piracy had nothing to do with the nose-dive experienced by CD sales.
Even if it did, it was minor.
I've stopped buying CDs ages ago. I'm not downloading music either.
I basically, managed to buy most of the music I needed. I have no interest in what is being called 'music' these days.
Sorry, but in the 80's and 90's, we had reason to buy music. It was actually good. These days, music (that is being pushed to us, or advertised) is mostly total shit.
11 Carrier Battle Groups. The ability to project naval, air, and underwater force anywhere in the world The US has the mightiest navy in the history of the world, greater than every country's navy put together.
This is not such a big deal. Let the Chinese try to copy this. Then they'll only have to build the aircraft carriers, fighter jets, support ships to protect it.
God Bless America, and God Bless the US Navy.
Ever occured to you that someone else spent time developing various types of I-will-hit-you-with-3-mach-speed-up-to-600km anti-ship (nuclear or standard payload) missiles, instead of bothering to build amount of ships to match yours? (not to mention that carrier is as offensive as it gets, and not many countries have a need to conquer the world - so they don't make/need them)
Lundis Energi should have been testing Vista back in its early alpha release stages to ensure compatibility with their Linux based server system.
Yeah, you fucking genius. Instead of Microsoft testing their shitty future product with one of the most popular DHCP servers in the world, some random IT guys in Sweden should do that for them. Yeah.
I mean, after all - it's our responsibility to test if Microsoft product works, not Microsoft's.
Talk of "trade deficits" is political manipulation designed to bamboozle the uninformed. Anyone who believes "deficits" result from trade is as gullible as the Emperor's New Clothes.
America has its fair share of problems, but we arn't going to fix them with socialism.
Uhm... and why not? Does it matter what it's CALLED?
Btw, would you say Sweden is a socialist country, for example? If so, would you mind explaining me what's wrong with them, and why you think US is then so much better than Sweden, considering they apply lots of "social" principles?
(most people whining about socialism have no fucking idea what word "social" in "socialism" means, it seems)
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Yeah, system "worked" in the end. After someone was able to throw zillions of dolars, and thousands of manhours into fighting SCO.
95% of people who get sued don't have same abilities, so system doesn't work for them.
I think the upshot of this isn't really "look at us, we can sniff plaintext Wifi connections," but "look at one of the biggest players in web mail use plaintext connections even though they ought to know it's a hideously bad idea."
Thank God I got out of shitty security 'world' in time. If *this* gets into Black Hat these days, then either security world is very slow these days, or quality of security 'researchers' really went downhill badly.
Just because it's GMail, it doesn't make it any more or less stupid. Technique is as old as networks, there is nothing new there. Except "Oh look, it's Google!!!" factor, which has nothing to do with security.
If I'd even think of submitting something like this in "old" Black Hat days, I'd be laughed at for the rest of my life, by my colleagues.
The original Internet crowd was primarily made up of human leftovers of a number of different kinds; sexual deviants, social rejects, the autistic, and the terminally mentally ill. They were people whose main incentive for coming online was due simply to the fact that nobody offline wanted to be reminded of their existence. It was a means for them to achieve some degree of dubious social interaction with others of their own kind, while at the same time, mercifully sparing anyone the unspeakable horror of being exposed to their presence in an actual physical sense. While online, their corporeal forms could thankfully remain locked in their customary subterranean environments.
I think this was either written by a whine generator (there are quite few of them around), or a person who fits into all 4 categories listed.
Disgusting, violent games like that shouldn't be marketed. Would you let you local video store sell child abuse DVDs? No? Well, this is the same sort of thing.
I realise this is an unpopular opinion here and will probably get modded down as such, but it's true - the decline in society is not helped by pandering to the violent.
Decline in society is not helped by limiting what people can do, should do, will do. Nor it is by governments and various NGOs setting 'morale' standards. Because they don't know what 'morale' is. It comes from the home and parents, not from any 'organization'.
I played violent game for past 15-20 years. I never hit anyone in my entire life (not counting wrestling with other kids when I was 8 or so).
Blame it on my parents, who were clever enough to take care of those issues instead of blaming government, society, TV, etc.
Oh get off the f*cking Haliburton horse. It's dead and buried and there never was a horse to begin with.
I think some of this "finding" may be true but the one instance cited here "The RNC has e-mail records for Brad Smith, an executive assistant in the Office of Political Affairs, for the period between January 10, 2007, and April 27, 2007. During this period, Mr. Smith sent 6,954 e-mails and received 9,812 e-mails, for an average of 217 per weekday." brings up questions of how they counted. If someone can send 217 emails in one day that is freaking amazing. They must be counting CC's or people on a mailing list. That would be ONE email with multiple people, not say 20 emails.
