National Security Letters, which are similar, result in a lot of difficulty challenging the gag order without violating the gag order.
At the eff, they talk about national security letters. They have made some progress in challenging the gag orders, but this is years later. The recipient of this gag order would likely not have even been able to get it into court before they had already removed it 9 months later.
The OP was served with a FISA warrant, which is apparently more rare and somewhat different. I don't know much about these, but the eff has some info here.
in order for the tracking software to run your drive needs to be unencrypted
Tracking software doesn't need the drive to be unencrypted. Boot disk can be a small partition (often ro) which this can reside. The user partition with all the data will be encrypted.
Whenever I hear a congresscritter make noise about restricting research, or instituting programming certifications to get a job, or my (now ex-)company requiring a training session on how to walk because someone tripped in the hall, I get scared for the country as a whole because we've cultivated this environment.
Instead of an end product coder, hire a unit tester. Hand him the specs that you send out, and have him code unit tests for all input categories of the different modules, and check results and fail modes. Hell, have him send out these tests as he finishes, so that the contractors can use them, too.
If the unit tests are correct and the software is failing, don't send out paychecks until it passes. Getting the test suite running may take a week or two once the code is delivered, so you might be a little later than you usually are. But you contracted for working code, and the easiest way to verify it's correct is to pass a test suite. Once it passes that, you'll know that it passed YOUR specs. At this point, if there are bugs despite meeting the specs, it's your fault.
You have the right to be free from that annoyance. Any drones that flew over your house would have to be over 500 feet (depending on area, might be more) in public airspace, or be a very temporary disturbance.
Hovering for long periods below 500 feet or above but impinging on your right to enjoy your property is illegal.
"Drones", or UAVs, or UASs, better known as "Radio control planes" have been quite legal for decades. He's trying to make a big deal of it only because it's going to be legal for commercial entities instead of just hobbyists to use. Your neighbor already can hover over your house, so there's no impending emergency to enact legislation as he is implying.
Google Glass is a far worse threat, and I fear he may be making a "Look over there!" argument to distract from the horrible invasions of privacy that will be happening in a few years due to Eric Schmidt himself.
Regarding antialiasing, foveon does promise to avoid color antialiasing which is generally required for bayer filters.
This new sensor "filter" splits colors into a pattern, which will have a similar effect as a bayer filter. Thus, it will need the colors antialiased to prevent bizarre moire color effects.
Sharpness is reduced by demosaicing and color antialiasing, thus Foveon kind of does promise sharper images because it needs neither of those. If their sensor tech had kept up with the quickly emerging tech of Canon or Nikon, they would be in the running. A 24Mpx Foveon sensor that actually worked in light extremes would really rock.
But with this new filter allowing a decent SNR and a ton of light to be gathered accurately (two big weaknesses for Foveon), I believe it will be the end for that struggling sensor.
Foveon has 3 photodiodes per pixel, and theoretically should have the most accurate colors and sharpness by avoiding moire and interpolation issues with bayer filters. In practice, though, a lot of light is lost by the time it reaches the 3rd photodiode.
There is indeed white light because not every pixel has a filter over it. Many pixels pass the light through a hole to the pixel, while a neighbor pixel funnels red light (e.g.) to it. Thus, you get white + 1/2 the neighbor's red. You also get half the neighbor's red on the other side, resulting in white + red for the three pixels in a line.
Cyan is part of the color spectrum as a "subtractive color". What remains under each neighbor pixel when you strip away the red, is the cyan.
From what I can tell, this will not get rid of the need for the anti-aliasing.
Antibiotics are properly used for prevention all the time. There's a tradeoff of damage a new infection can cause if it takes hold or gets worse while treating something else, and lung infections are a fine example: http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/technical/hps/treatment.html
Antibiotics are used improperly for prevention all the time, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to use them in all cases. If doctors waited for a diagnosis of infection on someone with hantavirus, that person would have a higher chance of simply dying.
While antibiotics won't stop a viral infection, one thing they can help with when infected is to prevent other infections. For instance, a bad viral lung infection might be treated with antibiotics to prevent an opportunistic bacterium like pneumonia from attacking.
And yeah, pharmacies used to carry placebos. When I worked in a pharmacy long ago, I did indeed dispense them. It was labelled with the chemical name (sucrose, lactose 50mg, etc), but may have been given unlabelled as a unit dose.
Basically, people don't like to let others copy their software when the splash screen says "Thank you for your purchase, <customer>!".
Checksum the name so that someone editing the binary will be met with a crippled or nagware version, telling them how to get a fully functional one.
In any case, don't sweat it much. If someone is intent on stealing it, nothing you can do will prevent that. But accountability will prevent casual piracy because the mostly-honest person will not think it's harmless when someone asks for a copy.
