I think here is a broad, fundamental problem. If a judge or jury is unable to tell the difference between a GC and real photo, then all photo evidence in any prosecution of any crime would likely not ever prove anything.
This is not new. Evidence, by itself, rarely proves anything. For example, by itself a gun is not evidence in a murder trial, because maybe the prosecution just went out and bought it from a shop. The same gun, plus a forensic scientist explaining how it is linked to the fatal bullet, plus police saying how it was found in the pocket of the accused, is evidence. Same with pictures - you need corroborating testimony.
The Amstrad PCW, Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum used the same disk drives. For example Level 9 published triple-format (!) disk versions of their adventure games that could be played on all the above. If you're looking to buy a second-hand computer to read your disks, this may increase your options.
Ditto and congratulations to Sun. Had Java been Open Source ten years ago, my company would be using Solaris or Linux + Java instead of Windows + C#. We were especially deterred by Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft to protect their IP in Java. Whatever the merits of this case, using technologies owned by litigious companies is a risk.
About the only right humans have in the so called "society" we live in, is the right to freely contract (read, associate and exchange value and come to agreements with others). Everything from sales, purchases, to marrying someone or letting a rapist have his way with you, it is ALL contracts.
You're not a lawyer are you? There are literally hundreds of laws limiting the freedoms that you claim. For example you can't sell Brooklyn Bridge, purchase a slave, marry your sister, and have sex while queuing at LAX security, despite what you may see on daytime TV.
Some criminals already plant cigarette butts in stolen cars, to confuse the evidence and implicate innocent people, and I predict more of this. It's not hard to collect fake evidence from someone else's trash, to place at the scene of a crime.
To avoid identity theft, not only should you shred everything with your name and address, but now you also need to flush or incinerate everything with your DNA on it.
You are IMHO robbing from society as a whole by buying stolen goods.
You can't be right, because the police are not in the business of helping robbers, yet they sell stolen goods. I got my first bike from a police auction btw.
Move over eBay - this is the police... This website disposes of property that the police have seized or has been handed in, and where the police can't locate the original owner. Stuff on sale reflects criminal tastes; lots of mountain bikes (many "as new"), Nike trainers (new, boxed), jewellery and electrical goods such as laptops and iPods.
It took me about 100msec to realize your error, but my reaction time in writing a comment was more like 20 minutes, which illustrates the weakness in TFA: deciding!=reacting. Imagine what conversations would be like if everyone needed 7 seconds do decide what to reply!
You say you "rank Scientologists slightly above a cockroaches". Therefore by the logic of TFA, there are only three ways you can rank Scientologists, all your money, and cockroaches:
Scientologists, cockroaches, all your money
Scientologists, all your money, cockroaches
All your money, Scientologists, cockroaches
In two out of these three cases, you prefer Scientologists to all your money, so your best course is to join the church immediately.
Parent is correct. Scale is the issue. GMail is probably receiving billions of emails per day, most of them spam to invalid accounts. They are in effect being DDOS'd and it is very difficult for them to check every destination address in real time. The solution that scales easiest is for them to queue incoming emails for processing by lots of generic MTAs. So probably this is what they are doing. But unfortunately it means the SMTP connection is long gone when an address error is detected, so they have to respond to an error by returning a bounce.
One solution is roughly as follows. Google would program routers to crudely split the incoming SMTP traffic by first character(s) of the email address - all SMTP traffic for email addresses starting "aa-aj" are handed off to one server, all starting "af-at" to the next, and so on. This means each server is handling a manageable volume and can do a real-time lookup within just its slice of GMail addresses and return an immediate error. I think Hotmail does something a bit like this. But it is definitely non-trivial for Google's volumes. And yes, I do work in this field.
If music, etc is "tangible property" now, does that mean we get the same kind of fair use we expect from the other kinds of "tangible property" we own?
And if imaginary property is now redefined as real property, do the owners of patents and copyrights have to pay property tax?
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You play way too many FPS games. Get yourself a loud alarm that you can trigger if you suspect there's an intruder in the house. Chances are they'll run away and find somewhere quieter to rob. Also it means you don't risk shooting the electricity meter reader, or some neighbor kid visiting your kids.
... because nobody is going to buy from a terrorist if they can get the stuff for free from a file-sharer. It's the people who want to keep prices high that are the problem.
In case no one had noticed, it's going to take years for even Microsoft to implement this standard.. let alone [fix] the trail of broken documents that will be created.
Microsoft doesn't HAVE to implement OOXML, all they have to do is have a standard that smells like Office "in the works" for the folks who need a checkmark against "standard file format" to keep buying Office.
Microsoft, and everyone else, has to implement OOXML fully if the EU says they do. This is important for our literature and culture. Write to your Member of the European Parliament, requesting that they set aside a few million Euro to fund comprehensive "clean room" tests of compliance with the written standard. Otherwise it will be like IE and CSS all over again.
