We can probably assume these were all taken from the same organization at relatively the same point in time. The organization hired would provide the time of the incident, the ISP to contact and serve to validate the file in question was being pirated. This organization filters out non-us residents and generally does the leg work. A few hundred thousand? Maybe a mil if you want to go on the high side and it's still a whole lot of automation.
Sending the letters...
This is pretty much what the law firm is supposed to do... ie, court things. Through a few interns or low level employees at filing the proper records. Maybe even throw out some odd balls numbers and focus on a few areas with high concentrations to simplify the process. I'm not going to pretend to guess at what it actually costs to file 5000 lawsuits, but it's simply more of what an organization already does.
Collect the revenue!
While they likely won't see 5000 payoffs it would certainly be a dream right? 5000 lawsuits with roughly $3000 in payoffs would certainly add up. In fact, at around 15 million it would really seem like a good way to make a quick buck.
However, the real costs would begin to rise for every instance in which they were challenged. This takes more time then simply collecting the "fine."
Now, on paper with lawyer hours in kaboodles I'm sure it costs far more, but really these bulk processes could be potentially streamlined fairly well.
I think the problem is there is more then one complain against the company.
Still, 2.6 billion I could build way past four nines of availability.
I currently maintain better availability on a budget that is way smaller and the equipment would not be considered inexpensive. In fact, a failure on that scale would blow any availability numbers I have out of the water for years. Short of data corruption that works its way into the system a single SAN failure should not halt operations for a week.
Now, instead of using said dollars to build out proper infrastructure and relying on what I like to call "hope." Well, then these problems will eventually crop up because equipment does fail.
This page details steps for many different types of virtualization environments. Though I think it would be just as fast to sort through the output of dmidecode and look for an identification in the mess.
I'm afraid this is rather linux centric, but even so similar data sets can be collected on windows.
I can routinely find cards online for 35$ so I don't know if it is a sale.
Though I might buy a few just in case the price fluctuates a bit too much.
That said the value add is mostly worth the purchase cost when compared to something such as Sony's current offering.
I have always scratched my head at why Microsoft attempts to limit it's own audience. While I have no figures I would assume there is a healthy number of users who are happy to purchase DLC, avatar bling and movies. I know I have purchased a few small games in the past year alone.
In any event, as long as the market will hold they will try to squeeze every penny.
You get the "no ads" option if you are recognized as a valued member.
It's not worth a whole lot if you already have ad blocking software or are a paying subscriber. (I'm both).
It is a bit of a bonus for when I am on my work pc.
Unfortunately, It is frightfully inadequate when compared to the billions of dollars Mr. Taco swims in everyday... (like Scrooge McDuck in his money vault).
Any ISP network engineer has some good BGP stories.
For me I was I fighting for over a year to get some of MY blocks back from another provider. They simply continued to announce the routes for them and made it uttererly worthless. It was also fairly horrible to get any upstream traction against the offender.
Eventually, we simply started announcing the routes for those blocks and caused turmoil for those who were using them. It didn't take long to get that issue cleaned up afterwards. Though it was funny because they had asked my guys to stop announcing.
BGP is a bit of a trust relationship, but it isn't the end of world when everything goes to shit.
Admins will get up for their beds and start clearing issues. Things will be sluggish for a bit, but eventually things work out.
These types of encryption setups use a common entity to pull from.
A book that everyone could easily obtain. Such as the bible or a class novel.
This is why we have the google book project. Once it has digitized every book in the world we can simply run the map against every book known in existence and look for one which yields a proper pattern.
Unfortunately, it is very likely that after billions upon billions are spent to find the answer we will find that it is viagra spam from russia.
This article is completely fabricated by the liberal crazies.
No one would pay some hippy bloggers for friendly reports or statistical analysis on reader responses.
This is just another countless example of how the democrats want to confuse the populace on popular issues. Issue such as, should you vote for this republican or the other republican. There are also non-political issues as stake such as which is the better music genre.... country or western. (We have both kinds of music here)
I knew this chick once who must have been bombed on some upper one night. She messaged me to see about coming over. (Good news was I only lived a few miles away). Hell, before I could respond was a another flood of text. Followed by, "why haven't you responded yet.". It's not that I'm a slow typist, but from her secretary duties she was leagues ahead of me. With the amphetamines she was running pretty quickly up stairs too at the time.
You probably could do some damage in an RTS which has a primary limiting factor of being human.
Unfortunately, she never came over that night because someone stole her car. This is the fundamental problem of hanging out with bad people... they tend to do bad things.
By all means lets take them all down based on the views of a few.
