Some countries created new business status just because of eBay to tax people making a living out of it. In France it was called "Modernization of the Economy Law." They even have a website for it.
Being is a business man is okay. Owning media outlets is okay. But when you use the later to help with the former, it's not okay. That's why you're glad this is happening to him.
Also, last time I checked, Photoshop exists on Windows. I'm sure there are other tools"creative professionals" use, but I would bet that they are also available on PC. Nobody likes changing the OS environment they're used to, but if you compare that to hiring IT staff with Mac-specific expertise, the choice is easily made from a management point of view.
Lack of games is not a negative for me either. What really is is the lack of Google Reader integration. I'd like to see what people I'm following share from Reader on my G+ Stream, and I also want to see the RSS feeds either integrated or in its own stream.
Not saying it's true or wrong or anything, but the reasoning is that in democracy the laws are voted by the representatives of the people, so it's really the people who chose that it's important that sometimes, under certain circumstances, a lawful intercept is the right thing to do.
Now that's the theory before all the real-politik aspect of things.
I'm with you here. I liked the fact that originally, Chrome was a very light, basic but efficient web browser. Now they keep adding stuff to it, and I'm afraid it might become too bloated. They should release that kind of stuff as "apps" (the new name for "plug ins" apparently).
Additionally to the valid points raised by the parent, I also don't want to have to leave my lights on because I ran out of battery or simply lost my phone.
They passed this law because it was unfair competition against other social websites. They wanted to ban the use of the "And find out more about our show on our Facebook page!" at the end of every TV show or whatnot. Now they'll have to say "And find out more about our show on the social websites!" I think it's actually a good thing and make people more aware that FB and Twitter are not the only websites on earth.
You know what they say. "There's no patch for stupidity" and "The problem most often lies between the chair and the computer." As long as humans will be humans, FUD will work, sex will work and "your children aren't safe" will work.
I can see how that kind of marketing could go wrong.
In a sense, it's good that people start realizing that appart for the high quality hardware, Macs are just regular computers that were not high profile enough to be targeted by attackers. I'm not talking about targeted attacks, but large-scale trojans like this that rely on the stupidity (I should rather say "lack of understanding") of the users. In the past it probably wasn't worth it. Now that Apple is very widely used, it makes sense it's targeted by fake anti-virus-type attacks.
Using WebSpark, you can get free Microsoft licenses for 3 years. As well as connections to business angels and such. Yes LAMP is completely free, you also get less performance on large scale. I'm not saying Microsoft is the eldorado, just that it's maybe not as bad as you think.
As for "designing for the cloud", I find that any correctly designed application should scale up nicely. However I found that hosting on, say, Amazon Web Services is not cheap, despite what they want you to believe. Yes it's probably cheaper than building your own infrastructure, but do you really need that, at least to start? Just go for a dedicated hosting running VMWare or whatever your favorite virtualization tool is, just make sure your database and files you might host for visitors are on a NAS or SAN with redundancy. Then one or two web servers should be enough for quite some time.Keep in mind that (rule of the thumb), one dual core 4 Gb of RAM server is not as fast as two single core and 2 Gb of RAM server. You just need a good load balancer.
It is, in fact, capitalism, whether you like it or not. I'm not against capitalism (connecting people who need money - companies - with people who have money - investors - is a good idea). However sometimes the said investors will create a "bubble" to make short to medium term profits (2000's internet bubble, 2008 sub-primes bubble, and many more that go unnoticed) and if it goes too far, you have to bail the intermediaries out (banks).
Facebook is worth $50 bn just because people say so. They say so because it's now on every movie or band poster ("follow us on facebook!"), so it's hype and people value that. If you're an advertiser can't just ignore the fact that more than 500 million people is your audience on that website. Is this worth $50 bn? I don't know (I don't think so, but my opinion is irrelevant), but some dudes with a lot of money think so.
I really, really doubt that US Special Forces would have a helicopter hovering about the area of the raid TEN HOURS before the raid actually took place. The guy didn't escape the Americans and half of the Western countries intelligence agencies by letting that kind of hints go unnoticed.
In a recent blog entry, Dropbox explained that they get about one request a month from the US government to pass over files:
Just so you know, we don’t get very many of those requests — about one a month over the past year for our more than 25 million users. That’s fewer than one in a million accounts.
But that's only for cases where the government requests data on their servers. We don't know how many requests they get because some stupid ass put the latest Lady Gaga CD in this/public/ folder and posted the link on 4chan. And I'm guessing it's a lot. In fact, I'm surprised that Dropbox hasn't been sued by the majors yet.
