You know something is wrong when the MUSIC COMPANY gets pissed at their artist for saying this? WTF, since when did they become the boss, and not the artist? The music company EXIST solely because of the artists and things like lots of annoying sound compressed advertisements (as much as their sold music is) on TV. Let them say whatever they want, and you better just focus on pushing your damn ads everywhere. Musicians barely even need their studios anymore since we entered the digital age and it started maturing to push down artists. Music companies need to come down to earth and realize what duty they have here. The artists are the masters, and they are given their jobs thanks to them. Show them the respect that's due, or if you don't agree, just shut up?
Apple never targeted broad audience. True, it can sell to very broad audience, but still Apple prefer to have few but loyal customers. Is that his actual opinion though, or an excuse for a poor market share to calm their users? Are we to assume Steve Jobs never try to spin obvious disadvantages in market share to his adv advantage, but for example Microsoft often do?
I understand that making OS X generally available would reduce their profit margin, but what you're saying isn't about that, but that they don't want to make a big profit from their products from a larger audience? What advantage lies in that? If the audience is no longer very small, it no longer matters to have them very loyal either -- just ask Microsoft.
Well, they say they've cracked for example The Pirate Bay image verification, but later comments on that it'll probably not be worth it still as the processing power is too great. They also claim that Torrent is a good client because they can use "interdiction" attacks on it to feed P2P networks with invalid data to slow them down, but later that too is debunked as it's discovered Torrent now has decent protection from that attack.
So it doesn't come off as that positive for them...
Actually, my impression was that they're in a futile battle against torrent sites by simply trying to flood them with invalid data whenever possible. Automated torrent uploads to public trackers, infiltration of eMule networks, and so on. They have no perfect bullet against it all, and are constantly struggling with a lack of accuracy in their automated hash tests for pirated material, this sometimes yielding harsh comments and whiplashes from the media companies they have as clients (EMI, Universal,...).
I really don't think this was staged... It seems way too embarrasing for that, and it should also be easy enough to verify since I don't think they'd leak their Social Security Numbers and address details. Simply check if any of those seem accurate...
I think I could actually pay to see what they're mailing each other, following this leak. It's frustrating, like getting to a cliffhanger in a movie, but not see what happened afterwards to the villain.
NO WAIT. Oh my lord, this one is even better. There was a follow up, and this time I'll just include the headers. Disgusting!:-X
-----Original Message----- From: "Ben Grodsky" To: "Jay Mairs" ; "Dylan Douglas" Sent: 5/11/07 10:39 AM Subject: RE: naughty miivi hash for filter
it's the first bestiality vid i've gotten that didn't have any porn or bestiality key words.
i'm not offended by bestiality in the least and actually have seen a few of the horse and dog fucking videos already:p
cool. no worries though. it just freaks me out when key words couldn't do anything at all.
I wouldn't normally e-mail you directly about MiiVi stuff, because a lot of what I say about this is total crap (so keep that in mind) and Jay filters the crap from the important stuff for you. Is there a way to add this hash/title to the porn filter explicitly?
I just flagged it as Other Terms of Use violation. It's a warthog (or maybe it's a big bushy dog, I can't tell) having sex with a woman and NOT a Korn vs. Slipknot mash-up video.
If this is a big deal, don't worry about it for now. But eventually this would probably need a tool of some kind for a Super User account to remove files from our indexing system all together. Seriously, since I know they also read Slashdot, and definitely this story: Find a new career where you can be constructive rather than destructive, and where it's not just a completely futile battle, for fuck's sake. Wouldn't you feel better about that, than helping out media companies with a flawed business model? Quotes like the one I did above is just sad. When you get to stumble upon animal porn while you work to solve an inheretly flawed business model in the "digital millenium", you know you're just plain losers. Wow.
The screenshots may not fall under fair use, but the verbatim copies of text is not all that essential for the Wiki.
Here's an example... Everything here should be OK under fair use: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Profession (even the profession icons are custom, not ripped). Everything here should probably also be OK, because it's only a small cropped part of a screenshot: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Weapon . I'm not sure about things like these though, which has excessive quotes as you say: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Lord_Darrin However, assuming they filter out the screenshots, and these quotes that are actually quite non-essential to the wiki in giving game advice and stats, they'll be much better off at least as for the fair use thing. By far most is clearly user contributed here and not "ripped".
I don't see how selling it to Wikia would be possible, since the contributors are submitted at the time of an incompatible license (unless Wikia decides to "Share Alike" for this wiki). It doesn't even help if GuildWiki changes the license now. It would still be a breach of the terms approved by the contributors up until the sale, in case the license will change.
