Seriously? Anyone paid by Oracle and/or Microsoft is questionable as an expert? You do realize a lot of Googlers used to work for Microsoft too?
The only reason Florian got called a shill was because he announced that Oracle is now paying him, and he wanted to disclose it for purposes of full disclosure.
Facts are facts, and when he points facts out, unless he was wrong, disparaging him doesn't make the facts false.
So, *you* personally haven't experienced fraud, therefore Chip and Pin is now magically safer?
Have you not been reading, on slashdot even, all the stories about chip and pins being broken? Multiple times? The last one was so broken that there's no way to fix it?
Additionally, if it becomes a constant upgrade battle, because people will try to hack it, this will really be painful. And I don't need yet another vector for someone to try to take over my systems.
Have you actually ever bought a DVD in a "poorer market"? Not a pirated DVD, but one properly licensed and imported? You actually think it is cheaper than the $5 bin at Walmart?
Off on a tangent - I'm pissed that Sony refuses to allow the USA PS3s to play some UK bluerays, the 50Hz ones specifically. I had to go buy a Samsung $50 BR player to play my ordered from UK Planet Earth BlueRays. WTF is up with that!?
You seemed to have missed the part where they got caught and went "oops, did we do that? So sorry, won't do that again"
From TFA:
Samsung Taiwan had originally claimed that it was unaware of the FTC’s actions, but later wrote on its Facebook page that it regretted “any inconvenience and confusion from the Internet event,” adding that “Samsung Taiwan has halted all Internet marketing such as posting articles on websites.”
Where do all these Samsung Defenders come from, I wonder... I mean, defending the company even after the company admitted doing it... Jesus.
Do you seriously think that Sony is one monolithic organization? The movies/music people are separate and away from the electronics, which is separate from the playstation. No idea where this group falls under, but most probably not music/movie people.
In Memphis, a publicly owned MLGW has one of the lowest prices for water and electricity. So price is a factor of geography and other things, and not whether it is owned by the "public" or "private".
If you want to see what private ownership does, look at the cable companies, and how they manage to screw you over year after year.
It drives me crazy that people always bring P/E ratio into these kinds of discussions. WTF does it have to do with anything?! Is Google selling any more shares? If not, what the hell does it have to do with anything?
Slashdot Mirror
His expertise is in this, so he writes about this. Are you going to tell me that I should tell my math professors there's more to life than just math?
Seriously, you should also know that there's more to life than slashdot, and needing to respond aimlessly.
link?
The OP's comment was in the poorer markets. But it actually applies to "market outside of the original market", in which case, yours fall into that.
Seriously? Anyone paid by Oracle and/or Microsoft is questionable as an expert? You do realize a lot of Googlers used to work for Microsoft too?
The only reason Florian got called a shill was because he announced that Oracle is now paying him, and he wanted to disclose it for purposes of full disclosure.
Facts are facts, and when he points facts out, unless he was wrong, disparaging him doesn't make the facts false.
I have not seen him been unfactual (or lie).
You do understand that Apple offered that to Samsung, and Samsung basically said FOAD?
Do you understand what the definition of a patent troll is...?
Not sure how this argument *SQUIRREL*
Then don't use fat32. Simple.
So, *you* personally haven't experienced fraud, therefore Chip and Pin is now magically safer?
Have you not been reading, on slashdot even, all the stories about chip and pins being broken? Multiple times? The last one was so broken that there's no way to fix it?
Additionally, if it becomes a constant upgrade battle, because people will try to hack it, this will really be painful. And I don't need yet another vector for someone to try to take over my systems.
The problem is that once this is in place, everyone will use it.
Have you actually ever bought a DVD in a "poorer market"? Not a pirated DVD, but one properly licensed and imported? You actually think it is cheaper than the $5 bin at Walmart?
Just so you can watch netflix, we ought to fuck over HTML5?
No, fuck you and your overly endowed sense of entitlement.
You mean this webkit?
http://opensource.apple.com/source/WebKit/WebKit-7536.28.10/
Or this webkit? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/07/23/1953217/the-unforking-of-kdes-khtml-and-webkit-begins
Holding a grudge for 6 years? Man, in Internet terms, that's like a million years!
What makes you think this isn't part of it...?
I wonder how old is the iPhone 3GS, because, afaik, it's still getting OS updates and patches. Heh.
Off on a tangent - I'm pissed that Sony refuses to allow the USA PS3s to play some UK bluerays, the 50Hz ones specifically. I had to go buy a Samsung $50 BR player to play my ordered from UK Planet Earth BlueRays. WTF is up with that!?
As someone else pointed out - this was done under BMG. Sony was buying BMG at that moment. In other words, it *wasn't* Sony's fault.
The blame should be placed correctly.
You seemed to have missed the part where they got caught and went "oops, did we do that? So sorry, won't do that again"
From TFA:
Samsung Taiwan had originally claimed that it was unaware of the FTC’s actions, but later wrote on its Facebook page that it regretted “any inconvenience and confusion from the Internet event,” adding that “Samsung Taiwan has halted all Internet marketing such as posting articles on websites.”
Where do all these Samsung Defenders come from, I wonder... I mean, defending the company even after the company admitted doing it... Jesus.
Wow, facts instead of spittle. Well done. Curious why so many idiots continue to spout nonsense when facts are so readily available.
Do you seriously think that Sony is one monolithic organization? The movies/music people are separate and away from the electronics, which is separate from the playstation. No idea where this group falls under, but most probably not music/movie people.
If you can break sha-256, most of Internet is essentially broken. Breaking EC would break a hell of a lot of shit too.
In Memphis, a publicly owned MLGW has one of the lowest prices for water and electricity. So price is a factor of geography and other things, and not whether it is owned by the "public" or "private".
If you want to see what private ownership does, look at the cable companies, and how they manage to screw you over year after year.
It drives me crazy that people always bring P/E ratio into these kinds of discussions. WTF does it have to do with anything?! Is Google selling any more shares? If not, what the hell does it have to do with anything?
You should probably look in the mirror.
I've never said anything about assuming every news report is false nor did I say never to have an opinion on anything.
I only offered *my* opinion on *one* piece of news in this instance. Anyone extrapolating unsaid things is a mucking foron.