You fib on a resume that gives them a good excuse to cut you loose if they need to lay people off.
They can't discriminate against your age, but they can take your fib as proof of untrustworthiness and ding you for that.
In fact, people who are later caught fibbing on their resumes are often the first to get canned when a layoff is pending. And no severance is required, because deception is considered cause.
Since the RIAA is clearly going to lose, i wouldn't mind if NYCL didn't let them off the hook so easy. If possible.
Is the court obligated to accept their dismissal?
Haven't the defendants suffered harm thus far?
I wish there was a way for the defendants to countersue the RIAA for malicious prosecution or something. A few million dollars in punitive damages against the RIAA would send a signal, methinks.
Also, I would rather some legal precedent be established in the defendant's favor so that the RIAA would get leashed and stopped from further harassing other defendants.
The flaw in your argument is trusting MS to be timely about its updates.
I'd say tell the vendors, and give them about a month.
If they haven't fixed it by then, there's a chance that someone else has found it, and publishing it won't hurt anything else, and may actually help by putting pressure on the vendor for a fix.
Keeping an exploit under wraps only works if the vendor is responsive enough so that they don't get beat by a different "researcher" looking to use the hole for his own gain.
Another problem is the "tax base" thingy that effectively makes FICA one of the most regressive taxes in existence.
Taking a smaller slice of a bigger pie would make things fairer.
But oh noes, it would make the rich fatcats actually notice how much they are paying.
Get rid of the stupid cap and make sure the rich chip in their two cents. If you're freaking rich, a few thousand dollars in SS taxes will be to you what a handful of change is to the average joe.
In fact, if we got rid of the cap and made SS taxes a mere 1 percent of your income, I would propose that there would be a net gain.
Yup, make a bios easily hosable, and your customers have no recourse but to buy a new one.
This sounds like intentional flakiness and fragility to boost sales.
It would be very easy to have two bioses...a flashable one to contain updates, and an unflashable one that could override everything to get new updates into the flashable one. Perhaps with a magical hotkey that would tell the master bios to ignore the slave bios.
Unbrickable.
But that would cut sales of replacement chips so hell no the vendors won't do it.
The same folks who use the GPL as a "share and share alike" stick will often be better behaved than corporate folks who use legal shackles to milk economic rent out of you.
IPv4 addresses are going to be today what water supplies were in the wild wild west.
Companies that have hoarded their 16 million class A's from the stone age stand to make a windfall from their IPv4 holdings.
The only reason v4 is doomed is because of a false sense of abundance back when they were dished out, and now that they are scarce the companies who are in a position to help out will instead have every incentive to hog it all and milk it for all it's worth. NAT is nothing but a cash cow.
Yes, I will even be so bold as to say that if IPv4 addresses were managed properly from their inception then we wouldn't be in the current quagmire.
Once again the entitlement mentality has fucked us over economically.
The only reason windows gets away with that crap is because MS is a monopoly and can rightly (in the might makes right sense at least) say "screw off, it's not like we have to do squat for you. Competition? never heard of it".
Blizzard is overreaching here and needs to be put in place before it, to, becomes too big to resist.
Where was the DOJ when it was supposed to be deflating this company on antitrust grounds?
Oh that's right, busy keeping tabs on microsoft.
Is corporate greed growing so fast and unchecked that not even the FEDS can put a cap on it?
If that happens, corporate america will become our de-facto 4th branch simply by having our politicians so hogtied and blackmailed that they become puppets.
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Parent nailed it.
It's all the spammer's fault that we waste time on captchas.
Parent has it right.
Intentionally fucking over someone's computer makes you a hacker.
Sony should have faced criminal sanctions.
I think that bots need to have an attitude of some sort, either good OR bad, because emotion is one thing that humans have that bots don't.
Also, see if the bot responds believably to insults.
Actually, don't lie.
You fib on a resume that gives them a good excuse to cut you loose if they need to lay people off.
They can't discriminate against your age, but they can take your fib as proof of untrustworthiness and ding you for that.
In fact, people who are later caught fibbing on their resumes are often the first to get canned when a layoff is pending. And no severance is required, because deception is considered cause.
More like the people who are sitting on piles of v4's have a vested interest in keeping IP space scarce and rent producing.
Isn't putting the carbon back into the food chain a good thing?
Since the RIAA is clearly going to lose, i wouldn't mind if NYCL didn't let them off the hook so easy. If possible.
Is the court obligated to accept their dismissal?
