What you describe is called mediation. Binding arbitration is not about settling, it's a non-judge making a decision about how the conflict is resolved. It is supposed to be legally binding, so if you'd want to fight the outcome in court you'd first have to get the arbitration itself declared invalid.
Oculus Rift is not the only VR option. I'm considering the HTC Vive, since they partnered with Valve, who seem more serious about Linux support than Oculus is.
They say they're using daylight resin, not UV resin. Which makes sense, since cell phone screens don't emit UV light. I found this site selling daylight resin, in opaque bottles.
In their print demo video they have an opaque bottle, but all the promo materials including the main video show clear bottles. So it seems there is some difference between the promo materials and the actual product.
I have a problem with them prosecuting a person in another country. Does that mean I am subject to foreign laws? This is all bullshit.
Most likely what he did was illegal in his own country as well. That's one of the things they look at when deciding whether to extradite someone or not.
And as general policy there should be no hacking laws. All traffic over a computer network is speech.
You could make a convincing argument for "with a computer" laws being a bad idea. But then cracking could be covered by a law against using deception to access information that you should have known you were not intended to access. Speech/writing can be illegal, for example fraud.
Looking through the recent releases for Linux, there are certainly some ambitious games there. I've heard good things about SUPERHOT, Factorio, Firewatch, XCOM2.
Overall, there is enough to play on Linux, but if you must play one particular game, chances are it's not there.
Steam requires an x86 (Intel/AMD) CPU and won't run on the ARM CPU in the Raspberry Pi. Steam on ARM might be a thing one day, but I imagine Valve would want Linux gaming on x86 more firmly established before even thinking about adding another platform.
Regarding cookies, you're always going to get one on my site, whether you are using Tor or not, to support logins. HTTP isn't session-based and you need cookies to simulate sessions, so that you can have logins and dispense privileges where appropriate.
If you hand out session IDs prior to authentication, you're vulnerable to session fixation. So giving session cookies to all visitors is not required for the purpose of supporting logins, since you're going to have to give them a new session ID after logging in.
If such a remote desktop is authenticated via password, a key logger on the compromised machine could capture it. That combined with the records system being accessible from the compromised network means the attackers could start their own remote desktop session to the records system.
It also wouldn't surprise me if patient records were untouched. Those are probably behind higher levels of security than the rest of the network. What I suspect happened is they lost a way of accessing them because all their other systems went down.
If they were accessing the patient records from compromised systems, then the patient records were not safe, even if the records server itself wasn't infected.
It's a short-sighted solution though. Their systems are still vulnerable, probably even still infected. And they validated the business model of the attackers, so more attacks will be coming.
Also, while the CEO insists that hospital records were not compromised, I'm reading that as "the attackers weren't interested in hospital records", not "the hospital records were safe".
As far as I know, BREIN is an industry-backed group with no government sponsoring.
They have collected on music royalties, even for songs that never signed onto a label or labels connected to them but never pay out.
I think you're confusing them with Buma/Stemra, who manage music royalties. They have indeed been accused of not paying out royalties when they should.
If Torrents Time is indeed just a browser plug-in that streams videos using the bittorrent protocol, then there is nothing illegal about the tool itself. It could be used for streaming videos legally or illegally, that depends on which torrents the site operator sends to the plug-in. In this regard, it's no different from any other torrent client.
Torrents Time as a monetization solution allows you to start nourishing a great relationship with your users where you profit, among other things, from subscriptions to VPN services, which is truly essential to your users. Your users on the other hand, can show their love and appreciation for everything you're doing for them by using these services which they need.
Why would users need a VPN? Those unfortunate enough to have an ISP that disrupts bittorrent traffic might want a VPN, but that's far from all users. If a site is distributing videos legally, most users won't need a VPN.
I once was an assistant in a course that taught beginners Java. Try explaining why they must have "public static void main(String[] args)" in all their programs when they are writing their first code ever...
As for C++, the only way I can imagine it being a beginner's language is that you'll regularly feel like a beginner even if you've used it for years.
The USA had a strong crypto export ban in the early 90's. There were no laws against using strong encryption, only about shipping crypto implementations. In practice, it meant that people in Europe had to download Netscape from a site outside the USA.
