No, it really is a problem for his suppliers. I brought the site I work on into compliance with EU waste regulations and one of the principles is that waste remains the responsibility of the producer. If the Waste Transfer Notes for the shipments said the containers were full of recyclable plastic then the person who shipped the waste in good faith isn't liable.
Given the volume of waste involved then this looks like a screw-up at a waste management company somewhere. Quite how they could've mixed up plastic with hazardous waste (two sets of regulations!) I have no idea. Still, whoever produced the waste (probably several organisations) should be very worried. Waste remains the responsibility of the producer until final disposal!
No, the point is they can't sue you. The legal term is "Promissory Estoppel" and given the terms of the Community Promise this means Microsoft can't ever sue you for doing stuff under the relevant ECMA specifications.
Of course, this still isn't GPL compatible because of the insistence that any implementation remains compatible with the specification. Mono /.NET still remains a threat to free software. All Microsoft are doing here is permitting free re-implementations of their platform, they are denying the right of the community to extend their platform in other directions.
would people who are good at math, answer the question differently from everyone else? [...] it is a fact, not an opinion, that people with self-reported higher math skills are more likely to pick that as the correct choice.
You might be good at maths but you seem to be terrible at science. You can't demonstrate you collected results from anybody who was actually any good at maths, you just got a bunch of responses from people who thought they were good at maths. Maybe people with such a self perception are also more likely to pick views that are opposed to what they think most people will think in order to further demonstrate their superiority?
I think your study is quite interesting but it doesn't mean what you think it means. It also has an awfully small sample size.
On the other hand, games compete with films -- quite a few of those PS3 owners do not own a single Blu-Ray movie.
PS3 has the opposite problem, there are more people with films and no games than there are with games and no films. That's part of the reason behind the PS3's awful attach rate.
N.B. Those calculations for attach rate are based off NPD sales figures which are only relevant for North American and don't include downloadable games from PSN which is a big thing because PSN has some gems that've done gangbusters.
It's great as a BD player. The interface is OK with the controller (once you figure out what buttons map to pause / play / rewind / etc) and if using a controller bugs you then get the remote.
I own three BDs and am satisfied with the PS3. This article is a load of bull, BD won the format wars because of the PS3. Trying to separate out the PS3s and claim that HDDVD somehow won because PS3 is a games console is silly. Sony is having more of a problem getting PS3 owners to buy games than buy BDs!
Also, meatspace is likely to rise the ire of PETA and we don't want them campaigning on that: Meat is murder so therefore this is murderspace! Kill everyone!!
As bad as our health care system is here in the UK, you'd never wait months for a scan after a high speed crash.
Also, most of the scare stories about NICE have no basis in fact or are trying to second guess the clinical judgements NICE have made. This tends to happen a lot with breast cancer drugs, I can think of an occasion a couple of years ago (can't remember the drug) where a breast cancer patients group was campaigning against a NICE decision not to allow them a new drug. NICE had worked out that the benefit to patient outcomes compared to alternative treatments was barely significant but the cost of the new drug was a lot more, so they decided it shouldn't be used.
HMOs in the USA make exactly the same sort of judgements on the same sort of evidence.
And for the queries that I like to make, it doesn't do any better job of finding things than the older MS search did.
I'd also like an example to prove that. Before Google, Altavista was generally considered the best search engine. Google would generally find the result you wanted (something good enough to to stop you from searching more) within the first 20 results whereas AV would take up to 200. It was a straight up order-of-magnitude improvement!
They even had the balls to include that "I feel lucky" button! Having an appropriate (let alone the best) result come back as the first page was pretty rare back when Google launched its beta all those years ago!
Sorry, are you really that incapable of clear thinking? This is not about copyright infringement, nor would your hypothetical situation be.
Yes, it is and yes, it would be.
The original firmware is copyrighted by Sony. Cisco IOS is copyrighted by Cisco. You're allowed to change the firmware on your WRT54GL (best home wifi router, ever!) because it's GPL.
Distributing modified versions of copyright firmware without a license from the copyright holder is infringement.
Your point about how people should be allowed to run custom firmware is irrelevant. If that is what was going on with the PSP people wouldn't be complaining about infringement, it's because these firmwares are hacked Sony firmwares that people are unhappy.
