At least where they have regulatory authority (USA), the FCC needs to start fining people running servers with blatant security holes that they ignore. A sliding scale based on the percentage of the organizations' income, with real non-profits exempt (except blocked until they patch). This might finally get some folks' attention who think they can setup a server (or hire someone to set it up) but not maintain it as long as they're making money.
So sick of Walt Mossbergs' oversized influence in consumer tech, not to mention his effusive praise of all things Apple and working for the Wall Street Journal (the unapologetic cheerleader for the unbound, immoral acquisition of filthy lucre by any means necessary).
It's more about finding the weak points of even established systems by mining the progression of change histories - some of which might be embarassingly non-durable band-aids that can really be exploited during a shooting war.
How long will idiotic governments and corporations put ultra-sensitive information on computers connected to a public network (Internet)? The only reason they do this is so lazy-ass and OCD PHBs can access this information with the least effort as possible. THIS is the problem, not a third party exploiting the blatant stupidity.
Look soon for a Presidential Executive Order finding that if you are an Enemy Combatant against the Entertainment State, any patent you possess is null and void - along with any sense of openness, honesty, or due process.
You provided goods / services whether directly or indirectly via that patent. Not trollish in the least.
That said, there needs to be (time) limits. We, as a society, do not need your grandchildren having a right to sue for having done nothing but being your relations.
Greed is a disease just as destructive and habitual as drug addiction. Past a certain point, it's not even about the money and what to do with it*, rather it's the unending need to feel that thrill of ever bigger kills. Fuck, even a relatively (now anyways) nice guy like Warrren Buffett is still elbows-deep on the kill floor; solely for the excitement.
* - other than using that lucre to alter the very society in a Randian way, ala the Koch Brothers and their brothel of public whores.
...who will pay tax on any dividends or capital gains from sold shares in any case.
...at a pathetically low rate enacted by the filthy rich, or absolutely zero through another host of bullshit dodges to ensure civil society is properly fucked out of sustaining funds.
If we had a real FCC, CDMA would have already been banned by now. This announcement or the unfettered Samsung phone announced at Google I/O is totally moot for all us Verizon Victims (and no; where I live, there is no real choice).
Personal hardware should be de-coupled from paid services, period.
There is significant chunk of pron on Tumblr - ahem, I mean, so I've heard - and now it's owned by a publicly traded company? They will definitely be the first casualty (followed by about 75% of Tumblr's employees in 13 months or so).
We must accept the fact that sometimes we forced to take risks, and sometimes those risks will go badly.
Tell that to runwaway juries making OB-GYN a no-go zone. American mothers have now become convinced (mostly be daytime TV, I'll warrant) that there should be an absolute, 100% guarantee that absolutely nothing will ever go wrong during the birth of their above-average snowflake. If not, here come the ambulance chasers taking in ~80% of the millions in lawsuit damages, doing nothing but increasing the angle of attack of the medical cost spiral.
There's something creepy when Newegg now sends me emails about 30% off rice cookers. Not sure if they have to deversify as the PC market (um, matures?), or they want to go head to head with said Amazon.
It it truly amazing how stupid people are when it comes to investing in, respecting, and keeping Basic Research free from market pressures and profits. How many countless breakthroughs and completely new markets have been created by some free thinkers who were allowed to do just that? But from an idiot congress critter chairman on the House 'science' committee to the scourge of humanity (anyone with an MBA), they all see basic research as a waste of time and money.
This is why we'e doomed as a species; the population and power of morons and greedheads far outweigh those folks who can still think abstractly and can see beyond the next fucking quarter.
Within the year, the Right (or the White House; same diff) will slowly roll out a campaign that untraceable cash transactions are the lifeblood of criminals and terrerists and thus should be phased out. Upper limits on cash transactions for anything will be first, then - just like car rentals (a literal expression of freedom) - no cash purchases of communication products or services (read: burners) will be allowed. This will also help out finding and...neutralizing... any potential whistleblowers even at the state and local levels.
Slashdot Mirror
Nobody steals other ideas better than Apple.
At least where they have regulatory authority (USA), the FCC needs to start fining people running servers with blatant security holes that they ignore. A sliding scale based on the percentage of the organizations' income, with real non-profits exempt (except blocked until they patch). This might finally get some folks' attention who think they can setup a server (or hire someone to set it up) but not maintain it as long as they're making money.
