I seem to remember Bruce Willis doing this five years ago, against a Timothy Olyphant "who hacked the Pentagon with just a laptop!"
I also seem to remember Jeff Goldblum disabling an entire civilization's computer system with a computer virus so that it could be destroyed by nuclear weapons, about sixteen years ago.
A computer virus is a brave new world for filmmaking now?
You mean in Die Hard 4, Die Harder? or Independence Day? Or The Net? or Hackers? etc....
I remember in Die Hard 4, a computer virus made a house blow up! Does Skyfall one-up this?
A 19 year old doesnt know anything about running a business. Also it is likely someone will beat the density in the near future, so sell if you get a fair offer.
This is very short-sighted of you. Don't discount this 19 year old's business sense. Hell, I'll be he's doing a heck of a lot better financially at 19 than most people 30 years older then him. I agree sell, but not because he's not capable, but because he will have the capital to move on to a bigger and better business.
Beyond the whole Shareholders argument, you have a duty to protect the data that you've asked for, and in some cases demanded of your customers. This is their data that they agreed to share with your company only. The rest of this discussion should be moot, but if you insist upon another reason, if the people of this country realized how much hacking is going on they have a chance to defend themselves against identity theft, bank account theft, outright fraud against them.
With all these corporations holding this information secret they are in essence assisting criminals in stealing their customer's data.
With this said, I also believe that if more of our talented hacker type folk were aware of this shit, they might show their abilities by going after the initial hackers with a vengeance.
The citizens of this country are being used by corporations for our personal information at every turn and they are not willing to protect this information, as such they should be fined $100.00 per day per customer information stolen until reported. So if you have 100 customers and it takes you 3 days to report a hack then your company should see an instant fine of $30,000. This would severely hurt a small company. Now make this a more realistic number for large corporations: 1,000,000 customers and 3 days, and BAM $300,000,000.00 fine would wake up some boards real fucking quick.
I truly could not stand the movie Idiocracy simply because the portrayal of such a dumbed down society absolutely terrifies and disgusts me. But as I listen to the news and how information is spoon-fed to society, and the type of crap that is called good entertainment I weep for our future.
Kill the rule that allows for automated messages to be sent, ALL PHONE CALLS MUST BE FROM A LIVE PERSON WHO CAN INTERACT WITH THE RECEIVER.
Stop allowing Phone Companies to be Billing agencies for other companies.
Stop allowing call spoofing, where you receive a call and it's a hand up or something else, you call back and you get the Telephone company message "Sorry but this number is no longer in service."
Read the fucking web, there are thousands of gripes about robocalling violations.
Stop all Surveys and Presidential robocalls also.
Stop allowing companies to SELL OUR FUCKING INFORMATION.
Fine the telemarketer Managers and the companies large fees.
Trace the calls. You already monitor all of our lives anyways.
Repeat violators will be SHOT.
Don't let out of country business buy phone services in the US.
Let Anonymous go after them. They are great at track people down who piss them off, and their retaliation will be swift and painful.
In a communist society, people are forced into a field where they excel regardless of whether they like it or not. Our general education system is designed to ensure every student is taught the same basic information; otherwise if we don't do that, then underprivileged students will claim they were denied the same education as those not deemed underprivileged.
General education is the same for everyone. If you think your son is not good a Chemistry, fine, that's not his area of forte, but what's wrong with private tutoring outside of the classroom to help fulfill you're son's strengths, or to help him in his weaknesses.
Frankly, this just sounds like a gripe to me. Pull your kid from school, and home school him, then you can work with him on those subjects he's excelling at and those he sucks at.
If you don't want to hear it don't listen If you don't want to read it don't read it One mans opinion is just that One Man's opinion, some agree with it, some don't Religion is man made. Humans wrote the based on people that were perceived to be something special.
It seems to me that in the last 30 years, people have become so overly sensitive to words that they don't like the sound of that tempers are flaring feverishly.
