How about not storing CC data AT ALL. You don't need the full number unless you are your own payment processor, you're required to ask for the 3 digit number every time (you're not allowed to store it).
The only reason you would store full numbers with all the info attached is for batch processing... or if you don't know what you're doing which simply means you're not prepared for peak demand.
As far as API's - SQL is already an API, Prepared Statements should do everything you require, decent db login management so your scripts can't just SELECT what they don't need...
I've dealt with them as well. $180 for opening a case on issues that were after 3 weeks of bouncing back and forth between India and the US referred to the developers in question who simply said "customization of Sharepoint sites is indeed advertised but unsupported, we won't fix it". A few times we got custom patches as well but then we could never upgrade again because their later patches would break the first.
Apple is miles above any other support I've ever called. If something is broken, typically next-day delivery on replacement or a tech on-site. Free access to Apple System Engineers, free end-user education...
I thought the DMCA was the Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act - therefore doesn't it logically follow that it simply states and supersedes copyright issues over digital media? (I'm not a US Citizen)
Also, if nobody is around to claim copyright, how will anyone go to court over the issue? Also many copyrights from the era between 1978 and 1989, published without registration (many small-time developers) are currently in the public domain.
There are exceptions to the DMCA for: Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.
Therefore MAME and pretty much any emulator of abandon-ware including the software is legal to own, copy and distribute.
850W, EPEAT Gold, mini-ATX power supplies aren't all that easy to get. A GOOD power supply and a case that won't sever a finger during assembly will easily set you back $200-500 on any rig. You get what you pay for.
They already do. There are charged for energy generation, energy transport and the connection itself. Energy generation can typically be swapped out for different companies connected to your utilities' net or those buying/selling it on the commodities market. The rest is pure profit for your utility (hint: access and transport have typically been paid for by an array of governments). If you cut into both their transport and generation fees, you're left with the monthly connection fee (~$20 around here)
If you really care about video and audio latencies (live productions) you are not going to go DirectX. You'll need a decent FireWire stack to begin with which can't be found on Windows. Yes Mac for pre-packaged software, but more and more Linux as well especially on the rendering backend.
I think it's a simple fact of evolution that we inherently follow those 'directives', our survival depends on us being social animals. However if you start following rules out of a certain rulebook, make sure all the rules in said book are both moral and applicable to our time, otherwise you are just picking and choosing. You can't call yourself a Christian and not believe what Christian church leaders said (in the same book) about homosexuality and the nature of this world or infer any sort of deity out of said words.
Do not return evil to your adversary; Requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, Maintain justice for your enemy, Be friendly to your enemy. - Akkadian Councils of Wisdom
Fact is, none of the biblical 'message' is original.
We disproved the atmosphere consisting out of ether before the beginning of the previous century. Air doesn't become "dirty" because there are microwaves or other electromagnetic waves going through it... *sigh* science 101
On a good system a single SSD will easily outperform even 6 15k RPM fast disks. I have noticed however that "hardware" RAID controllers (even the expensive 20k external ones) don't have the throughput to handle 6 SSD's (they're powered by like RISC/ARM cores between 250 and 800MHz with DDR2 RAM, simply doesn't have enough IOPS). Direct-attached (using simple SAS controllers and doing it all in software) goes a lot faster.
Besides that premium gasoline can be required for some high end cars, "enterprise" drives usually have SAS connectors which are required in a lot of environments (eg. multi-host systems).
Also most enterprise drives have different performance characteristics - for example if a drive read or write fails on a sector, a desktop drive will time out and retry for 10-20 times or more, an enterprise drive will return after 2 or 3 times and report it as unreadable which can make a great difference in performance (waiting for the drive to return with a failure state in 200ms vs 20ms). Usually multiple sectors are damaged and requested so this can easily make the difference between your SAN repeatedly stalling for 1 or 2 seconds at a time or not.
Maybe you've forgot how those people like JP Morgan and Carnegie would likewise destroy people that had great ideas like Nikolai Tesla or prey on the scientists that moved from war-torn Germany/Europe to the 'land of opportunity' (eg. Wernher von Braun)
The same applies in other countries though. I worked in the EU, specific job requirements were posted to get people from the ex-Soviet satellite states where people would work for peanuts compared to local talent.
Then off course there are those who don't know how to hire talented people and staffing agencies that will simply copy-paste requirements just to get people on their rolls.
We have been artificially selecting seeds for over 12,000 years now, whether we do it by genetically modifying them or chemical or some other process, the results will be the same - we will discard the selections that produce unwanted results.
We've been genetically engineering foods for thousands of years (grapes, tomatoes,...) through the process of grafting.
If you're worried about your program generating different results on different arch, you have some serious coding issues.
