i could see the DSL companies funding this, but if people can't torrent why would they pay a hundred bucks a month for cable internet when you can get DSL for $25-$30.
if it's defective they will take it back, if a shit ton of people return the same software you can bet your ass walmart will send it back to the distributor, and tear them a new asshole while doing so.
that only works if the driver does the right thing the first time. if they first try to slow down, or do slow down to driving speed, by the time they decide to try to stop fully, the brake pads have cooked off.
but if you sent x and y to a remote system (which a sensor is) then just assumed that when you asked that remote system for x and y that the answer is safe and sane without bothering to check, you are negligent.
how the hell did that even work? volatile memory is more expensive than flash and i'm not aware of any (simple) technique of telling the OS to store data locally instead.
i could see the device spoofing it's identity to infect the machine via vulnerable USB drivers, then switching ID to a regular mass storage, and using the infection to save the data locally, but that would be really complicated, and if you had a device able to do that i would think selling it with it's normal capacity listed and using the infection to spread malware / botnets would be more profitable.
those failing tires? were made by bridgestone/firestone, a japanese company.
and the pinto?
However, a 1991 law review paper by Gary Schwartz[17] claimed the case against the Pinto was less clear-cut than commonly supposed. The number who died in Pinto rear-impact fires, according to Schwartz, was well below the hundreds cited in contemporary news reports and closer to the twenty-seven recorded by a limited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database. Given the Pinto's production figures (over 2 million built), this was not substantially worse than typical for the time. Schwartz argued that the car was no more fire-prone than other cars of the time, that its fatality rates were lower than comparably sized imported automobiles, and that the supposed "smoking gun" document that plaintiffs claimed showed Ford's callousness in designing the Pinto was actually a document based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulations about the value of a human life rather than a document containing an assessment of Ford's potential tort liability.
hang me as a heretic, but wouldn't it be better to just put the stream files all into a directory, and only merge them when exporting for stream playback such as off a DVD or to be read on an embedded device?
you make the assertion that a tape archive would be impractical, but really it is the most practical solution. the drive will set you back a couple thousand, but 800 gig tapes are only around 40 bucks each, and they are engineered for data storage unlike hard drives. this will only cost $160 per 3 gig dataset, or 200 if you use par2 files and an extra tape to make it recoverable in case a tape does fail.
make all your mixed drinks with gatoraide, they will taste bad but you won't get the dehydration part of the hangover and keeping yourself hydrated helps with the other parts of the hangover
on average, israel kills 10 palestinians for every israeli killed by palestinians, drilling down further, for every Israeli child killed, 40 Palestinian children are killed.
you can't claim the moral high ground while using military ordinance against occupied residential structures.
I have seen photos of the damage caused by each sides weapons, a qassam rocket will typically blow a hole in a wall and hurt or kill anyone nearby in that room, while an israeli airstrike will level an apartment complex.
i'm trying to figure out why they went to the trouble of screwing things up as bad as they did, a trivial decrementing for loop pulling randomInt(1,i) and placing it in slot 5-i would be the obvious off the top of the head solution, and it would work.
Even if the theories are wrong, reducing green-house emissions (etc) won't hurt anything but the pocket book.
because the attack on science is well funded by those who stand to lose out if society acts in a timely manner. just like they said tobacco was perfectly safe, leaded gas didn't hurt anyone, and asbestos was something we should build our homes with.
as a group, people are generally ethical in their actions, so when something people like to do is shown to be harmful, it is fairly easy to persuade that it's not really harmful and the people saying it is harmful are filthy liars, because we don't like to give things up, but also do not want to be doing harm, so rejecting the science is emotionally easy.
this has nothing to do with questioning AGW and everything to do with the business community funding propaganda, from the same "research" groups that told us tobacco is perfectly safe, in order to subvert actual science.
I understand why it is more comfortable to reject a conclusion that would require "uncomfortable" changes, but that doesn't make it any less true.
so the crack will include a locally run save game server? I fail to see how this will be all that much of a barrier unless the save games are not even created locally, but rather created by a remote system as it receives constant status updates from the game, much like an MMO.
how exactly is losing your ass on server upkeep costs for a game going to save you from piracy? by bankrupting you before the pirates can?
your memory of the office layout was stored as volatile/blank data of a generic office. when you saw the new office that information was copied into the generic "office layout" data that was already stored without details and became what you "predicted"
you are still alive so your prediction of your own death was flat out wrong.
close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
deliberately causing interference is illegal even in an unlicensed spectrum.
