As far as I understand, there will not be a secondary market for/24's, since according to the rules if someone (say, Interop) would try to sell/24's, then it's a breach of their agreement, it shows that they don't "need" the adresses, and the whole/8 may be simply taken from them w/o compensation and redistributed to others as currently
FB games generally don't rely on advertising or selling your details to make a profit. It may be a nice icing on the cake to get a bonus for the VP of monetization, but the lion's share usually comes from direct user payments for various bonuses or pretty pixels. In a decent FB game at least some 1-2% of players become customers, and if you get multiple millions of active players (as many FB games do) then it easily adds up to very nice amounts.
Zynga earns more than a million dollars per day. It doesn't come from placing crappy ads in their games or from selling their customers to others - heck, they are spending lots of money in advertising elsewhere to get players to their games, they would be probably more interested in buying customer data than selling it.
They care about their local laws and business contracts. Let's suppose I'm in USA and have an agreement with a company in USA that allows them to distribute my content only within countries A, B and C. If they I see them distributing it worldwide with no restrictions at all, then my lawyers start counting money already.
It doesn't matter if the press is "free" - it's the journalists duty to do it even if the government forbids it and fights it.
Like journalists in Russia were reporting on police brutality despite very real death threats, like Thailand journalists reporting on issues which may offend the king, and in many other places. Even in the Pentagon papers there were injunctions filed by the gov't to forbid publication and arrests made, but still the journalists did it - if they don't do it now, they are just copywriters, not journalists.
It means that I control the hardware (motherboard) which does the identity checking - and for any practical purpose of identification, it means that I can force it to claim that "yes, I have a NAND chip with xxxx pattern" to anyone who wants to identify my harware - say, a software program installer or a networked device. It's just like the processor ID numbers, which were embedded in the silicon and 'unchangeable'.
It's just like spoofing a hardware dongle - since the consumer OS isn't "trusted", almost anything which goes through it can be spoofed.
The only way how I imagine this feature somehow working would be someone having a secure/trusted physical device outside of your control, where they ask you to put in your flash-memory, like a chip-card reader.
Case in point - Pentagon Papers about Vietnam, classified, leaked, published by major newspapers despite serious government objections. Back then, courts approved the journalist right to publish such documents. Has it been forgotten already?
We don't have laws to prevent distribution such secrets - instead, we have specific laws to protect the anonymous journalist sources, especially designed for cases such as this - because the society right to know information and freely talk about it stands above the government desire to 'protect' anything.
Copies of information is not stolen property in any way. No U.S. government documents are in possession of wikileaks, and as far as we know, none of this has been obtained by breaking&entering secure premises. If some individual leaks a secret (government classified data or cocacola secret recipe) that was available to him, then he may be liable for breaching whatever was binding him and requiring not to disclose it; but there is nothing prohibiting free citizens from distributing it further, it falls under first amendment, as per court cases regarding the same Pentagon Papers for example.
The problem with wikileaks is that they are having to do the job that "real" journalists in major news agencies would be supposed to do, but as they are failing the society, then amateurs such as Assange have to do it, and they sometimes do it in a half-assed way. Why are the leak sources not going to the reporters to NY Times or BBC? It's just a symptom that they are failing in their eagerness to dig the truth, talk to possible informants, and take brave steps to guarantee that their sources would be protected. *That* would be journalism, instead of republishing bigcorp or government press releases.
Thinking of settlements in percentages is a problem.
Litigation expenses aren't directly related to the dispute amount in any way. Say, if you have a dispute over a $1000 claim, and both sides really can't agree, want someone else (the court system) to resolve their dispute and get "adequate representation", then it will surely cost far more than $1000, you will lose even if you win.
If you have a dispute over $10, then if you do anything at all, even your own time cost + phone or mail expenses will be far larger than the dispute amount.
The problem is not with the percentage, the problem is that the court system is structured in a way where properly handling a class action lawsuit takes an extremely large amount of time and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is partly an unavoidable property of the anglosaxon common law legal system, where there is an almost boundless mass of documents that may influence litigation, and agreements are overdetailed to hundreds of pages as, essentially, in contract disputes the specific agreement lettering is the rule. Most other countries use civil law systems, which has a much lower 'ceiling' on how much lawyers need to do to consider their work fully exhausted, and don't suffer from such excesses - but there seems to be no chance at all in changing this legal situation in USA in this century - it isn't a problem for all the rich old men holding power, and they even benefit from it. Heck, most of politicians are lawyers by trade.
