But what am I going to use for pellet gun targets now?
Seriously, a 1x2, slotted to hold wafers, A-framed, and backstopped by a heavy tarp fed to a 55 gal drum is the most awesome way to dispose of scrap wafers ever. We generate about 100 a year at my site and they pile up in 5 gallon buckets waiting to be sent to scrap, I just like helping along the process... -nB
FWIW your problems were with the rips. I had similar issues, related to some of the copy protection inserting null or unreferenced frames, etc. AnyDVD filters those out beautifully. -nB
That is true, but in the case of a company (Farmers) threatening you with lawsuits because of your website's assessment of their service, the first amendment prevents the legal system from enforcing their wishes to take down your site... -nB
When I was more active in the Xbox scene I would receive hardware (modchips) to review. Never sent any of them back, but usually that's because they didn't work so well when I was done with them. Only had one vendor ask for it back, specifically to do Failure Analysis. They asked if I wanted a replacement and I turned them down. To be fair though I first tested the things as a normal user would use them, then as an extreme modder may use them, then as an idiot would use them (plugged in backwards). That usually did them in (though one did my box in instead...). I suppose plugging in an SLI PCIe backwards would be difficult.
You're thinking of NOR devices. NAND organized flash has good write speeds but poor read speeds and NOR is the other way round. The controller has a lot to do with overall performance as well.
Finally, Hynix has demonstrated a 22 die stack, but not in HVM. Samsung could *possibly* do a 16 die stack, but I'm betting on two packages, each with 8 die when this comes out. -nB
Off topic, I know, but:
They bring in the best, catered food, day in and day out. They have overnight sleeping rooms, so that paralegals can stop work and not have to take time to commute the next morning. Money flows in, unencumbered by any thought about what it is costingi yuo and me, the American consumer, as all these costs are eventually borne by us in the way of higher prices, or constrained innovation.
The lawyers are walkingi away with big smiles on their faces; it's really sickening to consider the near-fact tthat there is probably more revenue being generated in Silicon Valley via IP litigation than there is from the deployment of new innovation. Based on the typos in that section (and absent from elsewhere in your post), I'm guessing that you are rather passionate about that particular bit... -nB
WREN did this in their WRENiii series ESDI drives. For the time those drives were fast. Rather than a radial axis for the drive heads they used a linear actuator where the head stacks could move independently of each other. Worked like a champ. I would still use them but the controller is VLB (and no MB these days supports that on P4's and up), and the drives were only 160 meg (and 5-1/4" full height beasts).
Yes you can. The weather and radioactive decay are random events. an individual is difficult to predict; large groups, however, are rather predictable. The whole issue with using humans to predict political situations is that humans are biased. The computer is not. Even with common polls showing the election one way ENIAC predicted the presidential election correctly for the expected loser. -nB
Funny, now all I can wonder is are all brazillians as hot headed as you? FWIF you may have gotten a better response by pointing out that had CISCO asked they could have gotten a break, but instead they were sneaky about it.
That, and you lost. The point of a troll like that is to piss you off, you fed him well. -nB
You don't even need a mile. I've often proposed that you need to send up a couple drills (think mines or Chunnel) and send them to a crater. Drill into the sides of the crater, laying down an epoxy against the walls as you drill. Once primary drilling is done, you can place a pressure door on each tunnel, charge to 10 ATM and release a fine mist of polymer. It will find any cracks and seal them, then when you are operating at 1 ATM the 10X margin you have is adequate. The tunnels can be laid out radially from the crater center and a hub can be located in the middle.
Yes it is fine. UDP drops packets that are out of sequence, so as long as you keep most of the frames in the right order, your stream will simply be delayed 10 seconds. If you want bi-directional AV that is fine too, you will just have a total lag of 20s between when a question is asked and when the answer starts arriving. -nB
FWIW, people who pooh-pooh other peoples' whisky preferences are compensating, IMO. The same mindset as audiophiles, as far as I'm concerned. Not sure if that was directed at my Oban comment, but in case it was... I was not meaning to Pooh Pooh his selection, just noting that neophytes to Scotch may find it overpowering. Nam Biest, that is one scotch that can stand on it's own without a bottle to hold it... makes Lagavulin taste like heather and honey.
