Back in the dawn of the Internet, I was beating hackers out of my Linux boxes with a stick in the days when Sun, Microsoft, and IBM boxes outnumbered linux by an order of magnetude. Hackers go for soft targets with toys. Macs, with a full BSD system underneath, are just a juicy a target as anything else, and minted by the million would be taken 0wn3d given a smidgen of an oppertunity.
I could see Apple being forced to stop selling the iPod though, which is why this would never come to trial.
There are few judges, and fewer still appeal judges, who would not be swayed that the whole iTunes concept is about as good an effort as anyone's out there to stem music piracy. You dump legally purchased CD's into your music library. You can go online and directly purchase new music. The only thing this suit MIGHT do is turn off iTunes ability to import MP3's. Though Apple has a very good argument that the feature is required for interoperability with 3rd party players.
Vivendi can try, but Apple would be a very poor choice to sue. It would essentially send the message that "even when you structure your business plan to cut us in through direct sales, we are still going to go for the jugular." Sue Apple, and you will basically lose any future cooperation with hardware manufacturers and online sellers. Why strike a deal, they are going to sue you ass anyway?
Yeah - it's easy to forget how cool it was when you could just plug'n'play a NuBus card while PC users were still setting ISA jumpers. (Or Superdrive floppies, or a bunch of other firsts.) But those platform advances didn't pay off. Wintel slowly caught up to each innovation, and with greater economies of scale.
The iPod was a homerun of the modern era. But you wait around a while and zuner or later they catch up again...They still have yet to get the following working propery:
Hibernation and Suspend (To this day PC laptop users have a phobia about closing the lid)
Why does PC still have drive letters? It's a pain in the Ass, particularly in network environments, and especially now that every card reader, fob drive, and MP3 player mounts as a drive. I have everyone's peripherals creaping up from C and network drives creaping down from Y. I have hit a few users where around "G" you can't predict if they are going to have the drive available for the network because some flash card reader MIGHT be occupying it.
The Registry. Even PC die hards conceed the concept is CRAP.
Roaming profiles. If PC's had a more complex file mounting system we wouldn't have that mess.
The Registry.
The Registry. (Because is screws up about 3 different things at once, user settings, hardware, and OS configuration.)
You are bitching about a product line that (digging out my calendar) that ran for 17 years and died in 1993?
Exactly how many product lines run for 17 years? There are automotive lines that are lucky to see 5. For a computer 17 years is the equivilent of a Redwood tree. WINDOWS hasn't been around that long. (As a product line, I'm not even talking about Windows 3.1.1, 95, 98, ME, XP etc.)
I was playing with those things as a kid. I mean literally as a kid. I was 7 when those things were out, and I was still fiddling with Apple IIgs's in 8th grade.
I still consider Apple to be the gold standard for a company that continually pump innovation into its product line, while keeping old users happy. My first Mac was back in '94. I bowed out in the late 90's to do the Linux thing for a while, but after a few years of scratch building computers and rebuilding operating systems once a week because Gentoo decided "Hey lets roll out a new version of GLIBC!" I'm back on mac.
I just love opening the lid, doing my work, and slamming it shut. When they drop in a new widget, it's solid. Sure you have to take it in for an occasional blown logic board... but you CAN take it in for a blown logic board. My Sony's would drop a component and it would be "oh well, sucks to be you." The only reason I had to replace my previous iBook was that I had marinated the thing in coffee. It was 3 years old and running like the day I, or rather work, bought it.
How many of you kill a three year old laptop and say "GOSHDAMNIT!!!!" It was that good to me.
Sure iGirl was out only briefly, but many users did upgrade to an iWife. There was that awkward transition with iFiancee the turned a lot of folks off. And many found iWife to be incompadible with their old way of doing things. But just because it didn't appeal to the masses does not mean that the iGirl line was a flop. I find mine to be rather perky, even after all of the upgrades and years of regular use.
Technically speaking a spider is in the animal kindom. A mammal? No. A vertebrate? No. But it is still an animal. At least as far as the folks who give things the fancy latin-sounding names are concerned.