The math should be the same on all systems. If you're worried, try 2 different systems against a known or manually calculated result, that's how the Pentium-type bugs were discovered (if you remember).
Typically major issues in your processing units will be discovered quickly because of the ubiquity in the market. Unless you're using a custom built or compromised chip on eg primes, you shouldn't worry and even if it were compromised (the Chinese ARM chips or NSA-controlled crypto accelerators) you'll still get a valid result, just less secure.
You only need a commercial CA cert if you want your identity (somewhat, remotely) confirmed. Encryption != identification, SSL was never meant to be used that way. If you need an identification and trust mechanism, you should probably go through DNS (DNSSEC etc) because DNS is how you resolve people-friendly-names to technical-data. If it were only computers talking to each other, we would've fixed this issue a long time ago (because computers can fairly easily identify the difference between paypal.com.com and paypal.com, heck we would've probably stuck to communication by IP. Since identification issues are PEBKAC we need to resolve this issue at the point we make computers people-friendly
The question is: is doing/seeing something in virtual reality actually a crime? I'm sure Christians would say "Yes, it's a sin" but legally you haven't 'hurt' anyone. As this stuff gets more realistic, how much of the criminals currently exploiting children will simply buy/rent a render farm and become a legitimate business? To put it very crudely: the render farms do not involve the cost and risk of kidnapping, transporting, exploiting and maintaining people (whether they be adult or not) and they can give the same experience without putting anyone either physically or legally at risk.
At that point (if you're "into" that stuff), doing this becomes merely thought crime. I haven't done the research into whether this increases or reduces the risk of actually physical incidents (I hope it would reduce the drive for gratification in the illegal ways drastically) but it could be a boon for a host of people and move a lot of law enforcement activity to other exploitation of humans.
If you don't give back the company keys they'll just remake them and change the locks. Any competent admin cleaning up after him would have to do this ANYWAY.
Terry Childs did not want to divulge the passwords to an entity that didn't have the right to said passwords. There are several other red flags in this case but $1.5M to regain access over some routers? Seems like gross incompetence on various levels.
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How about not storing CC data AT ALL. You don't need the full number unless you are your own payment processor, you're required to ask for the 3 digit number every time (you're not allowed to store it).
The only reason you would store full numbers with all the info attached is for batch processing... or if you don't know what you're doing which simply means you're not prepared for peak demand.
As far as API's - SQL is already an API, Prepared Statements should do everything you require, decent db login management so your scripts can't just SELECT what they don't need...
I've dealt with them as well. $180 for opening a case on issues that were after 3 weeks of bouncing back and forth between India and the US referred to the developers in question who simply said "customization of Sharepoint sites is indeed advertised but unsupported, we won't fix it". A few times we got custom patches as well but then we could never upgrade again because their later patches would break the first.
Apple is miles above any other support I've ever called. If something is broken, typically next-day delivery on replacement or a tech on-site. Free access to Apple System Engineers, free end-user education...
I thought the DMCA was the Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act - therefore doesn't it logically follow that it simply states and supersedes copyright issues over digital media? (I'm not a US Citizen)
Also, if nobody is around to claim copyright, how will anyone go to court over the issue? Also many copyrights from the era between 1978 and 1989, published without registration (many small-time developers) are currently in the public domain.
It isn't illegal.
There are exceptions to the DMCA for:
Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.
Therefore MAME and pretty much any emulator of abandon-ware including the software is legal to own, copy and distribute.
You must have never called Microsoft support then... or Linus Torvalds for that matter ;-)
850W, EPEAT Gold, mini-ATX power supplies aren't all that easy to get. A GOOD power supply and a case that won't sever a finger during assembly will easily set you back $200-500 on any rig. You get what you pay for.
They already do. There are charged for energy generation, energy transport and the connection itself. Energy generation can typically be swapped out for different companies connected to your utilities' net or those buying/selling it on the commodities market. The rest is pure profit for your utility (hint: access and transport have typically been paid for by an array of governments). If you cut into both their transport and generation fees, you're left with the monthly connection fee (~$20 around here)
If you really care about video and audio latencies (live productions) you are not going to go DirectX. You'll need a decent FireWire stack to begin with which can't be found on Windows. Yes Mac for pre-packaged software, but more and more Linux as well especially on the rendering backend.
I think it's a simple fact of evolution that we inherently follow those 'directives', our survival depends on us being social animals. However if you start following rules out of a certain rulebook, make sure all the rules in said book are both moral and applicable to our time, otherwise you are just picking and choosing. You can't call yourself a Christian and not believe what Christian church leaders said (in the same book) about homosexuality and the nature of this world or infer any sort of deity out of said words.