Using the RNC accounts during and after the elections to discuss political strategy seems OK to me. I'd rather either party didn't use Gov't resources to plan political activities. It's also NOT always poltical business when you email someone at a ".gov" address. I have friends at NASA and other agencies I often communicate with just to see how they are and they have ".gov" emails. This smells like much ado about nothing.
If you want to talk about destroying valuable records related to an investigation, lets talk about what Hillary did with the records from the Rose Law firm in Little Rock. And the records about the last days of Vince Foster.
By the way, a Congressional Subpoena is meaningless, as they have no police powers to enforce compliance. It's more like a sternly worded request. I also question the group that did the study, it's a Democratic hack job group. It's nothing more than trying to throw up a smoke screen to hide the fact that many Americans are starting to wish they had NOT elected Democrats to office last election.
You know, where I live we have a "Radical Party". Basically, they have lots of followers (big majority are undereducated, often illiterate, people). Their main thing is 'malice' (hope it's the right English word). And they are obsessed with nationalism. And they see solutions in wars. And when they get to some power (locally, mostly), they end up with many scandals and affairs. And they pretend as if nothing they do is illegal or immoral. They just ignore the criticism, and keep on sucking money out of budget, giving it to themselves or their friends. Wait - they look EXACTLY like Republicans. Huh? (well, to be honest, they look like 95% of political parties these days)
Funny thing about them is... whenever you talk about their obviuos corruption, they try to pull "But look at XYZ party officials, they've done this/that too!!!!!" - whether those other guys really did it or not.
Basically, they try to justify their wrongdoings by pointing out that someone else has done it too. Or by trying to make people look the other way.
Exactly what you are trying to do. And it doesn't say anything about what kind of people those corrupt politicians are, it says a lot about what kind of person YOU are.
People who don't have balls to admit that someone they fancy is doing bad things are on the same level like (if not worse than) people doing bad things.
I'd be very happy to have 99% of politicians locked in a big room with an angry Rambo. Politicians worldwide reached the point of no return, corruption isn't something they do. It became their way of life.
If only the US had embraced the Soviet model and way of life, we'd all be in flying cars be now because of their clear technological superiority! (sheesh) All you've proven is that if you spend enough money on something, any political system can produce results. No one argues that the Russians did good work in space, just like no one argues they have a good chess culture, and a good arts culture. But overall, if you look at their technology, the vast majority of it was utter crap compared to capitalist countries.
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
Just because something doesn't LOOK nice or fancy, doesn't mean it's utter crap.
To give you an example. Army unit, in European country, was interested in purchasing certain electronic equipment. Because they were already using both US and Russian equipment, they've invited both of them to make a presentation.
Americans came, unveiled small and very nice looking (lots of LEDs, displays, great design, appealing to an eye) device. Spent an hour talking why it's the best, etc, etc.
Russians insisted presentation is made in their country. Noone could understand why, at the time.
When presentation started (it was done outside), Russians unveiled their big and ugly looking device. Talked 5 minutes about features (more or less, same as US device). Then they also unveil the US device (it was long after Cold War ended, and both parties were able to buy stuff from each other).
Then, guy takes the gun out, shoots few bullets into the Russian device. Resets it, and screen says "480K of RAM" instead of "640K of RAM", and booted properly - and worked. They had HUGE memory boards in the device, and even if you shot through them, they'd still work, bypassing/ignoring damaged memory boards.
He shot one bullet into US device. Dead.
(then it became clear why they wanted presentation at their place, they couldn't shoot them elsewhere:)
Guess which devices were purchased?
Bottom line is - the difference in 'thinking' between these 2 'blocks' is SO HUGE, it's pointless talking about what is better. It's all about the purpose.
Just take "Lada Niva" as an example. Worst looking car on the planet, feels like it's been designed/manufactured by Ray Charles - but yet, when it's -15C to -20C outside and you need to start the engine... it starts. Unlike many nicer looking cars, from either US or Europe.
I'd never even think of buying Russian computer, though:)
It's actually not so strange, or so rare, that this happens. Say your POS(Player Owned Station(or Structure), deployable thing at a moon in space) got bugged(Not uncommon) doing whatever, such as super-capitalship construction, it might need a DEV/GM to join the corporation itself, try to see exactly what the bug is from the corporations point of view, then fix it.