All that said, I whole heartedly agree with you about the audiophile comment. -nB
For starters Oban is not what I would suggest. It is good, but will reinforce what most people think about Scotch (that it is bog water in a bottle). I would highly recommend one of the speyside malts to someone new to Scotch. Perhaps Aberlour 15 double cask, or Dalwhinnie 10. Then you start moving them down the hill till you get to Nam Biest.
The Linden Labs non-C&D is hysterical. I don't think it can get much better than this:
In conclusion, your invitation to submit a cease-and-desist letter is hereby rejected. Point is, LL got just as much (or more) publicity from this letter as they would have gotten from a normal C&D, but instead it's all positive. By responding they secured their position of ownership, while not looking like asshats. IMHO most C&Ds are written from the perspective that if the company does not respond they risk trademark dilution issues. The problem is they respond wrongly, not that they respond. In the case of my C&D from Farmers, they quote all the commercial portions of US code and none of the sections that deal with comment or criticism. Once you read through Title 15 and 17 you will find that it explicitly negates its self when dealing with the personal side of publication. Specifically:
(4) The following shall not be actionable under this section:
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative
commercial advertising or promotion to identify the competing goods
or services of the owner of the famous mark.
(B) Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C) All forms of news reporting and news commentary. So all a lawyer has to do is send a letter stating that they are asserting trademark ownership and such, while recognizing this particular application of their trademark is protected. They could then go on to request alterations as they see fit, and likely get a much more positive response. -nB
True, however it is considered good for to register copyright before claiming damages for violating said copyright. Also, IIRC an unregistered copyright, while still protected, is not as enforceable. That is to say, damages awarded against violation of the copyright are negligible, and often limited to the infringer being barred from continued infringement only, and no monetary damages awarded. -nB
Sadly this is true. One of the admins of a site parallel to my own gripe site (sig) was taken to court by Farmers. The estimates are that they spent north of $700K to litigate the case. His legal fees were in the $200K territory. It was only through heaps of pro-bono time and assistance from his home-owners insurance that he was able to fight the case, and his is one with gobs of precedent (gripe sites/free speech/fair use). In the end the case was settled out of court and part of the settlement was a confidentiality clause (I'm assuming this is SOP) so I don't know the details of the deal, but his site is still up and last time I was on the phone with him I asked him how he was financially, with his house and such, and got a positive answer.
It's only because they "lost" that case and because I'm in California with its wonderful SLAPP-Back statue that I think they have not outright sued me... yet. That and my riveting response to their C&D letter: http://www.farmersreallysucks.com/editorialtakedown1.shtml.
The main difference I see (and am disturbed by) between cases like Rene's and the RIAA cases is the dragnet methods the RIAA use for identifying targets. The rest I see as fairly uniform IP sleaze law practice. -nB
IAAL, but you are not my client. This isn't legal advice. I probably didn't even think before I wrote it. Cheers! I love your disclaimer. Most common sense one I've read in a long, long time.
If you are willing to divulge (sole curiosity on my part, and likely you've answered this elsewhere): What kind of law do you practice and what about/. draws you here (I'm banking on all the *stunning* armchair IANAL banter myself...) -nB
While it is security through obscurity, that is not a bad thing. What people often don't understand is that obscurity is a valid security measure, just not one that you can rely on as an end-all. Example: SSH on 22 with no authentication -> bad ssh on 2200 with no authentication -> just as bad ssh on 22 with strong authentication -> good and not burdensome ssh on 2200 with strong auth -> better and not burdensome.
