Need to actually read the article instead of the usual bullshit over exaggerated summary. He wasn't convicted based on this, His silence on certain questions was simply allowed to be entered as evidence.
The Xbox and PS4 use the SAME CPU, the PS4 has a slightly stronger midrange GPU. Graphical performance between them will be very similar, so you appear to have some contradictions in your statements. Either they are both equivalent to entry level gaming PC's or they are both incredibly powerful architectures. The truth is actually somewhere in the middle, both sit somewhere around the midrange level gaming machines which should put them edging more towards lowend gaming machines by next year, nothing wrong with that for a console as you can push a console much harder due to dedicated fixed hardware architecture that makes it easier for developers to push more out of the hardware, but you are living in a lala land if you believe the PS4 is some amazing new architecture.
I always find this greatly depends on the quality of the code, which varies greatly from well written and documented and just involves some boring reading and tracing through of execution paths too the absolutely appalling where you can sometimes only understand why the fuck they did something when you change the code and see how it breaks. The former I usually rely on a quiet room and lots of caffeine, the later requires swearing, loads of code changes to trace what is actually happening and cursing the original author, their relations and the goat you are sure they must have been molesting while writing the code.
If you are trading with chinese citizens on chinese soil then then yes you are bound by chinese laws for those dealings, actually in most circumstances you are bound by the laws of both countries. It is one of the reasons many of the big multinationals need so many friggen lawyers as every countries laws are slightly different and they are regularly bound by multiple countries laws when trading and selling goods.
I find it weird that people are so against this. In Australia if a crash has occurred and someone has gone to hospital, Your license is checked, your registration for vehicle is checked and you have a mandatory blood test. requiring subpoenas for doing basic investigative work to establish if their is any need to proceed further is common sense, requiring subpoenas and lawyers/courts for this type of thing is idiotic, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive. To me checking cell phone usage should fall under the same basic checks of every accident involving injury.
consumers are their own worst enemy here. If we want things to get more affordable we need to stop giving them excuses. If something is too expensive then "DON'T BUY IT". by pirating it you only give them an excuse to provide more lockdowns and inflate the price more. If they saw an actual decline in consumption based on their price then maybe they would wake up. Either it is worth the money and you want it bad enough to pay for it or you don't touch the damn stuff with a 40 foot pole, there is no valid middle ground if you want things to change.
Stupid arse obnoxious overkill laws... But definitely theft of service, just the punishment is hardly fitting for the crime, if that is how they are prosecuted.
In all fareness the article definitely does seem to imply that as they are claiming 6.6 billion mobile phones in use while claiming only 2.1 billion combined tablet and smartphone sales annually by that time. either they are stating every phone sale is to a new person for the next 4 years or they are claiming every new smartphone will still be in use. If my maths is wrong please feel free to correct me, but from what I read the OP's statement isn't a lie at all.
I myself use 2, but I would definitely consider myself an exception rather than the norm, I don't know of anyone else in my family or circle of friends that uses multiple smartphones and most of my friends work in IT. I can't see how anyone could consider use of multiple smartphones the norm rather than the exception.
Soooo his idea of insurance is collect evidence that he is indeed guilty so that if he is arrested he will more easily be convicted and face even more extensive charges? I don't get it, exactly how is that insurance unless he really wants to ensure he gets his free meals and accommodation for at least an extra 10 years?
ASLR is an important part of defence in depth, but it is by no means a guarantee that you can't be exploited through a vulnerability, it makes it that little bit harder.
then I think you are the one needing citations. Their annual p&l has shown Xbox to be farely profitable now for 3 or 4 years on an annual basis. They probably are still overall in the hole due to RROD and Original Xbox but they have a pretty good and very profitable business their now.
They set an artificial floor price through contracts that ensured they can't be undercut by the competition. Price fixing doesn't just refer to the actual price, it refers to setting/fixing of minimum or maximum prices in an industry as well.
It's a good idea, but it'll also creates a hassle with spammers, bots, scrapers and other malicious users that will use Amazon EC2 to do bad stuff.
The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
In the past malicious amazon ec2 users would at least have to put some effort into learning EC2. Now they can just use the TOR layer instead to use amazon IPs.
We have already blocked EC2 addresses from accessing any of public sites where I work due to the sheer volume of bots and site scrapers coming from there. I would not be surprised if many other places around the world are actively doing the same.
While this isn't exactly shining a pleasant light on the quality of the banks code. It is still very much a storm in a teacup, if you have access to scrape the memory of the computer then you could have gotten access to credentials in a far simpler means such as keylogging. The simple fact is if you can't trust the machine you are using you're already boned and no amount of secure coding from the bank is going to save you. Besides which I believe most of those banks (if not all) do 2 factor auth to transfer funds to accounts you haven't previously transferred too. (at least the 2 of them I use do).
