Y'know, them saying it's not about money just screws them out of damages if they sue... Not something a big company with a huge legal team would lie about in the run-up to a potential damages suit.
Just days after the FBI broke into the terrorist's iPhone
They broke into San Bernadino County's iPhone. The county may have assigned the phone to Farook, but it was not Farook's phone. Farook's phone(s) were found in a dumpster, destroyed; and they were destroyed because they contained incriminating evidence. It doesn't take too high of an IQ to deduct this, as it's farily obvious; and I'm not calling the FBI a bunch of idiots, I'm saying they're calling all of us a bunch of idiots by presenting such blatant bullshit to us and thinking we'll actually buy it.
Most of the cheaper sticks are completely bare, it wouldn't say 128MB on it anywhere. That said, the kind if idiots who stick random shit into their computers likely don't know the difference between MB and GB and, for them, 128 is a big number. They'd do it.
You can buy USB drives in bulk for under a buck a piece, they don't need to be high-capacity, a 128MB drive can hold a shitload of malware. $5 might be a bit on the expensive side to infect a random machine that may not even be your target, but $75 to infect 100 machines is cheap for a targeted attack.
Google didn't rebrand, Google is still Google, they just formed the Alphabet company, then sold themselves to it. In a way, they're their own grandpa. Or, at least, their own brother-daddy-uncle-son.
If you mean you'd copy it the same way one car manufacturer might copy the design of another manufacturer's car, I'd say go for it. It's not like the design details are published in a read-and-reproduce format, you don't get the CNC instructions to cut the stamps and molds used in the production, you don't even have a paper with basic measurements available. You have to get your hands on the actual physical car and derive all of that yourself (and any variation thereof makes your design its own unique derivative, rather than a copy), which is every bit as much work as taking the actual designer's clay model and translating it into a real object. The only work saved, then, is that of the designer doing their day or two worth of sketches and maybe a week on a clay model; the remaining several thousand man-hours still need to be spent in measuring, documenting, tooling, testing, correcting, lather, rinse, repeat, until the copy is identical to the original. If someone would rather do all of that than come up with their own original design, well, I would welcome them to do it.
Keep in mind, before you respond, that DarkOx specifically mentioned the difference between design and utility. If my design includes something novel (and patented), like a unique mechanism for automatically-adjusting front and rear spoilers, that would be utility rather than design. You'd be welcome to copy every element of the design, including the body of the vehicle and the shape and default placement of the spoilers, but you'd have to either implement them as fixed spoilers or develop your own adjustment mechanism. Of course, I'd be happy to license my adjustment mechanism to you for a relatively small fee, with a clause in the license stipulating that you must integrate it into your own design and/or license my design (of course at a much larger fee). The difference between that contract and the social contract that is Copyright, of course, is that we'd have sat down at a table and negotiated it and I'd have your signature on paper stating that you agree not to use my design without compensation in exchange for the right to use my adjustment mechanism.
Consideration is a huge part of any contract, some would say the most important part. The consideration due the public in the social contract that is Copyright was that, after 14 years, the work would belong to the public. That consideration has been removed, rendering the contract void.
Google, Amazon, and Akamai don't offer the same services CloudFlare does. The only overlap is the CDN; Akamai comes closest with their hosting offering, but they're actually hosting the sites, not sitting in front of them to provide security.
Apples rarely have the same issues as oranges, my friend.
You're forgetting legal fees and court costs. The court's time isn't free; in fact, it's quite costly for anything not resolved with an hour or less of the court's time. They might not get to keep as much of the $9B as you seem to think. Surely, yes, they'll get to keep some of it, but will it be more than the $7.4B they paid for Sun? Honestly, I doubt it, especially after taxes (some portion of that $9B is punitive and, therefore, taxable).
Getting laid helps propagate the species; being a tinfoil-hat-wearing shut-in does not. One of those choices leads to the continuation of the species; the other does not. Care to guess which is which?
If Cloudfare had got some decent security appliances, the DPI analysis mechanisms can still catch and mitigate all sorts of attack vectors even when the IP sources are widely distributed.
Perhaps know what you're talking about before you write 3 paragraphs on the subject? CloudFlare has developed, and is continually improving upon, their own systems for doing this; this gives them much finer-grained control over things so, of course, they aren't buying off-the-shelf solutions.
