A separate vetting process and a delay of a week is insane IMO - with zero day attacks and little info. to work on - sysadmins are better off doing Automatic Updates.
Not to criticize, but when was the last time Microsoft successfully responded to a 0-day within 24, 48, or 72 hours?
Not only that, but how d'ya think various companies worldwide would like the fact that their email/trade secrets were being collected at The 800-Pound-Gorilla? One unscrupulous employee later, EVERYONE knows the Colonel's Secret Recipe...
I'm not sure about the legality of Claim 11... I'm not an ambulance-chaser, but it'd seem that retrieving "user document files, user email, user music files, podcast files, computer status messages, and a profile database storing existing tag data" without our consent/knowledge would be prosecutable...
Youve never had someone ask to see your reciept as you walk out the door ?
Sure have. Kept walking, as I know I have my receipt....but I'm the kind of guy whom, when asked by a security guard for his ID, responds "May I see your identification as a peace officer of (or for) the state of Texas or any local or federal agency?"
Jus' 'cause the Sheeple buy that sort of treatment doesn't mean the rest of us should.
If I can't load it on my media server to put on my MP3 player or stream in the house, I can't use their version of the CD.
I have the same CD/DVD usage problems, too, with one difference: I'm 70% deaf. I can't use their product in a normal stereo or DVD player at a level *I* can hear without drawing noise complaints from neighbors. However, they've decided for me that I can't watch/hear it on my PC with headphones. Why? Because they're worried Billy Jo Ray Jim Bob Roy is P2Ping his entire collection of bad porn, Rob Schneider movies, and 1970's country-western to the world...
In short: Wal-mart doesn't pat me down every time I leave their store, nor WILL they. RIAA's shooting themselves in the foot by mistakenly assuming I'm a criminal.
Um.. what world do you live in that a CS rep has absolutely any say whatsoever in what a company does, and moreover is able to actually relate facts to you rather than the company-approved responce to inquries that they recieved in their email that morning?
Info digging. Social engineering can many times score more info than lawsuits, reporters, or subpoenas can. Phone calls, of course; you can better gauge their reactions. I can think of many [admittedly anecdotal] incidents where a bit of bluster or "C'mon, what's the *real* answer..." has loosened a tongue or two. Additionally, I wanted to see how quickly the PHBs were reacting to the news and briefing the staff to hold to that line...
My current impression is that of a corporate deer caught in bright headlights....
...and after finding the link to their number, 1-800-394-4263, at their Contact Page, I called to get their take on this. I asked why they'd choose to alienate their fan base like this, and was told "to protect our IP". I asked just what the rationale was for this decision, and the response once again was "to protect our IP." I asked who made the decision, and the CS rep wouldn't say, just restating that it was their IP. "I know," I told them, "but using Star Trek as an example, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was lovingly made by fans of ST and Bab5 as a nice spoof. They weren't sued; they were encouraged." The rep once again quietly parroted "but it's OUR IP...", and I gave up.
I'm not selling any of their material to make my money back, either. At this point, my choice is simply to burn it/melt it all down before someone else gets the infamous "FanBoi Bitchslap"....
When high-powered directional mics can discern from half a mile away conversations held inside unshielded brick buildings, is it your right to prohibit interception of your leaked signals?
Depends... Is WiFi theft illegal in many areas? Why?
Unless your car was free, you might want to add the cost of the car, tags, title, license, and insurance... Bet that figure doesn't look as good suddenly...
Every other story posted here has some sort of editorial ulterior motive but I haven't been able to figure out the motive for hating Verizon yet. Any thoughts?
If a company acts in a manner that a semi-informed reader base finds repugnant, wouldn't you expect to find us calling foul? Verizon just makes it a little easier by painting a huge bulls-eye on their back.
...and in advance, I'd like to apoogize for bein' an insensitive clod at those who've lost their family to a bull...
This reminded me of a news article I'd seen a number of years back, concerning South Carolina. They actually recommend/allow/indemnify a computer tech searching your hard drive for child porn. Link found here:
ok thats fine but keep it in YOUR bedroom, not on the internet...
Do you have the Playboy Channel? I sure don't, but it was an option when I signed up for cable. I didn't want to see it, so I didn't GET it added. I'm not sure who's forcing you to browse hard-core XXX sites, but I'd take this issue up with them. If, in fact, you do NOT have someone forcing you to view this material, then why do you keep looking for it? I don't care for racism, so I don't troll racist message boards. I don't believe I'd care for dead-puppy-humping. Go figure, I never visit dead-puppy-humping sites.
