Seven times the volume of data ('size') is the only sensible answer. If we were talking seven times the importance / shock value (aka 'bigness') of the leak, which is subjective, it would be too strangely specific of a value. You'd say twice, five times, ten times -- a somewhat round number. Not seven times.
Your question thus rather answers itself.
The guy who stole GBP30k of energy for 22 apartments gets nine months in jail. The guy who helped him and many, many other people steal power for 1,500 homes gets...basically nothing, if the article is to be believed. An eight month suspended sentence (so all he has to do is not commit crimes for eight months), plus a little under 19 days of community service.
To put this in perspective, assuming that the remaining 1,478 properties that he provided stolen power to used only 1/4 as much as the 22 apartments did (unlikely they used this little), that's still a little over half a million pounds, on top of the 30k that put another man away for nine months. More likely, it was closer to two million quid's worth of electricity whose theft he facilitated -- 67 times more crime, and he serves no time at all if he's a good boy for a few months.
Got it in one. These are the exact reasons I didn't end up using it myself, despite being a relatively early adopter. I don't think any of the folks I referred ended up using it, either.
Yep, couldn't agree more. Facebook just had an outage of eight+ days for 150,000 users (I was one of them), and couldn't even be bothered to give status updates on the situation (or even confirm there was a problem for the first three days). Twitter regularly has its own problems, as well.
Anybody who wants email replaced with either of these (or their ilk) needs their head examined.
You're right, "buddy", I will. As much as I've avoided them for the last couple of decades, I'll likely return to Apple because they've finally got enough momentum to sustain the kind of software I want to use.
I never said I was quitting computers altogether, which is what your comment is analogous to. I simply suggested I'd switch flavors.
To borrow your analogy, I found out my current cigarettes only have a tenth the nicotine I'm used to - and if I want the full whack I've got to pay for another carton. You can bet if I have to pay full price, I won't choose the same brand that ripped me off last time...
Ditto. Resisted upgrading from XP to Vista for a long time, finally gave up a year ago after somebody I trusted insisted it was stable and better than XP. I've regretted my decision ever since.
Given that Win 7 is essentially just a Vista service pack by another name, I will not be paying several hundred bucks to upgrade. I'll stick with XP until it is unsupported, and then I'll switch away from Microsoft altogether.
$30-40 I might just have considered paying, after trying Win7 myself to confirm that the problems were solved. What *should* have happened, though, was a free upgrade to the equivalent version for anybody who returned a retail copy of Vista, and a $30-40 paid upgrade to Win7 or a free downgrade to WinXP for anybody who bought a PC with Vista included.
Me too. Got a two terabyte Terastation Pro myself from Buy.com for just a hair over $500 shipped, about 1.4TB available when set up as RAID 5. It is quiet, reasonably fast, low-power, and well made. Highly recommend it. (I should note that the price I paid was for a 90 day warrantied refurb, but it arrived in great shape and should it die after 90 days, I'll still have the warranties for the individual drives to fall back on).
"The FIRST thing they ask is 'How Many Viewers?'"
In reply to which they're fed a bunch of baloney based on a ridiculously small sample size, with clear flaws that favor certain channels over others.
Whereas if a-la-carte was available, it would be possible to give exact figures for how many people have chosen to *pay* for each channel - and that would be a lot closer to the true number of viewers. Obviously some people would still pay for channels they didn't want, but most wouldn't do so.
Personally, I'm sick of paying for channels like ESPN (I've had it for almost ten years, and watched it for less than 2-3 hours in all that time), or CNN (I used to watch it ten years ago, before it became solely about ratings rather than news - and I have hardly watched it in 5 or 6 years now).
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Minnesota is only At Will if the employee doesn't hold a contract "directly [limiting] ... the employer's right to terminate the employee without cause." Could be it'll get overturned, or could be he's got something preventing this in his contract, and really has a case.
/IANAL and have no info on the case beyond TFA.
