How long before we find out that this 'researcher' is a former member of the clan that unleashed this hot garbage to the world, but left over some petty dispute so invoked the back door already known to him.
I find it hard to believe that Symantec and especially Kaspersky didn't find this 'kill switch' before this guy (allegedly) did.
The most surprising thing here is that 80 people only comprise about 8% of the workforce. I figured 80 people would be a surplus. What he hell are all those people doing? I realize that websites don't run themselves, but Etsy should mostly be robots, eh? Yeowch.
Except that HBO has been around since the 70's, plus video rental, now on-demand, and hey, guess what, the box office has been up over the past few years. Way up thanks to Star Wars and China.
Your reporting of the death of the movie theater industry is wildly, wildly premature.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around 'Brett Ratner' and 'film festival'. Those two things don't go together and I feel like maybe there's a little tear in the space time continuum we should be more concerned about right now.
I don't have strong enough words to endorse their Watchtower service, which tracks recent breaches, affected sites, and warns you about it so you can change your passwords on affected sites. It also reports about duplicate passwords used multiple places, last time they were changed, etc. That functionality of 1Password alone is worth the cost, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of passwords.
You can store your key database in multiple different places, you just have to choose the one you think is most secure.:)
Subscribing to Netflix, say, gives you a license to stream content from them, sometimes locked to a region. It's illegal to, say, use a VPN to pretend you're in Canada to stream content. Or to share your HBONow login with 100 people.
As others have mentioned, for most of us it's a question of convenience. There will be those that steal just to steal, but there's absolutely no reason why I should have to subscribe to a cable package to watch the Golden Globes when I have DirecTVNow or Sling or any myriad of streaming services that carry NBC. That's just stupid.
Maybe because it's the ethical thing to do, and perhaps he'll want to work in IT some time in the future. But that ship has probably already sailed.
My guess is that this guy is in his early 20's, first IT job probable, and doesn't realize the ramifications of what he's doing, career-wise.
I'm old enough to have been laid off several times, and most of those times I forgot to document something or whatever, and I helped out my former comrades when asked, well after my termination, because you build a rep in this business and this childish garbage will follow you around forever.
I don't believe that the presence of the code in Linux has ever had anything to do with it, it's the alleged copyright that SCO wrongfully staked a claim on. Then switched to trade secrets. Then licensing fees.
They originally breached the licensing agreement with Novell and refused to defend themselves, opting instead to continue filing frivolous lawsuits against anyone using or supporting Linux, then claiming the proof was secret and they wouldn't discuss it in open court.
Their misunderstanding of what they sued AutoZone for is a hilarious story, too.
And when SCO tried to claim copyright on GPL'ed code.
And then the consultants that found no evidence of copyright infringement in Linux code.
Your view of history is severely muddled, and I'm not even sure what this has to do with videogames. SCO (and it's many incarnations) was essentially a licensee of Unix that misunderstood what Unix/Linux was and attempted to be an early incarnation of a patent/copyright troll. That 'little guy' deserved the beating they got.
I'm calling shenanigans on the claim it was used to fry a 'brand new MacBook Pro', as a brand new MacBook Pro doesn't have USB ports. Unless you're buying a model that's a few years old, and why would you do that?
I'm glad my iPhone 7 is safe from any potential 'headphone jack killer' devices. Ha ha. You lameos and your non-Apple products.
I'm totally surprised to hear that when given a choice between free or paid, people pick the free, legal stream. I wonder how much that study cost them. I'm glad they have a crack team of scientists verifying common sense.
Your ideas about time travel are limited by the breadth of current human knowledge.
100 years ago people thought the moon was made of cheese, and now walking on it is passe. Your notion of a "simple physics hack" might be state of the art science for an alien species 200 light years away.
What nobody proposes is that aliens think we're boring and would rather visit that one planet where where the ladies all have four boobs and men have feelings.
Doesn't matter, status of the relationship, regardless of how skeezy it is. In the US, you can't publish a sex tape without the consent of everyone that's in it. That's really the only question here. I'm not a fan of anyone in this story, but Gawker willfully, purposely, knowingly, blatantly broke the law. I'm no celebrity but as someone who likes his privacy, I'm pretty glad they got sued and lost.
It's interesting. When you see these 'leaked' sex tapes of celebrities that _aren't_ suing Gawker media, that's not a leak. That's a consensual, for-profit marketing ploy for said celeb.
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The most surprising thing here is that Antarctica has a northern peninsula. How do you find it? Isn't the entire place 'north'?
I think the crux of the article is the environment, not the moss.
How long before we find out that this 'researcher' is a former member of the clan that unleashed this hot garbage to the world, but left over some petty dispute so invoked the back door already known to him.
I find it hard to believe that Symantec and especially Kaspersky didn't find this 'kill switch' before this guy (allegedly) did.
The most surprising thing here is that 80 people only comprise about 8% of the workforce. I figured 80 people would be a surplus. What he hell are all those people doing? I realize that websites don't run themselves, but Etsy should mostly be robots, eh? Yeowch.
I don't know why, but every time I see the word 'Juciero' I read it as 'Aviato' in TJ Miller's voice.
