Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not. What would be more interesting to me, from a statistical point of view, is;- a) how many of those 'still active' accounts are actually 'still used', and how many are dead accounts that people just couldn't be arsed to go through the agro of trying to close down b) how many people actually own those 10bn accounts? I'm sure that there are many people out there who have a Twitter, FB, My[ ], WoW, 2nd Life etc - so how many billion individual people are actually on social networking / on-line world accounts.
Statistically I suspect that will show that I am still, statistically at least, 'normal'.
Maybe because I'm not on FB, don't have a Twitter account etc, but I cannot see the benefit from a Social point of view of this. As a 'search ranking' type tool though - without the need for an account etc - I could see the benefit in people being able to give a +1 to say that it was a good result for their search parameters, but a system like that would just end up being hijacked by script kiddies pushing their web pages up the list one way or another.
...not just flicking over them with my eyeballs on autopilot. I read "Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A Bomb" and thought - "So what? Is this a particular bomb, a historical bomb or something". It was only about 10 seconds later when my brain caught up and made me re-check what I'd actually read. Would it really have hurt to add an extra 5 characters into the headline?
I've looked at both the pages linked in TFA (Yes, I know - nobody actually reads TFA anymore), and the actual BC.edu site does NOT state anything about using a wireless router being a copyright infringement. The screenshot on the techdirt site looks genuine enough, so either somebody has modified the screenshot to try and make the college look bad, or Boston College has already realised that it was a bit silly and modified it. Either way... they are quite right to warn students as they (the college) will almost be held accountable legally for anything undertaken by students on campus. It would hardly be the first time - anyone remember this;- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/0350211/US-Ed-Dept-Demanding-Principals-Censor-More
Well, in my case it's simple as I use Linux for everything nowadays - I do still have a Win XP partition on this laptop, as it makes it easier to support my Dad when he gets problems, but I never use it. If I was buying a new laptop and needed Windows on it then I'd 'obtain' one. It isn't software piracy as I already own the license through buying the hardware with the COA on it, so it's not illegal. The only problem is that you would still need to download the hardware-specific drivers from Samsung's website - and who can say that they don't bury the keylogger software inside one of them? Then you're shit out of luck I guess, unless you're ready to reverse-engineer the downloaded code.
it will be before people start slagging off Google for this, questioning their business practices, accusing them of being stooges for the government, claiming that they will just use this to spy on everybody's browsing habits so they can make money from it etc, ad-infinitum, ad nauseum.
It's not just the RIAA. Here in the UK we are covered by the PRS (Performing Right Society), who stick their nose in everywhere it's not wanted as well. We've had issues going on for years - no radios allowed in offices, factories etc unless the company pays for a license from the PRS.
It even got to the state where taxi drivers were being threatened with legal action for having a radio on if their passengers could hear the radio - how damn stupid is that. So, the taxi driver could listen to the radio on the way to pick up a fare but, once they had picked them up, had to turn off the radio until they dropped them off again.
How can they possibly even attempt to make this sort of prediction and be taken seriously? In four years time there may be a totally new, undreamt of technology that has made mobile phones redundant. There may be a new vendor on the market who has come from nowhere with a proper Linux-based O/S and taken over everything. Who knows?
Is it a seriously slow news day today or something? It's not April 1st for another 48 1/2 hours, so they're not playing us for April Fools.
I especially like the line of "I love how even the "Others" category has 23 times more users than Symbian, which has been the dominant smartphone platform for the better part of a decade.". WTF else does he expect, as reported here - http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/28/0256210/Nokia---No-More-Symbian-Phones-After-2012 - if Windows phones are the replacement for Symbian, then it's fairly obvious Symbian will be no more - hands up if you keep a mobile for 4 years?
It would be nice if the FBI got off their arses and provided a copy of the notes in text format so that we could copy/paste them into something more useful as a format for saving and editing - or are they expecting each person to do this themselves?
My biggest concern with your entire posting is not being referred to as "some asshole on slashdot", it's the fact that you talk about downloading 10000 CP videos and then later on say that those who got caught were the ones who downloaded the 'sick shit'. How the hell do you define that? ANY CP is the 'sick shit'. There's no grading whereby some of it is OK, some of it is dodgy and some of it is bad - it's ALL bad!
