Doubleclick is likely to end up on the junk pile too.
Looks to me like Microsoft has just decided to stop asking, "Where do you want to go today?" and decided to buy the company that has already harvested the answer. They now have access to a huge database of cross-site cookies tracking where people have gone on the web.
And if your backups are bad, or you lost data entered between the times you perform backups?
The question is not what methods do you have to restore data and how you can protect yourself; it is what expertise exists out there that can restore data from worst case scenarios involving flash memory like is available for magnetic media.
And also what business opportunities exist for those seeking to provide such service, because there will be people who will need such services.
"It's a world much like our own, yet much unlike it. A twisted mirror of reality, in which a man can find himself cast out, made invisible by public acclamation, belonging no longer to society, but only to the gray reaches... of the Twilight Zone."
i actually like that idea, kinda wish it was a standard feature. Well without the diamond at least.
At least until your computer starts making dire predictions, such as, "Space vehicle will be destroyed!" and then refusing to give the background for that prediction.
Finally, more than an aesthetic reason for Jolt Cola's battery-shaped cans. (They're even Duracell copper-top inspired.)
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Places like that are a boon to stranded hitchhikers who need cheap replacement parts while trying to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day.
Just stay away from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. You'll get all Oedipal on your eyes. And you ears when the theme song comes on.
I've already seen episodes of the animated version.
A work that expires before its copyright never enters the public domain and thus enjoys eternal copyright protection.
Is that yours? I want to know who to quote in my bugzilla quotebank.
Yes, it is. I plan to put up my first journal page on the topic. I'm thinking "The Eternal Copyright of the Ephemeral Work" or "...of Ephemeral Works" as the title.
Hey, you're not giving them very good incentive to make good videos - if they're great you'll buy them, if they're steaming crap you'll buy them.:)
Well, if they're only mediocre, I won't buy them. And I won't buy just any crap. I still haven't bought Evil Alien Overlords. Granted, it has a craptastic theme song, but huge swaths of it are just too painful to sit through. In some ways Laserblast was a masterpiece compared to that movie (and is better with the MST3K treatment).
But still not as bad as L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series. I couldn't force my way through Volume 2 of that piece of crap and would rather burn any copies on sight.
ST:TAS is still in my Netflix queue, but as I understand it, it's considered canon, and a continuation of TOS after its cancellation.
Gene retconned the animated Star Trek series, saying he only did it for money and if he knew he'd continue the series he never would have allowed things that went into that series. (And he would have fixed the Klingons then: Gene's stance was that Klingons always looked they way they do in the movies; he just didn't have the budget to do them right. He was dead by the time the DS9 and Enterprise stories retconned his retcon.)
However, one thing I recall was still considered canon from the animated Trek series: the events of Spock's childhood, sans the elder Spock's participation.
Meanwhile Stargate Infinity lacked even basic internal continuity, as it was riddled with animation errors such as how many chevron locks are on the stargate (5 to 12 in the same scene) and even permitted bi-directional gate travel. As such it is difficult to even treat it as an alternate history a la the various Highlander incarnations.
Not to say I wouldn't get Infinity on DVD myself just to rip and remix for ridicule.
Subject: As a member of the University of Nebraska IT staff
The dorms on campus are dynamic DHCP. Detailed records of what Mac addresses are associated with what IP address when are kept for a month. Within that month UNL can easily associate a computer with an IP address at a certain time.
As a former member of the UNL IT staff, I'm curious about when you switched everyone to dynamic DHCP. Dorms used to be static DHCP (and the occasional BOOTP), and the logs used to go back years, far enough to having date formats utilizing two-digit years. There were some sets of dynamic DHCP, and I remember extending the sizes of some dynamic DHCP blocks, but I didn't think you'd relinquish that control. No more computer registration at the 501 Bldg.?
I guess that also means that residence hall rooms aren't assigned domain names that include either hall and room numbers or student names since everything is dynamic. I always thought that practice to be rather odious, broadcasting where people live to be recorded in the logs of every website they visit.
At least the TV Networks are readily flirting with putting shows up on the web for viewing by consumers at no cost (as long as you don't mind and ad every 15 minutes... snack break anyone?)
I watched a couple episodes from ABC last season. Their timed enforcement of streaming ad viewing was a joke. It took so long for the stream to shift gears and present the ad that the timer had run out and I could skip it anyway.
Mind you, the machine I was watching it on was so slow I had to hold down the mouse button to get a watchable frame rate. Well, wedge it down, really. It took more processing time away from playback to check for all possible user events than to field one event continuously. I haven't been back with the new machine; the cable hasn't been flaking out as much lately, apart from all three cable boxes locking up simultaneously yesterday.
"Because today's independent publishers are platform agnostic - that is to say, they build games for all major systems - taking over one would result in a massive revenue loss for Microsoft, as all development would be redirected toward the Xbox 360."
Yeah, Microsoft really Bungied their last game company takeover.
"Offtopic"? Was it not clear I was relating my experience working at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln? I worked in 29 WSEC. I still have my Faculty-Staff ID.
The length or exact portion of the copyrighted material does not matter.
If the amount copied is irrelevant to fair use, then one should be able to point to instances of complete verbatim copying of works that were still declared as fair use. These days they deny that even for educational purposes.
