I do not know where you got that first part at all. No, he did not run a business based on stealing a service. He only named the service after one of the components because he liked the name. It was not implied at all that he assisted others. In fact, my story specifically states the opposite.
I was too careless in my skimming of the post. My apologies.
As for your second point, if you were in his position, I highly doubt you would be so willing to stick to the ethical high ground and lose everything you have in exchange for a greater sense of self worth.
You seem to have a lot to learn about exercising character, and about civic virtue. Come back when you've grown up a little; and I don't just mean when you're older.
He only got away because he had a friend who knew some influential people.
So not only does he run a business based on stealing a service, he's also willing to use personal connections to get special treatment from the legal system.
If we're ever at the same party, please don't introduce us.
their technique is specifically geared towards executable binary files, it doesn't make sense to use it, and also won't work at all with any other type of file.
so yes the 9x thing is quite unfair, that's like comparing bzip2 vs. lame for compressing music.
Even if you consider the set of binary strings that represent object code to be a subset of the set of all binary strings, I think my point still holds.
The only way my point would be totally invalid, I think, is if were always the case that the assembly-language diff can be expressed in fewer bits than can the corresponding object-code diff. If that is always true, then I agree that my point is invalid.
Courgette achieves smaller diffs (about 9x in one example)
That's potentially very misleading. I can compress any document, down to a single but, if my compression algorithm is sufficiently tailored to that document. For example: if (compressed_data[0] == 0):
return = get_Magna_Carta_text() else:
return unzip(compressed_data[1:])
What we need to know is the overall distribution of compression ratios, or at least the average compression ratio, over a large population of documents.
You don't have to make it "punishable by death," just flipping make it ILLEGAL! I'm so tired of hearing about a-hole musician managers like Klein ripping off artists and swindling them out of song rights, talent agents taking their pounds of flesh from artists and athletes, and trusted personal financial advisors diverting funds from their clients to their own coffers. Just make it clearly ILLEGAL. Draw strong outlines around what compensation these people are allowed to make while in the service of their clients. Create template contracts that uninitiated people can use to protect themselves. As it stands, you need a lawyer and an accountant to make sure your lawyer and accountant aren't fucking you!
I think we're talking about two different things. You're arguing about unfair contracts. What the article is talking about (I believe) is out-and-out fraud regarding how much money is earned for a given movie.
'[It] can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,' Mozilla's security blog reported Tuesday."
Oh sure, I'm definitely going to follow that link now.
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
When a few people have tried that, they tend to end up in Federal prison for a long time, and they don't exactly get crowds of like-minded supporters pulling open the prison doors.
It's an interesting idea to espouse, but lets be honest, 99.99999% of us lack the courage to be that patriotic.
o we have about 400 times the performance with 5% of the hardware. By that margin, I could do their processing with about 25 boxes total. That would mean another 98% savings on hardware alone.
Fortunately, we can count on the British government to respond with reasoned caution, and with the utmost respect for citizens' future privacy and freedom.
> If 7 Manages everything it promises, im sure plenty will turn to 7 in the end
What does it promise that businesses need and don't have?
That ability to be included with newly purchased computers. Maybe large corporations can get deals to put XP on new computers for as long as they want, but I doubt most smaller companies can afford deals like that.
Also, as the mass market shifts away from XP, hardware/perhiperal vendors are going to stop writing device drivers for XP at some point.
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I was too careless in my skimming of the post. My apologies.
You seem to have a lot to learn about exercising character, and about civic virtue. Come back when you've grown up a little; and I don't just mean when you're older.
So not only does he run a business based on stealing a service, he's also willing to use personal connections to get special treatment from the legal system.
If we're ever at the same party, please don't introduce us.
Not quite. This is essentially fraud on a moral level, but legally it's nothing more than an unfair contract. Look up Hollywood Accounting.
OMG. I had no idea.
their technique is specifically geared towards executable binary files, it doesn't make sense to use it, and also won't work at all with any other type of file.
so yes the 9x thing is quite unfair, that's like comparing bzip2 vs. lame for compressing music.
Even if you consider the set of binary strings that represent object code to be a subset of the set of all binary strings, I think my point still holds.