Let me ask you this: What qualifications or basis do you have to make the "best" moral judgements for everyone else? I'm rather curious.
no offense if you have to pretend to rape your wife to keep her hot I dunno.
I think the last two words of that quote sum it up wonderfully. You don't understand it, so it MUST be bad for everyone ELSE. I don't understand it either. Doesn't mean I have the right to make that moral call for everyone around me....{side note, if you'd read my post, you'd see that neither my fiance nor I have engaged in this particular play style.}
You may want to think on that one for a little bit. At least one of us will be thinking about it....
btw your analogy on mental health really shows only one thing which is your ignorance on the matter.
This one was rich... While I've not had any partners ask for the "rape" scenario, I've had quite a few girlfriends get quite creative as far as fantasies go. I'm familiar with the material. As I've also had around 10 years experience in the psychiatric field, I'm quite content in keeping the analogy. You believe it's the wrong analogy? Fine. Show you're less "ignorant" than I am on the source material. Give us a more relevant analogy.
It's a sad day when "role-playing", one of many ways to keep the spice in an adult sexual relationship, is suddenly illegal because some ninny can't wrap their head around it...
I'm not saying that simulated rape is "right", "appropriate", or "desirable"... I am pretty sure that anything that consensually happens in my neighbor's bedroom isn't anyone else's business, however...
As for helping keep unbalanced minds stable? What a crock. Someone THAT mentally ill could easily focus on Barney, the Beatles, or Bonzo. It's somewhat like a 20 foot stack of china plates without glue.... Whether the plates weren't stacked right or whether a breeze happened to knock 'em over, you still have a mess of broken plates.
most important feature to the management team.. AERO..
If eye-candy is what they're looking for, show them Beryl's cube desktop. Never fails to wow the rubes, and works better than I'd heard...
References? -chuckle- The Clinton "I smoked but didn't inhale" line was classic, and televised. As for Bush? That phone call where he talks 'bout not wanting kids to know he'd smoked pot is also old news. Nice try, though!
A simple solution would be to require all patents to be made public in full for a period (say 6 months) prior to acceptance.....
Unfortunately for us, the government's definition of "public" is "prominently displayed in a locked file cabinet in an unlit basement in a disused lavatory labeled 'Beware of the Tiger'"...
It's the puppeteers, not the puppet, that needs to be demonized.
I'm betting that most people reading this thread know exactly which companies are responsible. As I work in a local PC shop, I get a chance to steer lots of people clear of all sorts of Sony products, and tell them who else is going after people {Warner is another good target.} The best thing we all can do is inform everyone around us, non-technical types [especially] included.
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Not to criticize, but when was the last time Microsoft successfully responded to a 0-day within 24, 48, or 72 hours?
...and just think, those ads also mean extra bandwidth overhead for remote control/VNC to boot!
Not only that, but how d'ya think various companies worldwide would like the fact that their email/trade secrets were being collected at The 800-Pound-Gorilla? One unscrupulous employee later, EVERYONE knows the Colonel's Secret Recipe...
I'm not sure about the legality of Claim 11... I'm not an ambulance-chaser, but it'd seem that retrieving "user document files, user email, user music files, podcast files, computer status messages, and a profile database storing existing tag data" without our consent/knowledge would be prosecutable...
...we get people in our shop asking for emulators...
Sure have. Kept walking, as I know I have my receipt....but I'm the kind of guy whom, when asked by a security guard for his ID, responds "May I see your identification as a peace officer of (or for) the state of Texas or any local or federal agency?"
Jus' 'cause the Sheeple buy that sort of treatment doesn't mean the rest of us should.
I have the same CD/DVD usage problems, too, with one difference: I'm 70% deaf. I can't use their product in a normal stereo or DVD player at a level *I* can hear without drawing noise complaints from neighbors. However, they've decided for me that I can't watch/hear it on my PC with headphones. Why? Because they're worried Billy Jo Ray Jim Bob Roy is P2Ping his entire collection of bad porn, Rob Schneider movies, and 1970's country-western to the world...
In short: Wal-mart doesn't pat me down every time I leave their store, nor WILL they. RIAA's shooting themselves in the foot by mistakenly assuming I'm a criminal.Info digging. Social engineering can many times score more info than lawsuits, reporters, or subpoenas can. Phone calls, of course; you can better gauge their reactions. I can think of many [admittedly anecdotal] incidents where a bit of bluster or "C'mon, what's the *real* answer..." has loosened a tongue or two. Additionally, I wanted to see how quickly the PHBs were reacting to the news and briefing the staff to hold to that line...
