It's not just an American thing. And certainly not just a post-911 thing.
The military fucks around and you bear the guilt, because guilt is "something small people feel when they run out of excuses for their behaviour."
And that's sad, for whatever is happening to America is likely to happen to other parts of the world (where I am), and vice versa.
I've ridiculed [in GP] and mourned [in this post]. Now, in the true spirit of Spinoza's "Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere", I'm going to detest, but I'll keep that to myself.
A post and a sig walks in a bar. The bartender said to the post, "With a companion like that one and the half-burnt, wagging finger of yours I think you'd better get the fuck out of here."
The moral of this joke is, that both my sig and my orig. post are jokes, albeit not quite good ones.
According to TFA, after some fairly impressive exploits the attacker tried to shut down certain services. This is very unprofessional because it is a sure way to expose themselves quickly.
Now the question is: did they just did it for teh lulz, or are they so powerful that they don't care the loss of stealth? The plot thickens...
TFA said that as part of the attack the attackers managed to harvest user login credentials by spreading bogus password reset emails, rendering all those encryption stuff as impossible to bypass as the Maginot Line.
Using the valuable login info, they rooted the machine and, by definition of "rooted", controlled everything. Salting is irrelevant here.
"The attack was crafted to steal the session cookie from the user logged-in to JIRA. When this issue was opened against the Infrastructure team, several of our administators[sic] clicked on the link [to the site containing the XSS exploit]. This compromised their sessions, including their JIRA administrator rights."
Famous last words: "So they showed me this button and I pushed it. Now what?"
Chung Mong-Joon, President of Korea's Football Association, head of the Hyundai group, and also member of the National Assembly, is a great supporter of professional computer gaming. News has it that he's trying to push computer gaming into the Asian Games. Perhaps the Olympic Games or something like a Computer Gaming World Cup is his next goal.
that it is probably illegal to drive such an automaton in real traffic in any country, incl. "Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."
There are WIPO treaties with the goal of recognizing copyright across jurisdictions, but they're more about diplomacy & political bargains than about judicial cooperation between member counties. My feeling is that the USA is perfectly fine with trading IP loss in China for other things such as Chinese credit/investment/whatever.
> For whatever reason, Nokia thinks they can get away with DRM > in other countries. Because consumers are stupid. If they > don't need DRM in the world capital of piracy, why do they need > it anywhere else?
As I said in another post above, Nokia isn't trying to sell more music by this move. It is all about selling more devices in a market that has not yet reached its saturation. In other countries such as the USA they face dominating opponents such as Apple, and there's not that much that could be reaped from the device sales.
As a result, they're touting the DRM-freedom as a feature of their devices in China. This is not effective in other countries where device sales no longer likely to outweigh music sales.
In China, Nokia has quite good market share as well as mindshare, but they're probably doing this just to fortify their grounds before Apple makes their cut.
Apple is already late to the game in China. Unlocked iPhones has been circulating here but Apple is still working on its slow way of penetrating the "above-ground" market. Before Apple peoples the land with its own ecosystem Nokia wants every inch of it occupied by Nokia breeds, locking Apple out (pun not intended).
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For the corporations it really doesn't really matter if piracy is fought or not. They exist for profit, and if there's profit in fighting piracy (or screwing customers, if you say so), they'll do it. As you've pointed out, given the high piracy rate in China it is probably too costly to fight piracy right now, and going drm-free is likely to yield richer profit margins.
Corporations are not naturally the enemy of our rights. They don't screw us for some ideological stuff like "rights". They screw us (or lick our asses) because there's a profit motivation in it, and for them everything else is just manifestly non-existent.
We do, and I've met ppl punished for copyright violations. Heck, "severe" copyright violation is even a criminal offence in China (I believe this has something to do with WIPO treaties, but IANAL anyway).
Well, why not just create two user accounts for your girlfriend and yourself respectively? That makes almost everything easier. Heck, you can even run them concurrently.
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I agree. The Force is strong with meta-whooshing today.
It's not just an American thing. And certainly not just a post-911 thing.
The military fucks around and you bear the guilt, because guilt is "something small people feel when they run out of excuses for their behaviour."
And that's sad, for whatever is happening to America is likely to happen to other parts of the world (where I am), and vice versa.
I've ridiculed [in GP] and mourned [in this post]. Now, in the true spirit of Spinoza's "Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere", I'm going to detest, but I'll keep that to myself.
And understanding is futile.
A post and a sig walks in a bar. The bartender said to the post, "With a companion like that one and the half-burnt, wagging finger of yours I think you'd better get the fuck out of here."
The moral of this joke is, that both my sig and my orig. post are jokes, albeit not quite good ones.
OK, bad joke. You're not a replicant.
...but *why* are you USAers, as a people, worth saving?
Oh, you mean *cyber* attack. Duh.
