I thought they were gone for good after the last, oh, I don't know, 4 attempts of selling a shitty static-everything voxel engine as THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY THING EVER?
Ask anybody who knows fuck all about computer graphics what they think of these people, and prepare to get laughed out of the room.
Well, Google can certainly choose to just uncritically comply with all requests, for now - which means that they'll deliberately be offering a worse service to save money. As a quasi-monopolist, that's a thing that they can probably keep on doing for quite some time, too. They could also work within the law as interpreted by the courts to work out efficient procedures that everybody can live with, which is a better idea, long term.
If you are a company that offers something, you are responsible for complying with regulations regarding that thing. If you sell meat, you are responsible for ensuring it is not rotten. If you manufacture or sell toys, it is your responsibility to ensure that they do not contain toxic substances nor small parts that are easy to swallow. And if you run a search engine, you have to ensure not to infringe on the privacy rights of your customers. As with any other company, the costs for this are costs you are going to have to calculate with when considering how to do business, and what kinds of business models are viable for you.
I have no idea where technology companies, especially U.S. based ones, get this idea that they should be allowed to infringe upon rights and regulations wherever it gets in the way of doing business simply because what they do is somehow new and cool. That's not how that works. Mercedes-Benz cannot make a car that doesn't follow road safety regulations, even though that may allow for cool things and cheaper cars. And in the same vein, Facebook cannot simply store whatever data they please and sell it to whomever, and Google cannot simply index all things until the end of times, even if all of these things would be very useful for them and possibly allow for neat features - because there are regulations that protect the common interest, which they have to follow.
If your company demographics are significantly different from general demographics, you are probably not hiring the best person for the job - probably, your hiring is skewed towards some demographic, for whatever reason (number of canidates, subtle unconcious or even open racism or sexism). If you want to have the best people for the job, you should have a strong interest figuring out if you have such a bias in your hiring and to eliminate it.
Further, diversity is healthy, especially in jobs that require some creativity. Many different people with many different approaches beats a bunch of people who all work roughly the same way.
Clearly! Just go shoot up the Antipiratbyrån offices! That will solve the problem! I mean, that's how people in the US solve their problems all the time, right? That's why the United States are such a model of base democratic decision making: Because everyone has guns!
The system we used here was actually smart enough to not flag common idioms like this, and also still flag cases where only the variable names and formatting had been changed.
Also, our assignments were usually complex enough that there would be enough variation, anyways.
Most things about our automated hand-in system sucked, but the plagiarism detector wasn't one of them.
If you're curious: https://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/jplag/
Eh, that makes sense for an online poll with write-in. It discourages 4chan et all coming along and flooding the poll suggesting the node should be named something along the lines of "NIGGER COCKS OLOLOL".
Yes, and if the english summaries of this were actually done properly, people wouldn't be confused like this. If you can read german, do yourself a favor and read up on this on a german website.
For a civil suit, you need to know who to sue. An IP address only won't fly for that in germany - you need identities. But the ISPs are not giving out customer details to private companies. So what the industry does is filing a criminal suit first, so the police has to investigate, subpoenaing the infringers identity from the ISP. Then, the criminal suit is retracted - as there has been no commercial infringment, so there's no success to be found there - but because of court documentation, the infringers name, address etc. are still known to the RIAAish organization. They then use this information for filing a civil suit.
The new policy closes this loophole. You could still be prosecuted for downloading even one song, but there is now pretty much no way to get your IP unless you're _probably_ guilty commercial copyright infringment. Where the line is to be drawn is upon the courts to decide. FYI, downloading an only very recently or not yet released movie _does_ probably count as commercial - as it probably hurts the commercial interested of the rightsholder.
It's overally a quite sane way to go about, given how things are(tm).
For which you need people capable of doing that, who have to be paid.
That might not cost as much as developing a new circuit from scratch altogether, but it _might_ be enough to make the pirating just not worth it.
Aditionally, at some point, people will just not put up with that nonsense anymore - with HDDVD players refusing to work with projectors or whatever because one little detail in the HDCP chain isn't exactly right, and other horror stories like this.
