Ummm, dude, even if you steal something and give it back, it's still theft because (even whether the personal stolen from realizes it or not) for a period of time that person did not have possession of said object.
If I take your car, drive it around, and return it, you've still been deprived of your car for a period of time. In fact, your never get the same car you had back, since now I've added milage, etc.
However, if I were to copy your CD, you were never deprived of your material (unless I took it away to copy it), it's still there, you always had the opportunity to use it just as before, and it's not any different physically from before it was copied.
So you, Mr. Anonymous Coward, are the moron, as even if the car was stolen and return, it was still stolen because *wow* the owner was still deprived of property whether he realized it or not. Realization of loss is not part of theft.
That is exactly why there have been different legal definitions for copyright infringement, theft, etc.
And before you call me a thief, which is inevitable, keep in mind that I don't copy CD's. I've bought the only 2 discs that actually sounded decent to me in the last year, and generally pay for my software (unless there's a viable OSS alternative).
While this is a case of an extortion attempt, I'd imagine that very similar things happen with stolen CC #'s from various sites being used improperly. One idea to help stop this might be if Visa were to create "bait numbers." Basically these would be Visa accounts which only to lure attempted scammers, and set off all kinda of nice red alarms when somebody attempts to use them.
If many sites/businesses started to support the bait concept and put an effort to turning in the scammers, perhaps this would make scammers a little more leery of using stolen accounts/CC #'s.
How hard would it be to write a program that could be used to test apps against buffer overflow errors. This should be given the source of the app, where one could exclude various procedures (i.e. when the calling procecedure already tests for overflow).
Difficult, impossible. Helpful or useless?
I'd imagine that with such tools hackers could also test your code for overflows, but if it became mainstream to hardcore test for such things then perhaps they wouldn't have the opportunity.
Back when I first heard whispers of Advent Children, one of my friends (a rampant FF addict) whispered that he was "in the know" and that not only would there be a movie sequelling FF7, but another game taking place a few years after the movie.
I wasn't entirely surprised then to see this article, but I'm definately happy he was right... wonder where he got his info though.
It is possible though that if interest in the movie had tanked, they may have ditched the idea of a sequel game.
Perhaps all the numbered ones, but isn't Crystal Chronicles for gamecube only, not to mention many of the old gameboy releases, and FFA (Final Fantasy Adventure)
The parent is modded to funny, but I could easily see this happening. HP settled a class action recently by giving me a discount coupon for new HP printers. The lawsuit was due to a known defect with their page seperators that included a printer model I own.
That would really depend on how well you were notified. If you hadn't been to a mechanic since the recall or somebody else who notified you, the I'd say manufacturer is still at-fault.
How do they contact car owners anyhow, other than the ones known directly by dealer-sales?
I think a good idea might be to put it on the mozilla start page (you know, the one mozilla default to that says "your browser is out-of-date") - indicating to earlier browers may be succeptible to the flaw.
c) Lots of WINDOWS uses also use OO (in fact, my whole org is switching)
Patents may be a damning blow against OO software, but only where US patent laws are enforced. Canada is taking a stern look at the US patent laws, Australia - though having signed the damning FTA - is aware enough to be somewhat leery of them. Also, lots of businesses are saving $$$ by going with said "free" software - I'd expect a slight complaint from them if this were to become an issue.
And that's at range too, at closer it should be faster:
The transceivers provide -110 dBm receiver sensitivity enabling users to receive 900 MHz transmissions up to one-half mile in urban environments, as well as 15 miles line-of-sight, and 40 miles with high-gain antennas. Data throughput of the module is 230 kbps and has a high sustainable data streaming rate 115.2 kbps.
If you could make it work through the browser/email client. Embed something labelled as "kiddy pr0n" and then doing something like email the IP address and a listing of JPG/avi/mpg files that aren't in temp internet files (I'm guessing some would have nice filenames indicating whether the person was actively a KP downloaded or accidental).
The shutdown option is.... well... an option. One that is now enabled. The desk isn't that confining though. Rear and front of the cubby are open to the room, with 1' clearance behind the desk (then the wall) and 3/4' to the side of the machine where the CPU fan would blow out.
I'm thinking of sticking a nice fan on the front though - as it's probably the lack of airflow in the rear that would be trapping heat. So a blow-in fan on the rear, blow-out on the front could help a lot...