They ported the 'mount' command to Linux! How novel!
What's next, 'dir'?
Last week I was like 'Don Rickles was still alive? Oh, bummer.' Now I'm like 'LiveJournal is still a thing? Oh, bummer.'
I think it's hilarious that you can judge the age of Slashdot by the comments on this thread. The chief rebuttals to the list are:
1. It's too loud!
2. Screen is too big! Hurts my neck!
3. Soda gives you diabetes!
4. Candy is too expensive!
5. I have to pee!
Ha ha. Slashdot, underwritten by AARP. And I say this as someone whos slashdot ID is 20,000.
Except that HBO has been around since the 70's, plus video rental, now on-demand, and hey, guess what, the box office has been up over the past few years. Way up thanks to Star Wars and China.
Your reporting of the death of the movie theater industry is wildly, wildly premature.
I initially read that as "... gets my GF off" and I was thinking 'so, the problem is ...?'
Your pessimism about the apparent low quality of the movies doesn't change when you're watching at home. You just sound like an agoraphobic.
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around 'Brett Ratner' and 'film festival'. Those two things don't go together and I feel like maybe there's a little tear in the space time continuum we should be more concerned about right now.
The only thing that Batman v Superman did for me was make me really look forward to Wonder Woman.
But people need to judge garbage on it's own merit!
+1 for 1Password.
I don't have strong enough words to endorse their Watchtower service, which tracks recent breaches, affected sites, and warns you about it so you can change your passwords on affected sites. It also reports about duplicate passwords used multiple places, last time they were changed, etc. That functionality of 1Password alone is worth the cost, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of passwords.
You can store your key database in multiple different places, you just have to choose the one you think is most secure. :)
You're out of your mind and spreading fallacies.
Subscribing to Netflix, say, gives you a license to stream content from them, sometimes locked to a region. It's illegal to, say, use a VPN to pretend you're in Canada to stream content. Or to share your HBONow login with 100 people.
As others have mentioned, for most of us it's a question of convenience. There will be those that steal just to steal, but there's absolutely no reason why I should have to subscribe to a cable package to watch the Golden Globes when I have DirecTVNow or Sling or any myriad of streaming services that carry NBC. That's just stupid.
Maybe because it's the ethical thing to do, and perhaps he'll want to work in IT some time in the future. But that ship has probably already sailed.
My guess is that this guy is in his early 20's, first IT job probable, and doesn't realize the ramifications of what he's doing, career-wise.
I'm old enough to have been laid off several times, and most of those times I forgot to document something or whatever, and I helped out my former comrades when asked, well after my termination, because you build a rep in this business and this childish garbage will follow you around forever.
They got a default judgment on his merit of being an asshole, that's for sure.
I don't believe that the presence of the code in Linux has ever had anything to do with it, it's the alleged copyright that SCO wrongfully staked a claim on. Then switched to trade secrets. Then licensing fees.
They originally breached the licensing agreement with Novell and refused to defend themselves, opting instead to continue filing frivolous lawsuits against anyone using or supporting Linux, then claiming the proof was secret and they wouldn't discuss it in open court.
Their misunderstanding of what they sued AutoZone for is a hilarious story, too.
And when SCO tried to claim copyright on GPL'ed code.
And then the consultants that found no evidence of copyright infringement in Linux code.
Your view of history is severely muddled, and I'm not even sure what this has to do with videogames. SCO (and it's many incarnations) was essentially a licensee of Unix that misunderstood what Unix/Linux was and attempted to be an early incarnation of a patent/copyright troll. That 'little guy' deserved the beating they got.
I'm calling shenanigans on the claim it was used to fry a 'brand new MacBook Pro', as a brand new MacBook Pro doesn't have USB ports. Unless you're buying a model that's a few years old, and why would you do that?
I'm glad my iPhone 7 is safe from any potential 'headphone jack killer' devices. Ha ha. You lameos and your non-Apple products.
I'm totally surprised to hear that when given a choice between free or paid, people pick the free, legal stream. I wonder how much that study cost them. I'm glad they have a crack team of scientists verifying common sense.
Your ideas about time travel are limited by the breadth of current human knowledge.
100 years ago people thought the moon was made of cheese, and now walking on it is passe. Your notion of a "simple physics hack" might be state of the art science for an alien species 200 light years away.
What nobody proposes is that aliens think we're boring and would rather visit that one planet where where the ladies all have four boobs and men have feelings.
And she's a dude!
Doesn't matter, status of the relationship, regardless of how skeezy it is. In the US, you can't publish a sex tape without the consent of everyone that's in it. That's really the only question here. I'm not a fan of anyone in this story, but Gawker willfully, purposely, knowingly, blatantly broke the law. I'm no celebrity but as someone who likes his privacy, I'm pretty glad they got sued and lost.
It's interesting. When you see these 'leaked' sex tapes of celebrities that _aren't_ suing Gawker media, that's not a leak. That's a consensual, for-profit marketing ploy for said celeb.
Water, electricity, gas, all provided by profit-driven companies. I'm not sure what the correlation is.
I'd be weary if my government got into the utility business.