Beckerman cites MediaSentry's practice of 'looking for available songs in people's filesharing folders, uploading them, and using those uploads in court as evidence of copyright violations.
The MSN article reports:
Mr. Beckerman cites MediaSentry's practice of looking for available songs in people's file-sharing folders, downloading them, and using those downloads in court as evidence of copyright violations.
Whilst it's still a scummy thing to do, it's not as bad as uploading to peoples' filesharing folders and then taking them to court for copyright violations.
The Software Toolworks released The Miracle Piano Teaching System back in 1990, that included a MIDI keyboard (with a non-MIDI-standard port) and software to teach people how to play the piano. The software included games to improve timing as well as games to improve note selection.
The system was available not only for Nintendo and Sega Gensis(Megadrive) game consoles, but also the Apple Macintosh, Amiga and PC computer platforms.
Hard to believe Konami was granted three patents for the same thing.
PCI is all about encrypting credit card numbers and expiry dates - and nothing else. Even a fully-PCI-compliant system is a rich source of unencrypted information for Identity Theft.
Although the PCI security standards recommend to companies that they do criminal history checks on suspect employees working with credit card data (and a company I worked for, claiming PCI compliance, had a compulsory criminal history check on the first day for *all* employees even though they were working nowhere near credit card data) it still doesn't address some of the weakest links: the human operators and the GUIs that they use.
I recently closed a Buyers Edge credit card, operated by GE Capital Finance in Australia. I couldn't supply the "account password" to the telephone operator on one call, but after supplying other identifying information the operator was able to READ MY ACCOUNT PASSWORD BACK TO ME. What's up with that: displaying the password for the account in clear text on the screen? Why aren't they encrypted? Why don't they have an input to type potential passwords in to that says "Yes it's right," or "No, it's wrong"? There's nothing stopping employees from snooping through customer records to gather saleable information for the Identity Theft market.
The only good thing I can say from my experience is, "I'm glad my credit card with them is closed."
As we all know, from Apple Computers, Inc. vs. Apple Records, trademark infringment does not apply here because Stephen Frayne Jr. is not operating in the same line of business.
In modern times, superstitions turn up as a belief in alternative and homeopathic remedies. 'The chances are that most of them don't do anything, but some of them do,' Foster says.
Nice way of maligning alternative therapies there.
We wouldn't have aspirin today (acetylsalicylic acid) today if nineteenth century pharmacists hadn't investigated "home remedies" like why chewing Willow bark made headaches go away.
A surprising number of patented drugs on the market come from research into communities using local flora and fauna to treat their ailments and finding out just what it is in those treatments that actually works.
A lot of speakerphone capable modems have a set of line-out/speaker jumpers on the board as well as the 1/8" jacks on the back panel. Can't you just link that to the line-in jumpers on your sound card and then run it all through the Volume Control mixer of your choice?
Never mind... twice the speed for 1/4 of the time would give you half the range.
I just wasn't thinking fourth-dimensionally. I have a real problem with that.:)
Since you're in the field perhaps you can answer my question as well...
The linked PDF in the summary shows a speed-vs-range graph that has a linear falloff. I would have expected drag to increase on the square of the speed, as it does in aircraft, and so the power requirement to increase on the square as well. (i.e.: 2 x speed causes 4 x drag and 4 x power requirement, so 1/4 of range.) What would I be missing here?
The sub uses GPS for positioning on and near the surface. The rest of the way it's using inertial navigation.
USL@NOC is also working on multibeam sonar so that the robot can assess its position using geologic features on the bottom (up to about 200m away I expect) for position keeping in a current.
So, police training should involve mugging practice and fire-fighter training should involve learning how to set fires.
Well, yes.
Police here (Australia) are forced to undergo being shot by stun guns before they're allowed to carry them on duty. And fire fighters often learn how to set fires as well as putting them out, especially when they start moving into forensics to investigate suspicious fires.
No single query will ever bring a (real) RDBMS down. Even on a terrabyte of data or more, doing a crazy multi-hundred-table cross join, you're not going to bring it down.
You've obviously not tried anything simple on MS-SQL, like expanding a varchar(4) column to nvarchar(10) on a table with a few million rows. MS-SQL spins its wheels filling-up the transaction log until it overflows, then rolls it all back again. A 4GB log file, filled with a 250meg table (and no indexes because they were already dropped)?
In the end we had to drop all FK refs, select * into another table, drop the original table then select * (with conversions) into newTableWithOriginal's name and reset all the FK's. *shakes head*
According to the Windows Life-Cycle Policy page, Microsoft intends to stop selling Windows XP via Retail and OEM channels on 31-Jan-2008. As a procurement officer, would you buy into something that already has the Death Knell sounding upon it?