You are right, that happens.
However...
a) It happens ONLY (and ONLY) when you petition it b) When that happens, GM/dev sends an evemail (or uses other means, even LOCAL) in order to notify corp that he's going to join; if CEO is not online, GM/dev always asks first for "point of contact", and announces his intentions c) When he gets to POS, he asks someone to be there, and he doesn't cloak either
(and yes, devs have been fixing my corp/alliance POSes before, and we've had this happen few times already, blah, blah, etc, etc)
A skeptic is able to be convinced by sufficient evidence. The "global warming isn't happening and even if it is humans have nothing to do with it, nyaah nyaah nyaah I can't hear you" crowd clearly isn't. So some other word than "skeptic" is needed.
Gotta adore the fanatics, really.
Can't your brain accept the fact that "Global warming isn't happening" and "It has nothing or very little to do with humans" are 2 different types of people?
Might be too much for your small fanatical and easily manipulated brain...
FYI, your heroes at MIT/ Oxford seem to agree with global warming and are trying to educate you, but perhaps the real problem is that you don't understand it.
By your logic since the vast majority of scientists believe the Earth is round and the scientific evidence supports them, they must be wrong and the Earth is flat.
Oh, you mentioned "scientific evidence" phrase. Wow.
Most of the "scientific evidence" from global warming fanatics is not an evidence to support their claims, but to refute evidence from scientists that have been studying climate for ages.
This reminds me of my previous life in computer/network security area (which I, luckily, left behind) where I got to have "experts" that thought removing raw sockets is a silver bullet solution. Like monkeys, they are, who create a lot of noise in order to get attention...
Shrug. Looking through this thread, there are a bunch of obviously over-emotional "there is no global warming people", and they all either make the argument that, "90% of the scientists in the world are wrong because of *insert anecdote here*" or that the whole thing is completely political and manufactured by the liberal media.
Not really. All I needed to think for myself were few scientist:
I'm unsurprised that anti-climate-change folks can find a few PhDs who will agree with them. There are a lot of scientists out there, after all. But unless Morano's "more to come" has another 10,990 scientists on it, his "converts" are still nothing compared to the number of scientists who DO buy the global warming argument.
Seems like most retards on this planet live for polls, or percentages. Do you seriously think that "we have more people on the list, thus we are right" argument has ANY value?
Long ago, 99.99999999999999% of people on the planet thought Earth was flat. There was 1 lunatic who said it was not flat.
Seriously, I live in a place where civil war was raging for 10 years, place that was constantly bombed for 3 months, place where many idiots and extremists can be found easily.
However, global warming fanatics scare the hell out of me.
There is no CONCLUSIVE evidence for either side. However, if I have to choose between siding with scientists from MIT or Oxford - or "scientists" that got project grants or paid jobs because they mentioned "Global Warming" in their project name - guess what I'll choose... This whole silly thing reminds me of Y2K panic.
Digg doesn't want to get sued. That's not unreasonable.
People are posting the same story over and over again. It's functioning as a defacto DoS attack on Digg, too -- they're not nearly as interesting now as they usually are.
That number is out there. It's not going away. It's not useful to many of the people who insist on posting it or reading it, either -- unless you're writing a player. So why should Digg get sued? How does that make the world a better place?
Why, exactly, would Digg get sued?
Too many people ASSUME too much, thus even giving indirect legitimacy to completely crazy concepts (such as "getting sued for posting a hex number").
And all those people use words 'intelectual property', 'copyright', 'trademark', 'trade secret' - obviuosly showing that they have no idea what they're talking about. Yet, they keep on saying "Digg would get sued".
One hex number can NOT circumvent protection on its' own. Same as one gun can not kill anyone. You need a program to circumvent protection, and a human to shoot with the gun.
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piracy had nothing to do with the nose-dive experienced by CD sales.
Even if it did, it was minor.
I've stopped buying CDs ages ago. I'm not downloading music either.
I basically, managed to buy most of the music I needed. I have no interest in what is being called 'music' these days.
Sorry, but in the 80's and 90's, we had reason to buy music. It was actually good. These days, music (that is being pushed to us, or advertised) is mostly total shit.
I've never heard about Facebook. Until few weeks ago, when Slashdot editors started spamming with Facebook related "news".
How much did you get, to start spamming your own userbase with worthless news about Facebook?
What will be next - "Facebook upgrades hardware"?
11 Carrier Battle Groups. The ability to project naval, air, and underwater force anywhere in the world The US has the mightiest navy in the history of the world, greater than every country's navy put together.
