I don't have $149, and am neither a student nor Canadian.
Man, you have it rough. I mean, if you don't even have $149 dollars - I have trouble seeing you owning a PC in the first place... Maybe you meant "$149 freely to spend on whatever" - but I'm going to take it to mean you live from paycheck to paycheck, never having more than $149 in your bank account. Probably heavily in debt.
And I mean, if you ARE in debt, that would totally make sense if you were a student. Tuitions only seem to be going up and up, with less subsidy from the government. Those riots in the UK? Yeah I'd be pretty upset too. Going from free education to more expensive than a Canadian University then going to 3 times that - I think the social instability is entirely warranted.
But I mean - on top of all that... I mean... being in debt, not having much money, and not being a student... To make matters worse, you aren't even Canadian? Are you American? Is your beer watered down and your hockey team playing at the same place as your basketball team? Are you forced to drop the u's from your favourite words? Or are you from somewhere in Europe - where you don't even HAVE dollars. That might make sense, of course you wouldn't have $149, you'd have like ~ £95.
I feel for you man. Not being Canadian is probably one of the worst things one can Suffer.
AND they're in charge of Capital Punishment (where allowed) and other judiciary jobs... (And now I'm reminded of that German citizen who was arrested in Germany and sent to an Afghanistan prison, merely by having the same name as the actual target of the operation).
Sometimes "Oops" just doesn't cut it.
Perhaps Due Process needs to be revised to include more than what it currently does. And there needs to be a way to enforce it on the people in charge...
You know, its funny how these Slashdot articles line up with work.
I just got back from a weeks vacation to learn that we have an upcoming Microsoft Audit here in January. They're going to be viewing our server licenses, office, all that kind of stuff. We're not too concerned since we purchase these things OEM bundled all nice and tidy, but on the odd occaison where a re-install of Windows was necessary and the Office Product key lost, we had this neat version of Office 2003 that didn't need a key to install, imagine that.
On top of that - we actually have about 150 thousand dollars worth of Client Access Licenses in use on our exchange server that aren't paid for, JUST in our disabled accounts (whose email store we haven't removed since the CEO wants to be able to access them at a moments notice, and we just started the process of archiving them a couple months ago).
I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago. Almost no retraining really required, the layout is largely the same. No licensing fees. But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. When something doesn't work between MS Office versions he can blame Microsoft. Perfect deflection. He doesn't want to be the guy who made everyone switch off Microsoft and then be expected to fully support it more than MS Office. Its alright, he has his reasons. I don't blame him. I would take the flak and argue the savings - I've personally had enough trouble just getting MS Office to work properly I couldn't see any of the other products possibly being any worse (Especially since OpenOffice can now be deflected to Oracle, Huzzah!).
I -WISH- my company was a large account that threatened to go somewhere else if Microsoft kept nagging us... My coworkers say that what'll probably happen is that the guy will come in, survey, ask for a dollar amount, the company will write a cheque, and IT won't get Christmas bonuses this year.
Time to look for a new place to work? Yeah it's going through our (the IT Department's) minds quite a bit. Resumes in hand.
No I think you're completely right in exactly what these things do, and to better answer your question, I believe the public view of what a "Chip" is - is anything that has circuitry so tiny its difficult or near impossible to see. Not that there has to be any actually computing take place.
While inspiring, I just have a tough time really assembling behind your battle cry.
Before Apple, big labels and publishers have been working to screw over independants and/or exploit them in any means possible, so I find it hard to really find "Boycotting Apple" as the solution to the actual problem. Apple is just riding the bandwagon, tagging along, trying to get a piece of the pie.
I would much rather have more people go independant (as the music trend seems to be, more and more bands are leaving the big labels, or starting their own labels, or indie labels supporting other indie bands). It's not so much that people need to boycott certain publishers, its that the artists, authors, musicians, etc etc - they need to stop feeding the publishers with content to sell. Starve them out on content, not sales. Because consumers are idiots, there will always be people willing to buy the shiniest product, or spending for the sake of spending. There is no real way to cause a boycott that way. But once the Indie market thrives because thats where the best content is, with the best delivery system - thats when we'll see real progress.