FreeBSD comes with compatibility for running Linux executables, but it doesn't let you run the Linux kernel unless you run it in a VM, which doesn't seem to be the case here judging from the boot logging. Getting the Linux kernel to run on the bare hardware means adding drivers to run on the PS4 hardware, which is PC-like but not exactly a PC, and I doubt Sony published their FreeBSD hardware drivers. Doing that in just 2 weeks time is pretty impressive in my opinion.
That's the way open source handles it: if someone submits a pull request with one huge patch that changes multiple things, it will most likely get rejected with the request to split it up into patches that change one thing each. It's the sensible thing to do if you care about the quality of the code base.
As much as I dislike exFAT because of the patent situation, I don't think this is the reason: iPhones have never had SD slots, not even before 64GB cards were available.
Take for example TNG or Voyager. Basically their best work was season 1/2 and the last season. Why? In the first season they were trying it out. Seeing what was cool. The middle seasons are meandering and rather boring. The last seasons though it was more 'screw it we are not getting renewed lets do something interesting'
With Voyager's first two seaons, to me it felt like they were trying it out but never finding a good foundation for the rest of the series. There was only one really memorable character (the doctor) and the antagonists (Kazons) were uninspired. So in season 3/4 they gave the doctor more screen time, brought in the Borg and added a new character (Seven of Nine). You could call that pandering to their audience, but it did improve things a bit in my opinion.
Still, for me Voyager had a good premise but failed to do much with it. Perhaps because they went to one-off episodes pretty quickly, while the "in hostile space a long way from home" theme would have worked better with more continuity. Compare it to for example the first two seasons of the Battlestar Galactica reboot: even a simple detail like the population counter they show every episode does a lot to reenforce that theme.
Speaking of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, there the first two seasons are also the best, but my guess is that's for exactly the opposite reason as the one you named: in the first seasons it feels like they knew exactly what they were doing, while in later seasons they were trying things out and losing focus. I wouldn't be surprised if they started filming with 2 seasons of fleshed out scripts and had to write the rest as the series was already running..
A fresh install was pretty quick, but it would slow down a lot over time as you installed applications which added DLLs, registry entries, fonts etc. And uninstalling an application usually didn't remove everything, so the only way to make Windows 95 quick again was reinstalling the whole OS.
Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work. It is just impossible until you can refill your car in 5 minutes like with gasoline...
There is no requirement to have a garage or driveway next to the house: charging stations can be built next to residential parking spots. And in some countries that is subsidized. I've seen several in the city I live in.
Oh, and many Europeans travel 1000+km on a single streak with their cars on holidays. Again, if the cars you want to sell have to wait 2 times 4 hours to refill in such travel, you're not going to sell many of them.
Some people do, but others always take a flight to their holiday destination. There are also families with two cars, they could have one gasoline car for long trips and one electric car for short distance travel.
Someone I know made a long holiday trip with a limited range electric car by spreading the travel out over a few days. It allows for some sight seeing along the way and it is less stressful than a long trip on a single day. It's a different way of travelling but it's not inferior if you're not in a hurry. It does require more planning, but with the internet at your fingertips that is easier than ever before.
In any case, the question is not whether the electric car will be the best choice for everyone. The question is how many people will pick an electric car and how that will affect the availability of infrastructure for both electric and gas.
We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
GitHub could decide to remove the project as "offensive" or "objectionable", which are pretty generic words.
However, the code itself is entirely neutral: it just requests API access via OAuth. It is the potential use by web sites that could be undesired. I think shutting down the GitHub project would be shooting the messenger.
For me personally, the most shocking aspect of this news is that 23andMe has an API for third parties to access your DNA profile.
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What you describe is called mediation. Binding arbitration is not about settling, it's a non-judge making a decision about how the conflict is resolved. It is supposed to be legally binding, so if you'd want to fight the outcome in court you'd first have to get the arbitration itself declared invalid.
Oculus Rift is not the only VR option. I'm considering the HTC Vive, since they partnered with Valve, who seem more serious about Linux support than Oculus is.
