Probably. Because no one in their right mind is going to have a password that's 1KB long. Average word length in English is about 5 letters per word. Add in a space and you're at ~166 words for a 1KB password. An excellent typist types at 80WPM so that's 2 minutes to type in your password if you're really fast, you remember it, and you type it correctly.
You are taking it out of context and missing that the 600k and 200k were for different sales periods, December and January.
It was announced the Wii U sold 600k in December, and the 3DS, 360, PS3 all sold better than the Wii U did. Come January the Wii U sold 57k, and everything except the Vita outsold it. The 360 sold over 200k units, which for a console on its last legs is great.
In December, Wii U sold 600k. According to here, the 360 sold 1.4m, easily trouncing the Wii U.
In January, the Wii U sold 57k, while for the same period the 360 sold 200k.
When was the last time N Korea arrested visitors saying they were CIA spies?
Never. Dear Leader merely invited them to say for an extended period by their own choice. Those that declined the invitation were shot. At no point where they under arrest.
Since the Canadian and US Dollars are almost the same, the diff was what 10 pence?
They are close. But still not insignificant. And it's going to depend on what date the sale was as to who it's significant to.
The boat is likely $1m+. It's been in the works since 2011 and usually cheap boats don't take a year to build. Large, highly customized, high end expensive boats take over a year to build. With current exchange rates, The difference for a $1m boat is around $25k. Seattle's use tax rate is.095, plus an additional.3% for vehicles/boats, and.5% excise tax. So that's an extra $2500 in taxes and fees. Yeah it's only a small fraction of the total cost, but I don't think most people want to spend $2500 just because some agent didn't write $#CAD on the form.
Inevitably, it ends up looking like the doctor wanted to "save money" by avoiding a $100 test or $500 surgery and that's what killed poor dearly departed.
$100 test? $500 surgery? What doctor do you go to, a free clinic? The last $500 "surgery" I had was the doctor removing a couple of skin tags with a pair of nips and putting on a band aid. Office visits start at $96 at our family doctor's office. I had 3 CTs several years ago within 48 hours for cracked skull and subdural hematoma and each were over $1000 just for the hospital fee, not including the radiologist looking at it. A basic lipids profile and A1C for my diabetes gets billed to insurance at nearly $200.
The tests that are being recommended can be orders of magnitude greater than $100. And no real surgery is going to come in at $500.
They aren't saying don't perform tests. In most of the recommendations, they are saying don't perform frequent tests for people who don't show any symptoms, non-specific symptoms, or have other factors that wouldn't change the outcome if something was detected now or several years down the road if/when other symptoms become present.
Well, in this case obviously the subscriber was not held to be civilly or criminally liable. If the ISP chooses to suspend or terminate the subscribers account based on the allegations of the 3rd party, then I guess that's their prerogative. However the ISP probably isn't going to have any proof of the infringement other than what the 3rd party claims, and the 3rd party probably isn't going to get involved in a case with further significant evidence other than basic information on a sheet of paper that may not even be accurate.
Besides, the ISP would lose a paying customer. If things were bad enough that the cost of having to deal with the customer exceeded the revenue brought in by them, then maybe they would get rid of them.
It might get into a legal predicament if the ISP terminates the account and charges a termination fee. But that's another legal matter between the ISP and the subscriber, not the originally accusing 3rd party and the subscriber.
Honestly? Because just by itself it looks really small and harmless. No one would ever use it all by itself because it likely would be thrown out of court and/or invalidated. However to combine it with a hundred other equally ridiculous patents and you go after your smaller competition. The smaller guys might be able to fend off a few patent attacks, but if you throw your entire portfolio at them then it takes significantly more resources to fight. So the competition either capitulates, or licenses your nonsense patents.
See that line on the shipping form that asks for the item's value? That's the insurance. I think it's something like $.35/$100 declared value. If your items shipped are under $100, they are automatically covered for up to that.
