I have written fast programs in both Java and C# that are maybe 10% slower than pedal to the metal C or C++. It really does depend on how you write the code.
Yeah, 9-11 really brought the US "down". About two months later the Taliban were out of power in Afghanistan. Now OBL is shark bait, and Al Qaeda management positions are the least popular career move in the Muslim world.
Right, because Microsoft hires exactly 0 competent people who know what a representative sample is. I'm sure they have dozens of different methods to collect this data, one of which is the automated usage data built within Windows. I know in one blog post they addressed concerns that corporate users don't have this on, and therefore were not represented in the sample. Microsoft responded that they have other methods for collecting data from corporate users.
it's one thing to download a song or movie, say "That was crap", and erase it. It's another thing to actively copy millions of them, or assist others to do it, and distribute those copies to other people.
Only the original author(s) have the right to copy their creation. Maybe that law is unjust and needs to be changed (like downsizing the 110 year span to 20 years), but for now that is the law and these guys are clearly violating it.
I guess the guy who made the bench in the park should get to choose who sits on it, and should get certain amount every time someone sits on the bench.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Well, Apple could have invented a design of their own, instead of copying designs from competitors and movies.
4. This has to do with the US embargo on Iran, which includes selling goods to anyone in the US that could take them back to Iran. This is law. This is not Apple acting out of nowhere. It's in their legal terms that states they follow US embargo laws. If you don't like them, tell your congressman to change US embargo law or to lift the embargo against Iran. Good luck with that.
You obviously have no idea what the law says.
But that doesn't prevent you from making an idiot out of yourself on the Internet.
Apple participates in many patent pools themselves, and they have no issue with paying the same license fees as anyone else. Motorola didn't want to license the radio patents to Apple like they do to everyone else, because they want to use them to get Apple to give up all of the iPhone UI patents.
Obsession with "the NSA" aside, if a US law enforcement entity with a warrant makes a request to a US corporation, that US corporation complies. Because we're, you know, actually a nation of laws.
The CONTENT of the private communications of US Persons are off limits without an individualized warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction. It's our friends across the Pacific that are monitoring the content of communications, including of their own citizens.
Google isn't doing this with direct knowledge that a particular person is being spied on by their government. They're doing it based on aggregate evidence in nations known to be monitoring certain groups of internet users en masse; i.e., NOT the United States.
Do you think the US government and US corporations should follow the law, or not? If not, what should govern it?
Your opinion?
Communications metadata in various forms has been fair game for decades (i.e., not a "new" or "post-9/11" construct), and has been validated by the US Supreme Court. How do you propose identifying and targeting specific foreign communications â" the content of which does not require, and never has required, a warrant â" now increasingly traveling on systems and networks within the US, without first having a mechanism to first identify and target those communications?
Try to get out of your bubble where you perceive that the government is out to "get you" and take away your rights, and realize that the US has adversaries â" not even of our own creation! â" and that most in government and military leadership take their obligations to the law, the Constitution, and the people of the United States seriously.
They aren't saying they haven't seen enough evidence to say Dotcom is guilty of a crime, they are saying that he has a right to defend himself against extradition and that defense needs to be able to review evidence for and against that charge.
Various news outlets in NZ tried to talk to just about everyone (PM, Crown, etc) and find out whether FBI presented evidence (and what evidence was that) before raid was ordered, who exactly authorized the raid, negotiated with FBI, etc.
Everyone refused to talk to media about these issue. As if they're not public servants paid by taxpayers' money, but working in a private company and can decline to comment.
In short - noone (except police, I guess) knows what evidence NZ police has seen before the raid. They might have not seen any evidence, for all we know.
I'm not arguing that iOS isn't a "walled garden", but there are apps out there that will allow you to tunnel VNC (or even RDP) over SSH. I use iSSH and it's freakin awesome. I've used several other SSH apps, but iSSH so far is the best IMHO.
It has many many assumptions. Assumptions that Megaupload was a 'personal cyberlocker service', then 2 paragraphs later DoJ complains that Megaupload did not have a search function - therefore, they were up to something.
Who's taking things out of context now? It goes on to say that the lack of a site wide search function pemitted them to conceal the extent of their activities. Again, this is not actually news - it was covered really well in the original stories. As for the "assumptions that Megaupload was a personal cyberlocker service" - that's how they billed themselves, so I don't see that as a particularly breathtaking assumption. (It's also the argument that was used ad infinitum by their defenders here on Slashdot.)
