Stuff being brought into the country is of higher purity because its easier to smuggle smaller quantities. Those small quantities can be turned into large ones when cut(mixed with something else).
Prices are certainly higher though, I don't know where the GP came up with that one. The fact that it is controlled and not availible though other sources or comoditized is why its smuggled it. The deals can charge almost whatever they want to.
Well acording to the TFA, I think it would sound more like: "Mmm gut suggfutt Mmm dup cor" even that might be a bit vowl lead sylable happy for our simple spoken ancestors.
If you are talking about X applications, try holding you alt key while clicking and dragging on some area of the window that does not have a widget on it. You should be able to move it.
Exactly Encyclopedias are a place to get enough of a handle on a topic quickly so that you can approach your actually research in a directed and intelligent way. They should be thought of as a tool get "get the right search terms". They let you collect a quick list of names and dates related to a topic and help you point in some directions you may not have known about.
They are not source material. Wikipedia is as good as any for the above; perhaps better. Any tool is likely to fail if used improperly or for the wrong job. You would try and change a light bulb with vice-grips would you?
I don't know where you have been but Cisco has used intel process in most of their equipment for a long time now. Pop the cover off pix sometime you will find a pentium. The same is true for most routers. I have not opened a switch up for a long time, those may or may not be intel.
Really its worse then that. Almost every state New York included, I just IMed a friend who lives there, already requires you to pay sales tax or rather "use tax" on goods purchased out of state and not taxed by that state, some even if those goods were taxed by the other state. When you file your state income taxes there is a line that says something like, "do you owe use tax on items purchased out of state...."
Most likely if you bought something from Amazon you do. Now the state has no way to know this and outside of asking questions about big ticket items for which there would be records likes cars, they could not even hope to discover this information in an audit; so most people I know lie and answer zero. Stil I don't see what justification New York can have for effectivly shifting the burden of enforicing its tax laws on business that operating outside the sate? That certainly is not fair. New York should find a way to deal with the dishonesty and tax evasion of its own citizens on its own.
I also have to wonder if there is any legal way for New York to enforce such a rule. Does Amazon for instance use FOB shipping? If they do then they accepted money, outside of the state, and completed their liability getting the product to UPS outside of the state. UPS or whatever shiper then might be liable for some New York taxes since they have to complete part of the transaction in the state. If the sellers agrement is FOB though then they have really done no part of the transaction inside the state and can't be held to its tax rules.
It seams to me it would be more fair for the state to levy some sort of out-of-state sales tax recovery as part of income, and give residents the option to itemize or pay the standard levy. That would stop people from reporting 0 without at least some evidence.
Its safe bet someone would get hurt; probably lots of someones. Regardless on your feels about the war in Iraq some things are true:
1. War always requires some sort of damage beyond soldiers and military equipment or it never ends. One of the host socienties must feel enough pain to give up the fight.
2. We have put extraordinary effort into not harming civilan populations, we have done a good job in the historical sense of finging wars but lots of innocent people have still been hurt. Lots of non-militarilay valuable property has been destroyed.
3. Acording to the article summary we have already demonstraited an inability to produce robots that can correctly identify targets and non-targets.
There are some who look at Iraq and Vietnam and wonder if our instance on 2 is at least partly to blame for our (I wont say failures, if we are beening intelectually host its not fair), less then total success. So a war fought entirely by proxy with robots(If they worked) might be a very long one. I would image it would only end when it was economicly or enviornmentally (those are really not separte) possible to keep building robots. That would be in many ways worse for the human populations then if we just died on the battle field. Finally we don't know for sure the robots wont work properly but I am not optimistic given fact number three. Hell we are talking about governments here both US and European alike that can't manage to execute their own elections acording to their own rules; electronicly or otherwise.
Stings like hell Are you kidding don't you know how these things actually work.
Step one: Legislative arm decides to make themselves look importation, so they create some ban on M$ software purchases Step two: Administrative arm convinces legislative arm its time for major upgrades. Step three: Funds are approved. Step four: Wait for the public to forget the particulars of step 1 Step five: Administrative arm makes massive M$ purchases before ban in step one takes effect. Step six: Microsoft Profits Step seven: Ban expires just in time for M$ next major platform relase Step eight: Funds are approved: Step nine: Microsoft Profits...