450W Antec PSU, artic silver paste, rear cooling on the case, and a bigass thermaltake fan.
I think it might just be that the case in its desk cubby is too confined - that or the CPU is slightly defective. The only of the above that keep this puppy cool seems to be the thermaltake fan, and when I crank that down to 3500RPM the temperature goes up again.
The actual alarm on the board was in that range. I've wondered about it myself, but being that I'm using that very machine - about 6 months post to overheating, and no more issues - I'd say it survived nicely
I think I've set the record amongst my friends for hottest a CPU has been though:-)
No she's definately hot... it used to crash when it got that hot. Case is side-vented... but the back is against the wall so perhaps not too much venting there.
I'm thinking on replacing the PSU to see if that helps - perhaps it's underpowered - but it doesn't seem to be struggling... the overheating generally only happened when I was doing things like encoding video for DVD (maxing the CPU as much as it will go).
heatsink came with the fan, and it was hotter with the previous. And I've never had an AMD stay at 40c... right now it's happy at 49, but even the ones at work are usually close to that at normal temperature.
Actually, I put the heatsink on with arctic silver. Processor isn't running overclocked either. I would suspect a defect except that for all other intents and purposes it runs perfectly fine.
It might not be uncommon either. We had a dual Athlon MP 2200 at work, one of two CPUs was constantly overheating. Replaced CPU, no problemo...
But for now I'll put up with the mega-fan, since the processor itself runs fine with proper cooling, and I'd hate to be without my main machine. What's the warantee on AMD, perhaps I'll send for replacement once I upgrade to a 64-bit rig.
But it's still not a close enough analogy. Reason being: you paid for the processor - thus you have ownership and are legally entitled to do what you want with it (short of discompiling/copying/etc).
In this case, it would be more like taking a car for a joyride only to find that it's a bait car... or perhaps stealing one from the mechanics only to find that the brake work wasn't quite done;-)
One of the major complaints I have about my XP2500+ is that the thing runs hot, like really hot. We hit a heatwave locally and temperatures were up to about 40 celcius at peak. My CPU actually hit 95 celcius (for those that use Fahrenheit, 100 celcius is boiling temperature).
I have a bigass thermaltake fan in there now, which I can turn down when the weather is cooler. The computer is still rather noisy.
My point to all this is not AMD bashing however. Apparently the 64-bit CPUs do much better for heat dissipation. The CPU die is much larger (the actual die is small on an 32-bit Athlon), so heat dissipates much more nicely into the heatsink due to the increased surface contact area. When I do upgrade, I'll be going AMD64... more power (in 'nix anyhow) and cooler running than my current CPU.
Just because I "expect" a program to believe a specific way doesn't mean it will. Look at windows, lots of people "expect" it to work in a certain way, but quite often it does all sorts of funky things (some which can involve data loss).
Now, if you really wanted to, if you purchase a piece of software and doesn't behave as advertised, you could probably try and get your money back.
However, if you downloaded the software, or pirated it, or cracked it, what reasonable expectation do you have that it will work as you want? The expectation really is "works as advertised when used properly", and I don't count cracking as using a piece of software properly.
I believe that was the case quite some time ago with a game (racing game if I remember correctly, not sure on the title). The game carried a virus if you tried to illegitimately copy it, but the writers got in trouble for puttint it in there...
But realistically, the "that's funny" comment indicating a strange anomaly is replaced by the modern equivilent of WTF!!!!!
Seriously, I think that any radically unusual scientific discovered will probably be accompanied by one of the following:
a) What the [insert explitive here]
b) Holy sh*t, take a look at this
c) Damnit, WTF is going on with this... waaaaait a second.
d) Wait a second, that's not suppose to happ...
That, or you could just go with "(e) Zappppp... crackle.... guuuurgle.... arrgggh" and scientist #2 gets a nobel prize based on the investigation of the unusual demise of scientist #1
I don't think that's the point. Compiling a kernel module driver is trivial, and in most cases you don't need a whole kernel recompile (just the driver).
It's where you have custom patches etc (say for your USB device, video card, tablet, etc) that this becomes a pain... because a patch for 2.6.5 won't necessarily work in 2.6.6 etc.
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Ummm, dude, even if you steal something and give it back, it's still theft because (even whether the personal stolen from realizes it or not) for a period of time that person did not have possession of said object.
If I take your car, drive it around, and return it, you've still been deprived of your car for a period of time. In fact, your never get the same car you had back, since now I've added milage, etc.
