Nothing to do with AC's, you need to do some background checks. Chances are good it's just more smoke from the creep who runs Madster.
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Some people like women who actually feel like women rather than skeletons. Her gut is not gross just because it's not anorexic. THIS is what a gross gut looks like. (warning, image is not for the faint of heart; it's no tubgirl, but you've been warned).
The old days of "public interest" are gone, at least until the next election when Bush will be gone.
Oh please...
1) Bush isn't the one who got us here. He's accellerated the process, certainly, but Billy Bob did more than his share of acquiesence to this BS, and I'm betting Gore would have too.
2) Bush won't be gone if the Democrats still haven't found a spine by next November. I don't see any sign of real spine in them yet, just a lot of blowhard air that means nothing.
So don't let the fed do it then, let your local government do it. Here's how I see this working: my village already owns the "right of way" on the parkways and the streets. They pay for fiber to be laid to a post outside my house or a spot in a hole out there (like either cable terminals or gas lines), and that fiber runs to a central location also owned by the village. Anyone who wants to provide fiber services can then pay for telecomm infrastructure to that location, rental for equipment space at that location, and rental for the segments of fiber they actually use. The village itself is forbidden from offering the actual telecomm services themselves, which prevents them from having any say in what traffic I transfer over that link. The telecomm provider then bills me back for whatever the market will bear on a very high speed network link (or maybe not so high, they can always put throttles in place--just because its fiber doesn't mean I have to get ultra-mega-speed without paying a lot more than I do today). The services are open to all providers who can pay for the space etc. That gives REAL competition, because then they won't be competing based on who inherited all the pre-existing infrastructure, or who negotiated the best right of way deals to lay new infrastructure.
BTW I'm curious about your example of how the government has "completely screwed the highway system" because from where I sit, it works pretty damn well all things considered. Do you really think fiber to the home is a right?
The point is, vandalism without punishment only escalates. We already have too many people thinking they can get off scott free because it's their right to be destructive assholes.
And just to be clear, just because the artist created this work of art, and thinks it's cool, doesn't mean anyone else has to agree, and even if they don't agree, the work of art has value that should be compensated for if it gets vandalized.
So you're saying we should ignore crackers and they'll go away? Riiiiight.
For the record, I don't recall claiming that UBI was pristine clean in the matter....
If someone cracks my PC and installs DDoS zombies on it, shame on me, but when they use those zombies against others, shame on the crackers too, eh? Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean that people taking advantage of that stupidity aren't or shouldn't be held liable for their actions.
$.25/ea x # of users seems like an excellent punishment for the idiot(s) responsible. Seems to me that ought to add up to something approaching real money from the perspective of the assumed juvenile who did this. UBI certainly shouldn't have to come up with that money.
You lost a few $$ so you think its of equal value to ruin the future of one person because we cost you money?
Comprehension problems much?
1) I lost no money, I wasn't there.
2) I already said I think the threats by UBI are excessive.
I think the person(s) responsible should have to pay some price for what they did which is in proportion to the actual real-world harm they have caused. Based on 2) above, it should be obvious that I don't think "ruining the future of one person" is in proportion. Speaking of people needing "Life" and "Time", perhaps you have something better to do with yours than trolling on Slashdot?
Except there was a trade of goods and services for Real Money: it's called I paid real money to access the service that is the game, and getting trashed by some bozo wasn't part of the game I agreed to when I paid that money. How fucking hard is this to comprehend?
Again: I am using the general "I" here, I personally myself did not have any involvement with this game.
if they were doing upgrades that night, same thing. Quit bitching about that. It's not "destroying" anything, it was just making one night a little out of the norm.
You seem to think that because you don't value something (like a level of experience you've achieved in a game), it has no value. Nice attitude.
Oh, by the way, don't assume that because I can understand the perspective of those who do see value in the game stats that I necessarily agree. Or did you miss the part where I was amused at what happened?
The main point of prosecution is that people paid real money for the privelege to play the game, and were deprived of the value of that money when some juvenile jerk decided to go on a rampage.
I think it's kind of ludicrous to make threats like the Ubi people have made, but the people who did this do deserve some comeuppance because what they did *was* in the real world--they hacked the game, destroyed a lot of people's expenditures of time, and most importantly to Ubi, trashed the hosting company's reputation. All of that is real-world, whether you think it's important or not.
That said, I think the whole thing was hilarious from descriptions, and I'd love to see the recording of the mess they made.
With an OSS approach like BSD or Linux, then multiple companies compete to offer support.
Where, precisely, is the company that offers 24x7 support for Linux AND your hardware, with onsite options for both, globally, at a lot less than Sun's support price?
It's nice to talk theoretically about the things that might be, but most customers care about what is.
It is not just "great for innovation", it costs less, and costs (TCO) keep going down.
And Jon Schwartz has made it clear that he doesn't believe that, over time, the Linux TCO is going lower than the Solaris TCO. Whether he's right or not remains to be seen of course, but he's entitled to his opinion. You posting yours in bold face on Slashdot doesn't make you any more of an authority.