Or, they bake in a "reset" button that changes your UUID (which would be done simply by requesting a new UUID as though one had not yet been issued) upon request, and you click that whenever you want to "break" tracking, with the understanding that you'll have to complete a CAPTCHA to prove your humanity every time you do so if you're coming from an exit node that has been abused (so basically... every time). Seems like a fair balance between getting hit with a CAPTCHA every pageload and being universally trackable; you decide the scope and duration of your session based on what level of exposure is acceptable to you. If the only level of exposure you are willing to accept is zero, you shouldn't be connecting to the internet at all, let alone browsing sites that are behind a service such as CloudFlare.
And, personally knowing a handful of CloudFlare engineers (some pretty high up in the relatively small organization), I actually do know what data they keep on their end: not nearly as much as you fear. While they do offer a free service, they also offer many paid services and that is where they actually make their money. Their data collection really is limited to what is necessary to provide their CDN and firewall services, and the very limited analytics they offer. And I mean very limited. If you can imagine the absolute least amount of data that would need to be stored to offer these services, well, they've probably found a way to store less.
They offer a free service because bandwidth is cheap so it really costs them next to nothing to do so; they store as little data as possible to provide the services they do because storage is expensive and they'd be unable to provide the free service (which is where something approaching 95% of their paid customers start out) if they had to pay for all of that.
Yeah, well, wait on tables for a couple of years and see if you feel the same about it from the other side.
What makes you think I haven't? If your experience differs from mine, it could be that you worked in a shitty environment for a shitty employer that attracted shitty customers, while I did not. Ever stop to think about that? You worked in one of the places I mentioned elsewhere in the conversation, where I'd prefer automation, while I worked in one of the places where automation would ruin the atmosphere.
Think Applebee's (where the atmosphere is noisy and shitty and the waitstaff is kept too busy to socialize with the customers) vs. a family diner (where most frequent customers will know a large potion of the staff personally). The food isn't likely to be great at either place, but the atmosphere is more relaxed and peaceful at the diner; for anyone who enjoys a quiet conversation over a meal, that's a huge plus and the only other place you can get that is at home (where you may not have room for a large group of friends and you certainly won't find that familiar wait staff) or at an expensive restaurant (where it is increasingly less common lately, as more of those places start following the Applebee's strategy of cranking up the "atmosphere" to make it uncomfortable to socialize, so people leave soon after their meal is done).
So he's 2x as far as he needs to be for the first $1 increase that hasn't even happened yet. I think he'll be alright. Too bad you posted AC, you could be at +5 by now.
I want a human serving me my food because I can often strike up a conversation with that human and make a connection that keeps me coming back to that place. A robot, not so much. With very few exceptions, the places I frequent are places where I have developed personal relationships with the wait staff or owners; the exceptions are places where the food was just so good that not much else matters, but those places are rare and not visited as often as the others. I can't speak for kheldan, but it's not a supremacy thing for me, it's very much a company and socializing thing.
If that means an end to requesting medium rare and getting well-done, I'm all for it. The default would be middle-of-the-road in most cases, which means medium, much closer to what I ordered than what I typically get today. Perhaps, if people want to keep their jobs, they should take a little pride and do the job right in the first place? When a machine that doesn't give a flying fuck what the customer wants can do the job better than a human, it's the human's fault for actively ignoring the requests of their customer after asking for the input.
There are very few restaurants who manage to get my very common steak order correct. I would be sad if those humans lost their jobs; everywhere else, though? Automation would be an improvement. And that includes most steakhouses and quite a few expensive restaurants. I'm perfectly fine with accepting whatever you want to serve me, provided you didn't explicitly ask my preference and proceed to ignore it. In that sense, a machine that doesn't ask is better than a human who does, in most cases.
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Y'know, them saying it's not about money just screws them out of damages if they sue... Not something a big company with a huge legal team would lie about in the run-up to a potential damages suit.
Blizzard says the rule "isn't an issue because of 'lost' subscription fees from players choosing these illegitimate servers over the real WoW servers"
The users modifies a plain-text file (realmlist.wtf).
