You had it easy. Back in the days, first post didn't even exist, we only had 0.001th post, which our pop would carve with his belt on our skin in hieroglyphics, after which we had to go deliver in person, in the snow, uphill both way. Taco's grand grandfather would then skin us alive to display it on his cave gallery.
No, it's not insane and dangerous; consider it the same as an unwritten hacker's code of honour.
Get into a system and do nothing harmful ? If anything, the IT Security will have to work harder. Computer system gets safer.
Erase, steal secrets ? Now THAT is punishable.
Same for people cracking DRM. Cracking DRM should not be punishable (even if the DMCA says so); copyright infringement arguably so.
What is the harm that is done to society when someone escapes ? None, blame the lousy guards who can't manage their prison ? Should activities that do not cause harm to society be punished ? Heck no ! Even if they make harmful activities possible ? THEN PUNISH THESE !
The reason is cell phone companies are spending billions to upgrade their equipment.
(I am a mobile telecom engineer in Europe). While we do spend billions upgrading our network, it is amortized over many years. In the end, we have a yearly revenue of around 1b and a profit of about 500m. Not too bad of a profit for a relatively small operator -4.5m active customers. This means around 500m in expenses, which are mainly salaries and network maintenance. In other words, while expensive, network maintenance IS NOT a reason for retail price gouging: we could almost halve the retail prices and still be profitable.
I am certain that figures would be higher in the US because of your lower population density, but remember that this is only true for the radio network. Core network upgrade prices are not proportional with territory surface, only with traffic and traffic is proportional with customer base and thus profit (fair game).
In the end, yes, the US mobile operators are price gouging, but this is because of greed, not network upgrades.
1)Google Mail on day1 = cookie1 = ip address 1 --> your name, and mail secrets 2)Google Search on day1 = cookie2 = ip address 1 --> your benign search pattern 3)Google Search on day2 = cookie2 = ip address 2 --> your guilty pleasure search pattern --------------- cookie2 --> ip address 2 at day2 and ip address 1 at day 1 are the same guy ip address 1 --> cookie 1 and cookie 2 are the same guy Therefore Google has the name, no longer content with your mail secrets, also know what your guilty pleasures are. Want a job at Google ? They KNOW you like midget porn. Your only chance is that Google staff members also like midget porn.
For all you know, MS does the same with MSN search and MSN Hotmail, not to speak of Yahoo, not to speak of datamining between databases of two or more companies. The latter is probably illegal but you can always hire market intelligence consultants to "exploit your data at its best". I'll let you guess how they do that better than your guys.
Thats why butterknives are mostly legal everywhere. If everyone started to use bufferknives as weapons, actions would be taken against em
If everyone started to use bufferknives (???) as weapons, lawmakers would have other worries than banning the butterknives. The crime is already banned, why ban the tools.
I guess we all eventually learn post-death. If there is no creator we cease to exist and all is well as we will not need to know at that point. However, if there is a creator, then we may be called upon to answer before it why we did not believe we were it's creation. With a 50/50 chance, I choose to go the creator route, for if I die and there is no creator, then I have lost nothing, but if there is a creator, then I am also covered.;-)
a.k.a. Pascal's Wager.
Pascal's Wager is flawed in that people taking this as a reason to believe is actually not believing at all, it's faking in order not to get a punishment. Do you really believe the hypothetical god will not notice that when/if you meet him ? Pascal's wager is for people that have already decided that they believe in a god.
Also, I challenge your Probability Theory notions : just because a choice is A vs. B doesn't meant it's 50-50.
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Yeah, let's leave to hope the competence of trained lawyers to know about a law some wanker on slashdot knows about.
* "COM Surrogate has stopped working". WTF is that, why should I be informed (once every 10 secs) about this crash, which doesn't seem like it impacts anything. * "Internet Explorer doesn't respond". Hell no it doesn't, I fucking shut it down, it should not be responding, and no, a program you shoved up our OS to further your monopoly abuse should not be that buggy.
Don't call my platform buggy, friends with a brand new Dell have the same issue.
I think this can be somehow mapped to the broken window fallacy. Whether or not the high margin, low labour, arbitrarily priced media copy IS the broken window is not relevant, because it is a highly subjective matter.
As an engineer considering myself a performance artist (My designs will allow for lots of economies of scales WITHIN my company but are little applicable to other companies, so fellow engineers will have to repeat the same performance at those companies), I tend to believe that the high margin, low labour, arbitrarily priced media copy ARE the "broken windows" and the money would better be spent on other one shot "performances" than on some lazy asses who take a N-fold reproduction of their work as an N-fold increase of its worth.
I have a small problem: there are no control pictures. Every so many pictures they should put a control picture with a known but unrelated crash site. The example they give in the instructions is not a crashed plane, it's a MSPAINTED plane.
Evolutionary genetics and simple game theory lead to the conclusion that morality is an inevitable consequence of living in social groups.
I agree. When Richard Dawkins was accused of a strong "selfish" agenda behind the Selfish Gene, he replied with an excellent BBC documentary, available on Bittorrent, about how being altruistic sometimes IS the selfish action (Title is "Nice guys finish first")
...it's that instant caller location presentation does not exist, one minute of uninterrupted call is required. If I hang up after 58 seconds, they know jack shit.
Even more, what's holding me from using one of those fancy UNTRACEABLE CELL PHONES ?
Anyway, as long as they don't use their multiple angle, real time satellite imaging, and as long as they don't use their TRANSLTR computer to decrypt my arbitrary long key messages, I'll be fine.
So by your model, everyone not going to the most expensive seller of a particular good is a thief ?
