California banned the.50 caliber rifle, which has never been used in a crime that I can think of
There are only a few thousand of these rifles in existence, and the waitlist is something like 8-12 months. That doesn't matter: the government bans guns because they're scary, not out of any risk.
Maybe, but at that point, we're still talking about how to make the silicon do whatever it is it's designed to do, not how the silicon itself is designed.
The point is that doing that is nontrivial. It's not a disk controller.
Nope. 3D cards are not an exception. The only reason there are things under NDA are because lawyers wanted it so.
The portion of the rendering pipeline that is done in software and the texture management are distinctly nontrivial portions of sftware. It's not like disk controllers, which are fairly well-understood at the level that drivers are usually written.
You're not wrong. Is it just me, or does this de Raadt character get 'snippy' each and every time the world doesn't roll over and play the game how he wants them to?
There's quite some distance between demanding immediate obedience and 4 months of delays and excuses. Most businessmen don't stand for that either (or they go out of business).
An important point in a geek's career is the time when s/he recognises that if s/he's gonna get any further in said career, they're gonna have to maintain a business-benefiting attitude and act in business-benefiting ways else businesses won't employ you any more.
'Business benefiting attitude' does not mean sycophant or pushover. It means acting in the best interests of a company, sometimes whether they like it or not. Fact is, a lot of assholes succeed in business, mostly because they know how, to whom, and when to be assholes. A trained asshole is a powerful weapon.
Trouble is, geeks carry no weight in business, and the businessfolks have all the money. It's up to us to decide if we want some of that money or not.
Bullshit. How many CEOs of the Fortune 500 are MBAs and how many are technical people that learned business? You're confusing 'engineer' with 'asocial dweeb who lives in his parents' basement'.
releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage.
One exception appears to be 3D cards. The details of how Nvidia implements a displaylist interface, or how they do a number of things may be under NDA or otherwise priveleged. Compared to that, a management interface for a RAID card plaes to insignifigance.
Actually this is totally wrong, because captitalism is a tool of its actors. There would be no need to legistlate minimum wage of capitalism was really amoral system. Only in theory, or some kind of platonic heaven is captialism amoral.
You're confusing the current system with capitalism. It is not - for pure capitalism, you might look at the 19th century.
I can point out enormous waste of resources in capitalism. Short life light bulbs just to name one common every-day item people buy over and over again therefore *wasting* resources and costing us money over the long term.
Capitalism posits an informed consumer. An informed consumer wouldn't buy such an obviously bad deal.
No true socialism has ever exist, nor any true communism, yet, nor any true capitalism. Again the actors in the system determine whether it succeeds or fails.
What's your point? Capitalism is an abstraction - all large scale economic systems are hybrids.
There are lots of documented cases of perjury;
throw them in jail just like Martha Stewart. Take away their licenses to practice law just like Bill Clinton.
What did Martha Stewart Inc. do that landed Martha Stewart in jail?
No problem. If you need to play something from another region, simply buy the proper player for it. Import the console and the games for the region you want. Problem solved.
Why sould I spend $150 for a non warrantied PS2 when I chip mine for $40 (or whatever)? I'm just trying to save money here.
Well, with your reasoning there is no scenario wherein that aren't any abuses.
In any reasonably large group (such as the mentioned hospital), there will be abuse or attempted abuse. The only scenario where this doesn't hold true is one that doesn't involve people.
However, during the civil war (and, arguably, during WWII w.r.t. Japanese internment) Habeas Corpus was suspended outright. Was this a problem? Yes. Was it the end of everything? No.
There's a difference between suspending Habeaus Corpus during a war and doing it during peacetime, which this is. We haven't declared war since 1941.
Where I work, we finally got a travel agent who bills the company, but she still has all of my personal frequent flyer account numbers. The company doesn't want to use the miles, so the employees may as well take them.
It's actually illegal for the company to take them. There was a court case about this recently.
