Exactly. Remember in the 80's Microsoft was the leading toolset maker. their compilers were everywhere. MS Word was a n original Mac program for years before MS had an OS that could RUN it. That's the point really. Apple was happy to bring Microsoft along as a toolset and software maker.. But Microsoft basically reverse engineered Mac OS from the documentation they were granted to write MSWord... Just like they did to IBM. With Compaq... Just like Google and Samsung did to Apple over Android. Of course Steve was furious... It was happening again!
It's much less work to just issue laptops with Bitlocker turned on and alt boot disabled. At the point you are wasting time to get around all that, you're at the point you KNOW you are breaking in and we can just get you fired.
Well IT has been ORDERED to protect the network... Or we're fired. This is what they are paid to do.
Why do you NOT have the tools to do your job? That is NOT an IT problem, it is a MANAGEMENT problem. Reference material can be purchased as network copies from most major companies. Specific corporate sites can be opened up, or IT could provide a non-secure machine on a DMZ for browsing vendor reference. Of course when IT pulls the logs it's almost always that not just work related sites are accessed... Again, it's the people PAYING US BOTH that ordered the blocks...
1. The US has a Federal standard for roads which allows vehicles as large as tractor- trailers to drive anywhere.... Even back dirt roads are graded for heavy trucks because it is a condition of Federal road funding. When you see what passes for a "country highway" in many parts of the UK there is barely room for two small cars to pass without somebody pulling over. The same applies to cities, again required to build roads to a certain standard that is luxury sized in europe.
2. US public transportation is exceedingly poor. I tried using my town (about 50k) public transport and nearly every workplace is off the map. It was fine for a pinch, but unacceptable for a normal IT job that would require odd hours... Even horribly expensive cabs won't run reliably to my workplace.
3. The US laws are heavily steeped to the status quo. Look at all the problems they had getting the SMART car obver here... Not enough "crumple zone", not "safe" against vehicles 3x it's size, and the biggest problem was they had to strip the super-efficient diesel engine because the emissions tests for cars don't consider diesel vs gas... The side deal with US industry of course is that diesel is for "trucks" and follows crappy standards, gas is for "cars" and follows tighter ones... Mostly no US company wants to sell a diesel car, so the deck is stacked against them.
3. Lastly, a "low mileage" lease that all the companies are trying to sell is 15k...and that's widely regarded as a trap to get the average person paying thousands more on the lease. Most of the people I know put more like 20-30k a year from traveling 30+ miles to work or running kids on errands. My car has more like 40-50k a year.... The majoriety of it daily errands in town..
The thing about Michigan is that about half the local school taxes go to the state and get redistributed. The law that allows that also prevents localities from passing separate taxes to compensate, and it limited the rate properties could appreciate That was a good heal fro districts like Klalaska that weren't paying their fair share, but for districts like Ann Arbor that were full of educators and professionals willing to pay taxes for good public schools it slashed their budgets.
The way around the rule is to put any link of hardware or property improvements in a separate tax do more of your allocation can pay for teachers.
They can repair the gross nerves now... Of course in limbs they are fairly spread out.... At least enough to gain some mobility.
You're not going to play piano, bit at least you can feed youself and wipe your own ass again!
I'm curious how they thought the heart was going to support the limbs... That's like 80% increase in body mass when the body had adjusted to not havin any limbs. Would you even have enough blood in your body to pump??? Had they done one it probably woul have worked... The problem is how to keep te others alive until they can be attached... Otherwise 4different doners would be even worse.
This is the findamental problem with the USA system that "free" and "public domain" are not "owners" so they have no rights because public domain can't hire lawyers... As much was said when Lessing tried to argue that Public Domain needed a voice in copyright legleslation to the SCOUS.
So pretty much the first person to record and file gets the copyright... The law has no mechanism to verify that "nobody" can claim something...
That's where they comment on empire building. Microsoft had an equivelant pile of cash at its peak. But Bill expected VPs to "crush the competition" and not just win by a huge margin. Managers lost BILLIONS of dollars trying to do things like bundle IE, and bribe OEMS ect... And millions more in dealing with legal fees and fines. Microsoft has been coasting on its cash pile the last 5 years... While the stock price stays the same... That's why investors should have been expecting payouts like any other monopoly power company or utility.