Shouldn't they take into account the fact that - maybe - there are more incentives to study the "bad effects" of video games? I can really see a lot of groups ordering reports from scientists to prove video games are bad for children. That would increase the number of papers on the topic by a not insignificant margin I think. You see much less groups ordering reports that prove video games are not bad for children / make children violent, etc.. This is not only science, politics (I would go as far as saying "populism") are involved, too.
Even by using only AWS you can set up redundancy across multiple North America's regions. Even across continents, with one data center in Ireland and one in Singapore. But obviously it costs extra as they bill you the bandwidth between the regions. That's how you use The Cloud (c) (tm) (R). Using a single data center to set up redundancy is dumb because it's not redundancy. You need high availability for your VMs, but also for your data center.
This is why banks or large businesses, for instance, have two or more data centers they always keep synchronized and have at least 50 kilometers between them. Thinking "well it's in one AWS data center so it's safe" is wrong, and this incident is a fine example of that.
I live in France so we have a little more details. He got caught because one of his username on some website in the background wasn't properly/entirely blurred by the TV journalists. Following that lead, the investigators caught him. Oops!
I'm fairly sure you need physical access to the infrastructure at some point in order to do this - if only to change the router's admin credential so you can't be "hacked back". In a country with an on-going revolution this is much easier to do that in a stable country where the security guards of the data center are certainly not going to let you in.
You don't have to buy any of that to use Mono. You can use their Migration Tool (which is free, just a little less practical because it's not integrated in Visual Studio).
I'm developing in ASP.NET MVC 3/C# 4.0, my web server is lighttpd w/ Mono. I use Visual Studio Express which is free (and a kick ass IDE at that) as well. I use Postgresql which is obviously free too. So I'm using.NET 4.0 for web, and that doesn't cost me a dime and nobody can sue me. I fail to see what is evil in this scheme. I'm not more pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft than the average people, because I went past my hate for MS and started looking more objectively to what they do. It's not perfect (not one project on earth qualifies for perfection) but it sure isn't worse than Java or PHP or Ruby or whatever your favorite language for websites is.
This is only for hosting services. What you imply is that websites like Amazon.com are frown upon by the French (thanks for mixing the government and the people, by the way - it's as stupid as saying that all Americans are war mongerers because of the war in Iraq) because they'd rather have Le-Amazone.fr instead. Which is plain stupid. France is one of the largest economy in the world. It wouldn't be there if it behaved like you say.
The API is great, and honestly that's the least you'd expect for something 100% backed by a company such as Microsoft. Not only Direct 3D, but the whole DirectX is successful because Microsoft writes all the functions one needs to develop a game - higher management is very sensible to that kind of perceived money-saving deals. Which is why Windows has been the favored platform for PC games in the last decade. It's a strategy for Microsoft, and it works, fine.
The thing is, I'd expect Carmack to be a little bothered by the fact that Direct3D is, obviously, Windows only. I was under the impression that id Software published supported Linux versions of their game not only because they could, but also as a statement. Apparently I was wrong.
I like conspiracy theories, "ISP are evil" arguments and free (as in speech) Internet as much as any Slashdot reader. Some of what you say might even be true, if only partially (unless you are in the inner circles of Virgin Media, this is an educated guess, I think we can agree on that). And that's fine.
But the thing is, P2P protocols, especially Bittorrent, will, by design, use as much bandwidth as possible. This is a real problem for anyone who has to manage bandwidth by the Gigabit. It has nothing to do with the shady reputation of P2P. If any given protocol eats your bandwidth alive, you have to deal with it. Otherwise the other protocols might struggle, Quality of Experience for VoD decrease, SIP/H.323 calls get lousy perceptual quality, and so on and so worth.
It doesn't matter if your Core, Edge and even Access networks are wired at 100 Gbps instead of 10 Gbps. If the problematic protocol scales up, like most P2P protocols do, you're only changing the scale of the problem.
I must misunderstand your post because it seems like you don't see the point of faster, more powerful CPUs. If that's the case, I take it you've never had to run high-performance servers, have you? I work for a company that builds network test equipment, and any power gain in the CPU market is good for us. It means we can do more throughput, new TCP connection per second rate, more encryption/decryption (SSL and especially IPSec testing) and whatnot.
No they can't do this with cookies. Well, not in the same way - but for the same purpose and with the same end-result. If you base your stats on cookies, you obviously need access to the cookies (which is possible, don't get me wrong). With the method in TFA you can simply send robots crawl websites that give access to public profiles and cross-reference them. Even if you disable cookies, your profile is crawlable. Now of course, it's only a matter of allowing user to block their profile publicly so their username don't show.
