It pretty much lead to a global patent suit with rambus taking on every maker of DRAM on the planet once they dropped the shitty rambus memory standard and switched to DDR.
So are you proposing that the only way we will know for sure that an atom bomb will kill a large number of people is to drop one on Texas? Not that I'm opposed to that per se.
Correct, I worked for a company that RAMBUS sued after it pulled it collaborative patents derived from the JEDEC membership and standards. Rambus then proceeded to sure everyone that made any kind of RAM for a patent they claimed to own, but was actually created using joint resources of the JEDEC committee. RAMBUS are the original patent trolls of the modern age.
The little neon tetra's at the pet store they sell for a buck each have phosphorescent proteins from jellyfish in them. The don't glow brightly, but they do glow.
We never patch unannounced. Plus we're a smallish agency (>250 users) we had to eliminate our VPN due to budget cutbacks so we don't encounter these types of issues.
Except of course when they don't. When you create a culture of careless idiots by making them think they are invulnerable to any threats this is the only way to handle them. If they just came out and said "Yeah we got screwed too" they might have some credibility, but instead they have to act like something like this doesn't actually affect them and quietly sweep the dirt under the rug. On the other hand of that is the legion of careless users that are made even more careless because they have been given the false belief that they are impervious to any kind of cyber threat. If they just said "Yeah all that 'most secure' stuff we've been telling you is utter nonsense" then they might lose a moron or two to the competition.
Totally 20th century. Personally, I only use eye movements and slight neck twitches for e-mail inputs. In fact, this post is composed solely of copied and pasted letters and characters.
That's why we do all our patching at night or on the weekends. In the case of some updates you may have delay when you boot up, but that is the price of keeping your environment up to date and secure.
That's easy to do when the economy is geared towards making things only be 0.01% for wealthy people and 200% for poor people. Plus as our society has been trained to so laud the affluent and over privileged that these people are just handed stuff by virtue of being rich and popular. Many of the most destitute people are just clamoring to grab onto a tiny piece of this glory thus they blow their meager earnings on people magazines and cable TV just to distract themselves from the utter shittiness of their own lives and maybe live vicariously through the press.
If it is was only a buck I bet a lot of kids bought it just because "hey it's only a buck" or even 5 bucks. In the very off chance that something like this would help, 5 bucks is a small price to pay, but still I'd bet that most of the kids who bought this were spoiled rich little idiots that don't have many other things worthwhile to blow their parents cash on.
What if they raid the premises search every computer on the network and in the network range and can't find the file because the drive has been wiped or otherwise disabled? Taking someone's computer for a fishing expedition is like taking my car to look for special dirt from a special parking lot in a special location where a bike was stolen and perhaps my vehicle was seen on a red light cam within the same week. It's all the same ridiculous speculation and a violation of your personal rights in favor of corporate rights.
Do you honestly believe some place like Starbucks would cede to allowing every one of their customers that came in with a laptop being hassled by the mafiAA? It seems like that would be a poor business practice.
I see you're new at making jokes because trying to make a joke by poorly modifying and already great joke is not really a joke, it's just weak trolling.
Sir you are absolutely correct. The legal system are more often than not the last adopters of any technology. It's funny how they are always catering to the LCD unless there is money in it.
There are just as many ways to verify an e-mail was sent/received as there are to verify a fax was received. If it comes down to a legal matter, you can prove it one way or the other.
In the modern age when we are supposedly above monarchy and such other forms of primitive governance, don't you find it kind of disturbing that we have Princes and Nobility at all?
Princes and nobility were the government at the time, as was the church in its day. Now, we have a semblance of government that holds only true loyalty to the hidden aristocracy and continually subverts all efforts to reign in their power why pretending to be of and for the people. To the point, I don't think that we have seen the scale of this at any point in history where so few controlled so much in terms of wealth. Even the church and kings of old seem to be paupers compared to some of today's modern oligarchy.
As I stated previously, there have and always will be haves and have-nots, but this scale is sickening. Plus we still have that whole New Jersey thing to deal with, King Henry never had to deal with that.
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It pretty much lead to a global patent suit with rambus taking on every maker of DRAM on the planet once they dropped the shitty rambus memory standard and switched to DDR.
This looks like a 2 birds with one stone opportunity to me. Plus a flimsy excuse as a scientific opportunity.
