A) Cut-off hand: Person is likely still inclined to punch people in the face, but now must find a new implement to do so. For example, their other hand. You have taken away the implement of choice, not the motivation or opportunity. Read: Napster, Kazaa. Relevance to 4chan: shutting down that forum will simply cause its membership to set up shop on somewhere else, likely stepping up anonymity at the same time.
B) Charge with crime: Person is likely still inclined to punch people in the face, but is eventually removed from the general public (theoretically). The motivation and implement are intact, but there is no opportunity to follow-through. This is analogous to the route taken against individual P2P users by the RIAA/MPAA (despite there being no criminal wrongdoing in those cases). Relevance to 4chan: While it may not hamper the overall community, visible action taken against the individuals within the community potentially serves to discourage similar actions among the less dedicated members. At least, that is the theory.
Of course, this is a bit of a false dilemma, since options A and B are both essentially toothless when it comes to addressing either the root cause or the primary effects of the DDOS attacks.
Typically the settlement includes retroactive overtime pay for a limited amount of time, maybe a year or possibly even more. The new pay scheme is probably exactly equivalent to the old, but substitutes overtime hours for base pay, meaning wages stay the same. However, this doesn't account for the possibility that now, if their hours are reduced to below overtime, they are compensated much more poorly. It's a short term monetary gain (in the form of a settlement), for a net loss in wage security (as fewer hours now means lower wages, compared to under the "exempt" pay plans). So, jumping ship could be a smart move here, or at least an easier one with the settlement.
I wonder how many times this will work, before large companies adjust their payrolls. Radioshack settled a similar lawsuit with their store managers several years ago, and lowered their base salaries to offset the new overtime payouts. I'd think they'd want to act preemptively, to avoid a lawsuit--I'm somewhat surprised IBM had succumbed to this practice.
First let me point out a few odd statements in this article:
"factors that Microsoft paid little to no attention to and still don't today would be gaming consoles..."
The X-Box and the X-Box 360? Microsoft put billions of dollars into those gaming consoles.
"As experience tells us, 'easily used' operating systems such as Windows are notorious for poor security..."
What about Apple's Unix-based OS X? That's often considered easier to use than Windows for new computer users.
"resulting in a poorly designed operating platform and ignorant users who don't know the difference between WEP and WPA..."
It seems like he's arguing that the users of an operating system determine the quality of that operating system.
Really, I think this article misses the point. Internet-based OSes will not be feasible now or in the near future, I agree; however, that has more to do with bandwidth limitations, and the enormous variety of hardware out there, than security flaws in Windows (Live?). Security will always be a big issue--especially when distributed to a network of hundreds of millions of computers--but the hardware and infrastructure issues will derail the process much earlier and more severely, IMO.
Dolby Pro Logic is not 5.1, technically. Pro Logic is the process of taking stereo sound (2 channels, R and L, as transmitted through satellite) and reencoding it into 5.1. It is basically "fake 5.1".
So, no, the DVB standard =/= surround sound, technically.
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Let's explore this analogy:
A) Cut-off hand: Person is likely still inclined to punch people in the face, but now must find a new implement to do so. For example, their other hand. You have taken away the implement of choice, not the motivation or opportunity. Read: Napster, Kazaa. Relevance to 4chan: shutting down that forum will simply cause its membership to set up shop on somewhere else, likely stepping up anonymity at the same time.
B) Charge with crime: Person is likely still inclined to punch people in the face, but is eventually removed from the general public (theoretically). The motivation and implement are intact, but there is no opportunity to follow-through. This is analogous to the route taken against individual P2P users by the RIAA/MPAA (despite there being no criminal wrongdoing in those cases). Relevance to 4chan: While it may not hamper the overall community, visible action taken against the individuals within the community potentially serves to discourage similar actions among the less dedicated members. At least, that is the theory.
Of course, this is a bit of a false dilemma, since options A and B are both essentially toothless when it comes to addressing either the root cause or the primary effects of the DDOS attacks.
... TFA is already /.ed.
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Typically the settlement includes retroactive overtime pay for a limited amount of time, maybe a year or possibly even more. The new pay scheme is probably exactly equivalent to the old, but substitutes overtime hours for base pay, meaning wages stay the same. However, this doesn't account for the possibility that now, if their hours are reduced to below overtime, they are compensated much more poorly. It's a short term monetary gain (in the form of a settlement), for a net loss in wage security (as fewer hours now means lower wages, compared to under the "exempt" pay plans). So, jumping ship could be a smart move here, or at least an easier one with the settlement.
I wonder how many times this will work, before large companies adjust their payrolls. Radioshack settled a similar lawsuit with their store managers several years ago, and lowered their base salaries to offset the new overtime payouts. I'd think they'd want to act preemptively, to avoid a lawsuit--I'm somewhat surprised IBM had succumbed to this practice.
First let me point out a few odd statements in this article:
"factors that Microsoft paid little to no attention to and still don't today would be gaming consoles..."
The X-Box and the X-Box 360? Microsoft put billions of dollars into those gaming consoles.
"As experience tells us, 'easily used' operating systems such as Windows are notorious for poor security..."
What about Apple's Unix-based OS X? That's often considered easier to use than Windows for new computer users.
"resulting in a poorly designed operating platform and ignorant users who don't know the difference between WEP and WPA..."
It seems like he's arguing that the users of an operating system determine the quality of that operating system.
Really, I think this article misses the point. Internet-based OSes will not be feasible now or in the near future, I agree; however, that has more to do with bandwidth limitations, and the enormous variety of hardware out there, than security flaws in Windows (Live?). Security will always be a big issue--especially when distributed to a network of hundreds of millions of computers--but the hardware and infrastructure issues will derail the process much earlier and more severely, IMO.
Dolby Pro Logic is not 5.1, technically. Pro Logic is the process of taking stereo sound (2 channels, R and L, as transmitted through satellite) and reencoding it into 5.1. It is basically "fake 5.1".
So, no, the DVB standard =/= surround sound, technically.