In which case it makes more sense to fix the OS. Especially with a multi platform application
or if the application could simply do it better?
It isn't the application's job to do it in the first place. Even if it can "do it better" for certain cases it may well do considerably worst in other (possibly more common) cases.
That's a slippery slope you're on (but kudos for all the qualifiers). Do I have this correct? Is the argument that because *some* people are inherently prone to addiction to X, nobody should have access to X? We (USians) tried that with alcohol and we're trying it with "drugs" -- now we're going into the same pit with games?
A basic problem with drug prohibition is that the "cure" is worst that the "disease". Which is something which was never learned from alcohol prohibition. Though it's difficult to know how what might be similar between ingested drugs and games.
Better be careful or that game of Operation might turn your kid into a sadist.
Or Dungeons and Dragons might turn them into a Satanist...
It's not enough to prevent Madoff from committing another swindle. You have to make other people think the consequences of getting caught are sufficiently bad that they don't want to take that risk. If the consequence to people like Madoff is living in luxury of the rest of your life other people won't be deterred. Hence jail is appropriate for some non-violent offenders. I think the distinction might be more useful if it were between victimless crimes and crimes with victims. There were many victims of Madoff's actions.
Madoff probably wouldn't be "living in luxury" after paying reparations to his victims anyway. Even if he did have money left over afterwards there are plenty of laws which allow for the state to confiscate that. Isn't living out the rest of their life in poverty something which would deter a criminal used to luxury?
Other way around. The Gov has to justify hiding information from people. The excuses he gives are moot since someone can just get the address and drive there anyways.
Maybe instead he should wear glasses which blur his vision. This would be far cheaper for one thing.
My experience with Firefox somehow differs a bit from yours. I used to see Firefox spend a lot of time in DNS queries for *everything*. Even if it's a host I just visited about a minute before. As a result I set up dnsmasq running on my computer and modified/etc/hosts so that every query goes through the local DNS cache. It's been working pretty well since. The wait time is dramatically reduced.
Of course Firefox is not all to blame for the slow DNS but it shouldn't be making queries *that* often either, IMHO. BR>Actually it probably doing exactly what it should be doing. It's the job of the OS to manage the details of DNS resolution. Having applications do things like caching DNS lookups adds complexity to the application and causes all sorts of problems when they application writer dosn't know exactly what they are doing.
I worked in an environment like this--500+ "desktops" running a mix of Solaris64, Solaris, SCO, SunOS, and HP/UX). We used cfengine, automounter, and a bunch of file servers for the different environments (compilers, perl, GNU utilities, etc.) NIS tied it all together. This was back in 1996. Why is this so hard for the OP _today_?
Probably because certain skillsets are less common than they were in the past. You also have different working practices...
Multiply this by about 500 machines, and then the ability to later on down the road be able to change it without having to completely redo them or find some screwed up roundabout way to push out to every machine via scripts...
Which is not very difficult. Though there's no reason this has to be "push" rather than "pull".
Proxy, if the user can change it... they will. And since the firewall is now blocking their access, that's a call for support because the internet is down. They'll claim they didn't change anything and/or won't know how to re-enable the proxy settings.
It isn't that hard to have a script run on either login or browser start which ensures that the correct settings are in place. Even if they can find a way to change the settings they won't stay changed...
I think the complaint of the MCPs is Microsoft is demanding payment for product the customer isn't paying for. Specifically, my impression is that Microsoft wants to be payed for the full 3 year contract (over 3 years), even though the customer that purchased the software went bankrupt after the first year.
Probably because that was the deal they made with Microsoft. Just because a company's customers havn't paid (for any reason) this does not affect any contracts they have with their suppliers. There is nothing special about MCPs here. They have the same options as any other business in this kind of situation...
Now, before you come up with a new claim, please answer this: If the UK government cared about hostile people seeing these subs, why didn't they build a roof over the dock, or put up walls blocking the view from publicly accessible roads? If you aren't afraid of nations that can afford satellites, buy imagery, or from nations that can get a spy to drive down a public road, then clearly you don't value protecting something all that much.
Train tickets, boats and even aircraft are a lot more easily obtainable than satellites. The Google image shows plenty of water traffic on the lake.
