I bought PS3 (and Rock Band!) pretty quickly after the news came out.
Now you will have to get yourself a nice Sony TV to make sure the "trusted path" hangs together. I wonder if Universal and Paramount will continue working on the set. You can see where this goes, digital restrictions are an extortion that never ends even if it looks like the conspirators are cooperating with each other now. It's software that can be "updated" and revoked at anytime.
A notebook is not networked into your entire life history like GMail and every other web service is. The average person is not capable of carrying that much paper, so the issue has not been addressed. Clearly, an arrest does not give the police the right to search your house and business to find and copy the dead tree equivalent. Digital fishing expeditions are an evil that must be legislated against but that is exactly what these bozo are defending.
The lesson learned here is that you should only use software you trust to keep your secrets on mobile devices. Treat it like your worst enemy would find it. Don't ever auto store passwords and protect it all with a login. Oppie and GPE might be OK. ATT and iPhone are not because you can't trust either. Even after people understand the issue and make reasonable laws you want to make it hard for people to copy your life.
YouTube is just painful to watch, with the blocky videos in tiny windows.
If it's not entertaining enough to watch at that size, you are better off doing something else. How long can time lapsed photos of flowers, for example, hold your attention?
Analog TV...sure. It will when Google buys up the 700 MHz band and takes over next year.
Don't you think that Google will be smart enough to use the spectrum as intended, for packet communications aka digital TV? Kind of like a pipe to YouTube? Yes they will take over, because that is already better than broadcast shit. If they break the last mile, it's all over for the old broadcasters.
With TW looking to cap downloads at a pathetic 5 to 10 "shaped" GB per month, you will have no choice outside of broadcast cable. Have you noticed how slow YouTube is these days? It's not like Google does not have bandwith, it's like your ISP is fucking you. Even if you can put up with stuttering video or the 20 minute wait for a 10 minute video, you will quickly exceed your cap. Don't expect entertainment competition to grow as long as there's no real ISP competition and regulation actually favors dirty tricks for "security" and terrorism protection.
Comcast is charging a rate they think they can get away with. I dropped my cable TV when it hit $40 for basic, which included little more than broadcast TV, the shopping channel and the catholic channel. Comcast's $60 deal looks even worse.
Registered speech is not free, so there is no free speech on campuses that have such areas. They call the police on anyone who does not register, regardless of where they want to talk to people. When you follow their rules, you get added to their blacklist. Perfect fuckdom.
It's also, paradoxally, used to advertise on public space. The given excuse for registration, in part, is to eliminate commercial speech. Yet large companies and the military are allowed use of university facilities that no student organization could hope for.
Welcome to the new student's paradise. It looks more like some kind of communist/fascist cock up every day. Keep your mouth shut, eat crappy fast food and support the Bush Forces. No party for you, say the wrong thing and you will be reported.
This is not how it begins, this is how it ends. Universities are the last bastion of free speech and thought in any country. The press is already monitored and dissiplined. Workplaces have been fucked for a long time. Communications have been tapped. Charges don't have to be filed for you to be put in jail and tortured. Dissidence will now be tracked and thwarted from the get-go. That's what's called a Police State.
We really need to bring democracy to the USA through regime change. The fascists have shown their hand and need to be removed before dissent is impossible.
Murder's a pretty simple issue compared to copyright.
That's true. Most murder cases can be proved in a single 18 minute sitcom slot but the infinite losses caused by PIRATES of Imaginary Property can never be explained so easily outside of soundbites like "pirate" and "thief". These soundbites must be repeated, Shining style, over 4,000 pages of manually typed pages to even begin to understand the nature of the current case.
It's not to hard at the same time to selectively focus on stuff that's important since obviously in 4000 pages, not all of it is. When you think about it, who has time to write that many pages?
Regardless of how they made it, the court should throw it out as a waste of everyone's time.
[If Ford does not cruhez the illgalz pictures] they'd run the risk of losing their trademark protection, which would be far worse.
Yes, we all know how important pictures and other branding revenues are to a company like Ford that can't sell cars. Next week, bake sales.
Do you really think that other people will be able to market cars with Ford written on the hood because they did not keep a group from making a calendar? I doubt it.
The GP clearly understands trade mark and business. If Ford keeps up nonsense like this no one will want to use their marks. That kind of damage is irreparable.
Not even Ken Starr would be dumb enough to argue for "free to expel" rule. That case muddied the water about what high school administrators could do discipline their charges but did not amount to abuse at will. It's too bad Ken Starr and the majority of the Supreme Court did not see how easy their decision would be to abuse and how it puts the burden of proof onto the victim.
This fails even those restrictive tests. The student is a sane and non violent adult and the material is more that puerile provocation. It's clear that the administration eliminated a student who got in the way of a development project. It stinks like bribery and the administration is going to be lucky if an investigation does not dig any up.