For instance, if you were born in the USA, you're an American, not Irish American, not African American. etc... If you claim two nations as your citizenship then those type of titles are reasonable. But if you're ancestors are Irish and you're born in the US you have one citizenship, American. For goodness sake stop complaining Political correctness.
When it comes time to religious beliefs, tolerance is gone. Almost every religion believes in one-god, thus with that very line of thought there is NO Tolerance for any belief other than your own. This level of stupidity just makes me laugh at all religions that teach narrow-mindedness. Religion is a way of thinking and following a moral standard, but it forces conformity in humans.
The beauty about people is that we are all so very different. Why, can't people accept this fact and move on? If your religion teaches you that we have the freedom to choose our path, then stop complaining that we didn't follow your path. And if your religion teaches you "it's God's will" then you're a drone and you have no right to judge anyone or speak out against anyone else, for it's "God's Will" that someone else is not on your same religious path.
Would not anything made where parts are bought then be held at issue. If you knit a sweater, the manufacturer of that thread has the right to tell you not to resell that sweater, but break it back down to the owner of the Cotton farm can tell that thread manufacturer, I want a licensing fee for each object made with my cotton. The company who makes the dyes for the thread can say, we don't approve you selling that sweater because it uses Red Dye #5 and we have a patent on that. Next the chemical companies who provide the dye factory the chemicals to make the dye to have a say too. You make a product, you sell it, you don't own it any more if you are a retailer.
This puts a whole new spin on both "buyer beware" and "possession is 9/10th of the law".
You're right. I agree with everything you've said. But if we are ever going to change this practice, we need to start acting. Oppression can be over come.
In the last 20 years Advertisers have been creeping further and further into our lives and we (the average citizen) have had little to no say in the matter, but now we are finally putting our foot down and declaring "No More". Ad Agencies are upset because of the loss to their cash intake, as well as they are like spoiled children who are being told "NO". They don't like it. The image that comes to mind is the picture of mom saying to her child, "no cookies", and the child stomps, pouts, cries, and has tantrums, and when none of that works, they devise a way to climb up to that upper cabinet to get the cookie jar.
It's time to get rid of all the cookies from the house so there is no demand for the cookie that doesn't exist.
After the 1st plane flew into the 1st of the twin towers I knew our world changed. Within mere weeks our civil liberties were being stripped in the form of the Patriot act. But it was justified. "If a few innocents get caught in the nets for the sake of millions...."
Well we have gotten what we've asked for, right? We're more secure now, right?
By accepting the Patriot Act, we've given away our rights to not get caught up in nets like this, and because we've sat back quietly and let it happen we are at fault as citizens, and we have no room to complain.
People forget that if you don't like your limited choices at voting time, they can write in their vote, and if you are doing that because you disagree with the limited choices then you are indeed making the first step in stopping this bullshit. But if you vote for someone on the ballot and don't agree with what they stand for because the other choices suck too, you're just as much at fault.
Stop voting party lines, break from the mold, write in your vote, you're not throwing it away, that is just republican and democratic fear mongering to get you to vote for one of their two parties.
Politicians hated / feared Ross Perot because he stressed real change in our Government. Ron Paul is hated / feared for his stance being against the norm.
If enough people wrote in a vote and took away any majority to the limited parties on the ballot, who knows maybe there will be an awakening in Politics that things need to change and citizens won't stand for their rights being squashed any longer.
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McDonald's french fries that do not spoil.
/sorry for the bad pun.
Or Nuke-Pop genre.
Couldn't a Dictionary making company claim Prior Art?
and...
How is this any different then Apple stealing the name Apple from the Music label Apple?
.... so men don't get them. /wink
They really do sell Blue Buckyballs. So now when I play with them, blue buckyballs, and I roll them around you blue balls won't feel all alone. /wink
Sorry, it was just so easy....
I seem to remember Bruce Willis doing this five years ago, against a Timothy Olyphant "who hacked the Pentagon with just a laptop!"