My current impression is that of a corporate deer caught in bright headlights....
...and after finding the link to their number, 1-800-394-4263, at their Contact Page, I called to get their take on this. I asked why they'd choose to alienate their fan base like this, and was told "to protect our IP". I asked just what the rationale was for this decision, and the response once again was "to protect our IP." I asked who made the decision, and the CS rep wouldn't say, just restating that it was their IP. "I know," I told them, "but using Star Trek as an example, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was lovingly made by fans of ST and Bab5 as a nice spoof. They weren't sued; they were encouraged." The rep once again quietly parroted "but it's OUR IP...", and I gave up.
I'm not selling any of their material to make my money back, either. At this point, my choice is simply to burn it/melt it all down before someone else gets the infamous "FanBoi Bitchslap"....Depends... Is WiFi theft illegal in many areas? Why?
Unless your car was free, you might want to add the cost of the car, tags, title, license, and insurance... Bet that figure doesn't look as good suddenly...
If a company acts in a manner that a semi-informed reader base finds repugnant, wouldn't you expect to find us calling foul? Verizon just makes it a little easier by painting a huge bulls-eye on their back.
This reminded me of a news article I'd seen a number of years back, concerning South Carolina. They actually recommend/allow/indemnify a computer tech searching your hard drive for child porn. Link found here:
Anyone know if this is still the case?
Do you have the Playboy Channel? I sure don't, but it was an option when I signed up for cable. I didn't want to see it, so I didn't GET it added. I'm not sure who's forcing you to browse hard-core XXX sites, but I'd take this issue up with them. If, in fact, you do NOT have someone forcing you to view this material, then why do you keep looking for it? I don't care for racism, so I don't troll racist message boards. I don't believe I'd care for dead-puppy-humping. Go figure, I never visit dead-puppy-humping sites.
Let me ask you this: What qualifications or basis do you have to make the "best" moral judgements for everyone else? I'm rather curious.no offense if you have to pretend to rape your wife to keep her hot I dunno.
I think the last two words of that quote sum it up wonderfully. You don't understand it, so it MUST be bad for everyone ELSE. I don't understand it either. Doesn't mean I have the right to make that moral call for everyone around me....{side note, if you'd read my post, you'd see that neither my fiance nor I have engaged in this particular play style.}
You may want to think on that one for a little bit. At least one of us will be thinking about it....btw your analogy on mental health really shows only one thing which is your ignorance on the matter.
This one was rich... While I've not had any partners ask for the "rape" scenario, I've had quite a few girlfriends get quite creative as far as fantasies go. I'm familiar with the material. As I've also had around 10 years experience in the psychiatric field, I'm quite content in keeping the analogy. You believe it's the wrong analogy? Fine. Show you're less "ignorant" than I am on the source material. Give us a more relevant analogy.
I'm not saying that simulated rape is "right", "appropriate", or "desirable"... I am pretty sure that anything that consensually happens in my neighbor's bedroom isn't anyone else's business, however...
As for helping keep unbalanced minds stable? What a crock. Someone THAT mentally ill could easily focus on Barney, the Beatles, or Bonzo. It's somewhat like a 20 foot stack of china plates without glue.... Whether the plates weren't stacked right or whether a breeze happened to knock 'em over, you still have a mess of broken plates.If eye-candy is what they're looking for, show them Beryl's cube desktop. Never fails to wow the rubes, and works better than I'd heard...
References? -chuckle- The Clinton "I smoked but didn't inhale" line was classic, and televised. As for Bush? That phone call where he talks 'bout not wanting kids to know he'd smoked pot is also old news. Nice try, though!
Unfortunately for us, the government's definition of "public" is "prominently displayed in a locked file cabinet in an unlit basement in a disused lavatory labeled 'Beware of the Tiger'"...
I'm betting that most people reading this thread know exactly which companies are responsible. As I work in a local PC shop, I get a chance to steer lots of people clear of all sorts of Sony products, and tell them who else is going after people {Warner is another good target.} The best thing we all can do is inform everyone around us, non-technical types [especially] included.
Well said, and I stand corrected! Thanks for the heads-up!
Look at the page I gave. I'd highly recommend looking at the large blue "N" next to his name. Look at the bottom legend. Still so sure?
Actually, according to this link, he's presently not allowed to practice law in Florida. One state down, 49 to go!
Tell that to the Rosenbergs...