Either they need to take better care of the data, or they need to put tighter controls on who has access to the data.
ding ding ding! we have a winner. Although it was funny, the way you stated that as an OR question. The encryption issue will help solve the problem of the stolen laptop. But not necessarily the problem of misused/leaked data. This is a typical government IT kneejerk reaction to something that is best addressed by proper use, practice and policy, rather than the opted for expensive technical fix. Well, at least someone's going to make a boatload of money.
being a fellow SC user, over the years you see the shift in tactics. I may be forgetting something, but it used to be identifiable 'spamfriendly' ISP's in the US, Europe, and Asia. then pressure moved most of the recognizable ISP's to Asia (mostly mainland china from my experience). At that point, a huge portion of the spam were being directed through open relays all over the place. It seemed to be that way for a long time, until mail server admins got clued into people abusing their systems. Now, it seems almost everything has shifted to distributed botnets. Why spend money on a dirty ISP when there are millions of comcast and aol subscribers who'll send your spam for free.
The SpamCop whack-a-mole game gets harder and harder...
let the fake slashdot lawyers chime in to correct me, but I'm fairly certain that you don't have to get the whole file to be infringing. even a portion of the file is infringing distribution. now, how small? don't know. But if you're talking about a movie, my guess would be far less than 75%. even a 30 second segment of a 2.5 hour movie could be considered infringing if the copyright owner wanted to consider it that way. That's only 0.3%. Also, you shared the movie regardless of the number of other sharers, so the intent is there along with the act. Again, intent might or might not matter depending on whether your jurisdiction considers it criminal or civil, but as I said before, I still think intent to distribute is inherent in using the protocol unless you make provisions to avoid sharing.
it sets a precedent for downloading-via-BT being the equivalent of distribution.
Last I checked, since the protocol works such that having that file in that folder implies consent to upload the file, then yes, it is the equivalent of distribution. The question is only whether or not the distribution is illegal. It seems hard to argue that distribution takes place unless you can prove that you somehow turned off that feature.
civilization has allowed people with weaker traits to survive and procreate, propegating the weak trait... rather than being eaten by the dinosaurs they coexisted with (yippee creationist museum)
you're partially right. The end result will be a little bit different. Commercial blocks may/will devalue. This will affect the stations' bottom line. They may see bleak financial outlooks as a result. Lack of any changes very well may end up with stations filing for bankruptcy. If that happens, stockholders should really begin to question how the heck they ever let a bunch of morons run the company.
Since a corporation is a pretend/legal version of a real being, let's not forget that like real live beings, it will have a neat little tendency toward Self-Preservation. Adapt-or-die. Stations will somehow have to change some aspect of how they collect revenue or add advertiser value to their channels. Previously, all they had to do to add to channel advertising value was get more people watching the shows. That is changing. They now have to somehow hook people into watching the commercials.
How to do that? dunno. The only event I know of where people almost always catch the commercials is the Superbowl. They're more entertaining. Their new. There's a buzz. So, method one is have more entertaining, varied commercials. (If it's funny once, it's not the 10th time.)
Second, you start tying the commercial into the show. The best example I saw of this was an episode of Las Vegas before the Winter Olympics, where something happened to a group of guys in the casino, they started screaming about taking a roadtrip to wherever it was, and before I realized it, I was about 1 minute into a commercial for either the olympics, an SUV, or both. Can't remember. Key is they got creative and blurred the transition. Unfortunately, that can cause confusion, but they gotta figure that out.
It will force change. Change can be good. There may be collateral damage. Such is life in the business world.
hmmmm... would DMCA even apply here? don't think so. This reverse engineering wouldn't seem to be directed at a copyright protection measure. But I haven't read the DMCA, so not sure.
so... the patent was only granted in 2003. It's now 2006. I would tend to give them the benefit of the doubt that 3 years is about the right amount of time to investigate (reverse engineer, if need be) whether a rival's technology is infringing, attempt to secure a licensing agreement, and then, after that, file infringement suits. On a 17 year patent, 3 years is young. It's not like they filed on some vague idea 14 years ago that wasn't even implementable then, and now that something looks close enough to what they cooked up back then they start suing. THAT would be troll-ish.
hmmmm... duct tape wallet here I come.
and no, I won't be silly enough to use actual duct tape. Only the foil backed, NASHUA approved stuff for me!
I mean c'mon, the basic duct tape isn't even recommended for use on ducts...
Makes me wonder about Duck brand tape though...
dictionary.com:
median
noun
3. Arithmetic, Statistics. the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers: 4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.
average:
3. Statistics. see arithmetic mean.
arithmetic mean
Statistics. the mean obtained by adding several quantities together and dividing the sum by the number of quantities: the arithmetic mean of 1, 5, 2, and 8 is 4.
(Also called average)
Since the OP is attempting to be humorous with the mathematical usage of the word average, it would be nice if it was at least correct. it was not. Unless you could demonstrate that in a large enough population the mean and median approach the same value, then it would be correct.
You should get 5 points for being right WHEN you are right. But you aren't. so can it.
the Supreme Court has "recognized the fact that`[t]he writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.'
habeas corpus? we don't need no stinking habeas corpus...
me too. I don't expect to need more power from my next computer (well, Vista aside). BUT I wouldn't mind if it USED less power to do the same amount of work, and the smaller transistors can help with that.
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and I won't even go into the usage issue with the word "one's"
the non-standard software install request is still working through the approval chain...
stuck under the keyboard on behind the monitor for security.
actually, we contract that out.
