See this as using both your CPU and your GPU working at brute force cracking a hashed password. Your CPU is used for generic functions like powering the steering and air con, as well as using the surplus power to do some driving the wheels. The real powerhouse is your GPU with 12 parallel cylinders optimized for driving the wheels.
Most are well beyond their "best before" date by the time they get elected. Since it's wasteful not to use them at all, I'd say give them a single chance. At least they'd be voting for something they "truly believe in". Given the current amount of actual change congress and the senate make happen lately, I doubt this limited use will have any true effect on the country at all.
First of all, to avoid neck pain, strained eyes and a generally bad posture, keep the top of all your monitors level with your eyes - or lower.
Looking up will make your eyes blink less often (or not at all) and will make them dry. The neck isn't good at looking up either, and
a "vulture neck" isn't a chick magnet...
Use a good separate keyboard and mouse
A hunch back isn't a chick magnet either, plus you'll ruin your lower back if you put the screen too low and you have to tilt your head down to read it comfortably. I generally put the top of my screen(s) just a bit above eye height since I only glance at the top (title bar) of my windows and the window manager anyway. That way, I can use the screen real estate that I actually look at often on eye height or just below.
Keeping a decent font size and not trying to cram as many letters in as possible helps fatigue when working long days behind the screen. I really hate having to work on a 15" laptop that has a 110dpi screen with a secondary monitor that has 86dpi while run MS Windows. No matter what font size you set, you are fucked by the difference in dpi and the fact that windows and it's apps tend to be designed and tested exclusively on 86dpi screens. Layout gets seriously broken if you change the font size and no matter what you try, you can't set a universal font size that will physically have the same size letter on both screens.
You could be inflicting on copyright constantly without being aware of it. I'm fairly certain that if they wanted to, they could easily get you for 6 violations within one week, while you think you're doing nothing wrong. Monitoring systems that are out to punish people will do so, since everyone breaks laws constantly. The average person in traffic (even walking) will commit enough violations to lose more than their daily pay if they would all be fined. We use the legal system to keep the excesses down. If you put in full monitoring, you will kill usage because everyone using it will get "caught" and penalized. This has happened to every system we've done it with and people put an end to it in almost all the cases as well. Some countries still have some of those systems, but the East German Stasi have disappeared. In the seventies, we all spoke about the "Free West" when we referred to East Germany. in 2013, the government is doing more to control and monitor us than the Stasi did in the seventies in East Germany....
Just because you signed something, the constitution and the law still applies, right? Or is the USA constitution and law so silly that people can sign away their legal rights? If so, the USA needs to changes their laws, fast. In most civilized countries, signing something that would give one or more parties in the contract rights that violate the law, that clause is invalid.
Seriously, it'd be the most boring thing ever. over 95% of what you do wouldn't be interesting to anyone at all, including you. The other 5% will probably only be interesting to people that don't have any good intentions with those recordings, or at least the intentions you are hoping for. The small bit that you are interested in yourself, will probably differ from your memories and the cameras never catch the good bits from the right angle.
It'll be just like Jenna Marbles pooping. Nobody would be interested in that, including herself, apart from a few fetishists and people that want to check she's not pooping in places where it's illegal.
So will the FTC now force all vendors to promptly offer security patches for their devices for at least 3 years after the last one was ever sold? I don't think it's fair if they only take on HTC, they should do this to all vendors, regardless of what OS or number of devices sold.
A music purist doesn't regard your $60 music system as a good alternative. The "power of the magnets" has nothing to do with how good you think it sounds, that's all to do with the DSP inside that will artificially boost the sound by adding a third harmonic component and widening the depth of field by adding negative difference to opposite channels. In fact, if you were to add those "huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago" to that system to replace those awful little cube thingies and you would use proper speaker cable (fine OFC copper) of a little bit more thickness, your $60 system would sound a lot better. The amp in your $60 system is a cheap class D thingy that will horribly deform the sound once you turn it up to volumes that would potentially have neighbor-pissing-off capabilities. The wire adaptor you are using will induce hum if it's anything over 2 or 3 feet long. The analogue bit of your tablet will be positively horrible since it also uses a class D amplifier and your audio resolution will be comparable to about 10 bits on a proper DA converter.
