With the high profile shutdown of Silk Road the number of things you can buy with Bitcoin would be considerably less. While it's true that there are other services available, it seems strange to me that so much money is being dumped into the system now. Maybe someone is trying to buy up enough coins for a trip to space? Or maybe someone is laundering a crapload of money and is having trouble on the outbound side (converting the money back into real life currency) and is creating a backlog?
Or it's an attack on the system itself, maybe someone figure out a way to race the market and make money?
NewEgg's lawyers spent a fair bit of time proving Diffie's claim. They had a textbook, his original paper, and he gave a very informative talk about the early days of public key crypto. I suspect what happened here is that they took TQP's argument to heart that said TQP has a piece of paper that says they own it, so the law says the must find in favor of TQP, despite whatever feelings the jurors might have on the issue.
TQP managed to make the trial about "Did Newegg infringe on this patent?", not "Is this a bad patent that should be overturned?" In that case, the answer is probably a yes.
The most amazing thing is that TQP's argument against Diffie involved them finding potential prior art to show that Diffie wasn't the inventor of public key cryptography. Even if this argument succeeded, then it should have put an even bigger nail in their coffin since it would show even more prior art for the patent.
This really was the worst kind of patent too. So I see you're doing asymmetric crypto for key transfer...but ah ha, I got a patent for asymmetric crypto for key transfer using RC4! Checkmate! Like wow, you applied the most common (at the time) algorithm to a system that kind of resembles a SSL connection, except that it's with modems and came a few years after the big Diffie-Helmann paper.
And of course they aren't suing the people who made the SSL offload appliances that got NewEgg into trouble, they're suing all of their customers, for using the thing with the default settings. And they're calling it willful infringement because they didn't go an explicitly disable the RC4 feature to comply with a patent they knew nothing about.
Seriously, maybe the guy is totally hung up on serifs? Ariel is basically a clone of Helvetica, one of the most common fonts in use today. It's hard to imagine someone with a burning passionate hatred of Helvetica. When I look at Ariel, the one thing I don't think is "unprofessional". Boring, and overused, sure, but definitely not unprofessional.
I suspect he's one of those guys who posts jobs like "5 years experience with Java, Oracle, C++, Delphi, COBOL, Windows Domain Controllers, and Lotus Notes. Must have project management experience on large software projects. Must have certifications listed on pages 3-7. Starting Salary: $35,000".
Then they're surprised when the only candidates that show up are the ones that don't know shit except how to forge certificates and pretend they know what they are doing. Pretty soon the company is griping about the lack of H1Bs because they have some promising candidates from overseas who claim to fit the bill...
It has been speculated that one reason the Dreamliner was so delayed and overbudget is because Boeing tried to outsource the design to cheaper firms and then integrate everything afterward instead of using their own designers. Even now they're fighting over where to build the next plane and are threatening to move the production overseas if the union doesn't give.
But if I don't hand over that $12, the MPAA just assumes I must be pirating the movie instead and uses that as ammunition to get more ridiculously one sided laws passed to make my life even shittier.
As far as the RIAA and MPAA are concerned, Fair Use is an archaic concept that has no place in modern society. They just assume it doesn't exist and take legal action accordingly.
That will work fine as long as you are a big multinational corporation so the penalties for false statements don't matter. I wouldn't try this as an individual, you might get in real trouble.
Is Sparkfun actually cheaper? I had the impression that they were more or less direct clones of the Adafruit product, only sometimes slightly worse. A good example of this is the repurposed old Nokia 84x48 LCD screens. Both Adafruit and Sparkfun sell it for about the same price ($10), but the Adafruit model comes with the necessary level shifter while the Sparkfun one instead lies on the package (saying it is 84x84). When you go to find the code for it, the code all comes from Adafruit. I know which one I would buy when given the choice.
dx.com is DealExtreme. Say what you will about ThinkGeek's prices, when you order something from there it ships promptly and ends up at your door shortly thereafter. They also have good customer service. DealExtreme on the other hand has a somewhat more challenged reputation.
It's pretty much a given that the launch day titles will suck for a console. The only ones that ever seem to have longevity are Nintendo's pack-ins. By this time next year there should be some good games for both systems though.
That said, there are always options. You can use dial up, you can use Internet Connection Sharing on Windows (or NAT on Linux) and an ethernet cable (crossover is better, but generally not necessary anymore) to hook up the PS4. A 300MB download will only take ~15 hours on a 56K modem, which is bad but you can leave it running overnight and into the morning. There is also Satellite Internet (a much too expensive option if all you care about is 1 300MB download though).
The easiest solution is probably to lug the box over to a friends house and bum their internet for awhile (maybe take them out to dinner while it downloads) to get the box fully set up.
