In order for a number to need the 64th bit it must have a one in that 64th-most-significant position... and in order to add two such numbers, you end up needing a one in a 65 position... and there's your overflow error.
The status quo is NOT "net neutrality" in any way.
Cable companies are allowed to reserve frequencies on their wire for phone usage only where Internet traffic can't go... and competing VoIP products have to contend with the other Internet traffic on the wire.
Some ISPs pay Disney for the right to show ESPN3.com and ABC News Now content that other ISPs don't get. MTV has threatened to make it's website pay-by-ISP in the past, but has been convinced that'd leave MTV.com with no audience.
Nick Denton gets filed next to the Japanese man who killed himself a while ago because he lost an Apple prototype and knew his life was ruined. Nick will likely get fired by Apple for carelessness and never work in the tech industry again.
Jason Chen appears to be in a "What did you know and who told you it?" situation where he isn't supplying the identity of his source... because this isn't a source of information but a source of stolen goods.
A story just posted by CNET speculates that they're trying to enforce property laws that go back to the 1800s that say if you find something worth more than $400 and use it for your own purposes you can be charged with Grand Theft, and anybody you give that can be charged with Receipt of Stolen Property.
Doesn't seem to be a journalist's exemption to this one.
Read the Gawker Media response... they're claiming that Jason Chen's home was a "newsroom" and therefore exempt from contempt changes and warrents. We'll see if this holds water when they try to get any evidence from this search kept away from the jury.
Everything that intentionally emits a wireless signal has to have a prototype sent to the FCC here in the USA. We typically learn of new Apple iPhone/iPad products just before they're submitted to the FCC because once they hit the FCC they'd become public record at that point anyway.
Israel's complaint was mostly due to a lack of a seal of approval that the iPad now has. Nothing wrong with the device, just need to show one to the approved lab and pay the fee.
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Israel has been doing this "War on Terror"(TM) stuff for many years... and as a result some things that we consider harmless are "security threats" until they're proven otherwise. Anything that could emit a wireless signal could trigger something harmful, so there has to be limits on those things.
Apple doesn't have enough supply of the iPad to do a worldwide release because they're delaying American shipments and imposing purchasing limits on large buyers. As a result, they didn't do international standards testing because they aren't selling it everywhere yet. It looks like Israel was the only nation to make a big no-importing stink over the uncertified status... so really this Apple cleaning up a problem caused by excessive demand, something they should be used to by now.
HBO uses multicast/broadcast... the same stream is sent to everybody allowed to decode it at the same time. A Usenet copy is sent to just one user at a time.
The "newsgroup" service that Usenet was designed for is now superseded by Google Groups (who absorbed DejaNews, the site that aimed to archive every Usenet post ever), zillions of web forums, blogs, comment friendly sites like, um, the one you're reading this on called Slashdot... get the point?
What's left on Usenet is the "dark allies" of porn, spamming, and illegally shared copyrighted files. The average "$100 for a limited time for a Triple Play of Internet, TV and Phone" user doesn't know it exists and wouldn't use it anyway. So, if you really want it, pay for it. The pay-for Usenet providers exist because the ISPs wanted to limit or eliminate this service and have have done so for years.
This is a price hike for those who want to use an obscure feature that should lead to better service or lower costs for those of us who care about those things more than a supply of illegal content. If you want to get one HBO show... this price will likely make it more cost effective for you to get HBO through your TV pipe, a reduction of traffic on the Internet that should make your community's connection work better.
Recent talk regarding the lack of stability in MSFT's stock price under Steve Ballmer's hand has Slashdot commenter questioning the relative importance of closed-source code. 'Having availability of large assets is a central factor in establishing trust in the business community, as knowledge that the assets are available can often allay fears about the liability of a particular business product. And yet, this trust can often be overstated, the commenter pint out. Members of the business community have been agitating for Microsoft to clarify its plans for Windows in the wake of Sun's sellout to Oracle, with some suggesting a spinoff as a way of severing ties. But, as the commenters points out, 'The community around a closed-source project or product can certainly be vibrant without having the resources to support a large company. In fact, this is true for many closed source companies, which count numerous licensed users, very few of whom would be qualified to develop a competitive product should a spinoff occur. Worse, even fewer would be interested in doing so.
