I'll say it another way then: if you think the hunger problem in Africa is about people not having enough money to buy food, think again.
Time and again we've been sending money. They buy cars and weapons. Time and again we've been sending shiploads of food. They let it rot or sink the ship.
The things you can do about dictators that let part of their population die from hunger is nowhere near that simple.
Sorry but you're wrong. Because you don"t OWN IP, you own copyright or patents, but you don't own IP.
In this view, when someone copies your song over, they are depriving you of your property: the copyright grants you the right to distribute your IP as you see fit. Someone copying it over and distributing it over the internet is stealing allright, because then what was given to you by society - control over distribution - effectively disappears.
It's all a matter of context I guess. Companies like MS, Apple, Oracle & co sit on treasure chests in the form of patent portfolios. The LAW makes it so. It would be foolish of them not to try and make money out of them.
So they go against people that are obviously infringing their overly broad patents. But they have so many of them that it's becoming impossible to fight, unless you have yourself a huge patent portfolio.
In that view, I don't understand why google didn't put everything they had behind the Nortel portfolio. They NEED it in order to make Android a sustainable product - from a commercial perspective.
What is dead wrong in this system is that none of these lawsuits will ever result in a judgment. So all in all, the justice system is just a means to grab money and nothing else. And none of the players here want any of these lawsuit to go before a judge. Because none of them can afford to lose one of these lawsuits. They just move their pawns in court and then settle.
In my view, a judge SHOULD be able to declare a lawsuit "non settleable." This way, those companies would think twice before starting such lawsuits because there would be a chance that one of them would actually go to the end of the procedure. Then it would be obvious to everyone (or at least to the DOJ) that the patent system is just here to benefit trolls and major patent holders, but hardly anyone else. And it should be obvious that ANY NEW PRODUCT will infringe millions of patents because everything has been patented many times already.
With all due respect... Are you implying that you are entitled to make money with what you love doing?
Nope. What I'm saying is that there are people - a whole shitload of em - ready to pay for music. So a musician should be - in all logic - able to live out of his/her art. The fact that they can't (or that it's so difficult) is due to a monopoly made out of crappiness and maintained through heavy corruption. They call it lobbying, but we know better.
So a musician SHOULD be able to live out of his/her work. Yes, I am asserting that.
When your input field is overlapped by your nice little logo, there's no way to enter anything in it (for the average Joe). You page may "work" but if users can't figure out how, it it as good as a broken database.
The most deceiving thing in iCloud is that they won't store your pics... This is really stunning. Given the price of 2TB drives nowadays, it is a wonder that they stumble on that.
For the rest, I find it actually useful that a document made here gets its way to all my other devices. Plus the added benefit of an online backup.
No revolution there, but a nice implementation in my view. As often with Apple.
Executive summary: why do I bother reading/. at all?
That sums it up. This story is the quintessence of what is wrong with slashdot these days. Syntactically, all is good. Grammatically, all is good. The meaning, however, is nil.
How this bunch of random buzzwords (in no particular order) made it to the front page is very very revealing.
I'd rather have "sad fucks" practice this and get public about it than real fuckers that hack into every website like LulzSec does and just use the information without anyone knowing it.
I'd even have LulzSec + the real hackers than the real hackers alone. That way, at least, people are aware that something is happening.
That said, I can't help but wonder if this sudden attention paid to security will be bad in the long run. I mean, people need to be aware that their data is not safe when it is online. Their campaign has a good chance of pointing that out to the masses.
There will be ton of ill advised side effects. But the message needs to get out.
Do you mean to say that the fact that some people may use the millions of passwords that are out in the street if more far fetched than believing the system has been hacked?
I'd say it is debatable at best. As for your advice, since there are no evidence yet, I'd advise you to actually follow it.
To be fair, the attacker population is vastly decreased with a fingerprint scanner. The script kiddie in China cannot do much as far as my coffee cup is concerned. And the usual problems with stupid passwords and using the same pwd all over the web are gone. So I'd say security was increased.
I'd be more worried about my computer crashing and my long and unmemorizable password collection just vanishing...
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Dude, Apple doesn't charge a dime for new OSes.
The rest is true of course.
You don't need a "machine" for that. A VM will do.
Can you tell us what the "M" stand for in "VM"? Just for fun.
I know. I was obviously overreacting to the statement that the hunger problem in Africa can be eradicated by throwing money at it.
It could be greatly reduced, but nowhere near eradicated.
And I do receive legitimate email in my spam box from time to time. So I still have to go through my spam once in awhile.
I'll say it another way then: if you think the hunger problem in Africa is about people not having enough money to buy food, think again.
Time and again we've been sending money. They buy cars and weapons.
Time and again we've been sending shiploads of food. They let it rot or sink the ship.
