I hear about these kinds of things all the time. It's utter bullshit; they're literally making it more appealing for people to anonymously sell these exploits on the black market. "No, we don't want to know if our software has an exploit. If you've found one, go ahead and sell it to whoever you want, as long as we don't know, it's cool, we can keep deluding ourselves, thanks."
It reminds me of, among other counterproductive measures, media conglomerates pushing oppressive DRM on consumers as if to drive them toward piracy or forcing drug addicts to carry their criminal status with them as if to force them back toward poverty and drug abuse. If an alien race were to monitor us, they'd probably assume we're running some sort of elaborate self-extermination campaign.
When the summary says "numerous files which constitute child pornography", are we talking about nude photos of kids (e.g., his own, or friends') in the bath or something like that? In that case, I can totally understand them wanting more substantial evidence against him.
Also, is having "an intricate electronic folder structure comprised of approximately 6,712 folders and subfolders" a crime now? Good God. I have over 10,000 in my home directory alone. Looks like I should expect the FBI to come knocking any moment.
Seriously? I know they say, everything seems obvious in hindsight, but they really couldn't figure out squeezing sugar and creamer from one pouch into another coffe pouch? These guys design space ships? Am I the only one who sees something wrong here?
Er, no? Tell me you can buy one copy of SC2 or GW2 or even SC1 or any online game and tell me you can both play online with one copy. You can't (shouldn't be able to, anyway).
Now, certainly, you would be able to play game A online while your buddy plays game B online, but then people'll start pooling Steam accounts to share games, which is bad news for devs. And besides, is it really that bad? Just buy an extra copy for your friend when it's on sale. The point (one of them, anyway) of DRM is to make sure you can't give used games to others. Now, you can disagree with this on principle, but at least the way Steam does it, they don't gouge you for money, plus the DRM doesn't get in the way of you legitimately playing it, does it? Steam gives you two games for the price of one, and now you're asking for the right to share the games with others as well? Check your privileges (not meant condescendingly).
In a sense, I wouldn't count that breakthrough invention though. The gun was invent in China back way before Europe even got around to burning witches. However, IIRC America did invent the rifle/barrel rifling?
I think those people really just oppose bullshit DRM. Steam DRM is very tame and reasonable, and I think most people don't really have anything against DRM as a concept that help protect game devs a little from possible lost profits; it's the bullshit DRM that get in the way of legitimate players playing the game that's the problem.
That'll also have the pleasant^H^H^H^Hhorrible side effect of keeping all the stupid people out of any conversations. OH GOD FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Until eventually someone once again comes up with the bright idea of websitizing (honest to goodness word) IRC.
Zero percent, GP is speaking out of his nether orifice. Strictly speaking, it is theoretically possible to do what GP is suggesting, in the same way it is theoretically possible for a well-placed sneeze to cause a chain reaction culminating in the obliteration of the universe. In other words, possible in the strictestly sense of the word, but impossible in every other sense.
I wanted to say "Look redditors are stupid, 4chan/2ch are much better at things like this", but I only have anecdotal evidence from the few cases I've heard (hunting down kitten killers and stuff like that). Does anyone have any data on the "success" rate of witch hunts on 4chan and 2ch?
No, not really. If I leave my door open, then very likely I'll be robbed. But does that make the robber's actions legal? No. Just because your email is plaintext and "asking to be read" doesn't make it okay for anyone, let alone the government, to read it at leisure.
Yes, postcards aren't very "private", but there's a certain expectation of privacy, that everyone in the mail service will refrain from reading it as much as possible, and won't gossip, hand it to other people, share private info, etc. Again, chances are, someone is going to do just that eventually, as many people are assholes, but that doesn't justify it. Especially the government has no excuse for doing so.
I see high-level "batteries included" as the next step in programming evolution. There was a time not long ago where compilers and hell, even assemblers were state-of-the-art, highest level programming. But the basic thought processes a "programmer"/"hacker" has will never change.
Tags work just fine. Organizing files in folders is just one-dimensional tagging. Lots of people in lots of different areas use tags (Firefox bookmarks, Gmail labels, pictures/music). Tagging can also be automated (You can think of google search just as a really complex, automatic, learning tagging system). Of course, by all means keep the originals for important documents, but I'll not stand someone bad-mouthing tagging as a concept.
Really? I've had more trouble with Ubuntu than with Arch. If you plan on customizing *anything*, Arch is a better choice. Ubuntu takes the "do everything for you" approach, so if you start customizing anything, stuff starts breaking, fast. Also, you'll have to redo everything once the next update rolls around (you can update in place, but I've found that that breaks more things than I'm comfortable with.)
In your analogy there's a moral obligation because people would fucking die otherwise. To compare this with using another RSS reader (even if somehow worse) is asinine.