Having an interest is more than just wanting the information so you can strike back. If they have 4 nuclear subs, and all 4 are docked, then you know that you don't have to worry about their submarine-launched cruise missiles for a certain period of time.
In which case it might make more sense to alter the image so that it appears that at least 5 are docked at all times:)
For instance, UPS sends revenue for it's package insurance branch offshore. This procedure is commonly called money laundering, which is commonly used for all sorts of illicit activity. By allowing legitimate business to launder money, we make it harder to stop not so legitimate businesses from doing so, as the legitimate infrastructure already exists. Furthermore, UPS does not pay taxes on that laundered money, which means that for every soldiers, for instance, are funded at lower level than they would be if UPS did pay it taxes.
On the other hand governments frequently fund terrorists from tax revenue. So taking money away from the worst offenders may be a net gain.
If they had no problem buying it with their own money, why should they get a handout?
It's probably the companies who sell and make the boxes who are getting the biggest handouts. Since it's likely that the coupon value represents the lowest selling price. Even if it were possible to make a profit with a cheaper price.
This will now entice the mpaa to start investing heavily in time machines to go back and capture these people. With all the money they will invest time machines should be popping up any year now! (stay away from the dynex brand timemachine its known to have a few bugs)
They also may want to avoid using any time machine which only transports living tissue. Turning up to arrest people unarmed and naked probably won't work too well and sending killer androids after them is probably a little excessive.
This is great. I love any news from anything to do with the entertainment industry or DMCA etc... I have this mental picture : RIAA and their pocket officials: Calling all cars! Calling all cars! All units be on the lookout for movie patron sitting in row 23, seat 4B at Cinimax on main street. Subject was last known to have watched Star Wars 7 months ago. Description? Well, just go to the theater and arrest everyone. Someone is bound to confess to something!
That would do for an opening scene of a movie, keep going:) The idea may even be good for several movies.
Yeah, they forgot the one damn thing about watermarking: either the signal can't be watermarked without audible artifacts, or else the wartermark can be removed without any.
There's no middle ground. They might as well declare war on the Nyquist-Shannon theorem.
"They" have already done this with DRM, which requires magic. Possibly these people honestly believe that "Hollywood physics" applies in the real world. However the inaudible and unremovable "audio watermark" idea may not be suitable for Mythbusters.
Dude, those are leaked DVD screeners. It's pretty easy to get free movies if you're involved in the periphery of the industry. I have like 50 legitimate DVD screeners right next to me.
Are these burned or pressed? If the latter then there's more possibilities for copies/contents to be "leaked".
The real issue (apart from the problems in actually tracking all users and treating them like criminals) is whether there might not be more constructive ways for the movie industry to spend their money?
One brilliant idea might be to give scriptwriters the money to write better scripts that are actually worth the cost of the ticket.
They could even get the same people who come up with these "piracy prevention" ideas to write some scripts.
I have copies of Bolt and Quantum of Solace. Neither are out on DVD yet.
There's a difference between "not out of DVD" and "DVDs havn't been made yet". Once you have huge quantities of bits of plastic spread about the planet.
In fact, depending where you live you might be able to download a foreign DVDRip long before it even comes on at the local cinema.
The DVDs may even have been produced before the "release date". The factory pressing the DVDs is unlikely to disrupt their schedule if some actor can't make it to the "premiere".
If you don't know who sat in which seat on what showing on what date, knowing which seat a video was shot from isn't going to help you.
It will tell you where the microphone used to record the sound was. An obvious subversion method would be to put a classic "bug" on an empty seat. You might also need to have a cloakroom since it's no doubt possible that a jacket draped over an unoccupied seat could contain some kind of AV recorder:)
Since the studios are getting all the ticket money without actually owning or running any of the theaters, it creates a situation which can come up with bizarre ideas like this which have no regard for the practicalities of actually running a theater.
Or that when designing the accoustics of such a room you want to ensure that a person's seat position affects their "audio experience" as little as possible.
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What if the OS isn't doing a good job of it
In which case it makes more sense to fix the OS. Especially with a multi platform application
or if the application could simply do it better?
It isn't the application's job to do it in the first place. Even if it can "do it better" for certain cases it may well do considerably worst in other (possibly more common) cases.
