I am sure nobody on/. doubts it, well there is always one person on/. who doesn't own a tinfoil cap. Obviously we have trojans in other countries' computers. This is how we help ensure we win the digital war *IF* it happens. Then again not all of our enemies rely on computers like we do (e.g. Al Qaeda). I doubt there are many reporters out there who would choose to pass up a story like "This just in US military trojans found in Russian computer systems..." Then again, it may not have made news if Russia didn't leak it. Remember some countries are more tight lipped about their security breaches. Our government, compared to others, is REALLY open about their secrets. You think China or N. Korea is going to admit they got infiltrated by the weak and evil American empire? Hell right now N. Korea is stating their new satelite is beaming down music to their people...though nobody else has (that i've heard of).
You know, it's not fear mongering or paranoia if someone *IS* actually trying to get you. You don't think there are elements in Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and some other choice countries who are attempting to get us? You don't think any of them are in gov't and planning just in case? You don't think someone in China says "hmm we might fight America one day so lets hedge our bets. If we don't fight we don't activate the code, if we do fight BAM we got em".
So your statement should be modded more/. then/insightful
I think the Internet is going to bring us much better investigative reporters than we could ever expect from the traditional media. Michael Yon is an excellent example of what we can expect from the modern internet investigative reporter.
Most Internet posters have no editors and are culling information from *real* reporting locations. How is someone going to report on the condition of an average Iraq citizen when they are not *IN* Iraq? How is someone going to interview Bill Gates for information on the next MS plan when they have no credentials? Hell how does the average Joe get credentials to be a WH press agent?
Professional news operations, while you make like to say how much they suck, do work that most of us are not qualified to do. There will obviously be exceptions, but for the most part you need people who do this for a living - which mean they spend at least 8 hours a day, travelling to various locations, and have resources to back them up so they can write stories which are checked by their editors and other staff. This costs money.
For everyone screaming "their model sucks, they suck, they stick to antiquated methods" - well whats your solution to make it so these companies make a profit? If you have none then maybe you should try and figure it out before spouting nonsense.
Wait a moment...windows has been doing this for years. So do worms and other malicious content. I think whoever wrote the first computer worm should sue apple. But really - windows does do this (ever wake up to find your computer was reboot in the middle of the night for a windows update...making your open documents/websites go bye-bye)
If you don't know things like that, you should not be trading at the stock market.
Actually, the only thing I need to know about stock markets, to determine if I "should" be trading, is to buy low sell high. What you mentioned is a bit more on the advanced side of market trades. I've taken business courses, specifically in market trading and I've never heard that. Just a note I am no expert on stock trading by any means, but I am above and beyond "joe schmoe" whose only insight to the market is passing the stock section to get to the comic section.
The only reason we think it is an april fools day joke is because the story submitter, and/. editor who approved it, are retarded for making a "sensational" topic. With/. submitters/editors doing that, and not getting paid, can you really blame the media - who are getting paid?
Also AIM can be setup in a manner where you cannot connect to the outside world. It can be setup for corporate infrastructure. It can be secure using this method.
Even Nostrodamous will get a prediction right. Make enough and you can be a prophet too.
The best way for this scientist to prove himself is to let people study his work and if they can use it as a model to predict earthquakes (even if they are a week off, which implies they can make an adjustment) then way to go. The only way for us to ever accurately predict earthquakes is to try, try and try again. Like all science there are a lot of failures before that crucial success.
Let's not dismiss the possibility that we may one day be able to predict earthquakes. Obviously if we don't make attempts we will never predict them so let's make attempts I say.
The funny part is, he was *immediately* labeled an imbecile when the earthquake was late.
And everytime some girl is late there is a guy who feels like an imbecile too! That's gotta mean that girls = earthquakes...maybe she was right when she said "I'm gonna rock your world"
Why kill yourself when you can flee the country? It's not like she's in jail or something. Talk about keeping things in perspective...