Santa Rosa carries Robson Technology, now known as Intel Turbo Memory, the flash-based disc-caching system that speeds up loading times of frequently-used data. Santa Rosa is an obvious continuation of the Centrino series.
Maybe someone can answer this question for me: Is the flash memory for this integrated into an SMD chip on the motherboard (like the north- or south-bridge chips), or is it a plug-in module like a SIMM/DIMM?
Flash memory wears out, the current generation only being good for a few tens-of-millions of write cycles per page. Most flash-based USB memory sticks get around this by reserving about 5% slack-space and using wear-levelling internally (similarly to JFFS). Even so, they eventually run out of usable blocks and the host computer will see block checksum errors on writing.
If "Intel Turbo Memory" is on-chip and can't be disabled in the CMOS setup I can see people having to throw away motherboards that would otherwise be perfectly useful.
Some of the so-called facts in TFA are a bit dodgy.
People who illegally download music would have their telephone and internet services cut off under a radical new plan proposed by the music industry.
About 80% of ISP end-users in Australia are using an ISP that is a different company to their telephone services provider. ARIA would have legal problems getting telephone services cut-off as well due to the requirement for Telstra(/rebadged phone provider) to provide emergency services capability to all landline nodes.
The value of CDs sold in Australia between January and March this year fell by more than 20 per cent - from $100 million to $80 million - compared with the first three months of 2006.
Of course, the fall in CD retail prices due to price pressure from online music sales has nothing to do with this. People can now buy just the tracks they want instead of getting an album-load of crap on CD.
Overall, CD sales revenue in 2006 fell by more than five per cent, yet ARIA focused on the growth in legitimate digital downloads, and the strong showing last year by home-grown acts.
Of course, competition from online music sales has nothing to do with this. People can now buy just the tracks they want instead of getting an album-load of crap on CD.
Ms Heindl said research showed 18 per cent of Australians engaged regularly in file-sharing, downloading an average 30 songs a month illegally.
Australian Bureau of StatisticsCensus figures show that only 18 percent of Australians have internet access. According to ARIA, now, every single Australian with internet access is a music pirate.
The "ridiculously heightened security" as you put it is just common sense. It was only a couple of years ago that you could routinely use search engines like Google to search retailer web sites for files (as basic as plain text files and Access databases, etc.) containing customer payment and shipping information. Nowadays most retailers at least have their payment databases out of the webroot space (often on a different server), but I doubt whether more than a very few of them actually store the card data in an encrypted format as PCI suggests.
The payment information includes all you need for fraud: Credit card number; card holder's name; expiry date and in the case of Visa a CVC. If that's accessible to anybody then they can use that information to make fraudulent purchases with it. They don't need to apply for another card at all, they just hijack someone else's.
Like most so-called Linux evangelists, you're not listening. He wants to use clip art and templates. He wants to do exactly what he does with Word. He wants to use Open Office. If Linux wants to convert people to their OS, then FIX IT!
You do realize that OO.org has a version that runs on Windows, right? Not everything is about Windows vs. Linux.
I use OO.org every day because I'm sick of paying M$ for a new version of Office that I don't need every couple of years, only because other people are using the newer version and shouldn't have to "Save as..." to older versions for everyone else. When Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP I'll stop using that, too, because I don't see a need to pay a Vista tax either.
There are things that Word does that OO Writer doesn't but by-and-large 90% of people don't care - they only want to write letters and reports. WordArt or an equivalent, for example, doesn't exist in Writer. Clipart is another, but can be obtained. How often do you use those features? I've only wanted to use WordArt once to make a banner and that wasn't work-related.
There are a couple of things about Writer that do bug me, though, one being the cutting-and-pasting of table rows and that's only because I'm still used to Word behaviour. In Word, cutting a row removes it from the table and pasting it inserts it in the table. In Writer, cutting a row removes the data (leaving an empty row) and pasting a row overwrites (so you have to have a blank row ready to get the data). Both methods have their merits but I do wish there was an option to control it.
You're lucky anyone even bothered to ask how long it was going to take, even if they cut the estimate in half.
Where I work it's more-often-than-not a case of someone giving us a launch date as they hand us a dodgy, maggot-ridden request for development that doesn't have enough information to develop a solution, just a bunch of mockups or screenshots of how they want things to look to the end-users. After X gets released there come a bunch of billing and business rule changes that we'd thought we had already "settled" with the offender before coding had actually begun.
A friend of mine got an AppleCare warranty extension for his video iPod. The thing came-up completely dead one day, just out of standard warranty but well within the extended warranty. Apple refused to service the iPod under warranty because the serial number on the plan had one digit incorrect. Apple admitted that the error was their fault, but still wouldn't service the iPod under warranty. They did refund the full cost of the extended warranty, but still sounds like poor form to me.