Postal workers already have a bad enough rap with "going postal". With cutbacks and losing Saturday deliveries, do we REALLY want to give then another weapon?
Then there is the small matter of warranty service and technical support.
If you're running Linux, you are already likely far ahead of any customer support a consumer will receive when calling for technical assistance.
Regarding warranty support, every laptop that I've owned that required repair, in or out of warranty, required that the hard drive be removed when I shipped it in (presuming it wasn't the drive that was the issue). And once you remove the hard drive, it doesn't matter what OS was being used.
Manufacturers can't just automatically deny the warranty because you install a different OS. It has to be demonstrable that the change in OS was the cause of the issue.
Composing a complex word or excel document. Serious coding. photo retouching. Any that requires multiple programs to be side by side.
It's not so much that they can't be done, it's that it's impractical and cumbersome to do for an extensive period of time. And if you're going to carry around a keyboard and mouse to do "real work" with the tablet, it kind of defeats part of the reason of having a very portable all-in-one computer.
If it is now trespassing, does that mean all they have to do is post a "No Trespassing, Violators will be shot" sign on/in their movies? To go from suing alleged infringes to executing them is really upping the ante.
Not quite. Newz2bin pretty much just archived binaries that were posted to usenet.
Newzbin2, like all the other nzb sites, doesn't archive binaries. It indexes. IIRC, it didn't even automate crawling like Newznab does (although I could be wrong).
It is to Usenet what The Pirate Bay is to Bittorrent or Yahoo was in it's early years to the web...a directory allowing people to search for what they wanted and pointing to the resource where they could get to it.
It depends, which SCO are you referring to? The early version(s) that, at one time, had decent Unix OS offerings with OpenServer and Unixware? Or the scorched-earth-that-ultimately-blew-up-in-their-face litigious idiots that took on probably the absolutely worst company to get the Linux litigation ball rolling.
My voip provider offers a free feature called disposable phone numbers for exactly what you're describing. They allow you to have a temporary number from between 6 hours and 5 days for things like selling an item on Craigslist, online dating, etc where you need a number, but don't want to give out your real number.
The DMCA doesn't define common carriers. It defines service providers as:
`(1) SERVICE PROVIDER- (A) As used in subsection (a), the term `service provider' means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.
`(B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term `service provider' means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A).
Whoever is providing the proxy is not an end user presuming they aren't a proxy for themselves. If you read Sec. 512(A) of the DMCA, a proxy could qualify as a service provider with respects to limitations of liability. I personally wouldn't be willing to stake my legal and financial well being on such an argument, but I think it's plausible argument/defense.
Everyone operating as a proxy for everyone else will just complicate the issue of tracking down the real infringes. However real ISPs aren't going to be happy with their users running essentially open proxies for potential infringement. Most TOS/AUP already vaguely or explicitly prohibit running such a service. If it ever became more popular, I'd bet you see more providers actively enforcing their policies even with draconian measures. Also caps and pay-by-the-byte would also likely nip it in the bud. Why would people pay for other people to pirate?
If a hospital can't keep the necessary supplies in inventory to operate should a "computer error" happen and can't be resolved immediately, they shouldn't be a hospital.
No major business is going to operate on a "just in time" basis for financing. They are all going to carry lines of credit or other equivalent with their major suppliers. They are going to have 15-, 30-, 60-, 90-day terms or whatnot for invoicing.
Netflix says they pay for the hardware. If any maintenance is needed, they ship the hardware next day. If the whole module needs replaced, all the ISP needs is a way to receive it off a pallet and install it. Netflix performance any software-related maintenance remotely. The only maintenance the ISP basically needs to perform, aside from a complete hardware failure, is make sure no one trips over the power or network cable.
When the CDNs get moved to within the ISP's network, why would you care if it's compatible with squid? It's already cached within the network. You going to cache it again?
It's the same with Netflix. They give you one or more 4U servers with about 100TB of storage. The ISP just has to provide the 10g network connection and the electricity.
