I thought women were covered under the "programmers" moniker, considering the first one was one.
That is to say, If you follow history: Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, was a woman; If you follow the bible: Eve, the first woman, was a programmer (of Adam)... It's told she used an Apple.
Now, with that answered, the question still remains if the "years" are Pan Universal Terran Years, or local orbit cycles. One has to wonder if they even know what our local Universal Timing Coefficient is.
Aaaand, you believe that's not one of the hundreds of variants, or a new variant that also installs other malware, because? I hope you're not the kind of person that "removes" viruses for a fee, and after my Aunt has paid you, she comes home and looks through her image library and gets re-infected...
Just to be perfectly clear: WIPE the drive, FLASH the mobo BIOS, REINSTALL the OS. There is NO SUCH THING as removing malware. Unless you watched that sucker get installed while stepping through it with a debugger, you don't really know WTF is going on or what else it has done.
Perhaps you're just playing with the viruses, cultivating them and studying them before they're released into the wild; Either this, or you don't realize that you are...
Except that it's not like that at all, you don't buy a hammer if what you need is a screwdriver, just like you don't buy a device specifically designed for an operating system if you want to run a different operating system, you choose a different device. What sort of entitlement complex do you have when you get to the point of thinking companies have to build devices that are everything to everyone?
So what you're saying is that the GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER is somehow specifically designed for only MS Windows? Pull your head out of the sand fool. The GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER that would otherwise be perfectly capable of booting Linux is to be restricted such that it won't boot anything but MS OSes. This is limiting end users choice by removing otherwise existing features. IT'S NOT GOOD FOR USERS.
If you think for one moment that this will remain an ARM only move, then you are sorely mistaken. This is MS testing the waters. If it helps them dominate the ARM platform you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll be rolling it out everywhere else.
Strong-arming OEMs is an established MS tactic. They make deals with say, Dell, where the OEM pays a license fee for every PC sold whether it's got Windows or Linux on it. Then there's no price benefit to having Linux freely installed, and when the customers DEMAND to be refunded the "Microsoft Tax", Dell stopped selling machines with Linux installed. Of course Dell and other MFGs don't have to agree to that type of deal with MS, but if they don't like it they don't get to pre-install Windows. Derp! Leveraging a Monopoly, How Dos It Werk!?!
I didn't buy a "screwdriver" when I needed a Hammer, but FYI, I HAVE used a Screwdriver to pound in finishing nails because my Hammer was on the other side of the jobsite. Your analogy is worse than you think, this is saying: Yeah you COULD use the Screwdriver to tack in nails, or as a small pry bar, or a chisel, but YOU WILL NOT DO SO, because we prevent that by needlessly weakening the tool. My old PC is now my Router & Security-Gateway. Re-purposing GENERAL PURPOSE TOOLS is common, especially with screwdrivers and computers. To me it seems you have foolishly bought into the cult of planned obsolescence.
I have an entitlement complex?!?! You, sir, have a mental deficiency disorder if you think GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTING hardware should be RESTRICTED in such a way to allow ONLY ONE SET OF SOFTWARE to run on it. The issue here isn't if Secure Boot is good or bad, it's that MS is forcing OEMs to REMOVE THE FEATURE that lets end users install OR SERVICE THEIR HARDWARE with any but Microsoft's software.
this is brought to you by the same group of people that believe coffee beans taste better after they pass through a cat
Yes, well, that product was doomed because supply always falls behind demand when it comes to post feline digestive tract coffee beans. Meteorites are inanimate, and a pleasure to work with comparatively; Whereas, no one is brave or foolish enough to suffer a caffeinated cat twice.
Right, because global mass extinction events AREN'T evident in your fossil record? Environmental forces play a key role in natural selection... So, massive changes to the ecosystem are caused by...... If not CLIMATE CHANGE then what?!
I'm sorry, you fail at evolution Mr. Dinosaur Man.
I'm not sure what's more offensive: That they're so used to ignoring the democratic process in the US they ACTUALLY think this way, that ANY government thinks ACTA/DMCA helps further scientific progress and the arts, or that Corporations can throw their weight around in the political arena without being boycotted into oblivion.
RSA seeds the tokens. They keep the database of token seeds. You can't seed your tokens yourself.
This means you put your trust in RSA, not only that they won't give you defective tokens, but also that they will never have a security breach that compromises your keys.
This is why I use Yubikey. I still have to trust the manufacturers' QA team and technology, but I also get to run my own authentication servers, and SEED MY OWN DAMN KEYS. Such that WE control our security; There is no single central point of failure, like there was/is in RSA's case.
