I can see why this is happening. America used to have quite a bit of manufacturing, shops that employed people on living wages etc. Technical workers that worked in country, and spent their money locally. That money flowed round and encouraged other shops and enterprise. Shops that sold stuff made in the US. It also did fair trade in export and import.
That's all gone now. All the US has is "IP" and "Media" aka ideas, films and music, nothing you can touch. There is now really no manufacturing to employee people - Gone abroad. IT Jobs = Cheaper in India. Local workers? almost slave wages in Wallyworld or Starbucks. Exports of any physical goods is nowhere near what it used to be. Just about everything manufactured comes from China.
Now all shops sell crap mostly made abroad, competing in a race to the bottom to try and squeeze the ever reducing money in pocket from shoppers. Those same shoppers that used to have a job, and pay taxes, but since their job was shipped abroad as it was $8,000 a year cheaper.
If they loose this revenue stream, its over. They have to protect this last thing they have that other people and countries will buy. There is nothing left to make in the US. It still makes it good taxable income for the government. All the "dirty" stuff that makes things got shipped abroad by short sighted fat cats. There is also have defense spending, but same thing applies.
It is in effect the last roll of the dice for the US economy and they are hoping to god these "untouchables" will save them. This should explain why the media fat cats are so terrified of losing the "rights" war. The subscription model is only the beginning.....
In another 20 years I suspect the US (and UK, and Europe) will be entering into what we now class as third world levels of poverty and suchlike. Asia and what we now class as the emerging market will have swapped places with us.
Thinking about this over dinner, I came to a thought about HOW this got put into general availability.
This crimeware kit is like $10,000 a go. If I where the developer, I would be very careful about where copies go and security on the local machine. So either this guy, or his backups got hacked, or the other potential way it got out is through a trusted client or similar.
It would be sweet irony if the malware developer got pawned by another piece of malware, but I guess we will never know.
I'm sorry, but to us more tech savy folks, a web page or youtube is going to be delivered or watchable at pretty much the same speed no matter if you have 10Mbit or 100Mbit, because more than likely I know I could burn 100Mbit (I am on the 10Mbit package atm) quite easily, but what the heck are we going to be able to use to see a benefit in the 100Mbit speed you can buy
Who is going to buy this crud? Sheeples I expect who just see headline speed figures. If I could get 100Mbit I would use it for p2p and giganews;) I mean, really, what else is there.
I have to say, I am not impressed by this. At the end of the day, it is a CIVIL matter. From the look of that copper (an employee of the state!) bashing down the door, its the type of thing you see on police camera action.
BTW Sony, kiss my ass with your attempted take downs. Information wants to be free;) Lets see your effectiveness against TPB
It's available as always from our friends at the pirate bay.
I am going to find out which constabulary this is, and write a letter of complaint of the police using heavy handed tactics in non criminal matters. It's almost as though they are sony's personal army.
For all the talk I have not seen any "pirate breakthroughs" or a ps3 pirate scene with regards to running backups. It has been a few weeks now and if it is so fatally flawed, you'd expect the piracy to be skyrocketing now because no hardware mod required, unless I am missing something?
I realise the people that hacked it are hardcore, in the true hacker sense of hackerdom. Surely there are equally intelligent people who just want "games for free, Dud3". There is at the end of the day a very big financial incentive.
Surely if there was a working 'sploit to enable backups etc you'd expect to see it on "the bay" etc
I know price has already been mentioned but my wife and I went to the cinema last week. Everywhere signs about the right of the cinema to search bags etc. That was bad enough, but once we had been vetted for snacks, we purchased some. By the time we had some snacks (Nachos, popcorn and 2 colas), and the cinema tickets, we had spent about $70.
I think in future, I will just stay home. Treated like crap and ripped off, and now VIDEOD like a common thief. No thanks. It's almost like they are trying to make me pirate stuff so they can sue me;)
Just a thought, and I am not really too up on it, but by allowing peoples details to be leaked, including address, phone number, account numbers etc isn't this company negligent in its duty to keep such information confidential.
