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Actually talking with one of the major Tier 1 providers they only saw a 30% drop in total throughput over the first 24 hours after shutting down TPB, took about 1 month for it to recover. Youtube is probably a better candidate if we want to save some bandwidth http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1 ;)

Many audiophiles also swear by tubes, for dynamic range and warmth.

You mean the sort of people who buy these: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/06/snake-oil-alert/ ?

Sorry, it still amazes me after what, a quarter century, that the Grace Commission report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission was and has still been ignored. Yes, the government can save money in consolidating IT services and support but then again take a look at the poor Navy/USMC and HP (NMCI) deal that is costing us Billions and isn't delivering any real value.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/

Our Government wastes billions of dollars!

Never mind that the same vendor(s) have been found guilty of fraud, we'll still do business with them. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/26/2046216/BSkyB-Wins-pound709m-Lawsuit-Against-HP-EDS
http://www.outlookseries.com/N8/Services/3992_HP_$3B_US_Navy_Continuity_Services_Contract_CoSC.htm

It doesn't matter which department, which project, they all waste money. It's a big, lumbering, inefficient system and as long as there's no restructuring of the way government works, this set of recommendations will fail.
Do we have the will to correct things? Not as long as people can still get their IPADs from China and still download ITunes..

On the IT front, the root cause of the problem is how all of this is funded and as long as appropriations are siloed, IT solutions will be siloed. The Navy will have their stuff. The Air Force, theirs and they won't inter-operate, share resources nor information. Yes, hooray, another report on how we can cut waste and do things better but does anybody really believe it will become reality? Politicians have a limited shelf life but beauracrats live forever and in DC, it's all about the appropriations and siloed funding. When you can fix Congress, you can fix the siloed appropriations mentality. Yeah, I know, like that will never happen.

If you want to save a Trillion dollars, don't spend it in the first place. Set a debt ceiling and start eliminating programs that don't add value! Start addressing the problem at the root. If you don't have the money, don't spend it. Shit, raise my taxes 5-10% if it means you will stop the endless borrowing!

Skype

Not a great example, given that Apple was party to a secret agreement with AT&T to cripple VOIP apps, and the pair only relented after the FCC opened an investigation. And what about Google Voice?

loads of web browsers

Can any of them run Javascript locally? That's a bit of a major omission for a modern web browser.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/comment-page-2/

Yes, we're back to you wanting a pretty GUI. That's fine, but it's not a comment on the "robustness" of the operating system. Linux is a good, robust operating system and doesn't have a pretty GUI, although you can add one if you want.

I'm well aware that Linux has a lot of pretty GUI options. In fact, I'm typing this in Ubuntu right now, using Gnome and Docky, typing in a particularly "pretty" Chrome browser window. All of that is entirely irrelevant to what I was saying.

The point is that iOS doesn't give you those things without having to jailbreak your phone, and Apple is on record (multiple times) that they don't want people jailbreaking. If you'll recall, they even issued a "You'll be on your own" statement after it was announced that jailbreaking your phone was perfectly legal. To whit:

Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said Apple won’t change its policy that voids iPhone warranties if a phone has been jailbroken. “It can violate the warranty and cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably,” she said.

[Emphasis added.]
Source

This isn't about wanting a "pretty" graphic UI. It's about wanting a UI. Any UI. As it stands right now, Apple gives you nothing in terms of command line access, file management, or any of the other things I mentioned. That may be acceptable to offer consumers on a cell phone, but I can't understand why anyone would find it acceptable on a tablet. If you saw a PC or laptop with that kind of an OS, how hard would you laugh?

Again, this isn't about a pretty GUI. A GUI-less installation of Linux gives you about 1000 times the power of what iOS has.

I'm not down exclusively on iOS, either. I think the Chrome OS is silly to put on a browser, and while Android and WebOS don't suffer as much from the walled garden syndrome of iOS, they're a lot more limited than just putting a standard Linux distro on a tablet and being done with it. The only reason I think Apple deserves more scorn is because of how hostile they've been to people trying to use the hardware they paid for the way they want to use it. Android and WebOS (to take two examples in the mobile space) don't have that problem (although they have others).

nothing can fix that short of altering my genetic code.