Can you read, Mr. Asinine? "Now, of course, Reader and Keep aren't that critical of a service" "A somewhat contrived analogy would be"
If I were to run a service, I would probably feel a moral obligation to keep it running, much like I did in the past feel an obligation to keep my open source extensions up to date and available.
So you agree with me
But if some entitled fuck had come and whined that I had that moral obligation, I'd cut him off immediately.
So you're a kid who gets angry if someone tells you you should do something. Let me tell you, in society, society expects all sorts of things from you, some reasonable, some unreasonable, and if you're going to get angry every time someone tells you you should do something, you're going to have a lot of problems.
There was no contractual obligation in play. What responsibility does Google have to spend time and money on infrastructure on products that are used by the minority of people?
Perhaps, but there is a key dependency problem. If you introduce a free service which people come to depend on, and if you pulling the service results in costs/damages/lives lost, there is at least a moral obligation, if not a legal obligation, to keep the service running, or at least add a fee instead of discontinuing it directly. Now, of course, Reader and Keep aren't that critical of a service, but if say Google Wallet becomes one of the de-facto methods of payment and Google decides to pull the plug because it isn't in its interests, that impact should be a legal obligation to continue the service or at least hand it off to another party willing to continue it.
A somewhat contrived analogy would be manufacturing a medicine which keeps people alive from an otherwise fatal, incurable illness, then deciding it's not worth it and discontinuing it. True, people using the medicine haven't lost anything, since they would be dead otherwise, but there is a moral (and should be a legal) obligation not to do so.
I make it a point not to speak assertively on subjects I have no expertise in. I had my suspicions on the parent post, but I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt =)
The right title should be, "Are ThinkPads getting worse ever since Lenovo took control from IBM?" And the answer is yes. Pretty much from the point Lenovo took over (along with the new, fat AC connectors), ThinkPads have declined steadily, but surely. You could say maybe it's because IBM is a US company and Lenovo is a Chinese company; all I know is yes, they have indeed gotten worse.
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I hear about these kinds of things all the time. It's utter bullshit; they're literally making it more appealing for people to anonymously sell these exploits on the black market. "No, we don't want to know if our software has an exploit. If you've found one, go ahead and sell it to whoever you want, as long as we don't know, it's cool, we can keep deluding ourselves, thanks."
It reminds me of, among other counterproductive measures, media conglomerates pushing oppressive DRM on consumers as if to drive them toward piracy or forcing drug addicts to carry their criminal status with them as if to force them back toward poverty and drug abuse. If an alien race were to monitor us, they'd probably assume we're running some sort of elaborate self-extermination campaign.
When the summary says "numerous files which constitute child pornography", are we talking about nude photos of kids (e.g., his own, or friends') in the bath or something like that? In that case, I can totally understand them wanting more substantial evidence against him.
Also, is having "an intricate electronic folder structure comprised of approximately 6,712 folders and subfolders" a crime now? Good God. I have over 10,000 in my home directory alone. Looks like I should expect the FBI to come knocking any moment.
Seriously? I know they say, everything seems obvious in hindsight, but they really couldn't figure out squeezing sugar and creamer from one pouch into another coffe pouch? These guys design space ships? Am I the only one who sees something wrong here?
Sorry, didn't see that.
two people could play game "A"
Er, no? Tell me you can buy one copy of SC2 or GW2 or even SC1 or any online game and tell me you can both play online with one copy. You can't (shouldn't be able to, anyway).
Now, certainly, you would be able to play game A online while your buddy plays game B online, but then people'll start pooling Steam accounts to share games, which is bad news for devs. And besides, is it really that bad? Just buy an extra copy for your friend when it's on sale. The point (one of them, anyway) of DRM is to make sure you can't give used games to others. Now, you can disagree with this on principle, but at least the way Steam does it, they don't gouge you for money, plus the DRM doesn't get in the way of you legitimately playing it, does it? Steam gives you two games for the price of one, and now you're asking for the right to share the games with others as well? Check your privileges (not meant condescendingly).
Ah, I get it now! The M in DRM stands for Masochism!
Props, I'd vote this up to a 6 if I could.
Can't one of you just play offline (assuming single player game)? You won't earn achievements, but really now.
In a sense, I wouldn't count that breakthrough invention though. The gun was invent in China back way before Europe even got around to burning witches. However, IIRC America did invent the rifle/barrel rifling?
Is 200+ feet enough to build an underwater city free from the greedy hands of capitalism and communism?
I think those people really just oppose bullshit DRM. Steam DRM is very tame and reasonable, and I think most people don't really have anything against DRM as a concept that help protect game devs a little from possible lost profits; it's the bullshit DRM that get in the way of legitimate players playing the game that's the problem.