Threatening to kill yourself is sometimes done to get the other side to back down. "Look the evil corporation driving someone to try and comitt suicide". When real suicide wannabes don't brag about it. I knew someone (worked for same company) who embezzaled from a bank. When he got caught he threatened to kill himself. THe bank went from pressing charges/jailtime/law suit to just firing him and letting him keep all the goodies he got. Hopefully, in this case, the RIAA will not back down and we can see if the girl bluffed or not.
Maybe a glitch, more of a trick, but since I doubt the game makers intended it I would venture a glitch. On one of the boards (i think level 1) a turtle would walk down the stairs. If you timed the jumps right you could jump up and down on the shell (actually TAPE the button down and leave it for a few hours) to come with maxed out lives and a ridiculous amount of points.
It's easier to stop one insane man than it is a bureaucracy with delusions of ultimate justification (the will of the people).
You think? Tell that to China, Iran, Iraq (the most powerful country in the world had to invade it, WITH allies, to do this), Venezuela are just some. Yea a lot easier then term limits and elections.
So as opposed to democracy you would rather have a dictatorship? You are right these shenanigans would stop if we had dictators then again a lot of things would stop.
If your base plan is 10GB/month and the averge user is 4-6GB/month then don't put on any caps. Yes you will get the data transfer whore utilizing 20gb/month but you will keep positive PR. The moment you mention caps you get thousands of people bitchin and moanin even if it never affects them. So why would would want that PR nightmare to stop a handful of data transfer whores?
I don't know what he did, though I am sure it was one of his aids who did the actual work. Since it's such a low cost item, and probably coming out of the WH budget, plus they don't want to get caught in a silly/stupid scandel I would put myself on the side of they did it the right way - including creating an iTunes account for the queen. Now again, you could be correct they did it wrong, but without proof you want to be careful as to what you say.
CDs fall under different rules then mix "tapes" since it is digital vs analog (why you can VCR record a tv show for years). Now can someone buy a CD and make a single copy for their friends? I am not sure - RIAA would say no but who cares what they say. If the RIAA felt he did somethign wrong I am willing to bet they would attempt to leverage this in their favor.
Again - neither you nor I know for sure so I would err on the side of caution and say his aids did it the right way.
Still skipping over security really being tightened, the movie wasn't finished until November 12, 2003 (according to the DVD you apparently had a month before), and the movie was released on December 17th, a whopping 1 month and 5 days later (do you always round up?). You're asserting you had the DVD 1 month before the movie was finished. Is this Spaceballs?
Sorry can't prove it to you.
which part of "in recent years" did you not understand?
"recent" is arbitrary....it could be two, three, four, or more.
true, but in those countries no one can afford to go to the movies. So they wouldn't make money anyways.
So it's not a real large problem in that it's not a loss.
In every country there is someone who can afford it and refuses to pay for it. For those that say (like you) "well they couldn't afford it anyhow" that is their problem. Put it this way - if you owned a business and I could not afford your services would you be ok with me coming in and saying "hey I can't afford to pay you, but your still going to provide me with your product...like it or not?" I am pretty sure you would say not.
Actually if I buy a DVD I want that DVD to be free of commercials, trailers, of everything but the movie (maybe behind the scenes can stay). Take out all the extra crap. I am paying for the movie. I do not need to see ads or other trailers.
Some people like trailers, and the other extras (I like trailers, don't care for the "making of the movie" though i do rarely watch it *superman returns*).
WIth regards to the penalty of theft warning I understand they have it because they don't know who is going to rip a dvd and put it online so they have to include it there. Probably helps in court when they can say "hey we put a warning on the dvd, the person can't claim he didnt know the law". But still, make it so i can skip to the next scene instead of having to stare at it for 30 seconds.
20th Century Fox confirmed the copy had now been removed
Goodluck with that
The film is not due for release until 29 April in the UK and 1 May in the US.
This just annoys me. Release it on the same date.
"Even if you see the workprint you're still going to have to go see it in the theatre to fully experience the full movie with CGI effects fully intact."
Considering I like action movies on a screen bigger then 48 inches then yes.
