The simplest thing to do is to have a second disk in your computer, one for bad things and the second as a legal spare. Some truck drivers keep multiple log books, so something like that would be easier.
That way you could show use on the second boot disk. If you get sued simply remove the illegal disk and bury it somewhere, like a neighbors yard. start using your legal hdd as you would minus the piracy piece.
Don't they sell these as NAS drives? You could even operate it underground in your neighbors' back yard and just pull the wires when feeling paranoid.
If you take an MP3 file and rename it personal.doc, it will still show up in the media bucket and be declared as an audio file in the forensic software I am professionally experienced with.
You can also take an.mp3 and run it through a trivial transformation (for instance, drop amplitude of one frame by one bit, or prepend one tenth of a second of silence.) which will completely hose the MD5 signature - making it appear as a different file to any MD5 comparing automated search.
The judge did make provision for the copy to be examined, so if the court would choose the copier, they _could_ make two copies and give one to each team to choose an independent expert...
[B]ut if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
Not if it's by design. I found it to be the only way that makes sense, to work trough prototyping. Especially for games and other large projects. I define the things I want to clarify, and then build a throwaway-prototype...
Have you ever shown these prototypes to the "powers that be"? I have found that doing stuff like that leads to expectation warps in management's brains - they start to expect that you can make miracles in a week or two and begin to plan how to use this.... their later collisions with reality aren't pretty.
For $500M I'd go for a nice laptop, on a beach, on my own private island. Maybe a NAS system with a few TB of storage and WiFi coverage for the island, couple of big screens on dedicated computers here and there, and possibly a cluster of Core i7 boxes to play with some heavy crunching.
All told, $499.5M could go toward the real-estate and construction costs, staff, transportation, etc. $500K would cover my compute hardware needs quite nicely.
When you analyze what the SSA ends up doing with $500M, you might find a shockingly similar pattern of administrative and facilities overhead.
If you want that to happen, you need to restructure the stock market and related taxes to promote longer-term investments. R&D spending will go up a lot if stock prices are linked to projected profits over the next ten years, rather than the next three.
You left off the units, my observation is that the stock market is driven by perception of what's happening in the next 3 minutes more than anything else, and the "long view" investors are rarely influenced by anything past the next 3 months.
I don't think you can legislate free-market time horizons for investment value, but I have had a thought that highly volatile price swings could be taxed, basically forcing investors to play within tighter windows unless they feel so strongly that the "immediate" change in perceived value is enough to warrant paying a volatility tax, and besides, human nature being what it is, the players will tend to not trigger the tax just because they don't like paying taxes.
If share prices could only move 0.5% per day without incurring volatility taxes, I think investors would put more effort into the long game.
The better advice sites have user rankings, but unless people actually use them, then they're pretty useless. When you have traffic like amazon.com, (or/.) the ranking systems work, if it's a thinly traveled board, it's pretty much listen at your own risk.
How about we stop runnaway spending and reduce the national debt.
How about we get private corporations to go back to scientific R&D instead of squandering all their money on marketing.... The US could hit 3% of GDP on scientific R&D real quickly if the scientifically oriented corporations would put the 10-20% of their budgets into R&D like they used to.
3% of GDP on "scientific R&D" doesn't mean 3% of GDP on grant funded projects, it means getting corporations and the private sector to get back to the kind of investments they made in the early days of Bell labs...
SyQyest made the magnetic media separate from the mechanism for many years - were pretty successful on the technical side, had their marketing lunch, dinner and breakfast eaten by the technically inferior IOMega Zip drives.... whether or not holographic discs take off has more to do with the people pushing them than anything about how useful they are.
$0.10/gb * 500 GB = $50. I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $80. Why would I use this stuff?
Because $50 is including recoup of R&D costs, actual media cost of an optical platter is far far less than rotating magnetic media. Sure, you won't use this when it's new... I think I burned one personal CD-Rom on our fancy SCSI burner 14 years ago when we got it, mostly because the software sucked, but also because the discs were several dollars each, now the discs are virtually free, and the software has improved a little.
Is this guys time worth nothing?
