Sometimes I generate really big files, by stitching photographs into large panoramas that are 30,000 x 10,000 pixels. That can use all of my 4GiB of ram, causing everything else to be put into the swap file for a while. (I have 4 GiB of swap on each of my 2 * RAID 1 arrays, for a total of 8 GiB of swap. That is a bit of overkill.)
Other than that, if I actually use more than 4GiB of ram at once, performance is going to take such a massive hit that it might be better to let the "Out of Memory" errors appear.
This. I was looking for the Usain Bolt 100 meter run, and all I saw on youtube was just some very odd spam. And then the official news sites had some very stupid media players that didn't work for me.
The attacker would be able to cause some inconvenience and will get your bank account number etc. but I can't see how they would actually get your money.
It shouldn't be that big of a risk, since those are the same numbers that are on a check.
The children are usually not charged legally, but after their parents, school administration, older siblings, etc get a hold of them, they wish they hadn't done it.
[Citation needed]. Sorry, but I can't provide a citation either way.
There sure are a lot of news articles where the person was charged, though.
I don't really know where to get statistics about this, like how many cases like this have been tried, convictions, alternative punishments as you suggest, etc.
I will say that "child porn" has been marketed by the media as being so "evil" that I would be surprised if a non-jail/sex offender list punishment was common, much less "usual". Also, if a prosecutor was willing to use these alternate punishments, then they might be made out by the media as being "friendly to child pornographers", etc.
Yep, nothing worse than saying "Who the hell wrote this crap?", running svn blame, and then realizing that I did.
And, if you aren't using a versioning system, like SVN(preferably), CVS, git, that is a very bad thing. SVN and CVS also have the benefit of getting code to a remote computer when you check it in.
Sql Injection is a good thing. You don't need to escape user data before send it to the DB, users never do anything bad.
(Go ahead and mod me troll, I can take the hit. Note that this is actually a list of things NOT to do. Except goto is sometimes useful, for breaking out of a few layers of loops/blocks.)
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I omitted the reason because that is even harder to correct, and much harder to work around.
Trying to get every piece of software in an open-source format would be extremely hard to impossible. It would be nice, of course, but realistically isn't going to happen any time soon.
For example, Flash might have stuff licensed from other companies that Adobe can't open-source, so they have to keep it closed. And that is a simple application compared to some very big applications that businesses use.
Also, games are a big driving force behind x86. There are very few high quality games that are open source, unless they are 10+ years old.
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The 1G$ issue is getting people to use it.
x86 is "good enough", and the only way that AMD64 has gotten anywhere is... by providing hardware compatibility to x86. If you could provide a "TILE64" processor with a built-in x86 processor that is worth using, and have motherboards made for that, maybe it could get adopted.
Even Apple is using Intel.
Other processors are used in embedded/cell phones/consoles, but none are making a jump to general computing.
Generally lawsuits like that should have a fine that is worse than just buying the item. Otherwise people would infringe on copyrights all the time, since the worse fine would be equal to paying to begin with.
In this case, I think the maximum fine should be what she would have gotten for actually stealing the songs. Like from a brick and mortar store.
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So then your freedom of speech IS abridged. You just happen to agree with the restriction.
Well, considering what the Free Speech Cage(360 degree panorama) at the DNC in Denver looked like, where the Pepsi Center was barely visible, that restriction doesn't surprise me.
The portrait is used:
In the eve-online.com forums, in the in-game chat rooms, and whenever you "get info" about a players ship.
Sometimes I generate really big files, by stitching photographs into large panoramas that are 30,000 x 10,000 pixels. That can use all of my 4GiB of ram, causing everything else to be put into the swap file for a while. (I have 4 GiB of swap on each of my 2 * RAID 1 arrays, for a total of 8 GiB of swap. That is a bit of overkill.)
Other than that, if I actually use more than 4GiB of ram at once, performance is going to take such a massive hit that it might be better to let the "Out of Memory" errors appear.
