Kim Schmitz' criminal history with all of the citations you need.
And?
He did stupid things when he was younger. Real shocker.
He has been living a decent life for a long time, he has settled down and became a real family man, and you are still going to justify shit done to him now because of things he has done 10+ years ago (and was held responsible for it and was punished)?
He is turning up to be the most honest of the whole bunch involved in this circus.
I think Microsoft mostly needs two things for Windows Phone 8 to succeed.
1.) Great hardware partner. Nokia here, along with HTC and other little players. 2.) Great developer tools. We got Visual Studio covered here, along with things like Microsoft's XNA for games and easy, yet powerful languages like C#.
The idea here is that Microsoft really has all it covered. Nokia has a very stable history of making good phones. Their hardware really is rock solid. Nokia is the perfect partner Microsoft needs, and they have them. Motorola Mobility for Google doesn't even come close to what Microsoft-Nokia partnership is. I seriously think that Google tried to get Nokia on-board but they had already decided on Microsoft.
What comes to development tools.. well, you can't really go wrong with Visual Studio. It's an industry standard, really widely used IDE. Pretty much everyone agrees that it's rock solid product from Microsoft. Even if you hate Microsoft, you can but agree on this one. And the availability of things like XNA, C#, great documentation and the fact that Visual Studio Express is free really helps. Microsoft really is the developer friendly company. Much more so than Google or Apple.
I'd say these two things are well covered.
Then there's the matter of UI. Again, Microsoft has done remarkable job with the design. While I agree that Metro UI doesn't work too well on computers, it really is great on mobile phones and tablets. Everyone who has tested one of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 phones can agree. The UI and system are good.
The last part Microsoft has in front of it really comes down to marketing. Nokia never really was that well known company in North America and that's why other companies like Apple and HTC have gained a following there. Nokia largely ignored NA market while they concentrated on Europe and Asia. Let's not forget that Nokia is still the worlds biggest phone manufacturer and controls almost half of the markets when dumb phones are included. Even without, Nokia has a much better base in Europe.
What Microsoft and Nokia need are phone companies that will push the products to consumers. That's all there is to it. They have a wonderful product in their hands but are missing the marketing required for it. I think it mostly comes down to so much different market than what it is in Asia or Europe. They just lack the experience.
Microsoft, or Nokia for that matter, could introduce one leading phone. The "one" phone that everyone would choose. But I think it's much better when Nokia produces many different phones and everyone can choose the one they like the best. Let's not forget that Microsoft does have hardware requirements so there is no problem with fragmentation like Android has. Apple, of course, has little next to none fragmentation problems, even with the different resolutions. Nokia and Microsoft are almost at the same boat.
All in all, both Microsoft and Nokia have wonderful product. They just need to market it to people.
Hahaha.
You didn't have this speech prepared by any chance, eh?
Pathetic. Both the 'news' and the first 'commercial'.
Here's not "Good o' Putin." He's a kleptocratic, fascist dictator who has directly caused the death of at least thousands of innocents and whose greed and duplicitous use of right-win poplusm has caused untold millions, both in Russia and in other states, from Uzbekistan to Ukraine, from Syria to Georgia, from Estonia to Africa to suffer. Let's stop the "wink wink" bond jokes and kitsch cutesy comments and unhesitatingly and forcefully condemn this evil man AND THOSE IN THE CORRUPT RUSSIAN MIDDLE WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM in the strongest way possible.
Tell me, how many innocents died due to actions of military directly controlled by various US presidents?
Only people foolish enough to think antisec actually cares about being truthful would think that. Lets face the facts here
12 million is a piss in the pond in terms of iOS UDID codes. Its less than half the iPhones sold LAST QUARTER. If the FBI was realistically trying to build a database of them, there is no way at this point they would ONLY have 12 Million.
12 million is more easily explained by being leaked from a developer, as up until half a year ago, developers were using the code to identify individual iPhones for various reasons like automatic sign-in to certain services like some of the multiplayer game services. Apple banned them from using it though half a year ago so at this point there was no reason to keep.
The data it's self was incomplete. Some had legit names and addresses while most were just a ID code. If this was from a official source then there would have been a lot more data on most of these. On the otherhand if it was stolen from a developer who let users opt out of giving their information but used the code for autologin purposes, then there would be clear reason why most of the data has no user info attached.