According to its website, Rising Sun Pictures is an Australian visual effects company that worked on the film and is currently working on production of Terminator Salvation.
So when can I expect an early release of Terminator salvation?
The Federation Against Copyright Theft said a leak of this kind was extremely unusual as pre-release security had been tightened in recent years.
I had a full dvd rip of LOTR 3 two months before the movie was released to the movie theatres. By full rip I mean the DVD you would buy in stores when the movie was to be released to stores. This is not unusual/uncommon.
We are encouraged by the support of fansites condemning piracy and this illegal posting and pointing out that such theft undermines the enormous efforts of the filmmakers and actors and, above all, hurts fans of the film" the studio said.
Obvioulsy we will condem it, but that won't stop an "estimated several 100,000 times" of downloads from happening.
In 2007 director Eli Roth blamed an online leak of his horror film Hostel: Part II for reducing box office returns.
Yes there will be some people who say "meh i saw an early release so no reason to see it in theatres" There will also be people who want to see the completed version on the BIG screen.
In an interview with MTV he claimed: "You could buy Hostel: Part II for a quarter in Mexico City. As a result, in a lot of countries where the piracy was bad, they just didn't even release it."
This part is a shame...people who are willing to pay 25 cents for the movie because they want to view it but aren't willing to go to the movie theatre or buy it on legit dvd. These movies aren't free to make.
In a change from recent years, the adverts move away from the message that piracy is theft.
Audiences will instead see a trailer, fronted by Dr Who actor Noel Clarke, thanking them for paying to come and watch a film.
About time - i would prefer to see someone thanking me when I buy/rent a legit dvd. I understand the need to have the message there, but I have seen it ton of times. I wish they would make it so I could skip over it.
Well from previews I can tell you they changed some significant parts (wolverine/sabertooth are brothers in the movie... they were never brothers in the comics).
What really annoys me
The film is not due for release until 29 April in the UK and 1 May in the US.
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I am sure nobody on /. doubts it, well there is always one person on /. who doesn't own a tinfoil cap. Obviously we have trojans in other countries' computers. This is how we help ensure we win the digital war *IF* it happens. Then again not all of our enemies rely on computers like we do (e.g. Al Qaeda). I doubt there are many reporters out there who would choose to pass up a story like "This just in US military trojans found in Russian computer systems..." Then again, it may not have made news if Russia didn't leak it. Remember some countries are more tight lipped about their security breaches. Our government, compared to others, is REALLY open about their secrets. You think China or N. Korea is going to admit they got infiltrated by the weak and evil American empire? Hell right now N. Korea is stating their new satelite is beaming down music to their people...though nobody else has (that i've heard of).
You know, it's not fear mongering or paranoia if someone *IS* actually trying to get you. You don't think there are elements in Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and some other choice countries who are attempting to get us? You don't think any of them are in gov't and planning just in case? You don't think someone in China says "hmm we might fight America one day so lets hedge our bets. If we don't fight we don't activate the code, if we do fight BAM we got em".
/. then /insightful
So your statement should be modded more
Wasn't a flamebait post. Moderator trolls.
I think the Internet is going to bring us much better investigative reporters than we could ever expect from the traditional media. Michael Yon is an excellent example of what we can expect from the modern internet investigative reporter.
Most Internet posters have no editors and are culling information from *real* reporting locations. How is someone going to report on the condition of an average Iraq citizen when they are not *IN* Iraq? How is someone going to interview Bill Gates for information on the next MS plan when they have no credentials? Hell how does the average Joe get credentials to be a WH press agent?
Professional news operations, while you make like to say how much they suck, do work that most of us are not qualified to do. There will obviously be exceptions, but for the most part you need people who do this for a living - which mean they spend at least 8 hours a day, travelling to various locations, and have resources to back them up so they can write stories which are checked by their editors and other staff. This costs money.
For everyone screaming "their model sucks, they suck, they stick to antiquated methods" - well whats your solution to make it so these companies make a profit? If you have none then maybe you should try and figure it out before spouting nonsense.