If I was an "Infringer" I would be asking how much for ME to go away after you really screwed up by not even having rudimentary security in place as is required by the DPA and peoples details downloadable my poor data hygiene.
Here is a quick thought on this one. Say you are some big drug pusher and you get a "clean" phone from retail. The US government is sure going to be interested in the contents (stuff they can't get by going to your telco). How can they get all the info? Install a silent trojan. Who can do that, Google of course.
It could be quite interesting to do a FOI to see how many times it has been done (Because I am pretty sure it will have been done by now)
From what I gather, one area suse/Novell excels at is Suse on mainframe. These are big big customers, who are very conservative and an area where RedHat don't seem to be able to conquer. That has got to be worth a lot of $$$ to someone.
A thought just occurred to me. They probably have a LOT of servers there with a lot of info on them. I just hope they destroyed the disks in them because that information could be very useful to not only identify people searching for "bad" things but also the source code and such that resides on those databases. They are probably worth their weight in gold.
Just reading the comments and it reminds me of the podcast security now. Every 10 minutes there was literally a 5 minute attempt to sell you a copy of gotomypc. Not once, or twice but literally > 10 times per episode. It is a pity because otherwise it would have been a good podcast. The adverts are that much that you grow to loath it.
Too much advertising and you grow to hate a product or service.
I like the theory. However one thing to bear in mind is that the integrity of Bitlocker itself is questionable. I know for a *FACT* that "3 letter agencies" have backdoor keys. Ask any IT forensics person. Microsoft even have closed, invite only sessions for enforcement agencies to show them how to bypass bitlocker security.
That in itself means that the government/big brother is guarenteed to be able to bypass MS based secruity. Ask yourself this, can you see Osama Bin laden using bitlocker to protect his stuff ?
Take this further, do you want the government to have access to your files, just a quick phone call to MS and wham, all your shit laid bare.
Ah well. We were going to buy an enterprise licence for his product (Been evaluating for a few months). Not now. With renewals it would have been a nice chunk of change. To stop idiots such as this, we need to vote with our pockets.
On a larger scale, without internet anonymity, we wouldn't have wikileaks. We wouldn't have free and open speach. We can and do critize bad laws, bad companies.
It wouldn't be lonf until its a "pay to play" scenario.
I work for a government body. I was new to the job and our dell rep offered us a M1000 and two dual M600 ~3Ghz blades in a mirrored sas 72 GB hot swap config. "Try it. BTW, we don't want it back!" It came with 3 Yr pro support etc.
We tried it for like a couple of days, and comparing this to a proper HP C7000 chassis at twice the price (actually, a proper HP blade centre with FC4 ports is a LOT more expensive) is much much better value. The dell stuff sits unused in the corner now, until we can write it off.
This led to us placing a $220,000 HP blade order within weeks of looking at the dell crap.
Unfortunatly, I do have a Dell E6400 laptop, but I am not responsible for desktops!
you think how DRM crippled this will be. IF it becomes a must have item, it is a chance to get DRM firmly entrenched via the back door. Especially when you consider the studios that MS has done deals with, and their love of Digital restrictions. It will be the kick start for DRM. Approved content only, from the MS Store, no loading your "downloaded" ebooks on this baby. Its the perfect platform for strategy shift without too much whinging from us freedom lovers.
It breaks the concept of MS = PC Only. It allows them to start again, with DRM at the core, much like the Xbox 360. Dump all the last 20 years of legacy and go "apple" style with heavy restrictions, especially music. And will it sync to Linux, will it heck!
Not being pedantic but it aint a lot to backup. Just get a pair of MSA2000 with 1TB SATA disks. Total cost £20,000 inc tax. MSA2000fc if you can do fibre. Then just get a LT04 tape robot, HP, Overland or similar and do a disk to disk to tape backup setup. So you not only have tape backups for if the entire place burns down, and you also have disk based backup for a quick restore when someone accidently deletes a file. Also with DDT the throughput will be high enough to quickly complete the backups in a small time window over night.