There should be legislation that forces purchased software (licenses) must be transferable (striking all EULAs restricting that), and if someone buys add-ons for software and subsequently transfers that software, those addons must be transferable with it (even if from different companies). That would include downloadable content.
The whole ability for companies to be able to write felonies into their EULAs through abusing of the Computer Crime "illegal access" and requiring online connections needs to stop.
We need legislators that actually care about consumers.
Rating systems, especially on amazon, are far from accurate.
Many people use ratings solely for retribution when they really have an issue with a product or the way they were treated, even when they wouldn't normally rate a product. This is one of the reasons yelp ratings have such issues -- yelp tried to deal with the retribution aspect by disqualifying singleton bad ratings. This means the person that had a really bad experience and posted about it never gets heard, and is buried by people who give several ratings, often being paid to post good ratings.
Ratings usually reflect less about the product, but a lot about the purchaser's feelings about the product. Companies that are popular get better ratings even if their products are inferior. In this case, EA pissed off a bunch of gamers who generally don't like DRM simply because it's annoying, and it bit them badly. Now a bunch of gamers are leaving 1-star ratings on amazon because the servers were down for two days -- not because the game isn't really good when it's playable.
... releasing SimCity without DRM would have probably resulted in less people playing an unpaid copy [of one of EA's games], AND saved them from all the negative publicity and angry customers.
Best quote I've read all day.
It's slightly weakened by some of the online aspects, but certainly should apply to the single-player mode.
Documenting your entire life sounds interesting until you realize you could spend the entire REST OF YOUR LIFE reviewing it recursively. To me, that sounds like a dumb proposition. Or perhaps incredibly egotistical. I might've been interested in a few interesting things my late mother did, but honestly, I prefer her description of it with her interpretation and memory. I wouldn't want to even see what happened, as that would ruin it.
However, some folks have set up webcams in their houses which could get recorded (I know of one that started nearly 10 years ago), and even Google glass is taking beta applications now for everyday life stuff. Just be aware of the privacy considerations.
I bought multiple copies to support Bleem years ago. Clean room reverse engineering is a consumer rights issue. It should be supported when someone has the cojones to stand up to a large, litigious company.
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National Security Letters, which are similar, result in a lot of difficulty challenging the gag order without violating the gag order.
At the eff, they talk about national security letters. They have made some progress in challenging the gag orders, but this is years later. The recipient of this gag order would likely not have even been able to get it into court before they had already removed it 9 months later.
The OP was served with a FISA warrant, which is apparently more rare and somewhat different. I don't know much about these, but the eff has some info here.
Tracking software doesn't need the drive to be unencrypted. Boot disk can be a small partition (often ro) which this can reside. The user partition with all the data will be encrypted.
Whenever I hear a congresscritter make noise about restricting research, or instituting programming certifications to get a job, or my (now ex-)company requiring a training session on how to walk because someone tripped in the hall, I get scared for the country as a whole because we've cultivated this environment.
That, and the aformentioned velociraptors.
People have been successfully sued, despite telling the truth.
Just one of them is sufficient.
At least it's not the size of a manuscript anymore, so you don't need a guy with a handcuffed briefcase on one hand and a SMG on the other.
Instead of an end product coder, hire a unit tester. Hand him the specs that you send out, and have him code unit tests for all input categories of the different modules, and check results and fail modes. Hell, have him send out these tests as he finishes, so that the contractors can use them, too.
If the unit tests are correct and the software is failing, don't send out paychecks until it passes. Getting the test suite running may take a week or two once the code is delivered, so you might be a little later than you usually are. But you contracted for working code, and the easiest way to verify it's correct is to pass a test suite. Once it passes that, you'll know that it passed YOUR specs. At this point, if there are bugs despite meeting the specs, it's your fault.
Dang. Triangles are a problem?
I'm calling Orkin.
DNFTT
You have the right to be free from that annoyance. Any drones that flew over your house would have to be over 500 feet (depending on area, might be more) in public airspace, or be a very temporary disturbance.
Hovering for long periods below 500 feet or above but impinging on your right to enjoy your property is illegal.
"Drones", or UAVs, or UASs, better known as "Radio control planes" have been quite legal for decades. He's trying to make a big deal of it only because it's going to be legal for commercial entities instead of just hobbyists to use. Your neighbor already can hover over your house, so there's no impending emergency to enact legislation as he is implying.
Google Glass is a far worse threat, and I fear he may be making a "Look over there!" argument to distract from the horrible invasions of privacy that will be happening in a few years due to Eric Schmidt himself.
Someone named Serdar came up with a way to cut spam?
Someone named Foss submitted a closed algorithm?
Is it still April 1?!
To make rot13 stronger, just encrypt it twice.
Regarding antialiasing, foveon does promise to avoid color antialiasing which is generally required for bayer filters.
This new sensor "filter" splits colors into a pattern, which will have a similar effect as a bayer filter. Thus, it will need the colors antialiased to prevent bizarre moire color effects.