Any audio purist would not get "wireless speakers" since it will take dedicated wifi channels to guarantee phase correct transmission and even then it will be prohibitively hard and expensive to get stuff running. Setting up a proper system when you have moved around your speakers will take at least 15 minutes with an entry level audyssey fully automated configuration so moving around speakers is a no-no. Actually, if you have set up your system properly, you won't need to move the speakers around, since the entire listening area will already have a rather good sound quality. Most audio purists-on-a-budget would probably get something like an entry level receiver that has audyssey DSP functions and HDMI, second hand "huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago" and a raspberry pi to play their MP3s. The raspi will send the music to the receivers 24bit DA converters via HDMI and the cheap tablet that started all this can be used as a remote for the raspi. This all will set you back over $60, but less than $1000 and you'd probably amaze yourself, your visitors and your neighbor with the sound quality.
Word of warning: second hand receivers with audyssey and hdmi often suffer from manufacturing defects like bad solder joints and dried out capacitors. Make sure yours isn't one of the many models effected and if so, make sure that you, as a 2nd hand buyer, will get free repairs from the manufacturer. If you buy new, make sure you live in a country that has proper laws about this so you're covered, or get some form of extended warranty/insurance.
He did call the police and it wasn't a "normal" car, but one adapted for disabled drivers. God knows what ugly hacks they made to his car to make it adapted and what important safety measures were ripped out of the car to do so. Renault has a rather good safety record compared to other cars in the same class and price range and this is not how a "normal" Renault Laguna would handle.
Presumably some form of throttle control/brake single lever control was put on the car to replace the pedals. If you use a single sensor system for that, you can't pick up if the sensor fails. What if the sensor for "decelerate" was broken? He'd be trying to wiggle the lever to get it to work, telling the control unit to accelerate the car every time he did so. This is why cars with electronic throttle control (most modern cars have that) are equipped with dual sensors and an elaborate sensor malfunction detection built into the software. Brakes are often electronically assisted, but still work on hydraulic power and in case of sensor failure, you can still stop the car with the basic hydraulic system connected directly to the pedal. I doubt very much that Renault modified this car for him, so if anything, he should be going after the company that did the modification.
Actually legislation helps a lot. By outlawing spam you have over 99% of companies in countries that have outlawed it not sending spam any more. By outlawing spam, ISPs get a legal reason to filter spam. There have been lawsuits against ISPs in the past from companies claiming large losses due to ISPs filtering their spam and the spam thus not reaching the ISPs subscribers. Yes, even though it's illegal in quite a few countries, it still happens. However, it's substantially less and legislation has helped the technical solutions to stay in place. Both have to work together in this case. The same should apply to privacy laws. If a certain company refuses to obey a countries privacy laws, it should be taken to court and fined so hard that any profit they might have gained will be taken from them plus an extra amount to make sure they or others will never try to do this again. Technical ways to stop tracking people are very hard to implement and the only real solution is to not visit web sites that track you any more. Either that, or have proper legislation in place and active prosecution of companies not following the rules.
Your argument might be valid if that means they wouldn't have to support the other devices regardless. The whole BYOD hype is what MicroSoft is banking on with their tablet concept. Doing so would mean adding a new security layer in your network because you can't trust the end user devices any more. Also, you'll need to put an presentation layer on top of your software that is OS-agnostic so it will display and function on all devices. If it runs on a dirt cheap Android tablet with double the battery life, why bother spending money on a MicroSoft surface? You already spent al your money on implementing BYOD, so there's no cash left for Surface Pro devices. Also, the cheaper Android tablets are just as tax deductable and still cheaper bottom line, so that argument isn't really valid.