Governments both in the US and Europe have been playing this game with companies and industry's that they like to support but the public is angry with. It lets them look to the public like they are doing something about these concerns while at the same time supporting them just as much or more then before. Its an old con.
Yea, you know what when your trying to run an organization that has small office with no local IT presents your strategy won't work. Let me tell you why:
1. You will have plenty of people not capeable of booting off your image dvd and realoading the system . Lets assume your are running windows and have an unattended answer file to even do mini setup for them. They still have more then likely need to do some post config no matter how much you have scripted. You will have to walk them through it and or do it for them with remote via SMS or what have you. Either way its going to take all your time.
2. You can't just restore all there files in the middle of the day. Chances are you designed the network to be able to deliver whatever word doc, excel sheet and pdf file the user needs from your central file servers in a reasonable amout of time while it also carries voice, and video. If you start letting users run their own machines they are going to have local files, and you are going to have to back them up. You might be able to do that off peak at night. You can't restore during the day though:You can't just shut off QOS and say tell with everyones phone calls and video conferences, John needs his files restored in less then 6 hours.
3. See two.
4. Ok you probably can and should enfore your retention policy server side. Can the use get at those archives on there own. Lets assume exchange you can create pointers in the message store to your out of store archive solution objects. They can be visible to mailbox users or not. Now if you chose not you then you are goign to be spending lots of time finding old e-mails for them. If you chose yes then the user really can't remove them which is hardly letting them be in control. Most MUA's(that are not the ones you picked) won't understand why they can't delete certain messages from the mail store. That will creat lots of phone calls and lots of headaches too.
5. See 4
6. You do have to control the end points you can't have the use running certain platforms without protection. If you get worm or something once again security of other machines, other service could be compromised you can't allow that. Ok so fine you can tamper proof your a/v solution even when the user is a local admin on a windows or mac machine. Now when they format and install something else then what? Are you going to make a special exception for them in the access rules, say "sorry Charlie" what? Again time you don't have.
finally,
Do you want to work at an organization where you could get fired for mishandling your own files? I don't I would rather work some place where someone else provided me a somewhat control platform and tools to backup my files; provided they take on some responsibility for that data along with that. Yes you can't install Google desktop search on members of my domain. Why because the the helpdesk/desktop people tell me it breaks some of our important apps like our call center software. So I put a policy to prevent it. You can't run Google but you can take customer Orders! This helps you not get canned for failing to pull your weight and make sales. Its better for everyone!
This is not new reasearch at all. My Psyc 101 prof had this same discussion with us years ago. Basically like in most other aspects of life we interpret events they we want to do it.
The human brain takes a diverse and complex set of inputs and forces a linear and seemingly, at least to itself, rational interpetation of those inputs. Most of the time our brains are similar enough that we write a fairly similar story as they next guy/gal given similar input. It also helps that a major input is social elements from our shared culture which go along way to shaping those stories. We do however remain individuals.
This entire study pretty much comes down to a few scenerios.
1. Guy meets girl, guy has no sexual interest in girl(rare indeed:-) )
2. Girl (is/is not) sexualy interested and acts in some favorable way toward guy beyound basic social expectations of politeness.
3. Guy's brain attempts to make since of these inputs(it must because that is what brains do) its biased by other expectaions/desires and decides that she must want to be friends, and the story gets writen.
Or
1. Guy meets girl, guy is attracted to girl.
2. Girl (is/is not) sexualy interested and acts in some favorable way toward guy beyound basic social expectations of politeness.
3. Guy's brain attempts to make since of these inputs(it must because that is what brains do) its biased by other expectaions/desires and decides that she must want to be his girl friend or at least screw and the story gets writen.
Now this is by no means scientific but I have a fair number female friends(hmm maybe some really just want sex have to check on that later) and from my observation of them and their strings of looser guys they seems behave just like men do. Conversations with them confirm this, sometimes I think if I have to listen to one more of these "so does that mean he is interested in me" conversations I might have kill them.
The forced smiles alone on their hand-picked robot citizens that will be obviously ordered to mill around Olympic Village and say wonderful things about China will be enough to make me hurl on my flat screen. Yes the flat screen, which almost beyond any doubt was infact manufactured there...