Indeed, and let's not forget that for every University of Nebraska, there's a Penn State with draconian AUPs that require MAC addresses be associated with a particular student before being granted internet access, thus greatly simplifying the process of associating an IP address with a particular student.
Funny. Last I worked for UNL's Information Services department (formerly Computing Resource Center), that was their policy.
Of course, that was ten years ago. They may have replaced their DHCP software with something else that doesn't provide easily greppable logs anymore.
A lot must have changed in the last ten years. It looked to me that [machine named after a Peanuts character](*) kept track of DHCP leases for years, recording who got what IP and what their machine's MAC address was. I was once tasked to audit the information for two semesters to update the DHCP server for the next year. Students who were caught trying to get an unassigned static IP got their MAC addresses banned. They've caught students buying new NICs to get new, unbanned MAC addresses to get back on the network before.
Meanwhile, the assignment of static IPs by DHCP must have also gone by the wayside, as when I was in the "residence halls" I was disturbed to discover that the IP addresses also had domain names identifying residence hall and room number and no option to have that information be removed.
I guess that with the addition of wireless access on campus, there was suddenly far more information than they could handle and felt there was no longer any point in tracking it beyond, what are they saying, 31 days?
(*) I'm pretty sure I know which machine, but there's no point in saying it here as it is inaccessible from off campus. I was there when they disallowed pings and traceroutes from the outside for reasons of network security, and that still appears to be the case. There's more than one Peanuts-named machine on campus.
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And if your backups are bad, or you lost data entered between the times you perform backups?
The question is not what methods do you have to restore data and how you can protect yourself; it is what expertise exists out there that can restore data from worst case scenarios involving flash memory like is available for magnetic media.
And also what business opportunities exist for those seeking to provide such service, because there will be people who will need such services.
"It's a world much like our own, yet much unlike it. A twisted mirror of reality, in which a man can find himself cast out, made invisible by public acclamation, belonging no longer to society, but only to the gray reaches... of the Twilight Zone."
The Twilight Zone (1985): "To See the Invisible Man"
Finally, more than an aesthetic reason for Jolt Cola's battery-shaped cans. (They're even Duracell copper-top inspired.)
Places like that are a boon to stranded hitchhikers who need cheap replacement parts while trying to see the Universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day.
But still not as bad as L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series. I couldn't force my way through Volume 2 of that piece of crap and would rather burn any copies on sight.
However, one thing I recall was still considered canon from the animated Trek series: the events of Spock's childhood, sans the elder Spock's participation.
Meanwhile Stargate Infinity lacked even basic internal continuity, as it was riddled with animation errors such as how many chevron locks are on the stargate (5 to 12 in the same scene) and even permitted bi-directional gate travel. As such it is difficult to even treat it as an alternate history a la the various Highlander incarnations.
Not to say I wouldn't get Infinity on DVD myself just to rip and remix for ridicule.
- Stargate SG-1 (1997)
- Stargate Infinity (2002)
- Stargate Atlantis (2004)
- Stargate Universe
They always forget/suppress the animated series, just like Star Trek (1973).I've said it before: the lowest code owns. Also true: he who codes the lowest owns.
See Reflections on Trusting Trust. It should be required reading of every programmer.
I guess that also means that residence hall rooms aren't assigned domain names that include either hall and room numbers or student names since everything is dynamic. I always thought that practice to be rather odious, broadcasting where people live to be recorded in the logs of every website they visit.
And what happened to the machine csealumni?
Mind you, the machine I was watching it on was so slow I had to hold down the mouse button to get a watchable frame rate. Well, wedge it down, really. It took more processing time away from playback to check for all possible user events than to field one event continuously. I haven't been back with the new machine; the cable hasn't been flaking out as much lately, apart from all three cable boxes locking up simultaneously yesterday.
"Offtopic"? Was it not clear I was relating my experience working at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln? I worked in 29 WSEC. I still have my Faculty-Staff ID.
Your students aren't very bright. You can change the MAC address of an ethernet card very easily.
Yes, this was a source of amusement for those catching them doing it.
But then I did encounter the unlikely MAC address 00:00:00:00:10:00 in those logs too.
Of course, that was ten years ago. They may have replaced their DHCP software with something else that doesn't provide easily greppable logs anymore.
A lot must have changed in the last ten years. It looked to me that [machine named after a Peanuts character](*) kept track of DHCP leases for years, recording who got what IP and what their machine's MAC address was. I was once tasked to audit the information for two semesters to update the DHCP server for the next year. Students who were caught trying to get an unassigned static IP got their MAC addresses banned. They've caught students buying new NICs to get new, unbanned MAC addresses to get back on the network before.
Meanwhile, the assignment of static IPs by DHCP must have also gone by the wayside, as when I was in the "residence halls" I was disturbed to discover that the IP addresses also had domain names identifying residence hall and room number and no option to have that information be removed.
I guess that with the addition of wireless access on campus, there was suddenly far more information than they could handle and felt there was no longer any point in tracking it beyond, what are they saying, 31 days?
(*) I'm pretty sure I know which machine, but there's no point in saying it here as it is inaccessible from off campus. I was there when they disallowed pings and traceroutes from the outside for reasons of network security, and that still appears to be the case. There's more than one Peanuts-named machine on campus.
Perhaps it should be more a vocation than a profession.