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Sony Sues Rootkit Maker
flyboy974 writes "Sony BMG Music Entertainment is suing the company that developed anti-piracy software for its CDs, claiming the technology was defective and cost the record company millions of dollars to settle consumer complaints and government investigations. The software in question is the MediaMax CD protection system, widely derided as a rootkit. Sony BMG is seeking to recover some $12 million in damages from the Phoenix-based technology company, according to court papers filed July 3."
As much as you don't like George W Bush, you might want to rethink that. If Kim Jong Il won and became the President of the USA:
a) Anyone that criticized the Great Leader, via Internet, Phone, or even in a Public Place, or around a family member that supported him, would find themselves in a concentration camp and gradually worked to death.
b) The economy of the United States would completely collapse to a failed agrarian state. There would be no electricity, transportation, or food. Millions of people would starve. There would be no private companies. Instead of Apple vs Microsoft, there would be a single Kim Jong Il Glorious Operating System.
c) Adjusted for comparitive GDP, the US Military would have a budget of around 2 trillion dollars a year. Oh, and we would all be drafted up, yielding a standing army of around 10 to 20 million men under arms. What we do with that army? Well, forget about a war to liberate Iraq from Saddam, the USA would, under Kim Jong Il, have created an empire by conquering Canada and Mexico and probably into the south.
d) Pictures of Kim Jong Il would be on the currency and all documents. There would be no hollywood stars, or media or celebrity watch, becuase there could only be one celebrity, the Great Leader.
e) We would be in year 90, or something like that, as the calendar would be based on the anniversary of North Korea's original leader.
After that, it only gets worse.
http://www.stat.ualberta.ca/people/schmu/nk.html
Take the time to have some understanding of what real dictators are, before you start comparing US Presidents to them.
I invite you to have a look at:
This is my sig.
Sigh. A perfectly good punchline ruined by awful grammar.
Berzerker!
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Sorry, on some level you already have by saying you'd rathar not see either "win", which in and of itself is an ignorant statement. You post is akin to saying both the jay-walker and the mass-murderer deserve the death penalty. Because, hey, both are bad.
When you use the same rhetoric for both of them, you automatically group them together as morally the same.
If I may digress for a moment: I think you should call yourself TapeCutterAndPaster instead. Your post is a tired Slashdot cliché.
But to give you the benefit of a doubt, I'll answer: My celebrated newsletter does explain WTF it means, but you're obviously too dim to comprehend it.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, write technology blogs.
One of the great blights (IMHO) of American society is the decay of personal reponsibility. "It's not my fault, they should have told me the hot coffee was hot!". This slide was led (again IMHO) by the Democratic leaders of the 80s & 90s, who insisted that crime and other problems were the failure of the system, the failure of the society - individuals were not to blame. The outcome of this is an increase in frivolous lawsuits. Another problem seems to be an increase in "syndromes", where people blame hastily invented, acronymic illnesses or syndromes for the problems cause by poor parenting or minor behavioral deviations. "Oh, you'll have to make special allowances for my son. He's got FCLBMS (Food Consumption Leading to Bowel Movement Syndrome)". People do weird things, theres no need to create a disease for every little tick. I do not mean to discount or diminish actual mental health issues like ADHD, but hey folks, life is tough, get over it.
Sony is just showing what happens when this lack of responsibility reaches the boardroom. They're the first, they won't be the last.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Last time I checked you weren't required to have a picture of Bush in your house and bow to it...
If you attend a Bush political rally wearing a shirt that reads, "Protect our civil liberties," then you get ejected. Seth
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These things should come with a warning!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.