I don't get it.. where is the news or injustice? Was this site targetted unfairly or something?
From the sounds of it, some users of the site did something not kosher, even by the standards of the site admins, and the FBI with legal backing asked to see the logs.
If they want to whine about anarchy, maybe they should not keep said logs in the first place? Talk about hypocritical. Blame the government for asking, but don't blame yourself, gosh no.
Sorry, on a screen that small, NO dead pixels is the only acceptable solution.
Dead pixels are common, yes, but the cost of developing screens with NO dead pixels goes up geometrically with the screen size. Making sure every 21" LCD has no dead pixels woudl drive the overall production costs significantly up.
There is no reason they can't make small screens with no dead pixels, the cost of doing so is not significantly higher.
Not really. A real hacker isn't turned away by a Torx bolt. It keeps people who don't know what Torx is out of the case, though, which is a good thing.
Apple is quite up front about which APIs are public, and which are private, and themers and others have nobody to blame but themselves when apple removes/changes an API call that was private. Apple has superb developer documentation, and makes it very clear what they support and what they do not.
I mean, it's not going to take over, it's not going to evict microsft, it's not going to obsolte any of the other *bsd or linux distributions, but from an old hacker's point of view, OS X is cool.
Every old hacker I know who's tried it out (at least since 10.2) has stuck with it. I know there are exceptions out there, and people who just plain don't like OSX, but it definately qualifies in my book.
"It is unfortunate that student loan debt is excluded. That's exactly the kind of financial risk that the government should be encouraging people to take, not discouraging. "
Bankruptcy protection is not supposed to be like insurance, or a way to run away from your responsibilities. Far too many people were strategically declaring bankruptcy after graduating, indeed, the INTENDED to do so throughout their education. This way, by the time they are in their 30's, they have a top notch education, still worked for a decade, and qualify for credit again.
The guy seems to have a level head, rather than trying to confront the people, he simply invetigates, and calls the police. Nothing wrong with that.
But keep this in mind:
The credit card companies called him. GOOD. That is what they are supposed to do. Further, HE wasn't stolen from; the merchants were. The merchants were carless and took risks with credit cards. Visa/Discover will not pay anyone for the illegal charges, as they can't prove the charges were authorized (with, say, a signature).
Although I'm sure I would try to do the same thing in the same situation, a part of me would want to say "Why should I bother? I use my credit card as a convenience, and fraud protection is one of those conveniences. I don't use it so I can go chasing people around, that's not my problem. The merchants took the risk."
Oh, but it does matter, it matters when you get your bill and say "I didn't make this charge"... and the merchant can't show your valid signature.
The store is accepting some risk in taking a parent's card with a child's signature.
In the majority of cases, nobody complains, so things go along smoothly. If the store ends up getting scammed a few times, you can be sure they will stop taking risks, and WILL demand to see proper signatures, ID, etc.
The signature is there to protect you, the cardholder, and the store not checking isn't your problem, it's theirs, they are taking all the risk, not you.
If the merchant doesn't check the signature, that's not your problem, seriously.
The merchant is taking all the risk. If the cardholder rejects the payment as unauthorized, and they can't show a valid signature, the merchant will be out the money, not you.
To lean on your religion in this way is to use it as a crutch for your inability to understand anything past your nose, plain and simple.
I know plenty of people who are very scientific, very well educated, very intelligent, and very religious.
Do they feel that their beliefs mean they can't follow science? Of course not.
What's wrong with feeling that God put the universe there for you to figure out yourself? You can still look at creation and say "It's all part of God's plan". If what you see doesn't match what's in your particular translation of the holy book, your responsibility is to find out WHY it doens't match. Translation error? Historical error? Plain old human error? Science experiment is wrong?
But stuffing your head in the sand and saying "how DARE they teach science" is absurd.
Just staying on the line after the BBS hung up and playing a dialtone into the phone, waiting for them to try to dial back, and then answering normally was enough to get around that in the cases where they only had one line.