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from what i could tell reading the article, the trouble appeared when you tried to run a temp agency that kept everyone as contractors or if you tried to create a temp agency as part of your business and use "temps" to staff your business without paying the requisite payroll taxes. that's what i got from
In passing Section 1706 in 1986, Congress singled out the programmers, engineers, analysts and many other technical workers by mandating that staffing firms no longer be protected by Section 530's safe haven.
considering that the articles' main assertion, that tax law makes it impossible/almost impossible for programmers to work as consultants, conflicts so much with reality, i am ready to file this under the right-wing anti-tax propaganda heading.
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i could see the DSL companies funding this, but if people can't torrent why would they pay a hundred bucks a month for cable internet when you can get DSL for $25-$30.
if it's defective they will take it back, if a shit ton of people return the same software you can bet your ass walmart will send it back to the distributor, and tear them a new asshole while doing so.
that only works if the driver does the right thing the first time. if they first try to slow down, or do slow down to driving speed, by the time they decide to try to stop fully, the brake pads have cooked off.
but if you sent x and y to a remote system (which a sensor is) then just assumed that when you asked that remote system for x and y that the answer is safe and sane without bothering to check, you are negligent.
how the hell did that even work? volatile memory is more expensive than flash and i'm not aware of any (simple) technique of telling the OS to store data locally instead.
i could see the device spoofing it's identity to infect the machine via vulnerable USB drivers, then switching ID to a regular mass storage, and using the infection to save the data locally, but that would be really complicated, and if you had a device able to do that i would think selling it with it's normal capacity listed and using the infection to spread malware / botnets would be more profitable.
and the pinto?
when was the last time DRM prevented a game from being available to pirate?
hang me as a heretic, but wouldn't it be better to just put the stream files all into a directory, and only merge them when exporting for stream playback such as off a DVD or to be read on an embedded device?
you make the assertion that a tape archive would be impractical, but really it is the most practical solution. the drive will set you back a couple thousand, but 800 gig tapes are only around 40 bucks each, and they are engineered for data storage unlike hard drives. this will only cost $160 per 3 gig dataset, or 200 if you use par2 files and an extra tape to make it recoverable in case a tape does fail.
nobody has the solution he requested, because the solution he requested is stupid.
from what i hear, bad as the hacking is on the PC side, it's worse on console.
make all your mixed drinks with gatoraide, they will taste bad but you won't get the dehydration part of the hangover and keeping yourself hydrated helps with the other parts of the hangover
you don't have to make new dies, just have someone dremel the existing die to scratch out the number.
on average, israel kills 10 palestinians for every israeli killed by palestinians, drilling down further, for every Israeli child killed, 40 Palestinian children are killed.
you can't claim the moral high ground while using military ordinance against occupied residential structures.
I have seen photos of the damage caused by each sides weapons, a qassam rocket will typically blow a hole in a wall and hurt or kill anyone nearby in that room, while an israeli airstrike will level an apartment complex.
i'm trying to figure out why they went to the trouble of screwing things up as bad as they did, a trivial decrementing for loop pulling randomInt(1,i) and placing it in slot 5-i would be the obvious off the top of the head solution, and it would work.
Even if the theories are wrong, reducing green-house emissions (etc) won't hurt anything but the pocket book.
because the attack on science is well funded by those who stand to lose out if society acts in a timely manner. just like they said tobacco was perfectly safe, leaded gas didn't hurt anyone, and asbestos was something we should build our homes with.
as a group, people are generally ethical in their actions, so when something people like to do is shown to be harmful, it is fairly easy to persuade that it's not really harmful and the people saying it is harmful are filthy liars, because we don't like to give things up, but also do not want to be doing harm, so rejecting the science is emotionally easy.
this has nothing to do with questioning AGW and everything to do with the business community funding propaganda, from the same "research" groups that told us tobacco is perfectly safe, in order to subvert actual science.
I understand why it is more comfortable to reject a conclusion that would require "uncomfortable" changes, but that doesn't make it any less true.
so the crack will include a locally run save game server? I fail to see how this will be all that much of a barrier unless the save games are not even created locally, but rather created by a remote system as it receives constant status updates from the game, much like an MMO.
how exactly is losing your ass on server upkeep costs for a game going to save you from piracy? by bankrupting you before the pirates can?
split an atom using any wave producing reaction and you have done something that cannot be undone
your memory of the office layout was stored as volatile/blank data of a generic office. when you saw the new office that information was copied into the generic "office layout" data that was already stored without details and became what you "predicted"
you are still alive so your prediction of your own death was flat out wrong.
close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
what "data retention" laws do you mean? typically such laws refer to internal communication and records, not stored copies of customer information.
if he didn't counter-notice, then network solutions did exactly what they had to do under the DMCA
deliberately causing interference is illegal even in an unlicensed spectrum.
considering that the articles' main assertion, that tax law makes it impossible/almost impossible for programmers to work as consultants, conflicts so much with reality, i am ready to file this under the right-wing anti-tax propaganda heading.
principles of being able to commit time-clock fraud?