So sick of Walt Mossbergs' oversized influence in consumer tech, not to mention his effusive praise of all things Apple and working for the Wall Street Journal (the unapologetic cheerleader for the unbound, immoral acquisition of filthy lucre by any means necessary).
Die by the Cyber Sword.
It really will be a photo finish to see which country has more cheap, lazy, and incompetent mid and upper level bureaucrats and MBAs.
It's more about finding the weak points of even established systems by mining the progression of change histories - some of which might be embarassingly non-durable band-aids that can really be exploited during a shooting war.
How long will idiotic governments and corporations put ultra-sensitive information on computers connected to a public network (Internet)? The only reason they do this is so lazy-ass and OCD PHBs can access this information with the least effort as possible. THIS is the problem, not a third party exploiting the blatant stupidity.
Look soon for a Presidential Executive Order finding that if you are an Enemy Combatant against the Entertainment State, any patent you possess is null and void - along with any sense of openness, honesty, or due process.
You provided goods / services whether directly or indirectly via that patent. Not trollish in the least.
That said, there needs to be (time) limits. We, as a society, do not need your grandchildren having a right to sue for having done nothing but being your relations.
North Korea
Ahh, *this* is why buses are so slow to arrive!
It's not true Freedom (TM) until someone loses a fucking eye - intentionally or unintentionally.
Greed is a disease just as destructive and habitual as drug addiction. Past a certain point, it's not even about the money and what to do with it*, rather it's the unending need to feel that thrill of ever bigger kills. Fuck, even a relatively (now anyways) nice guy like Warrren Buffett is still elbows-deep on the kill floor; solely for the excitement.
* - other than using that lucre to alter the very society in a Randian way, ala the Koch Brothers and their brothel of public whores.
...at a pathetically low rate enacted by the filthy rich, or absolutely zero through another host of bullshit dodges to ensure civil society is properly fucked out of sustaining funds.
This is why the grandchildren aren't allowed to visit anymore.
How many anonymous 'hackers' are decent folks just pointing out glaring flaws while wisely protecting themselves from idiot lawers and lawmen?
...paving the way for the true, hardened killers.
If we had a real FCC, CDMA would have already been banned by now. This announcement or the unfettered Samsung phone announced at Google I/O is totally moot for all us Verizon Victims (and no; where I live, there is no real choice).
Personal hardware should be de-coupled from paid services, period.
There is significant chunk of pron on Tumblr - ahem, I mean, so I've heard - and now it's owned by a publicly traded company? They will definitely be the first casualty (followed by about 75% of Tumblr's employees in 13 months or so).
Tell that to runwaway juries making OB-GYN a no-go zone. American mothers have now become convinced (mostly be daytime TV, I'll warrant) that there should be an absolute, 100% guarantee that absolutely nothing will ever go wrong during the birth of their above-average snowflake. If not, here come the ambulance chasers taking in ~80% of the millions in lawsuit damages, doing nothing but increasing the angle of attack of the medical cost spiral.
There's something creepy when Newegg now sends me emails about 30% off rice cookers. Not sure if they have to deversify as the PC market (um, matures?), or they want to go head to head with said Amazon.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was written by and for business schools as how to succeed in doing what SCO tried.
It it truly amazing how stupid people are when it comes to investing in, respecting, and keeping Basic Research free from market pressures and profits. How many countless breakthroughs and completely new markets have been created by some free thinkers who were allowed to do just that? But from an idiot congress critter chairman on the House 'science' committee to the scourge of humanity (anyone with an MBA), they all see basic research as a waste of time and money.
This is why we'e doomed as a species; the population and power of morons and greedheads far outweigh those folks who can still think abstractly and can see beyond the next fucking quarter.
MS: We've got her covered; no problem, your honor. Would you like a pony too? Maybe one that's a shoe-in for the Derby?
You've willingly purchased a walled garden topped with razor wire (Apple) and now you're complaining about the pointy bits?
Go look in your iMirror; the root cause is the reflection.
Cash is next.
...neutralizing... any potential whistleblowers even at the state and local levels.
Within the year, the Right (or the White House; same diff) will slowly roll out a campaign that untraceable cash transactions are the lifeblood of criminals and terrerists and thus should be phased out. Upper limits on cash transactions for anything will be first, then - just like car rentals (a literal expression of freedom) - no cash purchases of communication products or services (read: burners) will be allowed. This will also help out finding and
It's for you own safety, citizen.