To be fair, you don't need to change all of your genetic code, just the code in the cells that make up retina. Nothing a little gene therapy can't take care of in a decade or so.

Apple doesn't give a rat's ass about what a small percentage of hackers do after they've paid Apple for the hardware. Why would they? Does anyone even have a plausible possibility?

Most of what you say is correct, especially when it comes to desktop offering. That last bit, however, is nonsense or just fanboyism. See this for example.

At the end of the day, if you don't commit a crime, the presence of a camera will not affect you.

Wrong. It affects everyone, in a lot more ways than you think. Simple example: visiting any "embarrassing" place (medical facility, sex-shop, late movie, badly rated restaurant or bar...) is perfectly legal, yet I bet most people would behave differently if the footage of a camera at such places entrance was publicly available and/or archived forever, instead of only kept by the owner and for a short time.
More arguments against that stupid "If you have nothing to hide..." line

Here's an illegal checkpoint based on that law. here (warning: pdf) is a whole slew of them. This article tells of one specific victim. So does this one. Here's a dragnet for you folks in the UK. This case is the one where they stretched it to include all mail sent anywhere in America. But wait! There's more!

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While not specific to the case of searches inside borders based on these laws you may find this link enlightening, it's what our congresscritters are reading about these things.

Warrentless stops and searches inside our borders are being done and it needs to stop.

Except the law is not on their side. This is from an article about this on Wired.com, though, so you're welcome to take it from whence it comes.

the basic gist of this is that in the UK, where these guys have been practicing, there is no statutory claim to damages, and the lawyers in the UK system in a case like this would usually be able to claim only as much as the retail price of one item in damages. That would mean 75p in the case of a single downloaded music track.

The law firms are sending letters of demand for much more than this, and sending them to people in financial difficulty - who cannot afford to get legal representation, and who often pay up to make it go away. Hearing about massive damages awarded in cases similar to this in the States probably is a factor.

The lawyers typically don't go after people who haven't paid, and bring them to court. But one of them is considering moving from the UK to the US just because of the statuary damages angle that RIAA have managed to make law.

The wired article is here -http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/10/the-legal-blackmail-business/ - so everyone can ignore that one, as well, and write whatever comments they feel.

Nearly the same exact thing was done over a year ago for a budget of only $150 by college students from MIT.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/

Jaguar just unveiled the C-X75 concept Grand Tourer at the Paris Auto Show. Because of "instant torque", it blows doors off of conventionally fueled Ferraris. Goes to 205 MPh. Range: 500 Miles.

How? Two gas-turbine jet engines, which run a recharging system, on board. The fuel tank is less than 14 gallons - and the system is pressurised for ALL of the fuels: Biodiesel, Diesel, Gasoline or LPG. Fuel as you chose, and plug into your home mains, as well.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/paris-auto-show-jaguar-cx75/

Arrivederci, Italia!

"If the current experiment works – scientists will know because they’re also packing the dead mice with radio transmitters for the snakes to ingest ..." -- CNN

The tracking radios is an interesting note: Afterall, a mouse-kabob not dangling in a tree could be food for other predators as well and ingested by unintended (nontarget) animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, or monitor lizards. It would be good to track the corpsicle to make sure it is consumed by the target brown tree snakes, and not some other arboreal carrion feeder.

On the other hand, if tracking radio, then why not go whole hog and provide tracking video? Pin hole videocams are a small additional payload and this might make it quicker to verify that the bait is finding its intended target.

Now some bright spark out there is going to catch on really quick: There was a recent TEDtalk where Nathan Myhrvold seriously proposed developing a laser mosquito zapper to prevent diseases carried by mosqueto bites. See: "TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosquitoes Dead"

If the key to this whole exercise is to dangle food in trees to find brown tree snakes in trees, then perhaps what is required is a tree monitoring system that detects snake motion in trees and lasers them out of the canopy. The image recognition problem is even simpler with power lines and utility poles, especially since a brown tree snake has a specific IR signature when it is in a tree.