I will usually hear a song from a band I like on the radio. Whether or not they are on iTunes doesn't make a huge difference to me, I won't like them less because I can't get their tracks through that ONE distribution method. Best Alternative? Have a website, where they handle their own song/download/transactions - as some bands have started doing, or even better, if they offer the CD for free knowing it'll drive Concert sales. There's so many ways to deliver content around iTunes its baffling that it has as much sway as it does.
And? Their credibility should be judged by a jury, at trial.
Which they could have lined up the LAST time he was in Sweden. You know, when he asked the lead prosecutor for permission before leaving the country...
But... they didn't...
They waited till he hopped across the pond before getting interpol involved?
These women obviously aren't real rape victims or they would have done something when they had him under the laws thumb the first time.
I personally think their blatant abuse of the system causes immediate discredibility and it should be tossed out of court. If I brought up charges against you, the police brought you in, I dropped them, they let you go, and then I brought them up again - I certainly wouldn't be taken seriously.
It's funny because that's not even the case here - they claim its not so much that "everyone" needs to be in on it, just "everyone" vertically speaking for their system, not necessarily the wide web.
While DNSSEC is getting rave reviews for successful deployment at the foundation levels of the DNS, problems are lurking just ahead, since very few widely utilized end-user applications are able to actually utilize DNSSEC at all
So basically: It works. But the features of it don't work if the application layer doesn't attempt to utilize it.
It doesn't seem to have any reason to NOT implement it, assuming you do it properly you won't have any negative effects. Like mucking around with your DNS Server anyways, if you don't know what you're doing you're likely to mess it up whether you are trying to setup DNSSEC or not. So really, there's nothing stopping anyone from implementing it - just their own laziness or fear of screwing up a working system (much like the delay in implementing IPv6).
I don't see the "Downsides" they really try to perpetuate though. They make it sound as though properly implementing DNSSEC is going to cause a rapid dropoff in sales if you attempt to deploy it before the rest of the market. Not true.
Is she implying that they are too superficial to look beyond a the name of a class offered in high school when planning their field of college study?
That's not superficial, especially in high school.
I don't need to know that "Psychology 101" probably doesn't have a lot to do with "Automotive Mechanics" which might be something I'm interested in.
The same thing applies for all classes. You expect to learn Math in Math class. You expect to learn Science in Science Class. You expect to learn Spanish in your Spanish class. However, what most experts would define as "Computer Sciences" are not taught in computer science classes.
Mostly what she is insinuating is that the fields of Mathematics and Sciences are predominately attended by males, which may or may not be the case, I don't know, I haven't surveyed it. However, given the unscientific regimen of most "Computer Science" courses, its turning away females for fear it'll be too much like physics or something like that.
And there's no link in Slashdots Article. And googling for it brings up hundreds of news sites and blogs who all talk about it but also don't link to the police report.
Is it being hosted somewhere? Is it possible to get a copy of the police report and not rely on what people say it says?
If they were smart, they'd try to go after the servers that are actually used for transferring financial data. Which, of course, would be highly illegal and a grave threat to our liberty and our way of life, and I'd never, ever advocate that sort of thing.
Maybe you just figured out WHY they went for the webserver and not the transaction servers.
Autocad, the only fully featured program I've ever encountered that works well with 3D manufacturing devices, is still $4,000+ dollars.
This is like the AutoCad is like the Photoshop to Gimp, in a manner of speaking. Yes you could probably find a free alternative that does what 60% of the people would use it for, but there is a reason Photoshop is still around, and a reason why both Photoshop and Autocad can charge ridiculous prices.
Because DDoSing people over Wikileaks is the only nefarious thing that Anonymous has ever done, right?
Uhhh, I don't remember saying that. But It's definately the issue that's brought them to the spotlight, isn't it?