To Cook's defense, much of Apple's cash is in overseas divisions. To cash out, they would have to move the money to American accounts and pay taxes on it. In that case it might be more useful where they can use it to broker local OEM deals with local cash. (like say developing new screens). Which is why stockholders allow the money to be tied up... Not having to pay to move it twice. Most of the institutional investors would rather avoid taxes than have cash in their pocket.. It's not entirely a rational decision.
I was going to say these weren't really counterfeit anyway.... Just the missing $5 billion in PALLETS OF CASH lost in Iraq back in 2002/2003
But copyright infringement works too. Of course if you are passed counterfeit money for a good or service YOU provided, is it any less valuable than the electronic debt the govt used in the Bail outs? If money is all about "faith" then on the small scale counterfeit bills aren't really a problem.
Corps and free software release open standard... Say something for Apache.... As many corps are part of Apache's development they say OK to $1 a copy... So they dont sue each other. that's FRAND.
That means that the gaggle of corps essentially passing the $1 around the circle, effectively excludes anybody improving the code for "free"... Effectively you can only use official versions for business or government or you're right back to Patent Crosshairs unless you pay for companies in the club.
This was published years ago. Probably on Slasdot. Add to that the "yellow circles" patterns that are in various currencies (like the pattern of "20s" on a $20 bill) and they have been working with copier/scanner/software makers to flag those items as non-copy able as well.... This was years ago...
This has been a problem for years... I remember 15 years ah at my first real job, somebody was caught putting copied $1 bills into the vending machines. They had to do something eventually.
If you need to print objectionable content, be sure to destroy or hide the printers you used kids!
Right, because the automated express line at Walmart couldn't be taking your picture and reading the serial numbers of the bills you insert into the machine....
It's simple really, the court sees a "locked door" they have a legal subpoena for and are expecting to to open the door for them. THAT is the entire point of the supeona system.
Somehow everybody gets hung up on a password being "self incriminating".. That's like silly, like saying you are guilty because the car, in your drive, registered to you... But you are being oppressed by providing the key for police to inspect it.
The computer in the case was the woman's regular working machine.. Something she would expect to go to every day. She should provide the keys as the court has ruled.
So what's the difference to Anonynomous and the FBI tapping without a proper warrant?
Waiting.....
Besides this wasnt really "hacking" anyway. They swooped somebody's conference pin code... From their personal Yahoo mail or something... If the POLICE did that they would claim its a "public" service and they "found" a slip with the pin code.
So in short, the FBI violated about 25 internal privacy procedures by using non secure services for official business. This is much more of an FBI fail than a win for Anonymous...
Are they going to wear their fur coat, hat, and pimp cane while they do this? Pimp gotta keep us in line!
This is like migration 101. It's almost like they WANT to prove they can turn the DRM off when they damn well please. Most companies in this situation would try hard to make sure regular users NEVER KNEW. The servers were moved. In light of the fact that Ubi is a lightening rod for abusive DRM in gamer press, these guys got ZERO customer service skills.
Investors souls be calling to fire EVERYBODY involved in posting that newsletter... Frim the admins to the managers to the girl that sent the thing out.
Exactly. I can't record songs off the radio and put them in my YouTube videos, right. One set of copyright advocates has set the bar very high that even background recording has to be trimmed out. They do it less now because they cut a deal with Google to just steal YOUR ad revenue if something is "infringing" rather than take down the item.
So to the established industry, taking ALL your ad revenue for "one small portion" that infringes is perfectly reasonable. Sony OWNS the companies that WROTE these deals... The GPL is far more leinant because it doesn't deal with damages... Just fix the infringement by adjusting your work and move on.
These companies all want SOPA. Fine. Let's hear up BusyBox devs to be the first in line with the new style domain seizures... For a company like Sony with hundreds of products all tied to Sony.com getting the "three strikes" on BusyBox alone should take till about noon the day after the rule hits the books. Hopefully the courts would remember WHO pushed for the law!
Unfortunately that type of thinking has no place in our legal system. These crazy laws escalating will only get stopped when you can actually use them on somebody that HAS $20 BILLION dollars. Right now it is a stitation where the large companies all cross license out of court...so the FULL force of law only applies to newbies.
Remember a few years back when Microsoft couldn't buy their way out of an injunction and had to REMOVE a feature from MSOffice... We need MORE of that!
