True that won't be used to prosecute them, but it can now be cited as evidence in any lawsuit brought by any private party, and there's not much they can say back. Thus, even though they got off with a slap on the wrist, the findings of fact in the MS trial could still bury them in the end.
MS must know this, but it wouldn't be the first time they acted arrogantly. Then again, perhaps they would have a plausible argument though that they are hardly monopolizing; they are challenging a nefarious PDF monopoly. But if their moves on Windows break compatibility with Adobe, or make them jump through hurdles to get there, there would I think be clear evidence of them using monopoly power unfairly.
(By the way, the words "challenging a nefarious PDF monopoly" should be delivered in an obnoxious Gates whine)
Also OS X relies heavily on PDF. So dealing with PDF is a breeze on OS X; printing to pdf from any application is a no-brainer. I'm not sure how this fits into their plans, but MS-PDF will probably run like crap on OS X, at least for a while.
No doubt. How is MS still this powerful, that the mere breath of possible vaporware is enough to send investors scurrying away from the competition? People have seen through their shenanigans for years, have even demonstrated some of them (though perhaps the least noxious of them) in open court, and yet when they say jump the only thing we can say is how high? It's pathetic.
Over the years, we've received nearly 1,000 technical support calls from people that have accidentally started vi and couldn't figure out how to do anything -- or even how to quit."
I resent that! I know how to quit when using vi! ALT-F2! kill -9 vi!
Heh; you got off easy. Hard core vi users have to join support groups and sometimes take prozac for months before they are ready to quit. It's always the same, sad story. "I just picked it up out of curiousity, thought I'd try it once. A few minutes experimenting with command mode and I was hooked. It took a few weeks before I started using it every day, but after that it was any excuse I could get to fire it up. Write a letter? vi. Web page? vi. Grocery list? vi. I kept it to myself at first but after a while I was doing it in public, even talking about it openly. People would point and laugh, or cluck sadly at me, but I didn't care. It didn't matter to me if it was right or wrong, I just kept doing it and doing it, no matter what anyone said."
See, it's a new era on slashdot. We used to spout off at the mouth after not reading the article's linked to the slashdot summary. Now we don't even read the slashdot summary! After all, it wastes valuable posting time! You don't want someone else to beat you to a +5 insightful, now, do you?
Are we really even pretending to take seriously the notion that changing your computer case is somehow indicative of left-wing politics? Hey, I put a Power Computing sticker on my Apple box... I must be a commie....
So the site got slashdotted in 4 minutes flat. So we can't read the article or see the pictures. So what? That shouldn't stop us from making wildly speculative claims about these case mods, or relaunching the Mac-v-PC holy wars.
The SEC is pretty clear that a company must report significant losses to stockholders. If a company is hacked and has millions of dollars in damages, aren't they committing a crime by not reporting that to their stockholders? (reminds me of the Mitnick trial).
It's just data that you don't ahve and isreally hard to estimate.
Same with the number of invisible gay werewolves in Omaha, Nebraska - it's data you don't have, so you can't estimate it. Is there any evidence at all that this kind of extortion has ever been successful? I understand the security fees scenario, but I find it hard to believe that any company would hire someone who just hacked their network and threatened to break things or otherwise cause illegal damage. Do you want such a person on your staff? But if all they're doing is saying "Do you know your network is vulnerable to exploit X, our company can help you for a modest fee," then I'm not sure this belongs in the category of extortion.
I feel for her, but the only alternative for ISPs is to pursue collections of overdue accounts. This is simply way too expensive. Bill in advance and suspend non-payers is the only efficient model. Anything else spikes your costs.
Let's just say that a lawsuit like this will spike your costs too.
I know that personally a number of movies I've seen downloaded from the net have Chinese subscripts
Why are the loudest voices against "piracy" so often also the most shameless of pirates themselves? If you think piracy is so bad, here's the place to start: don't do it! A much better solution than supporting more laws that affect us all. It reminds me of drug addicts who support tougher drug laws in order to control their own behavior.
Billions of dollars have been lost (or should I say stolen) from American companies because of chinese piracy. Considering how badly the economy is doing now, that doesn't make me feel too good.
Yeah I'm sure we'd all be much better off economically if Hollywood billionaires were a few billion dollars richer. In any case, the idea that piracy in China represents "theft of billions" from American companies is pretty ridiculous since it assumes the people who buy pirated videos there would pay much higher prices for the "real thing." Probably a few of them would but I doubt you'd see billions if piracy in China suddenly stopped.
I'm not sure why the above is insightful -- what is the link between pirating American movies and stifling Chinese creativity? I'm not sure whether them cracking down on piracy of American movies would have any effect whatsoever on their own "fledgling media."
If you (or anyone else) is still following this -- there is a tool which deletes the files that create this problem and it has worked for me like a charm. It's the Jaguar Cache Cleaner. Enjoy.
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where I live, "speed bumps" are "bumps of speed," i.e. lines of amphetamine. And they definitely don't slow people down....