Politicians will try to screw with everything, but Anonymous has done PLENTY over the past few years to hand them excuses and rationalizations on a silver platter. This isn't about awareness. For the vast majority of Anons, this is about hopping on the bandwagon to do some damage. That's it, really
Then you didn't read the article nor do you really understand how it works. Yes - for a vast majority of them, its just about doing something when you're bored. Hop on the net, run your LOIC, pretend you're a leet hacker, totally cool. But these Skiddies aren't really running the show. They are just the assembly line workers, they don't decide what gets made. The ones who propose targets, build cases, and participate in debates, those are the ones who essentially "Run Anonymous" (in any sense that you could try to apply it, even that has a hard time sticking).
For a majority of Anonymous, it's not about principles or values, but they're activities are promoting someone elses (or even multiple people's) values.
Are you actually trying to argue that Anonymous has made the net a worse place? How many new laws over cybercrime have actually been a result of Anonymous' activities? Because when I hear actual changes getting applied to the internet, I hear it about Child Pornography and Chinese Spies. Internet Kill switches to stop the oncomming cyber war.
Almost NOTHING has changed because of Anonymous, the only clamping down thats taken place of it is police arresting it's members.
They decide to troll the Twilight forums. The author comes on and asks them to stop. They say no, with attitude. She then writes about THEIR sanctuary in her next book.
Suddenly all the fans that they hate are frequenting the spot where the trolls would meet up, so its almost like trolling on their site.
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Of course, I could be wrong about the referrer being present in requests made from Javascript, but I assume it should be there.
Thats where you're wrong. Hooray for iFrames!
I don't have $149, and am neither a student nor Canadian.
Man, you have it rough. I mean, if you don't even have $149 dollars - I have trouble seeing you owning a PC in the first place... Maybe you meant "$149 freely to spend on whatever" - but I'm going to take it to mean you live from paycheck to paycheck, never having more than $149 in your bank account. Probably heavily in debt.
And I mean, if you ARE in debt, that would totally make sense if you were a student. Tuitions only seem to be going up and up, with less subsidy from the government. Those riots in the UK? Yeah I'd be pretty upset too. Going from free education to more expensive than a Canadian University then going to 3 times that - I think the social instability is entirely warranted.
But I mean - on top of all that... I mean... being in debt, not having much money, and not being a student... To make matters worse, you aren't even Canadian? Are you American? Is your beer watered down and your hockey team playing at the same place as your basketball team? Are you forced to drop the u's from your favourite words? Or are you from somewhere in Europe - where you don't even HAVE dollars. That might make sense, of course you wouldn't have $149, you'd have like ~ £95.
I feel for you man. Not being Canadian is probably one of the worst things one can Suffer.
AND they're in charge of Capital Punishment (where allowed) and other judiciary jobs... (And now I'm reminded of that German citizen who was arrested in Germany and sent to an Afghanistan prison, merely by having the same name as the actual target of the operation).
Sometimes "Oops" just doesn't cut it.
Perhaps Due Process needs to be revised to include more than what it currently does. And there needs to be a way to enforce it on the people in charge...
You know, its funny how these Slashdot articles line up with work.
I just got back from a weeks vacation to learn that we have an upcoming Microsoft Audit here in January. They're going to be viewing our server licenses, office, all that kind of stuff. We're not too concerned since we purchase these things OEM bundled all nice and tidy, but on the odd occaison where a re-install of Windows was necessary and the Office Product key lost, we had this neat version of Office 2003 that didn't need a key to install, imagine that.
On top of that - we actually have about 150 thousand dollars worth of Client Access Licenses in use on our exchange server that aren't paid for, JUST in our disabled accounts (whose email store we haven't removed since the CEO wants to be able to access them at a moments notice, and we just started the process of archiving them a couple months ago).
