And yet, games create their own microcosm. It is just normal that commercial behaviors start to get in, along with advertising and of course politics. The more popular the game, the more likely they'll get influenced by the real world, even though they keep their originality.
There is a whole system in front of us that basically don't get it. They think software engineering is much like regular engineering, and this idea has to vanish before we can get anywhere. And you know how good are computer scientists at communicating with others.... So getting the message to them might prove to be a slow process.
Yes, someone has the problem of their account being deactivated. This sucks. But, imagine, for one moment, had the opposite happened. Say, for instance, the judge ordered to bank to change the numbers of the 1,300 accounts, resulting in 1,300 people having to change their financial information on all documents relating to those accounts. I'm not sure if you've ever had to do this, but it can take months for the changes to finally take hold on everything from direct deposit accounts to credit cards and Paypal accounts. Assuming that everything worked out correctly, that is. Granted, if they were wise, the customers would be doing this now themselves.
Your point is to say that annoying one person is better than annoying 1300. It may be valid, but for the fact that the person in question didn't do anything wrong, he was just a bystander. Those 1300 people would have been annoyed to hell, and I hope they (some of them at least) would have gone to another bank. This would have been a (albeit small) step in the right direction though. Closing a gmail account is just hiding the horrible truth. Which may not change anything anyways since the gmail account owner may have downloaded the file in question for days.
As far as the person being innocent, if you read the article, the bank sent an email to this account asking the recipient to destroy the file without opening it. The email account holder did not respond at all.
Being on vacation equates having a suspicious behavior !!??? Noone has any obligation to read one's email every f***ing day !!!
I'll stop there. You clearly prefer the workaround instead of having the *stupid* bank assume their very own *stupidity*. As a result they won't be a bit more careful next time, and maybe 1000 gmail accounts are going to be deactivated. Or gmail itself...
The story is about not having to disclose data breach if you use cryptography. This is all well and good unless you consider that there are so many dumb setups out there that are just a joke. Not disclosing security breach for those seems like a stupid idea.
Now for sure, some setups are safe. We don't talk about these.
In any case, you need a key to decrypt your data. If the guy that broke in got the key along with the data, no amount of cryptography is going to help. Usually, from experience, the key is very often to close to the data.
In a company I worked for, we had to set up a bridge between two web apps. We chose an SSO-like solution who worked well on the paper, but the devil is on the details. The guys on the other application decided to encrypt the SSO key in JavaScript on the client.... So the key ended up in clear text in the source of the page!
You are actually right. Let's decide that only the copyright holders are allowed to read the books, and we're done. That's pretty much what they're aiming at for music, and books are sure to follow the same path.
What will it mean for public domain books? Well... no copyright holders means that those books will be removed from the market altogether. That way, the situation is really clear cut.
You bet! Even in space, you still need one of these things called a woman to make a baby! Even on earth, we are as a group unable to get our hands on one, just imagine in space where they are a rarity...
GPL really is a stupid option in my opinion. Most certainly the guy doesn't even own the source code since he did it under contract from an employer, so he cannot really "release" what is not his...
Maybe I'm wrong and he owns the source code though. But it will give some more ammo to the FUD that carries some big corporations that GPL is bad.
While Google certainly has contracts with Apple to continue support for youtube and maps, a new application (Google Voice) that would be overly popular could make Google more powerful over the platform. If the app became very very popular, they could even threaten Apple to remove the application from the AppStore alltogether. Users wanting the service would have to switch to another phone.
Although it is a very unlikely scenario, it is not impossible in my view.
With Apple, it is very doubtful that the users will have a say. Jobs is the ultimate end-user of Apple products and will dictate his views no matter what.
I don't know about the US, but in France and I suppose all over europe, they sell unlocked iphone since day 1. Mind you, a 32GB 3GS will cost 1200Euros, but they sell it!
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And yet, games create their own microcosm. It is just normal that commercial behaviors start to get in, along with advertising and of course politics. The more popular the game, the more likely they'll get influenced by the real world, even though they keep their originality.
The question is: Will it be enough?
There is a whole system in front of us that basically don't get it. They think software engineering is much like regular engineering, and this idea has to vanish before we can get anywhere. And you know how good are computer scientists at communicating with others.... So getting the message to them might prove to be a slow process.
I am afraid we're not there yet...
Yes, someone has the problem of their account being deactivated. This sucks. But, imagine, for one moment, had the opposite happened. Say, for instance, the judge ordered to bank to change the numbers of the 1,300 accounts, resulting in 1,300 people having to change their financial information on all documents relating to those accounts. I'm not sure if you've ever had to do this, but it can take months for the changes to finally take hold on everything from direct deposit accounts to credit cards and Paypal accounts. Assuming that everything worked out correctly, that is. Granted, if they were wise, the customers would be doing this now themselves.
