"Access is not the issue -- if it was, Mr. Goodwin could simply hire a forensic expert to retrieve what he claims is his property and reimburse Carpathia for its associated costs," the response said.
Based on this statement, it sounds like the US Federal Prosecutors already have preserved a copy of all the data they need for their case, and now they don't have a problem with Megaupload/Carpathia taking Megaupload back online to allow users to retrieve their data, and any TOS/data retrieval fee is to do with the customer and Megaupload, not the US Government.
There are many projects, usually internal or niche market applications, which have decades of legacy code to keep the product running. This is not a choice of the developers or done out of laziness, this is what their employers have given them to work with.
If you have to rewrite vast amounts of code because the programming language is out dated, you will find that depending on the size of the project, the company who owns the project will be on the hook for millions of dollars to rewrite it so that it will work with modern environment.
If you are a company in placed in this position of having to rewrite everything, what is there to say that you are going to stay on the Microsoft ecosystem. You have emerging technologies in the enterprise (iOS/iPad/Objective-C), you have Web Applications and "Cloud Computing" (Which are platform independent and would most likely run on a non-Microsoft backend) and if you are a developer who just wants to get it working on the cheap (Where the market is vertical enough that the customer will use any platform you tell them to because they need to run your app) you could probably save a tonne of development cash by just making it run on WINE on GNU/Linux
Better for Microsoft to keep supporting developers who have their ecosystem running on Windows, as these applications directly translate into sales of Windows licenses. If Windows did not have compatibility, then Windows will be just like the rest.
Incidentally, this is why Windows on ARM Tablets will ultimately fail, as there is no compatibility with x86 apps unless it is 100% written in.NET or HTML5 (not that many out there in the whole Windows ecosystem).
Here is something different to all the other experts.
It is absolutely useless to have redundant hardware, eg: Dual PSUs, Dual CPUs, Dual Motherboards, etc. on the same computer. You will never be able to 100% protect against a hardware failure as they will invariably share hardware to allow the interconnection between the redundant components to occur, it is unlikely to protect from things like a short circuit/power surge which would take out everything until the UPS. Then if a component does fail, to repair it your are going to have to take it offline to restore that redundancy anyway.
You are far better off getting two (or more) completely separate servers, geographically diverse if possible, which uses software to provide redundancy. If one goes down, the other(s) would be powerful enough to handle all the load, and when everything is rosey, it just load balances.
The real world difference is you are looking at a $5000 server with identical specs as a $20,000 but without all the redundant PSUs, etc. but you would be better off buying two $5,000 servers ($10,000 total), set them up to have redundancy of each other (So you truely have two COMPLETELY separate sets in redundant hardware of all components, and geographically separate too if possible), and as a bonus you have twice as much computing power (or scale down power draw when not needed) for when both servers are working. If you need to pull one down for maintenance, you don't need to shut off the whole thing.
If you are into Dual PSUs, etc. equipment in addition to also load balancing/fallover between other servers which also have redundancy, this is pointless because you should have ability to cope with the complete failure of a "redundant" server anyway, for the time it takes to replace the defective part the window that the other server(s) will have a failure in that time is not very high.
The only exception to this is Hard Drives, Hard Drives make sense for redundancy, not just because of their high rate of failure, but the fact that if there is a failure, it is a lot more work to recover from (Whereas other components are just a straight hardware swap) so it is saving extra work in the long run.
For a smaller environment where a small amount of downtime would be acceptable, You can even have a Cold Server, an exactly clone of the Main Server ready to go with all the software setup but powered off until needed if there is fault with the main server, the Cold Server can then be powered on to take over. There is no redundancy or fall over with this, but then again, in a smaller environment, your app might not support any kind of redundancy. With a Cold Server, just turn off the faulty server, switch on the cold server, restore the latest data set, and off you go. Microsoft doesn't require that Cold Servers hold a separate license either.
