There will be hell to pay when footage of children burned to death is posted on bestgore.com or maybe youtube. (Bonus points for catching one in the act).
Fuck you, you fucking fucks!
The only reason you could want to ban cameras is to hide your mistakes. You have no expectation of privacy in public, especially when you're working to protect and serve the public. If anything, this shows why cameras should be MANDATORY. With cameras on every responder and 360 degrees of coverage from the top of every vehicle. If you screw up, you need to know it, determine liability, see what led to the mistake(s), and develop ways to avoid screwing up like that in the future.
Is it okay for the janitor to record the happenings in the bathrooms (or other rooms) of the, i dunno, let's say firehall, as long as he promises to keep the data secure in his locker? Or maybe a school. (Think of the Children!)
If privacy is what matters, then require that any firefighter with a camera keep the memory locked in a secure location at the station. Simply banning the cameras, especially after this incident, requires that they don't want to be subject to turning over any evidence. It's class CYA, plain and simple. I don't know who has the power to argue against this. These guys are union; but the union reps can surely see that such things might be used against them as well. They'll probably go along with the ban. The politicians are paid by the unions. Nobody really stands for the people here the way I see it. The people would, IMHO, best be served by having as much information as possible provided that it's properly secured, which is really not that hard to do.
1) It creates a shitload of data stored on some government controlled system somewhere. I think most of us can agree this will lead to a system that is ripe for abuse.
2) I think the last thing we need is our public employees wearing recording devices when they interact with the public. If firefighters, why not letter carriers? If letter carrieras, why not parking enforcement officers?
This strikes me as a bad idea.
Since when did government care about the right to privacy?
Exactly.
I think its probably time for the State Fire Marshal or other public safety official to step in and MANDATE the cameras on chief's helmets (at the very least) and essentially over-rule this guy before he starts a trend.
This is clearly ass-covering and nothing to do with privacy.
Umm, no. Trucks use clear diesel, just the same as cars. Dyed fuel is for tractors and other farm equipment, and furnace fuel. The difference is clear diesel is priced to include "road tax", whereas dyed fuel is not to be used for fueling vehicles that travel on public roads. As for trains, I have no idea.
Did you know that truckers have to buy a different diesel fuel than non-commercial drivers? It's more expensive than the regular diesel, the only real difference other than price is the non-commercial has a dye in it so the tax collectors can identify when a driver cheaps out and buys the wrong fuel. This is just an example of where two otherwise identical products are priced differently and are required to be used for different purposes.
Nothing wrong with it, per se. It just sounds like a phrase that someone with a B.A. in English from the Gretchen Carlson School of Book Learning might use. I guess you could argue that it's poetic, and that Shakespeare himself would find it a clever turn of phrase. Woosh on me.
And I was feeling all crampy and stuff after moderating, and all I really had to say was that yeah, I mostly agree with your assessment of the situation. Like others in this thread have quoted:
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
America has had some pretty wise fellows in charge from time to time.
What's wrong with saying the law is 'ripe for abuse'? Sure, the most common uses of 'ripe' are literal references to fruits and cheese and stuff; but using to in the more generic sense of full maturation or maximum readiness is perfectly valid practice.
Or, similarly, as we say in Canada: "Smoke it if you got it".
Because in the event of an all out nuclear war, praying will be about as effective against an atomic blast as against an oncoming tidal wave, and everybody knows this.
What would you prefer? I've always liked "smoke 'em if you got 'em"
HO scale engineer here. I'm sure the words posted AC on Slashdot has assuaged our ignorant misguided concerns and fears. I know I feel better already.
Cisco engineer here. We don't modify our equipment for anybody beyond basic CALEA-type compliance requirements. We don't even market ourselves for interception/monitoring type roles in most cases. There is a ton of money in other, less politically contentious areas.
Here's an idea. Universal mounting points for adding or mounting your own accessories. Stereo/carputer, dvd/video players and screens, cameras etc, etc.
Something like an automotive version of the rail system on the M4. I really should write this down. Feeding the mayonaisse to the tuna was great!
I hope my car lasts more than 5 years. I'd like an integrated standard 'external' touch screen and audio. Then I just plug in my phone or pad and I have everything I want. GPS, phone, whatever. In a couple of years when I upgrade my phone, my car is upgraded. And again in a couple more years. And again in a couple more years.
Then in 6 years I'm using new/updated software with a new 'computer' instead of the ancient crap that they installed for me with vendor lock-in crapware that was never updated because why bother.