Bezos is a smart businessman, and as such most of his properties are separate corporations that are friends of Amazon, but maintain the ability to go bankrupt if they go wrong without bankrupting Amazon.com. Such a warrant might get the attention of EC2... but there's no way it'd stretch all the way to Amazon.com unless there was some proof of a shared resource being involved.
So, by definition, a SIP attack is a use of a the protocol in an unauthorized way (trying to simulate an incoming call that doesn't exist, or trying to authenticate as an account that doesn't belong to you...) and even though there's no known theft of service yet, it still interferes with the legit users.
All cool new phones are expected to be what the teens want, working age people are told to use Blackberry or other business-aimed PDA/Phones, and grandparents are lucky if they can understand the Jitterbug.
The Kin series of phone seems to be all about easy sharing with a green button dedicated to that called the "Kin Spot"... but well, that can be taken the wrong way, can't it?
Let's not forget the Disney's High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens who posed for a nude picture that she lost control of and got leaked. While this led to a scandal in 2006, she seems to have recovered her career and become a non-Disney-clean actress.
The puritans seem to have a contradiction between "Protect the kids from the Registered Sex Offenders(tm)" and the fact that religious leaders who are sex-starved by their jobs seem to have a high rate of becoming Registered Sex Offenders(tm).
The anti-child-porn laws of the Republican error er, era are now untouchable because of the "think of the children" defense, but are clearly leading to over protection that doesn't let kids grow up until they're 18... at which point all of their protections lapse and they're not ready to handle that.
What's the difference between this and the grocery store, drug store, or electronics store that wants you to carry a special card to identify yourself in order to get sale prices and discounts? Or the home stuff store that mails you a coupon postcard with your name and address printed on the coupon?
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If 64-bit integer A is less than 64-bit integer B, where are you going to hide the negative sign?
Dim PowerBallOdds as SuperSizeInt
Dim ChanceOfMeWinning as ExtraAccuFloat
Dim NeedToWorkTomorrow as Boolean = True
In order for a number to need the 64th bit it must have a one in that 64th-most-significant position... and in order to add two such numbers, you end up needing a one in a 65 position... and there's your overflow error.
The status quo is NOT "net neutrality" in any way.
Cable companies are allowed to reserve frequencies on their wire for phone usage only where Internet traffic can't go... and competing VoIP products have to contend with the other Internet traffic on the wire.
Some ISPs pay Disney for the right to show ESPN3.com and ABC News Now content that other ISPs don't get. MTV has threatened to make it's website pay-by-ISP in the past, but has been convinced that'd leave MTV.com with no audience.
Correction taken.
Mice keyboards have fingerprints, and therefore are proof a certain somebody used the computer it was connected to just so they can't deny it.
Nick Denton gets filed next to the Japanese man who killed himself a while ago because he lost an Apple prototype and knew his life was ruined. Nick will likely get fired by Apple for carelessness and never work in the tech industry again.
Jason Chen appears to be in a "What did you know and who told you it?" situation where he isn't supplying the identity of his source... because this isn't a source of information but a source of stolen goods.
A story just posted by CNET speculates that they're trying to enforce property laws that go back to the 1800s that say if you find something worth more than $400 and use it for your own purposes you can be charged with Grand Theft, and anybody you give that can be charged with Receipt of Stolen Property.
Doesn't seem to be a journalist's exemption to this one.
Read the Gawker Media response... they're claiming that Jason Chen's home was a "newsroom" and therefore exempt from contempt changes and warrents. We'll see if this holds water when they try to get any evidence from this search kept away from the jury.
enGadget is owned by Time Warner... they have lawyers, and those lawyers told them not to touch this story.
Gawker apparently didn't check before the leaped... and Apple's got much bigger bucks than they do.
Just like the USA, "they" can place taps on cell phones.
Everything that intentionally emits a wireless signal has to have a prototype sent to the FCC here in the USA. We typically learn of new Apple iPhone/iPad products just before they're submitted to the FCC because once they hit the FCC they'd become public record at that point anyway.
Israel's complaint was mostly due to a lack of a seal of approval that the iPad now has. Nothing wrong with the device, just need to show one to the approved lab and pay the fee.