What's with open, public roads that anyone is allowed to use? My friends were tied up and robbed the other day, and the thieves used public roads to do it!
We really need to crack down on usage of public roads.
Seriously, as if getting on the internet anonymously was EVER hard.. sure, wifi makes it a bit easier, but it's far, far from a new thing.
Although that's true, it ignores the reality of the situation.
For a huge majority of tasks that the business world wants to use these systems for, BSD does the job nicely. Yes, Debian takes forever to release a new -stable because of the huge number of tasks and platforms. Nobody is calling them stupid or lazy.
THe fact remains: In the current state of affairs, organisations want to use current software, with new features and all that. Debian stable is years behind the curve now, and that's a LONG time in this business.
Yes, it's stable, and that's appreciated, but stable software that's outdated doesn't help.
If Daimaou wrote some code based on GPL code, that code is 100% totally and completely his, and nobody elses. He is not obliged to license it at all, to anyone, under any terms.
If he wanted to DISTRIBUTE that code, he would have had to do it with permission from the rightsholders of the work he was deriving his own work from. That permission could come in the form of the GPL, or he could seek alternative terms with the copyright holders if he does not want to use the GPL. If he distributes without doing either, then he is violating copyright law, and could have a civil case brought against him (or his employer in this case)
In the case of writing code for his employer, he has a responsibility to make it clear to the employer that what he is producing is constrained by a license agreement; that the code he is presenting is not just his, but also taken from soneone else who has other terms. What the employer decides to do from that point is up to them, it's their risk.
The employer owns the modifications outright. The employer can distribute the code that the employee wrote however they want. What they cannot do is distribute the portions the employee did NOT write (which is likely impossible)
The employee didn't license his work to his employer under the GPL... he gave it to them outright. The problem is that parts of it were not his to give.
All he should do is inform his employer of the liability, and then get on with things. The employer is not doing any harm to the employee by distributing this code, the employee KNEW that any code he wrote belonged to them. IBM and ActiveState, however, have a case.
As for patents, if the patent applies to parts the employee added, then they are free to patent to their heart's content. They are not free to distribute IBM & AS's code, however, with the patented stuff included, at least not if they are going ot use the GPL as a defence.
They could, of course, contact IBM or AS for permission.
- The code portions written by you belong to the employer, outright. - The IBM code and any other GPL code not written by you never belonged to you, and the rights were not yours to assign.
The solution is to clearly inform your employer that not all of the code you presented them was yours, and that they have a possible liability. They need to have their legal team look at it.
Don't go on about the GPL, that's not relevant to the situation, at least not directly. Let the lawyers figure out what to do about it. They DO have other options, such as contacting IBM, and they are NOT automatically bound by the GPL.. they simply have to sort out some situation where their rights are clear.
Your responsibility should end with informing them of the issue.
Rights assignment clauses only affect rights that are the employees to grant in the first place.
If the company uses some external GPL code not written by an employee, then that's between them and the rightsholders.
Just as I can't assign rights to MS Office to my employer just because I brought it in, neither can I assign rights to GPL code.
Now, if I am the author of that code, that's another matter.
If we are talking about derivitives, the employee's code based on GPL code, the company would be free to use it internally, and the employee could license his portions of the code to the company, however, the original GPL still stands, and the company would be unable to distribute the final product.
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I don't get it.. where is the news or injustice? Was this site targetted unfairly or something?
From the sounds of it, some users of the site did something not kosher, even by the standards of the site admins, and the FBI with legal backing asked to see the logs.
If they want to whine about anarchy, maybe they should not keep said logs in the first place? Talk about hypocritical. Blame the government for asking, but don't blame yourself, gosh no.
Sorry, on a screen that small, NO dead pixels is the only acceptable solution.
Dead pixels are common, yes, but the cost of developing screens with NO dead pixels goes up geometrically with the screen size. Making sure every 21" LCD has no dead pixels woudl drive the overall production costs significantly up.
There is no reason they can't make small screens with no dead pixels, the cost of doing so is not significantly higher.
Not really.
