Well, seeing as she not only was guilty, but also lied under oath and tampered with evidence, its kind of hard to get mad at the justice system for passing a "guilty" verdict.
It would be a problem if she had gotten off scott free, and yet somehow I suspect most of slashdot would be praising such a travesty if it happened.
In the meantime, since its not the justice / executive department's job to worry about business models, how do you suppose they approach the problem? Just completely ignore the existing legislation on copyright?
Youre paying at least double for the same hardware on a Mac. The Mac cited in the article has 2x 6-core Xeons @ 2.4gHz. Those (assuming E5645s) can be had for ~$575 each, with a motherboard at ~$275. Everything else is pocket change; a whole right with SSDs etc could be had for under $1700.
But Im sure someone somewhere will explain why the aluminum makes the extra $2000 for the Mac worth it.
Using GPG requires others who have GPG keys that are integrated with your keychain. That takes work. You also need to educate the userbase on how to differentiate unsigned, signed, and tampered with email. Ditto SSL.
As always, the hardest problems in computing are the human ones.
Not really; I used Live Mesh for a few months till they discontinued it and while i was certainly disappointed (as there is no comparable solution out there), I dont blame Microsoft for having provided that service.
Likewise I use Microsoft's antivirus, and if they choose to discontinue that too, I think it would be foolish but im not going to get "angry" at them as if they owed it to me. They owe me the things I pay for, and when they fail to deliver on THOSE, then I get annoyed.
Right, but as this occurred AFTER google switched to RC4 all those months ago, its silly to claim it was bad security to do so; and seeing as this vulnerability relies on the exact same message being sent with the same key ~a billion times, its fairly minor to work around.
AES-CBC has a number of known vulnerabilities, and in certain circumstances RC4 can be more secure (in the sense that theres fewer known real-world attacks on it).
My understanding is that It is considered worrying because it is quite fast and that leads to concern that there may be flaws in it or easy cracks, but so far its held up OK.
Certainly after a number of recent attacks, the recommendation was to switch to RC4.
Im part of the "lets stop the slashdot knee-jerk mindless bashing" club. Google gets flak for doing things that they do better than all of their competitors, its absurd.
I see complaints about google privacy, while they are the ONLY major search provider doing SSL by default, and they quickly switched to RC4 in response to a CBC vulnerability. I see complaints about their gmail in-email scanning, when all of their competitors currently or very recently did the same. At least google lets you opt out. I see complaints about them stopping offering services that none of their competitors ever offered (yahoo does have a pretty decent RSS reader IIRC), because how dare they try to be fiscally responsible and discontinue unprofitable and unpopular services.
Get off your high horse, Google has no obligation to you beyond what you have paid for, and I know for a fact that that does not include Google Reader or anything on the Play market because neither of those services are paid.
1) As they dont pay for Google Reader or Play market, thats irrelevant. 2) So once someone offers a free service, you demand that they offer it forever? Sounds reasonable. 3) Yes, I was remarking on how you can go to www.dataliberation.org in the next several MONTHS and get your data out. Have you ever tried getting your data out of AOL or Hotmail or someone else's systems? It tends to be a royal PITA. Never with Google, they always have at LEAST a CSV export.
But if you want to be both a beggar AND a chooser, dont let me stop you.
Apparently, its evil to decide that its no longer worth providing a free service that youve provided for years, and giving your users several months to take an export of their data.
Likewise, apparently its evil to stop allowing users to host apps which undermine your core businesses on your freely provided marketplace.
Of course, given that you never offered a free RSS reader or marketplace to begin with, wouldnt that make you more evil than Google?
Its not idiocracy, it just seems that way because youre technically minded.
Just the other day I was trying to answer several questions about hacking, viruses, computer security, etc for a family member, and I realized (for the millionth time) just how hard it is to convey the framework that a non-techie would need in order to begin understanding a lot of this stuff.
And in order for everyone to decide to use a more secure option, everyone needs to realize that the current option is really really bad and what the better option is. Getting that information out to a wide userbase there takes a TON of work.
You wouldnt, if you have noone you care about talking to. If you do, you can either use skype, or accept the fact that you arent going to convince them to use Jitsi.
Are they denying any and all warranty claims with custom roms? If not, I dont see why this is a problem; certainly a bad rom (or the flashing process) could cause damage that would legitimately void the warranty.
From reading the wikipedia on PenTile, it sort of seems like you cant compare the PPIs or DPIs of two different screen types and simply say X>Y therefore X is better.
Did you miss the part where the prosecution doesnt actually get to decide whether hes guilty, or what his sentence is? Or that he hasnt received either a verdict or a sentence?
Im recommending that you get 50 years in prison and a 50 trillion dollar fine. QUICK, someone write a slashdot headline about how unfair it is!
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Well, seeing as she not only was guilty, but also lied under oath and tampered with evidence, its kind of hard to get mad at the justice system for passing a "guilty" verdict.
It would be a problem if she had gotten off scott free, and yet somehow I suspect most of slashdot would be praising such a travesty if it happened.
...And perjured herself, and tampered with evidence....
Everyone, this is not the mascot you're looking for.
In the meantime, since its not the justice / executive department's job to worry about business models, how do you suppose they approach the problem? Just completely ignore the existing legislation on copyright?
