Ummm... huh? Could you reference some of these laws, to start with?
I do not have pointer to any any official translation of Finnish penal law, chapter 38 or the communication law 121 so you must trust me. The communication law defines among other following terms:
person identification
All information describing a person or
one's properties or living circumstances. Based on this information a
single person, one's family, or people living in a same household can
be identified.
subscriber
A person or a legal entity that has made agreement
with teleprovider to be able to use services provided by teleprovider.
identification information
Subscriber's or user's number or other
identification generated or stored in establishing teleconnection.
Thus, an IP address potentialy identifies a single person and so it must be treated as one. Even if it does not identify user in all, or in majority of cases, because it sometimes does (I know several cases that users name can be found simply with whois), one must handle those carefully. This is a modern version of old letter secrecy law, even learing that some message is sent and informing some other about it is a crime.
For the server logs, you can store them as evidence and hand out for police iff the suspected crime is serious enough. But in normal course of operation, those should not be watched. Recently introduced law "Lex Sonera" (now ex-CEO of Sonera is on charge about finding out who leaked information to press using call logs) puts more strict control on how different logs can be monitored.
One quite interesting angle is that in countires with strict privacy laws (many EU countires), it may be illeagal to record IP addresses that carry pirated content. Copyright infringement is a petty crime that does not warrant home searches or disclosing communication (IP addresses, telephone numbers) unless you ask money for it.
Thus, a company that records IP addresses of file swappers could be liable under Finnish penal law facing upto four years of physically limited freedom for management.
that adding metals to make your own paint mix is either illegal
Earlier tin was used in antifouling paints to prevent marine growth in boat bottoms. Later it was replaced with copper but nowadays in Scandinavia it is also prohibited (from 2004), at least for leasure boaters because of environmental reasons. The paints will prevent marine growth also near boats and can be a severe hazard by marinas. Using brush few times a season serves the same thing.
Many water-based latex paints are sold as environmentaly friendly. However, they may have larger emissions on hazardious substances than oil- or solvent-based paints.
Probably the running number was used in records as on identifier too. With two bytes for 32k records that makes 64kB of extra memory. In 80s that was lot a memory.
Just finished optimizing two bytes off each record as I noticed that a struct had 2 extra bytes because of aligment. It does matter even today if you have more than 300 million records daily and need to store data indefinite amount of time.
the challenge hash for the hardware of the machine....Very fool proof, transparent, and painless.
Marketignspeak by the designer? Then your machine breaks; you have replacement machine running within a hour and then you wait for a new key and wait... Probably your customer service responded in minutes? I've waited a week for new license keys; the value of license contract was 400 million dollars -- we did get some 99.9% percent educational discount, but still.
The license enforcement systems are designed to prevent use of software. Often their design is obscure (for a reason) and thus they are more unreliable than normal programs. I know this because I've both implemented licensing software and used several of those. Its pain for both sides.
those 40% of users did not stop using the software, they just stopped paying
Sounds like customers with low morale. What were they? Porn, MLM, spammers? What I know small business, they make sure that they pay for their tools. Goverment may be left without tax money, but not the one providing tools. And you talk about "sites". Could not you check if the site was created with your software and then make nasty questions?
Pirating can hurt real people.
..like a bad business plan. I'm not for pirating software -- if I do not want to pay for software, then I use free software. At work I make sure that we have same number of licenses than there are installed copies for each software even if there is no license server.
Every copy of the software used an active form of product activation.
Sounds like real pain to support. I've seen lots of different license services and product activation keys and they usually result in lost productivity. Currently we use "only" four software packages that use license server, each its own. After an OS upgrade, it is very likely that some of those breaks and if you want to support several versions of operating systems you need to tweak license manager tools for the magical combination.
The protocols are not documented, so you need to try to find out how you configure firewall and you still worry for security problems.
