In order to avoid confusion, the U.S. postal service must now open, photocopy/archive, and reseal every snail mail correspondence. But other government agencies will still need a court order to read the photocopies.
I like those numbers: 47,000 vs 13,900. But thats 47000 * 1 movie (they did say combined) vs 13900 * 3 movies, so its actually 47000 vs. 41700. Worded like that it doesn't sound like much of a 'big win'. Maybe my math is wonky.
Just a side note... CO2 isn't dirty, and is typically named public enemy #1 of "greenhouse gases". If all our cars and combustion based power planets burned friendly carbs at 100% efficiency they'd still spit out lots of H2O and CO2. We'd have no smog, you'd breathe freely even on hot days, and the world would still get warmer (or at least the majority of scientist would predict it).
I'm not trying to agitate, just hear this "CO2 is pollution" argument too often. But whatever shuts your neighbor up...:)
BBC look out. You can't just use that 'i'. What were you thinking?! Don't you know that apple owns the letter 'i' now? There are 25 other perfectly good letters.
I used mp++ library for c++ in my college parallel programming class.. it's a library that make it easier to write and debug paralllized programs on a single computer, then running the same source on a super computer (IBM paragon at the time). There's also some parallel version of FORTRAN i think, but in the end it still looks like FORTRAN. I think the best general advice for programmers is to try and use multiple threads to tackle time critical tasks. At least then your program will scale *some* on multiple cores. But I still think heavy use of parallel processing is a scientific programming issue. Normal scaling issues are like trying to support X clients at a time, or support one user running 15 programs. Both of those work very well today.
In Finland, phone subsidies are illegal. Thus user picks phone and operator independently. This is a great system because it lets phone manufacturers design phones for end-users. In our system (and sadly, this is the same system europe is now following), carriers subsidize and sell the phones, lock other phones off their network (in the case of CDMA), and require handset makers to add proprietary or crippled features to boost their end profit.
I hope apple can make some changes here, but at the same time I'm sick of hearing the mac fanboys rant about the immaculate phone conception. Plenty of other smartphones in the sea that do as much. I just want a level playing field so I can pick and choose my phone, service, content providers, etc. Apple typically isn't in that game. They aren't any nicer than m$, they just don't have the numbers to seem as sinister.
No kidding. Besides, when my daughter is old enough that I let her use IM, she'll be smart enough to know she doesn't want the purple alien that tells on her.
FCC statement.. those are legally binding right? And won't change with whoever gets put in charge of the FCC in years to come?
Pretty sure the answer there is no and no. Don't even get me started on how hard it is to define abuse.
Not that I disagree with the notion... I'd rather not let the government get any more involved in our Internet than they already are. I just don't trust the FCC any more than legislators or big ISPs.
given all the previous arguments about the exponential abilities of self-replicating probes, i'll just ignore the billions of years theory proposed by this "researcher".
besides.. aliens have clearly found us and decided to stay the *&@#! clear.
Haxor: why can't we go visit that pretty blue planet?
Blixan: prime directive, ensign! avoid interaction with primitive species. interaction includes detection. if they even know we are out there, we will have affected their society.
Haxor: aww. but they seem so nice.
good thing i'll be dead by 2070.. i don't want to go to jail. i've heard a number like $21k/inmate year.. thats $42B in imprisoning our own people. california's prison system is for all intents and purposes above capacity already. we are clearly out of control.
of course the big question in my mind is, "what is the breakdown of our prison population?" i can think of a number of jailable offenses that i think should outright be legal (eg. drugs, prostitution) and others that ought to be resolved outside jail (eg. more fines, penalties, monitoring.. like out-patient services for non-violent criminals). as our u.s. government never seems to de-criminilize everything, and adds crimilization to other things over the years, it makes sense that the numbers would go up. if i could just become supreme ruler and change a few laws, i wonder where that'd leave us in the climbing incarceration rates?
i worked for nokia for nearly 10 years in r&d for cell phones (cdma) and grew to loathe operators. in the u.s. they completely control the distribution because of subsidies and refusal to activate other phones claiming, "they don't work on our network." they ignore usability and force handset makers to jump through hoops designing phones essential on spec (if you put in these features, remove your name from the device, and pretend we invented all the technology maybe, just maybe, we'll put some in our stores.) ugh i hate them! it's all coming back! damn you operators!!
p.s. i also blame the fcc, because hell they do everything wrong. i love those billion $ license fees which guarantee that only big monopoly companies can enter the market place.
"It essentially gives your licensee a free shot at knocking out the patent and their obligation to pay royalties, and from a licensor's - from Genentech's - point of view, that's not a good thing,"
A free shot? I can't recall a time involving lawyers where anything was free. It gives them a shot instead of the alternatives, which include getting sued for violating the patent without a license or just staying out of the marketplace because of a stupid patent while you wait for it to be overturned.