Do not return evil to your adversary; Requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, Maintain justice for your enemy, Be friendly to your enemy.
- Akkadian Councils of Wisdom
Fact is, none of the biblical 'message' is original.
We disproved the atmosphere consisting out of ether before the beginning of the previous century. Air doesn't become "dirty" because there are microwaves or other electromagnetic waves going through it... *sigh* science 101
On a good system a single SSD will easily outperform even 6 15k RPM fast disks. I have noticed however that "hardware" RAID controllers (even the expensive 20k external ones) don't have the throughput to handle 6 SSD's (they're powered by like RISC/ARM cores between 250 and 800MHz with DDR2 RAM, simply doesn't have enough IOPS). Direct-attached (using simple SAS controllers and doing it all in software) goes a lot faster.
Besides that premium gasoline can be required for some high end cars, "enterprise" drives usually have SAS connectors which are required in a lot of environments (eg. multi-host systems).
Also most enterprise drives have different performance characteristics - for example if a drive read or write fails on a sector, a desktop drive will time out and retry for 10-20 times or more, an enterprise drive will return after 2 or 3 times and report it as unreadable which can make a great difference in performance (waiting for the drive to return with a failure state in 200ms vs 20ms). Usually multiple sectors are damaged and requested so this can easily make the difference between your SAN repeatedly stalling for 1 or 2 seconds at a time or not.
Maybe you've forgot how those people like JP Morgan and Carnegie would likewise destroy people that had great ideas like Nikolai Tesla or prey on the scientists that moved from war-torn Germany/Europe to the 'land of opportunity' (eg. Wernher von Braun)
The same applies in other countries though. I worked in the EU, specific job requirements were posted to get people from the ex-Soviet satellite states where people would work for peanuts compared to local talent.
Then off course there are those who don't know how to hire talented people and staffing agencies that will simply copy-paste requirements just to get people on their rolls.
First amendment, second amendment, fourth amendment, ninth amendment...
Or the fact that you need solid evidence in order to convict someone.
We have been artificially selecting seeds for over 12,000 years now, whether we do it by genetically modifying them or chemical or some other process, the results will be the same - we will discard the selections that produce unwanted results.
We've been genetically engineering foods for thousands of years (grapes, tomatoes, ...) through the process of grafting.
If you're worried about your program generating different results on different arch, you have some serious coding issues.
The math should be the same on all systems. If you're worried, try 2 different systems against a known or manually calculated result, that's how the Pentium-type bugs were discovered (if you remember).
Typically major issues in your processing units will be discovered quickly because of the ubiquity in the market. Unless you're using a custom built or compromised chip on eg primes, you shouldn't worry and even if it were compromised (the Chinese ARM chips or NSA-controlled crypto accelerators) you'll still get a valid result, just less secure.
You only need a commercial CA cert if you want your identity (somewhat, remotely) confirmed. Encryption != identification, SSL was never meant to be used that way. If you need an identification and trust mechanism, you should probably go through DNS (DNSSEC etc) because DNS is how you resolve people-friendly-names to technical-data. If it were only computers talking to each other, we would've fixed this issue a long time ago (because computers can fairly easily identify the difference between paypal.com.com and paypal.com, heck we would've probably stuck to communication by IP. Since identification issues are PEBKAC we need to resolve this issue at the point we make computers people-friendly
Please hand in your geek card.
If you are on /. with an ID smaller than mine, you should know what wxWidgets is. It's been covered before when they got Perl integration: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/01/09/18/121209/new-perl-gui
You should check the grounding on your computer chassis or your house.
The question is: is doing/seeing something in virtual reality actually a crime? I'm sure Christians would say "Yes, it's a sin" but legally you haven't 'hurt' anyone. As this stuff gets more realistic, how much of the criminals currently exploiting children will simply buy/rent a render farm and become a legitimate business? To put it very crudely: the render farms do not involve the cost and risk of kidnapping, transporting, exploiting and maintaining people (whether they be adult or not) and they can give the same experience without putting anyone either physically or legally at risk.
At that point (if you're "into" that stuff), doing this becomes merely thought crime. I haven't done the research into whether this increases or reduces the risk of actually physical incidents (I hope it would reduce the drive for gratification in the illegal ways drastically) but it could be a boon for a host of people and move a lot of law enforcement activity to other exploitation of humans.
If you don't give back the company keys they'll just remake them and change the locks. Any competent admin cleaning up after him would have to do this ANYWAY.
Terry Childs did not want to divulge the passwords to an entity that didn't have the right to said passwords. There are several other red flags in this case but $1.5M to regain access over some routers? Seems like gross incompetence on various levels.
So that's what the NSA datacenter is for...