Good always wins in the end. Ergo, whoever won was the good guy.
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What do you mean 'is too high cut it down' ? Would it be a benefit to apple ?
That gap feels intentional and most likely will stay that way.
They don't want to compete at all for price-sensitive pro-users - there is no profit in it, it just cuts down margins to the level of dell/others; they can keep all the guys for whom apple features are valuable and simply give up the price-sensitive segment to wintel vendors to fight over the scraps.
They definitely do not want pro-users to consider the cheaper apple consumer stuff as a good enough option, they want the pro-users to feel that they really need to buy the pro-version at all costs. They don't want consumers to upgrade their stuff much as well - consumers won't ever agree to pay a large premium up-front for 'upgradeability', but are generally quite agreeable to replace usable hardware with the new shiny, which is good for sales.
Mod parent up above the +5 - quite a few of tech-related topics would fall into this category, but they are of quite separate nature and would be best served in a separate category that some users can filter out and others can put them in front page.
Track the dialog-boxes that are shown on screen and your mouse clicks from a separate application that is (hopefully) invulnerable to whatever the webpage can do to your browser.
If the standard dialog-box was not shown on screen and the mouse didn't click there, then block the download.
Soviet Russia was definitely worse; at the age of Stalin the guy would have been dead already; and his family would be sent to labor camps already back then, instead of letting them walk free and think improper thoughts.
For specialty needs, if your device needs to function at 500 degrees, then a very costly 500khz processor may be quite ok, only the longevity needs to be fixed. You'll anyway write specialized, tiny, optimized code to run on it and the hardware controlled by the chip may easily be valuable enough.
Think small chips on spacecraft, where the sunny side may get very hot; or tiny controllers attached to the burning part of missiles (from ICBM's to simple air-to-air) - the temperature capabilities may easily allow it to be used somewhere where silicon is not an option, and there will be interested buyers.
Why can't the county tax the residents and give the money to the city?
Providing a fire service doesn't have to mean you have to contruct a building and pay salaries, you can contract it to a skilled third party, and surprise surprise - there is a nearby fire department that can offer such coverage for x $ monthly. And it might quite realistically be cheaper than 75$/house in this way due to simpler process, skipping billing, etc - in effect, a 'volume discount' for this 'purchase'.
True, if you hide the research results, then you don't benefit the society and don't deserve the credit. The value is not in ideas themselves, but in their mass availability.
Regardless of what is negotiated, Senate is the one that can simply not sign the treaty once it's done. So if they would really say that they are dropping out (which they aren't at the moment) then there would be no point in negotiating with Mexico.
Interesting - I also get the same feeling; but conventional wisdom (newspapers, magazines) has decided the exactly opposite way, splitting the text into narrow columns for easier reading..
The widescreen lcd's now perfecly fit 2 life-sized A4 pages side-by side.
The vertical size you get for $x isn't shrinking - it's growing, but simply the horizontal is growing even faster. Don't switch from 1600x1200 to 1680x1050 - switch to 1920x1280.
Wikileaks doesn't harm western democracies - they do inconvenience the administrations, but the whole concept of leaks are great for the society, citizens, and especially the democracy part; silencing leaks would harm western democracy and destroy the whole meaning of it. I don't care about Chinese government cheating their citizens - that's their problem, I want to be informed about the failures and lies of *my* officials that I elected and that affect my country. I don't want to improve country reputation by simply hiding unflattering things, I want to improve the reputation by fixing the faults. Lying to ourselves about bad stuff not happening is the domain of North Korea, not the western world.
And what do you mean about "journalistic discretion" ? The big newspapers that are following your so-called "journalistic discretion" shouldn't be allowed to call themselves journalists because of this anymore. In earlier times they did proper journalism, dug up the dirt themselves, interviewed informants, cared about their reputation of protecting the anonymity of their sources and fought for the right of publishing facts for the society, even and especially if the goverment claims to be harmed by the facts - for example, the Pentagon papers case. Now wikileaks has picked up the slack where the "journalists" are failing their role in society, and it's a shame - but a shame for the publishing industry.