... to see how mindbogglingly stupid this advice is. Both are dangerous for kids after all.
The fact is that children prefer playing with familiar objects, compared to things that are "new and strange". That's why they mostly have a favorite doll or teddy bear. That's why they prefer branded toys from films and TV, compared to no-name toys, though both are produced in the same Chinese factory. That's why they want the same toys as their friends.
The worst thing you could do is make guns familiar. I hope you lock away dangerous things like bleach or medicines. You should take no less care with weapons.
Re-use is not just about shoving code on a server and letting people copy it. You also need design, documentation, comments, testing, and ideally some level of support.
A lot of in-house code comes with none of these and as a result is worthless.
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Firefox add-in to block Phorm.
This new system seems very simplar to Phorm, so here are details. The Phorm "Webwise" System - Richard Clayton. Seems you can avoid being monitored by blocking Phorm's cookie.
The Amstrad PCW, Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum used the same disk drives. For example Level 9 published triple-format (!) disk versions of their adventure games that could be played on all the above. If you're looking to buy a second-hand computer to read your disks, this may increase your options.
Ditto and congratulations to Sun. Had Java been Open Source ten years ago, my company would be using Solaris or Linux + Java instead of Windows + C#. We were especially deterred by Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft to protect their IP in Java. Whatever the merits of this case, using technologies owned by litigious companies is a risk.
How do you protect the sign-up page to get an OpenID? With a captcha?
Some criminals already plant cigarette butts in stolen cars, to confuse the evidence and implicate innocent people, and I predict more of this. It's not hard to collect fake evidence from someone else's trash, to place at the scene of a crime.
To avoid identity theft, not only should you shred everything with your name and address, but now you also need to flush or incinerate everything with your DNA on it.
It took me about 100msec to realize your error, but my reaction time in writing a comment was more like 20 minutes, which illustrates the weakness in TFA: deciding!=reacting. Imagine what conversations would be like if everyone needed 7 seconds do decide what to reply!
- Scientologists, cockroaches, all your money
- Scientologists, all your money, cockroaches
- All your money, Scientologists, cockroaches
In two out of these three cases, you prefer Scientologists to all your money, so your best course is to join the church immediately.Parent is correct. Scale is the issue. GMail is probably receiving billions of emails per day, most of them spam to invalid accounts. They are in effect being DDOS'd and it is very difficult for them to check every destination address in real time. The solution that scales easiest is for them to queue incoming emails for processing by lots of generic MTAs. So probably this is what they are doing. But unfortunately it means the SMTP connection is long gone when an address error is detected, so they have to respond to an error by returning a bounce.
One solution is roughly as follows. Google would program routers to crudely split the incoming SMTP traffic by first character(s) of the email address - all SMTP traffic for email addresses starting "aa-aj" are handed off to one server, all starting "af-at" to the next, and so on. This means each server is handling a manageable volume and can do a real-time lookup within just its slice of GMail addresses and return an immediate error. I think Hotmail does something a bit like this. But it is definitely non-trivial for Google's volumes. And yes, I do work in this field.
You play way too many FPS games. Get yourself a loud alarm that you can trigger if you suspect there's an intruder in the house. Chances are they'll run away and find somewhere quieter to rob. Also it means you don't risk shooting the electricity meter reader, or some neighbor kid visiting your kids.
... because nobody is going to buy from a terrorist if they can get the stuff for free from a file-sharer. It's the people who want to keep prices high that are the problem.
- Every Web Page will come with "Elevator Music" to qualify for a slice of the cake.
- Want an IM client on your desktop? "de dah de dum di dum di dah" it whispers, just loud enough to count as a tune.
- Here's a spam email, "DE! DAH! DE! DAH! DE! DAH!", paying for itself from your subscription fee.
It's a safe bet that there will be nothing left for the real musicians.... to see how mindbogglingly stupid this advice is. Both are dangerous for kids after all.
The fact is that children prefer playing with familiar objects, compared to things that are "new and strange". That's why they mostly have a favorite doll or teddy bear. That's why they prefer branded toys from films and TV, compared to no-name toys, though both are produced in the same Chinese factory. That's why they want the same toys as their friends.
The worst thing you could do is make guns familiar. I hope you lock away dangerous things like bleach or medicines. You should take no less care with weapons.
... than the code produced by most teams.
Re-use is not just about shoving code on a server and letting people copy it. You also need design, documentation, comments, testing, and ideally some level of support.
A lot of in-house code comes with none of these and as a result is worthless.
Hey Dudes, Slashdot lost my subject.
It was: Bear Stearns shareholders did not get "Bailed Out"
And ahen I used "preview" it got removed.