.
That's the point. He wants to convert $500 of non-cashable chips into $500 of cashable chips. He's trying to break even.
Can anyone please tell me why people "hack" or "phish" or anything that is used for malicious activity?
I'm not trying to start an argument, I seriously want to know why some people spend so much time trying to make others lives miserable.
Money.
Think for a minute why it would be beneficial to the bad guys to have people logging into their site with valid PayPal usernames and passwords.
You probably don't even have to get an employee involved, since a lot of larger stores (Target for instance) have barcode scanners set out specifically for the customers to do their own price checks.
Print off a list of all the products you want to check, and take care of it in one trip.
So? Do advertisers care that the content of a page is factual? They want people to see their ads and buy things. Who cares what's on the page as long as millions of people view it. (Yes, I know that the ads are targtted based on the content of the page. Being fake or not doesn't change that target market though.)
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The Javascript is ripped to shreds as far as readability goes, but buried in there somewhere is the key to making your own app based on this. If you were so inclined to piggy-back on top of this technology. Not that I'd advocate such things.
That's just a convenience for the software though. You aren't required to send the "---BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE---" part if you don't want to. As long as your recipient still knows what to do with the message you can communicate.
Is there any way to acutally prove that a message is encrypted, as opposed to being just random garbage data that two people happened to mail to each other?
I realize that the chances of a judge buying this is going to be small, but is there a defense there? Wouldn't someone have to be able to produce the plaintext first, before they could claim that you were trying to send encrypted messages?
I never said it should be an entitlement. Why did AOL hire them in the first place if they didn't need 950 employees? Being an employer carries a responsibility.
The responsibility they have is to the share holders. As an employee, if you don't understand that, it's your own fault.
What's the point? 950 regular employees were just laid off for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER. What's going to stop the next employer from doing the same thing?
The free market system and a desire to finish IT projects and turn profits? Just a guess, since most corporations (you know, thos big evil things you blindly hate) need to employ people in order to get anything done.
SOAP uses HTTP as a transport layer option (usually). The reason why the added complexity is worth it is because it allows client applications to do things like "float temp = weatherSerivce.getTemp(cityID);" much more easily. (Note: I completely made up that example, but it's similar to what would actually be used.) The point is that the client doesn't really have to know and/or care that "weatherService" isn't a local call. The client also doesn't need to care that it's running Java locally and the server is running.NET (or whatever else it might be using).
SOAP is just a piece of the larger and much more complicated Web Services unbrella. Understanding all of the specs involved is a huge task, but you can do some client-side tutorials that will explain quite a bit of the basics anyway. Most of the real work is done on the server, so if you ignore that bit of it to start with, the learning curve isn't anywhere near as steep. The Apache Axis project is a decent starting point, if you just want to play around with the technology. Installing Axis into Tomcat is about a minutes worth of effort, then you can spend hours exploring the various documents, examples, and tutorials.
If a woman is beaten by her husband, it's her fault for not leaving him?
The first time? No. The second time? Yeah, she's stupid for still being there. At some point you have to take responsibility for own situation in life. Or you could cry and be miserable. I guess that's a valid choice for some.
There's a second audience for this memo, too: lawmakers. EA is begging the GOP to give it legislation that will protect its massive profits from the fair and just demands of its workforce. I bet they get it. This will be a useful lesson for the right wing kids--and for right wing adults--who are going to discover first-hand what they've voted for: their own economic exploitation.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that someone has a gun to the employees' heads forcing them to work at EA, which is absurd. If a company is that bad to work for, it's not going to find the best talent. They'll be working elsewhere.
If the employees are being exploited, it's their own fault for staying there.
That's not really the point. For most users, even those who understand how and why to use PGP for their email, it's just too much of a hassle. This is aimed at companies that want their email secured, without having to trust the users to actually do it properly.
You can still add on your own encryption outside of this system if you are extra paranoid.
29. A computer system for conducting electronic commerce, comprising: a data component for storing information relating to a plurality of electronic commerce contexts for a user, the information relating to electronic commerce conducted while in that electronic commerce context; a component that receives from the user a selection of one of the plurality of electronic commerce contexts; and a component that, after receiving the selection of the one of the plurality of electronic commerce contexts, conducts electronic commerce with the user and stores information relating to the conducted electronic commerce in association with the selected electronic commerce context.
They are obviously trying to confuse a non-technical reader (like, say, someone in the patent office). All these words to say that you get to click on one of your shopping carts to check-out.
They can't even say "shopping cart". It's the all important, and brand new, "electronic commerce context." Ooooo.
Communications were maintained via (1) the omnidirectional and medium-gain antennas which operated together while connected to one receiver and (2) the high-gain antenna which was connected to another receiver. These receivers could be interchanged by command to provide some redundancy. Two radio transmitters, coupled to two traveling-wave tube amplifiers, produced 8 W at 2292 MHz each. Uplink was accomplished at 2110 MHz, while data transmission downlink was at 2292 MHz. The data were received by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) at bit rates up to 2048 bps enroute to Jupiter and at 16 bps near end of the mission.
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There is nothing "fundamental" about selling softwares---bunches of codes that can be copied at a fraction of a cent. There might be question whether a completed software becomes public good or private property, but that's far from being settled...
Big shocker that this garbage is coming out of Berkeley. First of all, you equate the value of software to the cost of duplicating it. Pretty convenient that you can ignore the cost of creating it in the first place. And as for software being a public or private good, that's why we have licenses. If you create the software, you get to decide which license to use. What an amazing system!
