I should also mention these places tend to have a reward points program where you earn points for each download you get, and these points can be traded for cash or premium service. The hoster Hotfile, in particular, has be popular recently since it's possible to make a decent amount of money if you upload a lot of stuff and spam the links on forums all over the internet. That a makes "piracy" a commercial venture.
These sorts of cash rewards for uploading aren't commonly found in bittorent or usenet.
Why are all these cases aimed at people who merely index content? Filehosters like Rapidshare and Megaupload are not only actually hosting and distributing the files themselves, but their whole business revolves around copyright infringement. People pay for premium service to download more illegal stuff faster, and they generate so much ad money from high traffic only because of the infringing files they make available. Finally, they would be a more logical target for civil suit since they actually have money to loose.
I have no sympathy for either of the *AAs and I understand some of these points apply to other sites to some extent, but I don't understand why they choose to overlook the juiciest targets.
An object with 75 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter passing through the Solar System would cause way more chaos than that. Trust me, you'd be well aware of its presence.
Not only that, but we talked them into dropping support for IE completely, including IE7 and IE8. We got them to standardize on Chrome, and we're currently in the process of deploying it company-wide. Our lives will be much more enjoyable from this point onwards, I think.
It was believable up until this part. No IE support at all? That seems wildly unlikely.
dealt themselves a blow to their ability to interoperate with other people.
Incorrect. ODF increases your ability to interoperate with other people. Have you used Microsoft Office? It can't interoperate with its own older versions, and the reasons for that are entirely aimed at getting users to buy the latest version, nothing more.
Breaking into a house requires the criminal to be at the house physically and people understand that. Breaking into a computer can take place from virtually anywhere and that seems much more abstract. Since most people don't understand exactly what happened to allow the criminal access, they place the blame with someone who they assume does understand, the software manufacturer.
If a little kid gets hurt and you try to comfort them, they often get angry at you, at least briefly. Same basic idea.
Uh, it is quite possible to arrest and convict people for rape, and it is quite possible to detain illegal immigrants and deport them, possibly after criminal charges and penalties. What fantasy world are you talking about?
For users familiar with the ad-blocking in Firefox or Opera, Chrome's ad-blocking extensions are terrible in comparison. They don't render the ad, but they still waste bandwidth downloading it, negating half of their value.
Chromium doesn't include a provision for real element blocking, so this issue would have to be dealt with in the browser itself, not just in the extensions.
As another example, New York has a bottle law - you must pay a nickel every time you buy a beverage in a bottle or can. When you are finished with it, you take the bottle to a retailer and get the nickel returned. If you return a bottle for which no deposit has been payed, you are subject to a civil fine of $100 for each can/bottle, or 2000 times the so-called 'damages'.
This made me curious. How do they determine if a deposit has been paid for that bottle? I understand the intent is to encourage recycling, but I don't see how this would be done in practice.
I know I'll get modded down for Linux bashing, but... this capability has been around on the Windows world since Windows NT.
No, it hasn't. Virtual desktops have never been a part of Windows, except in the form of glitchy third-party tools, and even those don't offer functionality comparable to what the OP is asking for.
I had the same thing happen with my car stereo. I ID'd the stuff at the station (it was recovered a week after it was stolen) and never heard from the police again. Trying to get in touch with anyone who could deal with the problem at the PD was a pain (they insisted evidence was *never* held for more than 30 days and treated me like I was crazy), and when I finally got a hold of the evidence room officer, she couldn't give me a straight reason as to why they were still holding on to it.
Years have passed and I now live in a different city, and sometimes I wonder if my $2000 of stereo equipment still continues to sit in that evidence room. Bullshit.
As a troll, you don't often get the chance to directly flame a/. staff member, so why not take it if it arises? I suspect the fanboy tone of the OP is intended to incite just this sort of response, since it generates more total discussion and more clicks.
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How will restarting X have any effect on a runaway car? :)
There are also emulators for such systems. Google brought this site up for Apple ][ stuff: http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/apple-2.shtml
You have to find a ROM, but that's not a big hurdle. :)
I should also mention these places tend to have a reward points program where you earn points for each download you get, and these points can be traded for cash or premium service. The hoster Hotfile, in particular, has be popular recently since it's possible to make a decent amount of money if you upload a lot of stuff and spam the links on forums all over the internet. That a makes "piracy" a commercial venture.