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Blue screen of death fatality? No, the poor bastard was died because he ran into a Hummer. Those things are so wide he did not have to cross the line to have the accident and no passenger car will survive the impact. If you need to haul things, please buy a pickup truck or a van or a hatchback, not something designed for combat. When you don't need to haul things, please buy a passenger vehicle with properly designed crush zones.
A drill bit is cheaper and easier. It also avoids those awkward ricochets and overshoots that put holes in people. This makes it difficult for all but the most determined people to read.
Dropping it in salt water is a sure way to destroy the data but this takes longer.
As for buried date treasure, don't bother. If you did not find it when you put the drive down and have not missed it, you don't need it.
These violations are only harmless if your work is worth nothing. Apparently, it's worth using so you should be paid.
Some of the uses pointed out in the article were much less than harmless. One kid was described as someone to "dump" and another was a posterboy for peeling lead paint. The parents of the child, of course, were mortified.
The biggest losers in this round of big media hypocrisy and arrogance is big media. It shows better than anything else that copyright is a sham designed to enrich big media. Big media is acting like a perfect bully, while crying for appreciation and special protection. Lessig got it wrong. The victims are not crying out for copyright protection, they are furiously pointing out that copyright is bullshit and it's main proponents are assholes. What little sympathy the industry had left is going down the toilet. Soon they will no more withstand public outrage and technical obsolescence than the Chicago sock yard and Detroit auto makers did.
Aww, Bill haven't we been through this already. Remember how much Vista cost us? There's no way we can afford to write the damn thing ourselves. We are morons, Bill, but we know how to spend money. We must spend every penny possible to FUCKING KILL GOOGLE. KILL! -drool-
Sure, I'm serious. I kind of thought the P stood for perl, but it does not seem to matter. Even when I add the keyword "mass" to your search, all I get is "might be" "could be". Can you point me to a real world mass SQL exploit outside of the M$ world? A quarter million Chicken Little search returns is not convincing.
I don't know about "awesome," my first thoughts were along the lines of "oh...for fuck's sake..." and "how do I check?"
Type "uname -a". If you get "command not found", you have a problem.
Yes, it would be foolish and insulting to blame tens of thousands of programmers at tens of thousands of sites instead of the one tool they have in common.
This exploit should turn the little M$ tick down into a real trend. This is what happens when you try to use a badly designed consumer grade OS for web service. Let's hope companies take the hint and run back to Apache before something really bad happens.
People trying to pass the buck onto tens of thousands of individual programmers at tens of thousands of different institutions should ask yourselves why this has not happened with LAMP. If it was a market share thing, LAMP would have fallen long ago. It's not market share or users, it's a monoculture problem.
Google was a total riot. They offered me a job twice. I went with it, and they never responded. Probably because the job they were offering mesomeone whos been coding for 21 years, 15 professionallywas as a junior system administrator. What the hell does a junior sysadmin do at google? Thats probably like mopping the floor at a glory hole in Queens. I told them to review my resume and offer me a real position.
As he ponders his rent, he might realize that Junior Sysadmin at Google pays more than massuse or spooge-mopper. They get to write cool code on the side too, so he could do some more fun things with criminal records or fingerprints if he wanted to. Who knows, he might have impressed the boss with his skilz and moved up the ladder. If not, Google could have rented the coliseum in Rome for a grudge match to the death.
When a good company offers you a job with good money, the answer is "when can I start?"
I'm starting a new social network for people with lame ideas. Does anyone know where I can get some good technical advice that won't cost much? I'm sure there's a pile of money for me when it's done!
As surely as young people swap files without guilt, copyright is going to be reduced or eliminated. It's a matter of time before the broadcast/telco mindset and laws disappear forever. They don't make sense to people raised on the internet. "Don't copy that floppy" propaganda just makes people angry.
Pyro Spectaculars. They have been in business for 30 years, have done multiple Olympic game shows and do other high profile shows every year. You can compare that to M$'s reputation for screwing everything up.
Fascism is older than the internet. Witch hunts are older than that. What you see is a bunch of companies that think they are so powerful that they can tell you to do and think as they say, 24/7. With government granted franchises, rubber stamped consolidation and bad joke anti-trust enforcement big company perception is not that far from reality. Shutting down online expression is both an exercise and enhancer of corporate power, just as book burning and other forms of censorship have been.
If your company is like this, do yourself a favor and quit.
Don't quit your day job, unless you predicted the year would end with Vista as laughing stock. Everyone predicted "Vista would become the dominant OS, if only because consumers have no choice." The countless Slashdot stories are coming from countless unbelievable articles elsewhere claiming "dissapointment". This is all the more remarkable given the tremendous marketing budget tied to reviews. It's nothing less than an industry wide blowback.
