Good job completely avoiding the topic at hand. How does your favorite candidate's plan to bring home the troops make any difference for emergency responders?
They would be available to deal with zombies, thus alleviating the emergency responders from having to deal with it.
And you will submit the counter-DMCA not to Skype Luxembourg, but to your US based ISP/hosting service, and they may or may not notify skype about it.
Actually they are legally required to both restore the material in question and notify the complainant about the counter claim. If they fail to do so they lose the safe harbor provisions they had previously enjoyed and open themselves to liability.
Well, is it actually such a common format? There have been about 400 million portable digital music players sold (commonly called MP3 players); about 300 million are iPods and most support ALAC while none support FLAC, and you may have some information about how many of the other 100 million support FLAC. All in all much less than a quarter supporting FLAC, and three quarters supporting ALAC.
And any answer that involves overwriting the firmware of the device with rockbox or something similar doesn't count. At that point we can just claim that they all support FLAC because you can convert FLAC to MP3 and they all play MP3s.
I pointed out that it does not support the format, someone bought it to me as a present and did not know the first thing about formats, arguments like "not all players suport all formats" is a bit weak when flac is such a common format.
So where can I buy audio tracks in this 'flac' common format? How many tracks/albums/artists are in their catalog?
They should call up the people at CSI. They already have the tech, you put a fuzzy picture on the computer screen, say "Enhance" to it, and it shows you the original document. They just need to use whatever software those TV folks are using.
If not they can surely just create a GUI interface using Visual Basic that can track the necessary shreds.
There's a lot of other crimes that are dangerous to neighbors, why just this one? And no I'm not advocating for all (or none), just asking why this one is singled out.
Because the data is available. Sex offenders are unique in that they are required to register their residence in many states and that information is public. I do not believe there is a similar registration requirements for drunk drivers, for instance. Combine that with the nature of the crime and you have an easy application to sell.
If the subscriber serves a counter notification complying with statutory requirements, including a statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification, then unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the subscriber, the service provider must put the material back up within 10-14 business days after receiving the counter notification.
dmca.pdf, page 12
This document, from copyright.gov, states very clearly that the provider must put the contested material back up. Having said that, I think there is a distinction to be made between google the ISP provider and YouTube the web application. These may well be separate companies with google being the ISP that was served with a takedown notice and YouTube, on behalf of their users, being the content provider. In this case google is notified as an ISP of the alleged violation. They inform the content provider, YouTube, and take down the content. YouTube informs its customer, Joe User that it has violated the terms of the contract with YouTube. Joe can tell YouTube that he thinks things are ok(via a counterclaim form sent to YouTube) and YouTube will forward the counterclaim to Google, their ISP. Youtube's TOS state that they will forward the user's contact info to their ISP (google) who will send the counter claim on. Google as an ISP now has a requirement, as stated above in the dmca doc, to reinstate the content. YouTube however has no such obligation and in their TOS they use the word "may" when they talk about reinstating the content. This little legal distinction may allow them to skirt the requirement to reinstate the content if they so choose.
Growl has surprised its users by going closed-source and only available for purchase on the Mac App Store
If you are going to make a statement like this in a headline, shouldn't at least one link point to something that confirms this? I saw nothing that claimed Growl was going closed source.
They wouldn't have to visit the site, just infect the USB drive of someone visiting the site. It'd be a lot easier to target someone who would have reason to visit the site, including foreign contractors.
This is true and that may be how it happened with Stuxnet. If so, it may also have been the primary reason that Stuxnet met with limited success at best. Stuxnet spread too much for its own good. It was detected and analyzed a lot earlier than I suspect its creator would have preferred. The other thing that was likely unanticipated was that the size, complexity, and uniqueness of the code would attract attention from people with the drive to solve mysteries, the knowledge to actually attack the code, and the connections to bring the right resources together. My greatest fear is that whomever created and released Stuxnet will not make these mistakes again.