I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago. Almost no retraining really required, the layout is largely the same. No licensing fees. But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. When something doesn't work between MS Office versions he can blame Microsoft. Perfect deflection. He doesn't want to be the guy who made everyone switch off Microsoft and then be expected to fully support it more than MS Office. Its alright, he has his reasons. I don't blame him. I would take the flak and argue the savings - I've personally had enough trouble just getting MS Office to work properly I couldn't see any of the other products possibly being any worse (Especially since OpenOffice can now be deflected to Oracle, Huzzah!).
I -WISH- my company was a large account that threatened to go somewhere else if Microsoft kept nagging us... My coworkers say that what'll probably happen is that the guy will come in, survey, ask for a dollar amount, the company will write a cheque, and IT won't get Christmas bonuses this year.
Time to look for a new place to work? Yeah it's going through our (the IT Department's) minds quite a bit. Resumes in hand.
They're not suffering all the randomness that the fashion and retail industries insert into civilian clothing choices.
Then how do you explain the Berrets?
I give this post a 2/10.
No I think you're completely right in exactly what these things do, and to better answer your question, I believe the public view of what a "Chip" is - is anything that has circuitry so tiny its difficult or near impossible to see. Not that there has to be any actually computing take place.
Whatever some prosecutors do has no bearing on whether you or these women are real victims and should be taken seriously.
Prosecutors are acting on these women's behalf - they aren't as willy-nilly as you so describe.
While inspiring, I just have a tough time really assembling behind your battle cry.
Before Apple, big labels and publishers have been working to screw over independants and/or exploit them in any means possible, so I find it hard to really find "Boycotting Apple" as the solution to the actual problem. Apple is just riding the bandwagon, tagging along, trying to get a piece of the pie.
I would much rather have more people go independant (as the music trend seems to be, more and more bands are leaving the big labels, or starting their own labels, or indie labels supporting other indie bands). It's not so much that people need to boycott certain publishers, its that the artists, authors, musicians, etc etc - they need to stop feeding the publishers with content to sell. Starve them out on content, not sales. Because consumers are idiots, there will always be people willing to buy the shiniest product, or spending for the sake of spending. There is no real way to cause a boycott that way. But once the Indie market thrives because thats where the best content is, with the best delivery system - thats when we'll see real progress.
I will usually hear a song from a band I like on the radio. Whether or not they are on iTunes doesn't make a huge difference to me, I won't like them less because I can't get their tracks through that ONE distribution method. Best Alternative? Have a website, where they handle their own song/download/transactions - as some bands have started doing, or even better, if they offer the CD for free knowing it'll drive Concert sales. There's so many ways to deliver content around iTunes its baffling that it has as much sway as it does.
And? Their credibility should be judged by a jury, at trial.
Which they could have lined up the LAST time he was in Sweden. You know, when he asked the lead prosecutor for permission before leaving the country...
But... they didn't...
They waited till he hopped across the pond before getting interpol involved?
These women obviously aren't real rape victims or they would have done something when they had him under the laws thumb the first time.
I personally think their blatant abuse of the system causes immediate discredibility and it should be tossed out of court. If I brought up charges against you, the police brought you in, I dropped them, they let you go, and then I brought them up again - I certainly wouldn't be taken seriously.
It's funny because that's not even the case here - they claim its not so much that "everyone" needs to be in on it, just "everyone" vertically speaking for their system, not necessarily the wide web.
While DNSSEC is getting rave reviews for successful deployment at the foundation levels of the DNS, problems are lurking just ahead, since very few widely utilized end-user applications are able to actually utilize DNSSEC at all
So basically: It works. But the features of it don't work if the application layer doesn't attempt to utilize it.
It doesn't seem to have any reason to NOT implement it, assuming you do it properly you won't have any negative effects. Like mucking around with your DNS Server anyways, if you don't know what you're doing you're likely to mess it up whether you are trying to setup DNSSEC or not. So really, there's nothing stopping anyone from implementing it - just their own laziness or fear of screwing up a working system (much like the delay in implementing IPv6).
I don't see the "Downsides" they really try to perpetuate though. They make it sound as though properly implementing DNSSEC is going to cause a rapid dropoff in sales if you attempt to deploy it before the rest of the market. Not true.