If you need that kind of security what you do is make everyone understand they should be getting a copy of the document in file type X. That document with have a signature at the end of it which is signed which is a hash of of the document and then signed with your private key. They can validate the hash is valid using your public key, they can validate the document has not be altered(written) by ensuring the hash comes out the value they decrypted with your public key.
You don't need to prevent the document for being edited you need to make it impossible to edit the document with anyone knowing its been edit. You can do that latter(mostly).
The only way this breaks down is if somebody body makes a forgery and convinces the end recipient that their public key is in fact your public key. Now you have a social problem. In a corporate world you can make policy like you must obtain the public key from some out of band verifiable method. Like a diskette must be couriered, of the key must be read allowed over the phone etc etc.
Its also an entropy thing. It may well be that like almost everything else we observe information follows a concentration gradient. That is if you concentrate information with a small group of people you have to constantly expend energy keeping it there. So if you decide gee I only want people who purchase a certain bit of plastic to watch my move you have to put alot of energy into keeping the movie on the plastic. Eventually it will get off if you don't. It may well be that DRM is like heating your house; the more insulation you have(stronger DRM scheme) the better but as soon as you take the input energy away (turn off the heater)/(complete your encrypting) the temperature will always equalize with the outside(the movie will propagate to places where the disk is not present).
Seriously this campain against the incandescent bulb is stupid. Ok so an incandecent lamp is about 10% efficent, fine. Guess what though that is a LIE. The way I use them (at night in my home) about 9 months of the year I want the heat (northeast Ohio). So actually I am getting very effiecent use of the electrical power it takes run that bulb.
So in exchange for some energy savings in the summer months with the CFL we get to dispose of the plastic bases which are most likey not biodegradeable and or pay to recycle them. We also get to put all sorts of toxic chemistry like phosphorse and mercury into the ground or USE more energy to run some sort of facility to properly process and dispose of these things. Gee you know what that old incandescent bulb is starting to look pretty friendly to the environment by comparision.
I am not saying CFLs are bad, they just should not be used everywhere as "the green" solution there are situations where they are appropriate and ones where they are not. They work great on the garage door opener for instance. I don't want to heat the garage ever(well very rarely) and they are less vibration sensitive then incandecents. So there is a real energy saving their probably.
All this legislation to end the incandecent bulp is really short sited. Technology should be used where it fits. Judgements should be made on a situation basis. Take CAFE standards, lay all the BS about whats a truck whats a car aside, you still have the dumb standards in the first place. I can't run my engine as hot and lean as the metal would allow, because if I do the NOx emmission will be through the roof. The thing is by running it cooler its less efficent more gas is burned resulting in more other kinds of emmissions. There is also major negative impact from harvesting and refineing oil in the first place that is being ignored. If we could five mpg more out of current technology ICEs just by relaxing the NOx emmisions rules it might well be a win, especially with the availibility issues with oil we are starting to see.
Our entire eco-policy is total BS that might as well have been written by poo-slinging monkeys. There are some obvious common sense rules about disposal of dangerous materials beyond that its fair to say we should legislate that blaten waste of energy not be allowed. Perhaps you should not be allowed to air condition your home to a temp of less then 74 without a medical waivor and or heat it beyond 69. Maybe it should be illegal to drive a vehicle that is larger then X sq feet without multiple occupants or cargo. Want to own that SUV? then you need a small car when its just you driving to work etc etc. This all needs careful though and it needs to be done on a local level.
I know that makes it hard for big manufacturers to deal with but whats sensible in Northern Ohio might not make sense for Southern Texas. Its time we swallow the hard pill and realize that we need to try and use our brains to solve our energey and pollution problems and that means all our brains yours, mine, and bill over in San Franciso. We can't expect some fuck'wit in Washington DC to fix everything.
But its not $1 in damages. The damage is much greater then that. The GPL is not a give something away license, its a give something away in exchange for benefits of whatever development someone else does should they decide to distribute the software. So the damages are at the very least whatever the economic value of Verizon's contributions to the code base.
Its also worth consideration that if they were allowed to violate the license without consequences it would possibly weaken its enforceability elsewhere so there should be additional damages for that.