Youre paying at least double for the same hardware on a Mac. The Mac cited in the article has 2x 6-core Xeons @ 2.4gHz. Those (assuming E5645s) can be had for ~$575 each, with a motherboard at ~$275. Everything else is pocket change; a whole right with SSDs etc could be had for under $1700.
But Im sure someone somewhere will explain why the aluminum makes the extra $2000 for the Mac worth it.
Tell me, how exactly does google profit off of my use of Google Code?
they're cutting out useful projects that don't immediately monetize
Those BASTARDS.
You know, I hear that they also dont provide free lemonade and cookies to anyone who asks?
Also, "immediately monetize" apparently means "for the 5+ years that most of their projects run before being shut down"...
How DARE someone make a living off of OSS; and how dare Red Hat be responsible for most of the OSS presence in the business world!
"decades" is a funny term to use when Linux has barely been around for "decades", and MS certainly hasnt been trying to kill it for its entire life.
"Decade", maybe.
No matter, just drop a headline on Slashdot thats only barely news but talks about { Religion | P2P | Politics }, and watch the page hits roll in!
Using GPG requires others who have GPG keys that are integrated with your keychain. That takes work. You also need to educate the userbase on how to differentiate unsigned, signed, and tampered with email. Ditto SSL.
As always, the hardest problems in computing are the human ones.
Not really; I used Live Mesh for a few months till they discontinued it and while i was certainly disappointed (as there is no comparable solution out there), I dont blame Microsoft for having provided that service.
Likewise I use Microsoft's antivirus, and if they choose to discontinue that too, I think it would be foolish but im not going to get "angry" at them as if they owed it to me. They owe me the things I pay for, and when they fail to deliver on THOSE, then I get annoyed.
Right, but as this occurred AFTER google switched to RC4 all those months ago, its silly to claim it was bad security to do so; and seeing as this vulnerability relies on the exact same message being sent with the same key ~a billion times, its fairly minor to work around.
AES-CBC has a number of known vulnerabilities, and in certain circumstances RC4 can be more secure (in the sense that theres fewer known real-world attacks on it).
My understanding is that It is considered worrying because it is quite fast and that leads to concern that there may be flaws in it or easy cracks, but so far its held up OK.
Certainly after a number of recent attacks, the recommendation was to switch to RC4.
Im part of the "lets stop the slashdot knee-jerk mindless bashing" club. Google gets flak for doing things that they do better than all of their competitors, its absurd.
I see complaints about google privacy, while they are the ONLY major search provider doing SSL by default, and they quickly switched to RC4 in response to a CBC vulnerability.
I see complaints about their gmail in-email scanning, when all of their competitors currently or very recently did the same. At least google lets you opt out.
I see complaints about them stopping offering services that none of their competitors ever offered (yahoo does have a pretty decent RSS reader IIRC), because how dare they try to be fiscally responsible and discontinue unprofitable and unpopular services.
Get off your high horse, Google has no obligation to you beyond what you have paid for, and I know for a fact that that does not include Google Reader or anything on the Play market because neither of those services are paid.
1) As they dont pay for Google Reader or Play market, thats irrelevant.
2) So once someone offers a free service, you demand that they offer it forever? Sounds reasonable.
3) Yes, I was remarking on how you can go to www.dataliberation.org in the next several MONTHS and get your data out. Have you ever tried getting your data out of AOL or Hotmail or someone else's systems? It tends to be a royal PITA. Never with Google, they always have at LEAST a CSV export.
But if you want to be both a beggar AND a chooser, dont let me stop you.
Finding "spammy users" has always been the chief problem with every fight against spam.
If you make a case to them that Calendar API doesnt meet your needs, they will give you a whitelisted account which has access to it.
Apparently too depreciating services and APs is evil. Of course, that would include basically every software maintainer out there...
Apparently, its evil to decide that its no longer worth providing a free service that youve provided for years, and giving your users several months to take an export of their data.
Likewise, apparently its evil to stop allowing users to host apps which undermine your core businesses on your freely provided marketplace.
Of course, given that you never offered a free RSS reader or marketplace to begin with, wouldnt that make you more evil than Google?
Its not idiocracy, it just seems that way because youre technically minded.
Just the other day I was trying to answer several questions about hacking, viruses, computer security, etc for a family member, and I realized (for the millionth time) just how hard it is to convey the framework that a non-techie would need in order to begin understanding a lot of this stuff.
And in order for everyone to decide to use a more secure option, everyone needs to realize that the current option is really really bad and what the better option is. Getting that information out to a wide userbase there takes a TON of work.
You wouldnt, if you have noone you care about talking to. If you do, you can either use skype, or accept the fact that you arent going to convince them to use Jitsi.
Are they denying any and all warranty claims with custom roms? If not, I dont see why this is a problem; certainly a bad rom (or the flashing process) could cause damage that would legitimately void the warranty.
4.2.2, however, was not released in november, and it would be kind of hard for Samsung to include an unreleased version of android on their phone.
From reading the wikipedia on PenTile, it sort of seems like you cant compare the PPIs or DPIs of two different screen types and simply say X>Y therefore X is better.
I think android users might remark they have yet to find an equivalent to Firefox, or emulators, or adblockers on IOS.
Did you miss the part where the prosecution doesnt actually get to decide whether hes guilty, or what his sentence is? Or that he hasnt received either a verdict or a sentence?
Im recommending that you get 50 years in prison and a 50 trillion dollar fine. QUICK, someone write a slashdot headline about how unfair it is!