Selling patents or the patents belonging to your employer is just as silly. It is "intellectual property". Either you keep it for yourself or you share it. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
This may be a bit of a far stretch, but I believe there is a fair comparison here. Billions of people don't miss their right to vote, or have to choose between two evils. Does that mean democracy is useless and you don't need the right to decide what software you want to run on devices you own? I think not. You make up your own mind. I'm sure the people that don't get to make a fair vote curse their government just as much as the people that do have a proper democracy, just like the jailbreakers are left with the burden of allowing others to run binary code on their device. The difference is they can put their trust in others than just Apple. That may cost them a bit, but it also benefits them because they get more options. Free choice is a double edged sword and it requires care and attention. Would I want to miss it? Never, but I do realize that I have to use it wisely.
I think you can summarize this as we now have something that doesn't require physical changes (PROM) or large electrical fields (FLASH) to contain a state.
RAM used require some form of power; to keep current flowing you need a voltage difference and to keep a voltage difference on FETs there is still some current going because you need it to switch in less than eons.
Now all you need to do is build up a magnetic field (which still uses power) but then the state will remain for a considerable time without having to apply any more power.
You are right in saying that we already had configurable logic arrays, so the novelty in that isn't really there. I wonder what this technology will change in those.
Since this is the second news paper that got seriously pwned, I wonder why they had to hire private help to figure all this out. Isn't this exactly why the USA pays oodles of tax money to the NSA for? Are we going to get a TSA equivalent for the Internet to prevent this happening in the future?
People share lots of files that are not on youtube. Linux Distributions, high quality audio and video (yes, those aren't on youtube) and content that may be illegal to display on youtube, depending on which country you are visiting from or due to youtubes rules. Thinking that some regulated video site with ads can replace people's wish to share whatever they wish to share is very short sighted.
It's not just Facebook. All web sites are giving each other crap about people linking and embedding their content. Twitter is whining about getting cut of because of Vine is crocodile tears. They did the same to Facebook owned Instagram just a few months back. This is Facebook playing by Twitters rules. The web used to be about linking and combining each others strong points, but those days are over now. Companies seem to think that compatibility with others will be their downfall and anyone linking to their app or content must be eliminated by blocking them or suing them into oblivion. News papers want money from Google for news links, APIs are suddenly only to be used for features that some company has not (yet) developed itself.
We need change and competition to keep innovation going. If it wasn't for countries grossly evading and ignoring our environmental, labor and IP regulations, we'd still be in 1970, more or less. Humanity and human beings have built their entire civilization and culture on this embrace and extend thing and blocking yourself of it, will guarantee you will be left behind as a company. How many horse and carriage drivers went jobless because they refused to learn to drive an automobile? Did their protests stop the rest of the world to drive cars? People will eventually find a way around or without your product and you'll be the one with the outdated, non complying setup that everyone left for the competition.
Wait at least 2 months before upgrading. Read other peoples problems and make sure you find the relevant fixes for those before you attempt the upgrade. Every time I did an upgrade in a rush I ended up getting large amounts of bullets in my foot. After 2 months, most stuff that's really broken or breaks too often has been found, people have found ways to get it working and often the package updates from Fedora fix a lot of bugs. Also, all the 3rd party stuff will have ready to run RPMs and repositories set up, so you don't have to jump through flaming hoops to get those upgraded as well.
That is so funny. I was contracted to HP recently to manage Debian servers for their client. HP made us advise the customer to switch to either RedHat or Ubuntu because that had enterprise level support. I'd love to see where HP publicly advertises they support Debian, under what sort of SLA and at what price.
Others have mentioned google. There is yet another model. Having customers pay for features to be developed and implemented is one that for instance PowerDNS uses. The sixth model is using a "free" version that is essentially the same as the paid version, minus a few features. Wine is the free version of a commercial product, Atlassian sells most if not all of their products this way, or as a hybrid where you pay almost nothing for a small number of users but only start paying once you outgrow the limited user license. MySQL used to work this way, I'm sure there are plenty of others as well.
Evidently, there are still creative ways to make money out of FOSS if it's your business to be making it. They may not be used by the (vast) majority of companies in this business, but they do exist and have proven to be successful.
From what I understand, Guy Hingston has been declared bankrupt at some point in time. However, this has been annulled according to his lawyer. This means that "is Guy Hingston bankrupt = No" is the current situation.