They say they're using daylight resin, not UV resin. Which makes sense, since cell phone screens don't emit UV light. I found this site selling daylight resin, in opaque bottles.
In their print demo video they have an opaque bottle, but all the promo materials including the main video show clear bottles. So it seems there is some difference between the promo materials and the actual product.
I have a problem with them prosecuting a person in another country. Does that mean I am subject to foreign laws? This is all bullshit.
Most likely what he did was illegal in his own country as well. That's one of the things they look at when deciding whether to extradite someone or not.
And as general policy there should be no hacking laws. All traffic over a computer network is speech.
You could make a convincing argument for "with a computer" laws being a bad idea. But then cracking could be covered by a law against using deception to access information that you should have known you were not intended to access. Speech/writing can be illegal, for example fraud.
Looking through the recent releases for Linux, there are certainly some ambitious games there. I've heard good things about SUPERHOT, Factorio, Firewatch, XCOM2.
Overall, there is enough to play on Linux, but if you must play one particular game, chances are it's not there.
Steam requires an x86 (Intel/AMD) CPU and won't run on the ARM CPU in the Raspberry Pi. Steam on ARM might be a thing one day, but I imagine Valve would want Linux gaming on x86 more firmly established before even thinking about adding another platform.
Regarding cookies, you're always going to get one on my site, whether you are using Tor or not, to support logins. HTTP isn't session-based and you need cookies to simulate sessions, so that you can have logins and dispense privileges where appropriate.
If you hand out session IDs prior to authentication, you're vulnerable to session fixation. So giving session cookies to all visitors is not required for the purpose of supporting logins, since you're going to have to give them a new session ID after logging in.
If such a remote desktop is authenticated via password, a key logger on the compromised machine could capture it. That combined with the records system being accessible from the compromised network means the attackers could start their own remote desktop session to the records system.
It also wouldn't surprise me if patient records were untouched. Those are probably behind higher levels of security than the rest of the network. What I suspect happened is they lost a way of accessing them because all their other systems went down.
If they were accessing the patient records from compromised systems, then the patient records were not safe, even if the records server itself wasn't infected.
It's a short-sighted solution though. Their systems are still vulnerable, probably even still infected. And they validated the business model of the attackers, so more attacks will be coming.
Also, while the CEO insists that hospital records were not compromised, I'm reading that as "the attackers weren't interested in hospital records", not "the hospital records were safe".
BREIN is a government-sponsored shake down.
As far as I know, BREIN is an industry-backed group with no government sponsoring.
They have collected on music royalties, even for songs that never signed onto a label or labels connected to them but never pay out.
I think you're confusing them with Buma/Stemra, who manage music royalties. They have indeed been accused of not paying out royalties when they should.
If Torrents Time is indeed just a browser plug-in that streams videos using the bittorrent protocol, then there is nothing illegal about the tool itself. It could be used for streaming videos legally or illegally, that depends on which torrents the site operator sends to the plug-in. In this regard, it's no different from any other torrent client.
That said, this bit from from the page for website owners sounds a bit dodgy:
Torrents Time as a monetization solution allows you to start nourishing a great relationship with your users where you profit, among other things, from subscriptions to VPN services, which is truly essential to your users. Your users on the other hand, can show their love and appreciation for everything you're doing for them by using these services which they need.
Why would users need a VPN? Those unfortunate enough to have an ISP that disrupts bittorrent traffic might want a VPN, but that's far from all users. If a site is distributing videos legally, most users won't need a VPN.
some flexibility to 'respond to emerging user and market needs'
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2017-01-24 – Firefox 51 (6 weeks from prior release)
I don't understand where they'll get the flexibility from when they're planning releases a year ahead...
I once was an assistant in a course that taught beginners Java. Try explaining why they must have "public static void main(String[] args)" in all their programs when they are writing their first code ever...
As for C++, the only way I can imagine it being a beginner's language is that you'll regularly feel like a beginner even if you've used it for years.
The USA had a strong crypto export ban in the early 90's. There were no laws against using strong encryption, only about shipping crypto implementations. In practice, it meant that people in Europe had to download Netscape from a site outside the USA.
