I watched the Panorama program last night - given the lead-up to this incident, I can't blame John Sweeney for one second for losing his head - in his position, I would have brained Tommy Davies or worse. Sweeney was followed and watched all the time he was there, every time he interviewed someone Davies would show up and present him with a dossier on their background, would never answer a straight question, would talk over Sweeney and generally be a royal pain in the ass.
I don't know. Pandora seems to me to be very good at serving up similar kinds of music, but there's no guarantee or control over whether I'll like it or not. Which is why I mostly listen to real radio.
Well, the 2.0 branch released 2.0.40 in 2004, well after 2.6 came out. The 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4 branches all have active maintainers. Given that 2.0 was released in June of '96, I'd say we don't compare too badly to the evil empire.
The big problem is that A-levels are supposed to be stand-alone, so all the maths needed for chemistry/physics/biology have to be taught in those courses and so you can quite easily arrive at uni with a poor level of maths.
And of course it is worth noting that the level of participation in hgiher education in China is a significantly smaller proportion than the UK, so it is hardly surprising that the entrance level materia is a little more demanding.
Indeed. We have in Britain a service that listens to a few seconds of music through your cellphone and then texts you the details of what you are listening to. Handy for that irritating forgetful moment.
Chicken and egg. Modern music production is often geared towards the kind of kit that most people listen on nowadays. I recently got a guided tour of a recording studio, and the most interesting thing I saw was a cheap, nasty CD/radio from Asda/Walmart which had been hacked open and connected up. All the mixes were checked through that as a normal part of the process.
I was listening to Lily Allan's album recently, and it struck me that there isn't much difference in what comes across between my hi-fi and the piece-of-crap stereo I have in the kitchen, although I have other discs I can't even listen to in the kitchen. There's a good reason for that.
Best audio cable I ever heard was det cable, for setting off explosives. Cheapest stuff available, too.
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It's pretty obvious - if Google connects you through to the business you choose, then that business will ertainly pay through the nose for the privilege.
First of all, it's important to figure out whose jurisdiction this comes under. If Corbis's terms and conditions are under English (not UK) law, then you do not have too much to worry about. If it's under US law, then you need to talk to your lawyers and most likely it is out of your hands. You've shown good faith in your actions so far, so I don't think you have too much to fear.
If it does come under UK law, which is most likely, then any lawsuit is unlikely. The reason is that UK courts will only award actual damages, plus expenses. So if the price of these images was for a permanent non-exclusive licence, then you are talking about paying damages for a 12 month term, which should be something like 8% of that figure at most, so you're talking $60 plus expenses. Hahaha. I can only assume that Corbis has instructed this firm to chase up all overseas infringement, and they're doing it in the most spectacular way they can (as lawyers tend to do). If this case did come before a British judge, I suspect he would be pretty pissed that they had not settled, given your willingness to co-operate.
The share price at the moment is being maintained by all those people who thought they would bet a couple of hundred bucks on SCO winning. Unlikely, but if they did, payday.
I have seen some clueless comments on/. in my time, even made a few myself, but you take the biscuit.
At any time you take your hands off the wheel or glance away from the road you massively increase your risk of having an accident. You might think that you are maintaining your attention on the road, but any psychologist can assure you it is a mental illusion. Your information processing level drops, your level of observation drops, and your chance of forgetting to carry out a procedure correctly increases. Your personal accident statistics are meaningless (and not good to start with). Anyone practicing defensive driving correctly will *never* cause an accident and will very rarely be involved in anything more serious than a shunt.
I have done enough driver training, both compulsory and off my own back, to know that the minute you start thinking of yourself as a good or safe driver, you are already in the danger zone. Good drivers are the ones that check their tyre pressure and get their cars serviced, not the ones who boast about their burger-chomping skills.
Try asking any salesman? Trust me, you try selling something for a few days and you'll quickly figure out there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it.