Seriously, if anyone thought that either a, whoever built Stuxnet or b, all those who said "Wow, that worked well..." wouldn't be stumbling over one another to release ver 2.0 either had their head buried in the sand, or there are pink unicorns farting rainbows in their existence.
It will be interesting to see if it does occur. A couple of interesting points:
Stuxnet was extremely sophisticated and included four 0day exploits in it to propagate. That is a lot of advantage to blow on something like this for the average virus author.
For all intents and purposes Stuxnet was designed to propagate on a LAN and targeted specific systems. Much of the code will not generalize well, even if it could be disassembled.
The code hiding and organization was extremely convoluted and it is unlikely to be disassembled by 99.999% of the virus writing community.
Now some things might be usable and I am sure it has inspired many new ideas. It has also demonstrated that something like this could indeed be done.
Capsaicin, OTOH, is fat-soluble. It usually takes an oil-heavy food or drink to take away some of the heat. Many people recommend milk, but I've found that cheese works better.
At hot sauce tasting events I have attended, they often use mouthfuls of whip cream to cool things off and "cleanse the pallette" between samples. Whipped cream combines many of the things that work well to cool you down.
On another note, there are some sauces like one called 'Pure Cap" that say they are up to 500,000 Scoville units in heat. I wonder what ingesting that pure would do. I have heard some urban legends (or maybe not so much legend) that there have been people who had heart attacks induced by the sudden intense heat.
Pure capsaicin extract is 16 million Scoville units I believe.
'Pure Cap' is a trademarked name of a product, but it is not, in fact, pure capsaicin extract. There was a weekend of fire event at Jungle Jim's Market in Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago. Almost every vendor had at least one sauce that was over 1 million Scovilles, such as CAJohn's Vicious Viper hot sauce. most were mate from Bhut Jolokia peppers but there were a couple made from Trinidad Scorpion. They have different flavors but both are nice and hot. The best I had included some ancho chiles for a bit of smokiness.
Wikipedia has a very good entry on capsaicin including the mechanism of action. Basically it binds to a receptor called the VR1 receptor, triggering a reaction in the cell that produces a sensation similar to abrasion or excess heat, thus the burning sensation. Capsaicin is hydrophobic so drinking water really doesn't do much good.
One interesting thing that I have observed is that a lot of people, after eating hot peppers such as these or eating something with very hot sauces on them, seem to develop a case of hiccups. I have no idea why.
Because the author is wrong. According to the list of stores on University Village website there is only one Microsoft store which will open October 20th.
I can't think of any time, at least in the last ten year or so, that I couldn't set my in-room safe to my own password. Granted, its usually only 4 numbers long, but it's still my password.
The point is that the default password also works at the same time. A proper design would clear the user's password when the default one is used. If you come back and can't get into the safe, then you know the default was used.
The aether is a shared medium, and as such, you have to deal with collisions from other transmitters and interference from unintentional radiators (microwave oven, I'm looking at you.)
After that we need to start talking about intentional interference that will screw your control system. Jamming a signal is fairly trivial if the control system is going to be reasonably priced.
You will also see a lot of late stage design change failures when someone in a different department decides that an intervening panel needs some extra thermal protection and adds a metal backed sheet of insulation.
The U.S., where I work for a university that helps its graduates find jobs. You?
How is that working out for your graduates these days? What percentage of the students graduate? What is the median salary of one of your graduates one year after graduation? What is the median amount of debt that one of your graduates has on graduation day?
No kidding. A couple of months ago I would have said Netflix was untouchable in its market. But two or three more asinine announcements like they've had lately, and I'd start to think there's plenty of room for non-crazy competition.
Netflix does seem to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Good job completely avoiding the topic at hand. How does your favorite candidate's plan to bring home the troops make any difference for emergency responders?
They would be available to deal with zombies, thus alleviating the emergency responders from having to deal with it.
I must remember that insult - it's quite good :)
Too bad you can't credit it properly since whomever it was is a wuss and posted anonymously.