QNX has been running automotive systems for some time. It has been proprietary and rt from the start, to the best of my recollection.
And no, I ain't googooglyin shit, since it doesn't look like you did either. And I am pretty sure the next guy down (replying to your post) didn't either. So, I might even be just spewing my half-baked opinion based on something I think I read on the web in 2001. That sort of thing is bound to happen from time to time when one just says whatever's on one's mind Statistically speaking, of course.
Anyone happen to know whatever happened to the QNX that was a FREE operating system and accompanying software including word processors, spreadsheets, networking, games, etc that was written in Assembler and fit all on a single floppy with most of the floppy still unwritten to? Any relation to this, other then being a Posix OS too?
You are so right. I hope the rest of you are paying attention. Those with ears, hear these wise words of the prophet.
Whose Curve ain't cool now? The girls go wild when I whip out my white 9360! Suck on that, Shuttleworth.
Linux, after all these years on Android, with every faster CPUs, still suffers from uncontrolled pauses and interruptions in user interaction that clearly are to do with scheduling and not to do with the available CPU resources.
This is because its scheduling tries to serve all purposes from database servers to desktop games. This is why it is unsuited for a car UI. QNX is fine.
I am no Steve Ballmer (I can never decide where to put the chairs). I would however, be well prepared for the meeting tomorrow morning. My suggestion would be a nice thank-you card and a voucher for a free upgraded ultra-sensitive microphone for your XBox One.
I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
So, then he says to me, "Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
Eh...there probably was some half baked documentation at some point, but I doubt it was maintained very well by the people who edited that codebase over the decades.
I also doubt they fired any of them unless they were contractors...you have no idea how ugly the federal workers union is about things like this. They almost can't lose their jobs through incompetence or anything else. Which brings me to the problem...the people who wrote it probably wrote half-assed spaghetti code, didn't document it well, and then died off or retired. No one is learning cobol anymore, so you get what we've got right here.
Plus...trying to replace any system in the government or military is an extremely painful exercise that probably fails more often than it succeeds. Between the people you need to deal with, and the policies you need to dance around...it's almost impossible to stand a new system up. (Unless you have someone in a high place that really gets it, and champions the hell out of it...and even then, it's iffy.)
I was a defense contractor for 4 or 5 years. It was quite a few years ago now. Left that behind, and I don't miss it.
With the tendency of the deranged minds who take a gun to school to eat a bullet at the first hint that armed first responders have arrived on scene, makes me think that they *have* thought about it ahead of time.
Right, I'm sure one of the considerations of the deranged minds who take a gun to school is "uh, could I possibly be shot back at?". What you're saying sounds like a thinly veiled NRA talk point, like the idiotic meme that "a hero with a gun could have avoided [whatever]".
I downloaded the.txt file from the pastebin page, because I don't like the way the text doesn't wrap in firefox. So, I load the text file in gedit, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, then paste the text into a new libreoffice document. So, I'm reading along, since I figure it's good training for when I get to be a well-respected Microsoft spokesperson some day, and some of the spaces between the words look like they've been highlighted somehow.
It seems that there are a number of places where the spaces between words are represented by the sequence of "\302\240" (which i "discovered" by pasting the mystery character into an lxterm window, and hitting the enter key. When I did a global search and replace, this character sequence occured 33 times.
This isn't the most eloquent post, but I'm just laying down the basics of what I saw so that another can test it for themselves. Maybe it's nothing, I'm sure someone way smarter than me, will tell me how foolish I am, and am just ignorant in some way, but it's there.
Does that sound like it could be used as a watermark to track down a disloyal employee? I admit it's not very hack-proof, but it looks like it could work in a pinch, and maybe is "working" (since the odd character combination seems to have survived being leaked and posted on the net).
Discuss.
Wonder if MS decided to "watermark" the list before sending it around. A typo here, maybe swap two points there, each person receives an individualized version and the leak can be tracked back to the source. In which case I feel sorry for the person who gets the axe.
Okay, you take a break there now, you're embarrassing the rest of us.
And lay off the brownies in the lunchroom.
UNIX is a simple
language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for
students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for
interchanging programs between different machines.
I apologise, as I'm not going to put much effort into this reply, solely on the basis of you posting as AC. I try not to reply to AC here (I do understand why you might post AC). But, what you said rang so true with me, I feel compelled to say so.
While I have never been employed in the tech industry, what you said rings true more or less everywhere.