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As far as I understand, there will not be a secondary market for /24's, since according to the rules if someone (say, Interop) would try to sell /24's, then it's a breach of their agreement, it shows that they don't "need" the adresses, and the whole /8 may be simply taken from them w/o compensation and redistributed to others as currently
FB games generally don't rely on advertising or selling your details to make a profit. It may be a nice icing on the cake to get a bonus for the VP of monetization, but the lion's share usually comes from direct user payments for various bonuses or pretty pixels. In a decent FB game at least some 1-2% of players become customers, and if you get multiple millions of active players (as many FB games do) then it easily adds up to very nice amounts.
Zynga earns more than a million dollars per day. It doesn't come from placing crappy ads in their games or from selling their customers to others - heck, they are spending lots of money in advertising elsewhere to get players to their games, they would be probably more interested in buying customer data than selling it.
They care about their local laws and business contracts.
Let's suppose I'm in USA and have an agreement with a company in USA that allows them to distribute my content only within countries A, B and C. If they I see them distributing it worldwide with no restrictions at all, then my lawyers start counting money already.
How do they decide which books to sell and which have been taken off the storage registries and which have been sold?
They have such the list in their book registry before they put up the sale notice, they should just post the table.
It doesn't matter if the press is "free" - it's the journalists duty to do it even if the government forbids it and fights it.
Like journalists in Russia were reporting on police brutality despite very real death threats, like Thailand journalists reporting on issues which may offend the king, and in many other places. Even in the Pentagon papers there were injunctions filed by the gov't to forbid publication and arrests made, but still the journalists did it - if they don't do it now, they are just copywriters, not journalists.
It means that I control the hardware (motherboard) which does the identity checking - and for any practical purpose of identification, it means that I can force it to claim that "yes, I have a NAND chip with xxxx pattern" to anyone who wants to identify my harware - say, a software program installer or a networked device. It's just like the processor ID numbers, which were embedded in the silicon and 'unchangeable'.
It's just like spoofing a hardware dongle - since the consumer OS isn't "trusted", almost anything which goes through it can be spoofed.
The only way how I imagine this feature somehow working would be someone having a secure/trusted physical device outside of your control, where they ask you to put in your flash-memory, like a chip-card reader.
How is an external device know what defects are in my silicon? The bits flowing through the connector will tell it whatever I want.
Case in point - Pentagon Papers about Vietnam, classified, leaked, published by major newspapers despite serious government objections. Back then, courts approved the journalist right to publish such documents. Has it been forgotten already?
We don't have laws to prevent distribution such secrets - instead, we have specific laws to protect the anonymous journalist sources, especially designed for cases such as this - because the society right to know information and freely talk about it stands above the government desire to 'protect' anything.
Copies of information is not stolen property in any way. No U.S. government documents are in possession of wikileaks, and as far as we know, none of this has been obtained by breaking&entering secure premises. If some individual leaks a secret (government classified data or cocacola secret recipe) that was available to him, then he may be liable for breaching whatever was binding him and requiring not to disclose it; but there is nothing prohibiting free citizens from distributing it further, it falls under first amendment, as per court cases regarding the same Pentagon Papers for example.
The problem with wikileaks is that they are having to do the job that "real" journalists in major news agencies would be supposed to do, but as they are failing the society, then amateurs such as Assange have to do it, and they sometimes do it in a half-assed way.
Why are the leak sources not going to the reporters to NY Times or BBC? It's just a symptom that they are failing in their eagerness to dig the truth, talk to possible informants, and take brave steps to guarantee that their sources would be protected. *That* would be journalism, instead of republishing bigcorp or government press releases.
Almost *any* stuff has inherent worth, and gold even more so.
Even a twenty-ton pile of bulls*it has significant inherent worth - in it's possible use as fertilizer,
Thinking of settlements in percentages is a problem.
Litigation expenses aren't directly related to the dispute amount in any way. Say, if you have a dispute over a $1000 claim, and both sides really can't agree, want someone else (the court system) to resolve their dispute and get "adequate representation", then it will surely cost far more than $1000, you will lose even if you win.
If you have a dispute over $10, then if you do anything at all, even your own time cost + phone or mail expenses will be far larger than the dispute amount.
The problem is not with the percentage, the problem is that the court system is structured in a way where properly handling a class action lawsuit takes an extremely large amount of time and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is partly an unavoidable property of the anglosaxon common law legal system, where there is an almost boundless mass of documents that may influence litigation, and agreements are overdetailed to hundreds of pages as, essentially, in contract disputes the specific agreement lettering is the rule. Most other countries use civil law systems, which has a much lower 'ceiling' on how much lawyers need to do to consider their work fully exhausted, and don't suffer from such excesses - but there seems to be no chance at all in changing this legal situation in USA in this century - it isn't a problem for all the rich old men holding power, and they even benefit from it. Heck, most of politicians are lawyers by trade.