This fall I purchased a quarter of a cow from a local farmer for the first time, and I could believe all of the options that you have when you talk to the locker.
So, roughly where are you, and what does a quarter of a cow cost?
This, in economic terms, is called descriminatory pricing. The idea is that those who can pay more will, and those who can't or won't, well, won't.
No, it's called appearing cheaper than you are. The idea is that the customer sees the lower price and uses that to decide which product to buy, then fails to send in the appropriate paperwork part of the time. What should happen if, as a previous poster surmised, the store wants to shift inventory, is an in-store discount. In any case, advertising an after-rebate price without due notice should be illegal (probably is anyway).
Before you scream, notice that it happens daily, on a wide scale: going to movies are the classic example; 9 bucks for a ticket, and then 7 more for popcorn and a drink that would have cost you, maybe, a dollar outside of the theatre. It also happens buying cars, dinner, and booze (Think of the opportunity cost of going 'cross town...)
Discriminatory pricing with a movie: matinee is $6.50, evening is $9, and second-run is $3.
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Everyone convicted of a felony has to give a DNA sample before sentencing.
Do I get to choose the form? Also, would I get to deliver it to the prosecutor in person?
California banned the .50 caliber rifle, which has never been used in a crime that I can think of
There are only a few thousand of these rifles in existence, and the waitlist is something like 8-12 months. That doesn't matter: the government bans guns because they're scary, not out of any risk.
Maybe, but at that point, we're still talking about how to make the silicon do whatever it is it's designed to do, not how the silicon itself is designed.
The point is that doing that is nontrivial. It's not a disk controller.
Nope. 3D cards are not an exception. The only reason there are things under NDA are because lawyers wanted it so.
The portion of the rendering pipeline that is done in software and the texture management are distinctly nontrivial portions of sftware. It's not like disk controllers, which are fairly well-understood at the level that drivers are usually written.
You're not wrong. Is it just me, or does this de Raadt character get 'snippy' each and every time the world doesn't roll over and play the game how he wants them to?
There's quite some distance between demanding immediate obedience and 4 months of delays and excuses. Most businessmen don't stand for that either (or they go out of business).
An important point in a geek's career is the time when s/he recognises that if s/he's gonna get any further in said career, they're gonna have to maintain a business-benefiting attitude and act in business-benefiting ways else businesses won't employ you any more.
'Business benefiting attitude' does not mean sycophant or pushover. It means acting in the best interests of a company, sometimes whether they like it or not. Fact is, a lot of assholes succeed in business, mostly because they know how, to whom, and when to be assholes. A trained asshole is a powerful weapon.
Trouble is, geeks carry no weight in business, and the businessfolks have all the money. It's up to us to decide if we want some of that money or not.
Bullshit. How many CEOs of the Fortune 500 are MBAs and how many are technical people that learned business? You're confusing 'engineer' with 'asocial dweeb who lives in his parents' basement'.
releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage.
One exception appears to be 3D cards. The details of how Nvidia implements a displaylist interface, or how they do a number of things may be under NDA or otherwise priveleged. Compared to that, a management interface for a RAID card plaes to insignifigance.
Then companies shouldn't whine and scream "DMCA violation" when someone reverse engineers their hardware.
They can scream, but the DMCA doesn't apply when you reverse engineer something for the purpose of interoperability.
Regardless of what form of verification a company comes up with, it's going to be broken or cracked by a criminal.
Come back when they start using verification - callerID is trivially easy to spoof. Anybody that depends on it is a fool.
Actually this is totally wrong, because captitalism is a tool of its actors. There would be no need to legistlate minimum wage of capitalism was really amoral system. Only in theory, or some kind of platonic heaven is captialism amoral.
You're confusing the current system with capitalism. It is not - for pure capitalism, you might look at the 19th century.
I can point out enormous waste of resources in capitalism. Short life light bulbs just to name one common every-day item people buy over and over again therefore *wasting* resources and costing us money over the long term.