Because Cheney built up an impressive array of "civil servants" (much like in Torchwood) that are all unelected, highly powerful people. Obama really couldn't do the job without them... Cheney and Rumsfield go all the way back to Nixon. They made impressive gains at shaking out the upper and middle military ranks of officers "disloyal" to the PNAC agenda, along with a few high profile firings, and throwing opponents from their OWN party under the bus as an example.
In short, Bush was part in creating a stitation where a large part of upper government is established for the next 20 years. There is really little Obama can responsibly do at this point... Fire half the generals during a war? Most of the upper Executive agencies were "packed" in the ranks with people aligned with Cheney's agenda.
The biggest indicator for me was how in the middle of a "war" the President didn't groom ANYBODY from his OWN party to continue the work? You really gotta hand it to them.
Philosophically, this is where Neo-Cons are using their "corporate" attitude so they don't have to worry about elections to advance their agenda. Fill the CIA with leaders that will report a "terrorist" under every rock, and the current President has to act on "expert" advice.. The same tounges quiet to Bush's foibles will wag to the press about Obama in a minute. It plays right into the Democrats ideal that people in government want the "best" for "everybody" but they have been played since Clinton and even Carter by the other side packing the ranks of people that are supposed to be experts and non-partisian.
Of course the real money is in merchandizing anyway. There are 3 $.99 games they make a little money from.
But how much do they make from products? Their cut of Tshirts, lunch boxes, posters, stuffed animals is probably bigger per unit than the actual game. In their case the "game" is the marketing hook to get fans to buy 2-3 licensed items. Licensed items are much harder to lose money at because the bug stores want to buy from legal sources...
Well if new games left GameStop more than $5 in markup that might change. You'll notice the chain box stores can't have sales more than a few bucks... Because the retail margin is that slim. For a $60 product a retail store should get $20~ in margin... Just to keep the lights on. Used is the only thing that keeps actual GAME stores in business now.
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Exactly. Remember in the 80's Microsoft was the leading toolset maker. their compilers were everywhere. MS Word was a n original Mac program for years before MS had an OS that could RUN it. That's the point really. Apple was happy to bring Microsoft along as a toolset and software maker.. But Microsoft basically reverse engineered Mac OS from the documentation they were granted to write MSWord... Just like they did to IBM. With Compaq... Just like Google and Samsung did to Apple over Android. Of course Steve was furious... It was happening again!
It's much less work to just issue laptops with Bitlocker turned on and alt boot disabled. At the point you are wasting time to get around all that, you're at the point you KNOW you are breaking in and we can just get you fired.
Well IT has been ORDERED to protect the network... Or we're fired. This is what they are paid to do.
Why do you NOT have the tools to do your job? That is NOT an IT problem, it is a MANAGEMENT problem. Reference material can be purchased as network copies from most major companies. Specific corporate sites can be opened up, or IT could provide a non-secure machine on a DMZ for browsing vendor reference. Of course when IT pulls the logs it's almost always that not just work related sites are accessed... Again, it's the people PAYING US BOTH that ordered the blocks...
I would agree with all of those.
1. The US has a Federal standard for roads which allows vehicles as large as tractor- trailers to drive anywhere.... Even back dirt roads are graded for heavy trucks because it is a condition of Federal road funding. When you see what passes for a "country highway" in many parts of the UK there is barely room for two small cars to pass without somebody pulling over. The same applies to cities, again required to build roads to a certain standard that is luxury sized in europe.
2. US public transportation is exceedingly poor. I tried using my town (about 50k) public transport and nearly every workplace is off the map. It was fine for a pinch, but unacceptable for a normal IT job that would require odd hours... Even horribly expensive cabs won't run reliably to my workplace.
3. The US laws are heavily steeped to the status quo. Look at all the problems they had getting the SMART car obver here... Not enough "crumple zone", not "safe" against vehicles 3x it's size, and the biggest problem was they had to strip the super-efficient diesel engine because the emissions tests for cars don't consider diesel vs gas... The side deal with US industry of course is that diesel is for "trucks" and follows crappy standards, gas is for "cars" and follows tighter ones... Mostly no US company wants to sell a diesel car, so the deck is stacked against them.
3. Lastly, a "low mileage" lease that all the companies are trying to sell is 15k...and that's widely regarded as a trap to get the average person paying thousands more on the lease. Most of the people I know put more like 20-30k a year from traveling 30+ miles to work or running kids on errands. My car has more like 40-50k a year.... The majoriety of it daily errands in town ..