I also seem to remember Jeff Goldblum disabling an entire civilization's computer system with a computer virus so that it could be destroyed by nuclear weapons, about sixteen years ago.
A computer virus is a brave new world for filmmaking now?
You mean in Die Hard 4, Die Harder? or Independence Day? Or The Net? or Hackers? etc....
I remember in Die Hard 4, a computer virus made a house blow up! Does Skyfall one-up this?
Is this topic really necessary on /.?
A 19 year old doesnt know anything about running a business. Also it is likely someone will beat the density in the near future, so sell if you get a fair offer.
This is very short-sighted of you. Don't discount this 19 year old's business sense. Hell, I'll be he's doing a heck of a lot better financially at 19 than most people 30 years older then him. I agree sell, but not because he's not capable, but because he will have the capital to move on to a bigger and better business.
Beyond the whole Shareholders argument, you have a duty to protect the data that you've asked for, and in some cases demanded of your customers. This is their data that they agreed to share with your company only. The rest of this discussion should be moot, but if you insist upon another reason, if the people of this country realized how much hacking is going on they have a chance to defend themselves against identity theft, bank account theft, outright fraud against them.
With all these corporations holding this information secret they are in essence assisting criminals in stealing their customer's data.
With this said, I also believe that if more of our talented hacker type folk were aware of this shit, they might show their abilities by going after the initial hackers with a vengeance.
The citizens of this country are being used by corporations for our personal information at every turn and they are not willing to protect this information, as such they should be fined $100.00 per day per customer information stolen until reported. So if you have 100 customers and it takes you 3 days to report a hack then your company should see an instant fine of $30,000. This would severely hurt a small company. Now make this a more realistic number for large corporations: 1,000,000 customers and 3 days, and BAM $300,000,000.00 fine would wake up some boards real fucking quick.
Goodness, we just saw an almost exact same post yesterday. Are we that in need of news articles?
.... she is bigger than a plane.
I truly could not stand the movie Idiocracy simply because the portrayal of such a dumbed down society absolutely terrifies and disgusts me. But as I listen to the news and how information is spoon-fed to society, and the type of crap that is called good entertainment I weep for our future.
It's just getting ridiculous. All this legal crap about copyrights. Augh
Maybe not if it's on a closed phone network.
Kill the rule that allows for automated messages to be sent, ALL PHONE CALLS MUST BE FROM A LIVE PERSON WHO CAN INTERACT WITH THE RECEIVER.
Stop allowing Phone Companies to be Billing agencies for other companies.
Stop allowing call spoofing, where you receive a call and it's a hand up or something else, you call back and you get the Telephone company message "Sorry but this number is no longer in service."
Read the fucking web, there are thousands of gripes about robocalling violations.
Stop all Surveys and Presidential robocalls also.
Stop allowing companies to SELL OUR FUCKING INFORMATION.
Fine the telemarketer Managers and the companies large fees.
Trace the calls. You already monitor all of our lives anyways.
Repeat violators will be SHOT.
Don't let out of country business buy phone services in the US.
Let Anonymous go after them. They are great at track people down who piss them off, and their retaliation will be swift and painful.
Lets start with some of those.
In a communist society, people are forced into a field where they excel regardless of whether they like it or not. Our general education system is designed to ensure every student is taught the same basic information; otherwise if we don't do that, then underprivileged students will claim they were denied the same education as those not deemed underprivileged.
General education is the same for everyone. If you think your son is not good a Chemistry, fine, that's not his area of forte, but what's wrong with private tutoring outside of the classroom to help fulfill you're son's strengths, or to help him in his weaknesses.
Frankly, this just sounds like a gripe to me.
Pull your kid from school, and home school him, then you can work with him on those subjects he's excelling at and those he sucks at.
Situation solved.
Humans wrote the based on people that were perceived to be something special.
This was supposed to say "Humans wrote the "insert holy book here" based on people that were perceived to be something special.
