They don't have to prove that you have the data, only that you transferred it. Big difference.
Keeping a wireless router open could be viewed as an admission of guilt, but you should check with a lawyer. Arm-chair lawyers know next to nothing about the law and have nothing to lose by telling you that keeping the wireless router open is a good defense.
The difference is do you want to voluntarily throw away $50 or do you want HP to do it for you?
At least with the first option, there are a number of things you can do to eek a little bit more life out of the cart. Cleaning the cart most often times gets the nozzles unclogged. And, if repeated cleanings don't work, there are a few tricks you can try. For HP carts, take a foam rubber makeup application swab (ask a woman if you have no idea what I'm talking about), dip it in rubbing alcohol (91% works very well, 70% is okay) and rub it on the the print nozzles (that's the metal foil thing on the bottom/side (depending on printer) of the cart). That'll clean the cart a lot of times to the point it can be re-used. If you still can't get it -- it's probably a lost cause, but you might also try taking a pencil eraser to the print nozzles. Don't ask me why this works.
And if inkjet paper is too expensive for you, don't buy an inkjet printer -- you can't afford to have one. Get a laser printer.
Switch statements are syntactic sugar. They're really not needed. Nested if/then/else do the same thing. There are also other constructs that you can use to get around the whole nested if/then/else thing too in many cases.
When was the last time you were in a food establishment that served both Pepsi and Coke products? When was the last time you went to a convenience store or a gas station that had only Pepsi or Coke products?
Most food establishments carry only one or the other more out of practical concerns than out of anti-competitive practices. Coke and Pepsi products usually have to be maintained on two separate fountains due to the fact that distributors for Coke fountains make it so that you can't use Pepsi and vice versa by using proprietary connectors and whatnot. There are exceptions to this -- machines that work for both Coke and Pepsi packs, but these are usually a lot more expensive and not worth the restaurant's investment.
Now with chains -- usually what happens is that the chain signs a deal to carry exclusively Coke or Pepsi products across the entire chain due to getting a discounted price. That's a bit different than outright kickbacks.
Why not just make the printer tell the truth about how much is left, put in half as much ink to each cartridge, and sell cartridges for the same amount you are now? They could be making so much more money that way than through shady business deals like this one. Contrary to popular belief, this isn't done necessarily to make the most money for the manufacturer. What's really happening here is that inkjet printers a while back got a bad reputation for bad for banding problems and other issues caused by clogged print heads and ink carts. What the printer manufacturer is attempting to do by using cartridge 'expiration' features is to avoid the problem by making the ink cart expire at a specific time and/or after a specific number of pages printed.
Mostly this is because most users are clueless and don't understand 3 things about inkjet printers:
1) Using plain (uncoated) paper is a bad idea. The paper dust gets in the print heads and clogs them. 2) If your printer has sat along time without being used, it probably has some dried ink stuck in the print nozzles. You need to clean the nozzles in order to get the best print results after it's sat for more than 2-3 days without being used. Even after cleaning, if image quality problems don't go away, you need to throw away the ink cart, no matter how much ink is in it. 3) Old ink carts (there's an expiry date on the box, usually) should be thrown away and not used.
Unfortunately, since they don't understand this, the printer mfr. puts chips in the carts to try to force the issue, when really the problem is user education.
Can be refilled. Runs cartridges until they're dry. Built like a tank.
Wish they still made printers like that. I'd like something as robust but faster and higher resolution. Get a laser printer.:-D Seriously. They're pretty cheap these days and built like a tank. Only bad thing about lasers is color performance for photos is still, IMHO, not on par with the best inkjets, but if you're looking for robust, fast, and high resolution, laser printers are the mark. (If you need absolutely the best color performance, inkjet or dye sub.)
This is called "no single point of failure". 25 servers with one down= 24 still working... There's really no "single point of failure" in most mainframe systems either. I don't know about this particular one, but most mainframes have redundant processors, mainboards, storage, power supplies, etc. In many modern mainframes you can swap out a motherboard or a power supply with no downtime. Mainframes typically run 24x7 with very minimal maintenance compared to to 25 servers. Forget "three 9's", mainframes typically have 100% uptime for years on end.
That being said, I think the debate in servers vs. mainframes is long since over -- servers won, for the most part, except in mission critical applications where 100% uptime is mandatory. Servers are cheaper and with clustering you get extremely high availability and/or computation power to spare.
I'm pretty sure that paying a retailer not to stock your competitors' products constitutes collusion and is a clear violation of antitrust laws. This is akin to Nike paying Wal*Mart $100 million not to stock Adidas shoes. The only thing that muddies the water a little bit is that 'compatible' inkjet cartridges violate the DMCA and probably several HP patents, and hence are illegal. Anyone know how this might affect the lawsuit?
Well, the drive mentioned in the article uses only 300 mW of power.
Also, the power source people seem to overlook the most is people-power. You move, generating energy. You give off heat, generating energy. Even just sitting around thinking generates energy. Energy that could be captured and used to charge a battery. I also seem to remember a bunch of recent Slashdot articles about batteries. Sony's new biobattery that runs on sugar, along with high-density batteries that can store a lot of charge in a small space.