FreeBSD comes with compatibility for running Linux executables, but it doesn't let you run the Linux kernel unless you run it in a VM, which doesn't seem to be the case here judging from the boot logging. Getting the Linux kernel to run on the bare hardware means adding drivers to run on the PS4 hardware, which is PC-like but not exactly a PC, and I doubt Sony published their FreeBSD hardware drivers. Doing that in just 2 weeks time is pretty impressive in my opinion.
That's the way open source handles it: if someone submits a pull request with one huge patch that changes multiple things, it will most likely get rejected with the request to split it up into patches that change one thing each. It's the sensible thing to do if you care about the quality of the code base.
As much as I dislike exFAT because of the patent situation, I don't think this is the reason: iPhones have never had SD slots, not even before 64GB cards were available.
The only difference between a jailbreak and a hostile exploit is the person using it.
Take for example TNG or Voyager. Basically their best work was season 1/2 and the last season. Why? In the first season they were trying it out. Seeing what was cool. The middle seasons are meandering and rather boring. The last seasons though it was more 'screw it we are not getting renewed lets do something interesting'
With Voyager's first two seaons, to me it felt like they were trying it out but never finding a good foundation for the rest of the series. There was only one really memorable character (the doctor) and the antagonists (Kazons) were uninspired. So in season 3/4 they gave the doctor more screen time, brought in the Borg and added a new character (Seven of Nine). You could call that pandering to their audience, but it did improve things a bit in my opinion.
Still, for me Voyager had a good premise but failed to do much with it. Perhaps because they went to one-off episodes pretty quickly, while the "in hostile space a long way from home" theme would have worked better with more continuity. Compare it to for example the first two seasons of the Battlestar Galactica reboot: even a simple detail like the population counter they show every episode does a lot to reenforce that theme.
Speaking of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, there the first two seasons are also the best, but my guess is that's for exactly the opposite reason as the one you named: in the first seasons it feels like they knew exactly what they were doing, while in later seasons they were trying things out and losing focus. I wouldn't be surprised if they started filming with 2 seasons of fleshed out scripts and had to write the rest as the series was already running..
A fresh install was pretty quick, but it would slow down a lot over time as you installed applications which added DLLs, registry entries, fonts etc. And uninstalling an application usually didn't remove everything, so the only way to make Windows 95 quick again was reinstalling the whole OS.
That might be true for some affairs, but "fall into" does not describe signing up at a site with the tagline "Life is short. Have an affair."
Again, this works in the US with big suburbs where everyone has a parking lot with an electric outlet. In other countries (like good old Europe), where most people live in apartments and there is just no way you can plug your car at night, it doesn't work. It is just impossible until you can refill your car in 5 minutes like with gasoline...
There is no requirement to have a garage or driveway next to the house: charging stations can be built next to residential parking spots. And in some countries that is subsidized. I've seen several in the city I live in.
Oh, and many Europeans travel 1000+km on a single streak with their cars on holidays. Again, if the cars you want to sell have to wait 2 times 4 hours to refill in such travel, you're not going to sell many of them.
Some people do, but others always take a flight to their holiday destination. There are also families with two cars, they could have one gasoline car for long trips and one electric car for short distance travel.
Someone I know made a long holiday trip with a limited range electric car by spreading the travel out over a few days. It allows for some sight seeing along the way and it is less stressful than a long trip on a single day. It's a different way of travelling but it's not inferior if you're not in a hurry. It does require more planning, but with the internet at your fingertips that is easier than ever before.
In any case, the question is not whether the electric car will be the best choice for everyone. The question is how many people will pick an electric car and how that will affect the availability of infrastructure for both electric and gas.
Article G7 of the GitHub ToS reads:
We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and Accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
GitHub could decide to remove the project as "offensive" or "objectionable", which are pretty generic words.
However, the code itself is entirely neutral: it just requests API access via OAuth. It is the potential use by web sites that could be undesired. I think shutting down the GitHub project would be shooting the messenger.
For me personally, the most shocking aspect of this news is that 23andMe has an API for third parties to access your DNA profile.