Yeah we've all been there as the angel tech support person. Problem is what when you get burned out of answering the same stupid question again and again, you'll quit doing it unless there's some incentive. I answered 20 or so tech questions on yahoo answers because I was bored, but that was short lived... I probably won't go back for another 6 months. Now, pay me something reasonable and I would go back every night.
Yeah, but those 20 answers are are the gift that keeps on giving, because people can search and find them. (until the tech that they are talking about is obsolete, which is about 6 months for so much of what people play with these days)
Sounds like these guys are just being exploited by their own egos.
Though surely they fill a niche and are appreciated by other users, what with the sorry state of "tech support" Verizon and other big corps maintain. I never call tech support anymore except as a dead-last resort, because if I can't figure it out there's hardly any chance some minimum wage boob with a script is going to help me.
Cool thing about the internet is that it only takes a few people who know what's what to inform the whole planet. So, even if these people are one in 10 million, they can still be a major global force in the arena they play in.
Conversely, people who think they know their shit, but in fact don't, can be a major detriment. And we know that there are a whole lot of them around.
Usually these people become self evident pretty quickly, some poor fool will follow their flawed advice for awhile, but not long because it just doesn't work.
The dangerous ones are the ones that almost get it right, leaving security holes or other latent defects - sadly, even this state of functionality is usually better than what the mega-corp drones can achieve.
Seeing how they point out how this can save them millions of dollars leaves me nonplussed.
I think it's great that this is getting noticed, and quantified in monetary terms.
Take, for instance, Verizon, who produces crippleware products by the bucketload, which would tend to disinterest these kinds of superusers. Now compare them to an Android platform supporting company... I'm thrilled that the Android loving corporations are getting a free boost from the user community.
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Do you want to imply that you have to be a genius physicist to use something other than Windows?
The simplest thing to do is to have a second disk in your computer, one for bad things and the second as a legal spare. Some truck drivers keep multiple log books, so something like that would be easier.
That way you could show use on the second boot disk. If you get sued simply remove the illegal disk and bury it somewhere, like a neighbors yard. start using your legal hdd as you would minus the piracy piece.
Don't they sell these as NAS drives? You could even operate it underground in your neighbors' back yard and just pull the wires when feeling paranoid.
If you take an MP3 file and rename it personal.doc, it will still show up in the media bucket and be declared as an audio file in the forensic software I am professionally experienced with.
You can also take an .mp3 and run it through a trivial transformation (for instance, drop amplitude of one frame by one bit, or prepend one tenth of a second of silence.) which will completely hose the MD5 signature - making it appear as a different file to any MD5 comparing automated search.
The judge did make provision for the copy to be examined, so if the court would choose the copier, they _could_ make two copies and give one to each team to choose an independent expert...
[B]ut if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
Not if it's by design. I found it to be the only way that makes sense, to work trough prototyping. Especially for games and other large projects. I define the things I want to clarify, and then build a throwaway-prototype...
Have you ever shown these prototypes to the "powers that be"? I have found that doing stuff like that leads to expectation warps in management's brains - they start to expect that you can make miracles in a week or two and begin to plan how to use this.... their later collisions with reality aren't pretty.
I'd go for 5 @ $100M apiece - A-F in Vermont, G-K in Ohio....
Your location also needs some competent staffing....
For $500M I'd go for a nice laptop, on a beach, on my own private island. Maybe a NAS system with a few TB of storage and WiFi coverage for the island, couple of big screens on dedicated computers here and there, and possibly a cluster of Core i7 boxes to play with some heavy crunching.
All told, $499.5M could go toward the real-estate and construction costs, staff, transportation, etc. $500K would cover my compute hardware needs quite nicely.
When you analyze what the SSA ends up doing with $500M, you might find a shockingly similar pattern of administrative and facilities overhead.
I think GDP also includes things like the home shopping network, which probably doesn't spend much at all on "scientific R&D".
If you want that to happen, you need to restructure the stock market and related taxes to promote longer-term investments. R&D spending will go up a lot if stock prices are linked to projected profits over the next ten years, rather than the next three.
You left off the units, my observation is that the stock market is driven by perception of what's happening in the next 3 minutes more than anything else, and the "long view" investors are rarely influenced by anything past the next 3 months.