Haven't the defendants suffered harm thus far?
I wish there was a way for the defendants to countersue the RIAA for malicious prosecution or something. A few million dollars in punitive damages against the RIAA would send a signal, methinks.
Also, I would rather some legal precedent be established in the defendant's favor so that the RIAA would get leashed and stopped from further harassing other defendants.
The flaw in your argument is trusting MS to be timely about its updates.
I'd say tell the vendors, and give them about a month.
If they haven't fixed it by then, there's a chance that someone else has found it, and publishing it won't hurt anything else, and may actually help by putting pressure on the vendor for a fix.
Keeping an exploit under wraps only works if the vendor is responsive enough so that they don't get beat by a different "researcher" looking to use the hole for his own gain.
The only thing standing in the way is lost profits for vendors.
Another problem is the "tax base" thingy that effectively makes FICA one of the most regressive taxes in existence.
Taking a smaller slice of a bigger pie would make things fairer.
But oh noes, it would make the rich fatcats actually notice how much they are paying.
Get rid of the stupid cap and make sure the rich chip in their two cents. If you're freaking rich, a few thousand dollars in SS taxes will be to you what a handful of change is to the average joe.
In fact, if we got rid of the cap and made SS taxes a mere 1 percent of your income, I would propose that there would be a net gain.
Yup, make a bios easily hosable, and your customers have no recourse but to buy a new one.
This sounds like intentional flakiness and fragility to boost sales.
It would be very easy to have two bioses...a flashable one to contain updates, and an unflashable one that could override everything to get new updates into the flashable one. Perhaps with a magical hotkey that would tell the master bios to ignore the slave bios.
Unbrickable.
But that would cut sales of replacement chips so hell no the vendors won't do it.
According to a post by NYCL, the DOJ has a legal right to intervene when constitutionality issues are raised.
That said, I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to try to bribe a judge, or worse, get an RIAA crony on the actual bench.
"It's a two party system...you have to vote for one of us!"
The motion filed by the DOJ claims that neither side's counsel opposed the motion.
Probably a grudging acceptance that is mandated by federal law, but some insight into how these motions work would be nice.
Only problem is that we're stuck with him for 4 years unless his like-minded congress buddies impeach him (hah!).
The problem is that we the people can't fire the president if he screws up.
That could have been literal.
The bible isn't e
The same folks who use the GPL as a "share and share alike" stick will often be better behaved than corporate folks who use legal shackles to milk economic rent out of you.
There just isn't a business case to move away from lucrative IPv4 hoarding and NAT.
Those companies that have hoarded their class A's from back in the days of "plenty" are now sitting on a gold mine.
What possible incentive could there be to top that?
I think you nailed it on the head.
IPv4 addresses are going to be today what water supplies were in the wild wild west.
Companies that have hoarded their 16 million class A's from the stone age stand to make a windfall from their IPv4 holdings.
The only reason v4 is doomed is because of a false sense of abundance back when they were dished out, and now that they are scarce the companies who are in a position to help out will instead have every incentive to hog it all and milk it for all it's worth. NAT is nothing but a cash cow.
Yes, I will even be so bold as to say that if IPv4 addresses were managed properly from their inception then we wouldn't be in the current quagmire.
Once again the entitlement mentality has fucked us over economically.
Not to mention if your "kill-switch" update is buggy and stuff gets worse, you'll be liable for negligence.
It's a pity there's no cyber version of a good samaratin law.
What you are advocating is "might makes right"
Were it not for the restraint of the legal system, I'm sure many companies wouldn't hesitate to rob you blind, literally.
The only reason windows gets away with that crap is because MS is a monopoly and can rightly (in the might makes right sense at least) say "screw off, it's not like we have to do squat for you. Competition? never heard of it".
Blizzard is overreaching here and needs to be put in place before it, to, becomes too big to resist.
Not to mention stretching out resources and making it easy for a finite amount of manpower to miss a real one.
It's a lot like a DDoS. Flood the bomb squad with crap alerts, and they don't service the good ones.
I could say the same things about windows vista...
At least linux is honest when things foul up unexpectedly.
Indeed.
Where was the DOJ when it was supposed to be deflating this company on antitrust grounds?
Oh that's right, busy keeping tabs on microsoft.
Is corporate greed growing so fast and unchecked that not even the FEDS can put a cap on it?
If that happens, corporate america will become our de-facto 4th branch simply by having our politicians so hogtied and blackmailed that they become puppets.