At the time, no. If I did think what I was doing was wrong, I wouldn't have done it. Looking back on it, realizing that I did break an NDA, and I was part of a scandal involving one of my favourite companies, yes I do think what I did was wrong and I understand why they are suing me. It sucks being the bad guy in a situation, and I honestly do regret what I did. But hindsight as they say is 20/20.
You did violate your ADC agreement... Do you think what Apple is doing is wrong?
When I signed up for the free ADC account, I didn't read the agreement. I suppose a lot of us don't read word for word every thing you agree to.
I never read agreements that I signed when I install other software or when I sign up for things like Hotmail, etc. I did violate the NDA (a term I've become incredibly familiar with over that last few days), so in that regards I think Apple isn't in the wrong. The violation of the NDA isn't my qualm with this whole mess. My problem is their accusation that I did so maliciously.
My intent was never to hurt the company in anyway and if I did, I'm truly sorry. Like a lot of people, I just wanted to mess around with a few cool features (i.e. Dashboard, etc.) in Tiger, and was too impatient to wait until the final release. Was that a mistake? Sure. But it was one made without some agenda to inflict harm.
I've never been one to avoid owning up to my mistakes, and I'm not about to start now. I do hope that whatever punishment they come up will be fair, and that they keep in mind that I am in college, a year from medical school, and have limited resources.
He's chosen the moral high road of owning up to his mistake, and for that I have to commend him. What I can't say is whether Apple will consider their actions in that light. Given that the lawyers are already involved...
Maybe he could just personally and publicly apologize to Steve Jobs, and both sides can drop the matter.
You beat me to it. #1 will indeed be the Internet. Or perhaps the Internet Protocol.
Also look for six paragraphs about how Al Gore invented it, a short discussion about how it was designed to survive nuclear war (but can't today), comments from Vint Cerf about his idea to design a new IP for interplanetary communications, and if we're really lucky, a brief mention of BBSs.
Did you ever consider that most of us who just "slap the GPL on" our code don't wantbusinesses swiping our code and integrating it into proprietary products? If the idea of your code winding up in the next version of Windows, with no compensation or credit to you, doesn't bother you, then fine, the BSD license is for you. However, if a company wants to use my code in a proprietary product, they're going to have to come to me for a commercial license. And bring their checkbook.
Tor has an excellent approach, but I couldn't figure out from their site how they distribute their distribution servers. Each client pulls a list of proxies from a central server. All you have to do to block this out is to block the central servers from which the proxy lists are served. Got a workaround?
Some kind of open distributed web proxy might do the trick. Not unlike a spammer's botnet, but run voluntarily. Use something like Coral or random proxy servers for GET requests, and random proxy servers for POST and PUT requests.
When will convergence end and manufacturers just give me one thing that works well for a long time?
Convergence will end when you have your Microsoft Windows phone/PC/media player 2050 with Windows Media Player 37 and full DRM installed directly into your brain.
The basic human greed underlying this is not peculiar to capitalism. Look at the problem, not the symptoms. Frankly I'd rather have capitalism than raw human greed, as at least capitalism provides some structure and control for this human nature. Otherwise you'd have people standing in days-long lines and killing each other for a roll of toilet paper or a pound of beef.
The big problem with this is the cost is going to be prohibitive. The power company is going to have to go place repeaters on, and upgrade or replace, much of their existing infrastructure to make this work. This means that where it does become available, it will be very expensive.
It could possibly serve some extremely remote areas where there simply are no other options, though still someone has to pay for it, and I expect even a DS3 would be cheaper.
How do we know they will offer updates to dectect new spyware any faster than they will offer OS patches?
Strange thing happened yesterday at work...all the copies of GIANT anti-spyware suddenly decided that the subscriptions had run out and it was time to pay (Microsoft) more money to keep up to date.
If they update this program as quickly as they post things to Windows Update, it will be completely useless at stopping anything within a year.
That's funny, because I actually bought one of those cheap £30 players, and what do you know, it does play DVDs from all over the world, and automagically converts from NTSC to PAL! Why can't the £300 players do this?
Of course the problem is it won't play everything. It seems to have problems with some discs, like some of the Stargate SG-1 discs.