If I was making a language that was C with a few more features, I wouldn't stop at just better string handling. I would also include a method of inspecting the heap so a function passed a pointer knows just how much storage is available at that pointer. I would also steal C++'s single line comment delimiter (//), and pass by value mechanic. I'd also build a first class regex utility into stdlib, but that's just me.
My memories of Blockbuster was a store that if you weren't interested in the latest half dozen or so releases, then they weren't interested in you. The selection of older movies was extremely sparse and they were always checked out. I went in a few times and came out empty handed because there was just nothing interesting in stock. Then Netflix came along and I never went back to Blockbuster again. Netflix was rarely out of stock, and had an absolutely enormous catalog of older and obscure movies. Even if a disc was out, they would put you on a queue and send you the disc as soon as it was available.
Plus, Netflix didn't lie to me "Three Day Rental--Including Today, the Day you return it by 10AM, and a day we made up!" or try to rape me with fees. Oh, and it was cheaper per month than two rentals from Blockbuster.
If Blockbuster had bought Netflix I would have exploded with rage. Of course Reed Hastings went kind of loony there for awhile and made me worry about Netflix, but they seem to have gotten the leash back on him and kept the company from driving off the cliff.
nVidia has at least three versions of the GT630, each fairly different from one another. None of these would be an amazing accomplishment to beat, although they are more powerful than Intel's normal integrated offerings.
iTunes used to have a plugin that automatically grabbed the lyrics to the song you were playing and put them up on the screen. There was a version for the iPhone as well. The RIAA shut both down almost immediately. As far as I know, there is no legal way to get the lyrics on most songs if they're not published in the booklet, and if you buy eletronically the lyics are virtually never included. Also, I would never pay seperately for the lyrics, that's rediculous.
The worst part is that those lyric sites always included links to Amazon/iTunes Music Store to buy the song. They were undoubtedly responsible for at least a few sales. The law says they're allowed to act like idiots though, so we gotta let them.
As an American I recognized the parody aspects pretty quickly, but I also recognized that the movie was a hot mess with people lugging around gigantic idiot balls and generally not making a lot of sense.
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With the high profile shutdown of Silk Road the number of things you can buy with Bitcoin would be considerably less. While it's true that there are other services available, it seems strange to me that so much money is being dumped into the system now. Maybe someone is trying to buy up enough coins for a trip to space? Or maybe someone is laundering a crapload of money and is having trouble on the outbound side (converting the money back into real life currency) and is creating a backlog?
Or it's an attack on the system itself, maybe someone figure out a way to race the market and make money?
Being a jury member on these patent troll cases could be a full time job for some of these east Texas towns.
NewEgg's lawyers spent a fair bit of time proving Diffie's claim. They had a textbook, his original paper, and he gave a very informative talk about the early days of public key crypto. I suspect what happened here is that they took TQP's argument to heart that said TQP has a piece of paper that says they own it, so the law says the must find in favor of TQP, despite whatever feelings the jurors might have on the issue.
TQP managed to make the trial about "Did Newegg infringe on this patent?", not "Is this a bad patent that should be overturned?" In that case, the answer is probably a yes.
The most amazing thing is that TQP's argument against Diffie involved them finding potential prior art to show that Diffie wasn't the inventor of public key cryptography. Even if this argument succeeded, then it should have put an even bigger nail in their coffin since it would show even more prior art for the patent.
This really was the worst kind of patent too. So I see you're doing asymmetric crypto for key transfer...but ah ha, I got a patent for asymmetric crypto for key transfer using RC4! Checkmate! Like wow, you applied the most common (at the time) algorithm to a system that kind of resembles a SSL connection, except that it's with modems and came a few years after the big Diffie-Helmann paper.
And of course they aren't suing the people who made the SSL offload appliances that got NewEgg into trouble, they're suing all of their customers, for using the thing with the default settings. And they're calling it willful infringement because they didn't go an explicitly disable the RC4 feature to comply with a patent they knew nothing about.
It's important to remember that East Texas almost invariably sides with the NPE. That's why most of these suits are brought up in East Texas.
Seriously, maybe the guy is totally hung up on serifs? Ariel is basically a clone of Helvetica, one of the most common fonts in use today. It's hard to imagine someone with a burning passionate hatred of Helvetica. When I look at Ariel, the one thing I don't think is "unprofessional". Boring, and overused, sure, but definitely not unprofessional.
I suspect he's one of those guys who posts jobs like "5 years experience with Java, Oracle, C++, Delphi, COBOL, Windows Domain Controllers, and Lotus Notes. Must have project management experience on large software projects. Must have certifications listed on pages 3-7. Starting Salary: $35,000".