If this is true, it strikes at the very heart of the products saleability. The pre is quite the phone in geek worlds, which unfortunatly for them, tend to be the ones that care about stuff like this!
By doing this they have alienated a real core market that could have made the Pre a good geek phone rather than a has been phone.
This is so timely. I spent the last 3 days fighting VMWare. Microsoft don't need to try and kill VMWare. VMware is doing an excellent job of that by itself. We are a small gov branch that spend a measly $40,000 a year with VMWare and then we realised that why shouldn't we get educational discounts from VMWare. We get top level discounts from MS,Novell,Oracle etc.
VMWare, nope sorry. No can do. After 3 days of getting to the right person the answer was no, because your courses you teach aren't long enough. FFS!
So I mentioned that we had a top line educational select agreement with MS, and Hyper V is free! They really didn't give a toss. Give it a year and they will be so hurting. It's a pity because the software is top notch but there is no "getting the business" aspect of it. Once Hyper V is matured, they are done!
I just had a look. Man what utter dogshit. It has pretty much copied Googles thinking on minimalist, but even fucked that up with a picture background. Morons.
To my mind, it's just a bad copy. And the name, man, which tard thought that up.
I really hope MSN stays were it is, insignificant. Only because it would be nice to see MS NOT win due to $$$ for once.
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I can see why this is happening. America used to have quite a bit of manufacturing, shops that employed people on living wages etc. Technical workers that worked in country, and spent their money locally. That money flowed round and encouraged other shops and enterprise. Shops that sold stuff made in the US. It also did fair trade in export and import.
That's all gone now. All the US has is "IP" and "Media" aka ideas, films and music, nothing you can touch. There is now really no manufacturing to employee people - Gone abroad. IT Jobs = Cheaper in India. Local workers? almost slave wages in Wallyworld or Starbucks. Exports of any physical goods is nowhere near what it used to be. Just about everything manufactured comes from China.
Now all shops sell crap mostly made abroad, competing in a race to the bottom to try and squeeze the ever reducing money in pocket from shoppers. Those same shoppers that used to have a job, and pay taxes, but since their job was shipped abroad as it was $8,000 a year cheaper.
If they loose this revenue stream, its over. They have to protect this last thing they have that other people and countries will buy. There is nothing left to make in the US. It still makes it good taxable income for the government. All the "dirty" stuff that makes things got shipped abroad by short sighted fat cats. There is also have defense spending, but same thing applies.
It is in effect the last roll of the dice for the US economy and they are hoping to god these "untouchables" will save them. This should explain why the media fat cats are so terrified of losing the "rights" war. The subscription model is only the beginning.....
In another 20 years I suspect the US (and UK, and Europe) will be entering into what we now class as third world levels of poverty and suchlike. Asia and what we now class as the emerging market will have swapped places with us.
Thinking about this over dinner, I came to a thought about HOW this got put into general availability.
This crimeware kit is like $10,000 a go. If I where the developer, I would be very careful about where copies go and security on the local machine. So either this guy, or his backups got hacked, or the other potential way it got out is through a trusted client or similar.
It would be sweet irony if the malware developer got pawned by another piece of malware, but I guess we will never know.
I'm sorry, but to us more tech savy folks, a web page or youtube is going to be delivered or watchable at pretty much the same speed no matter if you have 10Mbit or 100Mbit, because more than likely I know I could burn 100Mbit (I am on the 10Mbit package atm) quite easily, but what the heck are we going to be able to use to see a benefit in the 100Mbit speed you can buy
Who is going to buy this crud? Sheeples I expect who just see headline speed figures. If I could get 100Mbit I would use it for p2p and giganews ;) I mean, really, what else is there.
