DVDs are cheap enough and have plenty of free or low cost alternatives (whether pirate copies, BitTorrent or Netflix) that it's not worth importing.
Look at medicine (into the US), agricultural machinery, old encryption laws (56 vs 128 bits) etc as well as barriers in countries like Iran, Cuba and N Korea for a better comparison on how regional cost differences impact imports and why it doesn't make a difference to large corporations.
Whether you're in the US or Uganda, as a corporation or government you can afford Microsoft or Cisco and the individual that can barely afford it won't pay for it regardless of the cost.
No, rape is still illegal as is being drunk in public (although if both of you are drunk, your "rape" could've just as well been a crime). The point is that you have a duty to yourself and others not to get blacked out drunk, not to get in a car or bed with someone when you're drunk, not to leave your car unlocked with valuables in a shady neighborhood because even though you could always become a victim of a crime the repercussions to the criminal and the legal and civil recourses available will differ - walking into an unlocked house is trespassing, not breaking and entering; using consent as a defense becomes easier to prove; insurances won't cover your losses and civil suits will have lower or no awards and serious doubt can be cast on the accuracy of your statements.
Well, it's Oracle, they won't kill it off but you will pay through the nose for a support contract. Last I looked, it was like $60k/server/year for their quad core SPARC support contract.
OI has SPARC builds although few are maintained by the core project there are a number of derivatives that do have support. The problem is going to be finding hardware.
(Open)Solaris latest incarnations are/were mainly x86 since the architecture was so expensive, development lagged severely to Intel and many SPARC programs could be transitioned to much cheaper x86. SPARC was already on life support for years by the time Sun died, Oracle made it even more expensive even though eventually delivering the T7, deployments of it are rare (who plunks down 300k for a single 1U server anymore) and it ain't the same comparison as the UltraSPARC competing with the Pentium.
All the developers and funding for OpenSolaris went to OpenIndiana, if you're looking for the Solaris feature set and stability, use OpenIndiana. Hopefully one day Linux or BSD will catch up to the code stability (an OS that upgrades less than Debian Stable and kernel upgrades without rebooting), Fault Management Architecture, level of tracing, clustering and containers that Solaris has.
ZFS for Linux and pretty much every other OS (OpenIndiana, Nexenta,...) except Oracle Solaris is now being developed by OpenZFS, a fork of the Solaris ZFS code and the two are no longer compatible (version numbers and feature sets have diverged quite a bit).
Not sure what they will do with existing customers, probably bill them a heap load of money for future support, if you're lucky, your pool is old enough or you haven't activated Oracle's proprietary features so that it is still compatible.
This quote from the article: There have been a number of stories over the past few years about Chinese and Russian hackers targeting and stealing US and European scientific research. Although there is no evidence at this point linking this malware to a specific group, the fact that it's been seen specifically at biomedical research institutions certainly seems like it could be the result of exactly that kind of espionage.
There have been a string of 'security researchers' being featured here on/. lately that are simply trying to get some limelight just by claiming the perpetrator being the boogeyman-du-jour, actually the same 'security researcher' wrote about a variation of this a few months ago: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/... - You need to download it - You need to run it (with various warnings being thrown up) - You need to install Java for it to run (which does not come standard on a Mac, requires a significant download and few actually need for anything anymore)
This seems to be just a variation of the Tibet, Flashback and Adwind (dating from 2012), which all drop a small Java program as a payload which does screenshots, webcamming, remote control and/or ad proxy and dials back to a C&C server. I discovered a variant a few weeks ago that would generate random dictionary names for it's plists but it functions just the same as these.