Then they're surprised when the only candidates that show up are the ones that don't know shit except how to forge certificates and pretend they know what they are doing. Pretty soon the company is griping about the lack of H1Bs because they have some promising candidates from overseas who claim to fit the bill...
It has been speculated that one reason the Dreamliner was so delayed and overbudget is because Boeing tried to outsource the design to cheaper firms and then integrate everything afterward instead of using their own designers. Even now they're fighting over where to build the next plane and are threatening to move the production overseas if the union doesn't give.
But if I don't hand over that $12, the MPAA just assumes I must be pirating the movie instead and uses that as ammunition to get more ridiculously one sided laws passed to make my life even shittier.
As far as the RIAA and MPAA are concerned, Fair Use is an archaic concept that has no place in modern society. They just assume it doesn't exist and take legal action accordingly.
That will work fine as long as you are a big multinational corporation so the penalties for false statements don't matter. I wouldn't try this as an individual, you might get in real trouble.
Is Sparkfun actually cheaper? I had the impression that they were more or less direct clones of the Adafruit product, only sometimes slightly worse. A good example of this is the repurposed old Nokia 84x48 LCD screens. Both Adafruit and Sparkfun sell it for about the same price ($10), but the Adafruit model comes with the necessary level shifter while the Sparkfun one instead lies on the package (saying it is 84x84). When you go to find the code for it, the code all comes from Adafruit. I know which one I would buy when given the choice.
dx.com is DealExtreme. Say what you will about ThinkGeek's prices, when you order something from there it ships promptly and ends up at your door shortly thereafter. They also have good customer service. DealExtreme on the other hand has a somewhat more challenged reputation.
It's pretty much a given that the launch day titles will suck for a console. The only ones that ever seem to have longevity are Nintendo's pack-ins. By this time next year there should be some good games for both systems though.
Well, until the next update of course.
That said, there are always options. You can use dial up, you can use Internet Connection Sharing on Windows (or NAT on Linux) and an ethernet cable (crossover is better, but generally not necessary anymore) to hook up the PS4. A 300MB download will only take ~15 hours on a 56K modem, which is bad but you can leave it running overnight and into the morning. There is also Satellite Internet (a much too expensive option if all you care about is 1 300MB download though).
The easiest solution is probably to lug the box over to a friends house and bum their internet for awhile (maybe take them out to dinner while it downloads) to get the box fully set up.
ARPANet wasn't deployed to everybody in 10 miles of a university. Last mile costs are killer.
Do it long enough and you won't even have to turn your TV on to play pong.
Say what? Who in the world is going to pay for that?
If I was making a language that was C with a few more features, I wouldn't stop at just better string handling. I would also include a method of inspecting the heap so a function passed a pointer knows just how much storage is available at that pointer. I would also steal C++'s single line comment delimiter (//), and pass by value mechanic. I'd also build a first class regex utility into stdlib, but that's just me.
My memories of Blockbuster was a store that if you weren't interested in the latest half dozen or so releases, then they weren't interested in you. The selection of older movies was extremely sparse and they were always checked out. I went in a few times and came out empty handed because there was just nothing interesting in stock. Then Netflix came along and I never went back to Blockbuster again. Netflix was rarely out of stock, and had an absolutely enormous catalog of older and obscure movies. Even if a disc was out, they would put you on a queue and send you the disc as soon as it was available.
Plus, Netflix didn't lie to me "Three Day Rental--Including Today, the Day you return it by 10AM, and a day we made up!" or try to rape me with fees. Oh, and it was cheaper per month than two rentals from Blockbuster.
If Blockbuster had bought Netflix I would have exploded with rage. Of course Reed Hastings went kind of loony there for awhile and made me worry about Netflix, but they seem to have gotten the leash back on him and kept the company from driving off the cliff.
nVidia has at least three versions of the GT630, each fairly different from one another. None of these would be an amazing accomplishment to beat, although they are more powerful than Intel's normal integrated offerings.
iTunes used to have a plugin that automatically grabbed the lyrics to the song you were playing and put them up on the screen. There was a version for the iPhone as well. The RIAA shut both down almost immediately. As far as I know, there is no legal way to get the lyrics on most songs if they're not published in the booklet, and if you buy eletronically the lyics are virtually never included. Also, I would never pay seperately for the lyrics, that's rediculous.
The worst part is that those lyric sites always included links to Amazon/iTunes Music Store to buy the song. They were undoubtedly responsible for at least a few sales. The law says they're allowed to act like idiots though, so we gotta let them.
As an American I recognized the parody aspects pretty quickly, but I also recognized that the movie was a hot mess with people lugging around gigantic idiot balls and generally not making a lot of sense.
I think I found your problem. IMDB has Youtube quality commenters.
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