This has to be far easier than shooting down mosquitos, and the image processing requirement is less real-time intensive. Further, combat CO2 laser optics has certainly reached the pinnacle of point-and-shoot, so with an overhead laser platform, an entire forest could be quickly pruned of brown tree snakes -- even if the current population density exceeds 13,000 brown tree snakes per square mile.

It is known that Guamians have developed recipes for roasted brown tree snake meat - so a high-powered laser application could also satisfy human market demands for prepared snake meat.

Re-outfitting a small fleet of Predator UAV drones should allow deployment of a laser-based brown tree snake eradication program within the year while effectively addressing budget constraints of the ongoing brown tree snake control program. Manpower would not require additional UAV pilots stationed on Guam, but could be sourced from mainland US UAV piloting centers and trainees who need to log effective flight time experience before engaging in actual combat missions.

With many available targets automatically selected for pilots to consider, a pilot's principal role will be to prevent mis-identified kills. With a maximum length of 3 meters, pilots will need to make sure that someone's pet python is not accidentally mistaken for a brown tree snake.

It's like déjà vu all over again.

If having patents is a losing game, why has it worked fine for 536 years? New companies spring up all the time, and some of them even do well.

As a personal example, my company's doing quite well, and yes, we have our own patent-pending technology. We've met our competitors. They are not happy about what we can do. Our patent application includes language limiting the scope to our specific field, so when it's public, it will be a drop-in solution for those who aren't our competitors. Seems to me that's a pretty decent compromise to accommodate a broken implementation.

Re: temperature, Wired article says "minus 24 degrees to 10 degrees above zero Fahrenheit" would be expected, except that it is almost certainly tidally locked, so one side is boiling with the other freezing. There would be a temperate zone in the middle.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/real-habitable-exoplanet/

I don't own a ps3 either, nor am I a gamer. However, as one who regularly blows away or dual boots OSs, I wonder how long it's going to take for other hardware vendors to go mental like this. It's an intriguing battle to watch, and I'll enjoy seeing Sony auger in in flames.
    http://www.physorg.com/news148749271.html

    http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer

That's the history. You need newer stuff to do this. Bon chance. My hat's off to you.

Fsck, now Sony's gonna sue me. Crap.

The "decision" cited in the Wired article does not carry the force of law. It's own title says that it is a "recommendation". It is just a policy position paper and doesn't do anything to change the DMCA. That can only be done by Congress, the president, or a federal judge ruling in a case.

It affirms the right we've always had to reverse engineer which the DMCA never took away. If you jailbreak something and keep it to yourself you are safe from the DMCA. The sticky bit is when you distribute a "circumvention device" so others can accomplish the reverse engineering. Distribute your "device" and you have trouble coming that is proportional to how many legislators are owned by the company you've pissed off.

I'm under the impression Sony has already lost this case. Very recently it was decided that you CAN hack your own phones. I don't see what would make the PS3 so special that Sony can declare they can police what you can do with hardware you yourself have purchased and is in your own living room, especially since phone manufacturers have been told they don't have the power Sony is claiming to have. Granted the PS3 is not a mobile phone, but take away that particular radio I don't see what differentiates it from a mobile phone in those same regards.

But the Copyright Office concluded that, “while a copyright owner might try to restrict the programs that can be run on a particular operating system, copyright law is not the vehicle for imposition of such restrictions.”

I think the Wired article the previous and next quotes come from address this case almost as well as the article covered in the parent.

A federal appeals court came to the same conclusion last week in an unrelated dispute about “dongles,” or keys that grant access to software. “The owner’s technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing,” the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case concerning a software licensing flap between MGE UPS Systems and GE Consumer and Industrial.

I hope Sony gets shot down. The PS3, and for that matter the PSP are both incredibly powerful systems with so much to offer but with a big dolt called Sony sitting on them saying you can't use them for that. This attitude is why I ditched my iPhone, which I refused to hack even though I could, for an Android phone - which I wound up hacking - but to keep it from doing what I didn't want to instead of making it do what I thought it should. My PSP is hacked and I like it that way, the battery last much longer and I don't have to carry all those UMD's with me. For that matter I can buy my UMD's at fair market price at a store instead of having to buy them from a website that has Sony setting an outrageous price for them that has nothing to do with what they're worth on the market.