I guess that the research demonstrated by Stevens LeBlond just goes to prove what most of us have known for a long time - even using TOR (and the same will go for any other type of encryption, IP masking etc) you are not 100% safe if somebody wants to work out who you are. The governments may not care too much if you are just sharing a few pirated movies around, although some companies may, but I can guarantee that those carrying out the real illegal activity, such as sharing child-pr0n, will be tracked down one way or another. All that TOR does is provides people who aren't really that switched-on with a false sense of security about their activities.
Now I can get my spam-bot service up and running with much less competition in the marketplace. Some penis-enlargement companies just don't want to spread their money around.
If you count the good old United Kingdom as a 'civilised' society - then Yes, they do!! You may not believe me, but how about you do some research on miscarriages of justice in the UK before you slate me? Look up Shaun Hodgson, I served alongside him for a while. 27 years for a murder he didn't commit - freed only when the police admitted to having retained DNA samples that proved he didn't do it. Or Stephen Downing or... get the idea? It can and does happen on a frighteningly regular basis.
A warning that first appeared in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. Earning all eight pieces of the ankh is a major part of the aforementioned quest. You have to act in harmony with all eight virtues in order to earn each piece. If you act unvirtuously, by cheating a blind herb-seller, attacking a peaceful citizen, etc., you will lose that virtue. If you've earned that virtue's piece of the ankh, you will also lose that eighth. On the Ultima-related newsgroups, "Thou hast lost an eighth!" is used as a rebuke when someone asks a stupid question. "Thou hast lost an eighth" also appears in Doom II -- when you want to quit the game, the confirmation dialog occasionally warns you that "Thou hast lost an eighth" for wanting to quit!
You obviously haven't been a prisoner then - have you? I have! I spent 2 weeks going through a trial where there was not a single piece of evidence offered against me, other than one person's word again mine. At the end of that two weeks I was found guilty of a crime I didn't commit and got to spend the next 6 years, 8 months in prison because our legal system sucks. Do you want to know how much time I spent during that period thinking about how sorry I felt for the jurors and how much they must have suffered like I was during their 2 weeks of jury service? Do you? Really? Precisely zero seconds!!
How the hell did the parent comment get modded up, let alone as "insightful"? Unless it was modded as "Insightful into the mental state of the poster"?
Zed: May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die? James Edwards: Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir. Zed: How'd you come to that conclusion? James Edwards: Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it.
I would recommend that you start with the 'newer' series, from about 2005 onwards. This will get you Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith. The older ones just look aged, or rather pants (McCoy & McGann never really seemed to fill the role properly).
Opinions are like arseholes - everybody's got one and this is mine.
Yeah! "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is so much more catchy as a title. I bet old JV wouldn't have even found a publisher if he'd used "Mantle" in the book name instead.
Actually, you're all working on the wrong basis. The original poster of this thread said that there were "more than 290.000.000" More than, means 290 000 001 or greater. Therefore, removing two of them leaves you with 289 999 999 or greater - not 289 999 998. It's always good when an AC comes on and uses the old "just saying" - knowing full well that if he posted on his account he'd be hit with a "Score: -1, Idiot"
Last week when the story was posted of "US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis" - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/0343230/US-Alarmed-Over-Japans-Nuclear-Crisis - I was marked down as "0 - Troll" for saying "Given Japan's position as the third biggest economy in the world and the amount that they produce which is exported to the rest of the world, as well as their technological knowledge, I think we should all be massively concerned about the impact that will be had on the rest of the world..." Does this story now appearing about prices hikes, shortages etc show me to have been right after all?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not. What would be more interesting to me, from a statistical point of view, is;-
a) how many of those 'still active' accounts are actually 'still used', and how many are dead accounts that people just couldn't be arsed to go through the agro of trying to close down
b) how many people actually own those 10bn accounts? I'm sure that there are many people out there who have a Twitter, FB, My[ ], WoW, 2nd Life etc - so how many billion individual people are actually on social networking / on-line world accounts.
Statistically I suspect that will show that I am still, statistically at least, 'normal'.
