How about they use the BILLIONS of dollars they are freely collecting in fees from these machines to actually provide security? I live in the capital of my state and in the entire city there is exactly 1 ATM that's located inside it's own enclosure (about the size of a small bathroom) you have to swipe your card for the door to open, it will not open for anyone else until you leave, and it takes your picture when you walk in. Anyone attempting to tamper with this ATM would first need a valid ATM card (which I suppose could have been stolen) then they'd need to have the actual pin to access the terminal. If they were inside the ATM for more than a minute or so and never actually used the ATM it could easily flag the incident, store video of everything that went on inside and send it to bank security officer for review.
Going after people that would never buy your game in the first place is pointless. They want to go after people, so they will be scared, and then buy their game because they are afraid to download it illegally. So yes, they are going after what they consider potential customers. If they didn't consider them potential customers, there would be no logical business case for doing so and they'd never be able to talk their board into providing the funding needed to pay the lawyers.
I remember getting a letter from Direct TV years ago because I had supposedly pirated their satellite signal. Their sole evidence was that I had purchased a USB smartcard writer. Because, as everyone knows, Direct TV invented smart cards and were the only company on earth to ever use them for anything. They promised to forget about the whole thing if I coughed up the small sum of $10k. My lawyer found it very funny and sent them a letter in return asking for contact information for our counter suit. Strangely they never replied.
lol, I meant an ad promoting google, not an ad promoting some other company and hosted by google. I thought that was obvious. I was talking about the terrible Bing commercials I see at almost every break on television.
When you're a musician and you see what amounts to nothing more than thugs ripping off your fans you might understand better. I'm all for piracy and the end to the sale of digital media simply for the fact that musicians will have to tour more and put on good shows to make their living. But nothing turns fans off more than finding out the shows sold out and having to buy tickets off thugs outside the venue.
This just proves how little the Business community understands technology. Google could lose control of Android to Bing and Baidu if either of them were to come out with a superior product than Google. Anyone that has any sense with regards to the internet knows that Google is orders of magnitude superior to Bing. Baidu's only advantage is not having to comply with take down notices. Bing was able to make gains on Google only after Microsoft sunk ass loads on money into commercial advertising, all the while Google just sat back and watched. Has anyone ever seen a google ad? Google is the Mario Andretti of the search engine world, and Microsoft just came out with Ford Torus with a tail fin and a racing stripe.
The fact of the matter is, they're after him. He can't trust ANY of his hardware now. If he buys a new laptop, he'd better sleep with it under his pillow.
Another issue they don't disagree on is campaign finance reform, term limits, increased oversight and lets just outright say it: "Anything that would get in the way of the bribes they all routinely take in plain site." Corporations flat out PAY cash monies for laws written in their favor. Many laws are written by the corporations themselves while our elected officials rest comfortably in a vacation resort provided by the very same company. If something terrible happens and they lose their seat the companies are there to help afterward by employing them as lobbyist to bribe the new incoming candidates. The corporations don't care who's in office. Republicans will give them tax breaks and less regulation, the democrats will give them big budget government subsidy programs. Remember cash for clunkers? 2 heads - 1 monster.
"MPAA chief Bob Pisano dismissed the First Amendment issues, saying '...the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means.'""
The first amendment was intended to protect the speech of all US citizens, weather criminals or not. Even Criminals still retain their first amendment rights. I would argue however that Lobbying groups and large corporations are NOT US citizens and the idea that free speech extends to them is an abomination. The American people need to rise up and demand reform. We no longer need the likes of Mr. Pisano bribing our elected officials with millions of dollars to get his agenda passed into law.