I wonder how many slashbots routinely use a computer as a tool, rather than a toy? I use accounting software and Office all day long, and I reckon that I spend 2 hours a week sitting waiting for my computer to complete an action that freezes the interface. Besides that, I suspect that poor interface design slows me down by something like 10-15% when I am working.
So when you have slow menus or dodgy mouse clicks (I can't blame Microsoft for my dodgy mouse that has more than once had me clcik on 'Discard' instead of 'Save'), they really do damage my ability to get things done, far more than a brain-dead back-up utility or lame defrag tools (clue: modern filesystems shouldn't need defragged. It's there as eye candy for users looking to waste time with their computer). Mine is a small company, but when you multiply my problems across a corporate landscape, you are talking about millions of wasted man-hours per year.
This happens a lot in small offices. My company doesn't have a full time IT administrator and the one person that knew the admin passwords left last year. Oops. So now we 'inherit' email accounts. I'm apparently next in line to get cindy. I'm using a gmail account, and ignoring everyone who is trying to tell me to consider the company image (which will be improved by not having up to date email addresses how?).
I'm not the only one who's noticed this, then? I'm a Dylan fan, and Youtube has been fantastic for discovering loads of rare videos - TV appearances from the sixties and so on - and they're now dissapearing. What's sad is that I own three albums that I had thought weren't any good because I found these videos. Now who's losing money?
It's really quite easy. You make your fake chip reader. Use one of the models that swallows almost the entire card, and include a swipe reader. Joe puts his card in the reader, you take a swipe. Take the PIN from Joe. Later on, you clone a card with only a magnetic strip (cash machines will happily read chipless cards - they assume the chip is broken). Stick it in a cash machine, and voila. All you need is a garage forecourt, say thirty-forty customers in an hour, one afternoon (say five hours, that's 150 customers). Clone your 150 cards, before midnight, withdraw 150*300, after midnight, repeat, walk away with 90 grand, minus expenses. A very repeatable scam, with plenty of possible variations.
I don't really follow this area very much, but I suspect that 98% of attacks on Chip and Pin cards rely on attacking the fallback mechanism.
We all have our own theories, but it seems pretty plain to me that Dumbledore was on the baddies side (there are hints here and there if you look for them (can you account for his servants at the end of book four?)). Hence, Snape is a goodie. The central theme of book seven is going to be Potter having to actually trust him. Veritas est.
I'm not an expert on audio perception, but I do know that I can play and hear up to 24 distinct notes per beat at 120bpm, which by my calculations works out at just under 21ms. That's playing a monophonic (wind) instrument, though.
The whole point of globalisation is that each country will end up doing what it is best suited to. So, China with its huge, poor population is best suited to mass manufacturing, and India with a well educated workforce in a small economy is best suited to using the brains of its people. Fair trade systems have been proposed many times before, but they are stupid and pointless, because less gets done. In the end, your American company which is forced to keep its jobs on-shore will lose out to a European or Asian company that had the chance to go where it liked. Now your American company employs no Americans *or* Indians. Whoops.
Globalisation is very hard on certain classes of people - specifically, those people whose skills or labour are commodities, or can be made into commodities. However, trying to stop it by throwing up barriers will make it worse for everyone.
This is just a variant of the Birthday Theorem at work (the idea that once you get more than twenty-something people in a room, the chances are two will share a birthday). Every pair of tracks has a possibility that you will consider them to be related, because they are the same artist, or the same song, or whatever. Given how many pairs of songs you have in your playlist, it is fairly likely that you will play closely related songs (to you) quite frequently.