Maybe because I'm not on FB, don't have a Twitter account etc, but I cannot see the benefit from a Social point of view of this.
As a 'search ranking' type tool though - without the need for an account etc - I could see the benefit in people being able to give a +1 to say that it was a good result for their search parameters, but a system like that would just end up being hijacked by script kiddies pushing their web pages up the list one way or another.
Just wondering, coz we seem to have been infected by plenty of rogue ACs recently. Oh wait - "rogue AV" - my mistake.
...not just flicking over them with my eyeballs on autopilot. I read "Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A Bomb" and thought - "So what? Is this a particular bomb, a historical bomb or something". It was only about 10 seconds later when my brain caught up and made me re-check what I'd actually read.
Would it really have hurt to add an extra 5 characters into the headline?
No real surprise here. Exactly what happens in the school playground when somebody turns round and finally stands up to the class bully.
I've looked at both the pages linked in TFA (Yes, I know - nobody actually reads TFA anymore), and the actual BC.edu site does NOT state anything about using a wireless router being a copyright infringement. The screenshot on the techdirt site looks genuine enough, so either somebody has modified the screenshot to try and make the college look bad, or Boston College has already realised that it was a bit silly and modified it. Either way... they are quite right to warn students as they (the college) will almost be held accountable legally for anything undertaken by students on campus. It would hardly be the first time - anyone remember this;-
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/0350211/US-Ed-Dept-Demanding-Principals-Censor-More
Well, in my case it's simple as I use Linux for everything nowadays - I do still have a Win XP partition on this laptop, as it makes it easier to support my Dad when he gets problems, but I never use it.
If I was buying a new laptop and needed Windows on it then I'd 'obtain' one. It isn't software piracy as I already own the license through buying the hardware with the COA on it, so it's not illegal. The only problem is that you would still need to download the hardware-specific drivers from Samsung's website - and who can say that they don't bury the keylogger software inside one of them? Then you're shit out of luck I guess, unless you're ready to reverse-engineer the downloaded code.
it will be before people start slagging off Google for this, questioning their business practices, accusing them of being stooges for the government, claiming that they will just use this to spy on everybody's browsing habits so they can make money from it etc, ad-infinitum, ad nauseum.
It's not just the RIAA. Here in the UK we are covered by the PRS (Performing Right Society), who stick their nose in everywhere it's not wanted as well. We've had issues going on for years - no radios allowed in offices, factories etc unless the company pays for a license from the PRS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_7457000/7457376.stm
It even got to the state where taxi drivers were being threatened with legal action for having a radio on if their passengers could hear the radio - how damn stupid is that. So, the taxi driver could listen to the radio on the way to pick up a fare but, once they had picked them up, had to turn off the radio until they dropped them off again.
Remote Objective Forensic Lead MIT Funded And Open-source Copter - Well, we can hope.
How can they possibly even attempt to make this sort of prediction and be taken seriously? In four years time there may be a totally new, undreamt of technology that has made mobile phones redundant. There may be a new vendor on the market who has come from nowhere with a proper Linux-based O/S and taken over everything. Who knows?
Is it a seriously slow news day today or something? It's not April 1st for another 48 1/2 hours, so they're not playing us for April Fools.
I especially like the line of "I love how even the "Others" category has 23 times more users than Symbian, which has been the dominant smartphone platform for the better part of a decade.". WTF else does he expect, as reported here - http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/28/0256210/Nokia---No-More-Symbian-Phones-After-2012 - if Windows phones are the replacement for Symbian, then it's fairly obvious Symbian will be no more - hands up if you keep a mobile for 4 years?
It would be nice if the FBI got off their arses and provided a copy of the notes in text format so that we could copy/paste them into something more useful as a format for saving and editing - or are they expecting each person to do this themselves?
My biggest concern with your entire posting is not being referred to as "some asshole on slashdot", it's the fact that you talk about downloading 10000 CP videos and then later on say that those who got caught were the ones who downloaded the 'sick shit'. How the hell do you define that? ANY CP is the 'sick shit'. There's no grading whereby some of it is OK, some of it is dodgy and some of it is bad - it's ALL bad!
