The question is WHY are ISPs interested in FUNDING this sort of research?
It seems fairly obvious. Easier to bow down to the media overlords than fight their army of lawyers and actually protect the subscribers. Maybe I am assuming to much, but it just seems logical and much more straight forward than the speculative rhetoric the article uses.
I am aware Microsoft has been a little overreaching with their software practices in the past, but damn if it isn't contributing to the combined lack of intelligence of the computer illiterate populace when organizations like the EU force things like this on Microsoft.
EU: "Hey Microsoft, people are too ignorant to do research and realize there exist alternatives to IE"
M$: "So what."
EU: "Give them the option to use third party software options other than the installed feature built into your OS, or else pay up!"
M$: "Ok, we'll buckle, we don't need any more bad press waxing possible monopolist practices."
What if I started a class action suit against Apple because Itunes is installed by default, and that is a "monopoly" on digital music storefronts? Would Apple have to install a Media Player Choice(TM) screen, allowing customers to choose Windows Media Player for OSX, RealPlayer, or WinAmp because they are too ignorant to do the research themselves?
Yes Microsoft is huge. Yes they are the main provider of consumer level OS's to the big-box retailers. So let them package and run by default the software of their choosing. People don't have to buy M$.
This would be like forcing a leading car manufacturer to offer brakes from 3rd party companies, because the buyers are complacent enough to accept their shitty factory brakes, but litigation hungry enough to file complaints about them.
Really? An interested party funding research that could that affects their business model? This seems to be a non-story, unless this is the first time these financial ties have been revealed between bit torrent researchers and ISPs.
The hilarity would be if his tracks could be traced down through their own system's perverse logging, maybe then would he regret his company's policy of practically 100% data retention. Pwned Mark Fuckerberg. Pwned.
Since the MySpace's crapnet is completely covered with trojans, if MySpace blows their load tests, does this mean they are open to successful backdoor penetration & injection attacks?
Those corrupted by power never want to lose their power. If this means disregarding morals, ethics, and standards of any kinds, so be it. It is a plight of the human condition that we are so easily corrupted, and a shame that we haven't seemed to outgrow it, and frankly, I don't believe this race ever will.
This post's title completely sums up the irony, stupidity, and fucktardedness of the IIPA and other assholes giving lobbyjobs (known as LJ's) to various government schlongs in the hopes of being paid for their liberty whoring.
Maybe they were yelled at and threatened with violence when doing their sex ed. homework. Which made them distraught and unable to perform sexually, which led to bad sex, which led to more masterbating.
To add to that, if it were not for science's ability to question seemingly simple things, for all we know every time one steps on the gas pedal an invisible ectoplasm materializes and pushes our chest towards the seat of the car.
We do in fact feel a force, but because of experimentation and further exploration, we understand the fictitious force due to the nonuniform motion of two reference frames (or the acceleration of the non-inertial frame), in this case rectilinear acceleration. Intuition told us we were being pushed into the seat, but in reality, nothing is pressed against our chest.
Perhaps destroyed by an economist or bureaucrats standards.
"simply replace the machines with new ones"
It usually isn't simple. They have to be specifically configured for their usage context, possible configured for the domain, shares, print servers (lol), software installations, blah blah blah.
I don't think simply getting new machines is the answer. Why not just use backed-up images and reformat? Purchasing a new machine is hardware cost, and the hardware wasn't destroyed by the virus. And also, purchasing the new machines still doesn't account for the cost of recovering the data, which can't be avoided unless the cost outweighs the gain.
If they don't have images, they don't have backups, the data isn't worth recovering, and it turns out the cost of replacement is just simply cheaper than reformatting the disk on the what are really good machines, well thats excellent fucking use of taxpayer money. Money that could have been saved by backups, or using the shares properly.
"destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide".
By corrupting the Windows System32 folder install they lost their own files? Did the malware delete some key file that prevents Window's from hosing the disk and crushing the MFT and/or MBR? I doubt it. The OS installs may be unrecoverable, but the article / spokes people seem to jump the gun by stating such generalizations like "destroyed data" and "essentially destroyed these machines". I imagine that actual "data" of importance is still recoverable via external means, and that a quick reformat will make the machine quite OK again.
Maybe this is good incentive for them to install Linux, now that they have a ~800 machine testbed to work with.
For culinary folks...
The time and money you spend tracing and inserting noodles in the spaghetti will end up being larger than the time it takes to cook a new batch (no pun intended).
For auto folks...
The time and money you spend bondo-ing, welding, rewiring, duct-taping, and C'n'Cing parts for the car will end up being larger than the time it takes to design and build a new car. (Although restoring an old/vintage car for the sake of nostalgia is a much more pleasing experience than buying a new one).
Gain an understanding of the purpose of each pivotal region. Know what your desired result should be, then begin the rewriting endeavor.
Wonderful satire! How is it that a plethora of folks take this parent seriously? Or maybe those children are perpetuating the satire, making me the dolt. Probably the latter...
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The question is WHY are ISPs interested in FUNDING this sort of research?
It seems fairly obvious. Easier to bow down to the media overlords than fight their army of lawyers and actually protect the subscribers. Maybe I am assuming to much, but it just seems logical and much more straight forward than the speculative rhetoric the article uses.
I am aware Microsoft has been a little overreaching with their software practices in the past, but damn if it isn't contributing to the combined lack of intelligence of the computer illiterate populace when organizations like the EU force things like this on Microsoft.