Seven times the volume of data ('size') is the only sensible answer. If we were talking seven times the importance / shock value (aka 'bigness') of the leak, which is subjective, it would be too strangely specific of a value. You'd say twice, five times, ten times -- a somewhat round number. Not seven times. Your question thus rather answers itself.
The guy who stole GBP30k of energy for 22 apartments gets nine months in jail. The guy who helped him and many, many other people steal power for 1,500 homes gets...basically nothing, if the article is to be believed. An eight month suspended sentence (so all he has to do is not commit crimes for eight months), plus a little under 19 days of community service.
To put this in perspective, assuming that the remaining 1,478 properties that he provided stolen power to used only 1/4 as much as the 22 apartments did (unlikely they used this little), that's still a little over half a million pounds, on top of the 30k that put another man away for nine months. More likely, it was closer to two million quid's worth of electricity whose theft he facilitated -- 67 times more crime, and he serves no time at all if he's a good boy for a few months.
Pretty pathetic.
Got it in one. These are the exact reasons I didn't end up using it myself, despite being a relatively early adopter. I don't think any of the folks I referred ended up using it, either.
Yep, couldn't agree more. Facebook just had an outage of eight+ days for 150,000 users (I was one of them), and couldn't even be bothered to give status updates on the situation (or even confirm there was a problem for the first three days). Twitter regularly has its own problems, as well.
Anybody who wants email replaced with either of these (or their ilk) needs their head examined.
You're right, "buddy", I will. As much as I've avoided them for the last couple of decades, I'll likely return to Apple because they've finally got enough momentum to sustain the kind of software I want to use.
I never said I was quitting computers altogether, which is what your comment is analogous to. I simply suggested I'd switch flavors.
To borrow your analogy, I found out my current cigarettes only have a tenth the nicotine I'm used to - and if I want the full whack I've got to pay for another carton. You can bet if I have to pay full price, I won't choose the same brand that ripped me off last time...
Ditto. Resisted upgrading from XP to Vista for a long time, finally gave up a year ago after somebody I trusted insisted it was stable and better than XP. I've regretted my decision ever since.
Given that Win 7 is essentially just a Vista service pack by another name, I will not be paying several hundred bucks to upgrade. I'll stick with XP until it is unsupported, and then I'll switch away from Microsoft altogether.
$30-40 I might just have considered paying, after trying Win7 myself to confirm that the problems were solved. What *should* have happened, though, was a free upgrade to the equivalent version for anybody who returned a retail copy of Vista, and a $30-40 paid upgrade to Win7 or a free downgrade to WinXP for anybody who bought a PC with Vista included.
Yep, Rich, that's exactly what I'd already said, right down to including the link to the CPSC notice. ;)
Mod parent up. Neither Lenovo or Acer are mentioned in the official recall notice: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09035.html
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Me too. Got a two terabyte Terastation Pro myself from Buy.com for just a hair over $500 shipped, about 1.4TB available when set up as RAID 5. It is quiet, reasonably fast, low-power, and well made. Highly recommend it. (I should note that the price I paid was for a 90 day warrantied refurb, but it arrived in great shape and should it die after 90 days, I'll still have the warranties for the individual drives to fall back on).
Wow. Somebody just outed himself on Slashdot. Is there any procedure for handing in one's geek credentials? ;)
"The FIRST thing they ask is 'How Many Viewers?'" In reply to which they're fed a bunch of baloney based on a ridiculously small sample size, with clear flaws that favor certain channels over others. Whereas if a-la-carte was available, it would be possible to give exact figures for how many people have chosen to *pay* for each channel - and that would be a lot closer to the true number of viewers. Obviously some people would still pay for channels they didn't want, but most wouldn't do so. Personally, I'm sick of paying for channels like ESPN (I've had it for almost ten years, and watched it for less than 2-3 hours in all that time), or CNN (I used to watch it ten years ago, before it became solely about ratings rather than news - and I have hardly watched it in 5 or 6 years now).
You misread the comment. What you have quoted is the *claims* from Sony, but those claims were proven to be untrue.