This shit isn't rocket surgery folks: HERE AT RSA WE MAKE YOU PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET WITH EVERYONE ELSE'S. WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?!
I'm not a paid spokesperson for Yubico, but I am outraged that people refuse to use superior products with better security than that moronically designed clusterfsck of a security model that RSA is selling. It's like no one has even tried to look for something better, even after being burned.
I warned my company of this eventuality, and we stopped using RSA. When the RSA breach happened I made popcorn and watched their "security theater" burn. Since the victims have learned nothing I keenly await the sequel.
I like how you think you're taking the moral high ground there.
"Well I don't need to make EXCUSES like the FUCKER I'm replying to. I'll openly admit I'm a criminal, and I've been breaking the law constantly for fucking YEARS!"
I like how this could be applied to someone infringing copyright now, or in the past to Rosa Parks... She didn't need to make EXCUSES to break the unjust law, and sit at the front of the bus. No one need make excuses to break unjust laws either. Be they segregation or copyright laws.
Apply your anti-copyright-infringement ideals to other pro-repression agendas... Scary, eh?
My biggest opposition to current copyright laws is that they elevate copyright infringement from a civil matter to a federal one. International Treaties about copyright law that no one gets to vote on are being discussed in secret. What was once a 10-14 year limit on the copyright monopoly -- Granted in a time when copies were expensive to make and controlled by the few -- has been extended to over 150 years, or 3 generations of humans in a time where to even USE the data you must make many copies... one at every router the packets traverse, one copy on disk after an install, one copy in memory when loaded, one copy in the GPU when rendered, copies on disk again if you enter hibernation-mode. COPIES ARE CHEAP; WHY ARE THE TERMS BEING EXTENDED?
For the record, I'm a software engineer. I only get paid when I work. I don't get paid for each and every duplication of the bits that represent the output of my work -- Those copies take little energy or effort to create. The act of me creating more works is a scarcity, the copies of Music, Movie, Software, etc are not scare, and are easy to duplicate.
The problem is that, unlike me, Big Media has yet to figure out a way to get paid when they actually do work instead of inflating the value of your worth through artificial scarcity of copies. I'm no genius and I've figured out how to make a profitable & comfortable income creating Free and Open Source Software; Why can't they? Everyone has copy machines... including the damn copy machines! NO ONE IS WILLING TO PAY FOR THINGS THAT ARE IN INFINITE SUPPLY.
They've made fortunes selling ice to Eskimos. Now the Eskimos want to collect their ice themselves... SHOULD IT BE LEGAL TO PREVENT THIS?
Copy companies (publishers) are outmodded by todays technology, and kept afloat by unjust laws that are destroying the public domain.
I see Piracy as an equal and opposite social pressure that's simply pushing back against the restriction of our freedom to share and twiddle bits. Perhaps you see some great heinous act occurring when i copy bits over Ethernet and IPv4/6 networks vs when I copy bits from external to internal disk, then to RAM, and the GPU. I see no such wrongdoing. I suppose it would blow your mind if I told you that since each packet is a minuscule fraction of the whole I can assert my Fair Use privileges. If not, then WHY NOT? Of equal mind-bending proportions is the fact that it's legal for me to use VLC to stream a DVD to my remote computers, using the exact same "heinous" copy mechanism that you see as offensive.
What am I doing at 4:30am replying to AC on my Birthday of all days?! Well, let's just say I'm practicing... honing my saber for other battles. Indeed, today my family and friends will all recite the "Happy Birthday" song to me in a public space -- This is a grave act of Copyright Infringement, and there's no assurance that the Warner Brothers won't attempt to strike me down with a law suit.
Life itself began as copying chains of atoms. May the best COPIER win has been nature's battle cry. The only thing we have over the Apes is a better system of sharing knowledge, information & ideas. Piracy, because it shouldn't be against the law to do what nature intends us to do.
If you'll excuse me, I've a Copyright Infringing Party to prepare for.
Interestingly enough, after we're long extincted by our inability to cooperate a way off of this rock before another smaller rock hits it, the Alien Anthropologists will find an intact volume of "How It's Made" to be the future equivalent of the Rosetta Stone.
Why break your heinousness up into easy to swallow chunks, when you can just throw a truly offensive turd in the punch bowl and rob the coat room while everyone's distracted?