The market doesn't care about Brexit in the long term. If you look at the value of the GBP, EUR and USD over the last decade, there are gains and dips, Brexit vote barely brought a noticeable dip on the longer timescales. And you can tie any number of events to the dropping and rising of a currency, whatever fits your narrative. The USD has flatlined over the last 10 years, the only reason the USD is 'better' right now is because it has been able to inflate a bubble by keeping the low interest rate that was supposed to be short term which artificially stabilizes the USD. In the mean time both the EUR and GBP have dropped significant value at about the same rate in that period, not surprising since the UK is part of the EU and the EU has been printing money to keep countries like Greece and Portugal from failing, this also helped the USD. Once the EU either recovers or fails (which hangs on Greece/Portugal/Turkey not failing and the UK not leaving), or the Chinese/Russians have some type of breakthrough in resources, the USD bubble will pop and crash hard.
You should wish for a car with modular systems, that way you can swap out the radio. But a lot of 2G gear is still out there, alarm systems, remote controllers for all sorts of stuff, scientific and other telemetry, iPhones were some of the older 2G devices, 2G was commonplace in Androids up until only a few years ago.
Talking about the Linux kernel. Most of the processor manufacturers only release source code to OEM's under a strict NDA for the Linux kernel which is completely illegal for GPL and then the OEM quotes their NDA for not releasing the source.
I've asked, I needed to compile some custom things into the kernel. To this date, only HardKernel (with the O-DROIDs) has complied with the GPL.
Whatever kernel modifications they make is quite important to get the thing to run because most of them DO make custom kernel modifications.
You can take Android from AOSP, that's no problem once you get a kernel to run but a LOT of the hardware and even software functionality for Android is baked into the Linux kernel (think video, audio, USB, SD card, sensors), most of it is hard-linked, not a kernel module binary you can copy over (you can verify that by rooting the device) so it violates the GPL when they REFUSE to publish the Linux sources along with the binary release.
And no, Samsung and HTC are notorious for violating the GPL continuously. They never release the source code along with the binary releases and for most modern devices they simply refuse to release the code, often only releasing very old versions for yesteryear's devices. I've even had a discussion with Amlogic who simply told me: no, you have to pay $10k to become an OEM before we give you access.
So you leave your front door wide open when you go on vacation because no piece of shit should walk in and steal or vandalize your stuff? Yeah, whoever does that intentionally and maliciously deserves to be punished (although a bullet is a bit far) but the 'owners' are also responsible to take precautions.
You can update outdated Linux distributions for free, there is no valid excuse to using old and outdated open source software. Closed software often has the drawback that you're "locked in" by whatever vendor, they can increase the upgrade price ten-fold and you'd have no options.
On the other hand, even outdated Linux distributions pose a significantly lower risk of a successful hack.
You must have an MBA. Today's security is a continuous process and most if not all security procedures will last longer than a few years and will result in a near zero chance of getting hacked. This is a medical marijuana dispensary, not even a hospital or credit card company, the reason they got hacked is because they lacked the skills or didn't want to spend the money necessary to secure themselves.
Keep your systems updated, remove encryption standards that are out of date, close services and ports you don't need, don't use Windows, and if you must, don't give your users Administrator or root rights and if your software tells you otherwise, get different software.
But most business owners don't care until it's too late, if you ever worked with Micros Point of Sale systems or anything from any 'top 5' vendors for anything, you'll see that security doesn't matter to them. Walk into any bar or restaurant, a few days later go back and you can 'steal' 100s of credit cards and yes, they are connected to the Internet secured with nothing but a 10 year old Netgear router.
HIPAA rules do not describe how to secure your data. It only tells you that you need to secure your data and the procedures to follow when you're not compliant. It doesn't prescribe a particular encryption or what needs to be encrypted.
Case in point, most hospitals do not use encryption when exchanging private health information (because systems from idiots like EPIC are simply incapable of it). HIPAA just says you have to document it and mitigate. In most cases, the mitigation is "our internal network is secure, external sites use VPN" and then it doesn't matter the external VPN vendor only supports DES (yes, still single DES in 2016/2017), it's documented as being "encrypted", any hacking would be the result of 'evil hackers' which they can't do anything against and then it becomes the FBI's responsibility to catch the criminals, the hospitals have done their due diligence and don't need to report breaches because they have gone according to HIPAA standards.