How do you think computer forensics happen currently? They copy your drives. Sure, the computers they use could contaminate your drive but that's a risk for all forensics, be it DNA / fingerprint / whatever.
The point is that the forensic science service would be using a standard bit of kit so, if you knew your computer didn't have whatever they found on it, examining the kit they used and claiming contamination would be a defence option open to you.
The situation was that people were remaining silent until they reached court and then producing alibis in court. This made it impossible for the CPS to prosecute defendants as the jury weren't allowed to be instructed that that was suspicious.
Now the situation is that if you wind up in court and go "I was round at my mate Joe's place" they can come back and say "why didn't you tell us this before? Aren't you just making that up at the last minute to stop a proper investigation?" and the judge can instruct the jury that remaining silent and then producing evidence at trial is suspicious.
All strategy game AI does this. At least the Civilisation games have always been honest about it, they even tell you how much the AI cheats at various difficulty levels.
At the higher difficulties the productions bonuses awarded to the AIs made military victory impossible. The only reason you'd want to play at such a high difficulty is to play the diplomatic game.
There really was such a thing, it was called Legacy PnP and was targeted at ISA devices! That's where the old-skool "Plug and Pray" moniker comes from as, because it was attempting to automatically configure devices that weren't designed with PnP in mind, it quite often allocated impossible I/O ranges and IRQs.
Amateur criminals will always be funny. The real joke here is that the thief didn't pass the laptop onto a fence straight away, keeping and using things you've stolen is the dumbest thing to do if you're a thief!
Of course the real genius behind this is that by detaining this guy they've drawn more attention to the existence of drugs that can remove your fingerprints. Now terrorists and other criminals can safely travel by claiming they've recently had cancer, no more suspicious acid burns on your fingertips!
I had a problem, common across several makes of cheap PnP ISA NE2000 clones, where sometimes Win9{5,8} would nuke the card upon installation, leaving it inaccessible from either Linux or DOS. It'd take several reboots and much arsing around to get it back to its default settings.
The solution was to just turn off PnP in the BIOS.
Those are exactly the reasons why you'd want to write a shim. Often it's just easier found out the part of a PE that's causing a problem and then write a hack for it. MS does exactly that for massive numbers of popular applications, it's how the Windows Application Compatibility Layer works.
That might sound crazy but it's actually the least bad choice. It means they can keep compatibility cruft out of mainline development meaning apps written and tested for Vista / Win7 will work because they're written The Right Way.
I am reticent to buy a new gaming computer simply for what amounts to a passing phase.
Clearly this setup is just going to be used infrequently as a distraction from the otherwise non-stop sex this couple is having. This is to be expected considering the couple is still only engaged.
After a few years of marriage I'm sure True Vox will be back asking for the cheapest build that will run "The Sims 3" and all possible future expansions so that he can get some time away from the woman he clearly loves and to stop the arguments about whether she gets to play The Sims or he gets to play Team Fortress 2.
I'm reading the documentation right now, but I'm curious if it resolves the security problems. I'm guessing that a shimmed app is running in a sandbox? Or is the shimmed app given fully elevated privileges so that if gets compromised, the exploit code can still own the system?
Neither. The shim code just lies to the app and says it has admin rights, it's just like fakeroot in Unix.
You then write code in the shim to intercept any calls that really require admin rights and deal with them appropriately. If it's something dumb like wanting to write to something in the Programme Files directory you can redirect it to the users home dir. If it's something that really requires admin then you can ask for it and the user gets a UAC prompt.
And how is that different then friends running windows calling you at 2am?
Because:
I had promised to help him whenever he had problems.
I was young, naive and did the "switch to Linux! It's easy! I'll help you with any problems you have!" thing.
I think he still uses Fedora as his primary desktop now, many years later. It worked out in the end but it was far more work than I expected, so think twice about converting your non-techie friends to Linux!
n.b. "Windows Power Users" are non-techie. Real nerds convert themselves to Unix!
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No, it really is a problem for his suppliers. I brought the site I work on into compliance with EU waste regulations and one of the principles is that waste remains the responsibility of the producer. If the Waste Transfer Notes for the shipments said the containers were full of recyclable plastic then the person who shipped the waste in good faith isn't liable.
