Ah, you must be one of those idiotic radicals who can't understand simple science or statistics. Tell you what you do, go out and look at more than the last 200, or 500, or 100,000 years worth of data, you know some time frame that is statistically significant, and see what you get. You might be surprised to find that for the last 100,000 years, the temperature has been unusually stable and mild.
But, I know you won't actually investigate the numbers because you can't be bothered to educate yourself and prefer to be sheeple.
Actually, it means exactly that. He does not have an allergy to wifi. If you knew what and allergy was, you would know that. He has a psychiatric condition that needs to be treated or he is an idiot publicity seeker.
Here, let me put it in perspective: Prayers give me headaches, bad headaches, as well as confusion and depression. Therefore, I am allergic to prayer and all praying should be banned.
I see you didn't answer any of the questions I posed. Seeing as you know what the profit margin is, why don't you tell us? Because you evidently know the profit margin, you should also know both income and expense for all the products as well, so why not provide those numbers as well?
I mean it, what qualifies him to make such statements? He has a degree in Music. He has written a lot of application books. As far as I can tell, he has never actually worked as a sysadmin, systems engineer, network engineer, etc. Has he ever worked in the telecom industry? In fact, have any of you who are saying how cheap everything should be ever actually worked in the telecom industry and had to support any of the SMS/MMS applications?
How are you coming by your cost estimates? Are you including multiple redundant servers in multiple locations? Having to have enough servers to handle maximum traffic, even if that is four plus times average traffic? Multiple ISP connections over different backbone providers? On-going maintenance and power costs? Regulatory costs imposed by state and federal governments, including Sarbanes-Oxley, such as extra lawyers and accountants and dedicated staff to ensure compliance?
I work in the industry and this is just a small part of what people don't consider when trying to tally costs for "sending txt messages". The systems I work on handle tens of millions of messages on an average day. But, some days, like New Years Eve or Valentine's, we may see a hundred plus of million of message. Because of the SLAs, we have to have the capacity to handle the peak load. After all, you, the subscriber, wants that text message to get there regardless of the traffic load.
Tax the hell out of him how? Are you going to pass special legislation targets only at him?
If he doesn't work, and from what I understand he doesn't, then he has no wages to garnish.
He was put in prison for contempt of court, not owing money.
Watch his bank transaction? All he has to do is have the money sent to him as he needs it via Western Union or MoneyGram. He could also do other fun things, like staging a fake lottery and claiming it as winning. Granted he would have to pay taxes on the money, but he would not have to share it as it was not "won" during the marriage.
I'm a pretty conservative Christian...Plus it kind of implies a religion-set-up-by-government, which - Ireland being "Catholic" and thus claiming to believe in Jesus Christ from the Bible - is NOT what Jesus talked about.
Which, of course, is why you and your buddies are not trying to prevent homosexual marriage, abortion, etc. And, you all are not trying to introduce creationism, prayer, and other bits of religion in schools. And, you all would never lie about the religious affiliations of the founding fathers or whether the United States is a Christian nation.
Oh, wait, that is exactly what conservative Christians have been doing and continue to do.
So, these black officers belong to an all-black, and presumably black-only, group are claiming racism. I guess they should know as they belong to a racist organization. Imagine the outcry if there were an all-white group.
I see, you are upset that they were arrested for conspiring to violate the law to steal service. Yes, that makes it all better because as we all know, conspiring to break the law is not illegal... oh wait, it is.
A) A large corporation would be charged with the same thing. B) The goal of a security researcher is research. The goal of the people involved in this scheme was to clone desktop boxes and security access cards for profit.
C) The Lexmark case has almost nothing in common with this case. The Lexmark case was about people reverse engineering to compete with an end product. This case is about people reverse engineering to allow access to someone else's end product and information, possibly without paying for the end-product and information.
This is not for interoperability. The goal of this operation was to create smart cards that allowed people to view channels they did not pay for and to allow people who do not have an account to view the channels. The goal was to facilitate theft of service, not interoperability.
There are no damages in those cases. The whoever holds the copyright to the GPLed code loses no money and suffers no real harm from having their code used. No damage at all. So, any damage claims are by default ridiculous.
Why is her sentence ridiculous? Let's look at what she was found to have done: she knowingly and willfully violated the copyrights of others. She could have settled. She could have paid the original fine. But, no, she didn't. She just dug her hole deeper. It does not matter that you think she did nothing wrong, because you obviously a hypocrite and have no ethics. What does matter is that she was found guilty and her fine, according to the law, could have been TWICE that.
So, when the EFF sues a company for using GPL code, it should not receive a dime, yes? And, when a person is discriminated against in a restaurant, they should not get a dime because they have had any actual damages.
The very reason that we have banks left is because they've been adapted to reality. Bigger and more secure safes, security staff, panic buttons etc.
It is funny you say this, because corporate copyright holders have done just that and a huge number of people went "WAIT! That is not fair!11!!1!". Copyright legislation, law suits, DRM, etc are all adaptations to the reality created by people who have no morals or ethics and casually violate copyright law.
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In other words, because it won't work in your particular situation, you think it is stupid and unworkable for everyone.
If my employer would allow it, I could easily take up the "digital nomad" lifestyle because all I need to do my job is a laptop and my brain.
We have it, but there are consequences for it. Sadly, the consequences seem to be getting out of hand.