...Wired, known for its constant barrage against wikileaks.

[citation needed]

I haven't noticed Wired doing anything more than constantly reporting what everyone else is reporting -- albeit in their own words. Did they fabricate the Assang/Domscheit-Berg dialogue in this article? Because that would be funny.

Does this article (or this one) help at all?

Facebook will release two AT&T smartphones in 2011

You lost me at "facebook"... and then again at "AT&T"...

I mean... the two companies I've managed to avoid for the last few years teaming up... wow. So how will this work? Will their phone calls route straight to AT&T's secret rooms or will that be an opt-out privacy option that I won't be able to find in the settings and that will then revert back to "in" three months later?

Hope and Change, Mofos. Where is Obama?!

Indeed, where is Obama? Why is there little outrage from our friends on the left when Obama's justice department tries to argue that you have no expectation of privacy and it's perfectly fine for the Government to track your daily movements with no warrant? Can you imagine the outrage if Bush had argued in favor of such a policy?

"So it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured about 200,000 rads, and when it exited, having collided with the inside of his head, it weighed in at about 300,000 rads. Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/science.html

Some record companies have already responded to the evil threat of USB turntables by introducing technology that effectively eliminates ripping of their vinyl albums!:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/05/digiwax

Sorry:

Links:

http://www.vinylcollective.com/2007/10/31/response-to-wireds-vinyl-maybe-be-final-nail-in-cds-coffin/#more-345

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029

One major weakness of the cloud you're espousing... it dies without a constant network connection. And why not have the best of both the worlds? It's not as if allowing native data storage is going to make the cloud go away.

These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.

Do you have a clue about what you are writing? Everyone is trying to get people interested in programming at younger ages and you're here saying that high school students don't need to how to program? And this is supposedly because people can screw up the device? Pray, tell me how approving this App can in any way lead to 'screwing up the device'. These things are vastly easier to administer than a a laptop, and high school students by and large, don't need to know how to program a computer.

And by the way, if your a registered developer (like a school district's net admin) you can do ad hoc software distribution to your own devices of any software you write outside of the Apple lockdown. So lighten up.

How will that help if such software doesn't get developed by software developers because they can't distribute the app except to jailbroken devices and to registered developers? How many school districts have their own software development teams to develop Windows and Mac educational software instead of just buying it off the market?

You're the one that needs to see the light.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/apple-scratch-app/

Naysayers of the iPad miss the point? Huh, here I thought that all the hype about desktop, laptops and netbooks being killed off by iPads was created by Apple fans.

A small sample:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175600/The_iPad_is_the_future_for_home_computing
http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future
http://www.macworld.com/article/146038/2010/01/ipad_future_shock.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-future/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/ipad/

Especially since any smartphone worth its salt supports multitasking...

I use Windows Phone 7 you insensitive clod!

What are you talking about, the **AA is GOVERNMENT now. Let me refresh you memory:

• Gershengorn, a partner with RIAA-firm Jenner & Block, represented the labels against Grokster (.pdf) and will be in charge of the DOJ Federal Programs Branch. That’s the unit that just told a federal judge the Obama administration supports monetary damages as high as $150,000 per purloined music track on a peer-to-peer file sharing program.
• Donald Verrilli, associate deputy attorney general — the No. 3 in the DOJ, who unsuccessfully urged a federal judge to uphold the $222,000 file sharing verdict against Jammie Thomas.
• Tom Perrilli, as Verrilli’s former boss, the Justice Department’s No. 2 argued in 2002 that internet service providers should release customer information to the RIAA even without a court subpoena.
• Brian Hauck, counsel to associate attorney general, worked on the Grokster case on behalf of the record labels.
• Ginger Anders, assistant to the solicitor general, litigated on the Cablevision case.

Source Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept

Worse: it's not only China.

According to other sources, National Security Letters (NSLs) from the U.S. government are not reported by Google.

NSLs are issued with gag orders preventing their disclosure. They're essentially a method of bypassing the standard judicial process, instead using a system more closely resembling the Chinese government's secrecy. For Americans, they should be much more of a concern than the Chinese officials' "state secrets."