These sorts of cash rewards for uploading aren't commonly found in bittorent or usenet.
Why are all these cases aimed at people who merely index content? Filehosters like Rapidshare and Megaupload are not only actually hosting and distributing the files themselves, but their whole business revolves around copyright infringement. People pay for premium service to download more illegal stuff faster, and they generate so much ad money from high traffic only because of the infringing files they make available. Finally, they would be a more logical target for civil suit since they actually have money to loose.
I have no sympathy for either of the *AAs and I understand some of these points apply to other sites to some extent, but I don't understand why they choose to overlook the juiciest targets.
My room doesn't have a door, you insensitive clod! :(
An object with 75 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter passing through the Solar System would cause way more chaos than that. Trust me, you'd be well aware of its presence.
Firefox and Opera both support Windows 2000 and run great on it.
Not only that, but we talked them into dropping support for IE completely, including IE7 and IE8. We got them to standardize on Chrome, and we're currently in the process of deploying it company-wide. Our lives will be much more enjoyable from this point onwards, I think.
It was believable up until this part. No IE support at all? That seems wildly unlikely.
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You must be describing Stratego? Great game! :D
dealt themselves a blow to their ability to interoperate with other people.
Incorrect. ODF increases your ability to interoperate with other people. Have you used Microsoft Office? It can't interoperate with its own older versions, and the reasons for that are entirely aimed at getting users to buy the latest version, nothing more.
I read the book when I was younger and I knew right away why this story had been tagged "firefox".
My copy had the movie artwork as a cover, so it must have been from a later run.
It's not like they are showing tweets with the comments...
Please don't give them any ideas!
Breaking into a house requires the criminal to be at the house physically and people understand that. Breaking into a computer can take place from virtually anywhere and that seems much more abstract. Since most people don't understand exactly what happened to allow the criminal access, they place the blame with someone who they assume does understand, the software manufacturer.
If a little kid gets hurt and you try to comfort them, they often get angry at you, at least briefly. Same basic idea.
Not if your free will affects any one else by your actions or lack of action.
so... every possible situation?
Uh, it is quite possible to arrest and convict people for rape, and it is quite possible to detain
illegal immigrants and deport them, possibly after criminal charges and penalties. What fantasy world are you talking about?
The world of trolls, of course!
Apparently, you've never heard of it.
FIrst post!
Your encryption was cracked, and you didn't post first.
Just not your day. :)
For users familiar with the ad-blocking in Firefox or Opera, Chrome's ad-blocking extensions are terrible in comparison. They don't render the ad, but they still waste bandwidth downloading it, negating half of their value.
Chromium doesn't include a provision for real element blocking, so this issue would have to be dealt with in the browser itself, not just in the extensions.
As another example, New York has a bottle law - you must pay a nickel every time you buy a beverage in a bottle or can. When you are finished with it, you take the bottle to a retailer and get the nickel returned. If you return a bottle for which no deposit has been payed, you are subject to a civil fine of $100 for each can/bottle, or 2000 times the so-called 'damages'.
This made me curious. How do they determine if a deposit has been paid for that bottle? I understand the intent is to encourage recycling, but I don't see how this would be done in practice.
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I know I'll get modded down for Linux bashing, but... this capability has been around on the Windows world since Windows NT.
No, it hasn't. Virtual desktops have never been a part of Windows, except in the form of glitchy third-party tools, and even those don't offer functionality comparable to what the OP is asking for.
I had the same thing happen with my car stereo. I ID'd the stuff at the station (it was recovered a week after it was stolen) and never heard from the police again. Trying to get in touch with anyone who could deal with the problem at the PD was a pain (they insisted evidence was *never* held for more than 30 days and treated me like I was crazy), and when I finally got a hold of the evidence room officer, she couldn't give me a straight reason as to why they were still holding on to it.
Years have passed and I now live in a different city, and sometimes I wonder if my $2000 of stereo equipment still continues to sit in that evidence room. Bullshit.
As a troll, you don't often get the chance to directly flame a /. staff member, so why not take it if it arises? I suspect the fanboy tone of the OP is intended to incite just this sort of response, since it generates more total discussion and more clicks.
I say big shame on Apple for abusing an open-source operating system (BSD) in this way.
What they have done is permitted by the BSD license. You (and I) may not like it, but you can't honestly call it abuse.