Either they need to take better care of the data, or they need to put tighter controls on who has access to the data.
ding ding ding! we have a winner. Although it was funny, the way you stated that as an OR question. The encryption issue will help solve the problem of the stolen laptop. But not necessarily the problem of misused/leaked data. This is a typical government IT kneejerk reaction to something that is best addressed by proper use, practice and policy, rather than the opted for expensive technical fix. Well, at least someone's going to make a boatload of money.
being a fellow SC user, over the years you see the shift in tactics. I may be forgetting something, but it used to be identifiable 'spamfriendly' ISP's in the US, Europe, and Asia. then pressure moved most of the recognizable ISP's to Asia (mostly mainland china from my experience). At that point, a huge portion of the spam were being directed through open relays all over the place. It seemed to be that way for a long time, until mail server admins got clued into people abusing their systems. Now, it seems almost everything has shifted to distributed botnets. Why spend money on a dirty ISP when there are millions of comcast and aol subscribers who'll send your spam for free. The SpamCop whack-a-mole game gets harder and harder...
let the fake slashdot lawyers chime in to correct me, but I'm fairly certain that you don't have to get the whole file to be infringing. even a portion of the file is infringing distribution. now, how small? don't know. But if you're talking about a movie, my guess would be far less than 75%. even a 30 second segment of a 2.5 hour movie could be considered infringing if the copyright owner wanted to consider it that way. That's only 0.3%. Also, you shared the movie regardless of the number of other sharers, so the intent is there along with the act. Again, intent might or might not matter depending on whether your jurisdiction considers it criminal or civil, but as I said before, I still think intent to distribute is inherent in using the protocol unless you make provisions to avoid sharing.
Last I checked, since the protocol works such that having that file in that folder implies consent to upload the file, then yes, it is the equivalent of distribution. The question is only whether or not the distribution is illegal. It seems hard to argue that distribution takes place unless you can prove that you somehow turned off that feature.
three cheers for the US Political duopoly!
civilization has allowed people with weaker traits to survive and procreate, propegating the weak trait... rather than being eaten by the dinosaurs they coexisted with (yippee creationist museum)
depends what network you're on. If yours lets you use J2ME, you good. If it's BREW only, I'm sure no adblockers will be allowed on the network.
Three cheers for platform control!
Maniac mansion, my friend. Maniac Mansion.
Since a corporation is a pretend/legal version of a real being, let's not forget that like real live beings, it will have a neat little tendency toward Self-Preservation. Adapt-or-die. Stations will somehow have to change some aspect of how they collect revenue or add advertiser value to their channels. Previously, all they had to do to add to channel advertising value was get more people watching the shows. That is changing. They now have to somehow hook people into watching the commercials.
How to do that? dunno. The only event I know of where people almost always catch the commercials is the Superbowl. They're more entertaining. Their new. There's a buzz. So, method one is have more entertaining, varied commercials. (If it's funny once, it's not the 10th time.)
Second, you start tying the commercial into the show. The best example I saw of this was an episode of Las Vegas before the Winter Olympics, where something happened to a group of guys in the casino, they started screaming about taking a roadtrip to wherever it was, and before I realized it, I was about 1 minute into a commercial for either the olympics, an SUV, or both. Can't remember. Key is they got creative and blurred the transition. Unfortunately, that can cause confusion, but they gotta figure that out.
It will force change. Change can be good. There may be collateral damage. Such is life in the business world.
grinding... heh
careful, sounds like you're hinting at fraud there...
hmmmm... would DMCA even apply here? don't think so. This reverse engineering wouldn't seem to be directed at a copyright protection measure. But I haven't read the DMCA, so not sure.
so... the patent was only granted in 2003. It's now 2006. I would tend to give them the benefit of the doubt that 3 years is about the right amount of time to investigate (reverse engineer, if need be) whether a rival's technology is infringing, attempt to secure a licensing agreement, and then, after that, file infringement suits. On a 17 year patent, 3 years is young. It's not like they filed on some vague idea 14 years ago that wasn't even implementable then, and now that something looks close enough to what they cooked up back then they start suing. THAT would be troll-ish.
hmmmm... duct tape wallet here I come.
and no, I won't be silly enough to use actual duct tape. Only the foil backed, NASHUA approved stuff for me!
I mean c'mon, the basic duct tape isn't even recommended for use on ducts...
Makes me wonder about Duck brand tape though...
A montage of failed flying machines from the 1920's
That flying gimmick will never take off :)
median
noun
3. Arithmetic, Statistics. the middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers: 4 is the median of 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.
average:
3. Statistics. see arithmetic mean.
arithmetic mean
Statistics. the mean obtained by adding several quantities together and dividing the sum by the number of quantities: the arithmetic mean of 1, 5, 2, and 8 is 4.
(Also called average)
Since the OP is attempting to be humorous with the mathematical usage of the word average, it would be nice if it was at least correct. it was not. Unless you could demonstrate that in a large enough population the mean and median approach the same value, then it would be correct.
You should get 5 points for being right WHEN you are right. But you aren't. so can it.
think DeVito and Schwarzenegger
Once again, the problem is not the blocklist. It's the contract forcing you to stay in business with a company providing poor service.
Civ 1 will pwn all of the others simply due to reduced system overhead.
habeas corpus? we don't need no stinking habeas corpus...
this country's gonna be just fine.
me too. I don't expect to need more power from my next computer (well, Vista aside). BUT I wouldn't mind if it USED less power to do the same amount of work, and the smaller transistors can help with that.