Actually, you will pay more for an ebook over the paper back.
I was on a trip and happened to run through my spare reading material. I was not in a position to retrieve the next book in a series and as a last resort hopped on kindle. The price for paper back was around 5 or 6 dollars, but if I had been picky I could find it used for less. Now, the kindle edition was around 9 dollars for the exact same thing, but in digital format.
Again, being away from home I had only a few easy options and I settled on the price. In that instance I had to chalk it up to the extra costs of travel and at the very least I am paid far extra for the inconvenience.
I do like to give away my books once I've finished reading them, but I can't really do that either now.
Given the relative length of time for Enlightenment updates and releases it's fair to say there are more then a handful of new coders that have come unto the market. I know, I know, we keep reproducing vermin upon vermin, but alas there is nothing I can do to stop such things.
It does entirely no harm and absolutely some good to entice new developers into your product.
The worst that could happen is you ruffle someones feathers who doesn't appear to understand the basic concepts of marketing a product. All in all, not a great loss because feathers will eventually fall into place.
An old manager of mine was one such person though.
He would often site the great deals he would get through spam. I would often explain that while he might think it is a great deal he is really making the world a worst place for the rest of us by encouraging this behavior. (Of course he didn't really care)
Naturally, he was also suckered into losing a thousand or so dollars on more then one questionable deal. (To which I advised him not to dare do it)
There are also other white list approaches I've seen as well.
A similar service operates on an opt in approach in which you must respond back to the opt-in request for the bulk mailers. Once you are verified on the list of approved senders the email relay service will allow your address to be filtered by that particular opt in list.
It's very much a major-domo like service for spam, but applied more to an entity rather then a particular list. (Say concept and objects, but a slight twist). I wouldn't be too surprised if this wasn't the same fashion. A lot of their simple services are just massively scaled services we geeks have been accustomed to setting up on our and operating without pretty GUI's.
I suspect the working with ISP's is in regard to the spam filter methods. ie, in a co-operating system google will suggest sending an unsubscribe in place of an actual spam block approach. This irks me to a degree because I never opted in and I don't want them to get a free ride.
I'm not a zodiac follower and I could care less about my horoscope. (Though today it says my karma may change). However, the tropical zodiac does not change which is typically what we use.
Since this is a topic I care very little for, but just enough to post another article I will provide a citation.
It is very short so it's fairly safe to RTFA, but be warned I won't debate any of this. I really don't care enough to apologize if some zen buddhist tao roman catholic devout follower of zod says I am specifically wrong and a celestial being of my choosing will strike me down. (Stay Puff Marshmallow Man)
You have reached us through a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.
The story goes like this:
"A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"
Our response:
1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years. The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code.
Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.
The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code, nothing else. A good reason was the lack of interest for the project in the OSS community.
We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.
Thank you for reading the full story.
Dragos MANAC CEO Appnor MSP S.A."
With this information it is quite well within their rights assuming they are the owners the source code and have no outside contributions.
Thus you could still obtain a copy of the code which was released under the GPL and fork it. However, since no one touched it in a while I really doubt there is much interest.
You mean contractual violation which is a civil suite and not a violation of the law. This would be the dictated by the terms agreed to when the equipment was purchased. However, I have known several organizations that had their old EMC equipment limping about. While unsupported and essentially useless for it's role they can often be relegated to test or dev environments where stability and uptime isn't paramount. In fact, I've known production environments that were still running out of warranty EMC equipment and really needed to migrate and refresh.
I suspect they only get really upset if you attempt to update the firmware on out of warranty hardware. However, I haven't dealt with that particular storage vendor much beyond a handful of cases.
The problem is the obvious portion of the equation is by far the smallest factor in the issues that face free air cooling. I'm not talking about tent data centers and good luck getting PCI compliance on that rig.
In thinking outside the norms and in part the concept behind tent farms is also regarding ambient temperature. No longer chasing the perfect balance, but rather just pushing the limits.