A few things are relevant here. First, he did at one time go bankrupt. Yes, that was eventually annulled. However, it was at one time true and in the news and it was about him. Second, can he prove causation here? Correlation is easy to do, but is it actually Google's autocomplete, or is it just that he's been a public figure in all sorts of media because of the CoastJet business failing and he lost reputation because of that? How much customers is suing Google going to cost him? The Streisand effect is strong in this one. At the very least, it's totally in context since it did apply to the guy at one point in time and you can't tell why people are googling him without context, which is exactly what you are doing here.
People visit google and type in his name. If they make their decision to go to another surgeon purely because of autocomplete, they would most likely be making a whole lot of daft decisions based on that. Google is not broadcasting this, buying billboard space and declaring anything. Only people actively searching for exactly this person will get this autocomplete suggestion without any context whatsoever. The context is what you and the surgeon are making of it in your head. You and the surgeon are assuming this is what is costing him money, but I can think of several other, at least as plausible reasons why he's down in income and there is no solid causation proven.
It matters in such a way that you can't absolutely determine that some device was in reach of the APs at a certain time. You could get as far as that a device with a MAC address that would produce the same hash was there, but nothing more. Yes, the likelihood of it being a certain individual would get a lot higher if their CC was used at the same time, but usually just the CC records are proof enough for a judge. You're merely establishing the fact that the person that was using the CC was probably the user of the phone and not someone that cloned his card, not the other way around.
The purpose of this is not to prove someone was actually there, but to track visitors to your store. Nothing more, nothing less. You can of course link this information to all the other profiling you have on them if they make a purchase or in some other way or form identify themselves to you sufficiently. Most large chains have extensive profiles on their customers. The case where it was published that Target has (ghost) profiles on you and can predict you're pregnant from just a few purchases you make in your 8th week or so is well known. Linking this sort of information will help these big data crunchers sell you even more stuff and I see them use this sort of technology, just like they would do with BlueTooth. If it'd be legal to have CDMA/GSM/HSDPA or whatever phone protocol receivers, they'd be putting those up too.
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See this as using both your CPU and your GPU working at brute force cracking a hashed password. Your CPU is used for generic functions like powering the steering and air con, as well as using the surplus power to do some driving the wheels. The real powerhouse is your GPU with 12 parallel cylinders optimized for driving the wheels.
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Most are well beyond their "best before" date by the time they get elected. Since it's wasteful not to use them at all, I'd say give them a single chance. At least they'd be voting for something they "truly believe in". Given the current amount of actual change congress and the senate make happen lately, I doubt this limited use will have any true effect on the country at all.
First of all, to avoid neck pain, strained eyes and a generally bad posture, keep the top of all your monitors level with your eyes - or lower. Looking up will make your eyes blink less often (or not at all) and will make them dry. The neck isn't good at looking up either, and a "vulture neck" isn't a chick magnet...
Use a good separate keyboard and mouse
A hunch back isn't a chick magnet either, plus you'll ruin your lower back if you put the screen too low and you have to tilt your head down to read it comfortably. I generally put the top of my screen(s) just a bit above eye height since I only glance at the top (title bar) of my windows and the window manager anyway. That way, I can use the screen real estate that I actually look at often on eye height or just below.
Keeping a decent font size and not trying to cram as many letters in as possible helps fatigue when working long days behind the screen. I really hate having to work on a 15" laptop that has a 110dpi screen with a secondary monitor that has 86dpi while run MS Windows. No matter what font size you set, you are fucked by the difference in dpi and the fact that windows and it's apps tend to be designed and tested exclusively on 86dpi screens. Layout gets seriously broken if you change the font size and no matter what you try, you can't set a universal font size that will physically have the same size letter on both screens.
You could be inflicting on copyright constantly without being aware of it. I'm fairly certain that if they wanted to, they could easily get you for 6 violations within one week, while you think you're doing nothing wrong. Monitoring systems that are out to punish people will do so, since everyone breaks laws constantly. The average person in traffic (even walking) will commit enough violations to lose more than their daily pay if they would all be fined. We use the legal system to keep the excesses down. If you put in full monitoring, you will kill usage because everyone using it will get "caught" and penalized. This has happened to every system we've done it with and people put an end to it in almost all the cases as well. Some countries still have some of those systems, but the East German Stasi have disappeared. In the seventies, we all spoke about the "Free West" when we referred to East Germany. in 2013, the government is doing more to control and monitor us than the Stasi did in the seventies in East Germany....
