I can watch videos of riots, arson, etc. (say, from the news). But it wouldn't be legal if I actually tried to burn down the library or riot in it, would it?
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
In that case, Schmidt, can I have access to all your files, including google's algorithm?
you don't want anyone to know
Certainly some Google employees have access to their algorithm. And access to all their files. Doesn't mean everyone else should have access. Obvious troll is obvious. Why is parent modded insightful? It is funny at best.
Funny, I have multiple websites that use the Maps API and I've yet to see a bill from Google for usage or the functionality made unavailable. What crack pipe are you smoking?
Maybe you should read the manual. See the usage limit column? The pricing starts above that. So, Google provides the API for free, until you start leeching off it. Fair enough. Why should Google subsidise others' businesses?
Remember when the compny behind the unholy Real Player went after a guy who linked to Real Alternative, claiming that he made that software? That's from a tech company. Do you expect that the tech-illiterates over at MafiAA would know any better?
True. Clicking on the 'Bookmarks' menu is much harder to figure out than that.
Bookmarks are just a simple example. Say I'm in Nautilus and I want to share a file. I know I must enable file sharing and then go to the properties of the object and mark it for sharing. Since I manage shared files from Nautilus, I'd guess that options to control sharing would be in one of the menus. It isn't. Its a separate program altogether. So do I disco around apps or simply activate the launcher and type "File sharing"?
I like the example in TFS: why the heck is someone too clueless to use menus going to be searching for 'radial blur' in Gimp?
My Mum likes to paint. She likes drawing things using her laptop's paint program (which happens to be GIMP for Linux). Figuring out the meaning of the icons in the panels or navigating the huge menus just detract from the experience and prevent her from doing what she wants to do: draw. Being able to press a fixed button and then type the name of what she wants to do is way simpler than going through the maze of menus. say, blur, instead of radial blur. Then when she uses it and sees she likes radial blur, next time she types radial blur. Understand, dumbass?
Good for you that you're getting paid at all. I know of plenty of govt (either public or grant-supported) schools here in India where the teacher's salaries are months overdue.
Indeed I do. Which is why I said "corollary". I hope you understand the meaning of "corollary". I just wished to point out that what GGP said was something structurally similar to Schneier's law, and he might just as well have quoted Schneier's law itself.
Wouldn't that mean black holes aren't necessarily rare, but only that black holes near gas clouds are rare? There could be millions of them in the interstellar void, but with no gas to form an accretion disk, they would be completely invisible.
But if a star formed there, then shouldn't there be plenty of matter hanging around? Of course, if millions of black holes sucked up everything in the void... Nah, millions of black holes => a lot more stuff in the void. It just seems unlikely. Say, what happens when two black holes collide?
I pirate stuff. Games and movies mostly. But then If I like something, I look for ways to support it. Consider Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the game. One site sells it at 900 INR. My hostel mess bill is around 1900 INR/month, the amount I spend eating elsewhere would be 2000/month (say 500 a week). For a PC game, I would be hard put to justify to my parents buying a game priced at 250 (I bought AC I at that price), let alone 800 or 1000+. They simply don't see a 'game' being worth that much money or effort. But I can spend 1000+ on a book. So I buy the Assassin's Creed books, which average 500/book. I already have three AC books, ordered the fourth, have the Hitman novel, the Mass Effect novels.. you see the picture. Also, I do go out with friends (all of whom pirate) to watch movies, about once a month.
There are people who pirate stuff simply because you get it for free. Then there are others who can't spend that much, and risk being disappointed by crap. Then there are those who can't spend but hope to in the future, Don't bunch them all together.
... by Tor. I regularly download torrents from behind a draconian campus proxy using Tor. (Yes, I know, the Tor guys don't want us running torrents with it. But I'm too lazy to go looking for other solutions.) I'm "in the clear.":P
Yeah, right. You do know that most of those extensions were already available on Rico's or webup8's PPAs? In fact, I think the only addition from Mint must be the Mint Menu extension, which is really useless considering the Dashboard is way more powerful. I think one of them even had a Places Menu extension which Mint didn't include.
Ducklin said that the likelihood of the USB sticks being left on trains on purpose by hackers or penetration testers so they are picked up by corporate users and plugged into their work computers, is very low.
"We didn't find any evidence to support the theory that the USB sticks had been deliberately planted," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at the company.
"The malware involved was mostly very prevalent, general-purpose, zombie stuff," Ducklin explained. The security expert believes that this method of malware distribution is not even viable because most lost USB sticks are being handed into lost property rather than being plugged into computers by users.
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I can watch videos of riots, arson, etc. (say, from the news). But it wouldn't be legal if I actually tried to burn down the library or riot in it, would it?
http://www.infoworld.com/print/185555
Why do we have infoworld articles so often? The site only seems to link to itself (except for ads).
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
In that case, Schmidt, can I have access to all your files, including google's algorithm?
you don't want anyone to know
Certainly some Google employees have access to their algorithm. And access to all their files. Doesn't mean everyone else should have access.
Obvious troll is obvious. Why is parent modded insightful? It is funny at best.