I don't think you can legislate free-market time horizons for investment value, but I have had a thought that highly volatile price swings could be taxed, basically forcing investors to play within tighter windows unless they feel so strongly that the "immediate" change in perceived value is enough to warrant paying a volatility tax, and besides, human nature being what it is, the players will tend to not trigger the tax just because they don't like paying taxes.
If share prices could only move 0.5% per day without incurring volatility taxes, I think investors would put more effort into the long game.
Yep, although there's a flaw in the profits measure, if profits are being squandered then there's nothing to tax-credit.....
The better advice sites have user rankings, but unless people actually use them, then they're pretty useless. When you have traffic like amazon.com, (or /.) the ranking systems work, if it's a thinly traveled board, it's pretty much listen at your own risk.
The President's job isn't about charting a course for the federal government, it's about charting a course for the country.
The government is just a tool.
Thing is, most of the military is convinced that what they do is helping our country (and to an extent, they are correct.)
Give that budget to a bunch of nerds and we'll end up with a whole lot of stuff that 95% of the population can't use or even understand.
Everyone understands not having to report to the party leader for monthly interrogations.
Let me be the first to say... WTF?
How about we stop runnaway spending and reduce the national debt.
How about we get private corporations to go back to scientific R&D instead of squandering all their money on marketing.... The US could hit 3% of GDP on scientific R&D real quickly if the scientifically oriented corporations would put the 10-20% of their budgets into R&D like they used to.
3% of GDP on "scientific R&D" doesn't mean 3% of GDP on grant funded projects, it means getting corporations and the private sector to get back to the kind of investments they made in the early days of Bell labs...
SyQyest made the magnetic media separate from the mechanism for many years - were pretty successful on the technical side, had their marketing lunch, dinner and breakfast eaten by the technically inferior IOMega Zip drives.... whether or not holographic discs take off has more to do with the people pushing them than anything about how useful they are.
$0.10/gb * 500 GB = $50. I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $80. Why would I use this stuff?
Because $50 is including recoup of R&D costs, actual media cost of an optical platter is far far less than rotating magnetic media. Sure, you won't use this when it's new... I think I burned one personal CD-Rom on our fancy SCSI burner 14 years ago when we got it, mostly because the software sucked, but also because the discs were several dollars each, now the discs are virtually free, and the software has improved a little.
Is this guys time worth nothing? Yeah we've all been there as the angel tech support person. Problem is what when you get burned out of answering the same stupid question again and again, you'll quit doing it unless there's some incentive. I answered 20 or so tech questions on yahoo answers because I was bored, but that was short lived... I probably won't go back for another 6 months. Now, pay me something reasonable and I would go back every night.
Yeah, but those 20 answers are are the gift that keeps on giving, because people can search and find them. (until the tech that they are talking about is obsolete, which is about 6 months for so much of what people play with these days)
Sounds like these guys are just being exploited by their own egos. Though surely they fill a niche and are appreciated by other users, what with the sorry state of "tech support" Verizon and other big corps maintain. I never call tech support anymore except as a dead-last resort, because if I can't figure it out there's hardly any chance some minimum wage boob with a script is going to help me.
Cool thing about the internet is that it only takes a few people who know what's what to inform the whole planet. So, even if these people are one in 10 million, they can still be a major global force in the arena they play in.
Conversely, people who think they know their shit, but in fact don't, can be a major detriment. And we know that there are a whole lot of them around.
Usually these people become self evident pretty quickly, some poor fool will follow their flawed advice for awhile, but not long because it just doesn't work.
The dangerous ones are the ones that almost get it right, leaving security holes or other latent defects - sadly, even this state of functionality is usually better than what the mega-corp drones can achieve.
Seeing how they point out how this can save them millions of dollars leaves me nonplussed.
I think it's great that this is getting noticed, and quantified in monetary terms.
Take, for instance, Verizon, who produces crippleware products by the bucketload, which would tend to disinterest these kinds of superusers. Now compare them to an Android platform supporting company... I'm thrilled that the Android loving corporations are getting a free boost from the user community.
I think these are Geostationary... makes a more expensive target.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they've lost control and can't turn them off anymore....