Just because you signed something, the constitution and the law still applies, right? Or is the USA constitution and law so silly that people can sign away their legal rights? If so, the USA needs to changes their laws, fast. In most civilized countries, signing something that would give one or more parties in the contract rights that violate the law, that clause is invalid.
Jenna Marbles pooping
Seriously, it'd be the most boring thing ever. over 95% of what you do wouldn't be interesting to anyone at all, including you. The other 5% will probably only be interesting to people that don't have any good intentions with those recordings, or at least the intentions you are hoping for. The small bit that you are interested in yourself, will probably differ from your memories and the cameras never catch the good bits from the right angle.
It'll be just like Jenna Marbles pooping. Nobody would be interested in that, including herself, apart from a few fetishists and people that want to check she's not pooping in places where it's illegal.
So will the FTC now force all vendors to promptly offer security patches for their devices for at least 3 years after the last one was ever sold? I don't think it's fair if they only take on HTC, they should do this to all vendors, regardless of what OS or number of devices sold.
A music purist doesn't regard your $60 music system as a good alternative. The "power of the magnets" has nothing to do with how good you think it sounds, that's all to do with the DSP inside that will artificially boost the sound by adding a third harmonic component and widening the depth of field by adding negative difference to opposite channels. In fact, if you were to add those "huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago" to that system to replace those awful little cube thingies and you would use proper speaker cable (fine OFC copper) of a little bit more thickness, your $60 system would sound a lot better. The amp in your $60 system is a cheap class D thingy that will horribly deform the sound once you turn it up to volumes that would potentially have neighbor-pissing-off capabilities. The wire adaptor you are using will induce hum if it's anything over 2 or 3 feet long. The analogue bit of your tablet will be positively horrible since it also uses a class D amplifier and your audio resolution will be comparable to about 10 bits on a proper DA converter.
Any audio purist would not get "wireless speakers" since it will take dedicated wifi channels to guarantee phase correct transmission and even then it will be prohibitively hard and expensive to get stuff running. Setting up a proper system when you have moved around your speakers will take at least 15 minutes with an entry level audyssey fully automated configuration so moving around speakers is a no-no. Actually, if you have set up your system properly, you won't need to move the speakers around, since the entire listening area will already have a rather good sound quality. Most audio purists-on-a-budget would probably get something like an entry level receiver that has audyssey DSP functions and HDMI, second hand "huge expensive speakers from 20 years ago" and a raspberry pi to play their MP3s. The raspi will send the music to the receivers 24bit DA converters via HDMI and the cheap tablet that started all this can be used as a remote for the raspi. This all will set you back over $60, but less than $1000 and you'd probably amaze yourself, your visitors and your neighbor with the sound quality.
Word of warning: second hand receivers with audyssey and hdmi often suffer from manufacturing defects like bad solder joints and dried out capacitors. Make sure yours isn't one of the many models effected and if so, make sure that you, as a 2nd hand buyer, will get free repairs from the manufacturer. If you buy new, make sure you live in a country that has proper laws about this so you're covered, or get some form of extended warranty/insurance.
He did call the police and it wasn't a "normal" car, but one adapted for disabled drivers. God knows what ugly hacks they made to his car to make it adapted and what important safety measures were ripped out of the car to do so. Renault has a rather good safety record compared to other cars in the same class and price range and this is not how a "normal" Renault Laguna would handle.
Presumably some form of throttle control/brake single lever control was put on the car to replace the pedals. If you use a single sensor system for that, you can't pick up if the sensor fails. What if the sensor for "decelerate" was broken? He'd be trying to wiggle the lever to get it to work, telling the control unit to accelerate the car every time he did so. This is why cars with electronic throttle control (most modern cars have that) are equipped with dual sensors and an elaborate sensor malfunction detection built into the software. Brakes are often electronically assisted, but still work on hydraulic power and in case of sensor failure, you can still stop the car with the basic hydraulic system connected directly to the pedal. I doubt very much that Renault modified this car for him, so if anything, he should be going after the company that did the modification.