Verizon has crawled in bed with IP loving whores such as the RIAA and MPAA these companies MUST be made to understand the concept of intellectual property at least the way we deal with it today is bad for everyone. So when we(the community) get a legitimate chance to put the hurt on someone we should do so.
Its not the same as before though. In 1986 I could get something for my money buying a 386, even if there was no new software in my plans. You got speed. Moving your DOS bases accounting package from that PC-AT at 6mhz to a 368 running at 20mhz let you do your payroll cycle faster.
Assuming clock rates don't increase much; and they have not been, and instruction sets don't improve much, and the have not been; then beyond 3-4 cores I don't get any kind of improvement in the desktop world. I don't even see much improvement in the server world other then for running vmware and a few applications like database software that is some what parallelized; even that stuff though stops scaling well in most cases past core 8.
That means there will be no demand for new chips accross the majority of the business sector. That is a big problem of Intel and AMD.
I know it was intended to be funny but network connectivity in Kentucky is actually pretty bad. The MPLS links at our northern Kentucky locations or some of the slowest across our network but also the most expensive. It costs more then Spokane Washington.
No its still ridiculous, but its even more ridiculous that because you happen to be a billion dollar + business interest the rules don't apply to you. If the IOC can sue you and I for millions just because we use the name Olmpic on something even when its hardly trade mark infringment because nobody would confuse it with anything related to the IOC. Then yea if they copy your flash game you should get millions for it.
I think its stupid that we live in a world where downloading a song lands you 100K in leagal damages. but if its such a big deal when the little guy questionably infringes on some entieties copyright/trademak/patent what have you then it should be just as big a deal when the little guys work gets infringed upon.
Look, basic authentication would have been pretty effective. Even if it were sending the device ESN as the username and some account number as a password. Its not like it easy for me or most users to put a packet sniffer on the cellular network. I don't know if there service was web based or if it had a fatter client on the device in either case:
1. Any browser even on a mobile phone can be expected to support baisc plain text authentication....
2. Any first semester idot programer should be able to handle the simple string manipulation to pull off basic authentication over sockets with a standard web browser.
Had they done at least this then they could make the resonable claimb that their service was being abused/hacked if people started watching on non phone devices. Secon the Apache auth log would have been possibly interesting for data-mining. You'd know which customers watched, rather then what ip watched what.
There would have been alot to gained by using at least basic auth and it would not have been much development effort to make it work on most devices. You are after all already playing digital video from a stream; and you want me to belive that you can do that reliably across a wide range of devices but you can't manage CHAP?
This attitude is why even tho our computers are 1000x faster then we had 20 years ago, they actually perform worse overall.
I would say yes and no. Its one thing to have the computer do something simply becase it can; I agree that is very wasteful. Raytracing is not needed on a 300x200 screen; especically while plaing a game and things are moving.
On the otherhand 20 years ago like today we compormised and dispensed with things or found was to "fake it" in cases where the computer's conuld not deliver. Its really not critical shadows are rendered perfectly on my mobile phone while I am playing Doom57 Mobile Edition. An architecture program on my desktop though It would be nice to see how objects will turely look when lit.
Its silly to continue living with the compromises of the past, when we no longer need to, its equally silly and wasteful to do manything being done on production(research is always good) computers today just because we can.
While I think you're point is generally correct SQL Server has little to do with Oracle. SQL Server is instread the poster child for why you never partner with M$ on a development project. M$ licensed Sybase for the core of SQL Server and the two oranization agreed to continue to share code. Now M$ went and spent all their engergy doing things very tightly coupled to Windows and therfore not useful to the cross platform Sybase product.
They then marketed SQL Server more agressively and cheaper, sucking up all the oxygen as per usual. This has turned Sybase into pretty much a legacy vendor like Novell without Suse. Really its kinda similar to Windows and OS/2.
unless its like a settlement you get after the subsequent rape trial... You are correct though if you agree to the 800mil up front that makes you a high priced whore, not a rape victim.
The X61 is a total crap. Its am embarassment to the otherwise good name Thinkpad. The harddisk it ships with is insanely slow, the batter life is awful(45min under normal excel use) unless you make the thing bigger and heavy with the exteneded model. The plasic feels and looks cheap and on top of everything else the restore software for it, which you have to pay extra for does not work.