> What would be the motivation(s) for hacking Apache, anyway? It's not
> like it's Citibank.
Hacking the server serving code so that they can ship malware through the distribution of Apache software?
This has happened before, and will happen again...
According to TFA, after some fairly impressive exploits the attacker tried to shut down certain services. This is very unprofessional because it is a sure way to expose themselves quickly.
Now the question is: did they just did it for teh lulz, or are they so powerful that they don't care the loss of stealth? The plot thickens...
Browser is only part of the problem. Negligence is more hazardous.
TFA said that as part of the attack the attackers managed to harvest user login credentials by spreading bogus password reset emails, rendering all those encryption stuff as impossible to bypass as the Maginot Line.
Using the valuable login info, they rooted the machine and, by definition of "rooted", controlled everything. Salting is irrelevant here.
FTFA:
"The attack was crafted to steal the session cookie from the user logged-in to JIRA. When this issue was opened against the Infrastructure team, several of our administators[sic] clicked on the link [to the site containing the XSS exploit]. This compromised their sessions, including their JIRA administrator rights."
Famous last words: "So they showed me this button and I pushed it. Now what?"
Chung Mong-Joon, President of Korea's Football Association, head of the Hyundai group, and also member of the National Assembly, is a great supporter of professional computer gaming. News has it that he's trying to push computer gaming into the Asian Games. Perhaps the Olympic Games or something like a Computer Gaming World Cup is his next goal.
Criminals? I guess you mean criminal suspects, since it's the police rather than the court that "have gotten involved".
Totally irrelevant. If there's a betting business targeting D&D there *will* be cheating, game fixing and fraud.
As some /.er has said, you can't defeat a profit incentive.
So Google gets a /. story for its *intending* to do something? Call me not impressed. (And doubleplusunimpressed due to the kdawsonity.)
Wake me up when they actually *do* something.
And I await Google fanboys/modbots starting a modtroll orgy on this.
But the car is going to be operated without a licensed driver driving it. The keyword here is "license", not "driver".
Or can we license an AI? I guess yes, if the AI manages to pass the driving exams. Or is this expedition part of the exam?
Forget the Linux PCs. This is a damn conspiracy from Redmond to put Linus behind bars.
that it is probably illegal to drive such an automaton in real traffic in any country, incl. "Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."
Any nethack player knows how important a piece of armor the t-shirt is.
Blessed scrolls of enchant armor for the win.
There are WIPO treaties with the goal of recognizing copyright across jurisdictions, but they're more about diplomacy & political bargains than about judicial cooperation between member counties. My feeling is that the USA is perfectly fine with trading IP loss in China for other things such as Chinese credit/investment/whatever.
> For whatever reason, Nokia thinks they can get away with DRM
> in other countries. Because consumers are stupid. If they
> don't need DRM in the world capital of piracy, why do they need
> it anywhere else?
As I said in another post above, Nokia isn't trying to sell more music by this move. It is all about selling more devices in a market that has not yet reached its saturation. In other countries such as the USA they face dominating opponents such as Apple, and there's not that much that could be reaped from the device sales.
As a result, they're touting the DRM-freedom as a feature of their devices in China. This is not effective in other countries where device sales no longer likely to outweigh music sales.
In China, Nokia has quite good market share as well as mindshare, but they're probably doing this just to fortify their grounds before Apple makes their cut.
Apple is already late to the game in China. Unlocked iPhones has been circulating here but Apple is still working on its slow way of penetrating the "above-ground" market. Before Apple peoples the land with its own ecosystem Nokia wants every inch of it occupied by Nokia breeds, locking Apple out (pun not intended).
DISCLAIMER: the above post contains speculations and opinions. Read or mod it accordingly.
For the corporations it really doesn't really matter if piracy is fought or not. They exist for profit, and if there's profit in fighting piracy (or screwing customers, if you say so), they'll do it. As you've pointed out, given the high piracy rate in China it is probably too costly to fight piracy right now, and going drm-free is likely to yield richer profit margins.
Corporations are not naturally the enemy of our rights. They don't screw us for some ideological stuff like "rights". They screw us (or lick our asses) because there's a profit motivation in it, and for them everything else is just manifestly non-existent.
"Monetizing (I hate that word -- me) music sales" may well be a red herring here. Nokia is yet to saturate the *device* market in China, I guess.
> Why doesn't China have copyright laws?
We do, and I've met ppl punished for copyright violations. Heck, "severe" copyright violation is even a criminal offence in China (I believe this has something to do with WIPO treaties, but IANAL anyway).
Those 503 errors are not restricted to areas outside China ;)
Well, why not just create two user accounts for your girlfriend and yourself respectively? That makes almost everything easier. Heck, you can even run them concurrently.
Thanks for the search keyword provided in your post. Haven't paid attention to RSBAC which seems worth knowing.