Let me put it to you this way. I'm a freelance programmer. I only get paid when I work. Most of the time I'm not working in any framework, it's all my code that I have "copyright" over that I'm being paid to adapt for others. Once I sell and/or install the system for the company or individual, they do not pay me royalty for each and every copy. It's like I'm an employee in just about every other field. Lawyers don't get paid when they're not working, neither do mechanics...
Now, I write very modular code, so I COULD try to sell the copies of the programs and enforce artificial scarcity via DRM; However, only my effort of creation is scarce -- copies are in infinite supply. Eco101: If (supply == infinity) then price = 0;// regardless of cost to create. As you can see, to charge per copy is folly.
When I worked as a salaried employee I got paid to work, and saw no residual benefit from my efforts. To get bonuses I had to work hard, to get raises I had to be a reliable worker (and good brown noser). However, the programs I worked on made the company hundreds of millions of dollars, and they charged per seat. The company's artificial inflation was a burden to the world economy -- After the first profitable year selling the program they were making money disproportionate to the amount of work involved in installing or digitally distributing the software.
Since the programming job was "done" many coders on the project were laid off, and we really couldn't keep up with the level of support our demand generated. Perhaps that company would have stayed afloat if their initial prices were lower (subsidizing the creation of more code / more work), while having a more expensive support license. You see, they screwed themselves because once the customers had paid for the copy, they were no longer paying for the work of support!
When I struck out on my own I initially tried, foolishly, to duplicate the flawed model of artificial scarcity. I nearly wound up with a foreclosure before I realized that the pirate mentality is the correct mentality. Now people don't pay me for my programs, they pay for me to work on my programs or to create new programs. Bootstrapping myself into the "pirate" business model was a bit painful, but is very possible. I don't overcharge for distributions of bits and I live more comfortably and securely now than I ever have in my life.
I'm not really sure how Musicians, Artists & Actors, etc can implement a similar system, but I don't doubt they can.
Furthermore, I did not invent the computer, or (most of) the programming languages I use. I did not invent the concepts I use, my works only have meaning and value because they are a part of this rich culture. Honestly, I HAVE created literary works in wholly "alien" languages, and even number and time systems that I created, as an experiment to test this theory. Guess what? NO ONE VALUES THEM. They were not enough a part of the common culture to have worth. To build creations having worth you must borrow HEAVILY from the culture around you.
Being granted a +150 year monopoly (three generations of humans) for my tiny proportion of contribution to the massive amount of common culture in my work is Ridiculous! My grandkids will be DEAD by the time they can legally use any of the copyrighted work I contributed to the culture while a salaried employee. The founding fathers were correct: The copyright / patent terms should be 10 to 14 years. We've granted monopolies over bits of our culture far beyond the reasonable length of time. Piracy is merely a social pressure that's attempting to right this wrong in the only way they can: By ignoring unjust laws that are destroying our public domain. It's an act of civil disobedience. We granted the copyrights, we can take them all away if they are abused.
Copyright is a law, Jim Crow was a law. Rosa Parks was arrested for ignorin
Did you by chance watch the Chaos Computer Club talk about Stuxnet? I was thinking the whole time: "Well there's part of the reason right there, MS: You hire folks like this moron."
The vulns exploited are a direct evidence of lack of security in design. I mean, Guest accounts telling printer drivers to "print to file" ANY WHERE on the drive?! AS ROOT?!?
Don't give me that "Mac & Linux are just as bad" bullshit. I deal with the Linux sources, MS isn't even in the same league. I've seen the (leaked) source code that Microsoft devs write... IT'S SHIT. Their OS is full of insecure kludgey shit. Remember the Zune Leap Year BS? Just try to get away with committing some of that shit to the Linux Kernel team. Google Tried committing crap kernel code from Android, guess what? IT WAS REFUSED; Told to get cleaned up. I mean... fuck man.. GET REAL!
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And what does "two orders of magnitude stronger" mean?
Around 100 time stronger.
For non-binary reading folks, that's 4 times stronger in decimal.
Never attribute to malice for that which ignorance is likely to be the cause.
This is the Whitehouse, not the NSA/CIA. They may be corrupt, but above and beyond they're dopes when it comes to IT.
I'd be satisfied if they just listed their prices somewhere so We The People could actually buy AT LEAST ONE for a change.
Right, Carbon Cycle... How about Embracing the Dominant Lifeform Cycle and getting EXTINCT then?
I promise the insectoid anthropologists of the future won't use your oily carbon based corpse for fuel.
I thought women were covered under the "programmers" moniker, considering the first one was one.