EU: "Hey Microsoft, people are too ignorant to do research and realize there exist alternatives to IE"
M$: "So what."
EU: "Give them the option to use third party software options other than the installed feature built into your OS, or else pay up!"
M$: "Ok, we'll buckle, we don't need any more bad press waxing possible monopolist practices."
What if I started a class action suit against Apple because Itunes is installed by default, and that is a "monopoly" on digital music storefronts? Would Apple have to install a Media Player Choice(TM) screen, allowing customers to choose Windows Media Player for OSX, RealPlayer, or WinAmp because they are too ignorant to do the research themselves? Yes Microsoft is huge. Yes they are the main provider of consumer level OS's to the big-box retailers. So let them package and run by default the software of their choosing. People don't have to buy M$. This would be like forcing a leading car manufacturer to offer brakes from 3rd party companies, because the buyers are complacent enough to accept their shitty factory brakes, but litigation hungry enough to file complaints about them.
What the fuck is society coming to.
Really? An interested party funding research that could that affects their business model? This seems to be a non-story, unless this is the first time these financial ties have been revealed between bit torrent researchers and ISPs.
The hilarity would be if his tracks could be traced down through their own system's perverse logging, maybe then would he regret his company's policy of practically 100% data retention. Pwned Mark Fuckerberg. Pwned.
I imagine page saves via the File Menu will be going down with IE being pooped on by the EU on the daily.
For you AntiRTA types, the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 is the specific document that 'legitimizes' this form of dumbassery.
In case it gets slashdotted, heres the cached version of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003
Since the MySpace's crapnet is completely covered with trojans, if MySpace blows their load tests, does this mean they are open to successful backdoor penetration & injection attacks?
Hilarious none-the-less. I want their Support Hat. It would help some of my longer days pounding keys for the man.
Halt! Ihre Mikrochip bitte!
Carlin reference?
If this is this case, the good senator shall hereon be known as Joe Libermanbearpig, in honor of the late ManBearPig of Al Gore mythology.
Those corrupted by power never want to lose their power. If this means disregarding morals, ethics, and standards of any kinds, so be it. It is a plight of the human condition that we are so easily corrupted, and a shame that we haven't seemed to outgrow it, and frankly, I don't believe this race ever will.
This post's title completely sums up the irony, stupidity, and fucktardedness of the IIPA and other assholes giving lobbyjobs (known as LJ's) to various government schlongs in the hopes of being paid for their liberty whoring.
/endrant
I am pretty sure 2pac just trolled here with a "How Do You Want It" spoof. There is internet after death! Yippee!
"young girls who were exposed to female elementary school teachers"
Counting fugly breast moles sure is most definitely traumatizing.
Maybe they were yelled at and threatened with violence when doing their sex ed. homework. Which made them distraught and unable to perform sexually, which led to bad sex, which led to more masterbating.
Too easy.
To add to that, if it were not for science's ability to question seemingly simple things, for all we know every time one steps on the gas pedal an invisible ectoplasm materializes and pushes our chest towards the seat of the car.
We do in fact feel a force, but because of experimentation and further exploration, we understand the fictitious force due to the nonuniform motion of two reference frames (or the acceleration of the non-inertial frame), in this case rectilinear acceleration. Intuition told us we were being pushed into the seat, but in reality, nothing is pressed against our chest.
Perhaps destroyed by an economist or bureaucrats standards.
"simply replace the machines with new ones"
It usually isn't simple. They have to be specifically configured for their usage context, possible configured for the domain, shares, print servers (lol), software installations, blah blah blah. I don't think simply getting new machines is the answer. Why not just use backed-up images and reformat? Purchasing a new machine is hardware cost, and the hardware wasn't destroyed by the virus. And also, purchasing the new machines still doesn't account for the cost of recovering the data, which can't be avoided unless the cost outweighs the gain.
If they don't have images, they don't have backups, the data isn't worth recovering, and it turns out the cost of replacement is just simply cheaper than reformatting the disk on the what are really good machines, well thats excellent fucking use of taxpayer money. Money that could have been saved by backups, or using the shares properly.
pics or it didnt happen
"destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide".
By corrupting the Windows System32 folder install they lost their own files? Did the malware delete some key file that prevents Window's from hosing the disk and crushing the MFT and/or MBR? I doubt it. The OS installs may be unrecoverable, but the article / spokes people seem to jump the gun by stating such generalizations like "destroyed data" and "essentially destroyed these machines". I imagine that actual "data" of importance is still recoverable via external means, and that a quick reformat will make the machine quite OK again.
Maybe this is good incentive for them to install Linux, now that they have a ~800 machine testbed to work with.
The subtitle of Nancy Pelosi's Cosmetics in Politics Guide.
Bring the flames.
Look this way while I go the other.
For culinary folks...
The time and money you spend tracing and inserting noodles in the spaghetti will end up being larger than the time it takes to cook a new batch (no pun intended).
For auto folks...
The time and money you spend bondo-ing, welding, rewiring, duct-taping, and C'n'Cing parts for the car will end up being larger than the time it takes to design and build a new car. (Although restoring an old/vintage car for the sake of nostalgia is a much more pleasing experience than buying a new one).
Gain an understanding of the purpose of each pivotal region. Know what your desired result should be, then begin the rewriting endeavor.
Wonderful satire! How is it that a plethora of folks take this parent seriously? Or maybe those children are perpetuating the satire, making me the dolt. Probably the latter...