Israel has been doing this "War on Terror"(TM) stuff for many years... and as a result some things that we consider harmless are "security threats" until they're proven otherwise. Anything that could emit a wireless signal could trigger something harmful, so there has to be limits on those things.
Apple doesn't have enough supply of the iPad to do a worldwide release because they're delaying American shipments and imposing purchasing limits on large buyers. As a result, they didn't do international standards testing because they aren't selling it everywhere yet. It looks like Israel was the only nation to make a big no-importing stink over the uncertified status... so really this Apple cleaning up a problem caused by excessive demand, something they should be used to by now.
HBO uses multicast/broadcast... the same stream is sent to everybody allowed to decode it at the same time. A Usenet copy is sent to just one user at a time.
The "newsgroup" service that Usenet was designed for is now superseded by Google Groups (who absorbed DejaNews, the site that aimed to archive every Usenet post ever), zillions of web forums, blogs, comment friendly sites like, um, the one you're reading this on called Slashdot... get the point?
What's left on Usenet is the "dark allies" of porn, spamming, and illegally shared copyrighted files. The average "$100 for a limited time for a Triple Play of Internet, TV and Phone" user doesn't know it exists and wouldn't use it anyway. So, if you really want it, pay for it. The pay-for Usenet providers exist because the ISPs wanted to limit or eliminate this service and have have done so for years.
This is a price hike for those who want to use an obscure feature that should lead to better service or lower costs for those of us who care about those things more than a supply of illegal content. If you want to get one HBO show... this price will likely make it more cost effective for you to get HBO through your TV pipe, a reduction of traffic on the Internet that should make your community's connection work better.
Let's not forget that Sun bought MySQL, which competes with Oracle's core database products.
Recent talk regarding the lack of stability in MSFT's stock price under Steve Ballmer's hand has Slashdot commenter questioning the relative importance of closed-source code. 'Having availability of large assets is a central factor in establishing trust in the business community, as knowledge that the assets are available can often allay fears about the liability of a particular business product. And yet, this trust can often be overstated, the commenter pint out. Members of the business community have been agitating for Microsoft to clarify its plans for Windows in the wake of Sun's sellout to Oracle, with some suggesting a spinoff as a way of severing ties. But, as the commenters points out, 'The community around a closed-source project or product can certainly be vibrant without having the resources to support a large company. In fact, this is true for many closed source companies, which count numerous licensed users, very few of whom would be qualified to develop a competitive product should a spinoff occur. Worse, even fewer would be interested in doing so.
Bezos is a smart businessman, and as such most of his properties are separate corporations that are friends of Amazon, but maintain the ability to go bankrupt if they go wrong without bankrupting Amazon.com. Such a warrant might get the attention of EC2... but there's no way it'd stretch all the way to Amazon.com unless there was some proof of a shared resource being involved.
So, by definition, a SIP attack is a use of a the protocol in an unauthorized way (trying to simulate an incoming call that doesn't exist, or trying to authenticate as an account that doesn't belong to you...) and even though there's no known theft of service yet, it still interferes with the legit users.
All cool new phones are expected to be what the teens want, working age people are told to use Blackberry or other business-aimed PDA/Phones, and grandparents are lucky if they can understand the Jitterbug.
The Kin series of phone seems to be all about easy sharing with a green button dedicated to that called the "Kin Spot"... but well, that can be taken the wrong way, can't it?
Let's not forget the Disney's High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens who posed for a nude picture that she lost control of and got leaked. While this led to a scandal in 2006, she seems to have recovered her career and become a non-Disney-clean actress.
The puritans seem to have a contradiction between "Protect the kids from the Registered Sex Offenders(tm)" and the fact that religious leaders who are sex-starved by their jobs seem to have a high rate of becoming Registered Sex Offenders(tm).
The anti-child-porn laws of the Republican error er, era are now untouchable because of the "think of the children" defense, but are clearly leading to over protection that doesn't let kids grow up until they're 18... at which point all of their protections lapse and they're not ready to handle that.
What's the difference between this and the grocery store, drug store, or electronics store that wants you to carry a special card to identify yourself in order to get sale prices and discounts? Or the home stuff store that mails you a coupon postcard with your name and address printed on the coupon?