That is to say, If you follow history: Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, was a woman; If you follow the bible: Eve, the first woman, was a programmer (of Adam)... It's told she used an Apple.
Yes.
Now, with that answered, the question still remains if the "years" are Pan Universal Terran Years, or local orbit cycles. One has to wonder if they even know what our local Universal Timing Coefficient is.
Right, because PGP doesn't exist.
Teacher! I dropped my $400 textbook reader!
Aaaand, you believe that's not one of the hundreds of variants, or a new variant that also installs other malware, because? I hope you're not the kind of person that "removes" viruses for a fee, and after my Aunt has paid you, she comes home and looks through her image library and gets re-infected...
Just to be perfectly clear: WIPE the drive, FLASH the mobo BIOS, REINSTALL the OS. There is NO SUCH THING as removing malware. Unless you watched that sucker get installed while stepping through it with a debugger, you don't really know WTF is going on or what else it has done.
Perhaps you're just playing with the viruses, cultivating them and studying them before they're released into the wild; Either this, or you don't realize that you are...
If only they'd put THAT in the damn compiler I MIGHT consider using it.
Except that it's not like that at all, you don't buy a hammer if what you need is a screwdriver, just like you don't buy a device specifically designed for an operating system if you want to run a different operating system, you choose a different device. What sort of entitlement complex do you have when you get to the point of thinking companies have to build devices that are everything to everyone?
So what you're saying is that the GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER is somehow specifically designed for only MS Windows? Pull your head out of the sand fool. The GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER that would otherwise be perfectly capable of booting Linux is to be restricted such that it won't boot anything but MS OSes. This is limiting end users choice by removing otherwise existing features. IT'S NOT GOOD FOR USERS.
If you think for one moment that this will remain an ARM only move, then you are sorely mistaken. This is MS testing the waters. If it helps them dominate the ARM platform you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll be rolling it out everywhere else.
Strong-arming OEMs is an established MS tactic. They make deals with say, Dell, where the OEM pays a license fee for every PC sold whether it's got Windows or Linux on it. Then there's no price benefit to having Linux freely installed, and when the customers DEMAND to be refunded the "Microsoft Tax", Dell stopped selling machines with Linux installed. Of course Dell and other MFGs don't have to agree to that type of deal with MS, but if they don't like it they don't get to pre-install Windows. Derp! Leveraging a Monopoly, How Dos It Werk!?!
I didn't buy a "screwdriver" when I needed a Hammer, but FYI, I HAVE used a Screwdriver to pound in finishing nails because my Hammer was on the other side of the jobsite. Your analogy is worse than you think, this is saying: Yeah you COULD use the Screwdriver to tack in nails, or as a small pry bar, or a chisel, but YOU WILL NOT DO SO, because we prevent that by needlessly weakening the tool. My old PC is now my Router & Security-Gateway. Re-purposing GENERAL PURPOSE TOOLS is common, especially with screwdrivers and computers. To me it seems you have foolishly bought into the cult of planned obsolescence.
I have an entitlement complex?!?! You, sir, have a mental deficiency disorder if you think GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTING hardware should be RESTRICTED in such a way to allow ONLY ONE SET OF SOFTWARE to run on it. The issue here isn't if Secure Boot is good or bad, it's that MS is forcing OEMs to REMOVE THE FEATURE that lets end users install OR SERVICE THEIR HARDWARE with any but Microsoft's software.
You may want to find out more about The War for General Purpose Computing, since the first volley has been fired.
"And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen."
And from the submission you just like you are accidentally your sentence as one of the words can't be seen...
this is brought to you by the same group of people that believe coffee beans taste better after they pass through a cat
Yes, well, that product was doomed because supply always falls behind demand when it comes to post feline digestive tract coffee beans. Meteorites are inanimate, and a pleasure to work with comparatively; Whereas, no one is brave or foolish enough to suffer a caffeinated cat twice.
Right, because global mass extinction events AREN'T evident in your fossil record? Environmental forces play a key role in natural selection... So, massive changes to the ecosystem are caused by...... If not CLIMATE CHANGE then what?!
I'm sorry, you fail at evolution Mr. Dinosaur Man.
opportunity to force Canada to enact
What the FUCK am I reading?!
I'm not sure what's more offensive: That they're so used to ignoring the democratic process in the US they ACTUALLY think this way, that ANY government thinks ACTA/DMCA helps further scientific progress and the arts, or that Corporations can throw their weight around in the political arena without being boycotted into oblivion.
RSA seeds the tokens. They keep the database of token seeds. You can't seed your tokens yourself.