In fact, while we are taking down these derogatory forums and fields of hate monger glory we should make a few more changes. We need a group of individuals to monitor television and newspapers. As well as a separate and special group to burn disconcerting books. In fact, all major media should have some over sight bodies to ensure the material for consumption meets with the guidelines of a chosen few.
Once this is complete we need to be able to identify and separate individuals who have discouraging view points.
There is a readily available report regarding the errors presented from reads.
Because the read is stored in the controller cache it actually doesn't have to force a re-read unless there is a physical issue.
In part, the study which showed vibration as a contributing factor to read/write speeds can be viewed in this same data.
However, to even remotely get into a position in which the normal noise present on the drive would cause problems playing music generally results in a big whopping file system error or disk failure if the unit is part of an array.
You should probably only print your books on photosentive watermarked paper. That way every page that is printed will display a "don't copy that floppy" message when someone tries to scan the page.
Copyright infringement is a real problem everywhere with every medium and it basically comes down to discovering and litigating your issues. If you are not prepared to deal with those issues then perhaps you probably shouldn't.
If I don't write documentation and test hooks while developing the main body I will invariably do a very poor job later. The kicker is that if I change something or throw out some other bits that really means I have also have to destroy or rewrite other sections.
In a rough guesstimate I would say that most of the code I do write invariably doesn't go through enough change to warrant not performing the other menial tasks. Generally, it works rather well and I find there is an overall gain in quality of the work performed.
I've also been on the other side of the fence in which I have to ship it and patch it later. Patch it could still be a very long string of re-writes until it is at the point that I envisioned it. (I was always at odds with my manager who wanted something now, but I wanted something awesome later). I was never fond of the hurried approach which implemented a bare minimum of what I had envisioned.
To which that annoying machine would randomly spout out, "It's judgment day."There must have been some deal because nearly the exact same thing happened in my local cinema. On the far side of the theater was Adam's Family, but it tended to be offline a good deal. At least with judgment day it had a mini-game which would give you a chance for one last free ball. For those of us who were never quite that skilled it was a very welcome reprieve. I do remember the balls in that game had a tendency to fall down the "no bumper" chute. All I could do was watch in sorrow as my quarter sank into the abyss.
You totally missed the flying double jump kick to the right bumper. He later followed up with a round house flying dragon fist to the left bumper.
Though nothing beats the final move that helped the winner beat the loser by 200 million points.....
He performed the triple lindy to simultaneously trigger both bumpers in multi-ball mode. Without such a devastating move he wold never have been able to become champion.
My therapist once said I spend an overly healthy amount of cash on item transactions. To this I replied, "You are only saying that because you are a nub and wish you were as half as pro as me."
Sufficiently skilled players can operate without purchasing any items and amass quite a bit of wealth. Generally, I found the paid items merely increased the rate at which you would acquire items.
That said there were also two other types of players that were competitive without spending any amount of revenue.
Those would generate rigged matches with multiple other interested parties and pray on weaker newer characters.
Those would take whatever they could via illicit actions.
All in all there are basically five archetypes with only one actually paying. The three communities of thieves, pros and scum generally did not like the fourth archetype to any degree. The last category consisted of the newbs who didn't fit into any genre as of yet. They were the weakest and we feasted on their bones.
If I were going to do something like this I would assume I would get caught.
Now, if I managed to bring it to a rather fruitful set of earnings I might do one of two things. Attempt to work within the structure of the law to minimize damages to myself or blatantly work outside the law and optimize for monetary gain. Perhaps, there was yet a third view point in that the scenario ended with a friendly take down. Though that would just be rather unrealistic optimism.
Whatever the outcome I would assume it was clear from the beginning. Face the consequences or take the money and run.
I don't know if I trust that statement as it seems as if it was created from a techno babble generator.
If "non-deterministic polynomial time" is an actual "algorithmic complexity class' then so is my "anomalous quantum field" which generally intersects with a "temporal phase disturbance."
And now I will return to watching Idiocracy or as I like to call it... the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Lets look at this for a moment...
Finding the person.
We can probably assume these were all taken from the same organization at relatively the same point in time. The organization hired would provide the time of the incident, the ISP to contact and serve to validate the file in question was being pirated. This organization filters out non-us residents and generally does the leg work. A few hundred thousand? Maybe a mil if you want to go on the high side and it's still a whole lot of automation.
Sending the letters...
This is pretty much what the law firm is supposed to do... ie, court things. Through a few interns or low level employees at filing the proper records. Maybe even throw out some odd balls numbers and focus on a few areas with high concentrations to simplify the process. I'm not going to pretend to guess at what it actually costs to file 5000 lawsuits, but it's simply more of what an organization already does.