So are you proposing that the only way we will know for sure that an atom bomb will kill a large number of people is to drop one on Texas? Not that I'm opposed to that per se.
Correct, I worked for a company that RAMBUS sued after it pulled it collaborative patents derived from the JEDEC membership and standards. Rambus then proceeded to sure everyone that made any kind of RAM for a patent they claimed to own, but was actually created using joint resources of the JEDEC committee. RAMBUS are the original patent trolls of the modern age.
That's why you build your own and keep your OS disks.
Our VPN was only used at a small remote location. Whenever you hear some jagoff complain about "big government" thank them for the productivity loss.
The little neon tetra's at the pet store they sell for a buck each have phosphorescent proteins from jellyfish in them. The don't glow brightly, but they do glow.
We never patch unannounced. Plus we're a smallish agency (>250 users) we had to eliminate our VPN due to budget cutbacks so we don't encounter these types of issues.
Except of course when they don't. When you create a culture of careless idiots by making them think they are invulnerable to any threats this is the only way to handle them. If they just came out and said "Yeah we got screwed too" they might have some credibility, but instead they have to act like something like this doesn't actually affect them and quietly sweep the dirt under the rug. On the other hand of that is the legion of careless users that are made even more careless because they have been given the false belief that they are impervious to any kind of cyber threat. If they just said "Yeah all that 'most secure' stuff we've been telling you is utter nonsense" then they might lose a moron or two to the competition.
Shiny shapes with shiny pictures and don't forget that they are shiny.
Totally 20th century. Personally, I only use eye movements and slight neck twitches for e-mail inputs. In fact, this post is composed solely of copied and pasted letters and characters.
That's why we do all our patching at night or on the weekends. In the case of some updates you may have delay when you boot up, but that is the price of keeping your environment up to date and secure.
That's easy to do when the economy is geared towards making things only be 0.01% for wealthy people and 200% for poor people. Plus as our society has been trained to so laud the affluent and over privileged that these people are just handed stuff by virtue of being rich and popular. Many of the most destitute people are just clamoring to grab onto a tiny piece of this glory thus they blow their meager earnings on people magazines and cable TV just to distract themselves from the utter shittiness of their own lives and maybe live vicariously through the press.
Ok, that was good. You win sir. Here is your internet.
If it is was only a buck I bet a lot of kids bought it just because "hey it's only a buck" or even 5 bucks. In the very off chance that something like this would help, 5 bucks is a small price to pay, but still I'd bet that most of the kids who bought this were spoiled rich little idiots that don't have many other things worthwhile to blow their parents cash on.
Agreed and it really is sad.
What if they raid the premises search every computer on the network and in the network range and can't find the file because the drive has been wiped or otherwise disabled? Taking someone's computer for a fishing expedition is like taking my car to look for special dirt from a special parking lot in a special location where a bike was stolen and perhaps my vehicle was seen on a red light cam within the same week. It's all the same ridiculous speculation and a violation of your personal rights in favor of corporate rights.
Do you honestly believe some place like Starbucks would cede to allowing every one of their customers that came in with a laptop being hassled by the mafiAA? It seems like that would be a poor business practice.
Better to let 1000 innocent be falsely convicted than 1 guilty be set free.
FTFY to fit the MafIAA mindset a little better.
I see you're new at making jokes because trying to make a joke by poorly modifying and already great joke is not really a joke, it's just weak trolling.
Sir you are absolutely correct. The legal system are more often than not the last adopters of any technology. It's funny how they are always catering to the LCD unless there is money in it.
There are just as many ways to verify an e-mail was sent/received as there are to verify a fax was received. If it comes down to a legal matter, you can prove it one way or the other.
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In the modern age when we are supposedly above monarchy and such other forms of primitive governance, don't you find it kind of disturbing that we have Princes and Nobility at all?
Princes and nobility were the government at the time, as was the church in its day. Now, we have a semblance of government that holds only true loyalty to the hidden aristocracy and continually subverts all efforts to reign in their power why pretending to be of and for the people. To the point, I don't think that we have seen the scale of this at any point in history where so few controlled so much in terms of wealth. Even the church and kings of old seem to be paupers compared to some of today's modern oligarchy.
As I stated previously, there have and always will be haves and have-nots, but this scale is sickening. Plus we still have that whole New Jersey thing to deal with, King Henry never had to deal with that.