Funny, I have multiple websites that use the Maps API and I've yet to see a bill from Google for usage or the functionality made unavailable. What crack pipe are you smoking?
READ THE FUCKING MANUAL noob.
Maybe you should read the manual. See the usage limit column? The pricing starts above that. So, Google provides the API for free, until you start leeching off it. Fair enough. Why should Google subsidise others' businesses?
Remember when the compny behind the unholy Real Player went after a guy who linked to Real Alternative, claiming that he made that software? That's from a tech company. Do you expect that the tech-illiterates over at MafiAA would know any better?
True. Clicking on the 'Bookmarks' menu is much harder to figure out than that.
Bookmarks are just a simple example. Say I'm in Nautilus and I want to share a file. I know I must enable file sharing and then go to the properties of the object and mark it for sharing. Since I manage shared files from Nautilus, I'd guess that options to control sharing would be in one of the menus. It isn't. Its a separate program altogether. So do I disco around apps or simply activate the launcher and type "File sharing"?
I like the example in TFS: why the heck is someone too clueless to use menus going to be searching for 'radial blur' in Gimp?
My Mum likes to paint. She likes drawing things using her laptop's paint program (which happens to be GIMP for Linux). Figuring out the meaning of the icons in the panels or navigating the huge menus just detract from the experience and prevent her from doing what she wants to do: draw. Being able to press a fixed button and then type the name of what she wants to do is way simpler than going through the maze of menus. say, blur, instead of radial blur. Then when she uses it and sees she likes radial blur, next time she types radial blur. Understand, dumbass?
Well, better convert them to links to printable pages...
Good for you that you're getting paid at all. I know of plenty of govt (either public or grant-supported) schools here in India where the teacher's salaries are months overdue.
Not exactly.
A consequence of NCurses?
Wasn't there a slogan about "news for nerds, stuff that matters" around here somewhere?
Key word being was. Or is it still around?
Why isn't U of Chicago a member of that consortium? It is a consortium of universities, right?
Indeed I do. Which is why I said "corollary". I hope you understand the meaning of "corollary". I just wished to point out that what GGP said was something structurally similar to Schneier's law, and he might just as well have quoted Schneier's law itself.
Anyone can invent a security system that he himself cannot break.
Wouldn't that mean black holes aren't necessarily rare, but only that black holes near gas clouds are rare? There could be millions of them in the interstellar void, but with no gas to form an accretion disk, they would be completely invisible.
But if a star formed there, then shouldn't there be plenty of matter hanging around? Of course, if millions of black holes sucked up everything in the void... Nah, millions of black holes => a lot more stuff in the void. It just seems unlikely. Say, what happens when two black holes collide?
I pirate stuff. Games and movies mostly. But then If I like something, I look for ways to support it. Consider Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the game. One site sells it at 900 INR. My hostel mess bill is around 1900 INR/month, the amount I spend eating elsewhere would be 2000/month (say 500 a week). For a PC game, I would be hard put to justify to my parents buying a game priced at 250 (I bought AC I at that price), let alone 800 or 1000+. They simply don't see a 'game' being worth that much money or effort. But I can spend 1000+ on a book. So I buy the Assassin's Creed books, which average 500/book. I already have three AC books, ordered the fourth, have the Hitman novel, the Mass Effect novels.. you see the picture. Also, I do go out with friends (all of whom pirate) to watch movies, about once a month.
There are people who pirate stuff simply because you get it for free. Then there are others who can't spend that much, and risk being disappointed by crap. Then there are those who can't spend but hope to in the future, Don't bunch them all together.
No, because our campus proxy has a 150MB/file download size limit. Tor helps overcome that, and I can seed too.
Indeed I'll try I2P.
Who says downloading Ubuntu torrents provided the Ubuntu website is piracy?
... by Tor. I regularly download torrents from behind a draconian campus proxy using Tor. (Yes, I know, the Tor guys don't want us running torrents with it. But I'm too lazy to go looking for other solutions.) I'm "in the clear." :P
Yeah, right. You do know that most of those extensions were already available on Rico's or webup8's PPAs? In fact, I think the only addition from Mint must be the Mint Menu extension, which is really useless considering the Dashboard is way more powerful. I think one of them even had a Places Menu extension which Mint didn't include.
Wrong article, friend. Head here: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1240258/google-deploys-ipv6-for-internal-network
Hmmm... installing a whole 'nother OS is a neat way of sidestepping the 'not changing OS configuration.' Oh, wait! Troll sensor peaking.
... which unfortunately doesn't really tell us anything, since they don't mention how many of the uninfected storage devices were like that.
Yes they did, and then the guy you replied to did also.
Uninfected devices.
Ducklin said that the likelihood of the USB sticks being left on trains on purpose by hackers or penetration testers so they are picked up by corporate users and plugged into their work computers, is very low.
"We didn't find any evidence to support the theory that the USB sticks had been deliberately planted," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at the company.
"The malware involved was mostly very prevalent, general-purpose, zombie stuff," Ducklin explained. The security expert believes that this method of malware distribution is not even viable because most lost USB sticks are being handed into lost property rather than being plugged into computers by users.
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