Collect the revenue!
While they likely won't see 5000 payoffs it would certainly be a dream right? 5000 lawsuits with roughly $3000 in payoffs would certainly add up. In fact, at around 15 million it would really seem like a good way to make a quick buck.
However, the real costs would begin to rise for every instance in which they were challenged. This takes more time then simply collecting the "fine."
Now, on paper with lawyer hours in kaboodles I'm sure it costs far more, but really these bulk processes could be potentially streamlined fairly well.
I think the problem is there is more then one complain against the company.
Still, 2.6 billion I could build way past four nines of availability.
I currently maintain better availability on a budget that is way smaller and the equipment would not be considered inexpensive. In fact, a failure on that scale would blow any availability numbers I have out of the water for years. Short of data corruption that works its way into the system a single SAN failure should not halt operations for a week.
Now, instead of using said dollars to build out proper infrastructure and relying on what I like to call "hope." Well, then these problems will eventually crop up because equipment does fail.
Unless they have gone to some very lengthy steps to hide this you can probably discover the information on your own.
http://www.dmo.ca/blog/detecting-virtualization-on-linux/
This page details steps for many different types of virtualization environments. Though I think it would be just as fast to sort through the output of dmidecode and look for an identification in the mess.
I'm afraid this is rather linux centric, but even so similar data sets can be collected on windows.
I can routinely find cards online for 35$ so I don't know if it is a sale.
Though I might buy a few just in case the price fluctuates a bit too much.
That said the value add is mostly worth the purchase cost when compared to something such as Sony's current offering.
I have always scratched my head at why Microsoft attempts to limit it's own audience. While I have no figures I would assume there is a healthy number of users who are happy to purchase DLC, avatar bling and movies. I know I have purchased a few small games in the past year alone.
In any event, as long as the market will hold they will try to squeeze every penny.
Earning companies billions...
Duh.
I read that as RTS and had questioned the initial benefits.
I eventually realized that I would never understand your comment until I played a few rounds of starcraft.
Which brings me to my next realization....
All of those crimes should be punishable by firing squad, drinking or smoking. (possibly taxes)
I know which one I'll pick, but a few will likely make a poor choice.
You get the "no ads" option if you are recognized as a valued member.
It's not worth a whole lot if you already have ad blocking software or are a paying subscriber. (I'm both).
It is a bit of a bonus for when I am on my work pc.
Unfortunately, It is frightfully inadequate when compared to the billions of dollars Mr. Taco swims in everyday... (like Scrooge McDuck in his money vault).
Any ISP network engineer has some good BGP stories.
For me I was I fighting for over a year to get some of MY blocks back from another provider. They simply continued to announce the routes for them and made it uttererly worthless. It was also fairly horrible to get any upstream traction against the offender.
Eventually, we simply started announcing the routes for those blocks and caused turmoil for those who were using them. It didn't take long to get that issue cleaned up afterwards. Though it was funny because they had asked my guys to stop announcing.
BGP is a bit of a trust relationship, but it isn't the end of world when everything goes to shit.
Admins will get up for their beds and start clearing issues. Things will be sluggish for a bit, but eventually things work out.
We are already doing that....
These types of encryption setups use a common entity to pull from.
A book that everyone could easily obtain. Such as the bible or a class novel.
This is why we have the google book project. Once it has digitized every book in the world we can simply run the map against every book known in existence and look for one which yields a proper pattern.
Unfortunately, it is very likely that after billions upon billions are spent to find the answer we will find that it is viagra spam from russia.
This article is completely fabricated by the liberal crazies.
No one would pay some hippy bloggers for friendly reports or statistical analysis on reader responses.
This is just another countless example of how the democrats want to confuse the populace on popular issues. Issue such as, should you vote for this republican or the other republican. There are also non-political issues as stake such as which is the better music genre.... country or western. (We have both kinds of music here)
I knew this chick once who must have been bombed on some upper one night. She messaged me to see about coming over. (Good news was I only lived a few miles away). Hell, before I could respond was a another flood of text. Followed by, "why haven't you responded yet.". It's not that I'm a slow typist, but from her secretary duties she was leagues ahead of me. With the amphetamines she was running pretty quickly up stairs too at the time.
You probably could do some damage in an RTS which has a primary limiting factor of being human.
Unfortunately, she never came over that night because someone stole her car. This is the fundamental problem of hanging out with bad people... they tend to do bad things.
By all means lets take them all down based on the views of a few.