Source:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-government-requests-rise/

.com isn't specifically american

From this Wired article:

"The trafficking of pirated American movies and music from rogue websites outside our borders is a big business," Bainwol said. "This bill is a welcome first step toward cutting off the financial lifeline that sustains these illegal operations and threatens the livelihoods of countless members of the American music community."

Of course the "illegal operations" of foreign sites completely disregards the actual jurisdiction of other nation's laws and imposes US law on a guilty-until-you-submit-to-US-law-and-prove-yourself-innocent basis.

Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites' domain registration...

If passed, the Justice Department could ask a federal court for an injunction that would order a U.S. domain registrar or registry to stop resolving an infringing site's domain name, so that visitors to PirateBay.org, for example, would get an error message...

The bill would direct injunctions at a piracy site's domain registrar, if the registration was through a U.S. company. If not, the Justice Department could serve the court order at the registry for the site's top-level domain. Registry's for the dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domains are all U.S.-based, and thus within the courts' jurisdiction.

Dot-com, dot-org, dot-net, and any other top level domain hosted in the US would be exploted to impose this US law globally.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, the law goes on to pull an arguably stupider stunt:

For domains not under U.S. control, the bill would demand that internet service providers in the United States block resolution of the address upon a court order, but overseas users would not be impacted.

Moron legislators want to start sending out mandatory filter lists to all US ISPs.

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Because, believe it or not, Google and Apple are "close" to one another. As close as two companies can be while still sorta competing. The two companies share alot of the same board members to my understanding. And Brin, Page, and Jobs are not enemies.

Have you lived in a cave for the past year?

There were two shared directors as of May 2009 when the DOJ mentioned they would investigate. Then Eric Schmidt quit Apple's board and Arthur Levinson quit Google's board...

Then Jobs proclaimed that Google was trying to kill the iPhone... sure, this could all be fluff, and the two companies are really being controlled by "them" or Dr. Evil, but if so, they have quite a few people fooled... especially since Apple is now increasing the fronts on which they compete with Google, and vice versa.

Clearly, this is all orchestrated.

Yeah, DNS is the lynchpin. And I gotta wonder to what extent DNSSEC consolidates lockstep control over DNS servers.

Well, according to this Wired article, court control of the DNS servers is just about here:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/justice-department-piracy/#ixzz10Aeo5Tmt

Quite frankly, I'm surprised this isn't bigger news here at SlashDot than the originally linked article.

H. Sapiens has a built in fear of heights. Take a six month old kid and try to get him to crawl over a pane of glass suspended at a meter's altitude - no go. It's been tested, after reaching a certain age he won't do it. He has figured out the dangers of the Z coordinate.

Uh, what? Here's an article with a picture of a kid crawling over the glass floor of the CN Tower, suspended at an altitude of over 300 meters.

I've visited the CN Tower several times, and I can confirm -- the kids have absolutely no fear. It's the adults who are scared to stand on the floor.

In case it hasn't been posted yet, here's a link to the actual bill hosted on Wired

I don't blame them for not branching out into other as it seems as though the audience doesn't care too much about anything new and wants more of the same. That might not be healthy for the industry, but why should a company invest massive amounts in flashy graphics, new tech, and marketing for something that's probably going to flop when they can just push out something using the same engine as their last game, reuse some of the art assets, and have an install base that will probably pick it up without a huge marketing push? If there's money to be made in something new, someone will make it, even if it's not the established players.

but do you mind citing one or two actual companies "shut down" by DMCA?

321 Studios for one.

For those who like getting their news from the source, here is the current (PDF) draft of the bill.

How long until the serial numbers are spoofed? This reminds me of the Pentiums with those identifiers being broadcast to the internet. It didn't take long for those to be disabled, and ultimately, Intel decided it was the wrong thing to do. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/04/35950

One of my favorite things about Flash is that it's easy to block and control.

To coin a phrase, "that is not entirely accurate". It is well documented (2009 Study) that "Private Browsing" does not actually protect you, (blog post) that the Flash cookies + Javascript code simply store the Flash cookies in a location that is not monitored and/or controlled.