This was why ArenaNet handled things differently. They did it this way: Started wiki.guildwars.com as the official Guild Wars wiki, that is instead of that CC-license using the GFDL license unless in exceptions (screenshots and art assets contributed for the wiki by the developers). Then contributors of GuildWiki could come over there and submit content that they themselves had approved to dual license for the GFDL. So a subset was moved over there, but they had to leave all content at GuildWiki that didn't have explicit permission for re-use.
Maybe future GIMP can have a user selectable UI, "Classic" and "New". People having grown accustomed to a UI is usually reluctant to changes, especially if they are old. LOL;)
But seriously, I have about as hard time adjusting to the GIMP UI as a OpenOffice.org fanboy with a Bill Gates voodoo doll has to adapting to the Office 2007 UI.
Because if he is, IE was the browser in slumber and there's always been competitors to it for as long as it has existed. Since many have been superior too, if there was no Windows, no IE, we would probably have evolved *faster* to an improved "web browsing experience" (to use their language) than today.
Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it - particularly, people paying for purely aesthetic differences. Again a cynic haven't read up on this game before commenting.
You don't only pay for "purely aesthetic differences", you pay for more character slots, better guild support (being a guild officer *requires* subscription), hardcore mode for more thrill to the game, more areas to explore and quest in, and possibly (this specific part is only rumored yet) even more character classes for more skills.
Why would a paying customer want to play with a gimped free player when he could play with other fully-powered paying customers? The subscriber service will provide additional areas to explore, and more items, but they have been explicit on that the items won't be "better" than other stuff even free players can find. So this argument is moot.
The RV630 chip is anything but "old", and what runs the Radeon HD 2600 PRO and Radeon HD 2600 XT. These belong to the very latest Radeon R600 line -- AMD's Direct3D 10 / Shader Model 4.0 supporting GPU's. These are high end chips from 2007, currently only beat by the Radeon HD 2900 XT in performance, if only speaking of AMD/ATI. The M56 chip is the core of the ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 (released December 2005), which is still a very decent mobile chip, roughly corresponding to an NVIDIA Geforce Go 7600 in performance.
Hmm, I now also see the ATI FireGL V7600 runs the RV630 too. Maybe that could work out for something too...
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I agree, especially if these are (like I believe it to be) 45K freed of conventional memory. I remember the times and can assure you 45K freed wasn't to be laughed at, but a real benefit. DOS users were often trying to cram in as much as they could in conventional RAM at one point, and 45K could be the difference of one more TSR process or not. Ah, the memories... And later joys of Quarterdeck and their QEMM, and so on.
Agree, this may be the best balance of protections I've seen so far. It doesn't intrude on the OS or anything else running on it at all, and don't require a functional Internet connection. Phoning home is among the worst ways of doing it, as you introduce so many points of failure -- someone not being connected, or maybe even your own license servers having problems.
Many possible answers... But I think the most likely is that they may not be using Tor, but others already having hacked their account and those may have very good reasons trying to hide their actual locations. I think that's the most likely answer, because if the embassies are as careful as to routinely use Tor, they'd also know what encrypted e-mail is.
But sure, there's the small chance they do want to hide sensitive correspondence. And actually, I hope they are trying to, for a number of reasons, so it's a bit sad to see this traffic was unencrypted. This is often not about secret government conspiracies, but for example dealing with personal details of people in endagered situations, or helping/arranging other things you may not want the whole world to know all the details about. Setting up meetings, or for something wildly different, for example the Swedish embassy was in heavy activity during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquakes, and helped coordinate the rescue operations and cataloguing injured and deceased parents and children. They also try keeping up to date with situations in unstable countries, and helping people reach their home countries, getting their locations, etc.
And I wouldn't like things like these to suddenly pop up at a semi-defaced looking website put up by some Turkish hacker with an agenda.:-( Unfortunately, this is evidence that their security could be tightened and I'm glad this hasn't happened in a time of crisis somewhere.
Well, the comparison *is* hosted on Linux.com. Since the reviewer stomached to judge Word 2007 a better MS Word than ever before, that must be a small victory for the application at least. I also noticed what you're saying, and besides, that he intentionally seemed to avoid many features where there's simply no good counterpart, such as Word 2007 interfacing via your own applications, and it also skipped the whole deal about collaborative features which felt kind of unprofessional to me. This comparison seemed most aimed for amateurs than the enterprise sector, looking at the surface at things like bulleted lists, clip art, and page style templates. I hope that glance on the surface isn't indicative of OOo's feature set at least.