I am not saying it is right or acceptable. but yes people WILL understand why the assault occurred, no they won't agree with it and certainly won't condone it but such is life, if you do rude invasive in your face things to people you are going to find some will snap at you, some will do so verbally and I am sure a small percentage will do so violently. The world is not a perfect place, there are plenty of perfectly legal things you can do that are likely to get you beaten, robbed, raped or murdered, pretending otherwise is simply inviting yourself to a shorter life.
The Xbox started making a profit back in late 2008/2009 and has been ever since. Overall they are still in the whole but not to anywhere near the levels your post makes out. Impossible to get any completely accurate picture though as Xbox division includes lots of other heavy loss makers.
So recording someone is bad, but beating the crap out of someone is socially acceptable?
beating the snot out of someone isn't socially acceptable, but most would understand why you got the snot beaten out of you if you decided to record people that don't want to be recorded, such is life.
Do you see tourists with cameras getting punched in the face often?
however what you see occurring with cyber squatting nowadays is they aren't just registering 1 or 16 addresses, they are registering 1000's of addresses in every conceivable and many inconceivable combinations that they can come up with. I just went through the agony of trying to register a domain for myself and it took me days and days to find an acceptable combination of words and 90% of what I tried wasn't even a real website, just scumbag cybersquatters who I refuse to pay a cent too.
The problem is not the money here, it is the bad precedent it sets, Domain Squatting is a plague that needs to be stamped out, not rewarded. If however it is a fan site or such that was created with a legitimate purpose THEN and only then should MS be paying off the site owner.
I don't agree. There is nothing really unique to virtualization, it's just really interdisciplinary, storage, network engineering, wintel admin, Linux admin, physical datacenter management, etc on these scales. Nothing anyone who has been in IT for awhile and worn a few hats in that time can't be expected to do so reading and then get started.
If he had those discplines and skills then I doubt he would be asking slashdot. Seriously if you need to ask slashdot the question he asked then he is unlikely to have the skillset to implemet ANY of the solutions in a well managed way.
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Need to actually read the article instead of the usual bullshit over exaggerated summary. He wasn't convicted based on this, His silence on certain questions was simply allowed to be entered as evidence.
The Xbox and PS4 use the SAME CPU, the PS4 has a slightly stronger midrange GPU. Graphical performance between them will be very similar, so you appear to have some contradictions in your statements. Either they are both equivalent to entry level gaming PC's or they are both incredibly powerful architectures. The truth is actually somewhere in the middle, both sit somewhere around the midrange level gaming machines which should put them edging more towards lowend gaming machines by next year, nothing wrong with that for a console as you can push a console much harder due to dedicated fixed hardware architecture that makes it easier for developers to push more out of the hardware, but you are living in a lala land if you believe the PS4 is some amazing new architecture.
I always find this greatly depends on the quality of the code, which varies greatly from well written and documented and just involves some boring reading and tracing through of execution paths too the absolutely appalling where you can sometimes only understand why the fuck they did something when you change the code and see how it breaks. The former I usually rely on a quiet room and lots of caffeine, the later requires swearing, loads of code changes to trace what is actually happening and cursing the original author, their relations and the goat you are sure they must have been molesting while writing the code.
Alien vs Predator had a plot?
you don't get the Nvidia 670 config for $700, the quoted configuration is $1800.
If you are trading with chinese citizens on chinese soil then then yes you are bound by chinese laws for those dealings, actually in most circumstances you are bound by the laws of both countries. It is one of the reasons many of the big multinationals need so many friggen lawyers as every countries laws are slightly different and they are regularly bound by multiple countries laws when trading and selling goods.
I find it weird that people are so against this. In Australia if a crash has occurred and someone has gone to hospital, Your license is checked, your registration for vehicle is checked and you have a mandatory blood test. requiring subpoenas for doing basic investigative work to establish if their is any need to proceed further is common sense, requiring subpoenas and lawyers/courts for this type of thing is idiotic, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive. To me checking cell phone usage should fall under the same basic checks of every accident involving injury.
consumers are their own worst enemy here. If we want things to get more affordable we need to stop giving them excuses. If something is too expensive then "DON'T BUY IT". by pirating it you only give them an excuse to provide more lockdowns and inflate the price more. If they saw an actual decline in consumption based on their price then maybe they would wake up. Either it is worth the money and you want it bad enough to pay for it or you don't touch the damn stuff with a 40 foot pole, there is no valid middle ground if you want things to change.