Serious question. Can anyone tell what this could possibly have to do with online rights?
Informative? If you bet $237 on red and black, if it comes up red, you lose $237 and win $237. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. You might as well have NOT BET AT ALL. The same if comes up black.
That's the point. He wants to convert $500 of non-cashable chips into $500 of cashable chips. He's trying to break even.
Can anyone please tell me why people "hack" or "phish" or anything that is used for malicious activity? I'm not trying to start an argument, I seriously want to know why some people spend so much time trying to make others lives miserable.
Money.
Think for a minute why it would be beneficial to the bad guys to have people logging into their site with valid PayPal usernames and passwords.
You probably don't even have to get an employee involved, since a lot of larger stores (Target for instance) have barcode scanners set out specifically for the customers to do their own price checks.
Print off a list of all the products you want to check, and take care of it in one trip.
Google ads on his page weren't a hoax tho
So? Do advertisers care that the content of a page is factual? They want people to see their ads and buy things. Who cares what's on the page as long as millions of people view it. (Yes, I know that the ads are targtted based on the content of the page. Being fake or not doesn't change that target market though.)
http://www.google.com/ac.js
The Javascript is ripped to shreds as far as readability goes, but buried in there somewhere is the key to making your own app based on this. If you were so inclined to piggy-back on top of this technology. Not that I'd advocate such things.
That's just a convenience for the software though. You aren't required to send the "---BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE---" part if you don't want to. As long as your recipient still knows what to do with the message you can communicate.
Is there any way to acutally prove that a message is encrypted, as opposed to being just random garbage data that two people happened to mail to each other?
I realize that the chances of a judge buying this is going to be small, but is there a defense there? Wouldn't someone have to be able to produce the plaintext first, before they could claim that you were trying to send encrypted messages?
...what are the chances that it's going to hold up to millions of email clients all trying to access keys at once?
Try reading the article next time. They explicitly state that the PalmOS source code is not being released as open source.
The responsibility they have is to the share holders. As an employee, if you don't understand that, it's your own fault.
What's the point? 950 regular employees were just laid off for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER. What's going to stop the next employer from doing the same thing?
The free market system and a desire to finish IT projects and turn profits? Just a guess, since most corporations (you know, thos big evil things you blindly hate) need to employ people in order to get anything done.
SOAP uses HTTP as a transport layer option (usually). The reason why the added complexity is worth it is because it allows client applications to do things like "float temp = weatherSerivce.getTemp(cityID);" much more easily. (Note: I completely made up that example, but it's similar to what would actually be used.) The point is that the client doesn't really have to know and/or care that "weatherService" isn't a local call. The client also doesn't need to care that it's running Java locally and the server is running .NET (or whatever else it might be using).
SOAP is just a piece of the larger and much more complicated Web Services unbrella. Understanding all of the specs involved is a huge task, but you can do some client-side tutorials that will explain quite a bit of the basics anyway. Most of the real work is done on the server, so if you ignore that bit of it to start with, the learning curve isn't anywhere near as steep. The Apache Axis project is a decent starting point, if you just want to play around with the technology. Installing Axis into Tomcat is about a minutes worth of effort, then you can spend hours exploring the various documents, examples, and tutorials.
The first time? No. The second time? Yeah, she's stupid for still being there. At some point you have to take responsibility for own situation in life. Or you could cry and be miserable. I guess that's a valid choice for some.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that someone has a gun to the employees' heads forcing them to work at EA, which is absurd. If a company is that bad to work for, it's not going to find the best talent. They'll be working elsewhere.
If the employees are being exploited, it's their own fault for staying there.
At least temporarily. The default is now the old groups, with a link to a preview of the beta version.
"As sharp as a sack of wet mice."
That's not really the point. For most users, even those who understand how and why to use PGP for their email, it's just too much of a hassle. This is aimed at companies that want their email secured, without having to trust the users to actually do it properly.
You can still add on your own encryption outside of this system if you are extra paranoid.
Sounds like a nerd garage band.
29. A computer system for conducting electronic commerce, comprising: a data component for storing information relating to a plurality of electronic commerce contexts for a user, the information relating to electronic commerce conducted while in that electronic commerce context; a component that receives from the user a selection of one of the plurality of electronic commerce contexts; and a component that, after receiving the selection of the one of the plurality of electronic commerce contexts, conducts electronic commerce with the user and stores information relating to the conducted electronic commerce in association with the selected electronic commerce context.
They are obviously trying to confuse a non-technical reader (like, say, someone in the patent office). All these words to say that you get to click on one of your shopping carts to check-out.
They can't even say "shopping cart". It's the all important, and brand new, "electronic commerce context." Ooooo.
But honey, I swear that the DVD player just started pumping out pron on its own!
If you're assuming that, you didn't read the link. It clearly states that the figures are in 2001 US dollars.
Communications were maintained via (1) the omnidirectional and medium-gain antennas which operated together while connected to one receiver and (2) the high-gain antenna which was connected to another receiver. These receivers could be interchanged by command to provide some redundancy. Two radio transmitters, coupled to two traveling-wave tube amplifiers, produced 8 W at 2292 MHz each. Uplink was accomplished at 2110 MHz, while data transmission downlink was at 2292 MHz. The data were received by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) at bit rates up to 2048 bps enroute to Jupiter and at 16 bps near end of the mission.
Exactly. Pioneer 10 cost ~$200 million to design and build, plus another ~$150 million to launch and operate. Here's more information on it.