A real hacker isn't turned away by a Torx bolt. It keeps people who don't know what Torx is out of the case, though, which is a good thing.
Apple is quite up front about which APIs are public, and which are private, and themers and others have nobody to blame but themselves when apple removes/changes an API call that was private. Apple has superb developer documentation, and makes it very clear what they support and what they do not.
No.
OpenStep is a specification, written by NeXT.
GnuStep is the gnu project you are thinking of.
I mean, it's not going to take over, it's not going to evict microsft, it's not going to obsolte any of the other *bsd or linux distributions, but from an old hacker's point of view, OS X is cool.
Every old hacker I know who's tried it out (at least since 10.2) has stuck with it. I know there are exceptions out there, and people who just plain don't like OSX, but it definately qualifies in my book.
"It is unfortunate that student loan debt is excluded. That's exactly the kind of financial risk that the government should be encouraging people to take, not discouraging. "
Bankruptcy protection is not supposed to be like insurance, or a way to run away from your responsibilities. Far too many people were strategically declaring bankruptcy after graduating, indeed, the INTENDED to do so throughout their education. This way, by the time they are in their 30's, they have a top notch education, still worked for a decade, and qualify for credit again.
I believe mplayer doesn't use the quicktime framework... which is why it works better.
Or.. you could just download and install mplayer or vlc for osx. Not quite as pretty at quicktime, but do a much better job playing divx/xvid/etc.
Merchant agreements nowadays state that you cannot advertise separate prices for credit customers, to prevent this negative image.
Most shops, however, will grant you a cash discount if you simply ask (this is allowed)
The guy seems to have a level head, rather than trying to confront the people, he simply invetigates, and calls the police. Nothing wrong with that.
But keep this in mind:
The credit card companies called him. GOOD. That is what they are supposed to do. Further, HE wasn't stolen from; the merchants were. The merchants were carless and took risks with credit cards.
Visa/Discover will not pay anyone for the illegal charges, as they can't prove the charges were authorized (with, say, a signature).
Although I'm sure I would try to do the same thing in the same situation, a part of me would want to say "Why should I bother? I use my credit card as a convenience, and fraud protection is one of those conveniences. I don't use it so I can go chasing people around, that's not my problem. The merchants took the risk."
THe percentage given is not the percentage of computers in the country that have been compromised..
It's the percentage of compromised computers that originate in that country.
On a given bot-net, there are more computers from the UK than the US. Given that the UK is much smaller than the US, this is significant.
Oh, but it does matter, it matters when you get your bill and say "I didn't make this charge"... and the merchant can't show your valid signature.
The store is accepting some risk in taking a parent's card with a child's signature.
In the majority of cases, nobody complains, so things go along smoothly. If the store ends up getting scammed a few times, you can be sure they will stop taking risks, and WILL demand to see proper signatures, ID, etc.
The signature is there to protect you, the cardholder, and the store not checking isn't your problem, it's theirs, they are taking all the risk, not you.
If the merchant doesn't check the signature, that's not your problem, seriously.
The merchant is taking all the risk. If the cardholder rejects the payment as unauthorized, and they can't show a valid signature, the merchant will be out the money, not you.
idiots, plain and simple.
To lean on your religion in this way is to use it as a crutch for your inability to understand anything past your nose, plain and simple.
I know plenty of people who are very scientific, very well educated, very intelligent, and very religious.
Do they feel that their beliefs mean they can't follow science? Of course not.
What's wrong with feeling that God put the universe there for you to figure out yourself? You can still look at creation and say "It's all part of God's plan". If what you see doesn't match what's in your particular translation of the holy book, your responsibility is to find out WHY it doens't match. Translation error? Historical error? Plain old human error? Science experiment is wrong?
But stuffing your head in the sand and saying "how DARE they teach science" is absurd.
I can't stop laughing either, and it's upsetting me, because that's just cruel...
Just curious,
What is the rationale behind getting flu-shots because you had cancer?
Did you get that weird taste in your mouth when they hit you with the radio contrast fluid?