Stupid arse obnoxious overkill laws... But definitely theft of service, just the punishment is hardly fitting for the crime, if that is how they are prosecuted.
In all fareness the article definitely does seem to imply that as they are claiming 6.6 billion mobile phones in use while claiming only 2.1 billion combined tablet and smartphone sales annually by that time. either they are stating every phone sale is to a new person for the next 4 years or they are claiming every new smartphone will still be in use. If my maths is wrong please feel free to correct me, but from what I read the OP's statement isn't a lie at all.
I myself use 2, but I would definitely consider myself an exception rather than the norm, I don't know of anyone else in my family or circle of friends that uses multiple smartphones and most of my friends work in IT. I can't see how anyone could consider use of multiple smartphones the norm rather than the exception.
Soooo his idea of insurance is collect evidence that he is indeed guilty so that if he is arrested he will more easily be convicted and face even more extensive charges? I don't get it, exactly how is that insurance unless he really wants to ensure he gets his free meals and accommodation for at least an extra 10 years?
ASLR is an important part of defence in depth, but it is by no means a guarantee that you can't be exploited through a vulnerability, it makes it that little bit harder.
then I think you are the one needing citations. Their annual p&l has shown Xbox to be farely profitable now for 3 or 4 years on an annual basis. They probably are still overall in the hole due to RROD and Original Xbox but they have a pretty good and very profitable business their now.
You mean someone didn't ban him for life from being involved with writing anything EVER again after the green lantern?
They set an artificial floor price through contracts that ensured they can't be undercut by the competition. Price fixing doesn't just refer to the actual price, it refers to setting/fixing of minimum or maximum prices in an industry as well.
It's a good idea, but it'll also creates a hassle with spammers, bots, scrapers and other malicious users that will use Amazon EC2 to do bad stuff. The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse. In the past malicious amazon ec2 users would at least have to put some effort into learning EC2. Now they can just use the TOR layer instead to use amazon IPs.
We have already blocked EC2 addresses from accessing any of public sites where I work due to the sheer volume of bots and site scrapers coming from there. I would not be surprised if many other places around the world are actively doing the same.
While this isn't exactly shining a pleasant light on the quality of the banks code. It is still very much a storm in a teacup, if you have access to scrape the memory of the computer then you could have gotten access to credentials in a far simpler means such as keylogging. The simple fact is if you can't trust the machine you are using you're already boned and no amount of secure coding from the bank is going to save you. Besides which I believe most of those banks (if not all) do 2 factor auth to transfer funds to accounts you haven't previously transferred too. (at least the 2 of them I use do).
I am not saying it is right or acceptable. but yes people WILL understand why the assault occurred, no they won't agree with it and certainly won't condone it but such is life, if you do rude invasive in your face things to people you are going to find some will snap at you, some will do so verbally and I am sure a small percentage will do so violently. The world is not a perfect place, there are plenty of perfectly legal things you can do that are likely to get you beaten, robbed, raped or murdered, pretending otherwise is simply inviting yourself to a shorter life.
The Xbox started making a profit back in late 2008/2009 and has been ever since. Overall they are still in the whole but not to anywhere near the levels your post makes out. Impossible to get any completely accurate picture though as Xbox division includes lots of other heavy loss makers.
If you took the time to quickly check the law using google glass you have just given prosectors evidence that you commited pre-meditated murder.
So recording someone is bad, but beating the crap out of someone is socially acceptable?
beating the snot out of someone isn't socially acceptable, but most would understand why you got the snot beaten out of you if you decided to record people that don't want to be recorded, such is life.
Do you see tourists with cameras getting punched in the face often?
depending on where you are taking photos YES.
however what you see occurring with cyber squatting nowadays is they aren't just registering 1 or 16 addresses, they are registering 1000's of addresses in every conceivable and many inconceivable combinations that they can come up with. I just went through the agony of trying to register a domain for myself and it took me days and days to find an acceptable combination of words and 90% of what I tried wasn't even a real website, just scumbag cybersquatters who I refuse to pay a cent too.
The problem is not the money here, it is the bad precedent it sets, Domain Squatting is a plague that needs to be stamped out, not rewarded. If however it is a fan site or such that was created with a legitimate purpose THEN and only then should MS be paying off the site owner.
I don't agree. There is nothing really unique to virtualization, it's just really interdisciplinary, storage, network engineering, wintel admin, Linux admin, physical datacenter management, etc on these scales. Nothing anyone who has been in IT for awhile and worn a few hats in that time can't be expected to do so reading and then get started.
If he had those discplines and skills then I doubt he would be asking slashdot. Seriously if you need to ask slashdot the question he asked then he is unlikely to have the skillset to implemet ANY of the solutions in a well managed way.