Wait a moment...windows has been doing this for years. So do worms and other malicious content. I think whoever wrote the first computer worm should sue apple. But really - windows does do this (ever wake up to find your computer was reboot in the middle of the night for a windows update...making your open documents/websites go bye-bye)
Really? No excuses for Apple. This is /. and all patents (legit or otherwise) are /evil.
If you don't know things like that, you should not be trading at the stock market.
Actually, the only thing I need to know about stock markets, to determine if I "should" be trading, is to buy low sell high. What you mentioned is a bit more on the advanced side of market trades. I've taken business courses, specifically in market trading and I've never heard that. Just a note I am no expert on stock trading by any means, but I am above and beyond "joe schmoe" whose only insight to the market is passing the stock section to get to the comic section.
The only reason we think it is an april fools day joke is because the story submitter, and /. editor who approved it, are retarded for making a "sensational" topic. With /. submitters/editors doing that, and not getting paid, can you really blame the media - who are getting paid?
Also AIM can be setup in a manner where you cannot connect to the outside world. It can be setup for corporate infrastructure. It can be secure using this method.
Even Nostrodamous will get a prediction right. Make enough and you can be a prophet too.
The best way for this scientist to prove himself is to let people study his work and if they can use it as a model to predict earthquakes (even if they are a week off, which implies they can make an adjustment) then way to go. The only way for us to ever accurately predict earthquakes is to try, try and try again. Like all science there are a lot of failures before that crucial success.
Let's not dismiss the possibility that we may one day be able to predict earthquakes. Obviously if we don't make attempts we will never predict them so let's make attempts I say.
The funny part is, he was *immediately* labeled an imbecile when the earthquake was late.
And everytime some girl is late there is a guy who feels like an imbecile too! That's gotta mean that girls = earthquakes...maybe she was right when she said "I'm gonna rock your world"
As an Australian who voted for the other guys, all I can say is, wow."
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Why kill yourself when you can flee the country? It's not like she's in jail or something. Talk about keeping things in perspective...
Threatening to kill yourself is sometimes done to get the other side to back down. "Look the evil corporation driving someone to try and comitt suicide". When real suicide wannabes don't brag about it. I knew someone (worked for same company) who embezzaled from a bank. When he got caught he threatened to kill himself. THe bank went from pressing charges/jailtime/law suit to just firing him and letting him keep all the goodies he got. Hopefully, in this case, the RIAA will not back down and we can see if the girl bluffed or not.
Maybe a glitch, more of a trick, but since I doubt the game makers intended it I would venture a glitch. On one of the boards (i think level 1) a turtle would walk down the stairs. If you timed the jumps right you could jump up and down on the shell (actually TAPE the button down and leave it for a few hours) to come with maxed out lives and a ridiculous amount of points.
It's easier to stop one insane man than it is a bureaucracy with delusions of ultimate justification (the will of the people).
You think? Tell that to China, Iran, Iraq (the most powerful country in the world had to invade it, WITH allies, to do this), Venezuela are just some. Yea a lot easier then term limits and elections.
So as opposed to democracy you would rather have a dictatorship? You are right these shenanigans would stop if we had dictators then again a lot of things would stop.
If your base plan is 10GB/month and the averge user is 4-6GB/month then don't put on any caps. Yes you will get the data transfer whore utilizing 20gb/month but you will keep positive PR. The moment you mention caps you get thousands of people bitchin and moanin even if it never affects them. So why would would want that PR nightmare to stop a handful of data transfer whores?
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I wish the movie companies would work closer together with the piratebay so we customers can get our product the way we want it.
You mean free?
I don't know what he did, though I am sure it was one of his aids who did the actual work. Since it's such a low cost item, and probably coming out of the WH budget, plus they don't want to get caught in a silly/stupid scandel I would put myself on the side of they did it the right way - including creating an iTunes account for the queen. Now again, you could be correct they did it wrong, but without proof you want to be careful as to what you say.
