The question you ultimately have to ask yourself is cost VS benefit.
Getting rid of files that are identical is low cost and fairly high benefit so it's potentially worth doing. Trying to work out which version of a file that you probablly won't use againis the "good" one has an extremely high cost verses it's benefit so it's probablly not worth doing.
Note that you can change the location that "my documents" (the default save location for most apps) points to which should go a long way towards solving this problem.
No, ammount of currency controlled doesn't help you mess with the chain, it's ammount of hashing power controlled that allows you to mess with the chain.
Specifically it's trivial to trace the flow of bitcoins among bitcoin addresses but unless someone has been stupid (e.g. giving out a fixed bitcoin address for incoming payments) it's very hard to pin down those bitcoin addresses to real world entities or even to tell the difference between internal transations by an entity and transactions between entities.
Does your software rely on the sandboxing features of java to prevent code from accessing things it shouldn't? and if so are you trying to protect against malice or just against accidents?
If you are relying on the sandboxing features of java to protect against malice you might want to reconsider your strategy. If not you are probablly ok.
Writing a document and getting both parties to sign it is the most solid way of forming a contract (and required in many places for certain types of contract) but it isn't the only way a contract can be formed. Contracts can be formed though verbal agreement or through actions. AIUI by parking on private land with terms clearly displayed you are entering into a contract to park under those terms even if you didn't explicitly sign anything or talk to anyone.
Cars, vans, lorrys etc in the UK have to display their number plates on both front and rear (motorcycles only have to display them on the rear) so setting up the automatic recognition cameras to read the rear places would mostly avoid this problem. It's easy to tailgate someone, much harder to force someone to tailgate you.
However I did hear that they can't read the old style black and white number plates. Dunno if that is true but if it is then provided you are prepared to drive an old vehicle it could provide an easy way to avoid the cameras (if you don't drive an old vehicle and you are displaying black and white plates illegally then you may well get stopped by the police).
Assuming they were written by programmers of roughly equal competence Java applications in general probablly are safer than their counterparts in more traditional languages due to the fact that certain categories of exploit basically can't happen.
The java related security problems mainly come from software (most notablly the browser plugin) that uses the java runtime's sandboxing features to run untrusted code. The sandboxing system is highly complex and as such prone to bugs and when bugs do happen they often end up allowing untrusted code to do things you really don't want it to do.
Would they want it after a decade of building their own brand?
The actual measurement capabilities of the old HP gear may still be damn good but it lacks the modern conveniences like USB and ethernet support, small size (stuff that used to fill a rack now fits in one instrument case) easy to read displays, buttons to null out the leads so you don't need to mess around with four-wire measurements and so-on. Old engineers may have nostalgia for the brand but gradually all those engineers are going to retire or move into management and more and more people are going to remember HP as the brand on the old gear they pulled out the back of the cupboard, that works well but is a pain to use.
Microsoft even lets you download the Windows 7+ ISO straight from them
Do you have a source for this? I know there was a place supposedly associated with MS from which you could download the ISOs a while back but I don't think it was ever meant for use by the general public and IIRC MS closed it down.
As others have said the real issue isn't the success rate they have. The real question is can they make it scale to bit counts where it is actually useful while maintaining a tolerable success rate? That means increasing the number of bits dramatically.
The thing with a lot of these computer crimes is they are actually many seperate crimes rather than a single crime.
AIUI when someone is convicted of multiple crimes at the same time it's at the judges discretion whether those sentances run consecutively or concurrently. Usually they run concurrently but the possibility that they could run consecutively is what leads to such high theoretical maximums.
Math is only part of the story, bitcoin also requires the ability for clients and miners to communicate. If you can't push your transactions to the mining network and you can't get updates on the state of the blockchain from the mining network you can't really use bitcoin.
But more importantly bitcoin only has value only as long as people are prepared to exchange it for something of value. Otherwise it's just worthless numbers.
Use of small ammounts of cash is tolerated by the powers that be because people have always done it.