If we think about what technology is available, the dream of wearable computers can finally become reality.
I could see ultramobile devices using these. Not only are they small, but they consume only about 300 mW of power active, and 1.1 mW in sleep mode.
We're starting to get to a point where wearable computers will be practical. You'll be able to sew a whole computer right into a jacket or a sweater. Throw in one of those wearable displays, abd forget lugging around that heavy laptop!
I don't have it as good as you, but let's see if I'm average:
$24.95/mo for VOIP (including $5/month for alias phone number) * 12 = $300 cellphone is like $40 / month * 12 = $480
Hmph. Guess not. In more than one way. I spend a WHOLE lot less on my landline than I do on my wireless, and I spend, on average, less for my wireless.
Predict bad things are going to happen unless people do what you say/buy what you sell/give what you want/etc. This Slashdot post is cursed. You must send US$2,000 to me immediately! The last Slashdot poster who's post was cursed got this same warning, and 3 days later, he died!!!
Hurry! Send the US$2,000 immediately or be cursed forever and maybe even suffer a fate worse than death!!!
Simple. It didn't happen before. The Internet has experienced 'exafloods' before. The amount of data and traffic have skyrocketted exponentially every year since this big major growth spurts started in the 1980s and 1990s. How can the Internet do that?
Because it was designed that way, that's why. The Internet is the largest distributed network in the world. TCP/IP was purposefully designed to be scalable on a massively large scale. Sure, we've improved the technology along the way, but the bottom line is that the routers directing all those tubes aren't going to buckle under the pressure anytime soon, and routing technology is just getting better all the time.
Oh this should be interesting. Fibre over a collision-and hold-off architecture. They have this newfanged technology. It's called switched Ethernet! It's amazing! With switched Ethernet, you get no collisions!
This random number generator is not used by default. Prove it. Oh, that's right, you can't because you don't have the source code. Unless maybe you're astroturfing. Even then you'd be under an NDA anyhow.
Other governments are not going to be willing to buy a system with a NSA backdoor. And other governments have replaced Windows with custom Linux distros due to the potential of this very problem. This is a fact that cannot be denied.
Who even says that at an RNG has to be at the OS level? If NSA or its customers want to use Dual_EC_DRBG, there is nothing stopping them from doing so on Vista or any other OS.
As another poster said, where in the OS is this used? Do you know? Does anyone but Microsoft?
According to TFA, this was added in SP1, so my guess to all of those would be "no", unless these components were updated by SP1 to use the Dual_EC_DRBG.
Given the known problems of Dual_EC_DRBG, which, from the Bruce Schneier article, include the fact that's slow, that it's got an obvious backdoor, and that it was inexplicably pushed for the NSA for seemingly no reason, why would Microsoft add it to Vista SP1?
Now adding the algorithm itself isn't really a backdoor per se, because no one is forcing you to use that particular random number generator. But it is also interesting to note that this isn't the first time Microsoft has been accused of inserting backdoors for the CIA or the NSA. Of course, Microsoft vehemently denies such allegations, but I would assume that they would. Given what the telcos did for the NSA, would anyone be surprised if it really did come out that the NSA actually forced Microsoft to put backdoors in Office or Windows?
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They don't have to prove that you have the data, only that you transferred it. Big difference.
Keeping a wireless router open could be viewed as an admission of guilt, but you should check with a lawyer. Arm-chair lawyers know next to nothing about the law and have nothing to lose by telling you that keeping the wireless router open is a good defense.
They should have hired Hillary Clinton. If anyone knows how to get away with destroying evidence, it's her!
There, there. On to the good news: we still have plenty of PS3's in stock, Mr. Alb3rt.
The difference is do you want to voluntarily throw away $50 or do you want HP to do it for you?
At least with the first option, there are a number of things you can do to eek a little bit more life out of the cart. Cleaning the cart most often times gets the nozzles unclogged. And, if repeated cleanings don't work, there are a few tricks you can try. For HP carts, take a foam rubber makeup application swab (ask a woman if you have no idea what I'm talking about), dip it in rubbing alcohol (91% works very well, 70% is okay) and rub it on the the print nozzles (that's the metal foil thing on the bottom/side (depending on printer) of the cart). That'll clean the cart a lot of times to the point it can be re-used. If you still can't get it -- it's probably a lost cause, but you might also try taking a pencil eraser to the print nozzles. Don't ask me why this works.
And if inkjet paper is too expensive for you, don't buy an inkjet printer -- you can't afford to have one. Get a laser printer.
Switch statements are syntactic sugar. They're really not needed. Nested if/then/else do the same thing. There are also other constructs that you can use to get around the whole nested if/then/else thing too in many cases.
Most food establishments carry only one or the other more out of practical concerns than out of anti-competitive practices. Coke and Pepsi products usually have to be maintained on two separate fountains due to the fact that distributors for Coke fountains make it so that you can't use Pepsi and vice versa by using proprietary connectors and whatnot. There are exceptions to this -- machines that work for both Coke and Pepsi packs, but these are usually a lot more expensive and not worth the restaurant's investment.