However, if I were to copy your CD, you were never deprived of your material (unless I took it away to copy it), it's still there, you always had the opportunity to use it just as before, and it's not any different physically from before it was copied.
So you, Mr. Anonymous Coward, are the moron, as even if the car was stolen and return, it was still stolen because *wow* the owner was still deprived of property whether he realized it or not. Realization of loss is not part of theft.
That is exactly why there have been different legal definitions for copyright infringement, theft, etc.
And before you call me a thief, which is inevitable, keep in mind that I don't copy CD's. I've bought the only 2 discs that actually sounded decent to me in the last year, and generally pay for my software (unless there's a viable OSS alternative).
While this is a case of an extortion attempt, I'd imagine that very similar things happen with stolen CC #'s from various sites being used improperly. One idea to help stop this might be if Visa were to create "bait numbers." Basically these would be Visa accounts which only to lure attempted scammers, and set off all kinda of nice red alarms when somebody attempts to use them.
If many sites/businesses started to support the bait concept and put an effort to turning in the scammers, perhaps this would make scammers a little more leery of using stolen accounts/CC #'s.
How hard would it be to write a program that could be used to test apps against buffer overflow errors. This should be given the source of the app, where one could exclude various procedures (i.e. when the calling procecedure already tests for overflow).
Difficult, impossible. Helpful or useless?
I'd imagine that with such tools hackers could also test your code for overflows, but if it became mainstream to hardcore test for such things then perhaps they wouldn't have the opportunity.
Back when I first heard whispers of Advent Children, one of my friends (a rampant FF addict) whispered that he was "in the know" and that not only would there be a movie sequelling FF7, but another game taking place a few years after the movie.
I wasn't entirely surprised then to see this article, but I'm definately happy he was right... wonder where he got his info though.
It is possible though that if interest in the movie had tanked, they may have ditched the idea of a sequel game.
FFA I believe was the title on the gameboy releases. The other I was thinking of was FFMQ (Mystic Quest)
Perhaps all the numbered ones, but isn't Crystal Chronicles for gamecube only, not to mention many of the old gameboy releases, and FFA (Final Fantasy Adventure)
The parent is modded to funny, but I could easily see this happening. HP settled a class action recently by giving me a discount coupon for new HP printers. The lawsuit was due to a known defect with their page seperators that included a printer model I own.
That would really depend on how well you were notified. If you hadn't been to a mechanic since the recall or somebody else who notified you, the I'd say manufacturer is still at-fault.
How do they contact car owners anyhow, other than the ones known directly by dealer-sales?
I think a good idea might be to put it on the mozilla start page (you know, the one mozilla default to that says "your browser is out-of-date") - indicating to earlier browers may be succeptible to the flaw.
The carrot: MSOffice for Linux
a) Not free
b) Not open source
c) Lots of WINDOWS uses also use OO (in fact, my whole org is switching)
Patents may be a damning blow against OO software, but only where US patent laws are enforced. Canada is taking a stern look at the US patent laws, Australia - though having signed the damning FTA - is aware enough to be somewhat leery of them. Also, lots of businesses are saving $$$ by going with said "free" software - I'd expect a slight complaint from them if this were to become an issue.
And that's at range too, at closer it should be faster:
The transceivers provide -110 dBm receiver sensitivity enabling users to receive 900 MHz transmissions up to one-half mile in urban environments, as well as 15 miles line-of-sight, and 40 miles with high-gain antennas. Data throughput of the module is 230 kbps and has a high sustainable data streaming rate 115.2 kbps.
If you could make it work through the browser/email client. Embed something labelled as "kiddy pr0n" and then doing something like email the IP address and a listing of JPG/avi/mpg files that aren't in temp internet files (I'm guessing some would have nice filenames indicating whether the person was actively a KP downloaded or accidental).
The shutdown option is.... well... an option. One that is now enabled. The desk isn't that confining though. Rear and front of the cubby are open to the room, with 1' clearance behind the desk (then the wall) and 3/4' to the side of the machine where the CPU fan would blow out.
I'm thinking of sticking a nice fan on the front though - as it's probably the lack of airflow in the rear that would be trapping heat. So a blow-in fan on the rear, blow-out on the front could help a lot...
450W Antec PSU, artic silver paste, rear cooling on the case, and a bigass thermaltake fan.