Sure do.
Just staying on the line after the BBS hung up and playing a dialtone into the phone, waiting for them to try to dial back, and then answering normally was enough to get around that in the cases where they only had one line.
If western union is using caller ID to authenticate financial matters, western union is being stupid. IT's always been possible to fake caller ID.
Let's not blame voip.
To take the other side...
What's with open, public roads that anyone is allowed to use? My friends were tied up and robbed the other day, and the thieves used public roads to do it!
We really need to crack down on usage of public roads.
Seriously, as if getting on the internet anonymously was EVER hard.. sure, wifi makes it a bit easier, but it's far, far from a new thing.
Although that's true, it ignores the reality of the situation.
For a huge majority of tasks that the business world wants to use these systems for, BSD does the job nicely. Yes, Debian takes forever to release a new -stable because of the huge number of tasks and platforms. Nobody is calling them stupid or lazy.
THe fact remains: In the current state of affairs, organisations want to use current software, with new features and all that. Debian stable is years behind the curve now, and that's a LONG time in this business.
Yes, it's stable, and that's appreciated, but stable software that's outdated doesn't help.
No, that's still wrong.
The GPL does not "infect" derived code, never.
If Daimaou wrote some code based on GPL code, that code is 100% totally and completely his, and nobody elses. He is not obliged to license it at all, to anyone, under any terms.
If he wanted to DISTRIBUTE that code, he would have had to do it with permission from the rightsholders of the work he was deriving his own work from. That permission could come in the form of the GPL, or he could seek alternative terms with the copyright holders if he does not want to use the GPL. If he distributes without doing either, then he is violating copyright law, and could have a civil case brought against him (or his employer in this case)
In the case of writing code for his employer, he has a responsibility to make it clear to the employer that what he is producing is constrained by a license agreement; that the code he is presenting is not just his, but also taken from soneone else who has other terms. What the employer decides to do from that point is up to them, it's their risk.
No.
The employer owns the modifications outright. The employer can distribute the code that the employee wrote however they want. What they cannot do is distribute the portions the employee did NOT write (which is likely impossible)
The employee didn't license his work to his employer under the GPL... he gave it to them outright. The problem is that parts of it were not his to give.
All he should do is inform his employer of the liability, and then get on with things. The employer is not doing any harm to the employee by distributing this code, the employee KNEW that any code he wrote belonged to them. IBM and ActiveState, however, have a case.
As for patents, if the patent applies to parts the employee added, then they are free to patent to their heart's content. They are not free to distribute IBM & AS's code, however, with the patented stuff included, at least not if they are going ot use the GPL as a defence.
They could, of course, contact IBM or AS for permission.
- The code portions written by you belong to the employer, outright.
- The IBM code and any other GPL code not written by you never belonged to you, and the rights were not yours to assign.
The solution is to clearly inform your employer that not all of the code you presented them was yours, and that they have a possible liability. They need to have their legal team look at it.
Don't go on about the GPL, that's not relevant to the situation, at least not directly. Let the lawyers figure out what to do about it. They DO have other options, such as contacting IBM, and they are NOT automatically bound by the GPL.. they simply have to sort out some situation where their rights are clear.
Your responsibility should end with informing them of the issue.
Rights assignment clauses only affect rights that are the employees to grant in the first place.
If the company uses some external GPL code not written by an employee, then that's between them and the rightsholders.
Just as I can't assign rights to MS Office to my employer just because I brought it in, neither can I assign rights to GPL code.
Now, if I am the author of that code, that's another matter.
If we are talking about derivitives, the employee's code based on GPL code, the company would be free to use it internally, and the employee could license his portions of the code to the company, however, the original GPL still stands, and the company would be unable to distribute the final product.
Well, how hard is it to remember two things?
Fn keys are common on laptops, they provide access to extra keys you don't have room for and don't use often.
Ctrl-click is always the right-click context menu.
Cmd-click is multiple-select.
If you can't remember two keys, how do you plan to remember which mouse button to use?