CDs fall under different rules then mix "tapes" since it is digital vs analog (why you can VCR record a tv show for years). Now can someone buy a CD and make a single copy for their friends? I am not sure - RIAA would say no but who cares what they say. If the RIAA felt he did somethign wrong I am willing to bet they would attempt to leverage this in their favor.
Again - neither you nor I know for sure so I would err on the side of caution and say his aids did it the right way.
Still skipping over security really being tightened, the movie wasn't finished until November 12, 2003 (according to the DVD you apparently had a month before), and the movie was released on December 17th, a whopping 1 month and 5 days later (do you always round up?). You're asserting you had the DVD 1 month before the movie was finished. Is this Spaceballs?
Sorry can't prove it to you.
which part of "in recent years" did you not understand?
"recent" is arbitrary....it could be two, three, four, or more.
true, but in those countries no one can afford to go to the movies. So they wouldn't make money anyways. So it's not a real large problem in that it's not a loss.
In every country there is someone who can afford it and refuses to pay for it. For those that say (like you) "well they couldn't afford it anyhow" that is their problem. Put it this way - if you owned a business and I could not afford your services would you be ok with me coming in and saying "hey I can't afford to pay you, but your still going to provide me with your product...like it or not?" I am pretty sure you would say not.
Actually if I buy a DVD I want that DVD to be free of commercials, trailers, of everything but the movie (maybe behind the scenes can stay). Take out all the extra crap. I am paying for the movie. I do not need to see ads or other trailers.
Some people like trailers, and the other extras (I like trailers, don't care for the "making of the movie" though i do rarely watch it *superman returns*).
WIth regards to the penalty of theft warning I understand they have it because they don't know who is going to rip a dvd and put it online so they have to include it there. Probably helps in court when they can say "hey we put a warning on the dvd, the person can't claim he didnt know the law". But still, make it so i can skip to the next scene instead of having to stare at it for 30 seconds.
20th Century Fox confirmed the copy had now been removed
Goodluck with that
The film is not due for release until 29 April in the UK and 1 May in the US.
This just annoys me. Release it on the same date.
"Even if you see the workprint you're still going to have to go see it in the theatre to fully experience the full movie with CGI effects fully intact."
Considering I like action movies on a screen bigger then 48 inches then yes.
According to its website, Rising Sun Pictures is an Australian visual effects company that worked on the film and is currently working on production of Terminator Salvation.
So when can I expect an early release of Terminator salvation?
The Federation Against Copyright Theft said a leak of this kind was extremely unusual as pre-release security had been tightened in recent years.
I had a full dvd rip of LOTR 3 two months before the movie was released to the movie theatres. By full rip I mean the DVD you would buy in stores when the movie was to be released to stores. This is not unusual/uncommon.
We are encouraged by the support of fansites condemning piracy and this illegal posting and pointing out that such theft undermines the enormous efforts of the filmmakers and actors and, above all, hurts fans of the film" the studio said.
Obvioulsy we will condem it, but that won't stop an "estimated several 100,000 times" of downloads from happening.
In 2007 director Eli Roth blamed an online leak of his horror film Hostel: Part II for reducing box office returns.
Yes there will be some people who say "meh i saw an early release so no reason to see it in theatres" There will also be people who want to see the completed version on the BIG screen.
In an interview with MTV he claimed: "You could buy Hostel: Part II for a quarter in Mexico City. As a result, in a lot of countries where the piracy was bad, they just didn't even release it."
This part is a shame...people who are willing to pay 25 cents for the movie because they want to view it but aren't willing to go to the movie theatre or buy it on legit dvd. These movies aren't free to make.
In a change from recent years, the adverts move away from the message that piracy is theft. Audiences will instead see a trailer, fronted by Dr Who actor Noel Clarke, thanking them for paying to come and watch a film.
About time - i would prefer to see someone thanking me when I buy/rent a legit dvd. I understand the need to have the message there, but I have seen it ton of times. I wish they would make it so I could skip over it.
What really annoys me
The film is not due for release until 29 April in the UK and 1 May in the US.
Why not release it on the same day?