Again, if you haven't gone through the process you have no idea. So really, just shut up. China has a myriad of requirements you have to meet just like every other country. In China's case I believe we hadn't been married long enough. Their program is also prohibitively expensive (in the $70k+ Range) and requires you to make 3 trips to China. Our SINGLE trip to Ethiopia was 2 weeks long and over $7k. These requirements also change on a monthly basis so if your friends only had to go twice or the costs were different don't be surprised. The processes, paperwork, Legal hurdles change almost every month. We had to fill out thousands of pages of paper work, the refill out about 20% of it because things kept changing. A few months after we got back they changed the Ethiopian process and they now require 2 trips. Think about that for a minute. You have to tell your boss that you're going to be out of the country twice this year, for 2 weeks at a time, and then you're going to need maternity leave for 2 months because your new kids going to have no idea who you are and you can't stick them in a daycare right away.
No, large patent holders shaped this. Politicians, democrat and republican alike, that had little idea what any of it meant, took their money and happily let it go on through. As Ralph Nader once wisely said, our two party system is a two headed dragon. There is no difference between the two parties. People like you who seem to think the democrats are somehow less corrupt are causing the problem more than the people that vote republican.
better yet, grab some gentalmans literature on your way to the airport to get yourself prepped and see if you can fake a lisp. After they get done say "Thanks honey" in the loudest effeminate voice you can muster.
How ethnocentric of you. I'll bullet point it for your moronic ass:
- We used the largest agency in our state. They did a grand total of 35 local minority adoptions last year. The had a total of 5 "white baby" adoptions. People have abortions now, they don't put them up for adoption. - My wife and I are of modest means and are in our late 30's. Adoptive parents have hundreds of prospective parents to chose from. They chose based on 2 things: Money and Youth. We have neither. - International adoptions have limits based on the country you are adopting from. Some based on how long you've been married, others on how old you are, others on your race, etc... Due to these we qualified for 3 programs. Russia, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. The Russian program would have cost us over $100k, the Guatamalan program was shut down at the time (that happens quite frequently) Finally the Ethiopian program we qualified for, but my wife would age out in just a few years. - Our options were wait in the "White baby" line, which I found completely racist. Wait in the minority line and have little, to no chance of finding a child and possibly age out of the international process, adopt internationally, or adopt a teenager. - ALL babies in the US are adopted. Babies in other countries DIE if they aren't adopted. My son would be dead today if we or someone else hadn't adopted him and he's a great kid. He deserves to live.
So now, why don't you take your ignorant, uninformed opinions and shove them up your motherfucking ass.
hey, it's better than an invasion right? I'm sure Symantec are happy with themselves discovering this, but I hope the realize that if Iran hadn't already figured it out, Symantec just informed them, and brought them a little closer to getting the shit bombed out of them by either the US or Israel.
"Symantec still has not determined what specific facility or type of facility Stuxnet targeted, but the new information lends weight to speculation that Stuxnet was targeting the Bushehr or Natanz nuclear facilities in Iran as a means to sabotage Iran’s nascent nuclear program. "
And when you're a small hardware store that has nothing but "www.dinkypooshardware.com" with directions to your store and maybe a phone number... then some ambulance chaser sues you for being non-compliant? There are clear cases of this already happening in the real world, this will just make it possible to script the lawsuits. The money spent by corporations to come into compliance with new laws would be better spent developing technologies and cures that would negate the need for specialized content (i.e. thought controlled mouse cursors, eye implants, etc...)
Since you're splitting hairs, I will as well. You're taking the Newtonian physics point of view. General relativity would dictate that, relative to our reference frame, the black hole is, in fact, 30 years old. If, for example, aliens were to build a wormhole at that star at the current time (from our point of view) 30 years after the black hole was created, and then traveled here carrying the other end of the wormhole at the speed of light, and it were possible for us to traverse this wormhole, we'd arrive at the star/black hole 30years after it was created. Of course, traversing a wormhole is impossible, but since we're splitting hairs...
I think this is rather typical of the western world. The idea that 3rd world countries do not have any access to electricity is just silly. I've recently been to the heart of Ethiopia to adopt a child and if there's one thing they had plenty of it was electricity. Not a lot of food, or clean water... Gas was $8 a liter and they were living in thatched roof, mud huts. But there was electricity all over the place. The rats nests of electrical wire strung, sometimes, from tree to tree was a testament to this. I have no idea how the entire country hadn't burst into flame already but their electrical grid did fail from time to time... but not nearly as often as you'd expect it to. I have to admit I have a lot of respect for whomever keeps the electricity flowing, they must be a McGuiver style genius.