What the... ?
Do you even understand what is the issue? Did you even read the indictment, or you just discuss things based on what you read in 'stories'?
Do you see a problem with personal cyberlocker service like Megaupload (or Dropbox, etc) having a public search facility?
No, you need to read it again. Megaupload said that they can hash cp images and automatically block them from being uploaded again. They flip this claim against them for none CP files.
Read item 24 carefully.
"Members of the Conspiracy have indicated to each other that they can automatically identify and delete such materials on all of their servers by calculating MD5 hash values of known child pornography or other illicit content, searching the system for these values, and eliminating them; in fact, such files with matching hash values have been deleted from the Mega Conspiracyâ(TM)s servers. Members of the Mega Conspiracy have failed to implement a similarprogram to actually delete or terminate access to copyright infringing content."
How can you be so stupid?
I am pretty sure that it is illegal in all jurisdictions to even store child pornography. Preventing it from being uploaded is a no-brainer, since there are no cases where it could be legal.
However, it not illegal for me to upload a copy of an album that I own, to my private Megaupload account.
Why should Megaupload automatically prevent me from uploading a backup of a song (or album) that I legally purchased, and which shares MD5 hash with the exact same copy which someone else uploaded and shared with others?
You seem to think that you are not able to make a copy of purchased song/album onto external hard disk (which is what Megaupload really is).
No, his crime was evading justice for a decade of con-jobs and borderline psychopathic behaviour. He's not a native New Zealander, did you know that? Do you know why he's no longer in Germany? Might be because everyone in the tech scene here despises him.
Something tells me that his choice of country of residence does not depend on the opinions of local "tech scene".
Justice hates it when known crooks keep running around because they manage to keep away from the stuff you can prove. Then, when they finally find something to nail you with, they come after you with vengeance. Sure, on paper the legal system works differently - but on paper you can't get away with being a criminal for a decade, either.
This doesn't even make any sense, since they seem to have trouble proving anything, for start. You are filled with hatred, you have turned into incredibly stupid online personality.
The guy is a crook, and everyone here who roots for him is a stupid idiot.
It would appear that only idiot here is you, since you don't seem capable of differentiating between simple concepts like "rooting for Kim" and "complaining about injustice".
Of course, for someone as blind as you, it certainly looks the same.
Seriously go read the indictment, it has money laundering, it has fraudulent take down procedures, it have fictitious users. Copyright infringement was just an underlying thing, they have him banged to rights which is why he's trying for the "excessive force" side defense.
Hahaha. Did you actually read this whole document? You really should.
It also has child pornography, terrorism propaganda, and many other neat things.
It also has things taken out of context, examples of Kim uploading his legally purchased songs to his private account on Megaupload (which is perfectly legal, but presented as if he was distributing the music by uploading 2 songs to his own account).
It has many many assumptions. Assumptions that Megaupload was a 'personal cyberlocker service', then 2 paragraphs later DoJ complains that Megaupload did not have a search function - therefore, they were up to something.
No, you really should read the document. It is not an indictment, it is a propaganda document.
As I recall there was a ton of skepticism around the Google IPO. The stock plummeted for a while. Then if you bought it you would have made money hand over fist. Or even if you'd held it from IPO you would have made a ton of money. These internet firms are incredibly hard to value. Facebook may be on its way to zero, or it maybe going to the moon. Nobody knows yet.
Uhm, no. There was no skepticism, there was uncertainty about the value, not whether there was a value.
If Google would disappear tomorrow, it would have horrific/tremendous effect on both businesses and individuals.
I don't think the same can be said for Facebook. I'd be tempted to say that "noone would notice", but that's not entirely true. All the narcissists and lazy people would notice.
This actually seems like a pretty sane plan for most people who aren't diehard pirates or Netflix users. Most users don't use 300GB. If Comcast is smart they'll use this as a basis to actually fund the development of a more powerful and competitive network instead of just milking it for short term gains.
How do you know that "most users don't use 300GB"?
And here's the unpopular-on-Slashdot, but common-everywhere-else view: Yes, he lost all that, but he provides us all an excellent object lesson in how not to be a stupid douchebag.
When you are not a security contractor with an official relationship to the people organizing and/or securing the G-20 summit, don't fucking go on the internet talking about how you're going to 'test the security' of the G-20 summit.