AIUI use of large ammounts of cash is very likely to draw unwanted attention from law enforcement. In the US at least banks are required to report all transactions of $10000 or more and any suspiscious transactions to the government.
And no, you can't just move the antenna up to the satellite end of the system because the more directional the antenna up there, the smaller the footprint it can cover.
What some operators have started doing is putting phases arrays on the sattelites allowing them to produce loads of narrow beams. This both improves the radio performance of the link to any individual user and allows frequency reuse across the sattelites footprint.
Having your inputs and your outputs denominated in different currencies is always somewhat risky but while major world currencies do move relative to each other they do not generally do so at anything like the rate bitcoin does. So the risk is much lower.
1: he probablly doesn't own all the land between his property and the nearest property 2: if the cableco won't serve his property over something as minor as 200 yards do you think they will really hook up his own cable to theirs and provide him with service? I very much doubt it.
So the only way I could see this working is if he knows the owners of a property who can get cable well enough to have them buy service on his behalf and either can persude the owners of the intervening land to let him run cables or is prepared to take the risk of running unauthorised cables along the road.
I'm sure there are close-knit rural communities where you could do what you suggested but I can imagine in others it being very difficult, especially if you are an outsider who has only recently moved into the community.
Agreed, people feel that 1080 pixels of vertical isn't really enough but find it hard to justify spending 3 times as much to go up to 1200 pixels (admittedly they do probablly get a higher quality monitor for that) or 3 times as much again to go up to 1440 pixels.
They still make 4:3 (actually 5:4) monitors. It just costs more at the same display size.
Worse than that it costs more for less pixels of width and the same/less pixels of height to get the traditional aspect ratio monitor.
looking at a computer parts supplier I use frequently
1024x768: not for sale except on very expensive touchscreens. 1366x768: £61.39
1280x1024: £78.76 1920x1080: £64.28
1600x1200: £541.80 1920x1200: £203.28
This is why so many of us end up with 1920x1080 screens, it's not the nicest aspect ratio but it's FAR lower on a price per pixel scale than anything else.
I'll go first. I am in USA and I'm holding in my hand a box of advil ibuprofen tablets 200 mg per tablet. Now its getting late in the morning so if a canadian out there could put down his second molsen breakfast beer for a moment and shovel the snow to make a path to his or her medicine cabinet and report the size of a canadian advil / ibuprofen tablet I'd appreciate it. My hypothesis is that skinny canadian advil tablets are a mere 100 mg per tablet or maybe only 75 mg as opposed to the fatty american 200 mg tablets.
Dunno about canada but here in the UK you can buy 200 mg ibuprogen tablets off the shelf and 400 mg ones over the counter. Smaller dose ibuprofen tablets don't seem to exist in the adult medicine range (I haven't tried looking in the kids medicine range recently). IIRC larger dose tablets exist but are prescription only.
Still there are possibilities for the spammer. One is to use a "test account" that is not used for actually spamming but is only used for checking if spamming was successful. Another is to just create new accounts for every spam run anyway on the assumption that previous accounts will have been caught.
This has much the same problem as many "clever" soloutions to spam. They will work as long as only a few people use them but when they become popular it's pretty easy for the spammers to implement countermeasures.
IMO it's about right for a company that is predirected to neither grow or shrink in profit significantly.
So whether you belive they are under or over valued depends on whether you believe they still have growth to come or whether you belive they are on the crest of a wave and it's downhill from here.
Also because so many students do physics A-level universities often assume that most students will have it.
I remember some of my first year courses in electronic systems engineering being tough because I hadn't done physics at A-level and while they did just about cover everything needed they went through it very quickly.
If the embassy has diplomatic vehicles parked within the premises and not across the street or elsewhere, Assange can get into one of those vehicles, with a diplomat, and drive somewhere, with the police not having the right to detain him. Problem for him is he'd have to get out at the airport or somewhere.
Couldn't they just drive the whole vehicle onto the plane?
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The question you ultimately have to ask yourself is cost VS benefit.