Now with chains -- usually what happens is that the chain signs a deal to carry exclusively Coke or Pepsi products across the entire chain due to getting a discounted price. That's a bit different than outright kickbacks.
Mostly this is because most users are clueless and don't understand 3 things about inkjet printers:
1) Using plain (uncoated) paper is a bad idea. The paper dust gets in the print heads and clogs them.
2) If your printer has sat along time without being used, it probably has some dried ink stuck in the print nozzles. You need to clean the nozzles in order to get the best print results after it's sat for more than 2-3 days without being used. Even after cleaning, if image quality problems don't go away, you need to throw away the ink cart, no matter how much ink is in it.
3) Old ink carts (there's an expiry date on the box, usually) should be thrown away and not used.
Unfortunately, since they don't understand this, the printer mfr. puts chips in the carts to try to force the issue, when really the problem is user education.
Wish they still made printers like that. I'd like something as robust but faster and higher resolution. Get a laser printer.
That being said, I think the debate in servers vs. mainframes is long since over -- servers won, for the most part, except in mission critical applications where 100% uptime is mandatory. Servers are cheaper and with clustering you get extremely high availability and/or computation power to spare.
I'm pretty sure that paying a retailer not to stock your competitors' products constitutes collusion and is a clear violation of antitrust laws. This is akin to Nike paying Wal*Mart $100 million not to stock Adidas shoes. The only thing that muddies the water a little bit is that 'compatible' inkjet cartridges violate the DMCA and probably several HP patents, and hence are illegal. Anyone know how this might affect the lawsuit?
Or was it they were devoted to e-certifying machines? Or were they certifying voting on e-Machines? Argh! I'm so ocnfused!
Well, the drive mentioned in the article uses only 300 mW of power.
Also, the power source people seem to overlook the most is people-power. You move, generating energy. You give off heat, generating energy. Even just sitting around thinking generates energy. Energy that could be captured and used to charge a battery. I also seem to remember a bunch of recent Slashdot articles about batteries. Sony's new biobattery that runs on sugar, along with high-density batteries that can store a lot of charge in a small space.
If we think about what technology is available, the dream of wearable computers can finally become reality.
I could see ultramobile devices using these. Not only are they small, but they consume only about 300 mW of power active, and 1.1 mW in sleep mode.
We're starting to get to a point where wearable computers will be practical. You'll be able to sew a whole computer right into a jacket or a sweater. Throw in one of those wearable displays, abd forget lugging around that heavy laptop!
I don't have it as good as you, but let's see if I'm average:
$24.95/mo for VOIP (including $5/month for alias phone number) * 12 = $300
cellphone is like $40 / month * 12 = $480
Hmph. Guess not. In more than one way. I spend a WHOLE lot less on my landline than I do on my wireless, and I spend, on average, less for my wireless.
Hurry! Send the US$2,000 immediately or be cursed forever and maybe even suffer a fate worse than death!!!
So how's the job at Microsoft going, anyways?
You'll know that Dual_EC_DRBG is not yet a FIPS standard, and even if NSA is pushing it, that doesn't mean it's going to be.
So how much do you get paid to astroturf?
Simple. It didn't happen before. The Internet has experienced 'exafloods' before. The amount of data and traffic have skyrocketted exponentially every year since this big major growth spurts started in the 1980s and 1990s. How can the Internet do that?
Because it was designed that way, that's why. The Internet is the largest distributed network in the world. TCP/IP was purposefully designed to be scalable on a massively large scale. Sure, we've improved the technology along the way, but the bottom line is that the routers directing all those tubes aren't going to buckle under the pressure anytime soon, and routing technology is just getting better all the time.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:0D:03:01:04
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::000:00f0:0043:0084/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1781638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1651683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:803882935 (766.6 MiB) TX bytes:333706343 (318.2 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800
(address details fudged only)
You're right. And there's no way to know unless you have the source. And, well, let's just say Windows Vista ain't exactly open source.
Who even says that at an RNG has to be at the OS level? If NSA or its customers want to use Dual_EC_DRBG, there is nothing stopping them from doing so on Vista or any other OS.
As another poster said, where in the OS is this used? Do you know? Does anyone but Microsoft?
I wouldn't go that far. The NSA did develop SELinux, after all.
According to TFA, this was added in SP1, so my guess to all of those would be "no", unless these components were updated by SP1 to use the Dual_EC_DRBG.
Given the known problems of Dual_EC_DRBG, which, from the Bruce Schneier article, include the fact that's slow, that it's got an obvious backdoor, and that it was inexplicably pushed for the NSA for seemingly no reason, why would Microsoft add it to Vista SP1?
Now adding the algorithm itself isn't really a backdoor per se, because no one is forcing you to use that particular random number generator. But it is also interesting to note that this isn't the first time Microsoft has been accused of inserting backdoors for the CIA or the NSA. Of course, Microsoft vehemently denies such allegations, but I would assume that they would. Given what the telcos did for the NSA, would anyone be surprised if it really did come out that the NSA actually forced Microsoft to put backdoors in Office or Windows?
Not sure what the link is, but this asshat threw the same one in the last story. The javascript is massive and slowed my browser to a crawl.