What they did lack was Linux. Every PC I saw there (and there were very few) had a pirated copy of WinXP on it, with the WGA notice popping up constantly and was filled with Malware. Had their dialup modems been able to connect at any speed greater than 9k I would have fixed it for them but in the end I just gave up.
That's what was funny. The RA's COULD search your room at any time. It was part of the lease. The officer could have walked 5 doors down, got the RA and that would have been that. But she was trying to "Show me who was boss." I wasn't going to point out her error in logic, just in case she did find something I would have found her error in procedure useful in court. Luckily I was far better at hiding bottle rockets than the police were at searching for them.
Anyone that's gone to college knows that the university does it's very best to suspend every constitutional right they can while you're there. I've been to court over legal issues twice in my life and both times they were within a year of each other and while I was in college. In both cases I represented myself, challenged the counties evidence on constitutional grounds and won. Those weren't my only run-ins with the police either, just the ones that went to court. In one instance they searched my room while I was on Christmas break and charged me for having an empty wine bottle in my room. Unfortunately for them I was 23 at the time. In another instance a police officer asked if she could come into my dorm room. I refused, at which point she said if I didn't have anything to hide I'd let her in. I explained that rights were like muscles, they get weak if you don't use them. She came in anyway and despite a thorough sacking of my room found nothing.
The universities play these games because the students let them. I eventually just moved off campus. My rent was 1/3rd what the dorms were and I didn't have any more trouble with the university police. I recomend the same for everyone living on campus at this university as well.
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How about they use the BILLIONS of dollars they are freely collecting in fees from these machines to actually provide security? I live in the capital of my state and in the entire city there is exactly 1 ATM that's located inside it's own enclosure (about the size of a small bathroom) you have to swipe your card for the door to open, it will not open for anyone else until you leave, and it takes your picture when you walk in. Anyone attempting to tamper with this ATM would first need a valid ATM card (which I suppose could have been stolen) then they'd need to have the actual pin to access the terminal. If they were inside the ATM for more than a minute or so and never actually used the ATM it could easily flag the incident, store video of everything that went on inside and send it to bank security officer for review.
Going after people that would never buy your game in the first place is pointless. They want to go after people, so they will be scared, and then buy their game because they are afraid to download it illegally. So yes, they are going after what they consider potential customers. If they didn't consider them potential customers, there would be no logical business case for doing so and they'd never be able to talk their board into providing the funding needed to pay the lawyers.
I remember getting a letter from Direct TV years ago because I had supposedly pirated their satellite signal. Their sole evidence was that I had purchased a USB smartcard writer. Because, as everyone knows, Direct TV invented smart cards and were the only company on earth to ever use them for anything. They promised to forget about the whole thing if I coughed up the small sum of $10k. My lawyer found it very funny and sent them a letter in return asking for contact information for our counter suit. Strangely they never replied.
http://blog.haite.ch/2009/06/16/1245172320000.html
My motherboard has onboard Optical and coax Spdif in and out.
lol, I meant an ad promoting google, not an ad promoting some other company and hosted by google. I thought that was obvious. I was talking about the terrible Bing commercials I see at almost every break on television.
When you're a musician and you see what amounts to nothing more than thugs ripping off your fans you might understand better. I'm all for piracy and the end to the sale of digital media simply for the fact that musicians will have to tour more and put on good shows to make their living. But nothing turns fans off more than finding out the shows sold out and having to buy tickets off thugs outside the venue.