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I bought PS3 (and Rock Band!) pretty quickly after the news came out.
Now you will have to get yourself a nice Sony TV to make sure the "trusted path" hangs together. I wonder if Universal and Paramount will continue working on the set. You can see where this goes, digital restrictions are an extortion that never ends even if it looks like the conspirators are cooperating with each other now. It's software that can be "updated" and revoked at anytime.
A notebook is not networked into your entire life history like GMail and every other web service is. The average person is not capable of carrying that much paper, so the issue has not been addressed. Clearly, an arrest does not give the police the right to search your house and business to find and copy the dead tree equivalent. Digital fishing expeditions are an evil that must be legislated against but that is exactly what these bozo are defending.
The lesson learned here is that you should only use software you trust to keep your secrets on mobile devices. Treat it like your worst enemy would find it. Don't ever auto store passwords and protect it all with a login. Oppie and GPE might be OK. ATT and iPhone are not because you can't trust either. Even after people understand the issue and make reasonable laws you want to make it hard for people to copy your life.
YouTube is just painful to watch, with the blocky videos in tiny windows.
If it's not entertaining enough to watch at that size, you are better off doing something else. How long can time lapsed photos of flowers, for example, hold your attention?
Analog TV...sure. It will when Google buys up the 700 MHz band and takes over next year.
Don't you think that Google will be smart enough to use the spectrum as intended, for packet communications aka digital TV? Kind of like a pipe to YouTube? Yes they will take over, because that is already better than broadcast shit. If they break the last mile, it's all over for the old broadcasters.
With TW looking to cap downloads at a pathetic 5 to 10 "shaped" GB per month, you will have no choice outside of broadcast cable. Have you noticed how slow YouTube is these days? It's not like Google does not have bandwith, it's like your ISP is fucking you. Even if you can put up with stuttering video or the 20 minute wait for a 10 minute video, you will quickly exceed your cap. Don't expect entertainment competition to grow as long as there's no real ISP competition and regulation actually favors dirty tricks for "security" and terrorism protection.
Comcast is charging a rate they think they can get away with. I dropped my cable TV when it hit $40 for basic, which included little more than broadcast TV, the shopping channel and the catholic channel. Comcast's $60 deal looks even worse.
It seems they are battening down all the hatches, going totally overboard as far as "Homeland Security" is concerned.
They think they can get away with it.
colleges are banning free speech everywhere else.
Registered speech is not free, so there is no free speech on campuses that have such areas. They call the police on anyone who does not register, regardless of where they want to talk to people. When you follow their rules, you get added to their blacklist. Perfect fuckdom.
It's also, paradoxally, used to advertise on public space. The given excuse for registration, in part, is to eliminate commercial speech. Yet large companies and the military are allowed use of university facilities that no student organization could hope for.
Welcome to the new student's paradise. It looks more like some kind of communist/fascist cock up every day. Keep your mouth shut, eat crappy fast food and support the Bush Forces. No party for you, say the wrong thing and you will be reported.
This is not how it begins, this is how it ends. Universities are the last bastion of free speech and thought in any country. The press is already monitored and dissiplined. Workplaces have been fucked for a long time. Communications have been tapped. Charges don't have to be filed for you to be put in jail and tortured. Dissidence will now be tracked and thwarted from the get-go. That's what's called a Police State.
We really need to bring democracy to the USA through regime change. The fascists have shown their hand and need to be removed before dissent is impossible.
Murder's a pretty simple issue compared to copyright.
That's true. Most murder cases can be proved in a single 18 minute sitcom slot but the infinite losses caused by PIRATES of Imaginary Property can never be explained so easily outside of soundbites like "pirate" and "thief". These soundbites must be repeated, Shining style, over 4,000 pages of manually typed pages to even begin to understand the nature of the current case.
It's not to hard at the same time to selectively focus on stuff that's important since obviously in 4000 pages, not all of it is. When you think about it, who has time to write that many pages?
Regardless of how they made it, the court should throw it out as a waste of everyone's time.
[If Ford does not cruhez the illgalz pictures] they'd run the risk of losing their trademark protection, which would be far worse.
Yes, we all know how important pictures and other branding revenues are to a company like Ford that can't sell cars. Next week, bake sales.
Do you really think that other people will be able to market cars with Ford written on the hood because they did not keep a group from making a calendar? I doubt it.
The GP clearly understands trade mark and business. If Ford keeps up nonsense like this no one will want to use their marks. That kind of damage is irreparable.
Not even Ken Starr would be dumb enough to argue for "free to expel" rule. That case muddied the water about what high school administrators could do discipline their charges but did not amount to abuse at will. It's too bad Ken Starr and the majority of the Supreme Court did not see how easy their decision would be to abuse and how it puts the burden of proof onto the victim.
