ugh, the fact that you have 1000s of monkeys digging thru computers and looking for child porn is a bit meaningless if there is no child porn there in the first place. How many % actually find something? How many got classified as child porn just because someone looks younger than 18 and you cannot prove otherwise? I will not get into browser cache that can be easily populated by anything you want without even giving you a chance to know (1x1px sprite of really gruesome image in example?)
1700 cases are nice number to show but how many actual prosecutions? How many false positives, how many dropped cases?
Oh, and btw - how many outright no-computer-involved cases of under 18 rape over the same time period?
Hah! Sometimes it works out that losing 100 means you save 130 in taxes, net profit - 30. sometimes you want to avoid a spotlight by overperforming. sometimes there are specific targets that need to be achieved (think EOFY spending to prevent budget cuts) sometimes there are brackets you need to stay within to qualify for something (i.e. in UK a lot of people are preferring to keep their salaries under max-tax bracket since tax credits they qualify for in that way more than pays back) sometimes by losing in one entity allows you to shift some profits from other entity leveling both entities tax duties at lower overall rate...there are a lot of reasons.
custom aes encryption functionality will definetely provide much better watt performance than leaving it on your cpu. Also CPU is not involved anymore (ie DMA writes) directly with data in/out of hdd. Even more importantly - provided you set up key init phase properly, keys are handled around in the hdd (where there is a chance of some specific protection) vs close to cpu/main memory where it is far easier to pull them in the plain.
Someone obviously find those valuable, quite surely there is also more to that than I can imagine off the top of my head.
power from 92 square miles will surely melt anything you'll throw in its path. You are welcome to do some maths yourself;) Practical way to do this is to divide it in cells (and you'll have to anyway - for practical reasons like access, deployment and servicing). 1sqm would already be quite 'hot'
As for the price, yes, I agree. Hovever you still have to select apropriate cabling for the job. No 5m cables for low-level unbalanced signals, no gauge 24 wire connecting your marantz (hi-current) amp to your $800 pair speakers... No unshelded wire to connect between components where another (no common ground) is present. If you are in a position where you can disqualify source* not cabling, you are fine.
*Sources. core reason why on-board sound cards sound as horrible as they do is not because they are shaite and RFI killed. It is because they are designed to drive not line towards your amplifier but cheap headphones and when faced with a different impedance on the line just goes floating.
Also - PC games by kinda definition have PC available at their disposal. Internet. Amazon. EBay. Console buyers OTOH are more likely to be out of the loop here. Therefore when they shop they are more likely to leave their money in the shop.
Look at the actual games (quality, count) released/available on PC. There is no shortage, ergo there is market.
*waiting for clear sky to be released. Five more days of waiting. BTW i'm selling my liver for 8800gt SLI config!;) apply within.
Really? Followed up on office 2007 sales recently? I am quite sure their next financial statements (adjusted for market) will not be so imploding after all...
Essentially there was a solution that was off-the-shelf (or appeared to be) and was good enough to get by. Then there was the "familiar" solution: unix, linux, windows, mac-os? Fuck it, I stick with where I can get around even if my monitor is (physically) dead and I urgently need to get VNC server running by reconfiguring DHCP to static IP (ok, this... is a bit stretched. But not too far.) Now there is familiar stuff with clear benefits spelled out all around for doing things in a different way. In a reasonable manner. Good.
But - don't be mistaken even for a second that this endangers microsoft position even for a second. Linux/unix/whatever will take loong years to get GUI layer right. Anything that depends on X11R(whatever) is an automatic turn-off for me. And not only me, as far as I know. It is a messy layer to deal in, idealistic X11 really tries it best, but for f* j* c* sake:
BeOS got it right TranssexualOS X - got it damn close NT3.5 got it spot on
Linux? Remember Windows 3.1? Dos + fancy wannabe GUI? This is where linux is now. 17 years later.
I think you will find that enterprise world is already full of different Storage-over-the-net standards. Not on consumer level yet apart from a few nasty iSCSI NAS boxes, but trickling down slowly. Yes, it is an obvious idea. Just that caring about expanding your multi-tb arrays without opening up or physically handling each of 20 your production servers is not a consumer case yet. Slapping a case open, fitting, slapping a case shut makes more sense in desktop enviroment currently.
iThink you mixed up iPod with iTunes a bit. iPod success had nothing to do with DRM - more like showing up at the time when p2p really exploded and supporting mp3... not to mention - seeexxxyyy!
iTunes took a bit of a haggling and DRM to get off the ground. Still just a technical showcase and podcasts distribution network from last I noticed in apples' financial statements.
