Huge amounts of money? Really? It's really little more than another purpose for the pre-existing Emergency Broadcast System, with some increased EBS infrastructure under the premise of saving the children. At any rate, it's cost is minimal.
You're splitting hairs. The cellphones exist, and whether they're issued from a pool on a daily basis (which would add its own non-free overhead, plus the overhead of reverse-lookups to find out what number someone has when you need to reach them) or per employee for the duration of employment makes very little difference.
There's always the fourth route: banishment, or the fifth route: extermination. There's also the sixth route: the stockades, or the seventh route: conscription, which to say nothing of the eighth route: caning, and the ninth route: castration. Personally though, I'm an unabashed proponent of the tenth route, which involves a pair of declawed and defanged lionesses, a zebra suit, a skating rink, and twelve hundred banana peels.
Just because they come out with a new model doesn't mean you have to buy a new one every year. They come out with new cars every year, but nobody complains about that. "Oh Jesus, the 2011s are out... my 2010 is obsolete!" In fact, I think most people probably *don't* upgrade their gadgets every year; it's just that the people who do upgrade make such as fuss about it that we tend to apply that to everyone.
Releasing a new product makes sense, otherwise your product line gets stale and you'll lose out to competitors. Why would someone buy a "new" 3 year old iPhone when somebody else makes a brand new uPhone with twice the power and features? They probably wouldn't. A somewhat frequent release cycle also allows you to be more agile in responding to flaws in prior designs and/or the development of new technology, rather than being stuck with old technology or flaws for n years as with gaming consoles. This is especially true given the rate of technological progress in the world of component manufacturing.
The (possible) difference between the Federal budget and the California budget is that the Feds could eliminate every single program other than Social Security and defense spending and STILL be over budget. I say possible only because I don't know what California's budget looks like; they may have a similar scenario. It may feel good to put a finger in the dike so to speak, but it's all for naught if it doesn't actually prevent catastrophe.
TFS describes the number as 40% of employees, and only half of *those* were active. So I doubt every DMV employee had one, although it's reasonable and prudent for a DMV road tester to have one, and any other mobile worker for that matter. "Oh, your plow slid off the highway? So sorry, you're on your own. We can't afford $1000/yr on top of your pittance of a salary."
Personally, I never liked the idea of having a cell phone provided by my employer anyway. It's nothing more than a privacy-depriving leash, and I don't really like the idea of being tethered to my office. That's why I only give out my home number and never answer my cell if I don't recognize the number (and often even when I do). If it's in my contract to be available outside of normal working hours then that's one thing, but if it's not, then I have no interest in having my personal life interrupted by work. If I was a state worker that didn't need a cell phone, I'd be overjoyed by the opportunity to return it. Internally, anyway. Externally I'd pretend I was outraged by having yet another tool removed to perform my woefully difficult job.
They have not sued either George Hotz or Fail0verflow members. What they have done is file a motion for a TRO -- a Temporary Restraining Order -- which means most of the comments here are way off point and off target. None of the claims are things that will necessarily be added to a lawsuit, rather it's the kitchen sink approach, which is the standard MO for almost any legal accusations. In the event of an actual lawsuit, Sony will likely pick and choose its charges a bit more carefully to prevent anything from being potentially invalidated, including its EULA and/or the DMCA.
Here's what I'm wondering:
1) What is the function of a restraining order, and should they be used to allow companies to gag the public ex post facto? The damage has already been done here, and nothing George Hotz will do in the future will make it any worse than it is right now. While he *could* release a Custom Firmware (CFW) that enabled wholesale piracy, his first release deliberately excluded the requisite system calls. Further, he's stated that he won't facilitate piracy , and there's no reason to believe he actually will. IMO, this is a frivilous request, which makes it an abuse of the court.
2) Will Sony actually sue George Hotz, or anyone else? I think that's extremely doubtful. The case they have is extremely tenuous. First, the system has been unlocked, but nobody has actually created a circumvention device (other than the unrelated "PS Jailbreak" USB sticks) to allow piracy, which makes all of this one step removed. Second, it could be a public relations problem if a giant corporation seen to be abusive. Third, actually bringing this case to court could, as described above, put their EULA and the DMCA in jeopardy. Are software-based circumvention devices free speech? What about "homebrew" software, which is all that these efforts have allowed so far? I don't think Sony really wants these questions answered. What they want is to use intimidation tactics to try to frighten people into compliance.
Yes, but how many of these are individual users? I know I have 3 FB accounts -- one for actual friends, one for people I don't care about, and one so nobody gets bothered with game/app spam -- none of which have been touched in over a year. So that's 500M users minus 3. Anyone else?
I'd say the most glaring issue is that this article appears right above one about hackers manipulating the stock market. Since we all seem to be gambling, any bets on which "hacker" will see jail time?