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Beckerman cites MediaSentry's practice of 'looking for available songs in people's filesharing folders, uploading them, and using those uploads in court as evidence of copyright violations.
The MSN article reports:
Mr. Beckerman cites MediaSentry's practice of looking for available songs in people's file-sharing folders, downloading them, and using those downloads in court as evidence of copyright violations.
Whilst it's still a scummy thing to do, it's not as bad as uploading to peoples' filesharing folders and then taking them to court for copyright violations.
Actually, the brightest star in the sky (aside from sol/the sun) is Sirius, which has a negative magnitude at -1.42.
The Software Toolworks released The Miracle Piano Teaching System back in 1990, that included a MIDI keyboard (with a non-MIDI-standard port) and software to teach people how to play the piano. The software included games to improve timing as well as games to improve note selection.
The system was available not only for Nintendo and Sega Gensis(Megadrive) game consoles, but also the Apple Macintosh, Amiga and PC computer platforms.
Hard to believe Konami was granted three patents for the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Piano
PCI is all about encrypting credit card numbers and expiry dates - and nothing else. Even a fully-PCI-compliant system is a rich source of unencrypted information for Identity Theft.
Although the PCI security standards recommend to companies that they do criminal history checks on suspect employees working with credit card data (and a company I worked for, claiming PCI compliance, had a compulsory criminal history check on the first day for *all* employees even though they were working nowhere near credit card data) it still doesn't address some of the weakest links: the human operators and the GUIs that they use.
I recently closed a Buyers Edge credit card, operated by GE Capital Finance in Australia. I couldn't supply the "account password" to the telephone operator on one call, but after supplying other identifying information the operator was able to READ MY ACCOUNT PASSWORD BACK TO ME. What's up with that: displaying the password for the account in clear text on the screen? Why aren't they encrypted? Why don't they have an input to type potential passwords in to that says "Yes it's right," or "No, it's wrong"? There's nothing stopping employees from snooping through customer records to gather saleable information for the Identity Theft market.
The only good thing I can say from my experience is, "I'm glad my credit card with them is closed."
Chicago 2016 protected by trademark? Big deal!
As we all know, from Apple Computers, Inc. vs. Apple Records, trademark infringment does not apply here because Stephen Frayne Jr. is not operating in the same line of business.
In modern times, superstitions turn up as a belief in alternative and homeopathic remedies. 'The chances are that most of them don't do anything, but some of them do,' Foster says.
Nice way of maligning alternative therapies there.
We wouldn't have aspirin today (acetylsalicylic acid) today if nineteenth century pharmacists hadn't investigated "home remedies" like why chewing Willow bark made headaches go away.
A surprising number of patented drugs on the market come from research into communities using local flora and fauna to treat their ailments and finding out just what it is in those treatments that actually works.
Our Lord God, in all his wisdom, would never allow another planet, not in the 5,000 years since creation itself has He ever done anything so looney.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Oh, wait... not Pluto. :)
A lot of speakerphone capable modems have a set of line-out/speaker jumpers on the board as well as the 1/8" jacks on the back panel. Can't you just link that to the line-in jumpers on your sound card and then run it all through the Volume Control mixer of your choice?
Never mind... twice the speed for 1/4 of the time would give you half the range. I just wasn't thinking fourth-dimensionally. I have a real problem with that. :)
Since you're in the field perhaps you can answer my question as well... The linked PDF in the summary shows a speed-vs-range graph that has a linear falloff. I would have expected drag to increase on the square of the speed, as it does in aircraft, and so the power requirement to increase on the square as well. (i.e.: 2 x speed causes 4 x drag and 4 x power requirement, so 1/4 of range.) What would I be missing here?
The sub uses GPS for positioning on and near the surface. The rest of the way it's using inertial navigation. USL@NOC is also working on multibeam sonar so that the robot can assess its position using geologic features on the bottom (up to about 200m away I expect) for position keeping in a current.
So, police training should involve mugging practice and fire-fighter training should involve learning how to set fires.
Well, yes.
Police here (Australia) are forced to undergo being shot by stun guns before they're allowed to carry them on duty. And fire fighters often learn how to set fires as well as putting them out, especially when they start moving into forensics to investigate suspicious fires.
No single query will ever bring a (real) RDBMS down. Even on a terrabyte of data or more, doing a crazy multi-hundred-table cross join, you're not going to bring it down.