Good always wins in the end.
Ergo, whoever won was the good guy.
What do you mean 'is too high cut it down' ? Would it be a benefit to apple ?
That gap feels intentional and most likely will stay that way.
They don't want to compete at all for price-sensitive pro-users - there is no profit in it, it just cuts down margins to the level of dell/others; they can keep all the guys for whom apple features are valuable and simply give up the price-sensitive segment to wintel vendors to fight over the scraps.
They definitely do not want pro-users to consider the cheaper apple consumer stuff as a good enough option, they want the pro-users to feel that they really need to buy the pro-version at all costs.
They don't want consumers to upgrade their stuff much as well - consumers won't ever agree to pay a large premium up-front for 'upgradeability', but are generally quite agreeable to replace usable hardware with the new shiny, which is good for sales.
Mod parent up above the +5 - quite a few of tech-related topics would fall into this category, but they are of quite separate nature and would be best served in a separate category that some users can filter out and others can put them in front page.
Track the dialog-boxes that are shown on screen and your mouse clicks from a separate application that is (hopefully) invulnerable to whatever the webpage can do to your browser.
If the standard dialog-box was not shown on screen and the mouse didn't click there, then block the download.
Soviet Russia was definitely worse; at the age of Stalin the guy would have been dead already; and his family would be sent to labor camps already back then, instead of letting them walk free and think improper thoughts.
For specialty needs, if your device needs to function at 500 degrees, then a very costly 500khz processor may be quite ok, only the longevity needs to be fixed.
You'll anyway write specialized, tiny, optimized code to run on it and the hardware controlled by the chip may easily be valuable enough.
Think small chips on spacecraft, where the sunny side may get very hot; or tiny controllers attached to the burning part of missiles (from ICBM's to simple air-to-air) - the temperature capabilities may easily allow it to be used somewhere where silicon is not an option, and there will be interested buyers.
Why can't the county tax the residents and give the money to the city?
Providing a fire service doesn't have to mean you have to contruct a building and pay salaries, you can contract it to a skilled third party, and surprise surprise - there is a nearby fire department that can offer such coverage for x $ monthly. And it might quite realistically be cheaper than 75$/house in this way due to simpler process, skipping billing, etc - in effect, a 'volume discount' for this 'purchase'.
Flat pay means that the poor and mediocre guys stay and are happy, and the good ones leave.
What you reward is what you get.
True, if you hide the research results, then you don't benefit the society and don't deserve the credit. The value is not in ideas themselves, but in their mass availability.
Regardless of what is negotiated, Senate is the one that can simply not sign the treaty once it's done.
So if they would really say that they are dropping out (which they aren't at the moment) then there would be no point in negotiating with Mexico.
rat7 is wired, rat9 wireless.
My bad, it's 1920x1200, 24".
Interesting - I also get the same feeling; but conventional wisdom (newspapers, magazines) has decided the exactly opposite way, splitting the text into narrow columns for easier reading..
The widescreen lcd's now perfecly fit 2 life-sized A4 pages side-by side.
The vertical size you get for $x isn't shrinking - it's growing, but simply the horizontal is growing even faster. Don't switch from 1600x1200 to 1680x1050 - switch to 1920x1280.
Wikileaks doesn't harm western democracies - they do inconvenience the administrations, but the whole concept of leaks are great for the society, citizens, and especially the democracy part; silencing leaks would harm western democracy and destroy the whole meaning of it. I don't care about Chinese government cheating their citizens - that's their problem, I want to be informed about the failures and lies of *my* officials that I elected and that affect my country. I don't want to improve country reputation by simply hiding unflattering things, I want to improve the reputation by fixing the faults. Lying to ourselves about bad stuff not happening is the domain of North Korea, not the western world.
And what do you mean about "journalistic discretion" ? The big newspapers that are following your so-called "journalistic discretion" shouldn't be allowed to call themselves journalists because of this anymore. In earlier times they did proper journalism, dug up the dirt themselves, interviewed informants, cared about their reputation of protecting the anonymity of their sources and fought for the right of publishing facts for the society, even and especially if the goverment claims to be harmed by the facts - for example, the Pentagon papers case. Now wikileaks has picked up the slack where the "journalists" are failing their role in society, and it's a shame - but a shame for the publishing industry.