Sharpness is reduced by demosaicing and color antialiasing, thus Foveon kind of does promise sharper images because it needs neither of those. If their sensor tech had kept up with the quickly emerging tech of Canon or Nikon, they would be in the running. A 24Mpx Foveon sensor that actually worked in light extremes would really rock.
But with this new filter allowing a decent SNR and a ton of light to be gathered accurately (two big weaknesses for Foveon), I believe it will be the end for that struggling sensor.
Foveon has 3 photodiodes per pixel, and theoretically should have the most accurate colors and sharpness by avoiding moire and interpolation issues with bayer filters. In practice, though, a lot of light is lost by the time it reaches the 3rd photodiode.
There is indeed white light because not every pixel has a filter over it. Many pixels pass the light through a hole to the pixel, while a neighbor pixel funnels red light (e.g.) to it. Thus, you get white + 1/2 the neighbor's red. You also get half the neighbor's red on the other side, resulting in white + red for the three pixels in a line.
Cyan is part of the color spectrum as a "subtractive color". What remains under each neighbor pixel when you strip away the red, is the cyan.
From what I can tell, this will not get rid of the need for the anti-aliasing.
Antibiotics are properly used for prevention all the time. There's a tradeoff of damage a new infection can cause if it takes hold or gets worse while treating something else, and lung infections are a fine example: http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/technical/hps/treatment.html
Antibiotics are used improperly for prevention all the time, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to use them in all cases. If doctors waited for a diagnosis of infection on someone with hantavirus, that person would have a higher chance of simply dying.
While antibiotics won't stop a viral infection, one thing they can help with when infected is to prevent other infections. For instance, a bad viral lung infection might be treated with antibiotics to prevent an opportunistic bacterium like pneumonia from attacking.
And yeah, pharmacies used to carry placebos. When I worked in a pharmacy long ago, I did indeed dispense them. It was labelled with the chemical name (sucrose, lactose 50mg, etc), but may have been given unlabelled as a unit dose.
Windows 8.
Heh. Your response made sense, except that it was probably a typo of "viral infection".
Basically, people don't like to let others copy their software when the splash screen says "Thank you for your purchase, <customer>!".
Checksum the name so that someone editing the binary will be met with a crippled or nagware version, telling them how to get a fully functional one.
In any case, don't sweat it much. If someone is intent on stealing it, nothing you can do will prevent that. But accountability will prevent casual piracy because the mostly-honest person will not think it's harmless when someone asks for a copy.
There should be legislation that forces purchased software (licenses) must be transferable (striking all EULAs restricting that), and if someone buys add-ons for software and subsequently transfers that software, those addons must be transferable with it (even if from different companies). That would include downloadable content.
The whole ability for companies to be able to write felonies into their EULAs through abusing of the Computer Crime "illegal access" and requiring online connections needs to stop.
We need legislators that actually care about consumers.
Rating systems, especially on amazon, are far from accurate.
Many people use ratings solely for retribution when they really have an issue with a product or the way they were treated, even when they wouldn't normally rate a product. This is one of the reasons yelp ratings have such issues -- yelp tried to deal with the retribution aspect by disqualifying singleton bad ratings. This means the person that had a really bad experience and posted about it never gets heard, and is buried by people who give several ratings, often being paid to post good ratings.
Ratings usually reflect less about the product, but a lot about the purchaser's feelings about the product. Companies that are popular get better ratings even if their products are inferior. In this case, EA pissed off a bunch of gamers who generally don't like DRM simply because it's annoying, and it bit them badly. Now a bunch of gamers are leaving 1-star ratings on amazon because the servers were down for two days -- not because the game isn't really good when it's playable.
... releasing SimCity without DRM would have probably resulted in less people playing an unpaid copy [of one of EA's games], AND saved them from all the negative publicity and angry customers.
Best quote I've read all day.
It's slightly weakened by some of the online aspects, but certainly should apply to the single-player mode.
where would you keep it?
Documenting your entire life sounds interesting until you realize you could spend the entire REST OF YOUR LIFE reviewing it recursively.
To me, that sounds like a dumb proposition. Or perhaps incredibly egotistical. I might've been interested in a few interesting things my late mother did, but honestly, I prefer her description of it with her interpretation and memory. I wouldn't want to even see what happened, as that would ruin it.
However, some folks have set up webcams in their houses which could get recorded (I know of one that started nearly 10 years ago), and even Google glass is taking beta applications now for everyday life stuff. Just be aware of the privacy considerations.
And now this... coincidence?
Sounds a lot like mega cons. You'd think he could have done better.
I need to farm a new heart with no chance of rejection.
See? The ethical issues aren't complex at all!
I bought multiple copies to support Bleem years ago.
Clean room reverse engineering is a consumer rights issue. It should be supported when someone has the cojones to stand up to a large, litigious company.