Is she implying that they are too superficial to look beyond a the name of a class offered in high school when planning their field of college study?
That's not superficial, especially in high school.
I don't need to know that "Psychology 101" probably doesn't have a lot to do with "Automotive Mechanics" which might be something I'm interested in.
The same thing applies for all classes. You expect to learn Math in Math class. You expect to learn Science in Science Class. You expect to learn Spanish in your Spanish class. However, what most experts would define as "Computer Sciences" are not taught in computer science classes.
Mostly what she is insinuating is that the fields of Mathematics and Sciences are predominately attended by males, which may or may not be the case, I don't know, I haven't surveyed it. However, given the unscientific regimen of most "Computer Science" courses, its turning away females for fear it'll be too much like physics or something like that.
So its apparently been leaked...
And there's no link in Slashdots Article. And googling for it brings up hundreds of news sites and blogs who all talk about it but also don't link to the police report.
Is it being hosted somewhere? Is it possible to get a copy of the police report and not rely on what people say it says?
If I had a nickel for every ancient civilization that had a flood myth...
How will you be able to update to the latest flash player...
Well at least I deliver.
Nah, Malware I can deal with.
Corporate Overlords are a bit tougher.
Even that might be too much. Remove the system all together and everything will be secure.
Ha! You can't hack a computer I don't have!
Doesn't that make it even more closed than an iProduct?
If they were smart, they'd try to go after the servers that are actually used for transferring financial data. Which, of course, would be highly illegal and a grave threat to our liberty and our way of life, and I'd never, ever advocate that sort of thing.
Maybe you just figured out WHY they went for the webserver and not the transaction servers.
They're not as dumb as you think they are.
You managed to cause 5 requests in the course of about 5 seconds, whereas LOIC can do that tenfold.
Autocad, the only fully featured program I've ever encountered that works well with 3D manufacturing devices, is still $4,000+ dollars.
This is like the AutoCad is like the Photoshop to Gimp, in a manner of speaking. Yes you could probably find a free alternative that does what 60% of the people would use it for, but there is a reason Photoshop is still around, and a reason why both Photoshop and Autocad can charge ridiculous prices.
Because DDoSing people over Wikileaks is the only nefarious thing that Anonymous has ever done, right?
Uhhh, I don't remember saying that. But It's definately the issue that's brought them to the spotlight, isn't it?
Politicians will try to screw with everything, but Anonymous has done PLENTY over the past few years to hand them excuses and rationalizations on a silver platter. This isn't about awareness. For the vast majority of Anons, this is about hopping on the bandwagon to do some damage. That's it, really
Then you didn't read the article nor do you really understand how it works. Yes - for a vast majority of them, its just about doing something when you're bored. Hop on the net, run your LOIC, pretend you're a leet hacker, totally cool. But these Skiddies aren't really running the show. They are just the assembly line workers, they don't decide what gets made. The ones who propose targets, build cases, and participate in debates, those are the ones who essentially "Run Anonymous" (in any sense that you could try to apply it, even that has a hard time sticking).
For a majority of Anonymous, it's not about principles or values, but they're activities are promoting someone elses (or even multiple people's) values.
Are you actually trying to argue that Anonymous has made the net a worse place? How many new laws over cybercrime have actually been a result of Anonymous' activities? Because when I hear actual changes getting applied to the internet, I hear it about Child Pornography and Chinese Spies. Internet Kill switches to stop the oncomming cyber war.
Almost NOTHING has changed because of Anonymous, the only clamping down thats taken place of it is police arresting it's members.
No, I'm pretty sure she would have been rehired and promoted into a management position.
... Are you reading left to right, top to bottom?
They decide to troll the Twilight forums. The author comes on and asks them to stop. They say no, with attitude. She then writes about THEIR sanctuary in her next book.
Suddenly all the fans that they hate are frequenting the spot where the trolls would meet up, so its almost like trolling on their site.