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Some countries created new business status just because of eBay to tax people making a living out of it. In France it was called "Modernization of the Economy Law." They even have a website for it.
Being is a business man is okay. Owning media outlets is okay. But when you use the later to help with the former, it's not okay. That's why you're glad this is happening to him.
Also, last time I checked, Photoshop exists on Windows. I'm sure there are other tools"creative professionals" use, but I would bet that they are also available on PC. Nobody likes changing the OS environment they're used to, but if you compare that to hiring IT staff with Mac-specific expertise, the choice is easily made from a management point of view.
Lack of games is not a negative for me either. What really is is the lack of Google Reader integration. I'd like to see what people I'm following share from Reader on my G+ Stream, and I also want to see the RSS feeds either integrated or in its own stream.
Not saying it's true or wrong or anything, but the reasoning is that in democracy the laws are voted by the representatives of the people, so it's really the people who chose that it's important that sometimes, under certain circumstances, a lawful intercept is the right thing to do. Now that's the theory before all the real-politik aspect of things.
I'm with you here. I liked the fact that originally, Chrome was a very light, basic but efficient web browser. Now they keep adding stuff to it, and I'm afraid it might become too bloated. They should release that kind of stuff as "apps" (the new name for "plug ins" apparently).
Additionally to the valid points raised by the parent, I also don't want to have to leave my lights on because I ran out of battery or simply lost my phone.
They passed this law because it was unfair competition against other social websites. They wanted to ban the use of the "And find out more about our show on our Facebook page!" at the end of every TV show or whatnot. Now they'll have to say "And find out more about our show on the social websites!" I think it's actually a good thing and make people more aware that FB and Twitter are not the only websites on earth.
You know what they say. "There's no patch for stupidity" and "The problem most often lies between the chair and the computer." As long as humans will be humans, FUD will work, sex will work and "your children aren't safe" will work.
I can see how that kind of marketing could go wrong.
In a sense, it's good that people start realizing that appart for the high quality hardware, Macs are just regular computers that were not high profile enough to be targeted by attackers. I'm not talking about targeted attacks, but large-scale trojans like this that rely on the stupidity (I should rather say "lack of understanding") of the users. In the past it probably wasn't worth it. Now that Apple is very widely used, it makes sense it's targeted by fake anti-virus-type attacks.
Linux is next, however long that takes.
Using WebSpark, you can get free Microsoft licenses for 3 years. As well as connections to business angels and such. Yes LAMP is completely free, you also get less performance on large scale. I'm not saying Microsoft is the eldorado, just that it's maybe not as bad as you think. As for "designing for the cloud", I find that any correctly designed application should scale up nicely. However I found that hosting on, say, Amazon Web Services is not cheap, despite what they want you to believe. Yes it's probably cheaper than building your own infrastructure, but do you really need that, at least to start? Just go for a dedicated hosting running VMWare or whatever your favorite virtualization tool is, just make sure your database and files you might host for visitors are on a NAS or SAN with redundancy. Then one or two web servers should be enough for quite some time.Keep in mind that (rule of the thumb), one dual core 4 Gb of RAM server is not as fast as two single core and 2 Gb of RAM server. You just need a good load balancer.
It is, in fact, capitalism, whether you like it or not. I'm not against capitalism (connecting people who need money - companies - with people who have money - investors - is a good idea). However sometimes the said investors will create a "bubble" to make short to medium term profits (2000's internet bubble, 2008 sub-primes bubble, and many more that go unnoticed) and if it goes too far, you have to bail the intermediaries out (banks). Facebook is worth $50 bn just because people say so. They say so because it's now on every movie or band poster ("follow us on facebook!"), so it's hype and people value that. If you're an advertiser can't just ignore the fact that more than 500 million people is your audience on that website. Is this worth $50 bn? I don't know (I don't think so, but my opinion is irrelevant), but some dudes with a lot of money think so.
I really, really doubt that US Special Forces would have a helicopter hovering about the area of the raid TEN HOURS before the raid actually took place. The guy didn't escape the Americans and half of the Western countries intelligence agencies by letting that kind of hints go unnoticed.
But that's only for cases where the government requests data on their servers. We don't know how many requests they get because some stupid ass put the latest Lady Gaga CD in this /public/ folder and posted the link on 4chan. And I'm guessing it's a lot. In fact, I'm surprised that Dropbox hasn't been sued by the majors yet.