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Stuff being brought into the country is of higher purity because its easier to smuggle smaller quantities. Those small quantities can be turned into large ones when cut(mixed with something else).
Prices are certainly higher though, I don't know where the GP came up with that one. The fact that it is controlled and not availible though other sources or comoditized is why its smuggled it. The deals can charge almost whatever they want to.
Well acording to the TFA, I think it would sound more like: "Mmm gut suggfutt Mmm dup cor" even that might be a bit vowl lead sylable happy for our simple spoken ancestors.
If you are talking about X applications, try holding you alt key while clicking and dragging on some area of the window that does not have a widget on it. You should be able to move it.
Exactly Encyclopedias are a place to get enough of a handle on a topic quickly so that you can approach your actually research in a directed and intelligent way. They should be thought of as a tool get "get the right search terms". They let you collect a quick list of names and dates related to a topic and help you point in some directions you may not have known about.
They are not source material. Wikipedia is as good as any for the above; perhaps better. Any tool is likely to fail if used improperly or for the wrong job. You would try and change a light bulb with vice-grips would you?
I don't know where you have been but Cisco has used intel process in most of their equipment for a long time now. Pop the cover off pix sometime you will find a pentium. The same is true for most routers. I have not opened a switch up for a long time, those may or may not be intel.
Hey he must have done it
"One pice at a time so it didn't cost him a dime"
He could have easily stuck the parts in his big lunch box. Johny Cache claims in to gotten a free car out GM that way in one of his songs...
Really its worse then that. Almost every state New York included, I just IMed a friend who lives there, already requires you to pay sales tax or rather "use tax" on goods purchased out of state and not taxed by that state, some even if those goods were taxed by the other state. When you file your state income taxes there is a line that says something like, "do you owe use tax on items purchased out of state...."
Most likely if you bought something from Amazon you do. Now the state has no way to know this and outside of asking questions about big ticket items for which there would be records likes cars, they could not even hope to discover this information in an audit; so most people I know lie and answer zero. Stil I don't see what justification New York can have for effectivly shifting the burden of enforicing its tax laws on business that operating outside the sate? That certainly is not fair. New York should find a way to deal with the dishonesty and tax evasion of its own citizens on its own.
I also have to wonder if there is any legal way for New York to enforce such a rule. Does Amazon for instance use FOB shipping? If they do then they accepted money, outside of the state, and completed their liability getting the product to UPS outside of the state. UPS or whatever shiper then might be liable for some New York taxes since they have to complete part of the transaction in the state. If the sellers agrement is FOB though then they have really done no part of the transaction inside the state and can't be held to its tax rules.
It seams to me it would be more fair for the state to levy some sort of out-of-state sales tax recovery as part of income, and give residents the option to itemize or pay the standard levy. That would stop people from reporting 0 without at least some evidence.
Its safe bet someone would get hurt; probably lots of someones. Regardless on your feels about the war in Iraq some things are true:
1. War always requires some sort of damage beyond soldiers and military equipment or it never ends. One of the host socienties must feel enough pain to give up the fight.
2. We have put extraordinary effort into not harming civilan populations, we have done a good job in the historical sense of finging wars but lots of innocent people have still been hurt. Lots of non-militarilay valuable property has been destroyed.
3. Acording to the article summary we have already demonstraited an inability to produce robots that can correctly identify targets and non-targets.
There are some who look at Iraq and Vietnam and wonder if our instance on 2 is at least partly to blame for our (I wont say failures, if we are beening intelectually host its not fair), less then total success. So a war fought entirely by proxy with robots(If they worked) might be a very long one. I would image it would only end when it was economicly or enviornmentally (those are really not separte) possible to keep building robots. That would be in many ways worse for the human populations then if we just died on the battle field. Finally we don't know for sure the robots wont work properly but I am not optimistic given fact number three. Hell we are talking about governments here both US and European alike that can't manage to execute their own elections acording to their own rules; electronicly or otherwise.
Why do think we could build a robot army again?
Step one: Legislative arm decides to make themselves look importation, so they create some ban on M$ software purchases
Step two: Administrative arm convinces legislative arm its time for major upgrades.
Step three: Funds are approved.