Somewhere in those notes, there'll be a logo that says either AAD, ADD, or DDD. If your CD is either one of the first two, then the original instruments were recorded to 2" tape. If it's the second, then the 2" tape was mastered to 1/2" tape.
Yeah, but all the ones I've seen lately are DDD. Got a counterexample?
Overall, open rational dialog is a successful approach. Sure, there will be trolls who try to abuse this, but you already know how to deal with them from your experience here on Slashdot.
Around here, trolls frequently get moderated Insightful, Interesting or Funny. So I assign a -1 bonus to all Insightful, Interesting and Funny posts.:)
I occasionally use Wikipedia for something or other, generally when I click a link to an entry which someone has posted on their Web site. I've found that it's reliable for the most part, but when you run into something that's wrong, it's really wrong. And the threat of revert wars can keep many people (including me) from contributing at all.
"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."
Aside from what this says about the drug war, which is another post entirely, this pretty much sums it up. People are always going to find ways to get access to movies without paying for them.
In the bad old days it was one person goes into the theater and props open the emergency exit door so all their friends could sneak in. (And this probably still happens.)
These days one person goes into the theater and copies the movie and distributes it in DVD or VCD format so all their friends can watch it from the comfort of their own couches. Which are much nicer than those cramped movie theater seats, don't you think?
but wouldn't it be the next logical step to make a source code translator to alter win32 code to something that compiles and runs on linux?
Winelib aims to do something like this, and for simple apps, it works. It still has a long way to go, and everytime MS adds or changes an API, it just adds to the to-do list.
In general, though, it isn't translating the source code itself, but compiling it on the target platform, where the APIs you use have to be available in some form. Winelib provides many of the Win32 APIs to Linux, but Direct3D is not among them.
Yes, I read TFA. I know that there is no danger. But those crazy scientists in the movies always think they are safe too.
This is real life. Real life is usually orders of magnitude less exciting than the movies. But if you're looking for a little danger, you can always walk around Harlem naked. It's a pretty sure bet that shortly after that, either you will impact something, or something will impact you.
Every time I've run across some kind of assistive technology, it's always amazed me how expensive the thing was, and how low the quality of output seemed to be, compared to, say, software solutions or general-purpose hardware adapted to the purpose.
Does someone know why products like this cost insane amounts of money? And why someone would choose them over, say, a Macintosh or even a Linux box with appropriate software?
Am I the only one here old enough to remember Bulletin Boards and the 0-day-warez BBS's that cracked C=64 games on the day they were released?
I remember those days well. I was on several pirate C= boards and one Amiga board, and actually helped run a couple of them. The ironic part is I didn't even own a Commodore! I was just bored with high school.
And their system was usually even more secure and secret than what these so-called hackers have now -- usually because you had to know the sysop personally to get on those BBS systems.
Yes again. Of course in this case, the sysops of the systems in question lived very nearby. So it was very easy to pop over, screw with the BBS or some bit of hardware from Radio Shark for a while, and hang out.
Why does "Wired" have to play it up like it's some cool new thing? Because piracy now is mainstream, and everyone wants to get into the action?
Because that's what Wired does. Of course, if you think that's bad, you should see this site called slashdot...
The pirate release networks have been operating like this ever since people figured out how to connect two computers together. There has always been one or more topsites for any pirate group, and you can only get in by invitation.
Back in the day, these sites were run on BBSs whose phone numbers were non-published and which only a few people had access to. These days it's FTP sites, but the principle is the same. And frequently it's not their own FTP sites, but someone else's site which isn't properly secured, but this happens more at the lower levels.
Anyway, the networks run the same as they always have. You're either in or you're out. And most people are out.
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Every version of Windows looks stable. Just wait until you get that first STOP error.
He's chosen the moral high road of owning up to his mistake, and for that I have to commend him. What I can't say is whether Apple will consider their actions in that light. Given that the lawyers are already involved...
Maybe he could just personally and publicly apologize to Steve Jobs, and both sides can drop the matter.
Also look for six paragraphs about how Al Gore invented it, a short discussion about how it was designed to survive nuclear war (but can't today), comments from Vint Cerf about his idea to design a new IP for interplanetary communications, and if we're really lucky, a brief mention of BBSs.
