agree that in its present form, it's useless. try the subject query "where is the soul" in wolfram and google. google tries to answer the question. wolfram thinks it's in south korea.
instead of blaming pirates, look at Amazon's listing of used books. there are 11 copies that are cheaper than the new one from Amazon that you would get a royalty from. until those 11 copies sell (many of which are in new condition, many of which appear to be remaindered = new condition except for the black mark), you aren't going to sell many new ones. and some of those merchants are jobbers who probably have *multiple* remaindered copies that they will be selling. face it - any book that has that many high quality used (and cheap) copies isn't going to sell very many new ones. you don't have to think very hard to understand that it's amazon's used book/cd/dvd marketplace that is depressing a lot of royalties.
Haven't installed IE8, but I do know that they like to make sure that their icons are where they want them to be. I changed the name of my Quick Launch icon for Outlook to "email". After i did that, almost every time i do a Windows Update, i get an extra icon in my Quick Launch bar for Outlook -- with the words that they want to be on it (i forget what they are). i guess they can't tell that i already have an icon for Outlook...
"The VM runs in a ***modified*** version of Virtual PC, and applications running in the VM can interact directly with the host operating system ***as if they were running on the Windows 7 installation itself***."
doesn't sound like the protections you get in a regular VM...
i don't know what Discovery was thinking, but if they "refuse to negotiate", it might indicate that Discovery obtained the patent to prevent DRM from being applied to e-books, rather than to profit from it.
And nothing stops the vendor from stopping the Wayback Machine from chronicling its changes by telling it to not archive - http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#2
This is only true for "private" conversations. if you can make the conversation public (open door, speakerphone, etc), that opens the door to eliminating (or at least calling into question) the expectation of privacy.
and try to get your manager "on the record". complain about the tactic and how unethical it is and try to reason with him/her, all the while getting the conversation on tape with a hidden recorder. then if they try to act on it, you have something. doesn't really matter if it's admissible in court. the threat of putting their actions in your blog (or other social media) may get them to back down quick.
- illegal activity traced to IP 100.101.102.103
- the ISP says that the IP was assigned to you at that date/time
- you're running a wireless network
- your log says that MAC 11-22-33-44-55-66 was logged in at that time
- they look for other instances of 11-22-33-44-55-66 on your wireless (and maybe other APs in your area) to see if any of those sessions are traceable to an individual (i.e., the perp keeps using your wireless and one time when they're not doing illegal stuff, they log into a traceable account).
of course, if the perp is smart enough, they'll use a different MAC every time they hook up (or at least when they're doing something they don't want to get caught at) - or better - they'll occassionally sniff the network to find someone else's MAC to use later (esp if they're using a hotspot).
the last part - the ability to impersonate someone else at a hotspot makes the whole thing useless. they'll only catch crooks who don't know how to change MACs (or don't remember to) -or- they'll wrongly accuse an innocent who happened to have a matching MAC.
for each packet, the server would prepend or append something like the date/time (like the 32 bit value used on unix) - that's enough to change the hash and to be unique for every packet for every user. the client would toss those bytes away after verifying the hash. this should be less costly than encryption (or could be added to encryption).
i was thinking that the definition of a hash pretty much guarantees that a false positive is possible. but, then again, if you receive a hundred hashes that all match packets from the same file, then you're pretty well screwed...
or the source you never think about - the credit card company. my wife had a credit card go missing and when we called, we found out that a change of address had been put in (before we even got the card) - they traced it to an employee. fortunately, no charges had been made (that we know about).
is it possible to write a utility that tells the drive to map ALL sectors as unreliable ? either as an alternative to thorough wiping or as a final step ? how hard is it to tell a hard drive that a sector that it mapped out is now reliable ?
i'm building a web site for a friend's crafting business and plan to use ZenCart - why is it a problem (from a stay-out-of-jail perspective) that it deletes the row (assuming that there isn't an option to keep it)? from what i can see, ZenCart is an order fulfillment system, not an accounting system, and thus does not provide any payment system - you have to attach something like PayPal. as soon as you're done servicing the order, i would think that the part that's in Paypal (or Google Payments, or whatever) is all you need (for the IRS) = what they ordered and what they paid.
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agree that in its present form, it's useless. try the subject query "where is the soul" in wolfram and google. google tries to answer the question. wolfram thinks it's in south korea.
instead of blaming pirates, look at Amazon's listing of used books. there are 11 copies that are cheaper than the new one from Amazon that you would get a royalty from. until those 11 copies sell (many of which are in new condition, many of which appear to be remaindered = new condition except for the black mark), you aren't going to sell many new ones. and some of those merchants are jobbers who probably have *multiple* remaindered copies that they will be selling. face it - any book that has that many high quality used (and cheap) copies isn't going to sell very many new ones. you don't have to think very hard to understand that it's amazon's used book/cd/dvd marketplace that is depressing a lot of royalties.