I wonder why companies must treat their customers as thieves. If your customer cannot use software because your copy protection sucks, she may end downloading a cracked version. Then you wonder why those customers do not pay to you...
This would be nice, but I don't think a laptop hard drive can keep pace with a raw 720p audio/video stream.
I would consider DV compression still as "real" camcorder category. If you grab DV video from MiniDV camcorder, you get something 13 GB/hour, that is less than 4 MB/s; something a laptop drive should easily handle. That is more than 7 hours of video to one disk that is more than enough for one week family vacation - as you can easily remove unwanted parts, something you cannot do with tapes. And then you can have one 400 GB external drive to save all video and still images of your four-week vacation. Or have two of those and then you do not lose all your video (or any) even if one breaks or gets lost...
For example, Nokia 6630 records QCIF (174 x 144) video "up to 1 hour". I assume you need large enough RS-MMC. While camera phones, because of their small size, cannot compte with quality of compact cameras or DSLRs, they have the (dis)advantage being always with you.
If we speak about "real" camcoders, I like to have one with 100 GB 2.5 inch laptop drive. I think it will cost about the same as MiniDV casette unit and would be much more convinient than cassettes. I know there exists some camcorders with fixed storage, but their optical quality is not good.
Storing small amount of nuclear waste is still a lot easier than storing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. You just need to find solid rock and take nessissary precautions for ground water.
Where you get your expensive mobile phone plans? My two-month bill is less than 20 euros and could be even less if I would go after cheap price and not reliability and features accustomed in last 10 years with the same provider. That includes talk, SMS, and internet access.
If you want to make cheap calls, use your W* technology and VoIP. Too bad, you need to hunt for open access points (somebody is paying for those...) that provides enough capacity. The largest expense for any network provider that provides services for end users is the customer service. If you could build a network and want to have any larger userspace than nerds, then you need to invest for user service.
For me, the largest use of mobile phone is that somebody is able to reach me when they need to (receiving calls is free). That does not work, if each time I move 100 meters, I need to check for new accesspoint. My cell phone takes care of that automaticly and so far I've yet to find place where my cell phone does not work -- excluding places several meters underground, EMP shielded or more than 30 km from shore.
AFAIK, Force10 switches may not be good for clusters because of larger latency compared to others. Have not tested Force10, this info is based on papers.
I recently made some performance testing on switches and routers that had large number of GE ports. What I learnt from that, was that a switch/router that claims "wirespeed" switching/routing at GE may start dropping packets at 40% load. And listing rfcNNNN on specs does not imply that implementation supports even minimum of specifications or could support rfcMMMM at the same time.
If you are going to get a switch or router to a high-end application and plan to use advanced features, you need to test it and not to trust on slideware. If you do not have equipment to do testing, try to find someone to do it for you.
Several energy companies that provide distributed heating (water is heated in powerplants, possibly as byproduct of electricity and pumped to houses where it heats hot water and heating system) provide (or plan to provide) also distributed cooling. Sea water and excess energy of distributed heating (that must be produced also on summertime for hot water) are utilized in that.
Ach--why the hell did I have to get a new phone in December, thus renewing my two-year contract?
That is the very problem with U.S. (and in many other parts of world) where provider provides everything. As in Finland provider cannot subside purhace of a phone, the phone is mine. I can go any time to other provider (or just send SMS) and get their account and maintain my number. Of course, I pay more from the phone but I will pay less in phone calls and SMS. And I can select which brand phone and which model I want as long it supports GSM.
Speed over water and air is still measured in knots.
There is a navigational reason to use knots on water (for us who navigate and not just stare on chart on GPS). And it is trivial to convert knots to m/s with 3% accuracy just by dividing by 2.
Well, if you think that it is practical to scan some 2^64 hosts in every network. There is no need to use MAC addresses as a base for a public IPv6 address. And there are lots of networks: the 6to4 alone gives 65536 networks for every IPv4 address in use. For every IPv4 address in use, there is 2^80 possible IPv6 addresses. To scan that 80-bit address space with 400 Tbit/s link, you would need tens of thousands years to probe just one port.