It turns out you really have to design this type of thing from the ground up in order for everything to really work just right. Of course attempting to remove the constraints from one portion means you have to model everything just like that. That means servers which were designed to operate in that type of environment. Otherwise, little things like fans now running in their highest mode of operation all the time. Still, that power savings being eaten up isn't really even one of the biggest challenges. There is lots more equipment in the data center which doesn't play nice when the thermal conditions leap outside of what the vendor expected to see.
So sure people are working very diligently at making things different and trying to save a buck. However, it's a little more complex type of stew then it would appear.
Each HTML document loaded into the browser window becomes a document object. Elements such as forms, images, anchors and links are all represented through DOM model.
While I've re-written plenty of html on the fly using this very model I've never stopped to see if the newly created points were accessible. I'm sure there are other techniques they are using or they could simply copy data in and out of an element vigorously.
This isn't too surprising since I have managed to crash browsers before and where there is a crash is a potential hole. Still, hats off for finding an inventive way of getting inside.
I was actually browsing many of the models that are going to be demoed at CES 2011 with the suggested price tags.
Another issue is commitment to the product and updates. Sure, I can flash it if I get access, but I have other things to worry about. It's not just about the specs, but I want to find a vendor that is committed to the platform.
This is actually a bit closer to the mark with many of the new iKiller devices. Sadly, I find X device I would like to purchase only to find it is actually more expensive then the apple equivalent. I'm not an apple fanboy, but I do own an ipad. (Somewhat of a long short story that stripped me of many options).
None the less, I have been impatiently waiting for the big splash of Android tablets to hit the market. My goal is to eventually dump the iPad for something that is either slightly better or at least equivalent exchange. With the recent surge of up and coming devices I was dismayed at the pricing for some of these new units.
Unless it's a dinky toy they seem to be prices in the $700 to $1000 range. For what equates to a morning news reader and heavy ebook that price is a bit steep. Sure, if I can get more utility out of a device I might warrant the extra dollars, but holy hand grenades batman I might as well get a ultra portable laptop.
Hopefully, we see some similar devices in a similar price range soon.
There are other articles elsewhere regarding this methodology.
The goal is fairly straightforward, trade IP for allowing the foreign company to dip into the local market. As they noted, the initial purchase is a flat purchase with some rights and eventually it progresses into full blown production. I was under the impression they were now deploying modified variants as their own brand and attempting to sale abroad. However, companies such as Kawasaki only agreed to such practices as long as their traded IP was not sold outside of China. ie, we might give you the plow, but you can't compete with our domestic plowing trade.
I've read more then one article regarding regarding this so I'm sure there are several more floating about if there is more interest on the subject. I was using an aggregater at the time so I'm unsure of the specific outlet.
Not too long ago the norm was actually for transponders to simply be open.
Meaning if you had a means to send a signal to a particular frequency it would be easy to bounce from that transponder and relay back down. Now, if the NOC (or SOC really) caught an open transponder being used as a relay they would eventually shut it down if you were not paying for the air time.
This became a big deal during the initial war in Iraq as there were a good deal of hijack broadcasts spewing forth from across the sea. In response, they eventually began shutting down transponders until they were scheduled to be used. Either out of interest or trying to lock a particular bird I would find them at random times.
Somehow I doubt the mechanisms used on the old satellites were more obscurity then security to prevent updates.
The lack of large vehicles does not in any way reduce the effectiveness of the laws of physics. The reva/gwiz lack sufficient bracing as to protect the occupants in a moderate to severe crash. At least in the smart car tests it mostly just bounced around like a ball. The Reva appears to just collapse in on itself and the occupants.
You obviously did not read any of the reports, the affidavit or even some of the summaries provided.
It wasn't just about debt. The guy was running tons of shell companies with multiple contributors to willfully defraud and hide it. My guess is they caught on to the abuse they were seeing from Dallas and required proof new applicants were no longer scum bags. Thus the eventual wire fraud was introduce in an attempt to further defraud.