Haven't installed IE8, but I do know that they like to make sure that their icons are where they want them to be. I changed the name of my Quick Launch icon for Outlook to "email". After i did that, almost every time i do a Windows Update, i get an extra icon in my Quick Launch bar for Outlook -- with the words that they want to be on it (i forget what they are). i guess they can't tell that i already have an icon for Outlook ...
maybe there's a clue in that the defendants want the case dismissed based on the Noerr Pennington doctrine.
"The VM runs in a ***modified*** version of Virtual PC, and applications running in the VM can interact directly with the host operating system ***as if they were running on the Windows 7 installation itself***." doesn't sound like the protections you get in a regular VM ...
i don't know what Discovery was thinking, but if they "refuse to negotiate", it might indicate that Discovery obtained the patent to prevent DRM from being applied to e-books, rather than to profit from it.
you have to compile with the -dwim (do what i meant) option
you can speed that up with -- http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site -- recently, requests i've made have been honored within a day.
And nothing stops the vendor from stopping the Wayback Machine from chronicling its changes by telling it to not archive - http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#2
you won't be driving - why would you wait until you were driving to contest it -- why wouldn't you contest the ticket while you're still parked ?
Yellow Dog Linux (http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/) runs on the older PPC G4/G5 Macs.
This is only true for "private" conversations. if you can make the conversation public (open door, speakerphone, etc), that opens the door to eliminating (or at least calling into question) the expectation of privacy.
and try to get your manager "on the record". complain about the tactic and how unethical it is and try to reason with him/her, all the while getting the conversation on tape with a hidden recorder. then if they try to act on it, you have something. doesn't really matter if it's admissible in court. the threat of putting their actions in your blog (or other social media) may get them to back down quick.
sorry - took the wrong URL - this is it -- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=52.296386,-17.523193&jsv=145d&sll=52.140231,-17.600098&sspn=5.206494,7.69043&t=h&z=8
and here are some lines just off the british coast -- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31+15'15.53N+24+15'30.53W&sll=39.679105,-105.128672&sspn=0.011015,0.019312&ie=UTF8&ll=31.25977,-24.257812&spn=3.131698,4.943848&t=h&z=8
- illegal activity traced to IP 100.101.102.103
- the ISP says that the IP was assigned to you at that date/time
- you're running a wireless network
- your log says that MAC 11-22-33-44-55-66 was logged in at that time
- they look for other instances of 11-22-33-44-55-66 on your wireless (and maybe other APs in your area) to see if any of those sessions are traceable to an individual (i.e., the perp keeps using your wireless and one time when they're not doing illegal stuff, they log into a traceable account).
of course, if the perp is smart enough, they'll use a different MAC every time they hook up (or at least when they're doing something they don't want to get caught at) - or better - they'll occassionally sniff the network to find someone else's MAC to use later (esp if they're using a hotspot).
the last part - the ability to impersonate someone else at a hotspot makes the whole thing useless. they'll only catch crooks who don't know how to change MACs (or don't remember to) -or- they'll wrongly accuse an innocent who happened to have a matching MAC.
i was thinking that the definition of a hash pretty much guarantees that a false positive is possible. but, then again, if you receive a hundred hashes that all match packets from the same file, then you're pretty well screwed ...
http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/iafpa2006/Abstracts/Eriksson_IAFPA%202006.pdf
and
http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/iafpa2006/presentations/Tuesday/session8/Eriksson/Eriksson_iafpa2006.ppt
7.8 M households, representing 6.8% of homes with television = 114.7 million households have TV
Wikipedia ... suggests 60% = the 40% of households remaining are OTA only = 46 million
7.8 M out of 46 M = 1 in 6 OTA-only households has not bought a converter box yet
whether this is a problem depends on how old the "7.8 million" number is and how many unredeemed coupons are still out there waiting to be used.
our problem was with Fleet (which became part of Chase)
or the source you never think about - the credit card company. my wife had a credit card go missing and when we called, we found out that a change of address had been put in (before we even got the card) - they traced it to an employee. fortunately, no charges had been made (that we know about).
is it possible to write a utility that tells the drive to map ALL sectors as unreliable ? either as an alternative to thorough wiping or as a final step ? how hard is it to tell a hard drive that a sector that it mapped out is now reliable ?
thanks for the info - i'm not far enough that i can't change paths - i'll look into ViaCart and see what will work best for them.
i'm building a web site for a friend's crafting business and plan to use ZenCart - why is it a problem (from a stay-out-of-jail perspective) that it deletes the row (assuming that there isn't an option to keep it)? from what i can see, ZenCart is an order fulfillment system, not an accounting system, and thus does not provide any payment system - you have to attach something like PayPal. as soon as you're done servicing the order, i would think that the part that's in Paypal (or Google Payments, or whatever) is all you need (for the IRS) = what they ordered and what they paid.
reminds me of the movie A Boy and His Dog