It's a joke. You didn't understand.
easy tiger. I didn't say I agreed with the argument; just that MS could plausibly make it. They've made less plausible arguments in the past for sure.
MS OS X.
True that won't be used to prosecute them, but it can now be cited as evidence in any lawsuit brought by any private party, and there's not much they can say back. Thus, even though they got off with a slap on the wrist, the findings of fact in the MS trial could still bury them in the end.
MS must know this, but it wouldn't be the first time they acted arrogantly. Then again, perhaps they would have a plausible argument though that they are hardly monopolizing; they are challenging a nefarious PDF monopoly. But if their moves on Windows break compatibility with Adobe, or make them jump through hurdles to get there, there would I think be clear evidence of them using monopoly power unfairly.
(By the way, the words "challenging a nefarious PDF monopoly" should be delivered in an obnoxious Gates whine)
Also OS X relies heavily on PDF. So dealing with PDF is a breeze on OS X; printing to pdf from any application is a no-brainer. I'm not sure how this fits into their plans, but MS-PDF will probably run like crap on OS X, at least for a while.
No doubt. How is MS still this powerful, that the mere breath of possible vaporware is enough to send investors scurrying away from the competition? People have seen through their shenanigans for years, have even demonstrated some of them (though perhaps the least noxious of them) in open court, and yet when they say jump the only thing we can say is how high? It's pathetic.
I resent that! I know how to quit when using vi! ALT-F2! kill -9 vi!
Heh; you got off easy. Hard core vi users have to join support groups and sometimes take prozac for months before they are ready to quit. It's always the same, sad story. "I just picked it up out of curiousity, thought I'd try it once. A few minutes experimenting with command mode and I was hooked. It took a few weeks before I started using it every day, but after that it was any excuse I could get to fire it up. Write a letter? vi. Web page? vi. Grocery list? vi. I kept it to myself at first but after a while I was doing it in public, even talking about it openly. People would point and laugh, or cluck sadly at me, but I didn't care. It didn't matter to me if it was right or wrong, I just kept doing it and doing it, no matter what anyone said."
In command else just ZZ to save and exit, press
That's what we love about vi. It's so intuitive! Come on, get with it people!!
See, it's a new era on slashdot. We used to spout off at the mouth after not reading the article's linked to the slashdot summary. Now we don't even read the slashdot summary! After all, it wastes valuable posting time! You don't want someone else to beat you to a +5 insightful, now, do you?
It's a Mac Thing. You wouldn't understand.
Busted! *Sigh*, I guess I can't keep working undercover; it's back to Beijing for me.
Are we really even pretending to take seriously the notion that changing your computer case is somehow indicative of left-wing politics? Hey, I put a Power Computing sticker on my Apple box ... I must be a commie....
So the site got slashdotted in 4 minutes flat. So we can't read the article or see the pictures. So what? That shouldn't stop us from making wildly speculative claims about these case mods, or relaunching the Mac-v-PC holy wars.
The SEC is pretty clear that a company must report significant losses to stockholders. If a company is hacked and has millions of dollars in damages, aren't they committing a crime by not reporting that to their stockholders? (reminds me of the Mitnick trial).
Same with the number of invisible gay werewolves in Omaha, Nebraska - it's data you don't have, so you can't estimate it. Is there any evidence at all that this kind of extortion has ever been successful? I understand the security fees scenario, but I find it hard to believe that any company would hire someone who just hacked their network and threatened to break things or otherwise cause illegal damage. Do you want such a person on your staff? But if all they're doing is saying "Do you know your network is vulnerable to exploit X, our company can help you for a modest fee," then I'm not sure this belongs in the category of extortion.
you're an immigrant charged with a crime with "national security" implications.
What are they going to call a wall from the video whale project -- the Whaling Wall?
Just think of all the files people sent her asking for her advice! There might be a class action suit in the making....
Let's just say that a lawsuit like this will spike your costs too.
Why are the loudest voices against "piracy" so often also the most shameless of pirates themselves? If you think piracy is so bad, here's the place to start: don't do it! A much better solution than supporting more laws that affect us all. It reminds me of drug addicts who support tougher drug laws in order to control their own behavior.
uhhh yeah... Asian-Americans. From China. That's the ticket.
Yeah I'm sure we'd all be much better off economically if Hollywood billionaires were a few billion dollars richer. In any case, the idea that piracy in China represents "theft of billions" from American companies is pretty ridiculous since it assumes the people who buy pirated videos there would pay much higher prices for the "real thing." Probably a few of them would but I doubt you'd see billions if piracy in China suddenly stopped.
I'm not sure why the above is insightful -- what is the link between pirating American movies and stifling Chinese creativity? I'm not sure whether them cracking down on piracy of American movies would have any effect whatsoever on their own "fledgling media."
If you (or anyone else) is still following this -- there is a tool which deletes the files that create this problem and it has worked for me like a charm. It's the Jaguar Cache Cleaner. Enjoy.