Antisec is still smarting from getting much of its higher ranking leadership arrested from a FBI plant
So really there is no reason AT ALL to believe antisec's claims that they stole the info. There is however a lot more reason to suspect they were trying to stir the pot in the tech community by stoking already present fears of FBI spying which they did a pretty good job at. It gets clueless script kiddies riled up and makes them look cool. Sure the FBI can be shady, but of the law enforcement agencies out there I would honestly have to say they are the least shady of the bunch and tend to release information without bending the truth too much, even when it has the possibility of embarrassing them. Not saying they ALWAYS do it, just saying they tend to be more forthcoming than other government agencies.
Why do you think that using caps would make your stupid points any more valid?
Either: A: they are desperately trying to do anything to help make their purchase of Motorola Mobile not look like the giant steaming turd that it is or B: they purchased Motorola Mobile solely for this purpose...
C: You don't understand what long-term planning is
I don't blame you, seems like 99% of population (aka 'instant gratification' crowd) doesn't understand it either.
People don't care about Kasparov being arrested half as much as the judicial farce that was just inflicted on Pussy Riot.
The reason you should care is because the members of Pussy Riot that were given 2 year prison sentences are political prisoners (per Amnesty International and almost every other human rights organization). And if you don't care about political prisoners, then you suck at life.
I genuinely wish people were this upset when CIA was kidnapping people around the world, shipped them to Guantanamo, tortured them, then released them because they had no evidence.
But no, let's get all upset about some punks getting jail sentence (which will be overturned soon anyway, they were just made an example of) in Riussia.
When I was a Jr IT Admin, and our systems got infected a some Malware, or a worm we didn't call it a cyber attack, we just bitched about it and fixed the problem and wondered who the hell opened the attachment they got in their email.
Yes, because what you've been hit with is exactly the same as what they've been hit with.
She has something to say if said speech can affect her case in a significant way - entire cases can go to mistrial for comments said out of the court room.
Slashdot seems to lack a basic understanding of law and the court process these days...
Or maybe the "law and court process" these days go against logic and common sense, and are utterly retarded?
People aren't asked a thing about 99% of laws that are introduced these days anyway.
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
"Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700
The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700, it had a real smartphone OS, a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard. So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine because the iPhone was in development long before 2006 and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device.
Obviously, Wikipedia has all the facts in the known universe, as well as internal company communication/data which can shed light on when some device went into design/production/etc.
Wikipedia generation will be the end of us. Really:(
And hundreds of vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS were somehow different, of course.
But of course, their vulnerabilities were not related to 'Chinese government' and wouldn't make 'news for retards'.
Sigh.
Do they have customers already?
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Before Windows 7 came out, almost everyone I knew (that ran Windows) was *genuinely* excited about it and was planning to upgrade to it. And they did.
I don't know a single person that even considers Windows 8 (either as a desktop OS, or a phone OS). Many people don't even realize it's going to be a desktop OS, they assume it is a smartphone/tablet only OS.
I can only wish Microsoft good luck, because I don't think they understand what they're doing.
...the committee questions whether Accumulo runs afoul of a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives.
Google's Content-ID program lets companies submit their own content that is then matched against every single frame of every uploaded video using state-of-the-art recognition technology and lets them block it or make money off the ads.
Megaupload took down links on request.
Yes, it's different.
That is nonsense. There are many many commercial works (full length movies) available on YouTube, which were not removed using "state-of-the-art recognition technology" (which is broken).
Both YouTube and Megaupload took down links on request, since that's what LAW REQUIRES them to do.
Both of them also provided direct access to content owners, so they could delete files immediately without a need to submit DMCA request. Law doesn't require them to do that, yet they did it.
Link to proof of your claim is needed here - the service quite regularly and quickly removed infringing content.
As did Megaupload.
Yet, there are still hundreds of full-time movies (I am talking Hollywood movies) available in YouTube.
I actually didn't believe it would be possible, but a friend proved me wrong and supplied me with dozens of URLs which were actual full-length movies. I'm looking at a full-length (1 hours 32 minutes) movie right now, with around 20 more loaded in 'suggestion' bar.
