Its pretty obvious that a furniture store has no claim to calling itself "Microsoft". They should change their name to something clearly related to the furniture business, like "Tiger Wood Works".
Who is doing this "taking away" "checking" and "making him"? He can get new computer equipment in 30 minutes and how will you find it? How will you find "all his liquid assets"? You think he listed spam earnings on his 1040, maybe? You think he signs up with ISPs using his own credit card? Are you going to assign a team of detectives to him?
There's a reason Florida has so many spammers, state law says you can't take their house. These guys are used to being sued by the people they've defrauded.
What do you think prisons are for? They aren't some expensive luxury, they're the cheapest way that we have found to prevent criminals from continuing to commit crimes. If it were possible to do it some cheaper way, we would be doing it. You seem to think that a guy who is used to stealing thousands of dollars a week from suckers will tamely work at McDonalds as long as we have a big nasty parole officer check up on him every two weeks?
Why are you counting the prison costs if you don't count the spam costs? Do you think ISPs pay nothing for disk space, bandwidth, payroll for time spent cleaning up hacked systems? You also believe that spammers wouldn't lie? You are naive.
You don't value your own time very highly, then. Personally, I charge $75/hour for consulting. If I spend a 10 minutes per week deleting spam and updating mail filtering software, that's $12 right there.
Multiply that by 1 million people and you get an idea of the real damages due to this guy.
The right side control on the steering column in my Subaru has 5 different functions on it all marked with the same windshield wiper icon: rear wiper, rear wash, front wiper, intermittent rate, and front wash.
Who decided that pressing the remote unlock should only do the driver door unless I hit it twice? Now I always hit the button 3 or 4 times to make sure the tailgate is unlocked.
I knew one woman in IT who tried various strategies to keep the guys from hanging around her cubicle all day. One was to leave a pouch of chewing tobacco on her desk. Finally she put up yellow tape "Police Line - Do not Cross" across the opening.
Any time a standard has been changed, you will have some outdated, but perfectly correct software. Hence, two pieces of software may not agree on the meaning of a Unicode string even without a software error.
Verne saw bicycle spokes disappear at high speed and assumed that people would too. Not unreasonable.
As for the gun, I remember that he did calculate the amount of "gun cotton" required to launch his spaceship, and had a very long barrel to make the acceleration more reasonable. It may not have been high quality science, but it was a lot more plausible than Star Trek technobabble.
Wells in "Food of the Gods" predicted the problems of GM food supply, including tests escaping into the environment. He failed to call the company Monsanto, however.
About 5 years ago some manufacturer announced chips for under $5 that would do speaker-independent, limited vocabulary recognition and I predicted that there would be products appearing all over the place that would get rid of the crappy buttons and use speech as the interface. The only place I see it is in cell phones, and I always turn it off, because I don't want my cell phone surreptitiously calling someone while I am talking ABOUT them. Anyway, why hasn't the toy and gadget market latched onto speech input? It seems like those back massagers ought to be able to understand "Harder, ooh, harder, harder".
The reason they have the huge backlog is because they approve so many patents. The reason that they approve so many patents is that they get fees for maintenance on patents that they approve, but only filing fees for patents that they reject. Also, if they reject a patent the filer can file objections, so its more work to reject than accept.
Maybe if they stopped granting patents on discoveries (like genes), ideas (like software and business processes), or obvious stuff (like XOR) and just granted them on real inventions, then there would not be a huge backlog.
You have forgotten about the high-priced, low quality foodstuffs available at the cinema. Don't forget -- sneaking your own food into the cinema is STEALING. Oh wait, no it isn't.
Bubble memory was like delay-line memory, but retained the data when the power was off. Not clear from the article whether racetrack can be non-volatile, but it needs that to compete with disk.
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Or the janitor.
Its amazing what you can find by just hitting the Back button a few times on an open browser window.
Its pretty obvious that a furniture store has no claim to calling itself "Microsoft". They should change their name to something clearly related to the furniture business, like "Tiger Wood Works".
Who is doing this "taking away" "checking" and "making him"? He can get new computer equipment in 30 minutes and how will you find it? How will you find "all his liquid assets"? You think he listed spam earnings on his 1040, maybe? You think he signs up with ISPs using his own credit card? Are you going to assign a team of detectives to him?