The thing about Michigan is that about half the local school taxes go to the state and get redistributed. The law that allows that also prevents localities from passing separate taxes to compensate, and it limited the rate properties could appreciate That was a good heal fro districts like Klalaska that weren't paying their fair share, but for districts like Ann Arbor that were full of educators and professionals willing to pay taxes for good public schools it slashed their budgets.
The way around the rule is to put any link of hardware or property improvements in a separate tax do more of your allocation can pay for teachers.
They can repair the gross nerves now... Of course in limbs they are fairly spread out.... At least enough to gain some mobility.
You're not going to play piano, bit at least you can feed youself and wipe your own ass again!
I'm curious how they thought the heart was going to support the limbs... That's like 80% increase in body mass when the body had adjusted to not havin any limbs. Would you even have enough blood in your body to pump??? Had they done one it probably woul have worked... The problem is how to keep te others alive until they can be attached... Otherwise 4different doners would be even worse.
The future is in the big black robot suit....
This is the findamental problem with the USA system that "free" and "public domain" are not "owners" so they have no rights because public domain can't hire lawyers... As much was said when Lessing tried to argue that Public Domain needed a voice in copyright legleslation to the SCOUS.
So pretty much the first person to record and file gets the copyright... The law has no mechanism to verify that "nobody" can claim something...
That's where they comment on empire building. Microsoft had an equivelant pile of cash at its peak. But Bill expected VPs to "crush the competition" and not just win by a huge margin. Managers lost BILLIONS of dollars trying to do things like bundle IE, and bribe OEMS ect... And millions more in dealing with legal fees and fines. Microsoft has been coasting on its cash pile the last 5 years... While the stock price stays the same... That's why investors should have been expecting payouts like any other monopoly power company or utility.
To Cook's defense, much of Apple's cash is in overseas divisions. To cash out, they would have to move the money to American accounts and pay taxes on it. In that case it might be more useful where they can use it to broker local OEM deals with local cash. (like say developing new screens). Which is why stockholders allow the money to be tied up... Not having to pay to move it twice. Most of the institutional investors would rather avoid taxes than have cash in their pocket.. It's not entirely a rational decision.
I was going to say these weren't really counterfeit anyway.... Just the missing $5 billion in PALLETS OF CASH lost in Iraq back in 2002/2003
But copyright infringement works too. Of course if you are passed counterfeit money for a good or service YOU provided, is it any less valuable than the electronic debt the govt used in the Bail outs? If money is all about "faith" then on the small scale counterfeit bills aren't really a problem.
I was thinking Kiddy Grade. Effectively the spaceship would "drive" up the "beanstalk" which is a zillion more times efficient than using a rocket.
Of course it all depends on having SOMEPLACE TO GO once you get to the top!!!
Ok, just make sure these new. "Connexis" glasses aren't made by a crazy robot factory bent on mind control....
At least they won't be advertised with the Applseed family...
Because it replaces a smartphone... Why add unnecessary 48 types of networking?
Cell data IS the Internet now!!!
But you have to back up one more step.
Corps and free software release open standard... Say something for Apache.... As many corps are part of Apache's development they say OK to $1 a copy... So they dont sue each other. that's FRAND.
That means that the gaggle of corps essentially passing the $1 around the circle, effectively excludes anybody improving the code for "free" ... Effectively you can only use official versions for business or government or you're right back to Patent Crosshairs unless you pay for companies in the club.
This was published years ago. Probably on Slasdot. Add to that the "yellow circles" patterns that are in various currencies (like the pattern of "20s" on a $20 bill) and they have been working with copier/scanner/software makers to flag those items as non-copy able as well. ... This was years ago...
This has been a problem for years... I remember 15 years ah at my first real job, somebody was caught putting copied $1 bills into the vending machines. They had to do something eventually.
If you need to print objectionable content, be sure to destroy or hide the printers you used kids!
Right, because the automated express line at Walmart couldn't be taking your picture and reading the serial numbers of the bills you insert into the machine....
Unless you go there for the customer service???
It's simple really, the court sees a "locked door" they have a legal subpoena for and are expecting to to open the door for them. THAT is the entire point of the supeona system.
Somehow everybody gets hung up on a password being "self incriminating" .. That's like silly, like saying you are guilty because the car, in your drive, registered to you... But you are being oppressed by providing the key for police to inspect it.