I think it might just be that the case in its desk cubby is too confined - that or the CPU is slightly defective. The only of the above that keep this puppy cool seems to be the thermaltake fan, and when I crank that down to 3500RPM the temperature goes up again.
Oh trust me... touching the heatsink for more than a few secs and I definately agree I'd probably be burned... it is hot.
The actual alarm on the board was in that range. I've wondered about it myself, but being that I'm using that very machine - about 6 months post to overheating, and no more issues - I'd say it survived nicely
:-)
I think I've set the record amongst my friends for hottest a CPU has been though
No she's definately hot... it used to crash when it got that hot. Case is side-vented... but the back is against the wall so perhaps not too much venting there.
I'm thinking on replacing the PSU to see if that helps - perhaps it's underpowered - but it doesn't seem to be struggling... the overheating generally only happened when I was doing things like encoding video for DVD (maxing the CPU as much as it will go).
No, I checked the hardware diagnostic in the BIOS. After about 80/85 it used to start resetting... tripping the internal auto-shutoff, etc
heatsink came with the fan, and it was hotter with the previous. And I've never had an AMD stay at 40c... right now it's happy at 49, but even the ones at work are usually close to that at normal temperature.
Here it's dry, perhaps more humid there?
Actually, I put the heatsink on with arctic silver. Processor isn't running overclocked either. I would suspect a defect except that for all other intents and purposes it runs perfectly fine.
It might not be uncommon either. We had a dual Athlon MP 2200 at work, one of two CPUs was constantly overheating. Replaced CPU, no problemo...
But for now I'll put up with the mega-fan, since the processor itself runs fine with proper cooling, and I'd hate to be without my main machine. What's the warantee on AMD, perhaps I'll send for replacement once I upgrade to a 64-bit rig.
But it's still not a close enough analogy. Reason being: you paid for the processor - thus you have ownership and are legally entitled to do what you want with it (short of discompiling/copying/etc).
;-)
In this case, it would be more like taking a car for a joyride only to find that it's a bait car... or perhaps stealing one from the mechanics only to find that the brake work wasn't quite done
One of the major complaints I have about my XP2500+ is that the thing runs hot, like really hot. We hit a heatwave locally and temperatures were up to about 40 celcius at peak. My CPU actually hit 95 celcius (for those that use Fahrenheit, 100 celcius is boiling temperature).
I have a bigass thermaltake fan in there now, which I can turn down when the weather is cooler. The computer is still rather noisy.
My point to all this is not AMD bashing however. Apparently the 64-bit CPUs do much better for heat dissipation. The CPU die is much larger (the actual die is small on an 32-bit Athlon), so heat dissipates much more nicely into the heatsink due to the increased surface contact area. When I do upgrade, I'll be going AMD64... more power (in 'nix anyhow) and cooler running than my current CPU.
Just because I "expect" a program to believe a specific way doesn't mean it will. Look at windows, lots of people "expect" it to work in a certain way, but quite often it does all sorts of funky things (some which can involve data loss).
Now, if you really wanted to, if you purchase a piece of software and doesn't behave as advertised, you could probably try and get your money back.
However, if you downloaded the software, or pirated it, or cracked it, what reasonable expectation do you have that it will work as you want? The expectation really is "works as advertised when used properly", and I don't count cracking as using a piece of software properly.
I believe that was the case quite some time ago with a game (racing game if I remember correctly, not sure on the title). The game carried a virus if you tried to illegitimately copy it, but the writers got in trouble for puttint it in there...
But realistically, the "that's funny" comment indicating a strange anomaly is replaced by the modern equivilent of WTF!!!!!
Seriously, I think that any radically unusual scientific discovered will probably be accompanied by one of the following:
a) What the [insert explitive here]
b) Holy sh*t, take a look at this
c) Damnit, WTF is going on with this... waaaaait a second.
d) Wait a second, that's not suppose to happ...
That, or you could just go with "(e) Zappppp... crackle.... guuuurgle.... arrgggh" and scientist #2 gets a nobel prize based on the investigation of the unusual demise of scientist #1
I don't think that's the point. Compiling a kernel module driver is trivial, and in most cases you don't need a whole kernel recompile (just the driver).
It's where you have custom patches etc (say for your USB device, video card, tablet, etc) that this becomes a pain... because a patch for 2.6.5 won't necessarily work in 2.6.6 etc.