Having just ploughed through it, yes. Security Engineering is a pretty powerful introduction to not just network security, but how to approach security at just about every level, from international politics, to commercial entities, to physical protection, internal policies, through hardware down to the nitty-gritty of how the bits can be moved around securely. Extremely densely referenced and incredibly wide ranging but never impenetrable. I'm not a computer scientist by any means, but I learnt an awful lot from that book. Reading the review, I would say the current offering is probably interesting reading if you are responsible for securing a corporate network, but if you are at all interested in security in a wider sense, then Security Engineering is a must read. And it's free for download, now;)
As others note, the chances are it leaked and now they're just blowing their own trumpets a bit. This reminds me strongly of an incident involving South African troops in Nigeria: the SAs were fighting Nigerian rebels (IIRC) on behalf of their government. The Nigerian rebels mounted an attack where their attack helicopters reflected the SAs incoming IFF radar to SA forces over the horizon; the reply was then relayed back through the Nigerian helicopters who mounted a strike right in the centre of the SA zone. Although the military damage was not huge, being outsmarted by black rebels was a major blow to (white) South African pride.
You are quite correct, but there is much more to say. Security commonly fails because of economic issues - this has become an area of academic interest in recent years - for example Ross Anderson, whose paper kicked off a lot of research into this area. BTW, his book is now also online, an excellent read.
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I watched the Panorama program last night - given the lead-up to this incident, I can't blame John Sweeney for one second for losing his head - in his position, I would have brained Tommy Davies or worse. Sweeney was followed and watched all the time he was there, every time he interviewed someone Davies would show up and present him with a dossier on their background, would never answer a straight question, would talk over Sweeney and generally be a royal pain in the ass.
I don't know. Pandora seems to me to be very good at serving up similar kinds of music, but there's no guarantee or control over whether I'll like it or not. Which is why I mostly listen to real radio.
Well, the 2.0 branch released 2.0.40 in 2004, well after 2.6 came out. The 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4 branches all have active maintainers. Given that 2.0 was released in June of '96, I'd say we don't compare too badly to the evil empire.
And of course it is worth noting that the level of participation in hgiher education in China is a significantly smaller proportion than the UK, so it is hardly surprising that the entrance level materia is a little more demanding.
Indeed. We have in Britain a service that listens to a few seconds of music through your cellphone and then texts you the details of what you are listening to. Handy for that irritating forgetful moment.
I was listening to Lily Allan's album recently, and it struck me that there isn't much difference in what comes across between my hi-fi and the piece-of-crap stereo I have in the kitchen, although I have other discs I can't even listen to in the kitchen. There's a good reason for that.
Best audio cable I ever heard was det cable, for setting off explosives. Cheapest stuff available, too.
It's pretty obvious - if Google connects you through to the business you choose, then that business will ertainly pay through the nose for the privilege.
If it does come under UK law, which is most likely, then any lawsuit is unlikely. The reason is that UK courts will only award actual damages, plus expenses. So if the price of these images was for a permanent non-exclusive licence, then you are talking about paying damages for a 12 month term, which should be something like 8% of that figure at most, so you're talking $60 plus expenses. Hahaha. I can only assume that Corbis has instructed this firm to chase up all overseas infringement, and they're doing it in the most spectacular way they can (as lawyers tend to do). If this case did come before a British judge, I suspect he would be pretty pissed that they had not settled, given your willingness to co-operate.
The share price at the moment is being maintained by all those people who thought they would bet a couple of hundred bucks on SCO winning. Unlikely, but if they did, payday.
At any time you take your hands off the wheel or glance away from the road you massively increase your risk of having an accident. You might think that you are maintaining your attention on the road, but any psychologist can assure you it is a mental illusion. Your information processing level drops, your level of observation drops, and your chance of forgetting to carry out a procedure correctly increases. Your personal accident statistics are meaningless (and not good to start with). Anyone practicing defensive driving correctly will *never* cause an accident and will very rarely be involved in anything more serious than a shunt.
I have done enough driver training, both compulsory and off my own back, to know that the minute you start thinking of yourself as a good or safe driver, you are already in the danger zone. Good drivers are the ones that check their tyre pressure and get their cars serviced, not the ones who boast about their burger-chomping skills.
Try asking any salesman? Trust me, you try selling something for a few days and you'll quickly figure out there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it.
Correct. This post is brought to you with an Athlon XP 1800 and 256MB of RAM, and it gets faster every time I upgrade.