Madoff may have no money at the end of this, but how much will his wife and family have? Will they kick him to the curb? I doubt it.
If they have their own money then they will be fine. Otherwise they were living of the procedes of crime in the first place.
That's a slippery slope you're on (but kudos for all the qualifiers). Do I have this correct? Is the argument that because *some* people are inherently prone to addiction to X, nobody should have access to X? We (USians) tried that with alcohol and we're trying it with "drugs" -- now we're going into the same pit with games?
A basic problem with drug prohibition is that the "cure" is worst that the "disease". Which is something which was never learned from alcohol prohibition. Though it's difficult to know how what might be similar between ingested drugs and games.
Better be careful or that game of Operation might turn your kid into a sadist.
Or Dungeons and Dragons might turn them into a Satanist...
It's not enough to prevent Madoff from committing another swindle. You have to make other people think the consequences of getting caught are sufficiently bad that they don't want to take that risk. If the consequence to people like Madoff is living in luxury of the rest of your life other people won't be deterred. Hence jail is appropriate for some non-violent offenders. I think the distinction might be more useful if it were between victimless crimes and crimes with victims. There were many victims of Madoff's actions.
Madoff probably wouldn't be "living in luxury" after paying reparations to his victims anyway. Even if he did have money left over afterwards there are plenty of laws which allow for the state to confiscate that. Isn't living out the rest of their life in poverty something which would deter a criminal used to luxury?
Other way around. The Gov has to justify hiding information from people. The excuses he gives are moot since someone can just get the address and drive there anyways.
Maybe instead he should wear glasses which blur his vision. This would be far cheaper for one thing.
My experience with Firefox somehow differs a bit from yours. I used to see Firefox spend a lot of time in DNS queries for *everything*. Even if it's a host I just visited about a minute before. As a result I set up dnsmasq running on my computer and modified /etc/hosts so that every query goes through the local DNS cache. It's been working pretty well since. The wait time is dramatically reduced.
Of course Firefox is not all to blame for the slow DNS but it shouldn't be making queries *that* often either, IMHO.
BR>Actually it probably doing exactly what it should be doing. It's the job of the OS to manage the details of DNS resolution. Having applications do things like caching DNS lookups adds complexity to the application and causes all sorts of problems when they application writer dosn't know exactly what they are doing.
I worked in an environment like this--500+ "desktops" running a mix of Solaris64, Solaris, SCO, SunOS, and HP/UX). We used cfengine, automounter, and a bunch of file servers for the different environments (compilers, perl, GNU utilities, etc.) NIS tied it all together. This was back in 1996. Why is this so hard for the OP _today_?
Probably because certain skillsets are less common than they were in the past. You also have different working practices...
Multiply this by about 500 machines, and then the ability to later on down the road be able to change it without having to completely redo them or find some screwed up roundabout way to push out to every machine via scripts...
Which is not very difficult. Though there's no reason this has to be "push" rather than "pull".
Proxy, if the user can change it... they will. And since the firewall is now blocking their access, that's a call for support because the internet is down. They'll claim they didn't change anything and/or won't know how to re-enable the proxy settings.
It isn't that hard to have a script run on either login or browser start which ensures that the correct settings are in place. Even if they can find a way to change the settings they won't stay changed...
Then how do we prevent people from bringing in USB printers from home and connecting them locally?
Only a big issue if you need to support "official" USB printers...
I think the complaint of the MCPs is Microsoft is demanding payment for product the customer isn't paying for. Specifically, my impression is that Microsoft wants to be payed for the full 3 year contract (over 3 years), even though the customer that purchased the software went bankrupt after the first year.
Probably because that was the deal they made with Microsoft. Just because a company's customers havn't paid (for any reason) this does not affect any contracts they have with their suppliers. There is nothing special about MCPs here. They have the same options as any other business in this kind of situation...
Now, before you come up with a new claim, please answer this: If the UK government cared about hostile people seeing these subs, why didn't they build a roof over the dock, or put up walls blocking the view from publicly accessible roads? If you aren't afraid of nations that can afford satellites, buy imagery, or from nations that can get a spy to drive down a public road, then clearly you don't value protecting something all that much.