Prepaid cell phones have required contact details with signup for years now (at least in the US).
And no one ever gives false information when registering a prepaid cell phone.
And you will submit the counter-DMCA not to Skype Luxembourg, but to your US based ISP/hosting service, and they may or may not notify skype about it.
Actually they are legally required to both restore the material in question and notify the complainant about the counter claim. If they fail to do so they lose the safe harbor provisions they had previously enjoyed and open themselves to liability.
Well, is it actually such a common format? There have been about 400 million portable digital music players sold (commonly called MP3 players); about 300 million are iPods and most support ALAC while none support FLAC, and you may have some information about how many of the other 100 million support FLAC. All in all much less than a quarter supporting FLAC, and three quarters supporting ALAC.
And any answer that involves overwriting the firmware of the device with rockbox or something similar doesn't count. At that point we can just claim that they all support FLAC because you can convert FLAC to MP3 and they all play MP3s.
I pointed out that it does not support the format, someone bought it to me as a present and did not know the first thing about formats, arguments like "not all players suport all formats" is a bit weak when flac is such a common format.
So where can I buy audio tracks in this 'flac' common format? How many tracks/albums/artists are in their catalog?
They should call up the people at CSI. They already have the tech, you put a fuzzy picture on the computer screen, say "Enhance" to it, and it shows you the original document. They just need to use whatever software those TV folks are using.
If not they can surely just create a GUI interface using Visual Basic that can track the necessary shreds.
There's a lot of other crimes that are dangerous to neighbors, why just this one? And no I'm not advocating for all (or none), just asking why this one is singled out.
Because the data is available. Sex offenders are unique in that they are required to register their residence in many states and that information is public. I do not believe there is a similar registration requirements for drunk drivers, for instance. Combine that with the nature of the crime and you have an easy application to sell.
I'm a bit surprised that Amazon made it past prior art.
I'm not. Our entire patent system needs to DIAF.
If the subscriber serves a counter notification complying with statutory requirements, including a statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification, then unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the subscriber, the service provider must put the material back up within 10-14 business days after receiving the counter notification.
dmca.pdf, page 12
This document, from copyright.gov, states very clearly that the provider must put the contested material back up. Having said that, I think there is a distinction to be made between google the ISP provider and YouTube the web application. These may well be separate companies with google being the ISP that was served with a takedown notice and YouTube, on behalf of their users, being the content provider. In this case google is notified as an ISP of the alleged violation. They inform the content provider, YouTube, and take down the content. YouTube informs its customer, Joe User that it has violated the terms of the contract with YouTube. Joe can tell YouTube that he thinks things are ok(via a counterclaim form sent to YouTube) and YouTube will forward the counterclaim to Google, their ISP. Youtube's TOS state that they will forward the user's contact info to their ISP (google) who will send the counter claim on. Google as an ISP now has a requirement, as stated above in the dmca doc, to reinstate the content. YouTube however has no such obligation and in their TOS they use the word "may" when they talk about reinstating the content. This little legal distinction may allow them to skirt the requirement to reinstate the content if they so choose.
I predict a large number of cash transactions occurring 10 feet outside of the state of Tennessee.
Growl has surprised its users by going closed-source and only available for purchase on the Mac App Store
If you are going to make a statement like this in a headline, shouldn't at least one link point to something that confirms this? I saw nothing that claimed Growl was going closed source.
What do we call the opposite of FUD? Complacency and Certitude? CaC? Quit trying to shove all this CaC down our throats!
I believe they would be called facts.
They wouldn't have to visit the site, just infect the USB drive of someone visiting the site. It'd be a lot easier to target someone who would have reason to visit the site, including foreign contractors.
This is true and that may be how it happened with Stuxnet. If so, it may also have been the primary reason that Stuxnet met with limited success at best. Stuxnet spread too much for its own good. It was detected and analyzed a lot earlier than I suspect its creator would have preferred. The other thing that was likely unanticipated was that the size, complexity, and uniqueness of the code would attract attention from people with the drive to solve mysteries, the knowledge to actually attack the code, and the connections to bring the right resources together. My greatest fear is that whomever created and released Stuxnet will not make these mistakes again.