Now if they were floating little bits of lichen, or colonies of algae, yes, you could be insulted.
I mean, if the DOJ is taking the trouble to review it the prof must have told them it will be on the test. Though with all these benchmarks going around maybe it's a federal requirement now...
No, it also includes domestic calls that go out internationally. Bascially if you have any friends or relatives overseas, you would be subject to monitoring. Because, you know, Al Queda has cells everywhere. Saudi Arabia. Germany. Canada.
the program is 'limited' to people who are suspected of having contact with foreigners with links to al Qaeda
God help us all if Kevin Bacon ever ends up on a watchlist. I have a Bacon number of 2.0.
<i>First they came for the actors who worked with Kevin Bacon. And I said nothing. And then they come for the people who worked with the people who worked with Kevin Bacon...</i>
What I get a kick out of is the fact that the reason for snooping morphs and changes. In the 90's it was to reign in the drug dealers who were using crypto to shove cocaine up our children's noses. Now it's terrorists. In 6 years it will be the andorian attack fleet.
(Spasms)
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA. OCEANA IS OUR ALLY...
Seriously, when they start frog marching DOJ officials for high crimes and misdemenors, I'll believe that congress is sincere. Until that point I'll be treating this as a dog and pony show to appease the rabble.
My wallet is going to smell pretty raunchy at the end of the week.
Besides, when all the bills rub together he scent is going to transfer. Plus you can make any bill smell like the 100 with a cheap can of "New Car Smell"
Considering that they have blown (how much?) money redesigning the bills semi-annually to thwart folks bleaching ones and printing 20's, I can't understand it either. If they actually DID make the bills different sizes conterfieters wouldn't be able to do this.
Just remember Treasury dudes: Print the smaller denominations on smaller paper than the big denominations because lord knows we all know what a paper cutter is for.
And for God's sake don't ditch the dollar coins... AGAIN. We are finally getting vendomats that will take them.
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You do realize that Darwin is based on FreeBSD 5.0, right?
I don't buy that argument.
Back in the dawn of the Internet, I was beating hackers out of my Linux boxes with a stick in the days when Sun, Microsoft, and IBM boxes outnumbered linux by an order of magnetude. Hackers go for soft targets with toys. Macs, with a full BSD system underneath, are just a juicy a target as anything else, and minted by the million would be taken 0wn3d given a smidgen of an oppertunity.
And traffic. Don't forget traffic. Not to mention wild animals and precipitous heights.
I could see Apple being forced to stop selling the iPod though, which is why this would never come to trial.
There are few judges, and fewer still appeal judges, who would not be swayed that the whole iTunes concept is about as good an effort as anyone's out there to stem music piracy. You dump legally purchased CD's into your music library. You can go online and directly purchase new music. The only thing this suit MIGHT do is turn off iTunes ability to import MP3's. Though Apple has a very good argument that the feature is required for interoperability with 3rd party players.
Vivendi can try, but Apple would be a very poor choice to sue. It would essentially send the message that "even when you structure your business plan to cut us in through direct sales, we are still going to go for the jugular." Sue Apple, and you will basically lose any future cooperation with hardware manufacturers and online sellers. Why strike a deal, they are going to sue you ass anyway?
The iPod was a homerun of the modern era. But you wait around a while and zuner or later they catch up again...They still have yet to get the following working propery:
Waitaminute.
You are bitching about a product line that (digging out my calendar) that ran for 17 years and died in 1993?
Exactly how many product lines run for 17 years? There are automotive lines that are lucky to see 5. For a computer 17 years is the equivilent of a Redwood tree. WINDOWS hasn't been around that long. (As a product line, I'm not even talking about Windows 3.1.1, 95, 98, ME, XP etc.)
I was playing with those things as a kid. I mean literally as a kid. I was 7 when those things were out, and I was still fiddling with Apple IIgs's in 8th grade.