How those movies are still there I don't know, but obviously YouTube managers should be arrested and YouTube should be closed.
The only people that are affected by region codes are people who want to want to watch foreign dvds often stuff that has never been released and never will be in other parts of the world. Often stuff purchased legally on vacation.
Of course, expats don't exist.
I've spent 4 years of my life in different part of the world, where I bought hundreds of DVDs.
When I got back home, I did bring the DVD player as well, but it died a year later. I managed to get a region-free DVD player in the end.
Isn't it great having hundreds of legally purchased DVDs which you can't watch unless you 'break the law'?
I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content. Never did he even attempt to stop this illegal activity, and at times, promoted it. People like to talk about how the rich make there fortune off the backs of the working class... this guy is your poster child.
You use word "fact", then you put some silly insinuations.
Don't let your ignorance stop your from posting, though.
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Kim Schmitz' criminal history with all of the citations you need.
And?
He did stupid things when he was younger. Real shocker.
He has been living a decent life for a long time, he has settled down and became a real family man, and you are still going to justify shit done to him now because of things he has done 10+ years ago (and was held responsible for it and was punished)?
He is turning up to be the most honest of the whole bunch involved in this circus.
Plus there's the whole deportation business. We all know he broke Cambodia's immigration law, but what did he actually do that was illegal?
Is this a joke?
Do you think breaking immigration law is not an 'illegal' thing go do?
Do it in any country, and you'll be deported. There is no mystery there.
I think Microsoft mostly needs two things for Windows Phone 8 to succeed.
1.) Great hardware partner. Nokia here, along with HTC and other little players.
2.) Great developer tools. We got Visual Studio covered here, along with things like Microsoft's XNA for games and easy, yet powerful languages like C#.
The idea here is that Microsoft really has all it covered. Nokia has a very stable history of making good phones. Their hardware really is rock solid. Nokia is the perfect partner Microsoft needs, and they have them. Motorola Mobility for Google doesn't even come close to what Microsoft-Nokia partnership is. I seriously think that Google tried to get Nokia on-board but they had already decided on Microsoft.
What comes to development tools.. well, you can't really go wrong with Visual Studio. It's an industry standard, really widely used IDE. Pretty much everyone agrees that it's rock solid product from Microsoft. Even if you hate Microsoft, you can but agree on this one. And the availability of things like XNA, C#, great documentation and the fact that Visual Studio Express is free really helps. Microsoft really is the developer friendly company. Much more so than Google or Apple.
I'd say these two things are well covered.
Then there's the matter of UI. Again, Microsoft has done remarkable job with the design. While I agree that Metro UI doesn't work too well on computers, it really is great on mobile phones and tablets. Everyone who has tested one of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 phones can agree. The UI and system are good.
The last part Microsoft has in front of it really comes down to marketing. Nokia never really was that well known company in North America and that's why other companies like Apple and HTC have gained a following there. Nokia largely ignored NA market while they concentrated on Europe and Asia. Let's not forget that Nokia is still the worlds biggest phone manufacturer and controls almost half of the markets when dumb phones are included. Even without, Nokia has a much better base in Europe.
What Microsoft and Nokia need are phone companies that will push the products to consumers. That's all there is to it. They have a wonderful product in their hands but are missing the marketing required for it. I think it mostly comes down to so much different market than what it is in Asia or Europe. They just lack the experience.
Microsoft, or Nokia for that matter, could introduce one leading phone. The "one" phone that everyone would choose. But I think it's much better when Nokia produces many different phones and everyone can choose the one they like the best. Let's not forget that Microsoft does have hardware requirements so there is no problem with fragmentation like Android has. Apple, of course, has little next to none fragmentation problems, even with the different resolutions. Nokia and Microsoft are almost at the same boat.
All in all, both Microsoft and Nokia have wonderful product. They just need to market it to people.
Hahaha.
You didn't have this speech prepared by any chance, eh?
Pathetic. Both the 'news' and the first 'commercial'.