Actually legislation helps a lot. By outlawing spam you have over 99% of companies in countries that have outlawed it not sending spam any more. By outlawing spam, ISPs get a legal reason to filter spam. There have been lawsuits against ISPs in the past from companies claiming large losses due to ISPs filtering their spam and the spam thus not reaching the ISPs subscribers. Yes, even though it's illegal in quite a few countries, it still happens. However, it's substantially less and legislation has helped the technical solutions to stay in place. Both have to work together in this case. The same should apply to privacy laws. If a certain company refuses to obey a countries privacy laws, it should be taken to court and fined so hard that any profit they might have gained will be taken from them plus an extra amount to make sure they or others will never try to do this again. Technical ways to stop tracking people are very hard to implement and the only real solution is to not visit web sites that track you any more. Either that, or have proper legislation in place and active prosecution of companies not following the rules.
Your argument might be valid if that means they wouldn't have to support the other devices regardless. The whole BYOD hype is what MicroSoft is banking on with their tablet concept. Doing so would mean adding a new security layer in your network because you can't trust the end user devices any more. Also, you'll need to put an presentation layer on top of your software that is OS-agnostic so it will display and function on all devices. If it runs on a dirt cheap Android tablet with double the battery life, why bother spending money on a MicroSoft surface? You already spent al your money on implementing BYOD, so there's no cash left for Surface Pro devices. Also, the cheaper Android tablets are just as tax deductable and still cheaper bottom line, so that argument isn't really valid.
Selling patents or the patents belonging to your employer is just as silly. It is "intellectual property". Either you keep it for yourself or you share it. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
This may be a bit of a far stretch, but I believe there is a fair comparison here. Billions of people don't miss their right to vote, or have to choose between two evils. Does that mean democracy is useless and you don't need the right to decide what software you want to run on devices you own? I think not. You make up your own mind. I'm sure the people that don't get to make a fair vote curse their government just as much as the people that do have a proper democracy, just like the jailbreakers are left with the burden of allowing others to run binary code on their device. The difference is they can put their trust in others than just Apple. That may cost them a bit, but it also benefits them because they get more options. Free choice is a double edged sword and it requires care and attention. Would I want to miss it? Never, but I do realize that I have to use it wisely.
I think you can summarize this as we now have something that doesn't require physical changes (PROM) or large electrical fields (FLASH) to contain a state.
RAM used require some form of power; to keep current flowing you need a voltage difference and to keep a voltage difference on FETs there is still some current going because you need it to switch in less than eons.
Now all you need to do is build up a magnetic field (which still uses power) but then the state will remain for a considerable time without having to apply any more power.
You are right in saying that we already had configurable logic arrays, so the novelty in that isn't really there. I wonder what this technology will change in those.
Since this is the second news paper that got seriously pwned, I wonder why they had to hire private help to figure all this out. Isn't this exactly why the USA pays oodles of tax money to the NSA for? Are we going to get a TSA equivalent for the Internet to prevent this happening in the future?
People share lots of files that are not on youtube. Linux Distributions, high quality audio and video (yes, those aren't on youtube) and content that may be illegal to display on youtube, depending on which country you are visiting from or due to youtubes rules. Thinking that some regulated video site with ads can replace people's wish to share whatever they wish to share is very short sighted.
It's not just Facebook. All web sites are giving each other crap about people linking and embedding their content. Twitter is whining about getting cut of because of Vine is crocodile tears. They did the same to Facebook owned Instagram just a few months back. This is Facebook playing by Twitters rules. The web used to be about linking and combining each others strong points, but those days are over now. Companies seem to think that compatibility with others will be their downfall and anyone linking to their app or content must be eliminated by blocking them or suing them into oblivion. News papers want money from Google for news links, APIs are suddenly only to be used for features that some company has not (yet) developed itself.