If they want your help, they'll ask for it. If you offer your help, and they refuse to accept it, then by all means, write to a politician to express your views. Write to the newspapers to talk about how the security of the summit is flawed, and needs to be tested in different ways than are being planned (a legitimate *journalist* would be interested in this sort of a story - find one). Even express your views that the government is using ineffective security precautions that amount to no more than theater, and explain why online, on a blog, etc. But do not - I repeat, do not - continue making plans to "test" the security and talk about your plans to "test" the security.
If they've refused your offer of assistance to "test security," and you go ahead and publicly continue to make plans to "test security," don't be surprised when they show up, kick in your door, and fucking cart you off because you're behaving like a threat.
So, is this how you justify what they've done to him, you stupid cunt?
no they aren't. i've been in touch with plenty of tech and online people since the 1980s, and if anything, people pirate less now. more total bytes downloaded, maybe, but a lower percentage of [online/connected] people are pirating than ever in my 30-year view.
I really love all the parameters and calculations you've used in order to achieve that conclusion.
Hey look, I am 40 myself, used computers since I was 7, and I can surely tell you that I know less people engaging in copyright infringement now than 25 years ago.
Never mind that I don't even care if anyone pirates anything, nor would I ask, nor am I buddy with tons of teenagers who are most likely to be the ones doing copyright infringement - but my logic is flawless anyway.
These people really seem to live in some parallel universe if they think forcing 'unskippable' content onto people that paid for disks is somehow 'educating' them.
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BS!
I have written fast programs in both Java and C# that are maybe 10% slower than pedal to the metal C or C++. It really does depend on how you write the code.
So what did you write? hellworld.java?
Yeah, 9-11 really brought the US "down". About two months later the Taliban were out of power in Afghanistan. Now OBL is shark bait, and Al Qaeda management positions are the least popular career move in the Muslim world.
You think those are the "victories"?
Wow o.0
Right, because Microsoft hires exactly 0 competent people who know what a representative sample is. I'm sure they have dozens of different methods to collect this data, one of which is the automated usage data built within Windows. I know in one blog post they addressed concerns that corporate users don't have this on, and therefore were not represented in the sample. Microsoft responded that they have other methods for collecting data from corporate users.
And those methods are ... ?
it's one thing to download a song or movie, say "That was crap", and erase it. It's another thing to actively copy millions of them, or assist others to do it, and distribute those copies to other people.
Only the original author(s) have the right to copy their creation. Maybe that law is unjust and needs to be changed (like downsizing the 110 year span to 20 years), but for now that is the law and these guys are clearly violating it.
I guess the guy who made the bench in the park should get to choose who sits on it, and should get certain amount every time someone sits on the bench.
Sure they did. Those poor innocents, tricked into doing something they weren't already doing.
They spent 2 years trying to bait 26 idiots, instead of chasing real criminals.
You don't seem to understand the difference.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Well, Apple could have invented a design of their own, instead of copying designs from competitors and movies.
Go figure.
4. This has to do with the US embargo on Iran, which includes selling goods to anyone in the US that could take them back to Iran. This is law. This is not Apple acting out of nowhere. It's in their legal terms that states they follow US embargo laws. If you don't like them, tell your congressman to change US embargo law or to lift the embargo against Iran. Good luck with that.
You obviously have no idea what the law says.
But that doesn't prevent you from making an idiot out of yourself on the Internet.
hint: read the law
That's a goddamned lie.
Apple participates in many patent pools themselves, and they have no issue with paying the same license fees as anyone else. Motorola didn't want to license the radio patents to Apple like they do to everyone else, because they want to use them to get Apple to give up all of the iPhone UI patents.
You should be modded VERY FUNNY.
Obsession with "the NSA" aside, if a US law enforcement entity with a warrant makes a request to a US corporation, that US corporation complies. Because we're, you know, actually a nation of laws.
The CONTENT of the private communications of US Persons are off limits without an individualized warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction. It's our friends across the Pacific that are monitoring the content of communications, including of their own citizens.
Google isn't doing this with direct knowledge that a particular person is being spied on by their government. They're doing it based on aggregate evidence in nations known to be monitoring certain groups of internet users en masse; i.e., NOT the United States.
Do you think the US government and US corporations should follow the law, or not? If not, what should govern it?
Your opinion?