Linux using Symlinks to redirect the Flash stuff to a (/tmp) directory that gets automatically erased every time you reboot your PC is a great option. See (Banish flash cookies forever under linux. Since Mac OS X is based on BSD Linux, you should be able to do the same thing with that operating system. With Windows, you could always count on DOS to allow you to erase junk also, however with Windows 7 I honestly have no idea if it is even possible. As many of the articles pointed out, vendors will tell you that you are safe and browsing privately, but the reality is often something else. At best they only do a partial job with Flash. At worst they do nothing. Adobe blames the browsers API, which is interesting. I am not buying that at all. As for browsers, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome do not allow you to control Flash junk 100%, allowing for only a false sense of security. Since Google has partnered with Adobe, this is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. See the comparison link below to see how those browsers stacked up based on Privacy.

With Firefox + NoScript + Linux you can at least control the Flash stuff after a reboot of your PC. However between reboots, Flash can track your activity on the web. Since there are over a 100 web browsers to choose from, surely a few of them will allow you to successfully control your Privacy and not just pay lip service to it.

Don't settle for security by obscurity or as this blog post (with examples) showed privacy settings that do not work 100%. A quote from that post, "Still, the private browsing features in Chrome and Firefox are a complete false sense of privacy and security". Why settle....

Another options might be MPlayer or gnash, the point is you do NOT have to use Flash if you do not want too. HTML5 should be another positive development to diminish Flash.

I was annoyed that Google Chrome would let me only block the website cookie, not all the related tracking cookies from 3rd parties that are not named the same as the website. Even if you are not concerned about your privacy, you have to hate your Internet browsing experience slowing to a crawl because a website you are spending a second at wants to set 20 to 30 Flash cookies on your PC. This quote from the comments of the Linux article to banish flash cookies mentioned above, sums it up nicely...

(The real danger in all this is cross-site tracking via third-party web beacons, whether that is stored by browser cookies, Flash Local Storage, browser Local Storage, or IP-address tracking. This article at The Inquirer, for instance, wants to notify DoubleClick, Scorecard Research, Quantserve,

The story at Wired has pictures.

OMG! Pictures of my house, on a public street, where thousands of people can drive by and see it? MY PRIVACY IS RUINED! I might as well post my SSN on the Internet now!

Todd Davis, is that you?

LifeLock

Huh, funny how you would jump to that conclusion considering this: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/02/female_gamers_h/

Also it was a connection over a video game that got me laid to begin with. Without video games I likely would have spent all of my time on maths or programming and not gotten laid for a much longer period of time.

Seriously, why go to that level of trouble.

Especially when the passwords to the database are hardcoded:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/siemens-scada/

Wired had a big write up how Steve doesn't put plates on his car and feels free to park in the Handicap spots at will at his companies. So why would this surprise anyone.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plateless-benz/

It would surprise people because it is completely false.

Wired had a big write up how Steve doesn't put plates on his car and feels free to park in the Handicap spots at will at his companies. So why would this surprise anyone.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plateless-benz/

Under U.S. law, these commissioned works won't be in the public domain. There is no way to "create" a work into the public domain. Work only enters the public domain upon expiration of the copyright term. (The one way to create a work into the public domain, is that governmental works are not subject to copyright.)

What the project can do is create a contractual license that says that all-comers are granted a perpetual, non-exclusive license. Even then, presumably the resulting works would be works of joint authorship, with copyright residing in all of the authors. And under the reversion provisions of US copyright law, those orchestra members, or their families, could have the licenses terminated after about 30 years.

Here are some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Those are just the stories until July of 2008.

I don't remember where I read the 270,000 copies sold for Modern Warfare 2, but this quote should give you an indication:

The boxed PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold around 170,000 units in November, according to Gamasutra’s NPD analysis. Compared to the 6 million units the game shifted on consoles in one month, that’s a rounding error.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/12/modern-warfare-2-pc-sales/

In general, poor sales on the PC has been blamed on piracy, rather than lack of interest. The numbers I saw showed 6 million copies sold and 1 million copies pirated on the XBox. In comparison, there were 270,000 copies sold and 4 million copies pirated on the PC. In other words, 7 million players on the XBox, 86% of them paid for the game; 4.25 million players on the PC, 6% of them paid for the game.