We need change and competition to keep innovation going. If it wasn't for countries grossly evading and ignoring our environmental, labor and IP regulations, we'd still be in 1970, more or less. Humanity and human beings have built their entire civilization and culture on this embrace and extend thing and blocking yourself of it, will guarantee you will be left behind as a company. How many horse and carriage drivers went jobless because they refused to learn to drive an automobile? Did their protests stop the rest of the world to drive cars? People will eventually find a way around or without your product and you'll be the one with the outdated, non complying setup that everyone left for the competition.
Sort of working version http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=147741
The remote part works for me, most of the times. It's rough though
Wait at least 2 months before upgrading. Read other peoples problems and make sure you find the relevant fixes for those before you attempt the upgrade. Every time I did an upgrade in a rush I ended up getting large amounts of bullets in my foot. After 2 months, most stuff that's really broken or breaks too often has been found, people have found ways to get it working and often the package updates from Fedora fix a lot of bugs. Also, all the 3rd party stuff will have ready to run RPMs and repositories set up, so you don't have to jump through flaming hoops to get those upgraded as well.
That is so funny. I was contracted to HP recently to manage Debian servers for their client. HP made us advise the customer to switch to either RedHat or Ubuntu because that had enterprise level support. I'd love to see where HP publicly advertises they support Debian, under what sort of SLA and at what price.
Others have mentioned google. There is yet another model. Having customers pay for features to be developed and implemented is one that for instance PowerDNS uses. The sixth model is using a "free" version that is essentially the same as the paid version, minus a few features. Wine is the free version of a commercial product, Atlassian sells most if not all of their products this way, or as a hybrid where you pay almost nothing for a small number of users but only start paying once you outgrow the limited user license. MySQL used to work this way, I'm sure there are plenty of others as well.
Evidently, there are still creative ways to make money out of FOSS if it's your business to be making it. They may not be used by the (vast) majority of companies in this business, but they do exist and have proven to be successful.
From what I understand, Guy Hingston has been declared bankrupt at some point in time. However, this has been annulled according to his lawyer. This means that "is Guy Hingston bankrupt = No" is the current situation.
A few things are relevant here. First, he did at one time go bankrupt. Yes, that was eventually annulled. However, it was at one time true and in the news and it was about him. Second, can he prove causation here? Correlation is easy to do, but is it actually Google's autocomplete, or is it just that he's been a public figure in all sorts of media because of the CoastJet business failing and he lost reputation because of that? How much customers is suing Google going to cost him? The Streisand effect is strong in this one. At the very least, it's totally in context since it did apply to the guy at one point in time and you can't tell why people are googling him without context, which is exactly what you are doing here.
People visit google and type in his name. If they make their decision to go to another surgeon purely because of autocomplete, they would most likely be making a whole lot of daft decisions based on that. Google is not broadcasting this, buying billboard space and declaring anything. Only people actively searching for exactly this person will get this autocomplete suggestion without any context whatsoever. The context is what you and the surgeon are making of it in your head. You and the surgeon are assuming this is what is costing him money, but I can think of several other, at least as plausible reasons why he's down in income and there is no solid causation proven.
It matters in such a way that you can't absolutely determine that some device was in reach of the APs at a certain time. You could get as far as that a device with a MAC address that would produce the same hash was there, but nothing more. Yes, the likelihood of it being a certain individual would get a lot higher if their CC was used at the same time, but usually just the CC records are proof enough for a judge. You're merely establishing the fact that the person that was using the CC was probably the user of the phone and not someone that cloned his card, not the other way around.
The purpose of this is not to prove someone was actually there, but to track visitors to your store. Nothing more, nothing less. You can of course link this information to all the other profiling you have on them if they make a purchase or in some other way or form identify themselves to you sufficiently. Most large chains have extensive profiles on their customers. The case where it was published that Target has (ghost) profiles on you and can predict you're pregnant from just a few purchases you make in your 8th week or so is well known. Linking this sort of information will help these big data crunchers sell you even more stuff and I see them use this sort of technology, just like they would do with BlueTooth. If it'd be legal to have CDMA/GSM/HSDPA or whatever phone protocol receivers, they'd be putting those up too.