No they are not patent trolls. They innovate as their primary purpose, and do not acquire patents from other organisations so they can collect royalties or litigate.
Would be nice to have people move in who are willing to "Beta test" the city who are willing to live on the cutting edge at the risk that everything could fall to pieces at any time. Sounds like the place where most of Slashdot would want to live.
XP Mode came out with Windows 7 and is a full copy of Windows XP, and therefore depends on Windows XP support to stay secure. My suggestion would be to continue updates for free only to XP mode users and everyone else can receive additional updates on a fee basis (up to the cost of what a Windows 7 license would be) to cover the additional costs of maintenance.
Yes I know my suggestion doesn't count for anything as it is just a Slashdot post.
Why can't users' have the fast track option where they can elect have their data verified by the FBI, by giving the Feds specific legal permission to investigate without the need for a warrant. FBI checks their account for CP and Copyright Infringement. If their account is clean, their data is given back, and then purged from Megaupload as it is no longer evidence as it has been confirmed that suspicions were false for this particular user.
If the account has CP or infringing materials found, then the user has CHOSEN to incriminate themselves and can be among the first to have legal action taken against them (which they deserve for wasting FBI/DOJ time) and does not exclude action against MU themselves.
The FBI can put whatever terms they want in the optional agreement, including providing encryption keys, passwords, etc. but will also be balanced with special indemnity that the information recovered is to remain confidential and destroyed like an NDA if no illegal materials are found. Account holders don't have to give up their passwords/keys, they can wait out the full legal process and see what happens like anyone else if they want to.
All the legit users will probably come forward and will clear the way to concentrate on the remaining accounts, potentially freeing up some servers by consolidating all the remaining accounts' data together.
OK so they are going to ban the sale of games rated as suitable for 15 year olds to anyone who is under 18... wait... WHAT? So a 15 16 or 17 year old can't buy a game rated for 15 years or older????
I can see a future where the main computer functionality runs on ARM for basic functions such as the Operating System, User Interface, and Basic apps, and an x86 co-processor is there for compatibility with legacy apps (including running a Virtual Machine to do this if necessary) and for Intensive computing apps (eg: Gaming, Content Creation, Transcoding)
I got to the bottom of the page and I still can not see any post up modded enough to show me what the submitter actually asked for. Where is the list that compares candidates on specific issues?
Good that he got out of there OK, honestly I would have left on my own accord after seeing some of that going on, but you would also think that after the first warning that some of his "friends" were monitoring him, that he would have removed all of his Bahrain "friends" or at least put on profile restrictions to restrict his Bahrain "friends" from seeing his wall or profile.
Hang on a tic. Google have been sending emails for months to advise users that it will be shutting down and are allowing users to export their data until 2013. I don't see the problem here. They didn't just pull the plug without notice.
Or it could be 2:1 Republicans connected to Democrats, I'm not saying that the republican supporters are less connected than democrats, it was just an example!
First I thought that going by the "Likes" would be skewed by International users who like Barack Obama, but if you scrape the User Data, and discard everyone who do not have "United States" in their profile (as their 'like's don't count as they don't get to vote), there is a higher degree of confidence in that data.
The data collectors will also have to do some community surveys to see which demographics actually use Facebook for 'liking' their political candidates because some communities are more "connected" than others and they will need to adjust accordingly. eg: If only one republican for every two democrats are likely to put a like on Facebook, then the republican likes get more weight.
Pretty scary stuff what can be worked out from scraping Facebook data. This is the sort of uses that Privacy Experts have been warning about. One person who thinks it's 'Cool' to like Barack Obama on Facebook is someone else's campaign data.
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"Access is not the issue -- if it was, Mr. Goodwin could simply hire a forensic expert to retrieve what he claims is his property and reimburse Carpathia for its associated costs," the response said.
Based on this statement, it sounds like the US Federal Prosecutors already have preserved a copy of all the data they need for their case, and now they don't have a problem with Megaupload/Carpathia taking Megaupload back online to allow users to retrieve their data, and any TOS/data retrieval fee is to do with the customer and Megaupload, not the US Government.