Step four: Wait for the public to forget the particulars of step 1
Step five: Administrative arm makes massive M$ purchases before ban in step one takes effect.
Step six: Microsoft Profits
Step seven: Ban expires just in time for M$ next major platform relase
Step eight: Funds are approved:
Step nine: Microsoft Profits...
Governments both in the US and Europe have been playing this game with companies and industry's that they like to support but the public is angry with. It lets them look to the public like they are doing something about these concerns while at the same time supporting them just as much or more then before. Its an old con.
Yea, you know what when your trying to run an organization that has small office with no local IT presents your strategy won't work. Let me tell you why:
1. You will have plenty of people not capeable of booting off your image dvd and realoading the system . Lets assume your are running windows and have an unattended answer file to even do mini setup for them. They still have more then likely need to do some post config no matter how much you have scripted. You will have to walk them through it and or do it for them with remote via SMS or what have you. Either way its going to take all your time.
2. You can't just restore all there files in the middle of the day. Chances are you designed the network to be able to deliver whatever word doc, excel sheet and pdf file the user needs from your central file servers in a reasonable amout of time while it also carries voice, and video. If you start letting users run their own machines they are going to have local files, and you are going to have to back them up. You might be able to do that off peak at night. You can't restore during the day though:You can't just shut off QOS and say tell with everyones phone calls and video conferences, John needs his files restored in less then 6 hours.
3. See two.
4. Ok you probably can and should enfore your retention policy server side. Can the use get at those archives on there own. Lets assume exchange you can create pointers in the message store to your out of store archive solution objects. They can be visible to mailbox users or not. Now if you chose not you then you are goign to be spending lots of time finding old e-mails for them. If you chose yes then the user really can't remove them which is hardly letting them be in control. Most MUA's(that are not the ones you picked) won't understand why they can't delete certain messages from the mail store. That will creat lots of phone calls and lots of headaches too.
5. See 4
6. You do have to control the end points you can't have the use running certain platforms without protection. If you get worm or something once again security of other machines, other service could be compromised you can't allow that. Ok so fine you can tamper proof your a/v solution even when the user is a local admin on a windows or mac machine. Now when they format and install something else then what? Are you going to make a special exception for them in the access rules, say "sorry Charlie" what? Again time you don't have.
finally,
Do you want to work at an organization where you could get fired for mishandling your own files? I don't I would rather work some place where someone else provided me a somewhat control platform and tools to backup my files; provided they take on some responsibility for that data along with that. Yes you can't install Google desktop search on members of my domain. Why because the the helpdesk/desktop people tell me it breaks some of our important apps like our call center software. So I put a policy to prevent it. You can't run Google but you can take customer Orders! This helps you not get canned for failing to pull your weight and make sales. Its better for everyone!
This is not new reasearch at all. My Psyc 101 prof had this same discussion with us years ago. Basically like in most other aspects of life we interpret events they we want to do it.
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The human brain takes a diverse and complex set of inputs and forces a linear and seemingly, at least to itself, rational interpetation of those inputs. Most of the time our brains are similar enough that we write a fairly similar story as they next guy/gal given similar input. It also helps that a major input is social elements from our shared culture which go along way to shaping those stories. We do however remain individuals.
This entire study pretty much comes down to a few scenerios.
1. Guy meets girl, guy has no sexual interest in girl(rare indeed
2. Girl (is/is not) sexualy interested and acts in some favorable way toward guy beyound basic social expectations of politeness.
3. Guy's brain attempts to make since of these inputs(it must because that is what brains do) its biased by other expectaions/desires and decides that she must want to be friends, and the story gets writen.
Or
1. Guy meets girl, guy is attracted to girl.
2. Girl (is/is not) sexualy interested and acts in some favorable way toward guy beyound basic social expectations of politeness.
3. Guy's brain attempts to make since of these inputs(it must because that is what brains do) its biased by other expectaions/desires and decides that she must want to be his girl friend or at least screw and the story gets writen.
Now this is by no means scientific but I have a fair number female friends(hmm maybe some really just want sex have to check on that later) and from my observation of them and their strings of looser guys they seems behave just like men do. Conversations with them confirm this, sometimes I think if I have to listen to one more of these "so does that mean he is interested in me" conversations I might have kill them.