Shouldn't they take into account the fact that - maybe - there are more incentives to study the "bad effects" of video games? I can really see a lot of groups ordering reports from scientists to prove video games are bad for children. That would increase the number of papers on the topic by a not insignificant margin I think. You see much less groups ordering reports that prove video games are not bad for children / make children violent, etc.. This is not only science, politics (I would go as far as saying "populism") are involved, too.
Even by using only AWS you can set up redundancy across multiple North America's regions. Even across continents, with one data center in Ireland and one in Singapore. But obviously it costs extra as they bill you the bandwidth between the regions. That's how you use The Cloud (c) (tm) (R). Using a single data center to set up redundancy is dumb because it's not redundancy. You need high availability for your VMs, but also for your data center.
This is why banks or large businesses, for instance, have two or more data centers they always keep synchronized and have at least 50 kilometers between them. Thinking "well it's in one AWS data center so it's safe" is wrong, and this incident is a fine example of that.
I live in France so we have a little more details. He got caught because one of his username on some website in the background wasn't properly/entirely blurred by the TV journalists. Following that lead, the investigators caught him. Oops!
I'm fairly sure you need physical access to the infrastructure at some point in order to do this - if only to change the router's admin credential so you can't be "hacked back". In a country with an on-going revolution this is much easier to do that in a stable country where the security guards of the data center are certainly not going to let you in.
You don't have to buy any of that to use Mono. You can use their Migration Tool (which is free, just a little less practical because it's not integrated in Visual Studio). I'm developing in ASP.NET MVC 3/C# 4.0, my web server is lighttpd w/ Mono. I use Visual Studio Express which is free (and a kick ass IDE at that) as well. I use Postgresql which is obviously free too. So I'm using .NET 4.0 for web, and that doesn't cost me a dime and nobody can sue me. I fail to see what is evil in this scheme. I'm not more pro-Microsoft or anti-Microsoft than the average people, because I went past my hate for MS and started looking more objectively to what they do. It's not perfect (not one project on earth qualifies for perfection) but it sure isn't worse than Java or PHP or Ruby or whatever your favorite language for websites is.
This is only for hosting services. What you imply is that websites like Amazon.com are frown upon by the French (thanks for mixing the government and the people, by the way - it's as stupid as saying that all Americans are war mongerers because of the war in Iraq) because they'd rather have Le-Amazone.fr instead. Which is plain stupid. France is one of the largest economy in the world. It wouldn't be there if it behaved like you say.
The API is great, and honestly that's the least you'd expect for something 100% backed by a company such as Microsoft. Not only Direct 3D, but the whole DirectX is successful because Microsoft writes all the functions one needs to develop a game - higher management is very sensible to that kind of perceived money-saving deals. Which is why Windows has been the favored platform for PC games in the last decade. It's a strategy for Microsoft, and it works, fine. The thing is, I'd expect Carmack to be a little bothered by the fact that Direct3D is, obviously, Windows only. I was under the impression that id Software published supported Linux versions of their game not only because they could, but also as a statement. Apparently I was wrong.
I like conspiracy theories, "ISP are evil" arguments and free (as in speech) Internet as much as any Slashdot reader. Some of what you say might even be true, if only partially (unless you are in the inner circles of Virgin Media, this is an educated guess, I think we can agree on that). And that's fine. But the thing is, P2P protocols, especially Bittorrent, will, by design, use as much bandwidth as possible. This is a real problem for anyone who has to manage bandwidth by the Gigabit. It has nothing to do with the shady reputation of P2P. If any given protocol eats your bandwidth alive, you have to deal with it. Otherwise the other protocols might struggle, Quality of Experience for VoD decrease, SIP/H.323 calls get lousy perceptual quality, and so on and so worth. It doesn't matter if your Core, Edge and even Access networks are wired at 100 Gbps instead of 10 Gbps. If the problematic protocol scales up, like most P2P protocols do, you're only changing the scale of the problem.
I must misunderstand your post because it seems like you don't see the point of faster, more powerful CPUs. If that's the case, I take it you've never had to run high-performance servers, have you? I work for a company that builds network test equipment, and any power gain in the CPU market is good for us. It means we can do more throughput, new TCP connection per second rate, more encryption/decryption (SSL and especially IPSec testing) and whatnot.
Wouldn't the range be reduced if "the transmitted signal is much, much weaker"?
No they can't do this with cookies. Well, not in the same way - but for the same purpose and with the same end-result. If you base your stats on cookies, you obviously need access to the cookies (which is possible, don't get me wrong). With the method in TFA you can simply send robots crawl websites that give access to public profiles and cross-reference them. Even if you disable cookies, your profile is crawlable. Now of course, it's only a matter of allowing user to block their profile publicly so their username don't show.