This is not such a big deal. Let the Chinese try to copy this. Then they'll only have to build the aircraft carriers, fighter jets, support ships to protect it.
God Bless America, and God Bless the US Navy.
Ever occured to you that someone else spent time developing various types of I-will-hit-you-with-3-mach-speed-up-to-600km anti-ship (nuclear or standard payload) missiles, instead of bothering to build amount of ships to match yours? (not to mention that carrier is as offensive as it gets, and not many countries have a need to conquer the world - so they don't make/need them)
Lundis Energi should have been testing Vista back in its early alpha release stages to ensure compatibility with their Linux based server system.
Yeah, you fucking genius. Instead of Microsoft testing their shitty future product with one of the most popular DHCP servers in the world, some random IT guys in Sweden should do that for them. Yeah.
I mean, after all - it's our responsibility to test if Microsoft product works, not Microsoft's.
Genius.
Talk of "trade deficits" is political manipulation designed to bamboozle the uninformed. Anyone who believes "deficits" result from trade is as gullible as the Emperor's New Clothes.
Wtf are you smoking?
...nothing is free.
Those highly-socialist countries have huge problems ahead when the bills come due.
I love how people who have no fucking idea about the subject, make witty comments.
Go and fucking check cash reserves Norway has, for example, then come back with your retarded comments.
Idiots still can't make a difference between "communism" and "socialism".
America has its fair share of problems, but we arn't going to fix them with socialism.
Uhm... and why not? Does it matter what it's CALLED?
Btw, would you say Sweden is a socialist country, for example? If so, would you mind explaining me what's wrong with them, and why you think US is then so much better than Sweden, considering they apply lots of "social" principles?
(most people whining about socialism have no fucking idea what word "social" in "socialism" means, it seems)
Yeah, system "worked" in the end. After someone was able to throw zillions of dolars, and thousands of manhours into fighting SCO.
95% of people who get sued don't have same abilities, so system doesn't work for them.
I think the upshot of this isn't really "look at us, we can sniff plaintext Wifi connections," but "look at one of the biggest players in web mail use plaintext connections even though they ought to know it's a hideously bad idea."
Thank God I got out of shitty security 'world' in time. If *this* gets into Black Hat these days, then either security world is very slow these days, or quality of security 'researchers' really went downhill badly.
Just because it's GMail, it doesn't make it any more or less stupid. Technique is as old as networks, there is nothing new there. Except "Oh look, it's Google!!!" factor, which has nothing to do with security.
If I'd even think of submitting something like this in "old" Black Hat days, I'd be laughed at for the rest of my life, by my colleagues.
Times have changed, I guess...
The original Internet crowd was primarily made up of human leftovers of a number of different kinds; sexual deviants, social rejects, the autistic, and the terminally mentally ill. They were people whose main incentive for coming online was due simply to the fact that nobody offline wanted to be reminded of their existence. It was a means for them to achieve some degree of dubious social interaction with others of their own kind, while at the same time, mercifully sparing anyone the unspeakable horror of being exposed to their presence in an actual physical sense. While online, their corporeal forms could thankfully remain locked in their customary subterranean environments.
I think this was either written by a whine generator (there are quite few of them around), or a person who fits into all 4 categories listed.
Disgusting, violent games like that shouldn't be marketed. Would you let you local video store sell child abuse DVDs? No? Well, this is the same sort of thing.
I realise this is an unpopular opinion here and will probably get modded down as such, but it's true - the decline in society is not helped by pandering to the violent.
Decline in society is not helped by limiting what people can do, should do, will do. Nor it is by governments and various NGOs setting 'morale' standards. Because they don't know what 'morale' is. It comes from the home and parents, not from any 'organization'.
I played violent game for past 15-20 years. I never hit anyone in my entire life (not counting wrestling with other kids when I was 8 or so).
Blame it on my parents, who were clever enough to take care of those issues instead of blaming government, society, TV, etc.
Oh get off the f*cking Haliburton horse. It's dead and buried and there never was a horse to begin with.
I think some of this "finding" may be true but the one instance cited here "The RNC has e-mail records for Brad Smith, an executive assistant in the Office of Political Affairs, for the period between January 10, 2007, and April 27, 2007. During this period, Mr. Smith sent 6,954 e-mails and received 9,812 e-mails, for an average of 217 per weekday." brings up questions of how they counted. If someone can send 217 emails in one day that is freaking amazing. They must be counting CC's or people on a mailing list. That would be ONE email with multiple people, not say 20 emails.