This wasn't a case of simply owing some cash to another company. He and several other people went far beyond some bad bills and when you step into that arena you can expect the FBI to knock on your door. Bad people do exist and they do bad things. The guy fled because he knew he was boned.
I actually purchased an embedded video encoder device that was password protected recently. The only published way to recover the unit was to call support and get the backdoor information. For an out of warranty device this would equate to around $150 for just a simple password fix.
I did try to brute force the password at first, but because the usernames can be manipulated this was rather useless. Just before I was about to call support I decided to see if there were any weaknesses in the underlying OS.
Sure enough there were some fairly nasty ones published and not that long ago. I was able to rip through the entire memory of the device and find ALL of the username/passwords in clear text. This list of credentials also included more then one unlisted backdoor account that could be used to enter the device. Even worse is this is a remote exploit that can be used against any device.
This is actually a lot worse then an MSA2000 which you may not find online. Even when my group had racks of these units we didn't actually use the out of band access because they could be managed via their SAN path. The failover controller option was so poorly implemented that we actually unseated the second module. If a unit had more then a disk failure issue the controller or other offender parts would get swapped out until it was all green lights.
Slashdot Mirror
If Wolfram and Heart are backing Google then my money is on those guys.
The do no evil slogan has been clearly thrown out the window at this point.
Actually, you will pay more for an ebook over the paper back.
I was on a trip and happened to run through my spare reading material. I was not in a position to retrieve the next book in a series and as a last resort hopped on kindle. The price for paper back was around 5 or 6 dollars, but if I had been picky I could find it used for less. Now, the kindle edition was around 9 dollars for the exact same thing, but in digital format.
Again, being away from home I had only a few easy options and I settled on the price. In that instance I had to chalk it up to the extra costs of travel and at the very least I am paid far extra for the inconvenience.
I do like to give away my books once I've finished reading them, but I can't really do that either now.
Given the relative length of time for Enlightenment updates and releases it's fair to say there are more then a handful of new coders that have come unto the market. I know, I know, we keep reproducing vermin upon vermin, but alas there is nothing I can do to stop such things.
It does entirely no harm and absolutely some good to entice new developers into your product.
The worst that could happen is you ruffle someones feathers who doesn't appear to understand the basic concepts of marketing a product. All in all, not a great loss because feathers will eventually fall into place.
Since they are graphical libraries a series of screen shots detailing what they are capable of wouldn't be too bad.
I think it's a fair question to ask if you want to dedicate some time into using them.
An old manager of mine was one such person though.
He would often site the great deals he would get through spam. I would often explain that while he might think it is a great deal he is really making the world a worst place for the rest of us by encouraging this behavior. (Of course he didn't really care)
Naturally, he was also suckered into losing a thousand or so dollars on more then one questionable deal. (To which I advised him not to dare do it)
There are also other white list approaches I've seen as well.
A similar service operates on an opt in approach in which you must respond back to the opt-in request for the bulk mailers. Once you are verified on the list of approved senders the email relay service will allow your address to be filtered by that particular opt in list.
It's very much a major-domo like service for spam, but applied more to an entity rather then a particular list. (Say concept and objects, but a slight twist). I wouldn't be too surprised if this wasn't the same fashion. A lot of their simple services are just massively scaled services we geeks have been accustomed to setting up on our and operating without pretty GUI's.
I suspect the working with ISP's is in regard to the spam filter methods. ie, in a co-operating system google will suggest sending an unsubscribe in place of an actual spam block approach. This irks me to a degree because I never opted in and I don't want them to get a free ride.
I cut my teeth on slack and it is a fairly straight forward system.
It will get them the basics of package management and the startup scripts can be easily dived.
I probably would have stayed with it if work had not been redhat centric.
I would like to thank you for contributing nothing to the conversation.
I obviously cared to some degree, but now I care even less. You have taken from me what little feeling I had left. See what you have done?
