Alar? Saccharin?
Answer: not very. Just need an enviro-weenie to lie about it and make an emotional film. Like say, Gasland.
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Because there were three different messages using the key. Only the first and second have been decoded. They indicated what they had and that the exact location for where they were hiding the stash was. The third one has never been decoded, hence an article in a C64 programming mag for something that would help you work with the document.
And intuitively obvious things aren't necessarily true. For a long time people thought it was intuitively obvious that there could only be 1 parallel line passing through a given point not on the first line. As for the pad concept, it is certainly known in that time. There's a famous lost treasure that used a copy of the US Constitution for its pad. The encoder wrote down a number which indicated how far to count to find the next letter for the message. I doubt it counts as perfect, but it intuitively seems very, very hard to break if you don't know the key and the method.
you are unaware of the complexities of moving the myriad of accepted file formats into the various typsetting programs and tweaking the hell out of the layout until it all fits in the prescribed space. And making sure none of the formatting is lost in translation amongst the different systems.
Some do pay reviewers to look at the work, although I expect not most, and even if they do it is nominal.
There are the copier editors who review it, the typesetters who set the work, the editors who oversee the process, the publishers who own the publication, the cost of printing, and the cost of distribution. In a chicken and egg problem, prices tend to be set high so that the publisher can be sure of recouping enough money to support his operation, which make them unaffordable to larger numbers of people who might otherwise provide support for the journal. And if the publisher for the journal is actually a university, they may be looking to make money to put into general fund coffers for themselves.
Adobe and Apple are fighting each other like scorpions locked in a death match. I always saw the computer market for Apple as highly dependent on Adobe, because it was the graphics people buying their overpriced equipment. That might be shifting with the iPhone and the Linux base making it more available for computer gurus. But I don't see it as good for either company in the long run.
The plaintiff filed not only for themselves, but applied for class action. In this instance the class was suitably well defined, and there was cause to believe that many or all of them would have been potentially harmed by the company's actions, particularly as they have KEYSTROKE loggers installed. While the original plaintiff's equipment was in the hands of the police, most if not all of the rest of the class certainly was not.
but in this case, full disclosure doesn't cover it sufficiently. A GPS tracker, sure. A keystroke logger that accesses PII, nope. The judge must be looking for a quick, involuntary retirement. And that's saying something for a position that here in The States is usually a lifetime appointment.
excluded from "personal gain" by IRS rules in the US. Anybody making money from such an organization cannot be an officer of the corporation. If they are, and they are making money, the corp can and should lose their tax exempt status. When they do, not only will they owe back taxes, they will also owe penalties and accrued interest. I doubt any of them could survive it.
Yes, I know because I've actually helped incorporate several.
and that's an issue in both the mobile and desktop market. On my phone, I tend to use an app to scan Drudge because it reformats the information in a way that I can read then follow the link to actual article. On my desktop I use the website because at desktop size the website is suitable. But in the past I have had problems with sites that are designed for higher graphics resolutions than I was running on my desktop. Some sites really ought to have an app though. For instance I have a browser page saved on my phone to update me on the status/location of the commuter train I take. This being the States and all, they aren't near as regular as they are for Brits and if the train is going to be ungodly late, I don't have to wait for Charlie Brown adult voice announcements over the loudspeakers.
I worked in the printing industry for a while. The lowest cost part of the publication is the printing of the book itself, assuming you don't have an idiot for a printer. The costs are in the distribution marketing, and payments to all the middlemen involved in producing the book. Granted it's been a while since I was at dear old State, but our textbooks were black and white, and just as outrageously priced. Started in Astro, so I spent as much if not more on books than the Lit types who had more numerous volumes. The reason given of course was the expense of the type fonts to set all those damned equations. Believable before the advent of computer typesetting, but not anymore. At the time I was spending about $450/semester for books, and that was more than 20 years ago.
If anything, the used book market would drive prices down, if profs weren't in cahoots with the publishers. War and Peace hasn't changed any since Tolstoy wrote it. Newtonian physics has changed less since he published his work, and all the translation for that has been done long since. Which means small changes don't necessitate changing the text for the course. So if the publisher puts out volume XIII, volumes X, XI, and XII should still be good. Oh, and if the publishers wrote good usable reference books, there wouldn't BE a secondary market because students would keep them for future reference. I still have my physics books and kept a fair number of the math ones as well.