Given that Sun explicitly purchased rights to the Unix code base a very long time ago, Solaris is pretty much immune to SCO's claims. Since we have stoped shipping our own Linux as well, we're probably immune on that leg as well. I can't think of anyone in Sun who wants the SCO lawsuit to succeed, but we are pretty safe from them ourselves in any case.
No, what will happen is that the engineers who are ALREADY expected to not be releasing proprietary code will be reviewed by other engineers. Which also already happens in some cases. Whoopty.
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Of course if you're a cracker, you're more interested in doing things you ought not be able to do than writing good code.
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I wish I could remember where I looked up the quote to correct them, but thanks, I'll fix mine :-)
How exactly is a pose where she's obviously pushing out her stomach "unevenly fit" anyway?
Nothing to do with AC's, you need to do some background checks. Chances are good it's just more smoke from the creep who runs Madster.
Some people like women who actually feel like women rather than skeletons. Her gut is not gross just because it's not anorexic. THIS is what a gross gut looks like. (warning, image is not for the faint of heart; it's no tubgirl, but you've been warned).
Oh please...
1) Bush isn't the one who got us here. He's accellerated the process, certainly, but Billy Bob did more than his share of acquiesence to this BS, and I'm betting Gore would have too.
2) Bush won't be gone if the Democrats still haven't found a spine by next November. I don't see any sign of real spine in them yet, just a lot of blowhard air that means nothing.
BTW I'm curious about your example of how the government has "completely screwed the highway system" because from where I sit, it works pretty damn well all things considered. Do you really think fiber to the home is a right?
Those monopolies ought to come with strings attached, but of course local government doesn't have any spine as a general rule.
apple is already a niche player, what makes you think expanding to other niches isn't important to them?
The point is, vandalism without punishment only escalates. We already have too many people thinking they can get off scott free because it's their right to be destructive assholes.
And just to be clear, just because the artist created this work of art, and thinks it's cool, doesn't mean anyone else has to agree, and even if they don't agree, the work of art has value that should be compensated for if it gets vandalized.
You must have read some really bad history books then. The swastika has been around a lot longer that Hitler.
For the record, I don't recall claiming that UBI was pristine clean in the matter....
If someone cracks my PC and installs DDoS zombies on it, shame on me, but when they use those zombies against others, shame on the crackers too, eh? Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean that people taking advantage of that stupidity aren't or shouldn't be held liable for their actions.
$.25/ea x # of users seems like an excellent punishment for the idiot(s) responsible. Seems to me that ought to add up to something approaching real money from the perspective of the assumed juvenile who did this. UBI certainly shouldn't have to come up with that money.
Comprehension problems much?
1) I lost no money, I wasn't there.
2) I already said I think the threats by UBI are excessive.
I think the person(s) responsible should have to pay some price for what they did which is in proportion to the actual real-world harm they have caused. Based on 2) above, it should be obvious that I don't think "ruining the future of one person" is in proportion. Speaking of people needing "Life" and "Time", perhaps you have something better to do with yours than trolling on Slashdot?
Again: I am using the general "I" here, I personally myself did not have any involvement with this game.
You seem to think that because you don't value something (like a level of experience you've achieved in a game), it has no value. Nice attitude.
Oh, by the way, don't assume that because I can understand the perspective of those who do see value in the game stats that I necessarily agree. Or did you miss the part where I was amused at what happened?
I think it's kind of ludicrous to make threats like the Ubi people have made, but the people who did this do deserve some comeuppance because what they did *was* in the real world--they hacked the game, destroyed a lot of people's expenditures of time, and most importantly to Ubi, trashed the hosting company's reputation. All of that is real-world, whether you think it's important or not.
That said, I think the whole thing was hilarious from descriptions, and I'd love to see the recording of the mess they made.
Where, precisely, is the company that offers 24x7 support for Linux AND your hardware, with onsite options for both, globally, at a lot less than Sun's support price?
It's nice to talk theoretically about the things that might be, but most customers care about what is.
What are you smoking? Sun makes most of its money from hardware sales, not Java.
And Jon Schwartz has made it clear that he doesn't believe that, over time, the Linux TCO is going lower than the Solaris TCO. Whether he's right or not remains to be seen of course, but he's entitled to his opinion. You posting yours in bold face on Slashdot doesn't make you any more of an authority.
Given that Sun explicitly purchased rights to the Unix code base a very long time ago, Solaris is pretty much immune to SCO's claims. Since we have stoped shipping our own Linux as well, we're probably immune on that leg as well. I can't think of anyone in Sun who wants the SCO lawsuit to succeed, but we are pretty safe from them ourselves in any case.
No, what will happen is that the engineers who are ALREADY expected to not be releasing proprietary code will be reviewed by other engineers. Which also already happens in some cases. Whoopty.
Of course if you're a cracker, you're more interested in doing things you ought not be able to do than writing good code.
A-hort. So, Jesus, you ready to throw the first stone then?
Or didn't you read the summary?