Given the volume of waste involved then this looks like a screw-up at a waste management company somewhere. Quite how they could've mixed up plastic with hazardous waste (two sets of regulations!) I have no idea. Still, whoever produced the waste (probably several organisations) should be very worried. Waste remains the responsibility of the producer until final disposal!
No, the point is they can't sue you. The legal term is "Promissory Estoppel" and given the terms of the Community Promise this means Microsoft can't ever sue you for doing stuff under the relevant ECMA specifications.
Of course, this still isn't GPL compatible because of the insistence that any implementation remains compatible with the specification. Mono / .NET still remains a threat to free software. All Microsoft are doing here is permitting free re-implementations of their platform, they are denying the right of the community to extend their platform in other directions.
would people who are good at math, answer the question differently from everyone else? [...] it is a fact, not an opinion, that people with self-reported higher math skills are more likely to pick that as the correct choice.
You might be good at maths but you seem to be terrible at science. You can't demonstrate you collected results from anybody who was actually any good at maths, you just got a bunch of responses from people who thought they were good at maths. Maybe people with such a self perception are also more likely to pick views that are opposed to what they think most people will think in order to further demonstrate their superiority?
I think your study is quite interesting but it doesn't mean what you think it means. It also has an awfully small sample size.
On the other hand, games compete with films -- quite a few of those PS3 owners do not own a single Blu-Ray movie.
PS3 has the opposite problem, there are more people with films and no games than there are with games and no films. That's part of the reason behind the PS3's awful attach rate.
N.B. Those calculations for attach rate are based off NPD sales figures which are only relevant for North American and don't include downloadable games from PSN which is a big thing because PSN has some gems that've done gangbusters.
It's great as a BD player. The interface is OK with the controller (once you figure out what buttons map to pause / play / rewind / etc) and if using a controller bugs you then get the remote.
I own three BDs and am satisfied with the PS3. This article is a load of bull, BD won the format wars because of the PS3. Trying to separate out the PS3s and claim that HDDVD somehow won because PS3 is a games console is silly. Sony is having more of a problem getting PS3 owners to buy games than buy BDs!
Also, meatspace is likely to rise the ire of PETA and we don't want them campaigning on that: Meat is murder so therefore this is murderspace! Kill everyone!!
As bad as our health care system is here in the UK, you'd never wait months for a scan after a high speed crash.
Also, most of the scare stories about NICE have no basis in fact or are trying to second guess the clinical judgements NICE have made. This tends to happen a lot with breast cancer drugs, I can think of an occasion a couple of years ago (can't remember the drug) where a breast cancer patients group was campaigning against a NICE decision not to allow them a new drug. NICE had worked out that the benefit to patient outcomes compared to alternative treatments was barely significant but the cost of the new drug was a lot more, so they decided it shouldn't be used.
HMOs in the USA make exactly the same sort of judgements on the same sort of evidence.
And for the queries that I like to make, it doesn't do any better job of finding things than the older MS search did.
I'd also like an example to prove that. Before Google, Altavista was generally considered the best search engine. Google would generally find the result you wanted (something good enough to to stop you from searching more) within the first 20 results whereas AV would take up to 200. It was a straight up order-of-magnitude improvement!
They even had the balls to include that "I feel lucky" button! Having an appropriate (let alone the best) result come back as the first page was pretty rare back when Google launched its beta all those years ago!
Although I do see your point about TFS on /. ;)
Sorry, are you really that incapable of clear thinking? This is not about copyright infringement, nor would your hypothetical situation be.
Yes, it is and yes, it would be.
The original firmware is copyrighted by Sony. Cisco IOS is copyrighted by Cisco. You're allowed to change the firmware on your WRT54GL (best home wifi router, ever!) because it's GPL.
Distributing modified versions of copyright firmware without a license from the copyright holder is infringement.
Your point about how people should be allowed to run custom firmware is irrelevant. If that is what was going on with the PSP people wouldn't be complaining about infringement, it's because these firmwares are hacked Sony firmwares that people are unhappy.
But it was OK for men to hold hands in public.
