and never be able to do anything more then service a commodore 64.
I still have a Comodore 64 in the basement (alas since 15 years, or so) and I finally managed to emulate a C64 on my Nokia 9300 (And if I can finally figure out the German key mappings I oughta be able to play my favorite games from 15 years ago).
So what I wanted to say: You're an insensitive clod, you...
Well, you see: Mr. Bronfman (also known as the 25Watt bulb of the entertainment industry) believes that he should get a cut on every IPod sold. So I can understand where Verizons inspiration is coming from.
Those geezers and geezettes came up with such a brilliant scheme via MMS ticket and are wondering now, why they sold a whopping 3000 as opposed to the 8 million paper tickets they sold in the same time period. Let me explain the procedure:
Step 1 : You sign up for the service
Step 2 : You call a toll ladden phone # and order your MMS ticket
Step 3 : You receive your MMS ticket for exactly the same price as if you would have bothered an official ticket seller
If you are missing an option to order your ticket via a web site free of charge you are probably not alone.
Those blitzes of brilliance with which marketing bozos can come up with truely mystify me at times.
Being one of the companies not detecting the infamous Sony rootkit I'd be really interested to know why Symantec should be trusted for anything security related.
As far it concerns me I deeply distrust all "security companies" since this little incident.
What they do is take the crippled versions of $$$ commercial databases that are
"free" for development or personal use
Sybase offers its Express Edition for free, which you may call crippeled, since it permits only one CPU, 5GB of storage and a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
Else then that you are quite free to use it for whatever you want (including productive use) and - save for the documented limits - you get their flagship, enterprise product.
Support is extra, of course.
Disclaimer: I worked for Sybase until 1999, but have no more whatsoever interest in the company. It's a good database, though.
Enterprise software is very rarely sold shrink wrapped with an EULA. Usually the vendors sales people sit together with somebody senior from the procurement department and tries to squeeze as much money as possible from the purchaser.
Those contracts (which usually go through some dunderhead in legal) are quite specific in what you can and can't do. For example: They may specify the number of seats, if and in what form the db may be connected to the internet, or even the business in which the product may be used for.
Those are very much legal contracts and have (even though you may call it an EULA) not a helluvalot to do with shrink-wrap or click-through EULAs.
And what exactly stops me from filming the video from a projection, or recording the music with a microphone?
I dare say that this can be done - while not lossless - in fair quality.
Message to the dopes, which cook up such schemes: At one point you have to convert a signal to analog for human consumption. The only way to avoid this is to kill all your customers. I am fully aware that you are working hard on criminalizing them, but don't you jokers think that you may even get into trouble with your chums in congress if you start killing off people?
That must have been law already in October, since I had to show ID in order to book a flight from my vacation. I think it's insanely stupid, extremely invasive and over all totally clueless. Bear with me
After recording your information you get a plastic card (the chain of cafes in question is Internet Train). With this card I can surf away at any Internet Train in Italy. And how exactly does that thwart terrorism?
For starters: I didn't try to read the magnetic stripe, which can be done with any 30$card reader, but I can't imagine that it's very hard to make sense of it and alter it appropriately. But I wouldn't even have to be technically savvy. I could just pay a junkie 20 Euros that he obtains such a card. The card can be lost or stolen and how exactly do you monitor such a vast amount of data?
Italy is turning into a nation of fucking Fascists under Berlusconi and it ain't a pleasent sight.
They think locally. Case in point is that since about a year you can enter a Zurich Geneva on their Swiss site and the first link is the current timetable of the federal railways.
Most of the time I tried to hammer it into thier heads that spending $40 now would save them a ton of heartache later.
I have slight philosophical issue to shelf out money for a product, which should be protected in the first place, but will let that stand if it provides me with much needed security, but
Well let's play devils advocate and believe that Mr. Quinn was on the take since he was hired as the MA CIO in 2002.
But then why the hell would he (and I assume that the MA CIO has a rather loud voice on such decisions) push forward the very sensible Open Doc initiative? I mean that must have pissed his "sponsors" mightily off.
That a guy in such a position is in demand at such conferences makes sense and it's not unheard off that the organizers pay the tab.
I agree tha state officials should be srupelously clean in their dealings with entities presenting a potential conflict of interests. But I fail to believe in a huge conspiracy by Microsoft to buy MA legislation.
We deeply regret any inconvenience this may cause our customers and we are committed to making this situation right. It is important to note that the issues regarding these discs exist only when they are played on computers, not on conventional, non-computer-based CD and/or DVD players.
Of course, looking at how the whole thing developed and at the arrogance of some of their execs and the company as such after this whole mess started to blow up this reads like something cranked out by a third rate pr flack.
As far as I'm concerned: By pulling this shit off Sony proved beyond reasonable doubt that they are a company, which can not be trusted, ever!
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Yeah, I could never imagine that you could fall any lower then the average time share sales man.
I guess I was wrong.