The alternative is easier nowadays: Piracy - It Just Works. With sites like ThePirateBay and easy to use Bittorrent clients like uTorrent and the likes, and with fast net connections, pirating HD content is seriously becoming easier for average users than getting it in a legit way.
The tiny difference here is that apples FSEvents is basically a daemon following the fsevents device (OS X equivalent of inotify) all the time keeping a log (directory level, as to not bog everything up with a lot of small changes), so the backup app does not have to run in the background all the time. It also notices when the disk changed while not mounted in OS X (In which case it only tells you _that_ the disk changed, I believe. You still have to figure out what changed, exactly yourself).
Jep, that's indeed the big problem. When the network is down (It rarley is, though), people can't do anything (Which isn't _too_ terrible for a school, but still sucks).
Other than that, it's actually pretty fast (When multiple people boot, the system apparently does some interesting broadcasting type of stuff, I don't know, really). It's reasonably fast, ~3min, even when multiple people are booting (Windows2000, mind you, with oldish PCs), logging in takes ~30sec. Laptops are not using this though, might be because there are not enough access points to properly cover everything with reasonable speed.
We restore the partitions on every boot, images are loaded from a central server, your profile is stored on a central server and loaded when you log in. Works very well.
... no more looking for giant thunderstorms to power your time machine or trick terrorists into stealing stuff for you, nowadays you can just buy nuclear material via mail order.
One, you call IRC mIRC ONE MORE TIME, you die painfully.
Two, there's actually an IRC command called "WALLOPS" that sends a message to all people who have the +w usermode set, but I doubt that's where they got the name from.
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I thought they were gone for good after the last, oh, I don't know, 4 attempts of selling a shitty static-everything voxel engine as THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY THING EVER? Ask anybody who knows fuck all about computer graphics what they think of these people, and prepare to get laughed out of the room.
Well, Google can certainly choose to just uncritically comply with all requests, for now - which means that they'll deliberately be offering a worse service to save money. As a quasi-monopolist, that's a thing that they can probably keep on doing for quite some time, too. They could also work within the law as interpreted by the courts to work out efficient procedures that everybody can live with, which is a better idea, long term.
If you are a company that offers something, you are responsible for complying with regulations regarding that thing. If you sell meat, you are responsible for ensuring it is not rotten. If you manufacture or sell toys, it is your responsibility to ensure that they do not contain toxic substances nor small parts that are easy to swallow. And if you run a search engine, you have to ensure not to infringe on the privacy rights of your customers. As with any other company, the costs for this are costs you are going to have to calculate with when considering how to do business, and what kinds of business models are viable for you.
I have no idea where technology companies, especially U.S. based ones, get this idea that they should be allowed to infringe upon rights and regulations wherever it gets in the way of doing business simply because what they do is somehow new and cool. That's not how that works. Mercedes-Benz cannot make a car that doesn't follow road safety regulations, even though that may allow for cool things and cheaper cars. And in the same vein, Facebook cannot simply store whatever data they please and sell it to whomever, and Google cannot simply index all things until the end of times, even if all of these things would be very useful for them and possibly allow for neat features - because there are regulations that protect the common interest, which they have to follow.
...because it's time to stop incentivizing poor behavior from Ben Kuchera. No, seriously.
If your company demographics are significantly different from general demographics, you are probably not hiring the best person for the job - probably, your hiring is skewed towards some demographic, for whatever reason (number of canidates, subtle unconcious or even open racism or sexism). If you want to have the best people for the job, you should have a strong interest figuring out if you have such a bias in your hiring and to eliminate it.
Further, diversity is healthy, especially in jobs that require some creativity. Many different people with many different approaches beats a bunch of people who all work roughly the same way.
Clearly! Just go shoot up the Antipiratbyrån offices! That will solve the problem! I mean, that's how people in the US solve their problems all the time, right? That's why the United States are such a model of base democratic decision making: Because everyone has guns!