Your point is to say that annoying one person is better than annoying 1300. It may be valid, but for the fact that the person in question didn't do anything wrong, he was just a bystander. Those 1300 people would have been annoyed to hell, and I hope they (some of them at least) would have gone to another bank. This would have been a (albeit small) step in the right direction though. Closing a gmail account is just hiding the horrible truth. Which may not change anything anyways since the gmail account owner may have downloaded the file in question for days.
As far as the person being innocent, if you read the article, the bank sent an email to this account asking the recipient to destroy the file without opening it. The email account holder did not respond at all.
Being on vacation equates having a suspicious behavior !!??? Noone has any obligation to read one's email every f***ing day !!!
I'll stop there. You clearly prefer the workaround instead of having the *stupid* bank assume their very own *stupidity*. As a result they won't be a bit more careful next time, and maybe 1000 gmail accounts are going to be deactivated. Or gmail itself...
Don't mix up stupid females with females. Guys can be as cruel.
Remember: French deputies don't know anything.
There, I fixed it for you.
BTW, I am french ;-)
>> We'd all be a bit nicer to each other and ourselves if we started to accept the fact that no-one is perfect.
It's easy for the others, not so for oneself.
You know, iPhones are known for exploding, flying away and stuff, so a mere battery dying out is nothing!
The story is about not having to disclose data breach if you use cryptography. This is all well and good unless you consider that there are so many dumb setups out there that are just a joke. Not disclosing security breach for those seems like a stupid idea.
Now for sure, some setups are safe. We don't talk about these.
In any case, you need a key to decrypt your data. If the guy that broke in got the key along with the data, no amount of cryptography is going to help. Usually, from experience, the key is very often to close to the data.
In a company I worked for, we had to set up a bridge between two web apps. We chose an SSO-like solution who worked well on the paper, but the devil is on the details. The guys on the other application decided to encrypt the SSO key in JavaScript on the client.... So the key ended up in clear text in the source of the page!
Oh well....
You are actually right. Let's decide that only the copyright holders are allowed to read the books, and we're done. That's pretty much what they're aiming at for music, and books are sure to follow the same path.
What will it mean for public domain books? Well... no copyright holders means that those books will be removed from the market altogether. That way, the situation is really clear cut.
Whey does everyone call that 3D? It is just stereo scopic images, not real 3D.
Whenever we get 'real' 3D, how will we call it?
I actually buy now from Amazon. 256kbps MP3, properly tagged even with the cover in the ID3 tag.
That's pretty much all I need.
You bet! Even in space, you still need one of these things called a woman to make a baby! Even on earth, we are as a group unable to get our hands on one, just imagine in space where they are a rarity...
There's a funny story about an iPhone that actually flew away from its owner!!!
http://pieroxy.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-from-missouri-my-iphone-flew-away.html
GPL really is a stupid option in my opinion. Most certainly the guy doesn't even own the source code since he did it under contract from an employer, so he cannot really "release" what is not his...
Maybe I'm wrong and he owns the source code though. But it will give some more ammo to the FUD that carries some big corporations that GPL is bad.
The point of the article is suggesting that IE use BOTH its own list and Google's. So it is closer to redundancy than to SPF.
You should try to read the summary, it helps understand the matter.
>>>>>(then again, I'm not a retard).
You wouldn't know.
>>> Cell phones that only work where you have wi-fi aren't much of a competitor.
Especially those without a microphone.
Your example show exactly the opposite of your point. Apple has brought as much evolution with ONE phone, than Nokia did with a thousand!
Nokia is evolution, Apple is closer to revolution. Because let's be serious, smartphones were close to being unusable before Apple stepped in.
While Google certainly has contracts with Apple to continue support for youtube and maps, a new application (Google Voice) that would be overly popular could make Google more powerful over the platform. If the app became very very popular, they could even threaten Apple to remove the application from the AppStore alltogether. Users wanting the service would have to switch to another phone.
Although it is a very unlikely scenario, it is not impossible in my view.
With Apple, it is very doubtful that the users will have a say. Jobs is the ultimate end-user of Apple products and will dictate his views no matter what.
since that also prohibits developing turn by turn voice navigation applications
This is a thing of the past. Plenty of applications do turn by turn navigation nowadays. I believe it is now possible since OS3.0.
I don't know about the US, but in France and I suppose all over europe, they sell unlocked iphone since day 1. Mind you, a 32GB 3GS will cost 1200Euros, but they sell it!
Cheaper, but illegal.
the law is on their side
Extending the "Extensible markup language" seems like a no-brainer. It is in the name of XML!!! And I thought patents had to be non obvious !
Not really sure on which side the law is on that one. That said, explaining this to a judge might prove to be a complex situation.