Or... Let IT staff know that you will be able to get root by yourself*, but prefer to ask nicely. Just so that IT can take that into account and let you know if anything you need to do is out of bounds for a reason, but you could try that.
Cops are there to serve YOU. They have quite a lot of rules and laws to abide to to make sure they do. There is NO obligation for you to comply even in the most remote sense.
Any cop that has a problem with this is a problem by itself. Same for cops getting pissed of when being refused to inspect vehicles, same for cops being refused to check your pockets. Alas not the same for TSA scumbags since they are not regulated by anyone.
Only problem? They have the guns, you don't. And when you defend yourself from one, you are the one rotting in the jail.
Current breed of j2me apps for mobiles are geared towards particular user input mechanics - softkeys, joypad, numeric pad. Look around - there is yet not a single application that would be nice to use on a touch screen phone (lg vievty and likes). And for a reason, as the API is not even closely good enough to enable the level of shit that would appear home on iphone.
For all I care this is AGoodThing. Next best thing would be sun releasing j2me-iphone sdk with some UI API extensions allowing existing j2me dev-houses to use existing capacity to build things up, but even thinking about running what is out there on the iphone makes me shiver with fear and repulsion.
Who says it involves substandard components? All manufacturing lines have spare parts to cover for defect rate in supplies. Had a good, accident/fuckups free day? Great - we have parts for a quick run of 25 more...
Yes, they actually ship more of hi-end stuff so can afford to play around with reasonable margins. Strange thing when all the company has, bar two product lines, is considered high-end in pc world...
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ugh, the fact that you have 1000s of monkeys digging thru computers and looking for child porn is a bit meaningless if there is no child porn there in the first place. How many % actually find something? How many got classified as child porn just because someone looks younger than 18 and you cannot prove otherwise? I will not get into browser cache that can be easily populated by anything you want without even giving you a chance to know (1x1px sprite of really gruesome image in example?)
1700 cases are nice number to show but how many actual prosecutions? How many false positives, how many dropped cases?
Oh, and btw - how many outright no-computer-involved cases of under 18 rape over the same time period?
Hah! Sometimes it works out that losing 100 means you save 130 in taxes, net profit - 30. ...there are a lot of reasons.
sometimes you want to avoid a spotlight by overperforming.
sometimes there are specific targets that need to be achieved (think EOFY spending to prevent budget cuts)
sometimes there are brackets you need to stay within to qualify for something (i.e. in UK a lot of people are preferring to keep their salaries under max-tax bracket since tax credits they qualify for in that way more than pays back)
sometimes by losing in one entity allows you to shift some profits from other entity leveling both entities tax duties at lower overall rate
custom aes encryption functionality will definetely provide much better watt performance than leaving it on your cpu. Also CPU is not involved anymore (ie DMA writes) directly with data in/out of hdd.
Even more importantly - provided you set up key init phase properly, keys are handled around in the hdd (where there is a chance of some specific protection) vs close to cpu/main memory where it is far easier to pull them in the plain.
Someone obviously find those valuable, quite surely there is also more to that than I can imagine off the top of my head.
No, it will make a nice powerpoint chart with title:
"New site drives traffic 10fold"
power from 92 square miles will surely melt anything you'll throw in its path. You are welcome to do some maths yourself ;)
Practical way to do this is to divide it in cells (and you'll have to anyway - for practical reasons like access, deployment and servicing). 1sqm would already be quite 'hot'
As for the price, yes, I agree. Hovever you still have to select apropriate cabling for the job. No 5m cables for low-level unbalanced signals, no gauge 24 wire connecting your marantz (hi-current) amp to your $800 pair speakers... No unshelded wire to connect between components where another (no common ground) is present. If you are in a position where you can disqualify source* not cabling, you are fine.
*Sources. core reason why on-board sound cards sound as horrible as they do is not because they are shaite and RFI killed. It is because they are designed to drive not line towards your amplifier but cheap headphones and when faced with a different impedance on the line just goes floating.
Also - PC games by kinda definition have PC available at their disposal. Internet. Amazon. EBay.