Communications metadata in various forms has been fair game for decades (i.e., not a "new" or "post-9/11" construct), and has been validated by the US Supreme Court. How do you propose identifying and targeting specific foreign communications â" the content of which does not require, and never has required, a warrant â" now increasingly traveling on systems and networks within the US, without first having a mechanism to first identify and target those communications?
Try to get out of your bubble where you perceive that the government is out to "get you" and take away your rights, and realize that the US has adversaries â" not even of our own creation! â" and that most in government and military leadership take their obligations to the law, the Constitution, and the people of the United States seriously.
Wow.
This is a brilliant troll.
Awesome!
They aren't saying they haven't seen enough evidence to say Dotcom is guilty of a crime, they are saying that he has a right to defend himself against extradition and that defense needs to be able to review evidence for and against that charge.
Various news outlets in NZ tried to talk to just about everyone (PM, Crown, etc) and find out whether FBI presented evidence (and what evidence was that) before raid was ordered, who exactly authorized the raid, negotiated with FBI, etc.
Everyone refused to talk to media about these issue. As if they're not public servants paid by taxpayers' money, but working in a private company and can decline to comment.
In short - noone (except police, I guess) knows what evidence NZ police has seen before the raid. They might have not seen any evidence, for all we know.
Windows is easy and that's why they use it.
There is nothing "easy" about Windows, or any other OS.
Give Windows to a person that has never used it, see what happens.
Same with Linux and Mac OSX.
I have used Linux and Windows for 15 years now, but I am completely lost if you put me in front of a Mac
In other words, all OSs are equally 'hard' (or 'easy').
I'm not arguing that iOS isn't a "walled garden", but there are apps out there that will allow you to tunnel VNC (or even RDP) over SSH. I use iSSH and it's freakin awesome. I've used several other SSH apps, but iSSH so far is the best IMHO.
$9.99?
That is a joke, right?
It has many many assumptions. Assumptions that Megaupload was a 'personal cyberlocker service', then 2 paragraphs later DoJ complains that Megaupload did not have a search function - therefore, they were up to something.
Who's taking things out of context now? It goes on to say that the lack of a site wide search function pemitted them to conceal the extent of their activities. Again, this is not actually news - it was covered really well in the original stories. As for the "assumptions that Megaupload was a personal cyberlocker service" - that's how they billed themselves, so I don't see that as a particularly breathtaking assumption. (It's also the argument that was used ad infinitum by their defenders here on Slashdot.)
What the ... ?
Do you even understand what is the issue? Did you even read the indictment, or you just discuss things based on what you read in 'stories'?
Do you see a problem with personal cyberlocker service like Megaupload (or Dropbox, etc) having a public search facility?
No, you need to read it again. Megaupload said that they can hash cp images and automatically block them from being uploaded again. They flip this claim against them for none CP files.
Read item 24 carefully.
"Members of the Conspiracy have indicated to each other that they can automatically identify and delete such materials on all of their servers by calculating MD5 hash values of known child pornography or other illicit content, searching the system for these values, and eliminating them; in fact, such files with matching hash values have been deleted from the Mega Conspiracyâ(TM)s servers. Members of the Mega Conspiracy have failed to implement a similarprogram to actually delete or terminate access to copyright infringing content."
How can you be so stupid?
I am pretty sure that it is illegal in all jurisdictions to even store child pornography. Preventing it from being uploaded is a no-brainer, since there are no cases where it could be legal.
However, it not illegal for me to upload a copy of an album that I own, to my private Megaupload account.
Why should Megaupload automatically prevent me from uploading a backup of a song (or album) that I legally purchased, and which shares MD5 hash with the exact same copy which someone else uploaded and shared with others?
You seem to think that you are not able to make a copy of purchased song/album onto external hard disk (which is what Megaupload really is).
That is really sad.
No, his crime was evading justice for a decade of con-jobs and borderline psychopathic behaviour. He's not a native New Zealander, did you know that? Do you know why he's no longer in Germany? Might be because everyone in the tech scene here despises him.
Something tells me that his choice of country of residence does not depend on the opinions of local "tech scene".
Justice hates it when known crooks keep running around because they manage to keep away from the stuff you can prove. Then, when they finally find something to nail you with, they come after you with vengeance. Sure, on paper the legal system works differently - but on paper you can't get away with being a criminal for a decade, either.
This doesn't even make any sense, since they seem to have trouble proving anything, for start. You are filled with hatred, you have turned into incredibly stupid online personality.
The guy is a crook, and everyone here who roots for him is a stupid idiot.