"In a world where computers can't read minds, and minds can't control computers, people must let their fingers do the talking, and there can be only one listener! Threatened by their disposability, keyboards have joined together to fight the scourge known as touchscreens; devices so parasitic, they cannot be destroyed without also destroying the devices they control. Who will emerge victorious and claim the title of Input Device Supreme? This summer, don't miss the biggest blockbuster of the year: Don't Touch Me, Bro!"
Interesting, but if we're going to do that, let's at least re-write history to where we resolved conflicts in a responsible and respectful manner rather than throwing tantrums on the world stage. Conflict will always exist, and if there's no history of resolving it appropriately, then there will be no model for future generations to look to, which is probably worse than learning all the things that didn't work (i.e., true history).
(Cue the Ted Stevens tantrum "No!" response in 3... 2... 1...)
Actually, it was a pretty good piece for television journalism, and certainly a step in the right direction. Anderson emphasized the importance of peer reviewed data; the guest speaker explained the difference between correlation and causation; and Gupta pointed out how people are prone to latch on to any convenient explanation, especially in the absence of a known explanation. The guest speaker pointed out how finding one flat earther and putting him in a national debate against a round earther created a false equivalence, and Gupta agreed. Jenny McCarthy was cited as the flat earther, more or less, and that her propaganda in the absence of evidence was potentially putting lives at risk by convincing parents not to vaccinate. They pointed out the consequences of a lack of herd immunity, such as the quarantine in San Diego due to a whooping cough infection. All in all, it was one of the better pieces they've done, so either you didn't watch it through, or you weren't paying attention.
That said, the piece was followed by what appeared to be a personal plea by Anderson Cooper to keep Camille Grammer on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, so we haven't quite exited the Twilight Zone just yet.
What you're describing is a whitelist, and the problem is that anyone may now generate his own whitelist and sign it using the now-known key. The floodgates are open now, and the only way to close them is by revoking the old key, which would be a financial and PR nightmare.
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the extremely large size of many of the big-name PS3 games (and hence the time and bandwidth needed to download them)
(20 gigabytes) / (50 (megabits per second)) = 54.6133333 minutes
the relatively high price of writable blu-ray media
Blu-rays haven't been a part of playing backups to date. Thus far, the only decision is whether to use the internal drive or an external USB drive.
Warning: Side effects of the five finger pinch may include jail time.
Huge amounts of money? Really? It's really little more than another purpose for the pre-existing Emergency Broadcast System, with some increased EBS infrastructure under the premise of saving the children. At any rate, it's cost is minimal.
You're splitting hairs. The cellphones exist, and whether they're issued from a pool on a daily basis (which would add its own non-free overhead, plus the overhead of reverse-lookups to find out what number someone has when you need to reach them) or per employee for the duration of employment makes very little difference.
There's always the fourth route: banishment, or the fifth route: extermination. There's also the sixth route: the stockades, or the seventh route: conscription, which to say nothing of the eighth route: caning, and the ninth route: castration. Personally though, I'm an unabashed proponent of the tenth route, which involves a pair of declawed and defanged lionesses, a zebra suit, a skating rink, and twelve hundred banana peels.
Just because they come out with a new model doesn't mean you have to buy a new one every year. They come out with new cars every year, but nobody complains about that. "Oh Jesus, the 2011s are out... my 2010 is obsolete!" In fact, I think most people probably *don't* upgrade their gadgets every year; it's just that the people who do upgrade make such as fuss about it that we tend to apply that to everyone.
Releasing a new product makes sense, otherwise your product line gets stale and you'll lose out to competitors. Why would someone buy a "new" 3 year old iPhone when somebody else makes a brand new uPhone with twice the power and features? They probably wouldn't. A somewhat frequent release cycle also allows you to be more agile in responding to flaws in prior designs and/or the development of new technology, rather than being stuck with old technology or flaws for n years as with gaming consoles. This is especially true given the rate of technological progress in the world of component manufacturing.
The (possible) difference between the Federal budget and the California budget is that the Feds could eliminate every single program other than Social Security and defense spending and STILL be over budget. I say possible only because I don't know what California's budget looks like; they may have a similar scenario. It may feel good to put a finger in the dike so to speak, but it's all for naught if it doesn't actually prevent catastrophe.
TFS describes the number as 40% of employees, and only half of *those* were active. So I doubt every DMV employee had one, although it's reasonable and prudent for a DMV road tester to have one, and any other mobile worker for that matter. "Oh, your plow slid off the highway? So sorry, you're on your own. We can't afford $1000/yr on top of your pittance of a salary."
Personally, I never liked the idea of having a cell phone provided by my employer anyway. It's nothing more than a privacy-depriving leash, and I don't really like the idea of being tethered to my office. That's why I only give out my home number and never answer my cell if I don't recognize the number (and often even when I do). If it's in my contract to be available outside of normal working hours then that's one thing, but if it's not, then I have no interest in having my personal life interrupted by work. If I was a state worker that didn't need a cell phone, I'd be overjoyed by the opportunity to return it. Internally, anyway. Externally I'd pretend I was outraged by having yet another tool removed to perform my woefully difficult job.