The Cray X1 uses spray evaporative cooling. Dielectric coolant is sprayed over PCBs and then coolant evaporates. It makes possible to use something like 65 W/cm power densities.
One needs, however, hermetic chasis, so your average PC box is not sufficient.
It should also be automated, and doable over the Web.
While much of processing can be automated, with an automatic system it would be easy to get some violating trademarks accepted. Or, on the other hand, some of those proper, non-violating, trademarks rejected. A human is always better to evaluate if one is too similar.
On some other legal systems, you cannot register trademarks that are well established to other companies even if they have not registered it.
Based on data in 2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 40% of institutes suspected that US competitors were the source of at least one attack against them. Foreign companies and goverments attacked against 25% of instituest.
I think it will be used as corpate espionage tool.
Same here in Finland, the tape fee is to cover lost income for artists because of fair use copying (as I can borrow an LP from an friend and then record it to C-tape -- provided that by tape deck would work and I would have a turntable:-)
The fees are based on audio minutes that is 0.76 cent for a minute for VHS, 0.50 for C-tape, audio-CD-R and Minidisc. Computer CD-R is 0.25 cent/minute, some 18 cent per disk. Video DVDs are 1.37 euros and computer DVDs 0.92 euros (4.7 GB). MP3-devices are charged 0.50 cent per minute based average recordlength?, maximum 25.23 euros per device.
Fortunatly, the fee does not apply (yet!) for hard disks. Just today got one with 0.70 euros/GB. Add that 0.5 cents / minute @ 128 kbit/s that equals 5.21 euros / GB. Do you want to buy 160 GB IDE disk for 945 euros?
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I do not have pointer to any any official translation of Finnish penal law, chapter 38 or the communication law 121 so you must trust me. The communication law defines among other following terms:
person identification All information describing a person or one's properties or living circumstances. Based on this information a single person, one's family, or people living in a same household can be identified. subscriber A person or a legal entity that has made agreement with teleprovider to be able to use services provided by teleprovider. identification information Subscriber's or user's number or other identification generated or stored in establishing teleconnection.Thus, an IP address potentialy identifies a single person and so it must be treated as one. Even if it does not identify user in all, or in majority of cases, because it sometimes does (I know several cases that users name can be found simply with whois), one must handle those carefully. This is a modern version of old letter secrecy law, even learing that some message is sent and informing some other about it is a crime.
For the server logs, you can store them as evidence and hand out for police iff the suspected crime is serious enough. But in normal course of operation, those should not be watched. Recently introduced law "Lex Sonera" (now ex-CEO of Sonera is on charge about finding out who leaked information to press using call logs) puts more strict control on how different logs can be monitored.
One quite interesting angle is that in countires with strict privacy laws (many EU countires), it may be illeagal to record IP addresses that carry pirated content. Copyright infringement is a petty crime that does not warrant home searches or disclosing communication (IP addresses, telephone numbers) unless you ask money for it.
Thus, a company that records IP addresses of file swappers could be liable under Finnish penal law facing upto four years of physically limited freedom for management.
Earlier tin was used in antifouling paints to prevent marine growth in boat bottoms. Later it was replaced with copper but nowadays in Scandinavia it is also prohibited (from 2004), at least for leasure boaters because of environmental reasons. The paints will prevent marine growth also near boats and can be a severe hazard by marinas. Using brush few times a season serves the same thing.
Many water-based latex paints are sold as environmentaly friendly. However, they may have larger emissions on hazardious substances than oil- or solvent-based paints.
According to local newspaper, the money U.S. goverment allocated for this disaster (by yesterday) is the same as 6 hour expences in Iraq.
Someone with excact figures at hand and with sufficient math skills could verify that.