As Bruce says it is all about layers of security and understanding the deficits of each. By running on port 22 you subject your strong auth to multiple automated attacks, thus increasing its exposure to being comprised. By taking the simple step of moving to a non standard port you have eliminated the bulk of the automated attacks, which as PP noted allows you to focus on fewer log entries, likely showing a wider breadth of attacks per unit of log entries. -nB
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But what am I going to use for pellet gun targets now?
Seriously, a 1x2, slotted to hold wafers, A-framed, and backstopped by a heavy tarp fed to a 55 gal drum is the most awesome way to dispose of scrap wafers ever. We generate about 100 a year at my site and they pile up in 5 gallon buckets waiting to be sent to scrap, I just like helping along the process...
-nB
FWIW your problems were with the rips.
I had similar issues, related to some of the copy protection inserting null or unreferenced frames, etc. AnyDVD filters those out beautifully.
-nB
In my experience about 600.
(at least at the billing rate that the lawyer who handled my gripe site C&D letter analysis charges).
-nB
That is true, but in the case of a company (Farmers) threatening you with lawsuits because of your website's assessment of their service, the first amendment prevents the legal system from enforcing their wishes to take down your site...
-nB
I think your sig said it ;)
When I was more active in the Xbox scene I would receive hardware (modchips) to review. Never sent any of them back, but usually that's because they didn't work so well when I was done with them. Only had one vendor ask for it back, specifically to do Failure Analysis. They asked if I wanted a replacement and I turned them down. To be fair though I first tested the things as a normal user would use them, then as an extreme modder may use them, then as an idiot would use them (plugged in backwards). That usually did them in (though one did my box in instead...). I suppose plugging in an SLI PCIe backwards would be difficult.
-nB
You're thinking of NOR devices.
NAND organized flash has good write speeds but poor read speeds and NOR is the other way round.
The controller has a lot to do with overall performance as well.
Finally, Hynix has demonstrated a 22 die stack, but not in HVM. Samsung could *possibly* do a 16 die stack, but I'm betting on two packages, each with 8 die when this comes out.
-nB
It's from Doctor Suss.
I've been reading them to my 2 and 4 year olds...
what makes it sig worthy to the poster, I don't know.
-nB
The lawyers are walkingi away with big smiles on their faces; it's really sickening to consider the near-fact tthat there is probably more revenue being generated in Silicon Valley via IP litigation than there is from the deployment of new innovation. Based on the typos in that section (and absent from elsewhere in your post), I'm guessing that you are rather passionate about that particular bit...
-nB
WREN did this in their WRENiii series ESDI drives. For the time those drives were fast. Rather than a radial axis for the drive heads they used a linear actuator where the head stacks could move independently of each other. Worked like a champ. I would still use them but the controller is VLB (and no MB these days supports that on P4's and up), and the drives were only 160 meg (and 5-1/4" full height beasts).
-nB
Yes you can.
The weather and radioactive decay are random events.
an individual is difficult to predict; large groups, however, are rather predictable.
The whole issue with using humans to predict political situations is that humans are biased.
The computer is not. Even with common polls showing the election one way ENIAC predicted the presidential election correctly for the expected loser.
-nB
Funny, now all I can wonder is are all brazillians as hot headed as you?
FWIF you may have gotten a better response by pointing out that had CISCO asked they could have gotten a break, but instead they were sneaky about it.
That, and you lost. The point of a troll like that is to piss you off, you fed him well.
-nB
Single lane PCIe is 1.25Gbps.
After you move to bytes and remove overhead you get 150 MBps.
You don't even need a mile.
I've often proposed that you need to send up a couple drills (think mines or Chunnel) and send them to a crater. Drill into the sides of the crater, laying down an epoxy against the walls as you drill.
Once primary drilling is done, you can place a pressure door on each tunnel, charge to 10 ATM and release a fine mist of polymer. It will find any cracks and seal them, then when you are operating at 1 ATM the 10X margin you have is adequate. The tunnels can be laid out radially from the crater center and a hub can be located in the middle.
-nB
Yes it is fine.
UDP drops packets that are out of sequence, so as long as you keep most of the frames in the right order, your stream will simply be delayed 10 seconds.