This means you put your trust in RSA, not only that they won't give you defective tokens, but also that they will never have a security breach that compromises your keys.
This is why I use Yubikey. I still have to trust the manufacturers' QA team and technology, but I also get to run my own authentication servers, and SEED MY OWN DAMN KEYS. Such that WE control our security; There is no single central point of failure, like there was/is in RSA's case.
This shit isn't rocket surgery folks: HERE AT RSA WE MAKE YOU PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET WITH EVERYONE ELSE'S. WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?!
I'm not a paid spokesperson for Yubico, but I am outraged that people refuse to use superior products with better security than that moronically designed clusterfsck of a security model that RSA is selling. It's like no one has even tried to look for something better, even after being burned.
I warned my company of this eventuality, and we stopped using RSA. When the RSA breach happened I made popcorn and watched their "security theater" burn. Since the victims have learned nothing I keenly await the sequel.
I like how you think you're taking the moral high ground there.
"Well I don't need to make EXCUSES like the FUCKER I'm replying to. I'll openly admit I'm a criminal, and I've been breaking the law constantly for fucking YEARS!"
I like how this could be applied to someone infringing copyright now, or in the past to Rosa Parks... She didn't need to make EXCUSES to break the unjust law, and sit at the front of the bus. No one need make excuses to break unjust laws either. Be they segregation or copyright laws.
Apply your anti-copyright-infringement ideals to other pro-repression agendas... Scary, eh?
My biggest opposition to current copyright laws is that they elevate copyright infringement from a civil matter to a federal one. International Treaties about copyright law that no one gets to vote on are being discussed in secret. What was once a 10-14 year limit on the copyright monopoly -- Granted in a time when copies were expensive to make and controlled by the few -- has been extended to over 150 years, or 3 generations of humans in a time where to even USE the data you must make many copies... one at every router the packets traverse, one copy on disk after an install, one copy in memory when loaded, one copy in the GPU when rendered, copies on disk again if you enter hibernation-mode. COPIES ARE CHEAP; WHY ARE THE TERMS BEING EXTENDED?
For the record, I'm a software engineer. I only get paid when I work. I don't get paid for each and every duplication of the bits that represent the output of my work -- Those copies take little energy or effort to create. The act of me creating more works is a scarcity, the copies of Music, Movie, Software, etc are not scare, and are easy to duplicate.
The problem is that, unlike me, Big Media has yet to figure out a way to get paid when they actually do work instead of inflating the value of your worth through artificial scarcity of copies. I'm no genius and I've figured out how to make a profitable & comfortable income creating Free and Open Source Software; Why can't they? Everyone has copy machines... including the damn copy machines! NO ONE IS WILLING TO PAY FOR THINGS THAT ARE IN INFINITE SUPPLY.
They've made fortunes selling ice to Eskimos. Now the Eskimos want to collect their ice themselves... SHOULD IT BE LEGAL TO PREVENT THIS? Copy companies (publishers) are outmodded by todays technology, and kept afloat by unjust laws that are destroying the public domain.
I see Piracy as an equal and opposite social pressure that's simply pushing back against the restriction of our freedom to share and twiddle bits. Perhaps you see some great heinous act occurring when i copy bits over Ethernet and IPv4/6 networks vs when I copy bits from external to internal disk, then to RAM, and the GPU. I see no such wrongdoing. I suppose it would blow your mind if I told you that since each packet is a minuscule fraction of the whole I can assert my Fair Use privileges. If not, then WHY NOT? Of equal mind-bending proportions is the fact that it's legal for me to use VLC to stream a DVD to my remote computers, using the exact same "heinous" copy mechanism that you see as offensive.
What am I doing at 4:30am replying to AC on my Birthday of all days?! Well, let's just say I'm practicing... honing my saber for other battles. Indeed, today my family and friends will all recite the "Happy Birthday" song to me in a public space -- This is a grave act of Copyright Infringement, and there's no assurance that the Warner Brothers won't attempt to strike me down with a law suit.
Life itself began as copying chains of atoms. May the best COPIER win has been nature's battle cry. The only thing we have over the Apes is a better system of sharing knowledge, information & ideas. Piracy, because it shouldn't be against the law to do what nature intends us to do.
If you'll excuse me, I've a Copyright Infringing Party to prepare for.
The politically correct term is: "Magnetically Shielded Helm" or "Induction Resistant Headwear", never "tinfoil hats"...