And if you don't want to host their equipment, you can also get some of the benefit by using one of the dozen or so peering exchanges where they have equipment already setup.
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Probably. Because no one in their right mind is going to have a password that's 1KB long. Average word length in English is about 5 letters per word. Add in a space and you're at ~166 words for a 1KB password. An excellent typist types at 80WPM so that's 2 minutes to type in your password if you're really fast, you remember it, and you type it correctly.
You are taking it out of context and missing that the 600k and 200k were for different sales periods, December and January.
In December, Wii U sold 600k. According to here, the 360 sold 1.4m, easily trouncing the Wii U.
In January, the Wii U sold 57k, while for the same period the 360 sold 200k.
So he really went out on a limb and predicted the odds on favorites and got 2/3 right. Whoop-de-do.
Because Google has expense budgets of $37b a year (2012 unaudited)?
Never. Dear Leader merely invited them to say for an extended period by their own choice. Those that declined the invitation were shot. At no point where they under arrest.
They are close. But still not insignificant. And it's going to depend on what date the sale was as to who it's significant to.
The boat is likely $1m+. It's been in the works since 2011 and usually cheap boats don't take a year to build. Large, highly customized, high end expensive boats take over a year to build. With current exchange rates, The difference for a $1m boat is around $25k. Seattle's use tax rate is .095, plus an additional .3% for vehicles/boats, and .5% excise tax. So that's an extra $2500 in taxes and fees. Yeah it's only a small fraction of the total cost, but I don't think most people want to spend $2500 just because some agent didn't write $#CAD on the form.
$100 test? $500 surgery? What doctor do you go to, a free clinic? The last $500 "surgery" I had was the doctor removing a couple of skin tags with a pair of nips and putting on a band aid. Office visits start at $96 at our family doctor's office. I had 3 CTs several years ago within 48 hours for cracked skull and subdural hematoma and each were over $1000 just for the hospital fee, not including the radiologist looking at it. A basic lipids profile and A1C for my diabetes gets billed to insurance at nearly $200.
The tests that are being recommended can be orders of magnitude greater than $100. And no real surgery is going to come in at $500.
They aren't saying don't perform tests. In most of the recommendations, they are saying don't perform frequent tests for people who don't show any symptoms, non-specific symptoms, or have other factors that wouldn't change the outcome if something was detected now or several years down the road if/when other symptoms become present.
Well, in this case obviously the subscriber was not held to be civilly or criminally liable. If the ISP chooses to suspend or terminate the subscribers account based on the allegations of the 3rd party, then I guess that's their prerogative. However the ISP probably isn't going to have any proof of the infringement other than what the 3rd party claims, and the 3rd party probably isn't going to get involved in a case with further significant evidence other than basic information on a sheet of paper that may not even be accurate.
Besides, the ISP would lose a paying customer. If things were bad enough that the cost of having to deal with the customer exceeded the revenue brought in by them, then maybe they would get rid of them.
It might get into a legal predicament if the ISP terminates the account and charges a termination fee. But that's another legal matter between the ISP and the subscriber, not the originally accusing 3rd party and the subscriber.
You don't even need to shoot them. They are shooting themselves.
Honestly? Because just by itself it looks really small and harmless. No one would ever use it all by itself because it likely would be thrown out of court and/or invalidated. However to combine it with a hundred other equally ridiculous patents and you go after your smaller competition. The smaller guys might be able to fend off a few patent attacks, but if you throw your entire portfolio at them then it takes significantly more resources to fight. So the competition either capitulates, or licenses your nonsense patents.
See that line on the shipping form that asks for the item's value? That's the insurance. I think it's something like $.35/$100 declared value. If your items shipped are under $100, they are automatically covered for up to that.
Postal workers already have a bad enough rap with "going postal". With cutbacks and losing Saturday deliveries, do we REALLY want to give then another weapon?