In fact, while we are taking down these derogatory forums and fields of hate monger glory we should make a few more changes. We need a group of individuals to monitor television and newspapers. As well as a separate and special group to burn disconcerting books. In fact, all major media should have some over sight bodies to ensure the material for consumption meets with the guidelines of a chosen few.
Once this is complete we need to be able to identify and separate individuals who have discouraging view points.
Nuke the place from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
A hard disk does much the same thing.
There is a readily available report regarding the errors presented from reads.
Because the read is stored in the controller cache it actually doesn't have to force a re-read unless there is a physical issue.
In part, the study which showed vibration as a contributing factor to read/write speeds can be viewed in this same data.
However, to even remotely get into a position in which the normal noise present on the drive would cause problems playing music generally results in a big whopping file system error or disk failure if the unit is part of an array.
It's too easy anywhere.
You should probably only print your books on photosentive watermarked paper. That way every page that is printed will display a "don't copy that floppy" message when someone tries to scan the page.
Copyright infringement is a real problem everywhere with every medium and it basically comes down to discovering and litigating your issues. If you are not prepared to deal with those issues then perhaps you probably shouldn't.
Seriously, bad people do bad things...
I do that to myself all of the time.
If I don't write documentation and test hooks while developing the main body I will invariably do a very poor job later. The kicker is that if I change something or throw out some other bits that really means I have also have to destroy or rewrite other sections.
In a rough guesstimate I would say that most of the code I do write invariably doesn't go through enough change to warrant not performing the other menial tasks. Generally, it works rather well and I find there is an overall gain in quality of the work performed.
I've also been on the other side of the fence in which I have to ship it and patch it later. Patch it could still be a very long string of re-writes until it is at the point that I envisioned it. (I was always at odds with my manager who wanted something now, but I wanted something awesome later). I was never fond of the hurried approach which implemented a bare minimum of what I had envisioned.
To which that annoying machine would randomly spout out, "It's judgment day."There must have been some deal because nearly the exact same thing happened in my local cinema. On the far side of the theater was Adam's Family, but it tended to be offline a good deal. At least with judgment day it had a mini-game which would give you a chance for one last free ball. For those of us who were never quite that skilled it was a very welcome reprieve. I do remember the balls in that game had a tendency to fall down the "no bumper" chute. All I could do was watch in sorrow as my quarter sank into the abyss.
Yeah,
You totally missed the flying double jump kick to the right bumper. He later followed up with a round house flying dragon fist to the left bumper.
Though nothing beats the final move that helped the winner beat the loser by 200 million points.....
He performed the triple lindy to simultaneously trigger both bumpers in multi-ball mode. Without such a devastating move he wold never have been able to become champion.
I know the answer now...
lifetime = past life or not applicable to this one.
This serves as a valuable reminder to not procrastinate on warranty returns.
I just checked my dead 290 to see what the brand was...
Now, I find eVGA a pain in the ass to deal with, but at least they are still around.
My therapist once said I spend an overly healthy amount of cash on item transactions. To this I replied, "You are only saying that because you are a nub and wish you were as half as pro as me."
I have known several of those types of games.
Sufficiently skilled players can operate without purchasing any items and amass quite a bit of wealth. Generally, I found the paid items merely increased the rate at which you would acquire items.
That said there were also two other types of players that were competitive without spending any amount of revenue.
Those would generate rigged matches with multiple other interested parties and pray on weaker newer characters.
Those would take whatever they could via illicit actions.
All in all there are basically five archetypes with only one actually paying. The three communities of thieves, pros and scum generally did not like the fourth archetype to any degree. The last category consisted of the newbs who didn't fit into any genre as of yet. They were the weakest and we feasted on their bones.
They said hub so maybe it was from the 90s?
That was a big danger back in the day when running a lot of hubs and reserving switches closer to the core.
So either it was a limitation of funds that led to the problem or a limitation of intelligence.
If I were going to do something like this I would assume I would get caught.
Now, if I managed to bring it to a rather fruitful set of earnings I might do one of two things. Attempt to work within the structure of the law to minimize damages to myself or blatantly work outside the law and optimize for monetary gain. Perhaps, there was yet a third view point in that the scenario ended with a friendly take down. Though that would just be rather unrealistic optimism.
Whatever the outcome I would assume it was clear from the beginning. Face the consequences or take the money and run.
I don't know if I trust that statement as it seems as if it was created from a techno babble generator.
If "non-deterministic polynomial time" is an actual "algorithmic complexity class' then so is my "anomalous quantum field" which generally intersects with a "temporal phase disturbance."
And now I will return to watching Idiocracy or as I like to call it... the future.