Agreed; but when faith is packaged and sold as "science" then this is - at the very minimum - intelectual dishonesty.
I still have a Comodore 64 in the basement (alas since 15 years, or so) and I finally managed to emulate a C64 on my Nokia 9300 (And if I can finally figure out the German key mappings I oughta be able to play my favorite games from 15 years ago).
So what I wanted to say: You're an insensitive clod, you...
Would be a shame if something happens to it...
Well, you see: Mr. Bronfman (also known as the 25Watt bulb of the entertainment industry) believes that he should get a cut on every IPod sold. So I can understand where Verizons inspiration is coming from.
You didn't quite read the (very short) FA, before chiming in, now did you?
The idea is that they want to avoid that spyware - and adware pushers freeload on BitTorrents trademark.
Man, I'm sure that Mr. Pavlov would really love slashdot. You only oughta say "Patent", or "Lawyer" or "Microsoft" and the dogs go "Yapyapyap!"
Fascinating...
Nah, glue the phone to the next plane to Brasil, or another country with lenient extradition treaties.
This should give the accounting department and the comptroller some pause.
Send them a detailed map of the power supply in their PC and advise them to piss on it.
I also think that Miss Loves musings on the subject are worth reading.
Step 1 : You sign up for the service
Step 2 : You call a toll ladden phone # and order your MMS ticket Step 3 : You receive your MMS ticket for exactly the same price as if you would have bothered an official ticket sellerIf you are missing an option to order your ticket via a web site free of charge you are probably not alone.
Those blitzes of brilliance with which marketing bozos can come up with truely mystify me at times.
I chose to carry that a bit further and do not intend to buy anything with a SONY label on it.
I don't buy from computer criminals.
Common carrier status.
It'd be a shame if sometin' happened to it.
- Symantec
This, mate, was one of the sharpest, to the point analysis of a security software vendor I've ever read.
Thanks
As far it concerns me I deeply distrust all "security companies" since this little incident.
Sybase offers its Express Edition for free, which you may call crippeled, since it permits only one CPU, 5GB of storage and a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
Else then that you are quite free to use it for whatever you want (including productive use) and - save for the documented limits - you get their flagship, enterprise product.
Support is extra, of course.
Disclaimer: I worked for Sybase until 1999, but have no more whatsoever interest in the company. It's a good database, though.
Those contracts (which usually go through some dunderhead in legal) are quite specific in what you can and can't do. For example: They may specify the number of seats, if and in what form the db may be connected to the internet, or even the business in which the product may be used for.
Those are very much legal contracts and have (even though you may call it an EULA) not a helluvalot to do with shrink-wrap or click-through EULAs.
I dare say that this can be done - while not lossless - in fair quality.
Message to the dopes, which cook up such schemes: At one point you have to convert a signal to analog for human consumption. The only way to avoid this is to kill all your customers. I am fully aware that you are working hard on criminalizing them, but don't you jokers think that you may even get into trouble with your chums in congress if you start killing off people?
Needless to say that this originated in Finland.
After recording your information you get a plastic card (the chain of cafes in question is Internet Train). With this card I can surf away at any Internet Train in Italy. And how exactly does that thwart terrorism?
For starters: I didn't try to read the magnetic stripe, which can be done with any 30$card reader, but I can't imagine that it's very hard to make sense of it and alter it appropriately. But I wouldn't even have to be technically savvy. I could just pay a junkie 20 Euros that he obtains such a card. The card can be lost or stolen and how exactly do you monitor such a vast amount of data?
Italy is turning into a nation of fucking Fascists under Berlusconi and it ain't a pleasent sight.
I have slight philosophical issue to shelf out money for a product, which should be protected in the first place, but will let that stand if it provides me with much needed security, but
Since the makers of security software seem in bed with "legitimate" spyware and rootkit purveyors those 40$ won't buy me shit.
I fear that save for FSecure the makers of security software have just about lost all my trust in them for this little stunt.
"Users don't know what a rootkit is so why should they care"
to
"We are taking the concerns of our customers very seriously, blahblahblah"
Could it be that Mr. Hesse is full of shit?
I wish some of the entertainment industry execs would click that link and get a fucking clue.
But then why the hell would he (and I assume that the MA CIO has a rather loud voice on such decisions) push forward the very sensible Open Doc initiative? I mean that must have pissed his "sponsors" mightily off.
That a guy in such a position is in demand at such conferences makes sense and it's not unheard off that the organizers pay the tab.
I agree tha state officials should be srupelously clean in their dealings with entities presenting a potential conflict of interests. But I fail to believe in a huge conspiracy by Microsoft to buy MA legislation.
Of course, looking at how the whole thing developed and at the arrogance of some of their execs and the company as such after this whole mess started to blow up this reads like something cranked out by a third rate pr flack.
As far as I'm concerned: By pulling this shit off Sony proved beyond reasonable doubt that they are a company, which can not be trusted, ever!