Phishing attacks work on mass scale anyway, it's not like these people are targeting individuals. They send out millions hoping to get a small percentage of people falling for it. And falling for it in this case requires you to either speak to each person who calls, or setup an automated voice mail system which extracts the details (and would inevitably seem weird and unfamiliar to a user - please enter your bank account number, please enter your atm pin code, please state your mothers maiden name after the tone.)
To me, this is far less effective than sending a virus to edit a users bookmarks to adjust the bookmark to point to a phishing site instead of their bank. In the bookmark case, its likely to at least have the name of the bank because it came from the original bank's web site header.
I have the trilogy box set... now they'll get to release indy4, indy4 enhanced, indy4 directors cut, and then the supreme 4 movie remastered box set! What a deal! (Ack! I completely forgot the HD-DVD/Blue-ray re-releases!!)
I'm with you guys.. i'm still loving this series as it is. I hope they stay on their current creative track and not jump to something more palletable to the masses to regain some ratings (although i can't figure out why they've dropped anyway).
I feel so terribly bad for these poor starving media capitalists. One survey I read listed a dramatic 12.8% decline in the purchase of diamond encrusted back scratchers. I've even heard that some rappers are secretly using 1/2 cubic zirconia in their "grill". I can't think of a better industry to subsidize.
I don't want them to cozy up.. I want them to fight tooth and nail to keep their over-priced our-services-or-no-services mentality until they are driven out of business.
I remember a similar story between Nokia and Toshiba (not sure about the second name, but it was Nokia for sure since I was working there at the time). Toshiba came in with an army of lawyers to dispute some mobile phone patent and was going to make Nokia pay. The single Nokia lawyer said, "We're happy to review all of your patent claims in detail. While we do, I wonder if you might look over our portfolio of patents in the Television industry?"
They can probably lump that in with the same fine for blowing through a privately owned toll-road without paying. Per packet infraction though, of course.
I've been trying to figure out how the government will mandate that it's covert snooping data not be throttled back. Those will be the packets to mimic. You can bet AT&T will want those delivered to big brother without delay.
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In order to avoid confusion, the U.S. postal service must now open, photocopy/archive, and reseal every snail mail correspondence. But other government agencies will still need a court order to read the photocopies.
I like those numbers: 47,000 vs 13,900. But thats 47000 * 1 movie (they did say combined) vs 13900 * 3 movies, so its actually 47000 vs. 41700. Worded like that it doesn't sound like much of a 'big win'. Maybe my math is wonky.
Just a side note... CO2 isn't dirty, and is typically named public enemy #1 of "greenhouse gases". If all our cars and combustion based power planets burned friendly carbs at 100% efficiency they'd still spit out lots of H2O and CO2. We'd have no smog, you'd breathe freely even on hot days, and the world would still get warmer (or at least the majority of scientist would predict it).
I'm not trying to agitate, just hear this "CO2 is pollution" argument too often. But whatever shuts your neighbor up... :)
Word! I was waiting to write just such an insightful comment myself. :)
It's sad that I learn of this only because it's been delayed. :( System Shock (1) was an incredible game, one of my all time favorites.
Lotus Notes, Sametime, Domino... ? It seems like 'Open' has officially been overloaded to the point of being meaningless.
BBC look out. You can't just use that 'i'. What were you thinking?! Don't you know that apple owns the letter 'i' now? There are 25 other perfectly good letters.
I used mp++ library for c++ in my college parallel programming class.. it's a library that make it easier to write and debug paralllized programs on a single computer, then running the same source on a super computer (IBM paragon at the time). There's also some parallel version of FORTRAN i think, but in the end it still looks like FORTRAN. I think the best general advice for programmers is to try and use multiple threads to tackle time critical tasks. At least then your program will scale *some* on multiple cores. But I still think heavy use of parallel processing is a scientific programming issue. Normal scaling issues are like trying to support X clients at a time, or support one user running 15 programs. Both of those work very well today.
In Finland, phone subsidies are illegal. Thus user picks phone and operator independently. This is a great system because it lets phone manufacturers design phones for end-users. In our system (and sadly, this is the same system europe is now following), carriers subsidize and sell the phones, lock other phones off their network (in the case of CDMA), and require handset makers to add proprietary or crippled features to boost their end profit.
I hope apple can make some changes here, but at the same time I'm sick of hearing the mac fanboys rant about the immaculate phone conception. Plenty of other smartphones in the sea that do as much. I just want a level playing field so I can pick and choose my phone, service, content providers, etc. Apple typically isn't in that game. They aren't any nicer than m$, they just don't have the numbers to seem as sinister.
No kidding. Besides, when my daughter is old enough that I let her use IM, she'll be smart enough to know she doesn't want the purple alien that tells on her.