Did you ever consider that most of us who just "slap the GPL on" our code don't want businesses swiping our code and integrating it into proprietary products? If the idea of your code winding up in the next version of Windows, with no compensation or credit to you, doesn't bother you, then fine, the BSD license is for you. However, if a company wants to use my code in a proprietary product, they're going to have to come to me for a commercial license. And bring their checkbook.
Tor has an excellent approach, but I couldn't figure out from their site how they distribute their distribution servers. Each client pulls a list of proxies from a central server. All you have to do to block this out is to block the central servers from which the proxy lists are served. Got a workaround?
"The Internet reacts to censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore (frequently misattributed to Howard Rheingold)
Convergence will end when you have your Microsoft Windows phone/PC/media player 2050 with Windows Media Player 37 and full DRM installed directly into your brain.
Pushing AND shoving are the answer. Toyota will protect you from the terrible secret of space.
The basic human greed underlying this is not peculiar to capitalism. Look at the problem, not the symptoms. Frankly I'd rather have capitalism than raw human greed, as at least capitalism provides some structure and control for this human nature. Otherwise you'd have people standing in days-long lines and killing each other for a roll of toilet paper or a pound of beef.
It could possibly serve some extremely remote areas where there simply are no other options, though still someone has to pay for it, and I expect even a DS3 would be cheaper.
Strange thing happened yesterday at work...all the copies of GIANT anti-spyware suddenly decided that the subscriptions had run out and it was time to pay (Microsoft) more money to keep up to date.
If they update this program as quickly as they post things to Windows Update, it will be completely useless at stopping anything within a year.
Of course the problem is it won't play everything. It seems to have problems with some discs, like some of the Stargate SG-1 discs.
Yeah, but all the ones I've seen lately are DDD. Got a counterexample?
Around here, trolls frequently get moderated Insightful, Interesting or Funny. So I assign a -1 bonus to all Insightful, Interesting and Funny posts. :)
I occasionally use Wikipedia for something or other, generally when I click a link to an entry which someone has posted on their Web site. I've found that it's reliable for the most part, but when you run into something that's wrong, it's really wrong. And the threat of revert wars can keep many people (including me) from contributing at all.
Aside from what this says about the drug war, which is another post entirely, this pretty much sums it up. People are always going to find ways to get access to movies without paying for them.
In the bad old days it was one person goes into the theater and props open the emergency exit door so all their friends could sneak in. (And this probably still happens.)
These days one person goes into the theater and copies the movie and distributes it in DVD or VCD format so all their friends can watch it from the comfort of their own couches. Which are much nicer than those cramped movie theater seats, don't you think?
Winelib aims to do something like this, and for simple apps, it works. It still has a long way to go, and everytime MS adds or changes an API, it just adds to the to-do list.
In general, though, it isn't translating the source code itself, but compiling it on the target platform, where the APIs you use have to be available in some form. Winelib provides many of the Win32 APIs to Linux, but Direct3D is not among them.
Why can't someone port the Direct3D API to Linux? This would save a lot of hassle of porting the games to OpenGL.
This is real life. Real life is usually orders of magnitude less exciting than the movies. But if you're looking for a little danger, you can always walk around Harlem naked. It's a pretty sure bet that shortly after that, either you will impact something, or something will impact you.
Does someone know why products like this cost insane amounts of money? And why someone would choose them over, say, a Macintosh or even a Linux box with appropriate software?
Europa? But I'm an American!
I have a hard time believing that's a natural formation. And I'm concerned that whatever did it might still be bouncing around the universe somewhere.
Anyone have any idea what could have caused a formation like that?
I remember those days well. I was on several pirate C= boards and one Amiga board, and actually helped run a couple of them. The ironic part is I didn't even own a Commodore! I was just bored with high school.
Yes again. Of course in this case, the sysops of the systems in question lived very nearby. So it was very easy to pop over, screw with the BBS or some bit of hardware from Radio Shark for a while, and hang out.
Because that's what Wired does. Of course, if you think that's bad, you should see this site called slashdot...
Yes, and the private and secret internets are in lowercase letters. It's not Anathema either, it's anathema.
Back in the day, these sites were run on BBSs whose phone numbers were non-published and which only a few people had access to. These days it's FTP sites, but the principle is the same. And frequently it's not their own FTP sites, but someone else's site which isn't properly secured, but this happens more at the lower levels.
Anyway, the networks run the same as they always have. You're either in or you're out. And most people are out.