Getting rid of files that are identical is low cost and fairly high benefit so it's potentially worth doing. Trying to work out which version of a file that you probablly won't use againis the "good" one has an extremely high cost verses it's benefit so it's probablly not worth doing.
Personally I use a tool I wrote myself called hashbackup to dedupe files, it works but it's kinda rough. http://www.lcore.org/viewvc/hashbackup/trunk/
Note that you can change the location that "my documents" (the default save location for most apps) points to which should go a long way towards solving this problem.
No, ammount of currency controlled doesn't help you mess with the chain, it's ammount of hashing power controlled that allows you to mess with the chain.
Specifically it's trivial to trace the flow of bitcoins among bitcoin addresses but unless someone has been stupid (e.g. giving out a fixed bitcoin address for incoming payments) it's very hard to pin down those bitcoin addresses to real world entities or even to tell the difference between internal transations by an entity and transactions between entities.
Does your software rely on the sandboxing features of java to prevent code from accessing things it shouldn't? and if so are you trying to protect against malice or just against accidents?
If you are relying on the sandboxing features of java to protect against malice you might want to reconsider your strategy. If not you are probablly ok.
Writing a document and getting both parties to sign it is the most solid way of forming a contract (and required in many places for certain types of contract) but it isn't the only way a contract can be formed. Contracts can be formed though verbal agreement or through actions. AIUI by parking on private land with terms clearly displayed you are entering into a contract to park under those terms even if you didn't explicitly sign anything or talk to anyone.
Cars, vans, lorrys etc in the UK have to display their number plates on both front and rear (motorcycles only have to display them on the rear) so setting up the automatic recognition cameras to read the rear places would mostly avoid this problem. It's easy to tailgate someone, much harder to force someone to tailgate you.
However I did hear that they can't read the old style black and white number plates. Dunno if that is true but if it is then provided you are prepared to drive an old vehicle it could provide an easy way to avoid the cameras (if you don't drive an old vehicle and you are displaying black and white plates illegally then you may well get stopped by the police).
Assuming they were written by programmers of roughly equal competence Java applications in general probablly are safer than their counterparts in more traditional languages due to the fact that certain categories of exploit basically can't happen.
The java related security problems mainly come from software (most notablly the browser plugin) that uses the java runtime's sandboxing features to run untrusted code. The sandboxing system is highly complex and as such prone to bugs and when bugs do happen they often end up allowing untrusted code to do things you really don't want it to do.
Would they want it after a decade of building their own brand?
The actual measurement capabilities of the old HP gear may still be damn good but it lacks the modern conveniences like USB and ethernet support, small size (stuff that used to fill a rack now fits in one instrument case) easy to read displays, buttons to null out the leads so you don't need to mess around with four-wire measurements and so-on. Old engineers may have nostalgia for the brand but gradually all those engineers are going to retire or move into management and more and more people are going to remember HP as the brand on the old gear they pulled out the back of the cupboard, that works well but is a pain to use.
Microsoft even lets you download the Windows 7+ ISO straight from them
Do you have a source for this? I know there was a place supposedly associated with MS from which you could download the ISOs a while back but I don't think it was ever meant for use by the general public and IIRC MS closed it down.
As others have said the real issue isn't the success rate they have. The real question is can they make it scale to bit counts where it is actually useful while maintaining a tolerable success rate? That means increasing the number of bits dramatically.
The thing with a lot of these computer crimes is they are actually many seperate crimes rather than a single crime.
AIUI when someone is convicted of multiple crimes at the same time it's at the judges discretion whether those sentances run consecutively or concurrently. Usually they run concurrently but the possibility that they could run consecutively is what leads to such high theoretical maximums.
Math is only part of the story, bitcoin also requires the ability for clients and miners to communicate. If you can't push your transactions to the mining network and you can't get updates on the state of the blockchain from the mining network you can't really use bitcoin.
But more importantly bitcoin only has value only as long as people are prepared to exchange it for something of value. Otherwise it's just worthless numbers.
Use of small ammounts of cash is tolerated by the powers that be because people have always done it.