150 years! Why this guy had the most effective ARM scheme ever!
If you need that kind of security what you do is make everyone understand they should be getting a copy of the document in file type X. That document with have a signature at the end of it which is signed which is a hash of of the document and then signed with your private key. They can validate the hash is valid using your public key, they can validate the document has not be altered(written) by ensuring the hash comes out the value they decrypted with your public key.
You don't need to prevent the document for being edited you need to make it impossible to edit the document with anyone knowing its been edit. You can do that latter(mostly).
The only way this breaks down is if somebody body makes a forgery and convinces the end recipient that their public key is in fact your public key. Now you have a social problem. In a corporate world you can make policy like you must obtain the public key from some out of band verifiable method. Like a diskette must be couriered, of the key must be read allowed over the phone etc etc.
Its also an entropy thing. It may well be that like almost everything else we observe information follows a concentration gradient. That is if you concentrate information with a small group of people you have to constantly expend energy keeping it there. So if you decide gee I only want people who purchase a certain bit of plastic to watch my move you have to put alot of energy into keeping the movie on the plastic. Eventually it will get off if you don't. It may well be that DRM is like heating your house; the more insulation you have(stronger DRM scheme) the better but as soon as you take the input energy away (turn off the heater)/(complete your encrypting) the temperature will always equalize with the outside(the movie will propagate to places where the disk is not present).
Seriously this campain against the incandescent bulb is stupid. Ok so an incandecent lamp is about 10% efficent, fine. Guess what though that is a LIE. The way I use them (at night in my home) about 9 months of the year I want the heat (northeast Ohio). So actually I am getting very effiecent use of the electrical power it takes run that bulb.
So in exchange for some energy savings in the summer months with the CFL we get to dispose of the plastic bases which are most likey not biodegradeable and or pay to recycle them. We also get to put all sorts of toxic chemistry like phosphorse and mercury into the ground or USE more energy to run some sort of facility to properly process and dispose of these things. Gee you know what that old incandescent bulb is starting to look pretty friendly to the environment by comparision.
I am not saying CFLs are bad, they just should not be used everywhere as "the green" solution there are situations where they are appropriate and ones where they are not. They work great on the garage door opener for instance. I don't want to heat the garage ever(well very rarely) and they are less vibration sensitive then incandecents. So there is a real energy saving their probably.
All this legislation to end the incandecent bulp is really short sited. Technology should be used where it fits. Judgements should be made on a situation basis. Take CAFE standards, lay all the BS about whats a truck whats a car aside, you still have the dumb standards in the first place. I can't run my engine as hot and lean as the metal would allow, because if I do the NOx emmission will be through the roof. The thing is by running it cooler its less efficent more gas is burned resulting in more other kinds of emmissions. There is also major negative impact from harvesting and refineing oil in the first place that is being ignored. If we could five mpg more out of current technology ICEs just by relaxing the NOx emmisions rules it might well be a win, especially with the availibility issues with oil we are starting to see.
Our entire eco-policy is total BS that might as well have been written by poo-slinging monkeys. There are some obvious common sense rules about disposal of dangerous materials beyond that its fair to say we should legislate that blaten waste of energy not be allowed. Perhaps you should not be allowed to air condition your home to a temp of less then 74 without a medical waivor and or heat it beyond 69. Maybe it should be illegal to drive a vehicle that is larger then X sq feet without multiple occupants or cargo. Want to own that SUV? then you need a small car when its just you driving to work etc etc. This all needs careful though and it needs to be done on a local level.
I know that makes it hard for big manufacturers to deal with but whats sensible in Northern Ohio might not make sense for Southern Texas. Its time we swallow the hard pill and realize that we need to try and use our brains to solve our energey and pollution problems and that means all our brains yours, mine, and bill over in San Franciso. We can't expect some fuck'wit in Washington DC to fix everything.
But its not $1 in damages. The damage is much greater then that. The GPL is not a give something away license, its a give something away in exchange for benefits of whatever development someone else does should they decide to distribute the software. So the damages are at the very least whatever the economic value of Verizon's contributions to the code base.
Its also worth consideration that if they were allowed to violate the license without consequences it would possibly weaken its enforceability elsewhere so there should be additional damages for that.