As to the last, yes the authors are a major cost, but good books don't necessarily take a long time to write. They may take a long time to edit because most profs can't speak let alone write a simple sentence, but that can be worked around. Another problem might be illegible long-hand notes that some poor schmuck at the printing house has to decrypt into some semblance of English. (My astrophysics prof had a sheaf of hand-written notes that were run off at the local copy shop every year, completely indecipherable.) No the problem is most printing houses aren't interested in signing contracts with new authors because despite the economies of scale, academic books lose money.
I'll also note that I did a back of the envelop calculation when they quoted the 30 day rental figure and went, 'Ah, so that'll be at best 10% less than if they bought the book to get them through the 90 day semester, which is easily compensated by selling your books back.'
but the damn thing kept running all the time even when I was trying to use the PC and bolluxing up my ability to access files. After I yanked it things ran better.
Yes, it is an underpowered Lenovo and at the time it had Vista on it. But given those are the circumstances under which Diskeeper claim to improve performance....
It worked well until we got a bunch of under 30s people who implemented a blog and irrevocably split apart the communications methodology. They didn't see the point of having something that actually downloaded things so you can read them offline. I couldn't arrange to be constantly online to read their messages. Also, their messages got dispersed in so many places I could never manage to check them all.
Because only lawyers could come up with the absurdity that you can be compelled to provide a key, but not a combination. Common folk everywhere see that for the point of accessibility providing either is functionally equivalent. So if you can be compelled to provide one, you should be compelled to provide the other. And that the same thing applies to encryption as well. Now it might well be that the original decision to compel turning over the key was wrong, but if it is assumed to be right, then the others are just verbal jujitsu to make the law say what your prejudices want it to say, not what it actually says.
I followed the link to the old terms of use and it did not "required that the same prices be charged on competing platforms." It required that developers not charge "lower" prices elsewhere.
Such requirements are common in US contract law as a means of guaranteeing a competitive price for the sales agent, and are routinely upheld. The rest of the complaint is in no way related to that clause. The complaint is problematic on almost all fronts. First off, despite their name, Consumer Watchdog has no standing to file the complaint, so it could be summarily dismissed. Secondly, Facebook do not have a monopoly position if social networking. Lot of other sites exist and are frequently used.
Furthermore, the anti-trust suit against MS might have used that clause, but the basis for the claim was legal documents covered by discovery which showed MS had engaged in actual anti-competitive practices: If you manufactured PCs and installed DOS and/or Windows on them, you all computers you manufactured were required to have DOS and/or Windows installed on them. That is a far cry from 'you can't give someone else a better deal than you give us.'
been summarily rejected too. I keep wondering whether I should be asking how much the clerk was paid, or how someone that stupid slipped through the hiring process. And the $25 million payment to Lindows to change their name shows M$ [b] KNOWS [/b] they don't have a leg to stand on, because they buy lawyers the way newspapers buy ink.
when you start looking at the real variations in climate change data, they are well matched to the sorts of changes you see in solar radiative output. The claim is that a 1 or 2 degree C change is catastrophic for the earth. By referencing C instead of K, they subtly shift the emphasis to water freezing instead of absolute 0. Plus or minus 1 degree at 32 C sounds a hell of a lot worse than plus or minus 2 degrees at 305.
the referenced article is better science than anything coming out of CRU. It meets the actual requirements of science: it is falsifiable (as opposed to an article of faith like the warminsts), the data are fully published, and anyone can review and replicate the experiment to confirm the results.
1. You misread the data.
2. You lied about the data.
3. You were smoking something that isn't even legal in The Netherlands before you read the data.
Because the data are in point of fact not stable, and correspond well with the warming and cooling trends. As is proven out be similar warming and cooling trends on Mars and even Pluto.
it's not like there are a lot of other options. Business need:
1) Widespread adoption of a consistent platform
2) Stable predictable release cycles so planning and testing can be performed for updated software.
3) Transparent standards for coding the systems.
Mozilla provide 1 and 3, and until recently had 2. Granted there wasn't much business adoption, but now there will be none. MS have 1 and 2 down cold, and like it or not, as far as most businesses are concerned, they meet requirement 3 as well.