AIUI use of large ammounts of cash is very likely to draw unwanted attention from law enforcement. In the US at least banks are required to report all transactions of $10000 or more and any suspiscious transactions to the government.
And no, you can't just move the antenna up to the satellite end of the system because the more directional the antenna up there, the smaller the footprint it can cover.
What some operators have started doing is putting phases arrays on the sattelites allowing them to produce loads of narrow beams. This both improves the radio performance of the link to any individual user and allows frequency reuse across the sattelites footprint.
Having your inputs and your outputs denominated in different currencies is always somewhat risky but while major world currencies do move relative to each other they do not generally do so at anything like the rate bitcoin does. So the risk is much lower.
1: he probablly doesn't own all the land between his property and the nearest property
That should have said nearest propery with cable/
Two issues spring to mind
1: he probablly doesn't own all the land between his property and the nearest property
2: if the cableco won't serve his property over something as minor as 200 yards do you think they will really hook up his own cable to theirs and provide him with service? I very much doubt it.
So the only way I could see this working is if he knows the owners of a property who can get cable well enough to have them buy service on his behalf and either can persude the owners of the intervening land to let him run cables or is prepared to take the risk of running unauthorised cables along the road.
I'm sure there are close-knit rural communities where you could do what you suggested but I can imagine in others it being very difficult, especially if you are an outsider who has only recently moved into the community.
Agreed, people feel that 1080 pixels of vertical isn't really enough but find it hard to justify spending 3 times as much to go up to 1200 pixels (admittedly they do probablly get a higher quality monitor for that) or 3 times as much again to go up to 1440 pixels.
They still make 4:3 (actually 5:4) monitors. It just costs more at the same display size.
Worse than that it costs more for less pixels of width and the same/less pixels of height to get the traditional aspect ratio monitor.
looking at a computer parts supplier I use frequently
1024x768: not for sale except on very expensive touchscreens.
1366x768: £61.39
1280x1024: £78.76
1920x1080: £64.28
1600x1200: £541.80
1920x1200: £203.28
This is why so many of us end up with 1920x1080 screens, it's not the nicest aspect ratio but it's FAR lower on a price per pixel scale than anything else.
I'll go first. I am in USA and I'm holding in my hand a box of advil ibuprofen tablets 200 mg per tablet. Now its getting late in the morning so if a canadian out there could put down his second molsen breakfast beer for a moment and shovel the snow to make a path to his or her medicine cabinet and report the size of a canadian advil / ibuprofen tablet I'd appreciate it. My hypothesis is that skinny canadian advil tablets are a mere 100 mg per tablet or maybe only 75 mg as opposed to the fatty american 200 mg tablets.
Dunno about canada but here in the UK you can buy 200 mg ibuprogen tablets off the shelf and 400 mg ones over the counter. Smaller dose ibuprofen tablets don't seem to exist in the adult medicine range (I haven't tried looking in the kids medicine range recently). IIRC larger dose tablets exist but are prescription only.
Still there are possibilities for the spammer. One is to use a "test account" that is not used for actually spamming but is only used for checking if spamming was successful. Another is to just create new accounts for every spam run anyway on the assumption that previous accounts will have been caught.
This has much the same problem as many "clever" soloutions to spam. They will work as long as only a few people use them but when they become popular it's pretty easy for the spammers to implement countermeasures.
IMO it's about right for a company that is predirected to neither grow or shrink in profit significantly.
So whether you belive they are under or over valued depends on whether you believe they still have growth to come or whether you belive they are on the crest of a wave and it's downhill from here.
Also because so many students do physics A-level universities often assume that most students will have it.
I remember some of my first year courses in electronic systems engineering being tough because I hadn't done physics at A-level and while they did just about cover everything needed they went through it very quickly.
If the embassy has diplomatic vehicles parked within the premises and not across the street or elsewhere, Assange can get into one of those vehicles, with a diplomat, and drive somewhere, with the police not having the right to detain him. Problem for him is he'd have to get out at the airport or somewhere.
Couldn't they just drive the whole vehicle onto the plane?