If you want bi-directional AV that is fine too, you will just have a total lag of 20s between when a question is asked and when the answer starts arriving.
-nB
What if time is a big rubber band that breaks?
"instant" state change.
But as the article is not PR, I dunno.
I was not meaning to Pooh Pooh his selection, just noting that neophytes to Scotch may find it overpowering. Nam Biest, that is one scotch that can stand on it's own without a bottle to hold it... makes Lagavulin taste like heather and honey.
All that said, I whole heartedly agree with you about the audiophile comment.
-nB
For starters Oban is not what I would suggest. It is good, but will reinforce what most people think about Scotch (that it is bog water in a bottle).
I would highly recommend one of the speyside malts to someone new to Scotch. Perhaps Aberlour 15 double cask, or Dalwhinnie 10. Then you start moving them down the hill till you get to Nam Biest.
My preferences run to Bowmore though.
-nB
How about donating to public citizen?
I know I have.
(A) Fair use of a famous mark by another person in comparative
commercial advertising or promotion to identify the competing goods
or services of the owner of the famous mark.
(B) Noncommercial use of a mark.
(C) All forms of news reporting and news commentary. So all a lawyer has to do is send a letter stating that they are asserting trademark ownership and such, while recognizing this particular application of their trademark is protected. They could then go on to request alterations as they see fit, and likely get a much more positive response.
-nB
True, however it is considered good for to register copyright before claiming damages for violating said copyright.
Also, IIRC an unregistered copyright, while still protected, is not as enforceable. That is to say, damages awarded against violation of the copyright are negligible, and often limited to the infringer being barred from continued infringement only, and no monetary damages awarded.
-nB
How to get bad press: http://farmersreallysucks.com/editorialtakedown1.shtml
How to get *good* press: http://farmersreallysucks.com/editorialgetafirstlife.shtml
-nB
Sadly this is true.
One of the admins of a site parallel to my own gripe site (sig) was taken to court by Farmers. The estimates are that they spent north of $700K to litigate the case. His legal fees were in the $200K territory. It was only through heaps of pro-bono time and assistance from his home-owners insurance that he was able to fight the case, and his is one with gobs of precedent (gripe sites/free speech/fair use). In the end the case was settled out of court and part of the settlement was a confidentiality clause (I'm assuming this is SOP) so I don't know the details of the deal, but his site is still up and last time I was on the phone with him I asked him how he was financially, with his house and such, and got a positive answer.
It's only because they "lost" that case and because I'm in California with its wonderful SLAPP-Back statue that I think they have not outright sued me... yet. That and my riveting response to their C&D letter: http://www.farmersreallysucks.com/editorialtakedown1.shtml.
The main difference I see (and am disturbed by) between cases like Rene's and the RIAA cases is the dragnet methods the RIAA use for identifying targets. The rest I see as fairly uniform IP sleaze law practice.
-nB
[homer]mmm... ethical leakage[/homer]
Sorry, but that's all I got from your sarcasm. A+ for effort though.
-nB
If you are willing to divulge (sole curiosity on my part, and likely you've answered this elsewhere):
What kind of law do you practice and what about
-nB
IANAL because they'd burn me at the bar
While it is security through obscurity, that is not a bad thing. What people often don't understand is that obscurity is a valid security measure, just not one that you can rely on as an end-all.
Example:
SSH on 22 with no authentication -> bad
ssh on 2200 with no authentication -> just as bad
ssh on 22 with strong authentication -> good and not burdensome
ssh on 2200 with strong auth -> better and not burdensome.
As Bruce says it is all about layers of security and understanding the deficits of each. By running on port 22 you subject your strong auth to multiple automated attacks, thus increasing its exposure to being comprised. By taking the simple step of moving to a non standard port you have eliminated the bulk of the automated attacks, which as PP noted allows you to focus on fewer log entries, likely showing a wider breadth of attacks per unit of log entries.
-nB