Just days after the FBI broke into the terrorist's iPhone
They broke into San Bernadino County's iPhone. The county may have assigned the phone to Farook, but it was not Farook's phone. Farook's phone(s) were found in a dumpster, destroyed; and they were destroyed because they contained incriminating evidence. It doesn't take too high of an IQ to deduct this, as it's farily obvious; and I'm not calling the FBI a bunch of idiots, I'm saying they're calling all of us a bunch of idiots by presenting such blatant bullshit to us and thinking we'll actually buy it.
Don't be the idiot the FBI thinks you are.
Most of the cheaper sticks are completely bare, it wouldn't say 128MB on it anywhere. That said, the kind if idiots who stick random shit into their computers likely don't know the difference between MB and GB and, for them, 128 is a big number. They'd do it.
You can buy USB drives in bulk for under a buck a piece, they don't need to be high-capacity, a 128MB drive can hold a shitload of malware. $5 might be a bit on the expensive side to infect a random machine that may not even be your target, but $75 to infect 100 machines is cheap for a targeted attack.
Google didn't rebrand, Google is still Google, they just formed the Alphabet company, then sold themselves to it. In a way, they're their own grandpa. Or, at least, their own brother-daddy-uncle-son.
Someone failed math class...
... which will raise the minimum wage to $15 ...
... because the minimum wage where the increases is happening is already $10.
There are going to be 5 $1 increases...
(5 * 1 = 5)
(15 - 5 = 10)
If that were realistic in California, we wouldn't be increasing it.
An application firewall for externally-hosted (e.g. not hosted by CloudFlare) services. It's their core business.
If you mean you'd copy it the same way one car manufacturer might copy the design of another manufacturer's car, I'd say go for it. It's not like the design details are published in a read-and-reproduce format, you don't get the CNC instructions to cut the stamps and molds used in the production, you don't even have a paper with basic measurements available. You have to get your hands on the actual physical car and derive all of that yourself (and any variation thereof makes your design its own unique derivative, rather than a copy), which is every bit as much work as taking the actual designer's clay model and translating it into a real object. The only work saved, then, is that of the designer doing their day or two worth of sketches and maybe a week on a clay model; the remaining several thousand man-hours still need to be spent in measuring, documenting, tooling, testing, correcting, lather, rinse, repeat, until the copy is identical to the original. If someone would rather do all of that than come up with their own original design, well, I would welcome them to do it.
Keep in mind, before you respond, that DarkOx specifically mentioned the difference between design and utility. If my design includes something novel (and patented), like a unique mechanism for automatically-adjusting front and rear spoilers, that would be utility rather than design. You'd be welcome to copy every element of the design, including the body of the vehicle and the shape and default placement of the spoilers, but you'd have to either implement them as fixed spoilers or develop your own adjustment mechanism. Of course, I'd be happy to license my adjustment mechanism to you for a relatively small fee, with a clause in the license stipulating that you must integrate it into your own design and/or license my design (of course at a much larger fee). The difference between that contract and the social contract that is Copyright, of course, is that we'd have sat down at a table and negotiated it and I'd have your signature on paper stating that you agree not to use my design without compensation in exchange for the right to use my adjustment mechanism.
Consideration is a huge part of any contract, some would say the most important part. The consideration due the public in the social contract that is Copyright was that, after 14 years, the work would belong to the public. That consideration has been removed, rendering the contract void.
A utility patent has some utility (e.g. usefulness), thus its name. A design patent lacks that utility.
Or nonbinding arbitration.
Google, Amazon, and Akamai don't offer the same services CloudFlare does. The only overlap is the CDN; Akamai comes closest with their hosting offering, but they're actually hosting the sites, not sitting in front of them to provide security.
Apples rarely have the same issues as oranges, my friend.
You're forgetting legal fees and court costs. The court's time isn't free; in fact, it's quite costly for anything not resolved with an hour or less of the court's time. They might not get to keep as much of the $9B as you seem to think. Surely, yes, they'll get to keep some of it, but will it be more than the $7.4B they paid for Sun? Honestly, I doubt it, especially after taxes (some portion of that $9B is punitive and, therefore, taxable).
I sincerely hope you get to +5, Funny in short order, sir and/or ma'm.
Getting laid
That sure is an odd spelling of "Skype".
Getting laid helps propagate the species; being a tinfoil-hat-wearing shut-in does not. One of those choices leads to the continuation of the species; the other does not. Care to guess which is which?
If Cloudfare had got some decent security appliances, the DPI analysis mechanisms can still catch and mitigate all sorts of attack vectors even when the IP sources are widely distributed.