Here's not "Good o' Putin." He's a kleptocratic, fascist dictator who has directly caused the death of at least thousands of innocents and whose greed and duplicitous use of right-win poplusm has caused untold millions, both in Russia and in other states, from Uzbekistan to Ukraine, from Syria to Georgia, from Estonia to Africa to suffer. Let's stop the "wink wink" bond jokes and kitsch cutesy comments and unhesitatingly and forcefully condemn this evil man AND THOSE IN THE CORRUPT RUSSIAN MIDDLE WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM in the strongest way possible.
Tell me, how many innocents died due to actions of military directly controlled by various US presidents?
Make a wild guess.
Only people foolish enough to think antisec actually cares about being truthful would think that. Lets face the facts here
12 million is a piss in the pond in terms of iOS UDID codes. Its less than half the iPhones sold LAST QUARTER. If the FBI was realistically trying to build a database of them, there is no way at this point they would ONLY have 12 Million.
12 million is more easily explained by being leaked from a developer, as up until half a year ago, developers were using the code to identify individual iPhones for various reasons like automatic sign-in to certain services like some of the multiplayer game services. Apple banned them from using it though half a year ago so at this point there was no reason to keep.
The data it's self was incomplete. Some had legit names and addresses while most were just a ID code. If this was from a official source then there would have been a lot more data on most of these. On the otherhand if it was stolen from a developer who let users opt out of giving their information but used the code for autologin purposes, then there would be clear reason why most of the data has no user info attached.
Antisec is still smarting from getting much of its higher ranking leadership arrested from a FBI plant
So really there is no reason AT ALL to believe antisec's claims that they stole the info. There is however a lot more reason to suspect they were trying to stir the pot in the tech community by stoking already present fears of FBI spying which they did a pretty good job at. It gets clueless script kiddies riled up and makes them look cool. Sure the FBI can be shady, but of the law enforcement agencies out there I would honestly have to say they are the least shady of the bunch and tend to release information without bending the truth too much, even when it has the possibility of embarrassing them. Not saying they ALWAYS do it, just saying they tend to be more forthcoming than other government agencies.
Why do you think that using caps would make your stupid points any more valid?
What exactly is so bad about it? With the new upcoming update, they've pretty much fixed all the complaints I've ever seen.
Can I now save a draft of my SMS?
I mean, I understand that such a novel feature couldn't be expected in a phone, but maybe Microsoft could be innovative?
The Iranian Government is receiving sanctions for threatening parts of the world with destruction. We don't allow that this day and age.
Oh, I see. You don't allow such threats, but then you go and destroy other countries.
Flawless.
Either:
A: they are desperately trying to do anything to help make their purchase of Motorola Mobile not look like the giant steaming turd that it is or
B: they purchased Motorola Mobile solely for this purpose...
C: You don't understand what long-term planning is
I don't blame you, seems like 99% of population (aka 'instant gratification' crowd) doesn't understand it either.
People don't care about Kasparov being arrested half as much as the judicial farce that was just inflicted on Pussy Riot.
The reason you should care is because the members of Pussy Riot that were given 2 year prison sentences are political prisoners (per Amnesty International and almost every other human rights organization). And if you don't care about political prisoners, then you suck at life.
I genuinely wish people were this upset when CIA was kidnapping people around the world, shipped them to Guantanamo, tortured them, then released them because they had no evidence.
But no, let's get all upset about some punks getting jail sentence (which will be overturned soon anyway, they were just made an example of) in Riussia.
When I was a Jr IT Admin, and our systems got infected a some Malware, or a worm we didn't call it a cyber attack, we just bitched about it and fixed the problem and wondered who the hell opened the attachment they got in their email.
Yes, because what you've been hit with is exactly the same as what they've been hit with.
SIgh.
She has something to say if said speech can affect her case in a significant way - entire cases can go to mistrial for comments said out of the court room.
Slashdot seems to lack a basic understanding of law and the court process these days...
Or maybe the "law and court process" these days go against logic and common sense, and are utterly retarded?
People aren't asked a thing about 99% of laws that are introduced these days anyway.
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
"Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European market started November 2007."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGH-F700
The iPhone was announced a month prior to the F700, it had a real smartphone OS, a full fledged browser and email client, no slide-out keyboard. So is Samsung saying that Apple used a time machine because the iPhone was in development long before 2006 and was in customers hands 4 months before the Samsung device.