Interesting that "think of the children" is okay when we agree with the agenda.
They have not sued either George Hotz or Fail0verflow members. What they have done is file a motion for a TRO -- a Temporary Restraining Order -- which means most of the comments here are way off point and off target. None of the claims are things that will necessarily be added to a lawsuit, rather it's the kitchen sink approach, which is the standard MO for almost any legal accusations. In the event of an actual lawsuit, Sony will likely pick and choose its charges a bit more carefully to prevent anything from being potentially invalidated, including its EULA and/or the DMCA.
Here's what I'm wondering:
1) What is the function of a restraining order, and should they be used to allow companies to gag the public ex post facto? The damage has already been done here, and nothing George Hotz will do in the future will make it any worse than it is right now. While he *could* release a Custom Firmware (CFW) that enabled wholesale piracy, his first release deliberately excluded the requisite system calls. Further, he's stated that he won't facilitate piracy , and there's no reason to believe he actually will. IMO, this is a frivilous request, which makes it an abuse of the court.
2) Will Sony actually sue George Hotz, or anyone else? I think that's extremely doubtful. The case they have is extremely tenuous. First, the system has been unlocked, but nobody has actually created a circumvention device (other than the unrelated "PS Jailbreak" USB sticks) to allow piracy, which makes all of this one step removed. Second, it could be a public relations problem if a giant corporation seen to be abusive. Third, actually bringing this case to court could, as described above, put their EULA and the DMCA in jeopardy. Are software-based circumvention devices free speech? What about "homebrew" software, which is all that these efforts have allowed so far? I don't think Sony really wants these questions answered. What they want is to use intimidation tactics to try to frighten people into compliance.
successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers
How does one pander to junk mail?
Perhaps the word you were looking for is peddlers?
If you follow X steps, then you will get the answer, then you will path the class.
Was that a Freudian lisp I detected?
Yes, but how many of these are individual users? I know I have 3 FB accounts -- one for actual friends, one for people I don't care about, and one so nobody gets bothered with game/app spam -- none of which have been touched in over a year. So that's 500M users minus 3. Anyone else?
Wrong. It's you, for hacking coins!
I'd say the most glaring issue is that this article appears right above one about hackers manipulating the stock market. Since we all seem to be gambling, any bets on which "hacker" will see jail time?
Wine coolers are for pussies. Now Zima, that's a man's drink.
Not if keyboards kill touchscreens first!
"In a world where computers can't read minds, and minds can't control computers, people must let their fingers do the talking, and there can be only one listener! Threatened by their disposability, keyboards have joined together to fight the scourge known as touchscreens; devices so parasitic, they cannot be destroyed without also destroying the devices they control. Who will emerge victorious and claim the title of Input Device Supreme? This summer, don't miss the biggest blockbuster of the year: Don't Touch Me, Bro!"
I'm sure he was commenting on the last sentence of TFS, not the viability of the attack.
Nice... will it connect to 127.0.0.1 by any chance?
Pseudonymous apropos.
Interesting, but if we're going to do that, let's at least re-write history to where we resolved conflicts in a responsible and respectful manner rather than throwing tantrums on the world stage. Conflict will always exist, and if there's no history of resolving it appropriately, then there will be no model for future generations to look to, which is probably worse than learning all the things that didn't work (i.e., true history).
(Cue the Ted Stevens tantrum "No!" response in 3... 2... 1...)
Actually, it was a pretty good piece for television journalism, and certainly a step in the right direction. Anderson emphasized the importance of peer reviewed data; the guest speaker explained the difference between correlation and causation; and Gupta pointed out how people are prone to latch on to any convenient explanation, especially in the absence of a known explanation. The guest speaker pointed out how finding one flat earther and putting him in a national debate against a round earther created a false equivalence, and Gupta agreed. Jenny McCarthy was cited as the flat earther, more or less, and that her propaganda in the absence of evidence was potentially putting lives at risk by convincing parents not to vaccinate. They pointed out the consequences of a lack of herd immunity, such as the quarantine in San Diego due to a whooping cough infection. All in all, it was one of the better pieces they've done, so either you didn't watch it through, or you weren't paying attention.
That said, the piece was followed by what appeared to be a personal plea by Anderson Cooper to keep Camille Grammer on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, so we haven't quite exited the Twilight Zone just yet.
Stupid people deserve to be treated with disdain, mainly because most people aren't stupid; just too apathetic to learn anything.
What you're describing is a whitelist, and the problem is that anyone may now generate his own whitelist and sign it using the now-known key. The floodgates are open now, and the only way to close them is by revoking the old key, which would be a financial and PR nightmare.
Maybe he likes the outside of a jail better.