If you're running Linux, you are already likely far ahead of any customer support a consumer will receive when calling for technical assistance.
Regarding warranty support, every laptop that I've owned that required repair, in or out of warranty, required that the hard drive be removed when I shipped it in (presuming it wasn't the drive that was the issue). And once you remove the hard drive, it doesn't matter what OS was being used.
Manufacturers can't just automatically deny the warranty because you install a different OS. It has to be demonstrable that the change in OS was the cause of the issue.
Composing a complex word or excel document. Serious coding. photo retouching. Any that requires multiple programs to be side by side.
It's not so much that they can't be done, it's that it's impractical and cumbersome to do for an extensive period of time. And if you're going to carry around a keyboard and mouse to do "real work" with the tablet, it kind of defeats part of the reason of having a very portable all-in-one computer.
It means you get a Get Out Of City Jail card but not a Get Out Of State Prison one.
If it is now trespassing, does that mean all they have to do is post a "No Trespassing, Violators will be shot" sign on/in their movies? To go from suing alleged infringes to executing them is really upping the ante.
Newzbin2, like all the other nzb sites, doesn't archive binaries. It indexes. IIRC, it didn't even automate crawling like Newznab does (although I could be wrong).
It is to Usenet what The Pirate Bay is to Bittorrent or Yahoo was in it's early years to the web...a directory allowing people to search for what they wanted and pointing to the resource where they could get to it.
Why is the "Danger" sign on the side of the cockpit written in English? Shouldn't that be in Persian/Farsi or something?
It depends, which SCO are you referring to? The early version(s) that, at one time, had decent Unix OS offerings with OpenServer and Unixware? Or the scorched-earth-that-ultimately-blew-up-in-their-face litigious idiots that took on probably the absolutely worst company to get the Linux litigation ball rolling.
My voip provider offers a free feature called disposable phone numbers for exactly what you're describing. They allow you to have a temporary number from between 6 hours and 5 days for things like selling an item on Craigslist, online dating, etc where you need a number, but don't want to give out your real number.
You must be new here. You don't exactly expect people to RTFA do you?
The DMCA doesn't define common carriers. It defines service providers as:
Whoever is providing the proxy is not an end user presuming they aren't a proxy for themselves. If you read Sec. 512(A) of the DMCA, a proxy could qualify as a service provider with respects to limitations of liability. I personally wouldn't be willing to stake my legal and financial well being on such an argument, but I think it's plausible argument/defense.
Everyone operating as a proxy for everyone else will just complicate the issue of tracking down the real infringes. However real ISPs aren't going to be happy with their users running essentially open proxies for potential infringement. Most TOS/AUP already vaguely or explicitly prohibit running such a service. If it ever became more popular, I'd bet you see more providers actively enforcing their policies even with draconian measures. Also caps and pay-by-the-byte would also likely nip it in the bud. Why would people pay for other people to pirate?
If a hospital can't keep the necessary supplies in inventory to operate should a "computer error" happen and can't be resolved immediately, they shouldn't be a hospital.
No major business is going to operate on a "just in time" basis for financing. They are all going to carry lines of credit or other equivalent with their major suppliers. They are going to have 15-, 30-, 60-, 90-day terms or whatnot for invoicing.
Netflix says they pay for the hardware. If any maintenance is needed, they ship the hardware next day. If the whole module needs replaced, all the ISP needs is a way to receive it off a pallet and install it. Netflix performance any software-related maintenance remotely. The only maintenance the ISP basically needs to perform, aside from a complete hardware failure, is make sure no one trips over the power or network cable.
When the CDNs get moved to within the ISP's network, why would you care if it's compatible with squid? It's already cached within the network. You going to cache it again?
It's the same with Netflix. They give you one or more 4U servers with about 100TB of storage. The ISP just has to provide the 10g network connection and the electricity.
And if you don't want to host their equipment, you can also get some of the benefit by using one of the dozen or so peering exchanges where they have equipment already setup.