Go back to Economics 101. This is called supply and demand curves. There is lots of demand for free music, there is lots of offer too, which translates into a deal. There is also lots of demand for cheap or expensive music, which translates to different deals at different price points called allofmp3, itunes, or CD sale, all being essentially the same product. Legality at this point is not related.
You also seem challenged about the difference between value and cost. Something can be free and be of great value (e.g. food in the west), some very expensive things can be worthless (e.g. a PS3 lollerz).
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You had it easy. Back in the days, first post didn't even exist, we only had 0.001th post, which our pop would carve with his belt on our skin in hieroglyphics, after which we had to go deliver in person, in the snow, uphill both way. Taco's grand grandfather would then skin us alive to display it on his cave gallery.
No, it's not insane and dangerous; consider it the same as an unwritten hacker's code of honour.
Get into a system and do nothing harmful ? If anything, the IT Security will have to work harder. Computer system gets safer.
Erase, steal secrets ? Now THAT is punishable.
Same for people cracking DRM. Cracking DRM should not be punishable (even if the DMCA says so); copyright infringement arguably so.
What is the harm that is done to society when someone escapes ? None, blame the lousy guards who can't manage their prison ? Should activities that do not cause harm to society be punished ? Heck no ! Even if they make harmful activities possible ? THEN PUNISH THESE !
...And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling dataminers.
I am certain that figures would be higher in the US because of your lower population density, but remember that this is only true for the radio network. Core network upgrade prices are not proportional with territory surface, only with traffic and traffic is proportional with customer base and thus profit (fair game).
In the end, yes, the US mobile operators are price gouging, but this is because of greed, not network upgrades.
1)Google Mail on day1 = cookie1 = ip address 1 --> your name, and mail secrets
2)Google Search on day1 = cookie2 = ip address 1 --> your benign search pattern
3)Google Search on day2 = cookie2 = ip address 2 --> your guilty pleasure search pattern
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cookie2 --> ip address 2 at day2 and ip address 1 at day 1 are the same guy
ip address 1 --> cookie 1 and cookie 2 are the same guy
Therefore Google has the name, no longer content with your mail secrets, also know what your guilty pleasures are. Want a job at Google ? They KNOW you like midget porn. Your only chance is that Google staff members also like midget porn.
For all you know, MS does the same with MSN search and MSN Hotmail, not to speak of Yahoo, not to speak of datamining between databases of two or more companies. The latter is probably illegal but you can always hire market intelligence consultants to "exploit your data at its best". I'll let you guess how they do that better than your guys.
No, my point is that if everyone uses butter knives to kill each other, banning butter knives should be the lowest priority of lawmakers.
Young earth creationists, ignore the parent post, he's obviously an impostor.
Without religion, you'd have good people doing good things and bad people doing bad things. It takes religion to make good people do bad things.
Pascal's Wager is flawed in that people taking this as a reason to believe is actually not believing at all, it's faking in order not to get a punishment. Do you really believe the hypothetical god will not notice that when/if you meet him ? Pascal's wager is for people that have already decided that they believe in a god.
Also, I challenge your Probability Theory notions : just because a choice is A vs. B doesn't meant it's 50-50.
Yeah, let's leave to hope the competence of trained lawyers to know about a law some wanker on slashdot knows about.
It's not drivers, it's basic software.
* "COM Surrogate has stopped working". WTF is that, why should I be informed (once every 10 secs) about this crash, which doesn't seem like it impacts anything.
* "Internet Explorer doesn't respond". Hell no it doesn't, I fucking shut it down, it should not be responding, and no, a program you shoved up our OS to further your monopoly abuse should not be that buggy.
Don't call my platform buggy, friends with a brand new Dell have the same issue.
It just means that Linus installed it on his daughter's desktop. From one to two copies is a doubling. No one else would use this junk.
This is Slashdot here. The only purpose of the appendix for most people here is to pee.
Why don't you mod him to 5 and make 5 higher ?
Agreed. They should do a commercial gesture and give upgrades to all five of them.
If they hadn't appealed, they would have had to pay in 2004 EUR, which was a lot lower than it is today.
I think this can be somehow mapped to the broken window fallacy. Whether or not the high margin, low labour, arbitrarily priced media copy IS the broken window is not relevant, because it is a highly subjective matter.
As an engineer considering myself a performance artist (My designs will allow for lots of economies of scales WITHIN my company but are little applicable to other companies, so fellow engineers will have to repeat the same performance at those companies), I tend to believe that the high margin, low labour, arbitrarily priced media copy ARE the "broken windows" and the money would better be spent on other one shot "performances" than on some lazy asses who take a N-fold reproduction of their work as an N-fold increase of its worth.
I'll just Copy that floppy
I have a small problem: there are no control pictures. Every so many pictures they should put a control picture with a known but unrelated crash site. The example they give in the instructions is not a crashed plane, it's a MSPAINTED plane.
...it's that instant caller location presentation does not exist, one minute of uninterrupted call is required. If I hang up after 58 seconds, they know jack shit. Even more, what's holding me from using one of those fancy UNTRACEABLE CELL PHONES ? Anyway, as long as they don't use their multiple angle, real time satellite imaging, and as long as they don't use their TRANSLTR computer to decrypt my arbitrary long key messages, I'll be fine.
So by your model, everyone not going to the most expensive seller of a particular good is a thief ? Go back to Economics 101. This is called supply and demand curves. There is lots of demand for free music, there is lots of offer too, which translates into a deal. There is also lots of demand for cheap or expensive music, which translates to different deals at different price points called allofmp3, itunes, or CD sale, all being essentially the same product. Legality at this point is not related. You also seem challenged about the difference between value and cost. Something can be free and be of great value (e.g. food in the west), some very expensive things can be worthless (e.g. a PS3 lollerz).