...most C++ programmers understand C++, yes.
For mathematical fiction, I've found nothing beats macroeconomics textbooks.
The system we used here was actually smart enough to not flag common idioms like this, and also still flag cases where only the variable names and formatting had been changed. Also, our assignments were usually complex enough that there would be enough variation, anyways. Most things about our automated hand-in system sucked, but the plagiarism detector wasn't one of them. If you're curious: https://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/jplag/
Eh, that makes sense for an online poll with write-in. It discourages 4chan et all coming along and flooding the poll suggesting the node should be named something along the lines of "NIGGER COCKS OLOLOL".
I wasn't quite born at the time, but had I been alive, I'd have made sure to tell you! ;)
:q!
All I ever needed.
Yes, and if the english summaries of this were actually done properly, people wouldn't be confused like this. If you can read german, do yourself a favor and read up on this on a german website.
For a civil suit, you need to know who to sue. An IP address only won't fly for that in germany - you need identities. But the ISPs are not giving out customer details to private companies. So what the industry does is filing a criminal suit first, so the police has to investigate, subpoenaing the infringers identity from the ISP. Then, the criminal suit is retracted - as there has been no commercial infringment, so there's no success to be found there - but because of court documentation, the infringers name, address etc. are still known to the RIAAish organization. They then use this information for filing a civil suit. The new policy closes this loophole. You could still be prosecuted for downloading even one song, but there is now pretty much no way to get your IP unless you're _probably_ guilty commercial copyright infringment. Where the line is to be drawn is upon the courts to decide. FYI, downloading an only very recently or not yet released movie _does_ probably count as commercial - as it probably hurts the commercial interested of the rightsholder.
It's overally a quite sane way to go about, given how things are(tm).
Yeah, that'd be Firefox, not KDE.
For which you need people capable of doing that, who have to be paid. That might not cost as much as developing a new circuit from scratch altogether, but it _might_ be enough to make the pirating just not worth it.
Aditionally, at some point, people will just not put up with that nonsense anymore - with HDDVD players refusing to work with projectors or whatever because one little detail in the HDCP chain isn't exactly right, and other horror stories like this.
The alternative is easier nowadays: Piracy - It Just Works. With sites like ThePirateBay and easy to use Bittorrent clients like uTorrent and the likes, and with fast net connections, pirating HD content is seriously becoming easier for average users than getting it in a legit way.
The tiny difference here is that apples FSEvents is basically a daemon following the fsevents device (OS X equivalent of inotify) all the time keeping a log (directory level, as to not bog everything up with a lot of small changes), so the backup app does not have to run in the background all the time. It also notices when the disk changed while not mounted in OS X (In which case it only tells you _that_ the disk changed, I believe. You still have to figure out what changed, exactly yourself).
Jep, that's indeed the big problem. When the network is down (It rarley is, though), people can't do anything (Which isn't _too_ terrible for a school, but still sucks).
Other than that, it's actually pretty fast (When multiple people boot, the system apparently does some interesting broadcasting type of stuff, I don't know, really). It's reasonably fast, ~3min, even when multiple people are booting (Windows2000, mind you, with oldish PCs), logging in takes ~30sec. Laptops are not using this though, might be because there are not enough access points to properly cover everything with reasonable speed.
We restore the partitions on every boot, images are loaded from a central server, your profile is stored on a central server and loaded when you log in. Works very well.
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/whos_ fat_german.html
Have too!
... no more looking for giant thunderstorms to power your time machine or trick terrorists into stealing stuff for you, nowadays you can just buy nuclear material via mail order.
Even 200 or 350 Warheads should be enough to wipe out most of the world, directly or indirectly (Through the chaos that would follow).
One, you call IRC mIRC ONE MORE TIME, you die painfully.
Two, there's actually an IRC command called "WALLOPS" that sends a message to all people who have the +w usermode set, but I doubt that's where they got the name from.
"...but senior managers say a variety of options are on the table, from fly as is to making repairs."
I wonder what those managers would say if they had to fly the shuttle.