Using the RNC accounts during and after the elections to discuss political strategy seems OK to me. I'd rather either party didn't use Gov't resources to plan political activities. It's also NOT always poltical business when you email someone at a ".gov" address. I have friends at NASA and other agencies I often communicate with just to see how they are and they have ".gov" emails. This smells like much ado about nothing.
If you want to talk about destroying valuable records related to an investigation, lets talk about what Hillary did with the records from the Rose Law firm in Little Rock. And the records about the last days of Vince Foster.
By the way, a Congressional Subpoena is meaningless, as they have no police powers to enforce compliance. It's more like a sternly worded request. I also question the group that did the study, it's a Democratic hack job group. It's nothing more than trying to throw up a smoke screen to hide the fact that many Americans are starting to wish they had NOT elected Democrats to office last election.
You know, where I live we have a "Radical Party". Basically, they have lots of followers (big majority are undereducated, often illiterate, people). Their main thing is 'malice' (hope it's the right English word). And they are obsessed with nationalism. And they see solutions in wars. And when they get to some power (locally, mostly), they end up with many scandals and affairs. And they pretend as if nothing they do is illegal or immoral. They just ignore the criticism, and keep on sucking money out of budget, giving it to themselves or their friends. Wait - they look EXACTLY like Republicans. Huh? (well, to be honest, they look like 95% of political parties these days)
Funny thing about them is... whenever you talk about their obviuos corruption, they try to pull "But look at XYZ party officials, they've done this/that too!!!!!" - whether those other guys really did it or not.
Basically, they try to justify their wrongdoings by pointing out that someone else has done it too. Or by trying to make people look the other way.
Exactly what you are trying to do. And it doesn't say anything about what kind of people those corrupt politicians are, it says a lot about what kind of person YOU are.
People who don't have balls to admit that someone they fancy is doing bad things are on the same level like (if not worse than) people doing bad things.
I'd be very happy to have 99% of politicians locked in a big room with an angry Rambo. Politicians worldwide reached the point of no return, corruption isn't something they do. It became their way of life.
If only the US had embraced the Soviet model and way of life, we'd all be in flying cars be now because of their clear technological superiority! (sheesh) All you've proven is that if you spend enough money on something, any political system can produce results. No one argues that the Russians did good work in space, just like no one argues they have a good chess culture, and a good arts culture. But overall, if you look at their technology, the vast majority of it was utter crap compared to capitalist countries.
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Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
Just because something doesn't LOOK nice or fancy, doesn't mean it's utter crap.
To give you an example. Army unit, in European country, was interested in purchasing certain electronic equipment. Because they were already using both US and Russian equipment, they've invited both of them to make a presentation.
Americans came, unveiled small and very nice looking (lots of LEDs, displays, great design, appealing to an eye) device. Spent an hour talking why it's the best, etc, etc.
Russians insisted presentation is made in their country. Noone could understand why, at the time.
When presentation started (it was done outside), Russians unveiled their big and ugly looking device. Talked 5 minutes about features (more or less, same as US device). Then they also unveil the US device (it was long after Cold War ended, and both parties were able to buy stuff from each other).
Then, guy takes the gun out, shoots few bullets into the Russian device. Resets it, and screen says "480K of RAM" instead of "640K of RAM", and booted properly - and worked. They had HUGE memory boards in the device, and even if you shot through them, they'd still work, bypassing/ignoring damaged memory boards.
He shot one bullet into US device. Dead.
(then it became clear why they wanted presentation at their place, they couldn't shoot them elsewhere
Guess which devices were purchased?
Bottom line is - the difference in 'thinking' between these 2 'blocks' is SO HUGE, it's pointless talking about what is better. It's all about the purpose.
Just take "Lada Niva" as an example. Worst looking car on the planet, feels like it's been designed/manufactured by Ray Charles - but yet, when it's -15C to -20C outside and you need to start the engine... it starts. Unlike many nicer looking cars, from either US or Europe.
I'd never even think of buying Russian computer, though
It's actually not so strange, or so rare, that this happens. Say your POS(Player Owned Station(or Structure), deployable thing at a moon in space) got bugged(Not uncommon) doing whatever, such as super-capitalship construction, it might need a DEV/GM to join the corporation itself, try to see exactly what the bug is from the corporations point of view, then fix it.
You are right, that happens.