You've obviously not tried anything simple on MS-SQL, like expanding a varchar(4) column to nvarchar(10) on a table with a few million rows. MS-SQL spins its wheels filling-up the transaction log until it overflows, then rolls it all back again. A 4GB log file, filled with a 250meg table (and no indexes because they were already dropped)?
In the end we had to drop all FK refs, select * into another table, drop the original table then select * (with conversions) into newTableWithOriginal's name and reset all the FK's. *shakes head*
According to the Windows Life-Cycle Policy page, Microsoft intends to stop selling Windows XP via Retail and OEM channels on 31-Jan-2008. As a procurement officer, would you buy into something that already has the Death Knell sounding upon it?
Maybe someone can answer this question for me: Is the flash memory for this integrated into an SMD chip on the motherboard (like the north- or south-bridge chips), or is it a plug-in module like a SIMM/DIMM?
Flash memory wears out, the current generation only being good for a few tens-of-millions of write cycles per page. Most flash-based USB memory sticks get around this by reserving about 5% slack-space and using wear-levelling internally (similarly to JFFS). Even so, they eventually run out of usable blocks and the host computer will see block checksum errors on writing.
If "Intel Turbo Memory" is on-chip and can't be disabled in the CMOS setup I can see people having to throw away motherboards that would otherwise be perfectly useful.
Isn't the current SATA (2) actually 1.5Gbits/sec? Still not as fast as PCI-E, though.
Some of the so-called facts in TFA are a bit dodgy.
About 80% of ISP end-users in Australia are using an ISP that is a different company to their telephone services provider. ARIA would have legal problems getting telephone services cut-off as well due to the requirement for Telstra(/rebadged phone provider) to provide emergency services capability to all landline nodes.
Of course, the fall in CD retail prices due to price pressure from online music sales has nothing to do with this. People can now buy just the tracks they want instead of getting an album-load of crap on CD.
Of course, competition from online music sales has nothing to do with this. People can now buy just the tracks they want instead of getting an album-load of crap on CD.
Australian Bureau of Statistics Census figures show that only 18 percent of Australians have internet access. According to ARIA, now, every single Australian with internet access is a music pirate.
Linux is a kernel.
And don't use anything other than a "Blank" screen saver, reducing CPU/GPU loading when the computer is just sitting idle.
The "ridiculously heightened security" as you put it is just common sense. It was only a couple of years ago that you could routinely use search engines like Google to search retailer web sites for files (as basic as plain text files and Access databases, etc.) containing customer payment and shipping information. Nowadays most retailers at least have their payment databases out of the webroot space (often on a different server), but I doubt whether more than a very few of them actually store the card data in an encrypted format as PCI suggests.
The payment information includes all you need for fraud: Credit card number; card holder's name; expiry date and in the case of Visa a CVC. If that's accessible to anybody then they can use that information to make fraudulent purchases with it. They don't need to apply for another card at all, they just hijack someone else's.
You do realize that OO.org has a version that runs on Windows, right? Not everything is about Windows vs. Linux.
I use OO.org every day because I'm sick of paying M$ for a new version of Office that I don't need every couple of years, only because other people are using the newer version and shouldn't have to "Save as..." to older versions for everyone else. When Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP I'll stop using that, too, because I don't see a need to pay a Vista tax either.
There are things that Word does that OO Writer doesn't but by-and-large 90% of people don't care - they only want to write letters and reports. WordArt or an equivalent, for example, doesn't exist in Writer. Clipart is another, but can be obtained. How often do you use those features? I've only wanted to use WordArt once to make a banner and that wasn't work-related.
There are a couple of things about Writer that do bug me, though, one being the cutting-and-pasting of table rows and that's only because I'm still used to Word behaviour. In Word, cutting a row removes it from the table and pasting it inserts it in the table. In Writer, cutting a row removes the data (leaving an empty row) and pasting a row overwrites (so you have to have a blank row ready to get the data). Both methods have their merits but I do wish there was an option to control it.
You're lucky anyone even bothered to ask how long it was going to take, even if they cut the estimate in half.
Where I work it's more-often-than-not a case of someone giving us a launch date as they hand us a dodgy, maggot-ridden request for development that doesn't have enough information to develop a solution, just a bunch of mockups or screenshots of how they want things to look to the end-users. After X gets released there come a bunch of billing and business rule changes that we'd thought we had already "settled" with the offender before coding had actually begun.
A friend of mine got an AppleCare warranty extension for his video iPod. The thing came-up completely dead one day, just out of standard warranty but well within the extended warranty. Apple refused to service the iPod under warranty because the serial number on the plan had one digit incorrect. Apple admitted that the error was their fault, but still wouldn't service the iPod under warranty. They did refund the full cost of the extended warranty, but still sounds like poor form to me.