Verizon has crawled in bed with IP loving whores such as the RIAA and MPAA these companies MUST be made to understand the concept of intellectual property at least the way we deal with it today is bad for everyone. So when we(the community) get a legitimate chance to put the hurt on someone we should do so.
Its not the same as before though. In 1986 I could get something for my money buying a 386, even if there was no new software in my plans. You got speed. Moving your DOS bases accounting package from that PC-AT at 6mhz to a 368 running at 20mhz let you do your payroll cycle faster.
Assuming clock rates don't increase much; and they have not been, and instruction sets don't improve much, and the have not been; then beyond 3-4 cores I don't get any kind of improvement in the desktop world. I don't even see much improvement in the server world other then for running vmware and a few applications like database software that is some what parallelized; even that stuff though stops scaling well in most cases past core 8.
That means there will be no demand for new chips accross the majority of the business sector. That is a big problem of Intel and AMD.
I know it was intended to be funny but network connectivity in Kentucky is actually pretty bad. The MPLS links at our northern Kentucky locations or some of the slowest across our network but also the most expensive. It costs more then Spokane Washington.
No its still ridiculous, but its even more ridiculous that because you happen to be a billion dollar + business interest the rules don't apply to you. If the IOC can sue you and I for millions just because we use the name Olmpic on something even when its hardly trade mark infringment because nobody would confuse it with anything related to the IOC. Then yea if they copy your flash game you should get millions for it.
I think its stupid that we live in a world where downloading a song lands you 100K in leagal damages. but if its such a big deal when the little guy questionably infringes on some entieties copyright/trademak/patent what have you then it should be just as big a deal when the little guys work gets infringed upon.
Look, basic authentication would have been pretty effective. Even if it were sending the device ESN as the username and some account number as a password. Its not like it easy for me or most users to put a packet sniffer on the cellular network. I don't know if there service was web based or if it had a fatter client on the device in either case:
1. Any browser even on a mobile phone can be expected to support baisc plain text authentication....
2. Any first semester idot programer should be able to handle the simple string manipulation to pull off basic authentication over sockets with a standard web browser.
Had they done at least this then they could make the resonable claimb that their service was being abused/hacked if people started watching on non phone devices. Secon the Apache auth log would have been possibly interesting for data-mining. You'd know which customers watched, rather then what ip watched what.
There would have been alot to gained by using at least basic auth and it would not have been much development effort to make it work on most devices. You are after all already playing digital video from a stream; and you want me to belive that you can do that reliably across a wide range of devices but you can't manage CHAP?
I would say yes and no. Its one thing to have the computer do something simply becase it can; I agree that is very wasteful. Raytracing is not needed on a 300x200 screen; especically while plaing a game and things are moving.
On the otherhand 20 years ago like today we compormised and dispensed with things or found was to "fake it" in cases where the computer's conuld not deliver. Its really not critical shadows are rendered perfectly on my mobile phone while I am playing Doom57 Mobile Edition. An architecture program on my desktop though It would be nice to see how objects will turely look when lit.
Its silly to continue living with the compromises of the past, when we no longer need to, its equally silly and wasteful to do manything being done on production(research is always good) computers today just because we can.
While I think you're point is generally correct SQL Server has little to do with Oracle. SQL Server is instread the poster child for why you never partner with M$ on a development project. M$ licensed Sybase for the core of SQL Server and the two oranization agreed to continue to share code. Now M$ went and spent all their engergy doing things very tightly coupled to Windows and therfore not useful to the cross platform Sybase product.
They then marketed SQL Server more agressively and cheaper, sucking up all the oxygen as per usual. This has turned Sybase into pretty much a legacy vendor like Novell without Suse. Really its kinda similar to Windows and OS/2.
unless its like a settlement you get after the subsequent rape trial... You are correct though if you agree to the 800mil up front that makes you a high priced whore, not a rape victim.
The X61 is a total crap. Its am embarassment to the otherwise good name Thinkpad.
The harddisk it ships with is insanely slow, the batter life is awful(45min under normal excel use) unless you make the thing bigger and heavy with the exteneded model. The plasic feels and looks cheap and on top of everything else the restore software for it, which you have to pay extra for does not work.