I'm not a zodiac follower and I could care less about my horoscope. (Though today it says my karma may change). However, the tropical zodiac does not change which is typically what we use.
Since this is a topic I care very little for, but just enough to post another article I will provide a citation.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/14/astrologers-get-their-say-in-the-horoscope-hubbub/
It is very short so it's fairly safe to RTFA, but be warned I won't debate any of this. I really don't care enough to apologize if some zen buddhist tao roman catholic devout follower of zod says I am specifically wrong and a celestial being of my choosing will strike me down. (Stay Puff Marshmallow Man)
Actually based on their reply at http://winmtr.net/slashdot.html it makes more sense....
Quoted directly from the link,
"Dear visitor,
You have reached us through a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.
The story goes like this:
"A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"
Our response:
1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years. The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code.
Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.
The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code, nothing else. A good reason was the lack of interest for the project in the OSS community.
We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.
Thank you for reading the full story.
Dragos MANAC
CEO Appnor MSP S.A."
With this information it is quite well within their rights assuming they are the owners the source code and have no outside contributions.
Thus you could still obtain a copy of the code which was released under the GPL and fork it. However, since no one touched it in a while I really doubt there is much interest.
You mean contractual violation which is a civil suite and not a violation of the law. This would be the dictated by the terms agreed to when the equipment was purchased. However, I have known several organizations that had their old EMC equipment limping about. While unsupported and essentially useless for it's role they can often be relegated to test or dev environments where stability and uptime isn't paramount. In fact, I've known production environments that were still running out of warranty EMC equipment and really needed to migrate and refresh.
I suspect they only get really upset if you attempt to update the firmware on out of warranty hardware. However, I haven't dealt with that particular storage vendor much beyond a handful of cases.
The problem is the obvious portion of the equation is by far the smallest factor in the issues that face free air cooling. I'm not talking about tent data centers and good luck getting PCI compliance on that rig.
In thinking outside the norms and in part the concept behind tent farms is also regarding ambient temperature. No longer chasing the perfect balance, but rather just pushing the limits.
It turns out you really have to design this type of thing from the ground up in order for everything to really work just right. Of course attempting to remove the constraints from one portion means you have to model everything just like that. That means servers which were designed to operate in that type of environment. Otherwise, little things like fans now running in their highest mode of operation all the time. Still, that power savings being eaten up isn't really even one of the biggest challenges. There is lots more equipment in the data center which doesn't play nice when the thermal conditions leap outside of what the vendor expected to see.
So sure people are working very diligently at making things different and trying to save a buck. However, it's a little more complex type of stew then it would appear.
Each HTML document loaded into the browser window becomes a document object. Elements such as forms, images, anchors and links are all represented through DOM model.
While I've re-written plenty of html on the fly using this very model I've never stopped to see if the newly created points were accessible. I'm sure there are other techniques they are using or they could simply copy data in and out of an element vigorously.
This isn't too surprising since I have managed to crash browsers before and where there is a crash is a potential hole. Still, hats off for finding an inventive way of getting inside.
Which is entirely good news...
I was actually browsing many of the models that are going to be demoed at CES 2011 with the suggested price tags.
Another issue is commitment to the product and updates. Sure, I can flash it if I get access, but I have other things to worry about. It's not just about the specs, but I want to find a vendor that is committed to the platform.
Hey troll,
This is actually a bit closer to the mark with many of the new iKiller devices. Sadly, I find X device I would like to purchase only to find it is actually more expensive then the apple equivalent. I'm not an apple fanboy, but I do own an ipad. (Somewhat of a long short story that stripped me of many options).
None the less, I have been impatiently waiting for the big splash of Android tablets to hit the market. My goal is to eventually dump the iPad for something that is either slightly better or at least equivalent exchange. With the recent surge of up and coming devices I was dismayed at the pricing for some of these new units.