If you don't want to hear it don't listen
If you don't want to read it don't read it
One mans opinion is just that One Man's opinion, some agree with it, some don't
Religion is man made. Humans wrote the based on people that were perceived to be something special.
It seems to me that in the last 30 years, people have become so overly sensitive to words that they don't like the sound of that tempers are flaring feverishly.
For instance, if you were born in the USA, you're an American, not Irish American, not African American. etc... If you claim two nations as your citizenship then those type of titles are reasonable. But if you're ancestors are Irish and you're born in the US you have one citizenship, American. For goodness sake stop complaining Political correctness.
When it comes time to religious beliefs, tolerance is gone. Almost every religion believes in one-god, thus with that very line of thought there is NO Tolerance for any belief other than your own. This level of stupidity just makes me laugh at all religions that teach narrow-mindedness. Religion is a way of thinking and following a moral standard, but it forces conformity in humans.
The beauty about people is that we are all so very different. Why, can't people accept this fact and move on? If your religion teaches you that we have the freedom to choose our path, then stop complaining that we didn't follow your path. And if your religion teaches you "it's God's will" then you're a drone and you have no right to judge anyone or speak out against anyone else, for it's "God's Will" that someone else is not on your same religious path.
Would not anything made where parts are bought then be held at issue. If you knit a sweater, the manufacturer of that thread has the right to tell you not to resell that sweater, but break it back down to the owner of the Cotton farm can tell that thread manufacturer, I want a licensing fee for each object made with my cotton. The company who makes the dyes for the thread can say, we don't approve you selling that sweater because it uses Red Dye #5 and we have a patent on that. Next the chemical companies who provide the dye factory the chemicals to make the dye to have a say too.
You make a product, you sell it, you don't own it any more if you are a retailer.
This puts a whole new spin on both "buyer beware" and "possession is 9/10th of the law".
You're right. I agree with everything you've said. But if we are ever going to change this practice, we need to start acting. Oppression can be over come.
I have to say, you've got the conversation pretty close to dead on. /clapclapclap
OMG smart Girls play Wow and are Horde!
Hey, me too.
That's ashamed it took 7 years to agree to something that summed up sounds so reasonably easy to agree to.
*sigh* sounds like the lawyers milked both sides for all they were both worth.
In the last 20 years Advertisers have been creeping further and further into our lives and we (the average citizen) have had little to no say in the matter, but now we are finally putting our foot down and declaring "No More". Ad Agencies are upset because of the loss to their cash intake, as well as they are like spoiled children who are being told "NO". They don't like it. The image that comes to mind is the picture of mom saying to her child, "no cookies", and the child stomps, pouts, cries, and has tantrums, and when none of that works, they devise a way to climb up to that upper cabinet to get the cookie jar.
It's time to get rid of all the cookies from the house so there is no demand for the cookie that doesn't exist.
After the 1st plane flew into the 1st of the twin towers I knew our world changed. Within mere weeks our civil liberties were being stripped in the form of the Patriot act. But it was justified. "If a few innocents get caught in the nets for the sake of millions...."
Well we have gotten what we've asked for, right? We're more secure now, right?
By accepting the Patriot Act, we've given away our rights to not get caught up in nets like this, and because we've sat back quietly and let it happen we are at fault as citizens, and we have no room to complain.
People forget that if you don't like your limited choices at voting time, they can write in their vote, and if you are doing that because you disagree with the limited choices then you are indeed making the first step in stopping this bullshit. But if you vote for someone on the ballot and don't agree with what they stand for because the other choices suck too, you're just as much at fault.
Stop voting party lines, break from the mold, write in your vote, you're not throwing it away, that is just republican and democratic fear mongering to get you to vote for one of their two parties.
Politicians hated / feared Ross Perot because he stressed real change in our Government. Ron Paul is hated / feared for his stance being against the norm.
If enough people wrote in a vote and took away any majority to the limited parties on the ballot, who knows maybe there will be an awakening in Politics that things need to change and citizens won't stand for their rights being squashed any longer.