The things you can do about dictators that let part of their population die from hunger is nowhere near that simple.
Congratulations. You just subscribed to shitloads of spam ;-)
If you think fighting the hunger in Africa is going to be solved with money, think again.
Sorry but you're wrong. Because you don"t OWN IP, you own copyright or patents, but you don't own IP.
In this view, when someone copies your song over, they are depriving you of your property: the copyright grants you the right to distribute your IP as you see fit. Someone copying it over and distributing it over the internet is stealing allright, because then what was given to you by society - control over distribution - effectively disappears.
It's all a matter of context I guess. Companies like MS, Apple, Oracle & co sit on treasure chests in the form of patent portfolios. The LAW makes it so. It would be foolish of them not to try and make money out of them.
So they go against people that are obviously infringing their overly broad patents. But they have so many of them that it's becoming impossible to fight, unless you have yourself a huge patent portfolio.
In that view, I don't understand why google didn't put everything they had behind the Nortel portfolio. They NEED it in order to make Android a sustainable product - from a commercial perspective.
What is dead wrong in this system is that none of these lawsuits will ever result in a judgment. So all in all, the justice system is just a means to grab money and nothing else. And none of the players here want any of these lawsuit to go before a judge. Because none of them can afford to lose one of these lawsuits. They just move their pawns in court and then settle.
In my view, a judge SHOULD be able to declare a lawsuit "non settleable." This way, those companies would think twice before starting such lawsuits because there would be a chance that one of them would actually go to the end of the procedure. Then it would be obvious to everyone (or at least to the DOJ) that the patent system is just here to benefit trolls and major patent holders, but hardly anyone else. And it should be obvious that ANY NEW PRODUCT will infringe millions of patents because everything has been patented many times already.
Uhhhh, except that robbers are commonly agreed to be a nuisance, not musicians.
With all due respect... Are you implying that you are entitled to make money with what you love doing?
Nope. What I'm saying is that there are people - a whole shitload of em - ready to pay for music. So a musician should be - in all logic - able to live out of his/her art. The fact that they can't (or that it's so difficult) is due to a monopoly made out of crappiness and maintained through heavy corruption. They call it lobbying, but we know better.
So a musician SHOULD be able to live out of his/her work. Yes, I am asserting that.
When your input field is overlapped by your nice little logo, there's no way to enter anything in it (for the average Joe). You page may "work" but if users can't figure out how, it it as good as a broken database.
The problem is that - as a musician today - you can't make money out of what you love. And you should.
Dude, are you for real?
You really don't understand how an idea can get into someone's mind? Did you live in a cave all these years?
The most deceiving thing in iCloud is that they won't store your pics... This is really stunning. Given the price of 2TB drives nowadays, it is a wonder that they stumble on that.
For the rest, I find it actually useful that a document made here gets its way to all my other devices. Plus the added benefit of an online backup.
No revolution there, but a nice implementation in my view. As often with Apple.
That one made me laugh hard ! Thanks.
copyright (...) does not serve the goal of adding to the common stock of our culture.
However, it does serve the goal of preventing value to enter the common stock of our culture.
But the more you do in JavaScript, the less attack vectors you have.
Executive summary: why do I bother reading /. at all?
That sums it up. This story is the quintessence of what is wrong with slashdot these days. Syntactically, all is good. Grammatically, all is good. The meaning, however, is nil.
How this bunch of random buzzwords (in no particular order) made it to the front page is very very revealing.
I'd rather have "sad fucks" practice this and get public about it than real fuckers that hack into every website like LulzSec does and just use the information without anyone knowing it.
I'd even have LulzSec + the real hackers than the real hackers alone. That way, at least, people are aware that something is happening.
That said, I can't help but wonder if this sudden attention paid to security will be bad in the long run. I mean, people need to be aware that their data is not safe when it is online. Their campaign has a good chance of pointing that out to the masses.
There will be ton of ill advised side effects. But the message needs to get out.
Overall I don't think this is bad.
You should always target 1.1, so you are sure that whatever plugin you find it will work.
Ahhh, sir, you just don't get it, or so it seems.
While maintaining the radio button on "Credit Card", there is no way of not entering a credit card number !
Apple is a bunch of thieves that will dry us all out. Blood suckers. How can people live with this ??????
Do you mean to say that the fact that some people may use the millions of passwords that are out in the street if more far fetched than believing the system has been hacked?
I'd say it is debatable at best. As for your advice, since there are no evidence yet, I'd advise you to actually follow it.
To be fair, the attacker population is vastly decreased with a fingerprint scanner. The script kiddie in China cannot do much as far as my coffee cup is concerned. And the usual problems with stupid passwords and using the same pwd all over the web are gone. So I'd say security was increased.
I'd be more worried about my computer crashing and my long and unmemorizable password collection just vanishing...
Just saying.