I guess that the research demonstrated by Stevens LeBlond just goes to prove what most of us have known for a long time - even using TOR (and the same will go for any other type of encryption, IP masking etc) you are not 100% safe if somebody wants to work out who you are. The governments may not care too much if you are just sharing a few pirated movies around, although some companies may, but I can guarantee that those carrying out the real illegal activity, such as sharing child-pr0n, will be tracked down one way or another.
All that TOR does is provides people who aren't really that switched-on with a false sense of security about their activities.
Unfortunately they have already decommissioned the aircraft;-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8158181/HMS-Ark-Royal-Their-final-mission.html
Maybe that's why the guy bought the Raven - it's all he could afford if he wanted to get Ark Royal as well.
Maybe I'll just have to buy its baby brother instead;-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RQ-11-Raven-Aero-Vironment-UAV-Airplane-Wood-Model-Big-/120492557141?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c0dea8355
Now I can get my spam-bot service up and running with much less competition in the marketplace. Some penis-enlargement companies just don't want to spread their money around.
If you count the good old United Kingdom as a 'civilised' society - then Yes, they do!! You may not believe me, but how about you do some research on miscarriages of justice in the UK before you slate me? Look up Shaun Hodgson, I served alongside him for a while. 27 years for a murder he didn't commit - freed only when the police admitted to having retained DNA samples that proved he didn't do it. Or Stephen Downing or... get the idea? It can and does happen on a frighteningly regular basis.
Quote from http://everything2.com/title/Thou+hast+lost+an+eighth%2521 - to stop me wasting my time re-wording;-
A warning that first appeared in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. Earning all eight pieces of the ankh is a major part of the aforementioned quest. You have to act in harmony with all eight virtues in order to earn each piece. If you act unvirtuously, by cheating a blind herb-seller, attacking a peaceful citizen, etc., you will lose that virtue. If you've earned that virtue's piece of the ankh, you will also lose that eighth.
On the Ultima-related newsgroups, "Thou hast lost an eighth!" is used as a rebuke when someone asks a stupid question.
"Thou hast lost an eighth" also appears in Doom II -- when you want to quit the game, the confirmation dialog occasionally warns you that "Thou hast lost an eighth" for wanting to quit!
You obviously haven't been a prisoner then - have you? I have! I spent 2 weeks going through a trial where there was not a single piece of evidence offered against me, other than one person's word again mine. At the end of that two weeks I was found guilty of a crime I didn't commit and got to spend the next 6 years, 8 months in prison because our legal system sucks.
Do you want to know how much time I spent during that period thinking about how sorry I felt for the jurors and how much they must have suffered like I was during their 2 weeks of jury service?
Do you? Really? Precisely zero seconds!!
How the hell did the parent comment get modded up, let alone as "insightful"? Unless it was modded as "Insightful into the mental state of the poster"?
Zed: May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?
James Edwards: Well, she was the only one that actually seemed dangerous at the time, sir.
Zed: How'd you come to that conclusion?
James Edwards: Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it.
I would recommend that you start with the 'newer' series, from about 2005 onwards. This will get you Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith. The older ones just look aged, or rather pants (McCoy & McGann never really seemed to fill the role properly).
Opinions are like arseholes - everybody's got one and this is mine.
Yeah! "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is so much more catchy as a title. I bet old JV wouldn't have even found a publisher if he'd used "Mantle" in the book name instead.
Actually, you're all working on the wrong basis. The original poster of this thread said that there were "more than 290.000.000" More than, means 290 000 001 or greater. Therefore, removing two of them leaves you with 289 999 999 or greater - not 289 999 998.
It's always good when an AC comes on and uses the old "just saying" - knowing full well that if he posted on his account he'd be hit with a "Score: -1, Idiot"
Last week when the story was posted of "US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis" - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/0343230/US-Alarmed-Over-Japans-Nuclear-Crisis - I was marked down as "0 - Troll" for saying "Given Japan's position as the third biggest economy in the world and the amount that they produce which is exported to the rest of the world, as well as their technological knowledge, I think we should all be massively concerned about the impact that will be had on the rest of the world..." Does this story now appearing about prices hikes, shortages etc show me to have been right after all?