There are many projects, usually internal or niche market applications, which have decades of legacy code to keep the product running. This is not a choice of the developers or done out of laziness, this is what their employers have given them to work with.
If you have to rewrite vast amounts of code because the programming language is out dated, you will find that depending on the size of the project, the company who owns the project will be on the hook for millions of dollars to rewrite it so that it will work with modern environment.
If you are a company in placed in this position of having to rewrite everything, what is there to say that you are going to stay on the Microsoft ecosystem. You have emerging technologies in the enterprise (iOS/iPad/Objective-C), you have Web Applications and "Cloud Computing" (Which are platform independent and would most likely run on a non-Microsoft backend) and if you are a developer who just wants to get it working on the cheap (Where the market is vertical enough that the customer will use any platform you tell them to because they need to run your app) you could probably save a tonne of development cash by just making it run on WINE on GNU/Linux
Better for Microsoft to keep supporting developers who have their ecosystem running on Windows, as these applications directly translate into sales of Windows licenses. If Windows did not have compatibility, then Windows will be just like the rest.
Incidentally, this is why Windows on ARM Tablets will ultimately fail, as there is no compatibility with x86 apps unless it is 100% written in .NET or HTML5 (not that many out there in the whole Windows ecosystem).
Here is something different to all the other experts.
It is absolutely useless to have redundant hardware, eg: Dual PSUs, Dual CPUs, Dual Motherboards, etc. on the same computer. You will never be able to 100% protect against a hardware failure as they will invariably share hardware to allow the interconnection between the redundant components to occur, it is unlikely to protect from things like a short circuit/power surge which would take out everything until the UPS. Then if a component does fail, to repair it your are going to have to take it offline to restore that redundancy anyway.
You are far better off getting two (or more) completely separate servers, geographically diverse if possible, which uses software to provide redundancy. If one goes down, the other(s) would be powerful enough to handle all the load, and when everything is rosey, it just load balances.
The real world difference is you are looking at a $5000 server with identical specs as a $20,000 but without all the redundant PSUs, etc. but you would be better off buying two $5,000 servers ($10,000 total), set them up to have redundancy of each other (So you truely have two COMPLETELY separate sets in redundant hardware of all components, and geographically separate too if possible), and as a bonus you have twice as much computing power (or scale down power draw when not needed) for when both servers are working. If you need to pull one down for maintenance, you don't need to shut off the whole thing.
If you are into Dual PSUs, etc. equipment in addition to also load balancing/fallover between other servers which also have redundancy, this is pointless because you should have ability to cope with the complete failure of a "redundant" server anyway, for the time it takes to replace the defective part the window that the other server(s) will have a failure in that time is not very high.
The only exception to this is Hard Drives, Hard Drives make sense for redundancy, not just because of their high rate of failure, but the fact that if there is a failure, it is a lot more work to recover from (Whereas other components are just a straight hardware swap) so it is saving extra work in the long run.
For a smaller environment where a small amount of downtime would be acceptable, You can even have a Cold Server, an exactly clone of the Main Server ready to go with all the software setup but powered off until needed if there is fault with the main server, the Cold Server can then be powered on to take over. There is no redundancy or fall over with this, but then again, in a smaller environment, your app might not support any kind of redundancy. With a Cold Server, just turn off the faulty server, switch on the cold server, restore the latest data set, and off you go. Microsoft doesn't require that Cold Servers hold a separate license either.
Make it an open network but don't connect it to anything. Some people will spend hours trying to connect.
Works better when it is in range of busy public spaces.
Also works equally as well with "Free Porn".
No they are not patent trolls. They innovate as their primary purpose, and do not acquire patents from other organisations so they can collect royalties or litigate.
Can someone please post a recording of the approach and capture?
No WE are the rightful winner of all of it!