FCC statement.. those are legally binding right? And won't change with whoever gets put in charge of the FCC in years to come?
Pretty sure the answer there is no and no. Don't even get me started on how hard it is to define abuse.
Not that I disagree with the notion... I'd rather not let the government get any more involved in our Internet than they already are. I just don't trust the FCC any more than legislators or big ISPs.
given all the previous arguments about the exponential abilities of self-replicating probes, i'll just ignore the billions of years theory proposed by this "researcher".
besides.. aliens have clearly found us and decided to stay the *&@#! clear.
Haxor: why can't we go visit that pretty blue planet?
Blixan: prime directive, ensign! avoid interaction with primitive species. interaction includes detection. if they even know we are out there, we will have affected their society.
Haxor: aww. but they seem so nice.
good thing i'll be dead by 2070.. i don't want to go to jail. i've heard a number like $21k/inmate year.. thats $42B in imprisoning our own people. california's prison system is for all intents and purposes above capacity already. we are clearly out of control.
of course the big question in my mind is, "what is the breakdown of our prison population?" i can think of a number of jailable offenses that i think should outright be legal (eg. drugs, prostitution) and others that ought to be resolved outside jail (eg. more fines, penalties, monitoring.. like out-patient services for non-violent criminals). as our u.s. government never seems to de-criminilize everything, and adds crimilization to other things over the years, it makes sense that the numbers would go up. if i could just become supreme ruler and change a few laws, i wonder where that'd leave us in the climbing incarceration rates?
i heart you.
i worked for nokia for nearly 10 years in r&d for cell phones (cdma) and grew to loathe operators. in the u.s. they completely control the distribution because of subsidies and refusal to activate other phones claiming, "they don't work on our network." they ignore usability and force handset makers to jump through hoops designing phones essential on spec (if you put in these features, remove your name from the device, and pretend we invented all the technology maybe, just maybe, we'll put some in our stores.) ugh i hate them! it's all coming back! damn you operators!!
p.s. i also blame the fcc, because hell they do everything wrong. i love those billion $ license fees which guarantee that only big monopoly companies can enter the market place.
Ok.. but can we all agree that 30 is a ridiculously low sample size?
A free shot? I can't recall a time involving lawyers where anything was free. It gives them a shot instead of the alternatives, which include getting sued for violating the patent without a license or just staying out of the marketplace because of a stupid patent while you wait for it to be overturned.
this is another smartphone. the only thing it's added is style. unless "nothing else like it" in your mind also applies to the ipod and imac.
Phishing attacks work on mass scale anyway, it's not like these people are targeting individuals. They send out millions hoping to get a small percentage of people falling for it. And falling for it in this case requires you to either speak to each person who calls, or setup an automated voice mail system which extracts the details (and would inevitably seem weird and unfamiliar to a user - please enter your bank account number, please enter your atm pin code, please state your mothers maiden name after the tone.)
To me, this is far less effective than sending a virus to edit a users bookmarks to adjust the bookmark to point to a phishing site instead of their bank. In the bookmark case, its likely to at least have the name of the bank because it came from the original bank's web site header.
I have the trilogy box set... now they'll get to release indy4, indy4 enhanced, indy4 directors cut, and then the supreme 4 movie remastered box set! What a deal! (Ack! I completely forgot the HD-DVD/Blue-ray re-releases!!)
Sarcasm aside, I'm looking forward to the movie.
I'm with you guys.. i'm still loving this series as it is. I hope they stay on their current creative track and not jump to something more palletable to the masses to regain some ratings (although i can't figure out why they've dropped anyway).
That took a second. Typo is in the summary. I also asked who the heck is EMCA? :)
I think it must be one of those typos from constantly typing DMCA.
I feel so terribly bad for these poor starving media capitalists. One survey I read listed a dramatic 12.8% decline in the purchase of diamond encrusted back scratchers. I've even heard that some rappers are secretly using 1/2 cubic zirconia in their "grill". I can't think of a better industry to subsidize.
I don't want them to cozy up.. I want them to fight tooth and nail to keep their over-priced our-services-or-no-services mentality until they are driven out of business.
I remember a similar story between Nokia and Toshiba (not sure about the second name, but it was Nokia for sure since I was working there at the time). Toshiba came in with an army of lawyers to dispute some mobile phone patent and was going to make Nokia pay. The single Nokia lawyer said, "We're happy to review all of your patent claims in detail. While we do, I wonder if you might look over our portfolio of patents in the Television industry?"
Oops.. ok.. let's just forget the whole thing.
They can probably lump that in with the same fine for blowing through a privately owned toll-road without paying. Per packet infraction though, of course.
I've been trying to figure out how the government will mandate that it's covert snooping data not be throttled back. Those will be the packets to mimic. You can bet AT&T will want those delivered to big brother without delay.