The computer in the case was the woman's regular working machine.. Something she would expect to go to every day. She should provide the keys as the court has ruled.
So what's the difference to Anonynomous and the FBI tapping without a proper warrant?
Waiting.....
Besides this wasnt really "hacking" anyway. They swooped somebody's conference pin code... From their personal Yahoo mail or something... If the POLICE did that they would claim its a "public" service and they "found" a slip with the pin code.
So in short, the FBI violated about 25 internal privacy procedures by using non secure services for official business. This is much more of an FBI fail than a win for Anonymous...
Are they going to wear their fur coat, hat, and pimp cane while they do this? Pimp gotta keep us in line!
This is like migration 101. It's almost like they WANT to prove they can turn the DRM off when they damn well please. Most companies in this situation would try hard to make sure regular users NEVER KNEW. The servers were moved. In light of the fact that Ubi is a lightening rod for abusive DRM in gamer press, these guys got ZERO customer service skills.
Investors souls be calling to fire EVERYBODY involved in posting that newsletter... Frim the admins to the managers to the girl that sent the thing out.
Exactly. I can't record songs off the radio and put them in my YouTube videos, right. One set of copyright advocates has set the bar very high that even background recording has to be trimmed out. They do it less now because they cut a deal with Google to just steal YOUR ad revenue if something is "infringing" rather than take down the item.
So to the established industry, taking ALL your ad revenue for "one small portion" that infringes is perfectly reasonable. Sony OWNS the companies that WROTE these deals... The GPL is far more leinant because it doesn't deal with damages... Just fix the infringement by adjusting your work and move on.
These companies all want SOPA. Fine. Let's hear up BusyBox devs to be the first in line with the new style domain seizures... For a company like Sony with hundreds of products all tied to Sony.com getting the "three strikes" on BusyBox alone should take till about noon the day after the rule hits the books. Hopefully the courts would remember WHO pushed for the law!
Unfortunately that type of thinking has no place in our legal system. These crazy laws escalating will only get stopped when you can actually use them on somebody that HAS $20 BILLION dollars. Right now it is a stitation where the large companies all cross license out of court...so the FULL force of law only applies to newbies.
Remember a few years back when Microsoft couldn't buy their way out of an injunction and had to REMOVE a feature from MSOffice... We need MORE of that!
It's no legally different than the "balance patches" made in the banking sector lately....
That said, if more people start to think of in-game items as "theirs" the might think of OTHER People's stuff as NOT theirs.
Because Cheney built up an impressive array of "civil servants" (much like in Torchwood) that are all unelected, highly powerful people. Obama really couldn't do the job without them... Cheney and Rumsfield go all the way back to Nixon. They made impressive gains at shaking out the upper and middle military ranks of officers "disloyal" to the PNAC agenda, along with a few high profile firings, and throwing opponents from their OWN party under the bus as an example.
In short, Bush was part in creating a stitation where a large part of upper government is established for the next 20 years. There is really little Obama can responsibly do at this point... Fire half the generals during a war? Most of the upper Executive agencies were "packed" in the ranks with people aligned with Cheney's agenda.
The biggest indicator for me was how in the middle of a "war" the President didn't groom ANYBODY from his OWN party to continue the work? You really gotta hand it to them.
Philosophically, this is where Neo-Cons are using their "corporate" attitude so they don't have to worry about elections to advance their agenda. Fill the CIA with leaders that will report a "terrorist" under every rock, and the current President has to act on "expert" advice.. The same tounges quiet to Bush's foibles will wag to the press about Obama in a minute. It plays right into the Democrats ideal that people in government want the "best" for "everybody" but they have been played since Clinton and even Carter by the other side packing the ranks of people that are supposed to be experts and non-partisian.
Of course the real money is in merchandizing anyway. There are 3 $.99 games they make a little money from.
But how much do they make from products? Their cut of Tshirts, lunch boxes, posters, stuffed animals is probably bigger per unit than the actual game. In their case the "game" is the marketing hook to get fans to buy 2-3 licensed items. Licensed items are much harder to lose money at because the bug stores want to buy from legal sources...
I thought it was more difficult to work out?
Well if new games left GameStop more than $5 in markup that might change. You'll notice the chain box stores can't have sales more than a few bucks... Because the retail margin is that slim. For a $60 product a retail store should get $20~ in margin... Just to keep the lights on. Used is the only thing that keeps actual GAME stores in business now.