However...
a) It happens ONLY (and ONLY) when you petition it
b) When that happens, GM/dev sends an evemail (or uses other means, even LOCAL) in order to notify corp that he's going to join; if CEO is not online, GM/dev always asks first for "point of contact", and announces his intentions
c) When he gets to POS, he asks someone to be there, and he doesn't cloak either
(and yes, devs have been fixing my corp/alliance POSes before, and we've had this happen few times already, blah, blah, etc, etc)
Can you see the problem here?
A skeptic is able to be convinced by sufficient evidence. The "global warming isn't happening and even if it is humans have nothing to do with it, nyaah nyaah nyaah I can't hear you" crowd clearly isn't. So some other word than "skeptic" is needed.
Gotta adore the fanatics, really.
Can't your brain accept the fact that "Global warming isn't happening" and "It has nothing or very little to do with humans" are 2 different types of people?
Might be too much for your small fanatical and easily manipulated brain...
Intelligent Design advocates and Global Warming deniers are the exact same people.
Don't fall for thei slick propaganda. And don't ask us to give them credit they do not deserve.
And you're a retard, it seems.
Because you can't grasp the difference between "not contributing global warming to SUVs and farting" and "denying global warming exists".
And I hate intelligent design idea or advocates. And I think global warming has nothing to do with us (or our actions). So where do I fit, you genius?
t's good you only needed a few, because that's all you've got.
Do you want me to call you a whaaaaaaambulance, maybe?
"There are more of us, thus we are right" (c) global warming fanatics
FYI, your heroes at MIT/ Oxford seem to agree with global warming and are trying to educate you, but perhaps the real problem is that you don't understand it.
Did you even bother READING what you posted?
Ffs, another fanatic...
By your logic since the vast majority of scientists believe the Earth is round and the scientific evidence supports them, they must be wrong and the Earth is flat.
Oh, you mentioned "scientific evidence" phrase. Wow.
Most of the "scientific evidence" from global warming fanatics is not an evidence to support their claims, but to refute evidence from scientists that have been studying climate for ages.
This reminds me of my previous life in computer/network security area (which I, luckily, left behind) where I got to have "experts" that thought removing raw sockets is a silver bullet solution. Like monkeys, they are, who create a lot of noise in order to get attention...
Shrug. Looking through this thread, there are a bunch of obviously over-emotional "there is no global warming people", and they all either make the argument that, "90% of the scientists in the world are wrong because of *insert anecdote here*" or that the whole thing is completely political and manufactured by the liberal media.
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Not really. All I needed to think for myself were few scientist:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=233253135
I'm unsurprised that anti-climate-change folks can find a few PhDs who will agree with them. There are a lot of scientists out there, after all. But unless Morano's "more to come" has another 10,990 scientists on it, his "converts" are still nothing compared to the number of scientists who DO buy the global warming argument.
Seems like most retards on this planet live for polls, or percentages. Do you seriously think that "we have more people on the list, thus we are right" argument has ANY value?
Long ago, 99.99999999999999% of people on the planet thought Earth was flat. There was 1 lunatic who said it was not flat.
According to your brilliant logic, Earth is flat.
Seriously, I live in a place where civil war was raging for 10 years, place that was constantly bombed for 3 months, place where many idiots and extremists can be found easily.
However, global warming fanatics scare the hell out of me.
There is no CONCLUSIVE evidence for either side. However, if I have to choose between siding with scientists from MIT or Oxford - or "scientists" that got project grants or paid jobs because they mentioned "Global Warming" in their project name - guess what I'll choose... This whole silly thing reminds me of Y2K panic.
Go get laid.
Digg doesn't want to get sued. That's not unreasonable.
People are posting the same story over and over again. It's functioning as a defacto DoS attack on Digg, too -- they're not nearly as interesting now as they usually are.
That number is out there. It's not going away. It's not useful to many of the people who insist on posting it or reading it, either -- unless you're writing a player. So why should Digg get sued? How does that make the world a better place?
Why, exactly, would Digg get sued?
Too many people ASSUME too much, thus even giving indirect legitimacy to completely crazy concepts (such as "getting sued for posting a hex number").
And all those people use words 'intelectual property', 'copyright', 'trademark', 'trade secret' - obviuosly showing that they have no idea what they're talking about. Yet, they keep on saying "Digg would get sued".
One hex number can NOT circumvent protection on its' own. Same as one gun can not kill anyone. You need a program to circumvent protection, and a human to shoot with the gun.
What amazes me the most is the fact that SO many people on digg take it for granted that a hex number is/can be an "intelectual property".
Those same people call everyone else names (retard, nerd, 12yrs old kid, etc, etc).
I am seeing a pattern here...