BTW: traditional telephone has some advantages over WLAN. The EIB vice president was saved by telephone pole. :-)
Probably the running number was used in records as on identifier too. With two bytes for 32k records that makes 64kB of extra memory. In 80s that was lot a memory.
Just finished optimizing two bytes off each record as I noticed that a struct had 2 extra bytes because of aligment. It does matter even today if you have more than 300 million records daily and need to store data indefinite amount of time.
Marketignspeak by the designer? Then your machine breaks; you have replacement machine running within a hour and then you wait for a new key and wait... Probably your customer service responded in minutes? I've waited a week for new license keys; the value of license contract was 400 million dollars -- we did get some 99.9% percent educational discount, but still.
The license enforcement systems are designed to prevent use of software. Often their design is obscure (for a reason) and thus they are more unreliable than normal programs. I know this because I've both implemented licensing software and used several of those. Its pain for both sides.
Sounds like customers with low morale. What were they? Porn, MLM, spammers? What I know small business, they make sure that they pay for their tools. Goverment may be left without tax money, but not the one providing tools. And you talk about "sites". Could not you check if the site was created with your software and then make nasty questions?
..like a bad business plan. I'm not for pirating software -- if I do not want to pay for software, then I use free software. At work I make sure that we have same number of licenses than there are installed copies for each software even if there is no license server.
Sounds like real pain to support. I've seen lots of different license services and product activation keys and they usually result in lost productivity. Currently we use "only" four software packages that use license server, each its own. After an OS upgrade, it is very likely that some of those breaks and if you want to support several versions of operating systems you need to tweak license manager tools for the magical combination.
The protocols are not documented, so you need to try to find out how you configure firewall and you still worry for security problems.
I wonder why companies must treat their customers as thieves. If your customer cannot use software because your copy protection sucks, she may end downloading a cracked version. Then you wonder why those customers do not pay to you...
I would consider DV compression still as "real" camcorder category. If you grab DV video from MiniDV camcorder, you get something 13 GB/hour, that is less than 4 MB/s; something a laptop drive should easily handle. That is more than 7 hours of video to one disk that is more than enough for one week family vacation - as you can easily remove unwanted parts, something you cannot do with tapes. And then you can have one 400 GB external drive to save all video and still images of your four-week vacation. Or have two of those and then you do not lose all your video (or any) even if one breaks or gets lost...
For example, Nokia 6630 records QCIF (174 x 144) video "up to 1 hour". I assume you need large enough RS-MMC. While camera phones, because of their small size, cannot compte with quality of compact cameras or DSLRs, they have the (dis)advantage being always with you.
If we speak about "real" camcoders, I like to have one with 100 GB 2.5 inch laptop drive. I think it will cost about the same as MiniDV casette unit and would be much more convinient than cassettes. I know there exists some camcorders with fixed storage, but their optical quality is not good.
Storing small amount of nuclear waste is still a lot easier than storing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. You just need to find solid rock and take nessissary precautions for ground water.
Do you know what you need to unzip jpegs? Yes, processing power... What SGI is happy to sell you some more?
Even if you look like moron.
Where you get your expensive mobile phone plans? My two-month bill is less than 20 euros and could be even less if I would go after cheap price and not reliability and features accustomed in last 10 years with the same provider. That includes talk, SMS, and internet access.
If you want to make cheap calls, use your W* technology and VoIP. Too bad, you need to hunt for open access points (somebody is paying for those...) that provides enough capacity. The largest expense for any network provider that provides services for end users is the customer service. If you could build a network and want to have any larger userspace than nerds, then you need to invest for user service.
For me, the largest use of mobile phone is that somebody is able to reach me when they need to (receiving calls is free). That does not work, if each time I move 100 meters, I need to check for new accesspoint. My cell phone takes care of that automaticly and so far I've yet to find place where my cell phone does not work -- excluding places several meters underground, EMP shielded or more than 30 km from shore.
They have them already. The interesting part is "consumer PDA" that probably translates to sub5 figure price tag.