Obviously, Wikipedia has all the facts in the known universe, as well as internal company communication/data which can shed light on when some device went into design/production/etc.
Wikipedia generation will be the end of us. Really :(
And hundreds of vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS were somehow different, of course.
But of course, their vulnerabilities were not related to 'Chinese government' and wouldn't make 'news for retards'.
Sigh.
Before Windows 7 came out, almost everyone I knew (that ran Windows) was *genuinely* excited about it and was planning to upgrade to it. And they did.
I don't know a single person that even considers Windows 8 (either as a desktop OS, or a phone OS). Many people don't even realize it's going to be a desktop OS, they assume it is a smartphone/tablet only OS.
I can only wish Microsoft good luck, because I don't think they understand what they're doing.
I manage my passwords with lastpass. The service that Steve Gibson from GRC has vetted to be safe and secure
Hahahaha.
Wait - the same Steve Gibson that insisted raw sockets are security threat, some 10 years ago?
That Steve Gibson?
Hahahahaha.
You have that backwards. With direct-download, theres a very clear download log saying X downloaded from this server.
With torrent, that ISNT the case.
So, what you are saying is that NZ 'right holders' have access to logs on direct download server located in [insert favorite country]?
Really, there is a reason humans have brain. You should use it.
Would Cyprus arrest creators of Stuxnet, on request from Iran, if those people would show up in Cyprus?
The FBI, which is working with the police, says no terrorism link has been established.
This is the most amazing quote, ever.
if this was not 'terrorism', how is some "brown" guy working on his own branded as terrorist even if he hasn't done anything yet?
No worries guys, this was not terrorism, so you can just relax.
It's amazing that we leave in time where "terrorism" seem to be defined by color of the skin or ethnicity or religion, rather than action.
...the committee questions whether Accumulo runs afoul of a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives.
Is this a joke?
had an incident at a McDonald's in Paris, France.
He was assaulted by three men during his visit to get food with his family.
Huge hole in the story.
You can't get food in McDonald's :)
Google's Content-ID program lets companies submit their own content that is then matched against every single frame of every uploaded video using state-of-the-art recognition technology and lets them block it or make money off the ads.
Megaupload took down links on request.
Yes, it's different.
That is nonsense. There are many many commercial works (full length movies) available on YouTube, which were not removed using "state-of-the-art recognition technology" (which is broken).
Both YouTube and Megaupload took down links on request, since that's what LAW REQUIRES them to do.
Both of them also provided direct access to content owners, so they could delete files immediately without a need to submit DMCA request. Law doesn't require them to do that, yet they did it.
Link to proof of your claim is needed here - the service quite regularly and quickly removed infringing content.
As did Megaupload.
Yet, there are still hundreds of full-time movies (I am talking Hollywood movies) available in YouTube.
I actually didn't believe it would be possible, but a friend proved me wrong and supplied me with dozens of URLs which were actual full-length movies. I'm looking at a full-length (1 hours 32 minutes) movie right now, with around 20 more loaded in 'suggestion' bar.
How those movies are still there I don't know, but obviously YouTube managers should be arrested and YouTube should be closed.
The only people that are affected by region codes are people who want to want to watch foreign dvds often stuff that has never been released and never will be in other parts of the world. Often stuff purchased legally on vacation.
Of course, expats don't exist.
I've spent 4 years of my life in different part of the world, where I bought hundreds of DVDs.
When I got back home, I did bring the DVD player as well, but it died a year later. I managed to get a region-free DVD player in the end.
Isn't it great having hundreds of legally purchased DVDs which you can't watch unless you 'break the law'?
I know that this is normally a forum to bash **AA, but the fact still remains that Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content. Never did he even attempt to stop this illegal activity, and at times, promoted it. People like to talk about how the rich make there fortune off the backs of the working class... this guy is your poster child.
You use word "fact", then you put some silly insinuations.
Don't let your ignorance stop your from posting, though.
Never stop posting.
If you buy music produced in the US you buy it under the terms of the license. Don't like those terms? Buy music produced elsewhere.
You are confused a bit.
They don't need to buy NZ music, US needs to stop selling music in the NZ and expecting their laws to apply there.