I still consider Apple to be the gold standard for a company that continually pump innovation into its product line, while keeping old users happy. My first Mac was back in '94. I bowed out in the late 90's to do the Linux thing for a while, but after a few years of scratch building computers and rebuilding operating systems once a week because Gentoo decided "Hey lets roll out a new version of GLIBC!" I'm back on mac.
I just love opening the lid, doing my work, and slamming it shut. When they drop in a new widget, it's solid. Sure you have to take it in for an occasional blown logic board... but you CAN take it in for a blown logic board. My Sony's would drop a component and it would be "oh well, sucks to be you." The only reason I had to replace my previous iBook was that I had marinated the thing in coffee. It was 3 years old and running like the day I, or rather work, bought it.
How many of you kill a three year old laptop and say "GOSHDAMNIT!!!!" It was that good to me.
Sure iGirl was out only briefly, but many users did upgrade to an iWife. There was that awkward transition with iFiancee the turned a lot of folks off. And many found iWife to be incompadible with their old way of doing things. But just because it didn't appeal to the masses does not mean that the iGirl line was a flop. I find mine to be rather perky, even after all of the upgrades and years of regular use.
A ladybug needs a levitator like a fish needs a bicycle.
WHAT???
Technically speaking a spider is in the animal kindom. A mammal? No. A vertebrate? No. But it is still an animal. At least as far as the folks who give things the fancy latin-sounding names are concerned.
Now if they were floating little bits of lichen, or colonies of algae, yes, you could be insulted.
I for one welcome our levitating ant overlords.
I mean, if the DOJ is taking the trouble to review it the prof must have told them it will be on the test. Though with all these benchmarks going around maybe it's a federal requirement now...
LA is on the west coast. It will probably be on the strike list of a Chinese invasion.
Once TV is off the air, you are going to stir up one HELL of a hornet's nest.
Try http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
- Its about time!
- Its a trap!
Cowboy Neal..or somethingYou forgot:
They key is "request". A case is dropped only by the consent of the plaintif or a ruling of the court.
Point 2 is that Judges DO rule on constitutionality, and they are the final word. Article III of the constitution. Try reading it some time.
No, it also includes domestic calls that go out internationally. Bascially if you have any friends or relatives overseas, you would be subject to monitoring. Because, you know, Al Queda has cells everywhere. Saudi Arabia. Germany. Canada.
the program is 'limited' to people who are suspected of having contact with foreigners with links to al Qaeda
God help us all if Kevin Bacon ever ends up on a watchlist. I have a Bacon number of 2.0.
<i>First they came for the actors who worked with Kevin Bacon. And I said nothing. And then they come for the people who worked with the people who worked with Kevin Bacon...</i>
What I get a kick out of is the fact that the reason for snooping morphs and changes. In the 90's it was to reign in the drug dealers who were using crypto to shove cocaine up our children's noses. Now it's terrorists. In 6 years it will be the andorian attack fleet.
(Spasms)
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA. OCEANA IS OUR ALLY...
Seriously, when they start frog marching DOJ officials for high crimes and misdemenors, I'll believe that congress is sincere. Until that point I'll be treating this as a dog and pony show to appease the rabble.
At this point, the dollar is so inflated that you by all rights should be tossing 5's. Or you REALLY need to raise your standards.
Or just put a tip cup up in front of the stage for the coin.
Ooo,ooo or how about a coin-bandeleer thong type thing.
My wallet is going to smell pretty raunchy at the end of the week.
Besides, when all the bills rub together he scent is going to transfer. Plus you can make any bill smell like the 100 with a cheap can of "New Car Smell"
I keep looking at the handicap ramps and think "That's going to make life so much easier for a tracked or wheeled robot."
Considering that they have blown (how much?) money redesigning the bills semi-annually to thwart folks bleaching ones and printing 20's, I can't understand it either. If they actually DID make the bills different sizes conterfieters wouldn't be able to do this.
Just remember Treasury dudes: Print the smaller denominations on smaller paper than the big denominations because lord knows we all know what a paper cutter is for.
And for God's sake don't ditch the dollar coins... AGAIN. We are finally getting vendomats that will take them.