Ah, you must be one of those idiotic radicals who can't understand simple science or statistics. Tell you what you do, go out and look at more than the last 200, or 500, or 100,000 years worth of data, you know some time frame that is statistically significant, and see what you get. You might be surprised to find that for the last 100,000 years, the temperature has been unusually stable and mild.
But, I know you won't actually investigate the numbers because you can't be bothered to educate yourself and prefer to be sheeple.
Or, the data shows the exact opposite is happening and many politicos will end up with egg on their faces.
Actually, it means exactly that. He does not have an allergy to wifi. If you knew what and allergy was, you would know that. He has a psychiatric condition that needs to be treated or he is an idiot publicity seeker.
Here, let me put it in perspective: Prayers give me headaches, bad headaches, as well as confusion and depression. Therefore, I am allergic to prayer and all praying should be banned.
I see you didn't answer any of the questions I posed. Seeing as you know what the profit margin is, why don't you tell us? Because you evidently know the profit margin, you should also know both income and expense for all the products as well, so why not provide those numbers as well?
I look forward to you providing this information.
How the fuck is this a troll? It is a valid question, you assholes.
I mean it, what qualifies him to make such statements? He has a degree in Music. He has written a lot of application books. As far as I can tell, he has never actually worked as a sysadmin, systems engineer, network engineer, etc. Has he ever worked in the telecom industry? In fact, have any of you who are saying how cheap everything should be ever actually worked in the telecom industry and had to support any of the SMS/MMS applications?
How are you coming by your cost estimates? Are you including multiple redundant servers in multiple locations? Having to have enough servers to handle maximum traffic, even if that is four plus times average traffic? Multiple ISP connections over different backbone providers? On-going maintenance and power costs? Regulatory costs imposed by state and federal governments, including Sarbanes-Oxley, such as extra lawyers and accountants and dedicated staff to ensure compliance?
I work in the industry and this is just a small part of what people don't consider when trying to tally costs for "sending txt messages". The systems I work on handle tens of millions of messages on an average day. But, some days, like New Years Eve or Valentine's, we may see a hundred plus of million of message. Because of the SLAs, we have to have the capacity to handle the peak load. After all, you, the subscriber, wants that text message to get there regardless of the traffic load.
I would actually pay to watch that movie.
Tax the hell out of him how? Are you going to pass special legislation targets only at him?
If he doesn't work, and from what I understand he doesn't, then he has no wages to garnish.
He was put in prison for contempt of court, not owing money.
Watch his bank transaction? All he has to do is have the money sent to him as he needs it via Western Union or MoneyGram. He could also do other fun things, like staging a fake lottery and claiming it as winning. Granted he would have to pay taxes on the money, but he would not have to share it as it was not "won" during the marriage.
Money laundering just takes a little creativity.
Hey, you just described $cientology's business model!
Which, of course, is why you and your buddies are not trying to prevent homosexual marriage, abortion, etc. And, you all are not trying to introduce creationism, prayer, and other bits of religion in schools. And, you all would never lie about the religious affiliations of the founding fathers or whether the United States is a Christian nation.
Oh, wait, that is exactly what conservative Christians have been doing and continue to do.
But, but, but, that's unpossible!
Including or excluding people solely because of their race is... racist. Thanks for playing, you lose.
Prove that statement with verifiable facts.
So, these black officers belong to an all-black, and presumably black-only, group are claiming racism. I guess they should know as they belong to a racist organization. Imagine the outcry if there were an all-white group.
I see, you are upset that they were arrested for conspiring to violate the law to steal service. Yes, that makes it all better because as we all know, conspiring to break the law is not illegal... oh wait, it is.
Conspiring to break the law is a crime.
You broke the encryption to get the service without paying for it, therefore it is theft of service.
A) A large corporation would be charged with the same thing.
B) The goal of a security researcher is research. The goal of the people involved in this scheme was to clone desktop boxes and security access cards for profit.
C) The Lexmark case has almost nothing in common with this case. The Lexmark case was about people reverse engineering to compete with an end product. This case is about people reverse engineering to allow access to someone else's end product and information, possibly without paying for the end-product and information.
This is not for interoperability. The goal of this operation was to create smart cards that allowed people to view channels they did not pay for and to allow people who do not have an account to view the channels. The goal was to facilitate theft of service, not interoperability.
There are no damages in those cases. The whoever holds the copyright to the GPLed code loses no money and suffers no real harm from having their code used. No damage at all. So, any damage claims are by default ridiculous.
Why is her sentence ridiculous? Let's look at what she was found to have done: she knowingly and willfully violated the copyrights of others. She could have settled. She could have paid the original fine. But, no, she didn't. She just dug her hole deeper. It does not matter that you think she did nothing wrong, because you obviously a hypocrite and have no ethics. What does matter is that she was found guilty and her fine, according to the law, could have been TWICE that.
So, when the EFF sues a company for using GPL code, it should not receive a dime, yes? And, when a person is discriminated against in a restaurant, they should not get a dime because they have had any actual damages.
So, lawsuits against those they have found is "holding a gun to the heads of a few". See, that is why you are full of shit.
It is funny you say this, because corporate copyright holders have done just that and a huge number of people went "WAIT! That is not fair!11!!1!". Copyright legislation, law suits, DRM, etc are all adaptations to the reality created by people who have no morals or ethics and casually violate copyright law.
Where do you think the "news" bloggers get their news?