I have to say, I am not impressed by this. At the end of the day, it is a CIVIL matter. From the look of that copper (an employee of the state!) bashing down the door, its the type of thing you see on police camera action.
BTW Sony, kiss my ass with your attempted take downs. Information wants to be free ;) Lets see your effectiveness against TPB
It's available as always from our friends at the pirate bay.
I am going to find out which constabulary this is, and write a letter of complaint of the police using heavy handed tactics in non criminal matters. It's almost as though they are sony's personal army.
For all the talk I have not seen any "pirate breakthroughs" or a ps3 pirate scene with regards to running backups. It has been a few weeks now and if it is so fatally flawed, you'd expect the piracy to be skyrocketing now because no hardware mod required, unless I am missing something?
I realise the people that hacked it are hardcore, in the true hacker sense of hackerdom. Surely there are equally intelligent people who just want "games for free, Dud3". There is at the end of the day a very big financial incentive.
Surely if there was a working 'sploit to enable backups etc you'd expect to see it on "the bay" etc
I know price has already been mentioned but my wife and I went to the cinema last week. Everywhere signs about the right of the cinema to search bags etc. That was bad enough, but once we had been vetted for snacks, we purchased some. By the time we had some snacks (Nachos, popcorn and 2 colas), and the cinema tickets, we had spent about $70.
I think in future, I will just stay home. Treated like crap and ripped off, and now VIDEOD like a common thief. No thanks. It's almost like they are trying to make me pirate stuff so they can sue me ;)
Just a thought, and I am not really too up on it, but by allowing peoples details to be leaked, including address, phone number, account numbers etc isn't this company negligent in its duty to keep such information confidential.
If I was an "Infringer" I would be asking how much for ME to go away after you really screwed up by not even having rudimentary security in place as is required by the DPA and peoples details downloadable my poor data hygiene.
Here is a quick thought on this one. Say you are some big drug pusher and you get a "clean" phone from retail. The US government is sure going to be interested in the contents (stuff they can't get by going to your telco). How can they get all the info? Install a silent trojan. Who can do that, Google of course.
It could be quite interesting to do a FOI to see how many times it has been done (Because I am pretty sure it will have been done by now)
you think 800 * 600 is just too damn small!
From what I gather, one area suse/Novell excels at is Suse on mainframe. These are big big customers, who are very conservative and an area where RedHat don't seem to be able to conquer. That has got to be worth a lot of $$$ to someone.
A thought just occurred to me. They probably have a LOT of servers there with a lot of info on them. I just hope they destroyed the disks in them because that information could be very useful to not only identify people searching for "bad" things but also the source code and such that resides on those databases. They are probably worth their weight in gold.
Just reading the comments and it reminds me of the podcast security now. Every 10 minutes there was literally a 5 minute attempt to sell you a copy of gotomypc. Not once, or twice but literally > 10 times per episode. It is a pity because otherwise it would have been a good podcast. The adverts are that much that you grow to loath it.
Too much advertising and you grow to hate a product or service.
Darling, I cant find tiddles. Can you do a trace route to her please!
I like the theory. However one thing to bear in mind is that the integrity of Bitlocker itself is questionable. I know for a *FACT* that "3 letter agencies" have backdoor keys. Ask any IT forensics person. Microsoft even have closed, invite only sessions for enforcement agencies to show them how to bypass bitlocker security.
That in itself means that the government/big brother is guarenteed to be able to bypass MS based secruity. Ask yourself this, can you see Osama Bin laden using bitlocker to protect his stuff ?
Take this further, do you want the government to have access to your files, just a quick phone call to MS and wham, all your shit laid bare.
Ah well. We were going to buy an enterprise licence for his product (Been evaluating for a few months). Not now. With renewals it would have been a nice chunk of change. To stop idiots such as this, we need to vote with our pockets.
On a larger scale, without internet anonymity, we wouldn't have wikileaks. We wouldn't have free and open speach. We can and do critize bad laws, bad companies.