Unless it's a dinky toy they seem to be prices in the $700 to $1000 range. For what equates to a morning news reader and heavy ebook that price is a bit steep. Sure, if I can get more utility out of a device I might warrant the extra dollars, but holy hand grenades batman I might as well get a ultra portable laptop.
Hopefully, we see some similar devices in a similar price range soon.
There are other articles elsewhere regarding this methodology.
The goal is fairly straightforward, trade IP for allowing the foreign company to dip into the local market. As they noted, the initial purchase is a flat purchase with some rights and eventually it progresses into full blown production. I was under the impression they were now deploying modified variants as their own brand and attempting to sale abroad. However, companies such as Kawasaki only agreed to such practices as long as their traded IP was not sold outside of China. ie, we might give you the plow, but you can't compete with our domestic plowing trade.
I've read more then one article regarding regarding this so I'm sure there are several more floating about if there is more interest on the subject. I was using an aggregater at the time so I'm unsure of the specific outlet.
Sign me up.
I am the laaawww!
Not too long ago the norm was actually for transponders to simply be open.
Meaning if you had a means to send a signal to a particular frequency it would be easy to bounce from that transponder and relay back down. Now, if the NOC (or SOC really) caught an open transponder being used as a relay they would eventually shut it down if you were not paying for the air time.
This became a big deal during the initial war in Iraq as there were a good deal of hijack broadcasts spewing forth from across the sea. In response, they eventually began shutting down transponders until they were scheduled to be used. Either out of interest or trying to lock a particular bird I would find them at random times.
Somehow I doubt the mechanisms used on the old satellites were more obscurity then security to prevent updates.
You'll go mad I say. Maaaaaaad!
The lack of large vehicles does not in any way reduce the effectiveness of the laws of physics. The reva/gwiz lack sufficient bracing as to protect the occupants in a moderate to severe crash. At least in the smart car tests it mostly just bounced around like a ball. The Reva appears to just collapse in on itself and the occupants.
The author notes he is also the G-Wiz riders club something or other.
I remember the Reva's having a very interesting crash test video and of course the G-Wiz shares the same fate.
However, TopGear managed to get a slightly more humorous review of the G-Wiz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGp8Sha_mA
/me points to the internet.
You obviously did not read any of the reports, the affidavit or even some of the summaries provided.
It wasn't just about debt. The guy was running tons of shell companies with multiple contributors to willfully defraud and hide it. My guess is they caught on to the abuse they were seeing from Dallas and required proof new applicants were no longer scum bags. Thus the eventual wire fraud was introduce in an attempt to further defraud.
This wasn't a case of simply owing some cash to another company. He and several other people went far beyond some bad bills and when you step into that arena you can expect the FBI to knock on your door. Bad people do exist and they do bad things. The guy fled because he knew he was boned.
I think the reason the website stopped being updated was due to him fleeing the country and subsequently being arrested.
http://dallas.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/dl011510.htm
It was neat to read the beginning, find the middle and end. However, it's a bit sad to see the date highlighted so quickly.
I actually purchased an embedded video encoder device that was password protected recently. The only published way to recover the unit was to call support and get the backdoor information. For an out of warranty device this would equate to around $150 for just a simple password fix.
I did try to brute force the password at first, but because the usernames can be manipulated this was rather useless. Just before I was about to call support I decided to see if there were any weaknesses in the underlying OS.
Sure enough there were some fairly nasty ones published and not that long ago. I was able to rip through the entire memory of the device and find ALL of the username/passwords in clear text. This list of credentials also included more then one unlisted backdoor account that could be used to enter the device. Even worse is this is a remote exploit that can be used against any device.
This is actually a lot worse then an MSA2000 which you may not find online. Even when my group had racks of these units we didn't actually use the out of band access because they could be managed via their SAN path. The failover controller option was so poorly implemented that we actually unseated the second module. If a unit had more then a disk failure issue the controller or other offender parts would get swapped out until it was all green lights.