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You know something is wrong when the MUSIC COMPANY gets pissed at their artist for saying this? WTF, since when did they become the boss, and not the artist? The music company EXIST solely because of the artists and things like lots of annoying sound compressed advertisements (as much as their sold music is) on TV. Let them say whatever they want, and you better just focus on pushing your damn ads everywhere. Musicians barely even need their studios anymore since we entered the digital age and it started maturing to push down artists. Music companies need to come down to earth and realize what duty they have here. The artists are the masters, and they are given their jobs thanks to them. Show them the respect that's due, or if you don't agree, just shut up?
OK, so you can only download 30 Kilosongs, 250 Kilopictures or 13 Megamails?
:-(
And I thought "Megapixels" were a salesman abomination.
I understand that making OS X generally available would reduce their profit margin, but what you're saying isn't about that, but that they don't want to make a big profit from their products from a larger audience? What advantage lies in that? If the audience is no longer very small, it no longer matters to have them very loyal either -- just ask Microsoft.
Sorry, Slash apparently dislikes mu-signs. So "Torrent" above should be "uTorrent".
Well, they say they've cracked for example The Pirate Bay image verification, but later comments on that it'll probably not be worth it still as the processing power is too great. They also claim that Torrent is a good client because they can use "interdiction" attacks on it to feed P2P networks with invalid data to slow them down, but later that too is debunked as it's discovered Torrent now has decent protection from that attack.
...).
So it doesn't come off as that positive for them...
Actually, my impression was that they're in a futile battle against torrent sites by simply trying to flood them with invalid data whenever possible. Automated torrent uploads to public trackers, infiltration of eMule networks, and so on. They have no perfect bullet against it all, and are constantly struggling with a lack of accuracy in their automated hash tests for pirated material, this sometimes yielding harsh comments and whiplashes from the media companies they have as clients (EMI, Universal,
I really don't think this was staged... It seems way too embarrasing for that, and it should also be easy enough to verify since I don't think they'd leak their Social Security Numbers and address details. Simply check if any of those seem accurate...
I think I could actually pay to see what they're mailing each other, following this leak. It's frustrating, like getting to a cliffhanger in a movie, but not see what happened afterwards to the villain.
This really goes without saying, as it is expected from people like them. Still it is unexcusable, what I found... They top-post on e-mails.
From: "Ben Grodsky"
To: "Jay Mairs" ; "Dylan Douglas"
Sent: 5/11/07 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: naughty miivi hash for filter
it's the first bestiality vid i've gotten that didn't have any porn or bestiality key words.
i'm not offended by bestiality in the least and actually have seen a few of the horse and dog fucking videos already
cool. no worries though. it just freaks me out when key words couldn't do anything at all.
I wouldn't normally e-mail you directly about MiiVi stuff, because a lot of what I say about this is total crap (so keep that in mind) and Jay filters the crap from the important stuff for you. Is there a way to add this hash/title to the porn filter explicitly?
hash=30755326A4E4B28E678BFF8CB2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3 (the title is Celebrity deathmatch: Korn vs slipknot and the exact URL is http://129.47.9.160/zonie/media.php?hash=30755326A4E4B28E678BFF8CB2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3)
I just flagged it as Other Terms of Use violation. It's a warthog (or maybe it's a big bushy dog, I can't tell) having sex with a woman and NOT a Korn vs. Slipknot mash-up video.
If this is a big deal, don't worry about it for now. But eventually this would probably need a tool of some kind for a Super User account to remove files from our indexing system all together. Seriously, since I know they also read Slashdot, and definitely this story: Find a new career where you can be constructive rather than destructive, and where it's not just a completely futile battle, for fuck's sake. Wouldn't you feel better about that, than helping out media companies with a flawed business model? Quotes like the one I did above is just sad. When you get to stumble upon animal porn while you work to solve an inheretly flawed business model in the "digital millenium", you know you're just plain losers. Wow.
Oh my god, this will be awesome. My spider sense hasn't tingled like this since the Windows 2000 source code was partially leaked!
The screenshots may not fall under fair use, but the verbatim copies of text is not all that essential for the Wiki.
Here's an example... Everything here should be OK under fair use: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Profession (even the profession icons are custom, not ripped). Everything here should probably also be OK, because it's only a small cropped part of a screenshot: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Weapon . I'm not sure about things like these though, which has excessive quotes as you say: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Lord_Darrin However, assuming they filter out the screenshots, and these quotes that are actually quite non-essential to the wiki in giving game advice and stats, they'll be much better off at least as for the fair use thing. By far most is clearly user contributed here and not "ripped".
I don't see how selling it to Wikia would be possible, since the contributors are submitted at the time of an incompatible license (unless Wikia decides to "Share Alike" for this wiki). It doesn't even help if GuildWiki changes the license now. It would still be a breach of the terms approved by the contributors up until the sale, in case the license will change.
