... is it just me, or does an article like this manage to get posted every month? Can we just not talk about the damn personal jetpacks and have some actual content?
Mozilla is now the best (if not most popular) browser around.
Mozilla? Most popular?? Here's a link to a blinding flash of reality. Choice quote: "Microsoft's Internet Explorer is currently used by more than 90 percent of Web surfers, according to site visitor statistics published by Google."
While the second half of your post is just a troll, the first half actually makes an attempt to be credible, even though you're misinformed:
Your research is WRONG. pop up ads don't work on the web, the certainly will not work on a voice call. Maybe I should patent 'voice pop unders' so x10 can't use them.....
How would pre-call advertising be labeled as a pop-up ad? It's not an advertisement IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CALL.
What he describes is like Moviefone, people call in and listen to ads before they can get their movie listings.
And guess what? It works.
I would rather pay $0.02/minute for my LD voice instead of listening to a 30 second ad everytime I wanted to make a call.
The post you replied to said "Our initial research showed that people were willing to tolerate commercials of certain amount of length in return for crystal-clear free (or very inexpensive) long-distance calls.".
See, his company did some research to see if their business plan would work. You didn't, you're just assuming that YOUR opinion is the BEST opinion, and the only one that matters.
OK, first of all, DMCA is a law. Therefore, doing something it says not to do would be illegal.
Just because you think it's not illegal doesn't mean that suddenly the DMCA doesn't apply to you.
Now, whether or not the DMCA is a good law is another debate completely, but that's not my point -- it's a law, and if you break it, you will have you day in court, and either fight it or accept your punishment.
The charges against Skylarov were dropped. ElcomSoft had their day in court and were found not guilty.
The RIAA didn't back out of suing Felten because they were "asked to prove anything", they backed out because DMCA provides protection for academic research, and the cracking technology he developed was done in response to an SDMI challenge.
MPAA trying to enforce DMCA in other countries? Or do you mean, trying to get other countries to adopt DMCA-like laws?
Anyway, the point -- if a corporation feels threatened by your actions, and believes your actions are illegal (and people who violate the DMCA are doing something illegal) then they have every right in the world to treat you like a criminal.
Thankfully, a few thousand times smarter than you.
Doubtful.
Diebold claims it's a copyright violation to use their own memos to incriminate them. Technically, if they're right, it's about as illegal as a DoS attack.
OK, but precedent shows that it's not, so they're not right, therefore it's not illegal.
In the US the current legal climate seems to suggest that doing anything that hurts a corporation is illegal, despite the legality of the specific action.
Opinions are like assholes...
I can see a huge difference between many things that all seem to end up with some poor schmuck either bankrupt or in jail for something nobody thinks is crime. Unfortunately, the courts don't seem so capable of discriminating.
Umm... if the law says it's illegal, it's a crime. Show me examples of what you're talking about.
Can you not tell the difference between pointing out a product's shortcomings -- which is perfectly legal -- and writing malicious code to perform DDoS's, running it, and putting a company out of business?
Do you lack the capacity to reason? Are you fucking stupid? What is your excuse?
OK, according to the law, something that is incorporated is given a body (note the root corp), so if you want to get technical, someone (something, actually) was killed.
That aside, doing something that puts people out of work and negatively impacts their (and their families') welfare is only marginally -- at best -- better than murder.
If you are obviously neglecting to keep your operating system up to date, you should be held accountable. If your computer is networked, it's your responsibility to keep the computer patches up to date to minimize any risk of damage caused by malicious code.
Sound quality on lossy, compressed files is not the same as a lossless copy. CD still sounds better than MP3 and WMA. A lot of people (myself included) care about that kind of thing.
Why would it be dumb? Most of these people are going to go see it in the theater regardless of whether or not this scene is in it because they've already invested their time in the first two movies and want the payoff. ROTK is going to lose ZERO money in the theater because of this cut, and they'll have a piece of bait to reel in the DVD customers and make some extra $$$.
From Gamespy's email: "In contrast to simply advising GameSpy of these vulnerabilities, by publishing this software to the world at large you are clearly facilitating the intentional crashing of GameSpy's server by others".
Publishing exploits that people can use is not bug research.
"Important message from Belkin: We at Belkin apologize for the recent trouble our customers have experienced with the wireless router/browser redirect issue. We will be offering firmware fixes available for download early next week. We do not have exact details yet but we can tell you now that each Router's firmware that incorporates Parental Control as an option will be changed.
Please expect more detailed information to follow early next week. Thank you."
If anyone has the testy version, post that too! I'm curious.
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... is it just me, or does an article like this manage to get posted every month? Can we just not talk about the damn personal jetpacks and have some actual content?
Like Roy Moore trying to shove the Ten Commandments down everyone's throat...
I realized that post-post. I fail.
Mozilla is now the best (if not most popular) browser around.
Mozilla? Most popular?? Here's a link to a blinding flash of reality. Choice quote: "Microsoft's Internet Explorer is currently used by more than 90 percent of Web surfers, according to site visitor statistics published by Google."