Would be nice to have people move in who are willing to "Beta test" the city who are willing to live on the cutting edge at the risk that everything could fall to pieces at any time. Sounds like the place where most of Slashdot would want to live.
How ironic that the predicted Asteroid Human-Extinction event would be man made?
XP Mode came out with Windows 7 and is a full copy of Windows XP, and therefore depends on Windows XP support to stay secure. My suggestion would be to continue updates for free only to XP mode users and everyone else can receive additional updates on a fee basis (up to the cost of what a Windows 7 license would be) to cover the additional costs of maintenance.
Yes I know my suggestion doesn't count for anything as it is just a Slashdot post.
Why can't users' have the fast track option where they can elect have their data verified by the FBI, by giving the Feds specific legal permission to investigate without the need for a warrant. FBI checks their account for CP and Copyright Infringement. If their account is clean, their data is given back, and then purged from Megaupload as it is no longer evidence as it has been confirmed that suspicions were false for this particular user.
If the account has CP or infringing materials found, then the user has CHOSEN to incriminate themselves and can be among the first to have legal action taken against them (which they deserve for wasting FBI/DOJ time) and does not exclude action against MU themselves.
The FBI can put whatever terms they want in the optional agreement, including providing encryption keys, passwords, etc. but will also be balanced with special indemnity that the information recovered is to remain confidential and destroyed like an NDA if no illegal materials are found. Account holders don't have to give up their passwords/keys, they can wait out the full legal process and see what happens like anyone else if they want to.
All the legit users will probably come forward and will clear the way to concentrate on the remaining accounts, potentially freeing up some servers by consolidating all the remaining accounts' data together.
OK so they are going to ban the sale of games rated as suitable for 15 year olds to anyone who is under 18... wait... WHAT? So a 15 16 or 17 year old can't buy a game rated for 15 years or older????
This means you.
I can see a future where the main computer functionality runs on ARM for basic functions such as the Operating System, User Interface, and Basic apps, and an x86 co-processor is there for compatibility with legacy apps (including running a Virtual Machine to do this if necessary) and for Intensive computing apps (eg: Gaming, Content Creation, Transcoding)
Because private networks with entry points all over town can not be hacked, right.
I got to the bottom of the page and I still can not see any post up modded enough to show me what the submitter actually asked for. Where is the list that compares candidates on specific issues?
Good that he got out of there OK, honestly I would have left on my own accord after seeing some of that going on, but you would also think that after the first warning that some of his "friends" were monitoring him, that he would have removed all of his Bahrain "friends" or at least put on profile restrictions to restrict his Bahrain "friends" from seeing his wall or profile.
Hang on a tic. Google have been sending emails for months to advise users that it will be shutting down and are allowing users to export their data until 2013. I don't see the problem here. They didn't just pull the plug without notice.
according to Mission Impossible.
You would be FAR better off donating to the victim directly, rather than letting the lawyers get any of it and do RH a favor
I fell for it, I want my mod points back
what it looks like close up, because they can't get one due to the injunction.
Also, Apple has not have SuperSpeed USB on any of it's computers.
Or it could be 2:1 Republicans connected to Democrats, I'm not saying that the republican supporters are less connected than democrats, it was just an example!
First I thought that going by the "Likes" would be skewed by International users who like Barack Obama, but if you scrape the User Data, and discard everyone who do not have "United States" in their profile (as their 'like's don't count as they don't get to vote), there is a higher degree of confidence in that data.
The data collectors will also have to do some community surveys to see which demographics actually use Facebook for 'liking' their political candidates because some communities are more "connected" than others and they will need to adjust accordingly. eg: If only one republican for every two democrats are likely to put a like on Facebook, then the republican likes get more weight.
Pretty scary stuff what can be worked out from scraping Facebook data. This is the sort of uses that Privacy Experts have been warning about. One person who thinks it's 'Cool' to like Barack Obama on Facebook is someone else's campaign data.