Well, fuck. They really screwed themselves over, didn't they? "Our new URL: amazon.com.amazon"
That'll also have the pleasant^H^H^H^Hhorrible side effect of keeping all the stupid people out of any conversations. OH GOD FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Until eventually someone once again comes up with the bright idea of websitizing (honest to goodness word) IRC.
Zero percent, GP is speaking out of his nether orifice. Strictly speaking, it is theoretically possible to do what GP is suggesting, in the same way it is theoretically possible for a well-placed sneeze to cause a chain reaction culminating in the obliteration of the universe. In other words, possible in the strictestly sense of the word, but impossible in every other sense.
I wanted to say "Look redditors are stupid, 4chan/2ch are much better at things like this", but I only have anecdotal evidence from the few cases I've heard (hunting down kitten killers and stuff like that). Does anyone have any data on the "success" rate of witch hunts on 4chan and 2ch?
No, not really. If I leave my door open, then very likely I'll be robbed. But does that make the robber's actions legal? No. Just because your email is plaintext and "asking to be read" doesn't make it okay for anyone, let alone the government, to read it at leisure.
Yes, postcards aren't very "private", but there's a certain expectation of privacy, that everyone in the mail service will refrain from reading it as much as possible, and won't gossip, hand it to other people, share private info, etc. Again, chances are, someone is going to do just that eventually, as many people are assholes, but that doesn't justify it. Especially the government has no excuse for doing so.
I see high-level "batteries included" as the next step in programming evolution. There was a time not long ago where compilers and hell, even assemblers were state-of-the-art, highest level programming. But the basic thought processes a "programmer"/"hacker" has will never change.
Tags work just fine. Organizing files in folders is just one-dimensional tagging. Lots of people in lots of different areas use tags (Firefox bookmarks, Gmail labels, pictures/music). Tagging can also be automated (You can think of google search just as a really complex, automatic, learning tagging system). Of course, by all means keep the originals for important documents, but I'll not stand someone bad-mouthing tagging as a concept.
What are you saying? Python has ALWAYS supported braces: http://www.python.org/doc/humor/#python-block-delimited-notation-parsing-explained
Someone vote this up.
not hard
code correctness
discipline
I would like to move to your country.
Really? I've had more trouble with Ubuntu than with Arch. If you plan on customizing *anything*, Arch is a better choice. Ubuntu takes the "do everything for you" approach, so if you start customizing anything, stuff starts breaking, fast. Also, you'll have to redo everything once the next update rolls around (you can update in place, but I've found that that breaks more things than I'm comfortable with.)
In your analogy there's a moral obligation because people would fucking die otherwise. To compare this with using another RSS reader (even if somehow worse) is asinine.
Can you read, Mr. Asinine? "Now, of course, Reader and Keep aren't that critical of a service" "A somewhat contrived analogy would be"
If I were to run a service, I would probably feel a moral obligation to keep it running, much like I did in the past feel an obligation to keep my open source extensions up to date and available.
So you agree with me
But if some entitled fuck had come and whined that I had that moral obligation, I'd cut him off immediately.
So you're a kid who gets angry if someone tells you you should do something. Let me tell you, in society, society expects all sorts of things from you, some reasonable, some unreasonable, and if you're going to get angry every time someone tells you you should do something, you're going to have a lot of problems.
There was no contractual obligation in play. What responsibility does Google have to spend time and money on infrastructure on products that are used by the minority of people?
Perhaps, but there is a key dependency problem. If you introduce a free service which people come to depend on, and if you pulling the service results in costs/damages/lives lost, there is at least a moral obligation, if not a legal obligation, to keep the service running, or at least add a fee instead of discontinuing it directly. Now, of course, Reader and Keep aren't that critical of a service, but if say Google Wallet becomes one of the de-facto methods of payment and Google decides to pull the plug because it isn't in its interests, that impact should be a legal obligation to continue the service or at least hand it off to another party willing to continue it.
A somewhat contrived analogy would be manufacturing a medicine which keeps people alive from an otherwise fatal, incurable illness, then deciding it's not worth it and discontinuing it. True, people using the medicine haven't lost anything, since they would be dead otherwise, but there is a moral (and should be a legal) obligation not to do so.
I make it a point not to speak assertively on subjects I have no expertise in. I had my suspicions on the parent post, but I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt =)
The right title should be, "Are ThinkPads getting worse ever since Lenovo took control from IBM?" And the answer is yes. Pretty much from the point Lenovo took over (along with the new, fat AC connectors), ThinkPads have declined steadily, but surely. You could say maybe it's because IBM is a US company and Lenovo is a Chinese company; all I know is yes, they have indeed gotten worse.