There is already open source software for pretty much any problem you may have. In your case, a combination of ffmpeg, avisynth and some coding (if you can make your own shaders, you can cobble a shell script together).
Or you mean, how can I get someone to package a nice GUI with all the stuff I want in it? Not how open source works. Open source only amplifies the effort you put in something useful, and if you don't have the skills to make something useful, learn them or buy them.
The problem is that nobody goes after manufacturers that violate the GPL. If Google were to put their money where their mouth is, they should pursue ALL the manufacturers that refuse to release the GPL code to their Android software.
Here are some of the big GPL violators: Amlogic MINIX Samsung HTC...
Yes, the big manufacturers are on that path (Apple, Dell, HP) and that is fine for ultra portable devices but there are plenty of smaller manufacturers springing up that do custom (fat) laptops, desktops, workstations and servers. As long as there is a server market there will be a workstation market because that's all modern workstations are.
It hasn't been relevant for a long time, the guy walked off with $200k and may or may not have survived. In the mean time, a small band of cyber criminals has been hacking banks and ATM's for the last decade without ever being caught despite still being active, having been tied to close to $1B in losses worldwide.
It IS illegal to replace a local worker with an H1B worker under the current system, it is also required to do a search and hire locally first. The problem is nobody cares, over the years less than a dozen companies have ever been investigated and only a handful have ever been banned from applying for more H1B's and even then, the companies investigated and banned are very obvious shell companies.
Processing 65,000 visa's costs more than $65M, if you've ever been involved with them, it takes them months to get anything through with large amounts of paperwork being generated back and forth. Once all of the clerks, postage, IT systems, layers of management and lawmakers are accounted for, the true cost would be at least tenfold.
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DVDs are cheap enough and have plenty of free or low cost alternatives (whether pirate copies, BitTorrent or Netflix) that it's not worth importing.
Look at medicine (into the US), agricultural machinery, old encryption laws (56 vs 128 bits) etc as well as barriers in countries like Iran, Cuba and N Korea for a better comparison on how regional cost differences impact imports and why it doesn't make a difference to large corporations.
Whether you're in the US or Uganda, as a corporation or government you can afford Microsoft or Cisco and the individual that can barely afford it won't pay for it regardless of the cost.
No, rape is still illegal as is being drunk in public (although if both of you are drunk, your "rape" could've just as well been a crime). The point is that you have a duty to yourself and others not to get blacked out drunk, not to get in a car or bed with someone when you're drunk, not to leave your car unlocked with valuables in a shady neighborhood because even though you could always become a victim of a crime the repercussions to the criminal and the legal and civil recourses available will differ - walking into an unlocked house is trespassing, not breaking and entering; using consent as a defense becomes easier to prove; insurances won't cover your losses and civil suits will have lower or no awards and serious doubt can be cast on the accuracy of your statements.
Well, it's Oracle, they won't kill it off but you will pay through the nose for a support contract. Last I looked, it was like $60k/server/year for their quad core SPARC support contract.
OI has SPARC builds although few are maintained by the core project there are a number of derivatives that do have support. The problem is going to be finding hardware.
(Open)Solaris latest incarnations are/were mainly x86 since the architecture was so expensive, development lagged severely to Intel and many SPARC programs could be transitioned to much cheaper x86. SPARC was already on life support for years by the time Sun died, Oracle made it even more expensive even though eventually delivering the T7, deployments of it are rare (who plunks down 300k for a single 1U server anymore) and it ain't the same comparison as the UltraSPARC competing with the Pentium.
All the developers and funding for OpenSolaris went to OpenIndiana, if you're looking for the Solaris feature set and stability, use OpenIndiana. Hopefully one day Linux or BSD will catch up to the code stability (an OS that upgrades less than Debian Stable and kernel upgrades without rebooting), Fault Management Architecture, level of tracing, clustering and containers that Solaris has.