Train tickets, boats and even aircraft are a lot more easily obtainable than satellites. The Google image shows plenty of water traffic on the lake.
Having an interest is more than just wanting the information so you can strike back. If they have 4 nuclear subs, and all 4 are docked, then you know that you don't have to worry about their submarine-launched cruise missiles for a certain period of time.
:)
In which case it might make more sense to alter the image so that it appears that at least 5 are docked at all times
For instance, UPS sends revenue for it's package insurance branch offshore. This procedure is commonly called money laundering, which is commonly used for all sorts of illicit activity. By allowing legitimate business to launder money, we make it harder to stop not so legitimate businesses from doing so, as the legitimate infrastructure already exists. Furthermore, UPS does not pay taxes on that laundered money, which means that for every soldiers, for instance, are funded at lower level than they would be if UPS did pay it taxes.
On the other hand governments frequently fund terrorists from tax revenue. So taking money away from the worst offenders may be a net gain.
Download Torrents, stamp out terrorism.
Especially if you don't know how much of price of a regular DVD will go to fund "Organized Crime, and Terrorism".
If they had no problem buying it with their own money, why should they get a handout?
It's probably the companies who sell and make the boxes who are getting the biggest handouts. Since it's likely that the coupon value represents the lowest selling price. Even if it were possible to make a profit with a cheaper price.
This will now entice the mpaa to start investing heavily in time machines to go back and capture these people. With all the money they will invest time machines should be popping up any year now! (stay away from the dynex brand timemachine its known to have a few bugs)
They also may want to avoid using any time machine which only transports living tissue. Turning up to arrest people unarmed and naked probably won't work too well and sending killer androids after them is probably a little excessive.
This is great. I love any news from anything to do with the entertainment industry or DMCA etc... I have this mental picture : RIAA and their pocket officials: Calling all cars! Calling all cars! All units be on the lookout for movie patron sitting in row 23, seat 4B at Cinimax on main street. Subject was last known to have watched Star Wars 7 months ago. Description? Well, just go to the theater and arrest everyone. Someone is bound to confess to something!
:) The idea may even be good for several movies.
That would do for an opening scene of a movie, keep going
Yeah, they forgot the one damn thing about watermarking: either the signal can't be watermarked without audible artifacts, or else the wartermark can be removed without any.
There's no middle ground. They might as well declare war on the Nyquist-Shannon theorem.
"They" have already done this with DRM, which requires magic. Possibly these people honestly believe that "Hollywood physics" applies in the real world. However the inaudible and unremovable "audio watermark" idea may not be suitable for Mythbusters.
Dude, those are leaked DVD screeners. It's pretty easy to get free movies if you're involved in the periphery of the industry. I have like 50 legitimate DVD screeners right next to me.
Are these burned or pressed? If the latter then there's more possibilities for copies/contents to be "leaked".
The real issue (apart from the problems in actually tracking all users and treating them like criminals) is whether there might not be more constructive ways for the movie industry to spend their money?
One brilliant idea might be to give scriptwriters the money to write better scripts that are actually worth the cost of the ticket.
They could even get the same people who come up with these "piracy prevention" ideas to write some scripts.
I have copies of Bolt and Quantum of Solace. Neither are out on DVD yet.
There's a difference between "not out of DVD" and "DVDs havn't been made yet". Once you have huge quantities of bits of plastic spread about the planet.
In fact, depending where you live you might be able to download a foreign DVDRip long before it even comes on at the local cinema.
The DVDs may even have been produced before the "release date". The factory pressing the DVDs is unlikely to disrupt their schedule if some actor can't make it to the "premiere".
If you don't know who sat in which seat on what showing on what date, knowing which seat a video was shot from isn't going to help you.
:)
It will tell you where the microphone used to record the sound was. An obvious subversion method would be to put a classic "bug" on an empty seat. You might also need to have a cloakroom since it's no doubt possible that a jacket draped over an unoccupied seat could contain some kind of AV recorder
Since the studios are getting all the ticket money without actually owning or running any of the theaters, it creates a situation which can come up with bizarre ideas like this which have no regard for the practicalities of actually running a theater.
Or that when designing the accoustics of such a room you want to ensure that a person's seat position affects their "audio experience" as little as possible.