Interestingly enough, after we're long extincted by our inability to cooperate a way off of this rock before another smaller rock hits it, the Alien Anthropologists will find an intact volume of "How It's Made" to be the future equivalent of the Rosetta Stone.
Software is not the protocol it implements. Otherwise, it wouldn't be patentable now would it?
Malware.
SOPA? Oh, you mean the smoke screen for PIPA?
Why break your heinousness up into easy to swallow chunks, when you can just throw a truly offensive turd in the punch bowl and rob the coat room while everyone's distracted?
Let me put it to you this way. I'm a freelance programmer. I only get paid when I work. Most of the time I'm not working in any framework, it's all my code that I have "copyright" over that I'm being paid to adapt for others. Once I sell and/or install the system for the company or individual, they do not pay me royalty for each and every copy. It's like I'm an employee in just about every other field. Lawyers don't get paid when they're not working, neither do mechanics...
Now, I write very modular code, so I COULD try to sell the copies of the programs and enforce artificial scarcity via DRM; However, only my effort of creation is scarce -- copies are in infinite supply. Eco101: // regardless of cost to create.
If (supply == infinity) then price = 0;
As you can see, to charge per copy is folly.
When I worked as a salaried employee I got paid to work, and saw no residual benefit from my efforts. To get bonuses I had to work hard, to get raises I had to be a reliable worker (and good brown noser). However, the programs I worked on made the company hundreds of millions of dollars, and they charged per seat. The company's artificial inflation was a burden to the world economy -- After the first profitable year selling the program they were making money disproportionate to the amount of work involved in installing or digitally distributing the software.
Since the programming job was "done" many coders on the project were laid off, and we really couldn't keep up with the level of support our demand generated. Perhaps that company would have stayed afloat if their initial prices were lower (subsidizing the creation of more code / more work), while having a more expensive support license. You see, they screwed themselves because once the customers had paid for the copy, they were no longer paying for the work of support!
When I struck out on my own I initially tried, foolishly, to duplicate the flawed model of artificial scarcity. I nearly wound up with a foreclosure before I realized that the pirate mentality is the correct mentality. Now people don't pay me for my programs, they pay for me to work on my programs or to create new programs. Bootstrapping myself into the "pirate" business model was a bit painful, but is very possible. I don't overcharge for distributions of bits and I live more comfortably and securely now than I ever have in my life.
I'm not really sure how Musicians, Artists & Actors, etc can implement a similar system, but I don't doubt they can.
Furthermore, I did not invent the computer, or (most of) the programming languages I use. I did not invent the concepts I use, my works only have meaning and value because they are a part of this rich culture. Honestly, I HAVE created literary works in wholly "alien" languages, and even number and time systems that I created, as an experiment to test this theory. Guess what? NO ONE VALUES THEM. They were not enough a part of the common culture to have worth. To build creations having worth you must borrow HEAVILY from the culture around you.
Being granted a +150 year monopoly (three generations of humans) for my tiny proportion of contribution to the massive amount of common culture in my work is Ridiculous! My grandkids will be DEAD by the time they can legally use any of the copyrighted work I contributed to the culture while a salaried employee. The founding fathers were correct: The copyright / patent terms should be 10 to 14 years. We've granted monopolies over bits of our culture far beyond the reasonable length of time. Piracy is merely a social pressure that's attempting to right this wrong in the only way they can: By ignoring unjust laws that are destroying our public domain. It's an act of civil disobedience. We granted the copyrights, we can take them all away if they are abused.
Copyright is a law, Jim Crow was a law. Rosa Parks was arrested for ignorin
Did you by chance watch the Chaos Computer Club talk about Stuxnet? I was thinking the whole time: "Well there's part of the reason right there, MS: You hire folks like this moron."
The vulns exploited are a direct evidence of lack of security in design. I mean, Guest accounts telling printer drivers to "print to file" ANY WHERE on the drive?! AS ROOT?!?
Don't give me that "Mac & Linux are just as bad" bullshit. I deal with the Linux sources, MS isn't even in the same league. I've seen the (leaked) source code that Microsoft devs write... IT'S SHIT. Their OS is full of insecure kludgey shit. Remember the Zune Leap Year BS? Just try to get away with committing some of that shit to the Linux Kernel team. Google Tried committing crap kernel code from Android, guess what? IT WAS REFUSED; Told to get cleaned up. I mean... fuck man.. GET REAL!
Just the usual meme, "People behave like dicks!"
...in an effort to get more pussy.
Genetic diversity considered good by biologists, but bad by social standards... Guess which is wrong? (Hint: It's not evolution.)