ZFS for Linux and pretty much every other OS (OpenIndiana, Nexenta, ...) except Oracle Solaris is now being developed by OpenZFS, a fork of the Solaris ZFS code and the two are no longer compatible (version numbers and feature sets have diverged quite a bit).
Not sure what they will do with existing customers, probably bill them a heap load of money for future support, if you're lucky, your pool is old enough or you haven't activated Oracle's proprietary features so that it is still compatible.
This quote from the article:
There have been a number of stories over the past few years about Chinese and Russian hackers targeting and stealing US and European scientific research. Although there is no evidence at this point linking this malware to a specific group, the fact that it's been seen specifically at biomedical research institutions certainly seems like it could be the result of exactly that kind of espionage.
seems pretty alarmist to me.
There have been a string of 'security researchers' being featured here on /. lately that are simply trying to get some limelight just by claiming the perpetrator being the boogeyman-du-jour, actually the same 'security researcher' wrote about a variation of this a few months ago: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/...
- You need to download it
- You need to run it (with various warnings being thrown up)
- You need to install Java for it to run (which does not come standard on a Mac, requires a significant download and few actually need for anything anymore)
This seems to be just a variation of the Tibet, Flashback and Adwind (dating from 2012), which all drop a small Java program as a payload which does screenshots, webcamming, remote control and/or ad proxy and dials back to a C&C server. I discovered a variant a few weeks ago that would generate random dictionary names for it's plists but it functions just the same as these.
The market doesn't care about Brexit in the long term. If you look at the value of the GBP, EUR and USD over the last decade, there are gains and dips, Brexit vote barely brought a noticeable dip on the longer timescales. And you can tie any number of events to the dropping and rising of a currency, whatever fits your narrative. The USD has flatlined over the last 10 years, the only reason the USD is 'better' right now is because it has been able to inflate a bubble by keeping the low interest rate that was supposed to be short term which artificially stabilizes the USD. In the mean time both the EUR and GBP have dropped significant value at about the same rate in that period, not surprising since the UK is part of the EU and the EU has been printing money to keep countries like Greece and Portugal from failing, this also helped the USD. Once the EU either recovers or fails (which hangs on Greece/Portugal/Turkey not failing and the UK not leaving), or the Chinese/Russians have some type of breakthrough in resources, the USD bubble will pop and crash hard.
You should wish for a car with modular systems, that way you can swap out the radio. But a lot of 2G gear is still out there, alarm systems, remote controllers for all sorts of stuff, scientific and other telemetry, iPhones were some of the older 2G devices, 2G was commonplace in Androids up until only a few years ago.
Talking about the Linux kernel. Most of the processor manufacturers only release source code to OEM's under a strict NDA for the Linux kernel which is completely illegal for GPL and then the OEM quotes their NDA for not releasing the source.
I've asked, I needed to compile some custom things into the kernel. To this date, only HardKernel (with the O-DROIDs) has complied with the GPL.
Whatever kernel modifications they make is quite important to get the thing to run because most of them DO make custom kernel modifications.
You can take Android from AOSP, that's no problem once you get a kernel to run but a LOT of the hardware and even software functionality for Android is baked into the Linux kernel (think video, audio, USB, SD card, sensors), most of it is hard-linked, not a kernel module binary you can copy over (you can verify that by rooting the device) so it violates the GPL when they REFUSE to publish the Linux sources along with the binary release.
And no, Samsung and HTC are notorious for violating the GPL continuously. They never release the source code along with the binary releases and for most modern devices they simply refuse to release the code, often only releasing very old versions for yesteryear's devices. I've even had a discussion with Amlogic who simply told me: no, you have to pay $10k to become an OEM before we give you access.
So you leave your front door wide open when you go on vacation because no piece of shit should walk in and steal or vandalize your stuff? Yeah, whoever does that intentionally and maliciously deserves to be punished (although a bullet is a bit far) but the 'owners' are also responsible to take precautions.