This. I was looking for the Usain Bolt 100 meter run, and all I saw on youtube was just some very odd spam.
And then the official news sites had some very stupid media players that didn't work for me.
How is that different from a Libertarian?
For a check or ING Direct?
Answer:
You are wrong.
On both, the full account number is displayed, since that is what you need to use the account for an ETF or with a check.
It shouldn't be that big of a risk, since those are the same numbers that are on a check.
Is that why my DVD player doesn't have a "shuffle" feature?
Maybe something like a drawbridge, except that the "fingers" could go sideways, slide down, or lay down?
Or maybe some of the channels could be made big enough with an acceptable loss of efficacy?
Unless you are at a used music/video store or shelf.
[Citation needed]. Sorry, but I can't provide a citation either way.
There sure are a lot of news articles where the person was charged, though.
I don't really know where to get statistics about this, like how many cases like this have been tried, convictions, alternative punishments as you suggest, etc.
I will say that "child porn" has been marketed by the media as being so "evil" that I would be surprised if a non-jail/sex offender list punishment was common, much less "usual". Also, if a prosecutor was willing to use these alternate punishments, then they might be made out by the media as being "friendly to child pornographers", etc.
What about a pair of 17 year olds filming themselves having sex.
Child porn?
Should they be charged with a felony? (For the video, assume the sex was in a state where that is legal)
For a civil case, the 2 parties can settle without a ruling from the judge.
At this point that is the only way that the RIAA has had any success.
Even more:
I would certainly hope that simply being a paedophile would never be illegal.
Actions may be illegal, but what you think being illegal?
Also, try to vary the kinds of languages you experiment in, like compiled, or interpreted and functional, or imperative.
(These are all imperative)
Compiled: Java, C/C++
Interpeted: ruby, perl
Functional: lisp, scheme, Erlang
Yep, nothing worse than saying "Who the hell wrote this crap?", running svn blame, and then realizing that I did.
And, if you aren't using a versioning system, like SVN(preferably), CVS, git, that is a very bad thing. SVN and CVS also have the benefit of getting code to a remote computer when you check it in.
Along with the ? : ternary opp.
Code that is hard to read means job security.
The IOCCC is a good place to learn style.
Sql Injection is a good thing. You don't need to escape user data before send it to the DB, users never do anything bad.
(Go ahead and mod me troll, I can take the hit. Note that this is actually a list of things NOT to do. Except goto is sometimes useful, for breaking out of a few layers of loops/blocks.)
I omitted the reason because that is even harder to correct, and much harder to work around.
Trying to get every piece of software in an open-source format would be extremely hard to impossible. It would be nice, of course, but realistically isn't going to happen any time soon.
For example, Flash might have stuff licensed from other companies that Adobe can't open-source, so they have to keep it closed. And that is a simple application compared to some very big applications that businesses use.
Also, games are a big driving force behind x86. There are very few high quality games that are open source, unless they are 10+ years old.
That is what you get for traveling so much in your TARDIS.
You didn't get the memo?
That announcement was yesterday.
The 1G$ issue is getting people to use it.
x86 is "good enough", and the only way that AMD64 has gotten anywhere is... by providing hardware compatibility to x86. If you could provide a "TILE64" processor with a built-in x86 processor that is worth using, and have motherboards made for that, maybe it could get adopted.
Even Apple is using Intel.
Other processors are used in embedded/cell phones/consoles, but none are making a jump to general computing.
So it isn't an issue with the cache, asking the nameserver that Kentucky points that domain at resolves to an IP owned by a company in Nevada.
Maybe KY wanted to own the domain without actually disrupting service?
That doesn't answer how Kentucky has jurisdiction.
That should be the federal governments jurisdiction, since that really is interstate (or international) commerce.
Generally lawsuits like that should have a fine that is worse than just buying the item. Otherwise people would infringe on copyrights all the time, since the worse fine would be equal to paying to begin with.
In this case, I think the maximum fine should be what she would have gotten for actually stealing the songs. Like from a brick and mortar store.