Capitalism posits an informed consumer. An informed consumer wouldn't buy such an obviously bad deal.
No true socialism has ever exist, nor any true communism, yet, nor any true capitalism. Again the actors in the system determine whether it succeeds or fails.
What's your point? Capitalism is an abstraction - all large scale economic systems are hybrids.
There are lots of documented cases of perjury; throw them in jail just like Martha Stewart. Take away their licenses to practice law just like Bill Clinton.
What did Martha Stewart Inc. do that landed Martha Stewart in jail?
Don't real people get jail time for contempt of court? Maybe they need some of that for Microsoft...
That's a central question to the whole corporate personhood thing - how do you toss a corporation in jail?
Tell that to Merck.
The Onion would be a tabloid.
No, he Onion is a parody.
In the UK it's actually illegal to sell an item which could be used to breach copywrite, sony have used this to stop mod chips in the UK.
I guess that's why people also sell mod chips that don't enable playing copied games.
No problem. If you need to play something from another region, simply buy the proper player for it. Import the console and the games for the region you want. Problem solved.
Why sould I spend $150 for a non warrantied PS2 when I chip mine for $40 (or whatever)? I'm just trying to save money here.
Thousands of refugees adding water and ingesting their "building in a bags" thinking they were MRE's.
That's an easy fix - put the buildings in round packages and the MREs in square ones. What could possibly go wrong.
So what you're saying is that Bittorrent, SMTP, and Spam are the only thing the Internet is used for?
Don't forget usenet. Next to BT, SMTP, and NNTP, stuff like ftp and http are a distinct minority.
It costs me US$7.50/gig of data coming across the pipe in either direction.
Isn't bulk bandwidth around $1/GB?
Well, with your reasoning there is no scenario wherein that aren't any abuses.
In any reasonably large group (such as the mentioned hospital), there will be abuse or attempted abuse. The only scenario where this doesn't hold true is one that doesn't involve people.
However, during the civil war (and, arguably, during WWII w.r.t. Japanese internment) Habeas Corpus was suspended outright. Was this a problem? Yes. Was it the end of everything? No.
There's a difference between suspending Habeaus Corpus during a war and doing it during peacetime, which this is. We haven't declared war since 1941.
Well, if your data conversions are independent, multithreading might be of benefit to you if you have a hyperthreading processor.
Unless the two execution states overflow your L1 cache, in which case a HT CPU could run slower.
Where I work, we finally got a travel agent who bills the company, but she still has all of my personal frequent flyer account numbers. The company doesn't want to use the miles, so the employees may as well take them.
It's actually illegal for the company to take them. There was a court case about this recently.
This fall I purchased a quarter of a cow from a local farmer for the first time, and I could believe all of the options that you have when you talk to the locker.
So, roughly where are you, and what does a quarter of a cow cost?
This, in economic terms, is called descriminatory pricing. The idea is that those who can pay more will, and those who can't or won't, well, won't.
No, it's called appearing cheaper than you are. The idea is that the customer sees the lower price and uses that to decide which product to buy, then fails to send in the appropriate paperwork part of the time. What should happen if, as a previous poster surmised, the store wants to shift inventory, is an in-store discount. In any case, advertising an after-rebate price without due notice should be illegal (probably is anyway).
Before you scream, notice that it happens daily, on a wide scale: going to movies are the classic example; 9 bucks for a ticket, and then 7 more for popcorn and a drink that would have cost you, maybe, a dollar outside of the theatre. It also happens buying cars, dinner, and booze (Think of the opportunity cost of going 'cross town...)
Discriminatory pricing with a movie: matinee is $6.50, evening is $9, and second-run is $3.
Ask 20 9th grade girls, 18 of them will want to be thinner and more attractive, and have substantially no long-term goals beyond their appearances.
Ask 20 9th grade boys - they all want to bang the 2 girls that are already skinny.