This just proves how little the Business community understands technology. Google could lose control of Android to Bing and Baidu if either of them were to come out with a superior product than Google. Anyone that has any sense with regards to the internet knows that Google is orders of magnitude superior to Bing. Baidu's only advantage is not having to comply with take down notices. Bing was able to make gains on Google only after Microsoft sunk ass loads on money into commercial advertising, all the while Google just sat back and watched. Has anyone ever seen a google ad? Google is the Mario Andretti of the search engine world, and Microsoft just came out with Ford Torus with a tail fin and a racing stripe.
The fact of the matter is, they're after him. He can't trust ANY of his hardware now. If he buys a new laptop, he'd better sleep with it under his pillow.
Another issue they don't disagree on is campaign finance reform, term limits, increased oversight and lets just outright say it: "Anything that would get in the way of the bribes they all routinely take in plain site." Corporations flat out PAY cash monies for laws written in their favor. Many laws are written by the corporations themselves while our elected officials rest comfortably in a vacation resort provided by the very same company. If something terrible happens and they lose their seat the companies are there to help afterward by employing them as lobbyist to bribe the new incoming candidates. The corporations don't care who's in office. Republicans will give them tax breaks and less regulation, the democrats will give them big budget government subsidy programs. Remember cash for clunkers? 2 heads - 1 monster.
"MPAA chief Bob Pisano dismissed the First Amendment issues, saying '...the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means.'""
The first amendment was intended to protect the speech of all US citizens, weather criminals or not. Even Criminals still retain their first amendment rights. I would argue however that Lobbying groups and large corporations are NOT US citizens and the idea that free speech extends to them is an abomination. The American people need to rise up and demand reform. We no longer need the likes of Mr. Pisano bribing our elected officials with millions of dollars to get his agenda passed into law.
Maybe it's time for your country to get an actual written constitution?
Again, if you haven't gone through the process you have no idea. So really, just shut up. China has a myriad of requirements you have to meet just like every other country. In China's case I believe we hadn't been married long enough. Their program is also prohibitively expensive (in the $70k+ Range) and requires you to make 3 trips to China. Our SINGLE trip to Ethiopia was 2 weeks long and over $7k. These requirements also change on a monthly basis so if your friends only had to go twice or the costs were different don't be surprised. The processes, paperwork, Legal hurdles change almost every month. We had to fill out thousands of pages of paper work, the refill out about 20% of it because things kept changing. A few months after we got back they changed the Ethiopian process and they now require 2 trips. Think about that for a minute. You have to tell your boss that you're going to be out of the country twice this year, for 2 weeks at a time, and then you're going to need maternity leave for 2 months because your new kids going to have no idea who you are and you can't stick them in a daycare right away.
No, large patent holders shaped this. Politicians, democrat and republican alike, that had little idea what any of it meant, took their money and happily let it go on through. As Ralph Nader once wisely said, our two party system is a two headed dragon. There is no difference between the two parties. People like you who seem to think the democrats are somehow less corrupt are causing the problem more than the people that vote republican.
better yet, grab some gentalmans literature on your way to the airport to get yourself prepped and see if you can fake a lisp. After they get done say "Thanks honey" in the loudest effeminate voice you can muster.
How ethnocentric of you. I'll bullet point it for your moronic ass:
- We used the largest agency in our state. They did a grand total of 35 local minority adoptions last year. The had a total of 5 "white baby" adoptions. People have abortions now, they don't put them up for adoption.
- My wife and I are of modest means and are in our late 30's. Adoptive parents have hundreds of prospective parents to chose from. They chose based on 2 things: Money and Youth. We have neither.
- International adoptions have limits based on the country you are adopting from. Some based on how long you've been married, others on how old you are, others on your race, etc... Due to these we qualified for 3 programs. Russia, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. The Russian program would have cost us over $100k, the Guatamalan program was shut down at the time (that happens quite frequently) Finally the Ethiopian program we qualified for, but my wife would age out in just a few years.
- Our options were wait in the "White baby" line, which I found completely racist. Wait in the minority line and have little, to no chance of finding a child and possibly age out of the international process, adopt internationally, or adopt a teenager.