There's a reason Florida has so many spammers, state law says you can't take their house. These guys are used to being sued by the people they've defrauded.
What do you think prisons are for? They aren't some expensive luxury, they're the cheapest way that we have found to prevent criminals from continuing to commit crimes. If it were possible to do it some cheaper way, we would be doing it. You seem to think that a guy who is used to stealing thousands of dollars a week from suckers will tamely work at McDonalds as long as we have a big nasty parole officer check up on him every two weeks?
And you call me drunk?
Why are you counting the prison costs if you don't count the spam costs? Do you think ISPs pay nothing for disk space, bandwidth, payroll for time spent cleaning up hacked systems? You also believe that spammers wouldn't lie? You are naive.
If society doesn't value my time, why should it value his? If we follow your logic, then we should put him in jail for life.
You don't value your own time very highly, then. Personally, I charge $75/hour for consulting. If I spend a 10 minutes per week deleting spam and updating mail filtering software, that's $12 right there.
Multiply that by 1 million people and you get an idea of the real damages due to this guy.
Mine starts the car honking insanely when I do that. I forgot that one, that's another annoying feature.
I understand that there is a popular OS written in C++. Here's what Linus has to say about it:
"we did try C++ once already, back in 1992. It sucks. Trust me - writing kernel code in C++ is a BLOODY STUPID IDEA."
The right side control on the steering column in my Subaru has 5 different functions on it all marked with the same windshield wiper icon: rear wiper, rear wash, front wiper, intermittent rate, and front wash.
Who decided that pressing the remote unlock should only do the driver door unless I hit it twice? Now I always hit the button 3 or 4 times to make sure the tailgate is unlocked.
I knew one woman in IT who tried various strategies to keep the guys from hanging around her cubicle all day. One was to leave a pouch of chewing tobacco on her desk. Finally she put up yellow tape "Police Line - Do not Cross" across the opening.
that's fine.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/
Any time a standard has been changed, you will have some outdated, but perfectly correct software. Hence, two pieces of software may not agree on the meaning of a Unicode string even without a software error.
Its also Real Estate 101: "When you are selling your house, make sure the toilets are clean."
Verne saw bicycle spokes disappear at high speed and assumed that people would too. Not unreasonable.
As for the gun, I remember that he did calculate the amount of "gun cotton" required to launch his spaceship, and had a very long barrel to make the acceleration more reasonable. It may not have been high quality science, but it was a lot more plausible than Star Trek technobabble.
Wells in "Food of the Gods" predicted the problems of GM food supply, including tests escaping into the environment. He failed to call the company Monsanto, however.
About 5 years ago some manufacturer announced chips for under $5 that would do speaker-independent, limited vocabulary recognition and I predicted that there would be products appearing all over the place that would get rid of the crappy buttons and use speech as the interface. The only place I see it is in cell phones, and I always turn it off, because I don't want my cell phone surreptitiously calling someone while I am talking ABOUT them. Anyway, why hasn't the toy and gadget market latched onto speech input? It seems like those back massagers ought to be able to understand "Harder, ooh, harder, harder".
The reason they have the huge backlog is because they approve so many patents. The reason that they approve so many patents is that they get fees for maintenance on patents that they approve, but only filing fees for patents that they reject. Also, if they reject a patent the filer can file objections, so its more work to reject than accept.
Maybe if they stopped granting patents on discoveries (like genes), ideas (like software and business processes), or obvious stuff (like XOR) and just granted them on real inventions, then there would not be a huge backlog.
Netcraft confirms it, the movie industry is ...
Oh wait, Spiderman 3 seems to have done over $150M on it's opening weekend. Perhaps I won't start crying for them yet.
You have forgotten about the high-priced, low quality foodstuffs available at the cinema. Don't forget -- sneaking your own food into the cinema is STEALING. Oh wait, no it isn't.
Meant to say "refractive index is about 1.5". Use the Preview Button!
Speed of light depends on the material. Fiber cable is usually about 1.5, so you will get 50% more storage capacity than light in a vacuum.
Bubble memory was like delay-line memory, but retained the data when the power was off. Not clear from the article whether racetrack can be non-volatile, but it needs that to compete with disk.
ironic: adj. 1) A word not used to mean what it actually means.
How's that for, er, something.
"the 40 year anniversary of the first games hooked up to the television"
an oscilloscope is not a television.