That could just mean MDMA is OK in India :)
How do you think computer forensics happen currently? They copy your drives. Sure, the computers they use could contaminate your drive but that's a risk for all forensics, be it DNA / fingerprint / whatever.
The point is that the forensic science service would be using a standard bit of kit so, if you knew your computer didn't have whatever they found on it, examining the kit they used and claiming contamination would be a defence option open to you.
The situation was that people were remaining silent until they reached court and then producing alibis in court. This made it impossible for the CPS to prosecute defendants as the jury weren't allowed to be instructed that that was suspicious.
Now the situation is that if you wind up in court and go "I was round at my mate Joe's place" they can come back and say "why didn't you tell us this before? Aren't you just making that up at the last minute to stop a proper investigation?" and the judge can instruct the jury that remaining silent and then producing evidence at trial is suspicious.
All strategy game AI does this. At least the Civilisation games have always been honest about it, they even tell you how much the AI cheats at various difficulty levels.
At the higher difficulties the productions bonuses awarded to the AIs made military victory impossible. The only reason you'd want to play at such a high difficulty is to play the diplomatic game.
There really was such a thing, it was called Legacy PnP and was targeted at ISA devices! That's where the old-skool "Plug and Pray" moniker comes from as, because it was attempting to automatically configure devices that weren't designed with PnP in mind, it quite often allocated impossible I/O ranges and IRQs.
Amateur criminals will always be funny. The real joke here is that the thief didn't pass the laptop onto a fence straight away, keeping and using things you've stolen is the dumbest thing to do if you're a thief!
Of course the real genius behind this is that by detaining this guy they've drawn more attention to the existence of drugs that can remove your fingerprints. Now terrorists and other criminals can safely travel by claiming they've recently had cancer, no more suspicious acid burns on your fingertips!
I had a problem, common across several makes of cheap PnP ISA NE2000 clones, where sometimes Win9{5,8} would nuke the card upon installation, leaving it inaccessible from either Linux or DOS. It'd take several reboots and much arsing around to get it back to its default settings.
The solution was to just turn off PnP in the BIOS.
Right, so as long as I avoid code 3 or 7 I won't die. All I have to do is stick to normal soda bottles and I'll live to see the end of time!
Those are exactly the reasons why you'd want to write a shim. Often it's just easier found out the part of a PE that's causing a problem and then write a hack for it. MS does exactly that for massive numbers of popular applications, it's how the Windows Application Compatibility Layer works.
That might sound crazy but it's actually the least bad choice. It means they can keep compatibility cruft out of mainline development meaning apps written and tested for Vista / Win7 will work because they're written The Right Way.
From the summary:
I am reticent to buy a new gaming computer simply for what amounts to a passing phase.
Clearly this setup is just going to be used infrequently as a distraction from the otherwise non-stop sex this couple is having. This is to be expected considering the couple is still only engaged.
After a few years of marriage I'm sure True Vox will be back asking for the cheapest build that will run "The Sims 3" and all possible future expansions so that he can get some time away from the woman he clearly loves and to stop the arguments about whether she gets to play The Sims or he gets to play Team Fortress 2.
I'm reading the documentation right now, but I'm curious if it resolves the security problems. I'm guessing that a shimmed app is running in a sandbox? Or is the shimmed app given fully elevated privileges so that if gets compromised, the exploit code can still own the system?
Neither. The shim code just lies to the app and says it has admin rights, it's just like fakeroot in Unix.
You then write code in the shim to intercept any calls that really require admin rights and deal with them appropriately. If it's something dumb like wanting to write to something in the Programme Files directory you can redirect it to the users home dir. If it's something that really requires admin then you can ask for it and the user gets a UAC prompt.
You're wrong. I cant be bothered to provide any support for my assertion but then neither could you.
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And how is that different then friends running windows calling you at 2am?
Because:
I had promised to help him whenever he had problems.
I was young, naive and did the "switch to Linux! It's easy! I'll help you with any problems you have!" thing.
I think he still uses Fedora as his primary desktop now, many years later. It worked out in the end but it was far more work than I expected, so think twice about converting your non-techie friends to Linux!
n.b. "Windows Power Users" are non-techie. Real nerds convert themselves to Unix!