- ALL babies in the US are adopted. Babies in other countries DIE if they aren't adopted. My son would be dead today if we or someone else hadn't adopted him and he's a great kid. He deserves to live.
So now, why don't you take your ignorant, uninformed opinions and shove them up your motherfucking ass.
hey, it's better than an invasion right? I'm sure Symantec are happy with themselves discovering this, but I hope the realize that if Iran hadn't already figured it out, Symantec just informed them, and brought them a little closer to getting the shit bombed out of them by either the US or Israel.
"Symantec still has not determined what specific facility or type of facility Stuxnet targeted, but the new information lends weight to speculation that Stuxnet was targeting the Bushehr or Natanz nuclear facilities in Iran as a means to sabotage Iran’s nascent nuclear program. "
And when you're a small hardware store that has nothing but "www.dinkypooshardware.com" with directions to your store and maybe a phone number... then some ambulance chaser sues you for being non-compliant? There are clear cases of this already happening in the real world, this will just make it possible to script the lawsuits. The money spent by corporations to come into compliance with new laws would be better spent developing technologies and cures that would negate the need for specialized content (i.e. thought controlled mouse cursors, eye implants, etc...)
Since you're splitting hairs, I will as well. You're taking the Newtonian physics point of view. General relativity would dictate that, relative to our reference frame, the black hole is, in fact, 30 years old. If, for example, aliens were to build a wormhole at that star at the current time (from our point of view) 30 years after the black hole was created, and then traveled here carrying the other end of the wormhole at the speed of light, and it were possible for us to traverse this wormhole, we'd arrive at the star/black hole 30years after it was created. Of course, traversing a wormhole is impossible, but since we're splitting hairs...
I think this is rather typical of the western world. The idea that 3rd world countries do not have any access to electricity is just silly. I've recently been to the heart of Ethiopia to adopt a child and if there's one thing they had plenty of it was electricity. Not a lot of food, or clean water... Gas was $8 a liter and they were living in thatched roof, mud huts. But there was electricity all over the place. The rats nests of electrical wire strung, sometimes, from tree to tree was a testament to this. I have no idea how the entire country hadn't burst into flame already but their electrical grid did fail from time to time... but not nearly as often as you'd expect it to. I have to admit I have a lot of respect for whomever keeps the electricity flowing, they must be a McGuiver style genius.
What they did lack was Linux. Every PC I saw there (and there were very few) had a pirated copy of WinXP on it, with the WGA notice popping up constantly and was filled with Malware. Had their dialup modems been able to connect at any speed greater than 9k I would have fixed it for them but in the end I just gave up.
That's what was funny. The RA's COULD search your room at any time. It was part of the lease. The officer could have walked 5 doors down, got the RA and that would have been that. But she was trying to "Show me who was boss." I wasn't going to point out her error in logic, just in case she did find something I would have found her error in procedure useful in court. Luckily I was far better at hiding bottle rockets than the police were at searching for them.
lol, as if Microsoft is going to give a shit about the license on the code.
Just pass a law that says if you're on mars the government will pay off your sub-prime mortgage and you'll have a plethora of volunteers in minutes.
Anyone that's gone to college knows that the university does it's very best to suspend every constitutional right they can while you're there. I've been to court over legal issues twice in my life and both times they were within a year of each other and while I was in college. In both cases I represented myself, challenged the counties evidence on constitutional grounds and won. Those weren't my only run-ins with the police either, just the ones that went to court. In one instance they searched my room while I was on Christmas break and charged me for having an empty wine bottle in my room. Unfortunately for them I was 23 at the time. In another instance a police officer asked if she could come into my dorm room. I refused, at which point she said if I didn't have anything to hide I'd let her in. I explained that rights were like muscles, they get weak if you don't use them. She came in anyway and despite a thorough sacking of my room found nothing.
The universities play these games because the students let them. I eventually just moved off campus. My rent was 1/3rd what the dorms were and I didn't have any more trouble with the university police. I recomend the same for everyone living on campus at this university as well.