This fails even those restrictive tests. The student is a sane and non violent adult and the material is more that puerile provocation. It's clear that the administration eliminated a student who got in the way of a development project. It stinks like bribery and the administration is going to be lucky if an investigation does not dig any up.
Blue screen of death fatality? No, the poor bastard was died because he ran into a Hummer. Those things are so wide he did not have to cross the line to have the accident and no passenger car will survive the impact. If you need to haul things, please buy a pickup truck or a van or a hatchback, not something designed for combat. When you don't need to haul things, please buy a passenger vehicle with properly designed crush zones.
A drill bit is cheaper and easier. It also avoids those awkward ricochets and overshoots that put holes in people. This makes it difficult for all but the most determined people to read.
Dropping it in salt water is a sure way to destroy the data but this takes longer.
As for buried date treasure, don't bother. If you did not find it when you put the drive down and have not missed it, you don't need it.
These violations are only harmless if your work is worth nothing. Apparently, it's worth using so you should be paid.
Some of the uses pointed out in the article were much less than harmless. One kid was described as someone to "dump" and another was a posterboy for peeling lead paint. The parents of the child, of course, were mortified.
The biggest losers in this round of big media hypocrisy and arrogance is big media. It shows better than anything else that copyright is a sham designed to enrich big media. Big media is acting like a perfect bully, while crying for appreciation and special protection. Lessig got it wrong. The victims are not crying out for copyright protection, they are furiously pointing out that copyright is bullshit and it's main proponents are assholes. What little sympathy the industry had left is going down the toilet. Soon they will no more withstand public outrage and technical obsolescence than the Chicago sock yard and Detroit auto makers did.
Aww, Bill haven't we been through this already. Remember how much Vista cost us? There's no way we can afford to write the damn thing ourselves. We are morons, Bill, but we know how to spend money. We must spend every penny possible to FUCKING KILL GOOGLE. KILL! -drool-
Sure, I'm serious. I kind of thought the P stood for perl, but it does not seem to matter. Even when I add the keyword "mass" to your search, all I get is "might be" "could be". Can you point me to a real world mass SQL exploit outside of the M$ world? A quarter million Chicken Little search returns is not convincing.
there is nothing specific about this attack to MS SQL Server at all.
So tell me about mass exploits of LAMP.
I don't know about "awesome," my first thoughts were along the lines of "oh...for fuck's sake..." and "how do I check?"
Type "uname -a". If you get "command not found", you have a problem.
Yes, it would be foolish and insulting to blame tens of thousands of programmers at tens of thousands of sites instead of the one tool they have in common.
This exploit should turn the little M$ tick down into a real trend. This is what happens when you try to use a badly designed consumer grade OS for web service. Let's hope companies take the hint and run back to Apache before something really bad happens.
People trying to pass the buck onto tens of thousands of individual programmers at tens of thousands of different institutions should ask yourselves why this has not happened with LAMP. If it was a market share thing, LAMP would have fallen long ago. It's not market share or users, it's a monoculture problem.
As he ponders his rent, he might realize that Junior Sysadmin at Google pays more than massuse or spooge-mopper. They get to write cool code on the side too, so he could do some more fun things with criminal records or fingerprints if he wanted to. Who knows, he might have impressed the boss with his skilz and moved up the ladder. If not, Google could have rented the coliseum in Rome for a grudge match to the death.
When a good company offers you a job with good money, the answer is "when can I start?"
I'm starting a new social network for people with lame ideas. Does anyone know where I can get some good technical advice that won't cost much? I'm sure there's a pile of money for me when it's done!
As surely as young people swap files without guilt, copyright is going to be reduced or eliminated. It's a matter of time before the broadcast/telco mindset and laws disappear forever. They don't make sense to people raised on the internet. "Don't copy that floppy" propaganda just makes people angry.
Pyro Spectaculars. They have been in business for 30 years, have done multiple Olympic game shows and do other high profile shows every year. You can compare that to M$'s reputation for screwing everything up.
Fascism is older than the internet. Witch hunts are older than that. What you see is a bunch of companies that think they are so powerful that they can tell you to do and think as they say, 24/7. With government granted franchises, rubber stamped consolidation and bad joke anti-trust enforcement big company perception is not that far from reality. Shutting down online expression is both an exercise and enhancer of corporate power, just as book burning and other forms of censorship have been.
If your company is like this, do yourself a favor and quit.
Don't quit your day job, unless you predicted the year would end with Vista as laughing stock. Everyone predicted "Vista would become the dominant OS, if only because consumers have no choice." The countless Slashdot stories are coming from countless unbelievable articles elsewhere claiming "dissapointment". This is all the more remarkable given the tremendous marketing budget tied to reviews. It's nothing less than an industry wide blowback.