You're not off topic, you're off your rocker!
While the second half of your post is just a troll, the first half actually makes an attempt to be credible, even though you're misinformed:
Your research is WRONG. pop up ads don't work on the web, the certainly will not work on a voice call. Maybe I should patent 'voice pop unders' so x10 can't use them.....
How would pre-call advertising be labeled as a pop-up ad? It's not an advertisement IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CALL.
What he describes is like Moviefone, people call in and listen to ads before they can get their movie listings.
And guess what? It works.
I would rather pay $0.02/minute for my LD voice instead of listening to a 30 second ad everytime I wanted to make a call.
The post you replied to said "Our initial research showed that people were willing to tolerate commercials of certain amount of length in return for crystal-clear free (or very inexpensive) long-distance calls.".
See, his company did some research to see if their business plan would work. You didn't, you're just assuming that YOUR opinion is the BEST opinion, and the only one that matters.
Which obviously isn't the case.
You are missing my point: if you break the law, you have to expect to deal with the consequences.
Wow, that was a great, logical, factually-based argument! That was easily the most mature post I've seen all week.
OK, first of all, DMCA is a law. Therefore, doing something it says not to do would be illegal.
Just because you think it's not illegal doesn't mean that suddenly the DMCA doesn't apply to you.
Now, whether or not the DMCA is a good law is another debate completely, but that's not my point -- it's a law, and if you break it, you will have you day in court, and either fight it or accept your punishment.
The charges against Skylarov were dropped. ElcomSoft had their day in court and were found not guilty.
The RIAA didn't back out of suing Felten because they were "asked to prove anything", they backed out because DMCA provides protection for academic research, and the cracking technology he developed was done in response to an SDMI challenge.
MPAA trying to enforce DMCA in other countries? Or do you mean, trying to get other countries to adopt DMCA-like laws?
Anyway, the point -- if a corporation feels threatened by your actions, and believes your actions are illegal (and people who violate the DMCA are doing something illegal) then they have every right in the world to treat you like a criminal.
I hope they don't ruin it for people like me that just like to write songs and let people hear them
Thankfully, a few thousand times smarter than you.
Doubtful.
Diebold claims it's a copyright violation to use their own memos to incriminate them. Technically, if they're right, it's about as illegal as a DoS attack.
OK, but precedent shows that it's not, so they're not right, therefore it's not illegal.
In the US the current legal climate seems to suggest that doing anything that hurts a corporation is illegal, despite the legality of the specific action.
Opinions are like assholes...
I can see a huge difference between many things that all seem to end up with some poor schmuck either bankrupt or in jail for something nobody thinks is crime. Unfortunately, the courts don't seem so capable of discriminating.
Umm... if the law says it's illegal, it's a crime. Show me examples of what you're talking about.
Can you not tell the difference between pointing out a product's shortcomings -- which is perfectly legal -- and writing malicious code to perform DDoS's, running it, and putting a company out of business?
Do you lack the capacity to reason? Are you fucking stupid? What is your excuse?
you should be held accountable
That's my opinion, you dumbass.
OK, according to the law, something that is incorporated is given a body (note the root corp), so if you want to get technical, someone (something, actually) was killed.
That aside, doing something that puts people out of work and negatively impacts their (and their families') welfare is only marginally -- at best -- better than murder.
If you are obviously neglecting to keep your operating system up to date, you should be held accountable. If your computer is networked, it's your responsibility to keep the computer patches up to date to minimize any risk of damage caused by malicious code.
Computers are dangerous -- people lost their jobs because of a DDOS.
Just because someone doesn't have a solution doesn't mean they can't point out the problem.
Sound quality on lossy, compressed files is not the same as a lossless copy. CD still sounds better than MP3 and WMA. A lot of people (myself included) care about that kind of thing.
And please, let's not forget device drivers...
If YOU'RE going to insisit on trying to make people look stupid, you need to brush up on YOUR vocabulary, first.
Why would it be dumb? Most of these people are going to go see it in the theater regardless of whether or not this scene is in it because they've already invested their time in the first two movies and want the payoff. ROTK is going to lose ZERO money in the theater because of this cut, and they'll have a piece of bait to reel in the DVD customers and make some extra $$$.
As you said:
From Gamespy's email: "In contrast to simply advising GameSpy of these vulnerabilities, by publishing this software to the world at large you are clearly facilitating the intentional crashing of GameSpy's server by others".
Publishing exploits that people can use is not bug research.
Vicky from Small Wonder.
No disassemble!
Here's an article about it from about 7 hrs ago.
Here's an article about their stupid response.
Here's the original Slashdot article.
"Important message from Belkin:
We at Belkin apologize for the recent trouble our customers have experienced with the wireless router/browser redirect issue. We will be offering firmware fixes available for download early next week. We do not have exact details yet but we can tell you now that each Router's firmware that incorporates Parental Control as an option will be changed.
Please expect more detailed information to follow early next week. Thank you."
If anyone has the testy version, post that too! I'm curious.