;) apply within.
Console buyers OTOH are more likely to be out of the loop here. Therefore when they shop they are more likely to leave their money in the shop.
Look at the actual games (quality, count) released/available on PC. There is no shortage, ergo there is market.
*waiting for clear sky to be released. Five more days of waiting. BTW i'm selling my liver for 8800gt SLI config!
Really? Followed up on office 2007 sales recently? I am quite sure their next financial statements (adjusted for market) will not be so imploding after all...
Essentially there was a solution that was off-the-shelf (or appeared to be) and was good enough to get by. ... is a bit stretched. But not too far.)
Then there was the "familiar" solution: unix, linux, windows, mac-os? Fuck it, I stick with where I can get around even if my monitor is (physically) dead and I urgently need to get VNC server running by reconfiguring DHCP to static IP (ok, this
Now there is familiar stuff with clear benefits spelled out all around for doing things in a different way. In a reasonable manner. Good.
But - don't be mistaken even for a second that this endangers microsoft position even for a second. Linux/unix/whatever will take loong years to get GUI layer right. Anything that depends on X11R(whatever) is an automatic turn-off for me. And not only me, as far as I know. It is a messy layer to deal in, idealistic X11 really tries it best, but for f* j* c* sake:
BeOS got it right
TranssexualOS X - got it damn close
NT3.5 got it spot on
Linux? Remember Windows 3.1? Dos + fancy wannabe GUI? This is where linux is now. 17 years later.
Think of the e-bay resale value!
if we assume that 0.0.0.0 is used as netmask...
I think you will find that enterprise world is already full of different Storage-over-the-net standards. Not on consumer level yet apart from a few nasty iSCSI NAS boxes, but trickling down slowly.
Yes, it is an obvious idea. Just that caring about expanding your multi-tb arrays without opening up or physically handling each of 20 your production servers is not a consumer case yet. Slapping a case open, fitting, slapping a case shut makes more sense in desktop enviroment currently.
Terrorist! Now where are your buddies assembling the bomb? Silent, huh? Never mind, we got methods...
using cd keys from your office pc stickers, aren't you?
The whole concept of paying for software for your education seems to be a bit iffy - what are you paying your course fees for then?
iThink you mixed up iPod with iTunes a bit. iPod success had nothing to do with DRM - more like showing up at the time when p2p really exploded and supporting mp3... not to mention - seeexxxyyy!
iTunes took a bit of a haggling and DRM to get off the ground. Still just a technical showcase and podcasts distribution network from last I noticed in apples' financial statements.
Or... Let IT staff know that you will be able to get root by yourself*, but prefer to ask nicely. Just so that IT can take that into account and let you know if anything you need to do is out of bounds for a reason, but you could try that.
Does wonders and makes sense.
usa? tsa? ...
Cops are there to serve YOU.
They have quite a lot of rules and laws to abide to to make sure they do.
There is NO obligation for you to comply even in the most remote sense.
Any cop that has a problem with this is a problem by itself. Same for cops getting pissed of when being refused to inspect vehicles, same for cops being refused to check your pockets. Alas not the same for TSA scumbags since they are not regulated by anyone.
Only problem? They have the guns, you don't. And when you defend yourself from one, you are the one rotting in the jail.
Shitty.
Realllly?
Have you suffered a toilet outage recently? Or at all?
uhm, no, that is not a problem at all.
Current breed of j2me apps for mobiles are geared towards particular user input mechanics - softkeys, joypad, numeric pad. Look around - there is yet not a single application that would be nice to use on a touch screen phone (lg vievty and likes). And for a reason, as the API is not even closely good enough to enable the level of shit that would appear home on iphone.
For all I care this is AGoodThing. Next best thing would be sun releasing j2me-iphone sdk with some UI API extensions allowing existing j2me dev-houses to use existing capacity to build things up, but even thinking about running what is out there on the iphone makes me shiver with fear and repulsion.
(btw - I am a j2me developer)
Who says it involves substandard components? All manufacturing lines have spare parts to cover for defect rate in supplies. Had a good, accident/fuckups free day? Great - we have parts for a quick run of 25 more...
Is it a show-stopper? What % of users it potentially affects?
Ship!
Yes, they actually ship more of hi-end stuff so can afford to play around with reasonable margins. Strange thing when all the company has, bar two product lines, is considered high-end in pc world...