You can update outdated Linux distributions for free, there is no valid excuse to using old and outdated open source software. Closed software often has the drawback that you're "locked in" by whatever vendor, they can increase the upgrade price ten-fold and you'd have no options.
On the other hand, even outdated Linux distributions pose a significantly lower risk of a successful hack.
MINIX the company that makes Android stuff.
You must have an MBA. Today's security is a continuous process and most if not all security procedures will last longer than a few years and will result in a near zero chance of getting hacked. This is a medical marijuana dispensary, not even a hospital or credit card company, the reason they got hacked is because they lacked the skills or didn't want to spend the money necessary to secure themselves.
Keep your systems updated, remove encryption standards that are out of date, close services and ports you don't need, don't use Windows, and if you must, don't give your users Administrator or root rights and if your software tells you otherwise, get different software.
But most business owners don't care until it's too late, if you ever worked with Micros Point of Sale systems or anything from any 'top 5' vendors for anything, you'll see that security doesn't matter to them. Walk into any bar or restaurant, a few days later go back and you can 'steal' 100s of credit cards and yes, they are connected to the Internet secured with nothing but a 10 year old Netgear router.
HIPAA rules do not describe how to secure your data. It only tells you that you need to secure your data and the procedures to follow when you're not compliant. It doesn't prescribe a particular encryption or what needs to be encrypted.
Case in point, most hospitals do not use encryption when exchanging private health information (because systems from idiots like EPIC are simply incapable of it). HIPAA just says you have to document it and mitigate. In most cases, the mitigation is "our internal network is secure, external sites use VPN" and then it doesn't matter the external VPN vendor only supports DES (yes, still single DES in 2016/2017), it's documented as being "encrypted", any hacking would be the result of 'evil hackers' which they can't do anything against and then it becomes the FBI's responsibility to catch the criminals, the hospitals have done their due diligence and don't need to report breaches because they have gone according to HIPAA standards.
There is already open source software for pretty much any problem you may have. In your case, a combination of ffmpeg, avisynth and some coding (if you can make your own shaders, you can cobble a shell script together).
Or you mean, how can I get someone to package a nice GUI with all the stuff I want in it? Not how open source works. Open source only amplifies the effort you put in something useful, and if you don't have the skills to make something useful, learn them or buy them.
Some idiot used Windows, didn't bother upgrading some old software because it was closed source and upgrades expensive and got what they deserved.
The problem is that nobody goes after manufacturers that violate the GPL. If Google were to put their money where their mouth is, they should pursue ALL the manufacturers that refuse to release the GPL code to their Android software.
Here are some of the big GPL violators: ...
Amlogic
MINIX
Samsung
HTC
Yes, the big manufacturers are on that path (Apple, Dell, HP) and that is fine for ultra portable devices but there are plenty of smaller manufacturers springing up that do custom (fat) laptops, desktops, workstations and servers. As long as there is a server market there will be a workstation market because that's all modern workstations are.
We've know for quite a long time about the titanium. Here's a story from 2011: http://www.upi.com/Did-DB-Coop...
It hasn't been relevant for a long time, the guy walked off with $200k and may or may not have survived. In the mean time, a small band of cyber criminals has been hacking banks and ATM's for the last decade without ever being caught despite still being active, having been tied to close to $1B in losses worldwide.
It IS illegal to replace a local worker with an H1B worker under the current system, it is also required to do a search and hire locally first. The problem is nobody cares, over the years less than a dozen companies have ever been investigated and only a handful have ever been banned from applying for more H1B's and even then, the companies investigated and banned are very obvious shell companies.
Processing 65,000 visa's costs more than $65M, if you've ever been involved with them, it takes them months to get anything through with large amounts of paperwork being generated back and forth. Once all of the clerks, postage, IT systems, layers of management and lawmakers are accounted for, the true cost would be at least tenfold.