This was why ArenaNet handled things differently. They did it this way: Started wiki.guildwars.com as the official Guild Wars wiki, that is instead of that CC-license using the GFDL license unless in exceptions (screenshots and art assets contributed for the wiki by the developers). Then contributors of GuildWiki could come over there and submit content that they themselves had approved to dual license for the GFDL. So a subset was moved over there, but they had to leave all content at GuildWiki that didn't have explicit permission for re-use.
Maybe future GIMP can have a user selectable UI, "Classic" and "New". People having grown accustomed to a UI is usually reluctant to changes, especially if they are old. LOL ;)
But seriously, I have about as hard time adjusting to the GIMP UI as a OpenOffice.org fanboy with a Bill Gates voodoo doll has to adapting to the Office 2007 UI.
Totally agreed... I think I won't post a comment to this story!
Is he talking of IE getting you to Google.com !?
Because if he is, IE was the browser in slumber and there's always been competitors to it for as long as it has existed. Since many have been superior too, if there was no Windows, no IE, we would probably have evolved *faster* to an improved "web browsing experience" (to use their language) than today.
You don't only pay for "purely aesthetic differences", you pay for more character slots, better guild support (being a guild officer *requires* subscription), hardcore mode for more thrill to the game, more areas to explore and quest in, and possibly (this specific part is only rumored yet) even more character classes for more skills.
The RV630 chip is anything but "old", and what runs the Radeon HD 2600 PRO and Radeon HD 2600 XT. These belong to the very latest Radeon R600 line -- AMD's Direct3D 10 / Shader Model 4.0 supporting GPU's. These are high end chips from 2007, currently only beat by the Radeon HD 2900 XT in performance, if only speaking of AMD/ATI. The M56 chip is the core of the ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 (released December 2005), which is still a very decent mobile chip, roughly corresponding to an NVIDIA Geforce Go 7600 in performance.
Hmm, I now also see the ATI FireGL V7600 runs the RV630 too. Maybe that could work out for something too...
I agree, especially if these are (like I believe it to be) 45K freed of conventional memory. I remember the times and can assure you 45K freed wasn't to be laughed at, but a real benefit. DOS users were often trying to cram in as much as they could in conventional RAM at one point, and 45K could be the difference of one more TSR process or not. Ah, the memories... And later joys of Quarterdeck and their QEMM, and so on.
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What a weird contradiction. Damn you RMS, for designing non-free GPL licenses?"However, if you don't want to lose your freedom, you had better not follow him."
I wonder if GPL v3 is only a "free" license until GPL v4 is released?
Since it was "not too long ago", maybe the transition has just yet to take place. ;-)
Agree, this may be the best balance of protections I've seen so far. It doesn't intrude on the OS or anything else running on it at all, and don't require a functional Internet connection. Phoning home is among the worst ways of doing it, as you introduce so many points of failure -- someone not being connected, or maybe even your own license servers having problems.
Many possible answers... But I think the most likely is that they may not be using Tor, but others already having hacked their account and those may have very good reasons trying to hide their actual locations. I think that's the most likely answer, because if the embassies are as careful as to routinely use Tor, they'd also know what encrypted e-mail is.
:-( Unfortunately, this is evidence that their security could be tightened and I'm glad this hasn't happened in a time of crisis somewhere.
But sure, there's the small chance they do want to hide sensitive correspondence. And actually, I hope they are trying to, for a number of reasons, so it's a bit sad to see this traffic was unencrypted. This is often not about secret government conspiracies, but for example dealing with personal details of people in endagered situations, or helping/arranging other things you may not want the whole world to know all the details about. Setting up meetings, or for something wildly different, for example the Swedish embassy was in heavy activity during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquakes, and helped coordinate the rescue operations and cataloguing injured and deceased parents and children. They also try keeping up to date with situations in unstable countries, and helping people reach their home countries, getting their locations, etc.
And I wouldn't like things like these to suddenly pop up at a semi-defaced looking website put up by some Turkish hacker with an agenda.
Well, the comparison *is* hosted on Linux.com. Since the reviewer stomached to judge Word 2007 a better MS Word than ever before, that must be a small victory for the application at least. I also noticed what you're saying, and besides, that he intentionally seemed to avoid many features where there's simply no good counterpart, such as Word 2007 interfacing via your own applications, and it also skipped the whole deal about collaborative features which felt kind of unprofessional to me. This comparison seemed most aimed for amateurs than the enterprise sector, looking at the surface at things like bulleted lists, clip art, and page style templates. I hope that glance on the surface isn't indicative of OOo's feature set at least.