The only way my point would be totally invalid, I think, is if were always the case that the assembly-language diff can be expressed in fewer bits than can the corresponding object-code diff. If that is always true, then I agree that my point is invalid.
I can compress any document, down to a single but,
Oh crap. There goes any chance of this being a technical discussion.
That's potentially very misleading. I can compress any document, down to a single but, if my compression algorithm is sufficiently tailored to that document. For example:
if (compressed_data[0] == 0):
return = get_Magna_Carta_text()
else:
return unzip(compressed_data[1:])
What we need to know is the overall distribution of compression ratios, or at least the average compression ratio, over a large population of documents.
> Yeah, but apparently the Bible was divinely inspired, so you have to give a cut of profits to God.
But there is no god, so it looks like we're in the clear!
Perhaps, but can you imagine of Vatican and MPAA lawyers teamed up to prove it?
Actually, they'd probably just bribe Congress to pass a "there is a God" law. Less work.
We'd all be dead from toxic levels of perchlorate in our drinking water?
I am a descendant of Adam, and since the bible was written about him, I should get royalties on every Bible sale!
Yeah, but apparently the Bible was divinely inspired, so you have to give a cut of profits to God.
The Vatican has offered to handle the transfer.
You don't have to make it "punishable by death," just flipping make it ILLEGAL! I'm so tired of hearing about a-hole musician managers like Klein ripping off artists and swindling them out of song rights, talent agents taking their pounds of flesh from artists and athletes, and trusted personal financial advisors diverting funds from their clients to their own coffers. Just make it clearly ILLEGAL. Draw strong outlines around what compensation these people are allowed to make while in the service of their clients. Create template contracts that uninitiated people can use to protect themselves. As it stands, you need a lawyer and an accountant to make sure your lawyer and accountant aren't fucking you!
I think we're talking about two different things. You're arguing about unfair contracts. What the article is talking about (I believe) is out-and-out fraud regarding how much money is earned for a given movie.
This is going to sound wacky, but I really just want to think it through.
What if we made the kind of fraud that's apparently exercised by music and movie studio accountants, punishable by death?
How would that play out in society and culture?
http://www.cutekittens.com/ how about that one? :D
Oh man, that site is AWESOME!!! I can't believe what those women were doing. I can't believe it's a free site. Thanks!
'[It] can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,' Mozilla's security blog reported Tuesday."
Oh sure, I'm definitely going to follow that link now.
What about getting junked electronics (thinking Goodwill here, or possibly even donated) and desoldering components to build other projects with?
Any significant risk of lead exposure in doing that?
Ballot, Soap, Jury, Ammo; they should be used in that order.
When a few people have tried that, they tend to end up in Federal prison for a long time, and they don't exactly get crowds of like-minded supporters pulling open the prison doors.
It's an interesting idea to espouse, but lets be honest, 99.99999% of us lack the courage to be that patriotic.
they've got little server kids to feed at home.
Servlets?
Maybe their servers are in the union?
Perhaps next, they can follow Slashdot's example and phase out support for web browsers.
No, I think MS would rather skip a step and just phase out Slashdot.
Everyone knows they're all pictures of boobs anyway.
I think you're confusing it with this.
Even if they attacks were proven to come from the UK... even if they came from North Korea, Nigeria, or Witchita KS..
Does that really tell us about the culprit?
Well, yes, actually. If it was from Nigeria, they'd just want some help recovering their money from off-shore accounts.
We could make T-shirts saying "Computer scientists BOINC faster", but I not sure that sends the right message.
For the love of Heaven! The war has been over for 226 years! Get over it, already!
They are over the American Revolution. This is their response for us creating the "Three's Company".
Fortunately, we can count on the British government to respond with reasoned caution, and with the utmost respect for citizens' future privacy and freedom.
> If 7 Manages everything it promises, im sure plenty will turn to 7 in the end
What does it promise that businesses need and don't have?
That ability to be included with newly purchased computers. Maybe large corporations can get deals to put XP on new computers for as long as they want, but I doubt most smaller companies can afford deals like that.
Also, as the mass market shifts away from XP, hardware/perhiperal vendors are going to stop writing device drivers for XP at some point.
Touche!
Oh, ummm. Sorry.
Touché!