It wouldn't be lonf until its a "pay to play" scenario.
I work for a government body. I was new to the job and our dell rep offered us a M1000 and two dual M600 ~3Ghz blades in a mirrored sas 72 GB hot swap config. "Try it. BTW, we don't want it back!" It came with 3 Yr pro support etc.
We tried it for like a couple of days, and comparing this to a proper HP C7000 chassis at twice the price (actually, a proper HP blade centre with FC4 ports is a LOT more expensive) is much much better value. The dell stuff sits unused in the corner now, until we can write it off.
This led to us placing a $220,000 HP blade order within weeks of looking at the dell crap.
Unfortunatly, I do have a Dell E6400 laptop, but I am not responsible for desktops!
you think how DRM crippled this will be. IF it becomes a must have item, it is a chance to get DRM firmly entrenched via the back door. Especially when you consider the studios that MS has done deals with, and their love of Digital restrictions. It will be the kick start for DRM. Approved content only, from the MS Store, no loading your "downloaded" ebooks on this baby. Its the perfect platform for strategy shift without too much whinging from us freedom lovers.
It breaks the concept of MS = PC Only. It allows them to start again, with DRM at the core, much like the Xbox 360. Dump all the last 20 years of legacy and go "apple" style with heavy restrictions, especially music. And will it sync to Linux, will it heck!
Not being pedantic but it aint a lot to backup. Just get a pair of MSA2000 with 1TB SATA disks. Total cost £20,000 inc tax. MSA2000fc if you can do fibre. Then just get a LT04 tape robot, HP, Overland or similar and do a disk to disk to tape backup setup. So you not only have tape backups for if the entire place burns down, and you also have disk based backup for a quick restore when someone accidently deletes a file. Also with DDT the throughput will be high enough to quickly complete the backups in a small time window over night.
Issue with that is that I think China, unlike Iraq, Iran and Saudi could stand up for themselves.
Don't forget they DO have WMD, massive military complexes and stolen US designs for highly deadly weapons.
Then there is the cyber angle. I suspect America could be pwned quite quick.
Lastly, who is gonna supply walley word with cheap tupperware and lawnmowers to the post nuke surviviors. There is no way that could happen.
China is the new economy. Western Europe is just on a downhill spiral.
If this is true, it strikes at the very heart of the products saleability. The pre is quite the phone in geek worlds, which unfortunatly for them, tend to be the ones that care about stuff like this!
By doing this they have alienated a real core market that could have made the Pre a good geek phone rather than a has been phone.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/05/murdochs-ultimatum-to-amazon-give-us-the-names-or-else/
Hope the old fscker dies soon.
I can see al qaeda ordering boat loads of it for a mass suicide tape pulling! Does this also mean tape may be declared a weapon of mass destruction ;)
This is so timely. I spent the last 3 days fighting VMWare. Microsoft don't need to try and kill VMWare. VMware is doing an excellent job of that by itself. We are a small gov branch that spend a measly $40,000 a year with VMWare and then we realised that why shouldn't we get educational discounts from VMWare. We get top level discounts from MS,Novell,Oracle etc.
VMWare, nope sorry. No can do. After 3 days of getting to the right person the answer was no, because your courses you teach aren't long enough. FFS!
So I mentioned that we had a top line educational select agreement with MS, and Hyper V is free! They really didn't give a toss. Give it a year and they will be so hurting. It's a pity because the software is top notch but there is no "getting the business" aspect of it. Once Hyper V is matured, they are done!
Since when has loading an application on the iphone been illegal ? Mind this is Apple!
I just had a look. Man what utter dogshit. It has pretty much copied Googles thinking on minimalist, but even fucked that up with a picture background. Morons.
To my mind, it's just a bad copy. And the name, man, which tard thought that up.
I really hope MSN stays were it is, insignificant. Only because it would be nice to see MS NOT win due to $$$ for once.