Battery life could be better though. Also more storage could be helpful so I do not need to carry yet another box to store digital images.
AFAIK, Force10 switches may not be good for clusters because of larger latency compared to others. Have not tested Force10, this info is based on papers.
I recently made some performance testing on switches and routers that had large number of GE ports. What I learnt from that, was that a switch/router that claims "wirespeed" switching/routing at GE may start dropping packets at 40% load. And listing rfcNNNN on specs does not imply that implementation supports even minimum of specifications or could support rfcMMMM at the same time.
If you are going to get a switch or router to a high-end application and plan to use advanced features, you need to test it and not to trust on slideware. If you do not have equipment to do testing, try to find someone to do it for you.
Several energy companies that provide distributed heating (water is heated in powerplants, possibly as byproduct of electricity and pumped to houses where it heats hot water and heating system) provide (or plan to provide) also distributed cooling. Sea water and excess energy of distributed heating (that must be produced also on summertime for hot water) are utilized in that.
I think this is more applicable to national security visionares.
That is the very problem with U.S. (and in many other parts of world) where provider provides everything. As in Finland provider cannot subside purhace of a phone, the phone is mine. I can go any time to other provider (or just send SMS) and get their account and maintain my number. Of course, I pay more from the phone but I will pay less in phone calls and SMS. And I can select which brand phone and which model I want as long it supports GSM.
There is a navigational reason to use knots on water (for us who navigate and not just stare on chart on GPS). And it is trivial to convert knots to m/s with 3% accuracy just by dividing by 2.
BTW. There are advantages in navigating around 60th latitude.
Well, if you think that it is practical to scan some 2^64 hosts in every network. There is no need to use MAC addresses as a base for a public IPv6 address. And there are lots of networks: the 6to4 alone gives 65536 networks for every IPv4 address in use. For every IPv4 address in use, there is 2^80 possible IPv6 addresses. To scan that 80-bit address space with 400 Tbit/s link, you would need tens of thousands years to probe just one port.
Slasdot should allow <sup>.
With a quick test, one needs 78409 A4-sized pages to print 2.4.24 source. If we take normal 80 g/m^2 paper, that makes 391 kg if printed single-sized.
I have not yet seen an animal carrying rice cooker.
And our caffeteria provides rice "al-dente" quite often.
The Cray X1 uses spray evaporative cooling. Dielectric coolant is sprayed over PCBs and then coolant evaporates. It makes possible to use something like 65 W/cm power densities.
One needs, however, hermetic chasis, so your average PC box is not sufficient.
While much of processing can be automated, with an automatic system it would be easy to get some violating trademarks accepted. Or, on the other hand, some of those proper, non-violating, trademarks rejected. A human is always better to evaluate if one is too similar.
On some other legal systems, you cannot register trademarks that are well established to other companies even if they have not registered it.
Based on data in 2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 40% of institutes suspected that US competitors were the source of at least one attack against them. Foreign companies and goverments attacked against 25% of instituest.
I think it will be used as corpate espionage tool.
Same here in Finland, the tape fee is to cover lost income for artists because of fair use copying (as I can borrow an LP from an friend and then record it to C-tape -- provided that by tape deck would work and I would have a turntable :-)
The fees are based on audio minutes that is 0.76 cent for a minute for VHS, 0.50 for C-tape, audio-CD-R and Minidisc. Computer CD-R is 0.25 cent/minute, some 18 cent per disk. Video DVDs are 1.37 euros and computer DVDs 0.92 euros (4.7 GB). MP3-devices are charged 0.50 cent per minute based average recordlength ?, maximum 25.23 euros per device.
Fortunatly, the fee does not apply (yet!) for hard disks. Just today got one with 0.70 euros/GB. Add that 0.5 cents / minute @ 128 kbit/s that equals 5.21 euros / GB. Do you want to buy 160 GB IDE disk for 945 euros?