It would appear that only idiot here is you, since you don't seem capable of differentiating between simple concepts like "rooting for Kim" and "complaining about injustice".
Of course, for someone as blind as you, it certainly looks the same.
Seriously go read the indictment, it has money laundering, it has fraudulent take down procedures, it have fictitious users. Copyright infringement was just an underlying thing, they have him banged to rights which is why he's trying for the "excessive force" side defense.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
Hahaha. Did you actually read this whole document? You really should.
It also has child pornography, terrorism propaganda, and many other neat things.
It also has things taken out of context, examples of Kim uploading his legally purchased songs to his private account on Megaupload (which is perfectly legal, but presented as if he was distributing the music by uploading 2 songs to his own account).
It has many many assumptions. Assumptions that Megaupload was a 'personal cyberlocker service', then 2 paragraphs later DoJ complains that Megaupload did not have a search function - therefore, they were up to something.
No, you really should read the document. It is not an indictment, it is a propaganda document.
Kim Dotcom has been found guilty of insider trading and embezzlement in the past.
So no, he is not an innocent angel.
What does it have to do with anything?
As I recall there was a ton of skepticism around the Google IPO. The stock plummeted for a while. Then if you bought it you would have made money hand over fist. Or even if you'd held it from IPO you would have made a ton of money. These internet firms are incredibly hard to value. Facebook may be on its way to zero, or it maybe going to the moon. Nobody knows yet.
Uhm, no. There was no skepticism, there was uncertainty about the value, not whether there was a value.
If Google would disappear tomorrow, it would have horrific/tremendous effect on both businesses and individuals.
I don't think the same can be said for Facebook. I'd be tempted to say that "noone would notice", but that's not entirely true. All the narcissists and lazy people would notice.
Perl is not coming back. Get over it and learn something else.
It never went anywhere, so why would it need to come back?
This actually seems like a pretty sane plan for most people who aren't diehard pirates or Netflix users. Most users don't use 300GB. If Comcast is smart they'll use this as a basis to actually fund the development of a more powerful and competitive network instead of just milking it for short term gains.
How do you know that "most users don't use 300GB"?
Do you know "most users" personally?
I was wondering how long it would be before some sheltered fool claimed America was just as bad.
I am pretty sure some Gitmo (ex-)residents would like to talk to you.
Especially those that were released after being imprisoned (and pretty much tortured), then released because of lack of evidence.
I presume you are also the type that cheers when Iranian scientists get murdered.
And here's the unpopular-on-Slashdot, but common-everywhere-else view: Yes, he lost all that, but he provides us all an excellent object lesson in how not to be a stupid douchebag.
When you are not a security contractor with an official relationship to the people organizing and/or securing the G-20 summit, don't fucking go on the internet talking about how you're going to 'test the security' of the G-20 summit.
If they want your help, they'll ask for it. If you offer your help, and they refuse to accept it, then by all means, write to a politician to express your views. Write to the newspapers to talk about how the security of the summit is flawed, and needs to be tested in different ways than are being planned (a legitimate *journalist* would be interested in this sort of a story - find one). Even express your views that the government is using ineffective security precautions that amount to no more than theater, and explain why online, on a blog, etc. But do not - I repeat, do not - continue making plans to "test" the security and talk about your plans to "test" the security.
If they've refused your offer of assistance to "test security," and you go ahead and publicly continue to make plans to "test security," don't be surprised when they show up, kick in your door, and fucking cart you off because you're behaving like a threat.
So, is this how you justify what they've done to him, you stupid cunt?
no they aren't. i've been in touch with plenty of tech and online people since the 1980s, and if anything, people pirate less now. more total bytes downloaded, maybe, but a lower percentage of [online/connected] people are pirating than ever in my 30-year view.
I really love all the parameters and calculations you've used in order to achieve that conclusion.
Hey look, I am 40 myself, used computers since I was 7, and I can surely tell you that I know less people engaging in copyright infringement now than 25 years ago.
Never mind that I don't even care if anyone pirates anything, nor would I ask, nor am I buddy with tons of teenagers who are most likely to be the ones doing copyright infringement - but my logic is flawless anyway.
Brilliant.
These people really seem to live in some parallel universe if they think forcing 'unskippable' content onto people that paid for disks is somehow 'educating' them.
The F22 is however not a bluff. It is the deadliest, sneakiest air superiority fighter ever created by man.
It is so versatile, it can even choke you to death.