So when you have slow menus or dodgy mouse clicks (I can't blame Microsoft for my dodgy mouse that has more than once had me clcik on 'Discard' instead of 'Save'), they really do damage my ability to get things done, far more than a brain-dead back-up utility or lame defrag tools (clue: modern filesystems shouldn't need defragged. It's there as eye candy for users looking to waste time with their computer). Mine is a small company, but when you multiply my problems across a corporate landscape, you are talking about millions of wasted man-hours per year.
This happens a lot in small offices. My company doesn't have a full time IT administrator and the one person that knew the admin passwords left last year. Oops. So now we 'inherit' email accounts. I'm apparently next in line to get cindy. I'm using a gmail account, and ignoring everyone who is trying to tell me to consider the company image (which will be improved by not having up to date email addresses how?).
I'm not the only one who's noticed this, then? I'm a Dylan fan, and Youtube has been fantastic for discovering loads of rare videos - TV appearances from the sixties and so on - and they're now dissapearing. What's sad is that I own three albums that I had thought weren't any good because I found these videos. Now who's losing money?
I don't really follow this area very much, but I suspect that 98% of attacks on Chip and Pin cards rely on attacking the fallback mechanism.
We all have our own theories, but it seems pretty plain to me that Dumbledore was on the baddies side (there are hints here and there if you look for them (can you account for his servants at the end of book four?)). Hence, Snape is a goodie. The central theme of book seven is going to be Potter having to actually trust him. Veritas est.
Try defamation.
I'm not an expert on audio perception, but I do know that I can play and hear up to 24 distinct notes per beat at 120bpm, which by my calculations works out at just under 21ms. That's playing a monophonic (wind) instrument, though.
The whole point of globalisation is that each country will end up doing what it is best suited to. So, China with its huge, poor population is best suited to mass manufacturing, and India with a well educated workforce in a small economy is best suited to using the brains of its people. Fair trade systems have been proposed many times before, but they are stupid and pointless, because less gets done. In the end, your American company which is forced to keep its jobs on-shore will lose out to a European or Asian company that had the chance to go where it liked. Now your American company employs no Americans *or* Indians. Whoops.
Globalisation is very hard on certain classes of people - specifically, those people whose skills or labour are commodities, or can be made into commodities. However, trying to stop it by throwing up barriers will make it worse for everyone.
This is just a variant of the Birthday Theorem at work (the idea that once you get more than twenty-something people in a room, the chances are two will share a birthday). Every pair of tracks has a possibility that you will consider them to be related, because they are the same artist, or the same song, or whatever. Given how many pairs of songs you have in your playlist, it is fairly likely that you will play closely related songs (to you) quite frequently.
Having just ploughed through it, yes. Security Engineering is a pretty powerful introduction to not just network security, but how to approach security at just about every level, from international politics, to commercial entities, to physical protection, internal policies, through hardware down to the nitty-gritty of how the bits can be moved around securely. Extremely densely referenced and incredibly wide ranging but never impenetrable. I'm not a computer scientist by any means, but I learnt an awful lot from that book. Reading the review, I would say the current offering is probably interesting reading if you are responsible for securing a corporate network, but if you are at all interested in security in a wider sense, then Security Engineering is a must read. And it's free for download, now ;)
As others note, the chances are it leaked and now they're just blowing their own trumpets a bit. This reminds me strongly of an incident involving South African troops in Nigeria: the SAs were fighting Nigerian rebels (IIRC) on behalf of their government. The Nigerian rebels mounted an attack where their attack helicopters reflected the SAs incoming IFF radar to SA forces over the horizon; the reply was then relayed back through the Nigerian helicopters who mounted a strike right in the centre of the SA zone. Although the military damage was not huge, being outsmarted by black rebels was a major blow to (white) South African pride.
You are quite correct, but there is much more to say. Security commonly fails because of economic issues - this has become an area of academic interest in recent years - for example Ross Anderson, whose paper kicked off a lot of research into this area. BTW, his book is now also online, an excellent read.