Seriously, if anyone thought that either a, whoever built Stuxnet or b, all those who said "Wow, that worked well..." wouldn't be stumbling over one another to release ver 2.0 either had their head buried in the sand, or there are pink unicorns farting rainbows in their existence.
It will be interesting to see if it does occur. A couple of interesting points:
Now some things might be usable and I am sure it has inspired many new ideas. It has also demonstrated that something like this could indeed be done.
Capsaicin, OTOH, is fat-soluble. It usually takes an oil-heavy food or drink to take away some of the heat. Many people recommend milk, but I've found that cheese works better.
At hot sauce tasting events I have attended, they often use mouthfuls of whip cream to cool things off and "cleanse the pallette" between samples. Whipped cream combines many of the things that work well to cool you down.
On another note, there are some sauces like one called 'Pure Cap" that say they are up to 500,000 Scoville units in heat. I wonder what ingesting that pure would do. I have heard some urban legends (or maybe not so much legend) that there have been people who had heart attacks induced by the sudden intense heat.
Pure capsaicin extract is 16 million Scoville units I believe. 'Pure Cap' is a trademarked name of a product, but it is not, in fact, pure capsaicin extract. There was a weekend of fire event at Jungle Jim's Market in Cincinnati a couple of weeks ago. Almost every vendor had at least one sauce that was over 1 million Scovilles, such as CAJohn's Vicious Viper hot sauce. most were mate from Bhut Jolokia peppers but there were a couple made from Trinidad Scorpion. They have different flavors but both are nice and hot. The best I had included some ancho chiles for a bit of smokiness.
Wikipedia has a very good entry on capsaicin including the mechanism of action. Basically it binds to a receptor called the VR1 receptor, triggering a reaction in the cell that produces a sensation similar to abrasion or excess heat, thus the burning sensation. Capsaicin is hydrophobic so drinking water really doesn't do much good.
One interesting thing that I have observed is that a lot of people, after eating hot peppers such as these or eating something with very hot sauces on them, seem to develop a case of hiccups. I have no idea why.
Because the author is wrong. According to the list of stores on University Village website there is only one Microsoft store which will open October 20th.
Hey, what was that whooshing sound?
I can't think of any time, at least in the last ten year or so, that I couldn't set my in-room safe to my own password. Granted, its usually only 4 numbers long, but it's still my password.
The point is that the default password also works at the same time. A proper design would clear the user's password when the default one is used. If you come back and can't get into the safe, then you know the default was used.
The aether is a shared medium, and as such, you have to deal with collisions from other transmitters and interference from unintentional radiators (microwave oven, I'm looking at you.)
After that we need to start talking about intentional interference that will screw your control system. Jamming a signal is fairly trivial if the control system is going to be reasonably priced. You will also see a lot of late stage design change failures when someone in a different department decides that an intervening panel needs some extra thermal protection and adds a metal backed sheet of insulation.
Just tag this "DoomedFromTheStart".
I for one would like to welcome our self-replicating overlords.
Especially if they look like Kristanna Loken
"The fair use of a copyrighted work, for purposes such as [...] research, is not an infringement of copyright." -- 17 USC 107
I didn't know the USC applied in England.
The U.S., where I work for a university that helps its graduates find jobs. You?
How is that working out for your graduates these days? What percentage of the students graduate? What is the median salary of one of your graduates one year after graduation? What is the median amount of debt that one of your graduates has on graduation day?
No kidding. A couple of months ago I would have said Netflix was untouchable in its market. But two or three more asinine announcements like they've had lately, and I'd start to think there's plenty of room for non-crazy competition.
Netflix does seem to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
yes, blame this on teachers, not on the management that is making the decisions. good job, you've managed to blame someone with no say in this at all!
Whooosh!!!