You mean like this?
Perhaps know what you're talking about before you write 3 paragraphs on the subject? CloudFlare has developed, and is continually improving upon, their own systems for doing this; this gives them much finer-grained control over things so, of course, they aren't buying off-the-shelf solutions.
Or, they bake in a "reset" button that changes your UUID (which would be done simply by requesting a new UUID as though one had not yet been issued) upon request, and you click that whenever you want to "break" tracking, with the understanding that you'll have to complete a CAPTCHA to prove your humanity every time you do so if you're coming from an exit node that has been abused (so basically... every time). Seems like a fair balance between getting hit with a CAPTCHA every pageload and being universally trackable; you decide the scope and duration of your session based on what level of exposure is acceptable to you. If the only level of exposure you are willing to accept is zero, you shouldn't be connecting to the internet at all, let alone browsing sites that are behind a service such as CloudFlare.
And, personally knowing a handful of CloudFlare engineers (some pretty high up in the relatively small organization), I actually do know what data they keep on their end: not nearly as much as you fear. While they do offer a free service, they also offer many paid services and that is where they actually make their money. Their data collection really is limited to what is necessary to provide their CDN and firewall services, and the very limited analytics they offer. And I mean very limited. If you can imagine the absolute least amount of data that would need to be stored to offer these services, well, they've probably found a way to store less.
They offer a free service because bandwidth is cheap so it really costs them next to nothing to do so; they store as little data as possible to provide the services they do because storage is expensive and they'd be unable to provide the free service (which is where something approaching 95% of their paid customers start out) if they had to pay for all of that.
Yeah, well, wait on tables for a couple of years and see if you feel the same about it from the other side.
What makes you think I haven't? If your experience differs from mine, it could be that you worked in a shitty environment for a shitty employer that attracted shitty customers, while I did not. Ever stop to think about that? You worked in one of the places I mentioned elsewhere in the conversation, where I'd prefer automation, while I worked in one of the places where automation would ruin the atmosphere.
Think Applebee's (where the atmosphere is noisy and shitty and the waitstaff is kept too busy to socialize with the customers) vs. a family diner (where most frequent customers will know a large potion of the staff personally). The food isn't likely to be great at either place, but the atmosphere is more relaxed and peaceful at the diner; for anyone who enjoys a quiet conversation over a meal, that's a huge plus and the only other place you can get that is at home (where you may not have room for a large group of friends and you certainly won't find that familiar wait staff) or at an expensive restaurant (where it is increasingly less common lately, as more of those places start following the Applebee's strategy of cranking up the "atmosphere" to make it uncomfortable to socialize, so people leave soon after their meal is done).
$15 minimum wage is ridiculous and unrealistic. A more realistic minimum wage would've been $10
The $15 figure is after 5 annual $1 increases. I'll leave you to do the math on that.
And also by the workers now being able to afford to buy the product they are making or selling.
So he's 2x as far as he needs to be for the first $1 increase that hasn't even happened yet. I think he'll be alright. Too bad you posted AC, you could be at +5 by now.
I want a human serving me my food because I can often strike up a conversation with that human and make a connection that keeps me coming back to that place. A robot, not so much. With very few exceptions, the places I frequent are places where I have developed personal relationships with the wait staff or owners; the exceptions are places where the food was just so good that not much else matters, but those places are rare and not visited as often as the others. I can't speak for kheldan, but it's not a supremacy thing for me, it's very much a company and socializing thing.
If that means an end to requesting medium rare and getting well-done, I'm all for it. The default would be middle-of-the-road in most cases, which means medium, much closer to what I ordered than what I typically get today. Perhaps, if people want to keep their jobs, they should take a little pride and do the job right in the first place? When a machine that doesn't give a flying fuck what the customer wants can do the job better than a human, it's the human's fault for actively ignoring the requests of their customer after asking for the input.
There are very few restaurants who manage to get my very common steak order correct. I would be sad if those humans lost their jobs; everywhere else, though? Automation would be an improvement. And that includes most steakhouses and quite a few expensive restaurants. I'm perfectly fine with accepting whatever you want to serve me, provided you didn't explicitly ask my preference and proceed to ignore it. In that sense, a machine that doesn't ask is better than a human who does, in most cases.