I have been in the (more or less) same postition as you describe since July 2011. Winter 2011, and April 2012 were when I was supposed to die (so far). Didn't happen (yet), I'm still here, and I'm spending whatever time I have left to do what I want, and everyone else can FRO. I do hope things go well for you. There will be no praying on my end, of course, as I am not a believer, but I wish you well.
These things seem to become clear when you are in that situation.
Sorry guys (and gals - yes I know there are a couple of you out there), I won't play this game anymore. I recently have been faced with a life threatening (potentially weeks to months to live) illness (still trying to determine what it is). I have been chasing tech since the 80's and after first hearing I may not have long to live, I shit you not, I actually felt relief. I'll skip the rest of the drama, but it didn't take long in my thought process to decide with whatever time I have left, I am going to pursue things I actually like, instead of worrying about the next technology MS or Oracle or BigCompanyThatWantsToOwnMyAss is going to shit out, then kill and reinvent once again.
No thank you. I really enjoy retro computing, so that's what I'm going to do. That's what got me into computers in the first place. If I don't pick up the technology on the job, I'm not chasing it down. Kiss my ass.
Look boys and girls, if life sucks, then change it while you have time. Don't keep living the sucky life. Get on with what you want to do, and do it now. Regardless of my outcome, I am now free. Thank you. That is all.
I would say there's a shitload more than a degree of nuance if you want to compare Kim Dotcom with starving families in Calcutta. Perhaps you mean to speak of the starving family as "groups whose collective food intake is less than Kim Dotcom" or "things than Kim Dotcom could eat in one sitting".
I'm only watching this freak show for the entertainment value, myself.
You "would" but you didn't. So what exactly ARE you saying? I even explained how this benefits us and all you've got is a cheap shot at his weight? Come on; I expected better.;p
Kim Dotcom is not comparable to a starving family Calcutta. The crack about his weight was not very mature, I'll give you that, but Kim Dotcom is hardly starving. Last I was aware, he was still living in a large mansion, and where I come from, if you don't have money, you don't live in a home like that. What I am saying, is what I did say, I'm only watching this for the entertainment value. My reasons are that I can't bring myself to care what Kim Dotcom does, because I am prejudiced with regards to him, I feel he's an attention whore. But that's just me. My attention wrt this situation is the (apparent) overwhelming use of force in raiding this man's home. I don't see a whole lot of difference between mega download or whatever he was running, and other file locker services, but I have never used any of them, so my knowledge is admittedly limited.
I think the use of U.S. law enforcement resources to enforce copyright(s) is beyond what I would consider appropriate.
Are you happy now? You made me say *something*.
Come on; I expected better.;p
You are right, and I will try to better next time, Dad.
I would say there's a shitload more than a degree of nuance if you want to compare Kim Dotcom with starving families in Calcutta. Perhaps you mean to speak of the starving family as "groups whose collective food intake is less than Kim Dotcom" or "things than Kim Dotcom could eat in one sitting".
I'm only watching this freak show for the entertainment value, myself.
Eh, the situation isn't exactly as clear-cut as it appears though. Is he acting like a patent troll? Yes. But could he pay for his own legal defense? No.
He's as much a patent troll as someone who steals a loaf of bread to feed their starving child in the Calcutta slums is a thief. There's a degree off nuance to the whole thing. Although his past actions do make it clear he's doing this to get rich and doesn't care about the politics...if we all benefit from this fight (by having less draconian copyright laws) then why not root for him, for now at least?
Microsoft clearly has the fastest stuff. It has Super Frist Post Powers(TM)!
You posted so fast, with such insightful prose. I wish I was you, because you are awesome!
When you get first post that survives moderation, usually it means you control the majority of the discussion. I hope it works, because Microsoft is teh bestorz! I really want in on this, why should the rest of us post for free? We want to be paid for our first posts too. I need to get me some of that software Microsoft is supplying you and your friends so I can achieve Most Outstanding Wise First Post achievement.
Tell me, when you create an account, how many times do you use it? What are the guidelines? Post once, and on to the next account? I really think it's unfair of you and your friends to not cut us in on the action.
If you want to edit or create videos, there's no better software than Windows Movie Maker. Create real or faked videos - it's all possible.
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To address the *actual* topic at hand, the problem as I see it, is that the video doesn't (and probably couldn't) "prove" what Coach Ford was smoking in that pipe. My gut instinct is that it is him in the video, and his recorded words will do the most harm.
That's not entirely accurate. You seem to be one of two, 'cause your twin brother said the same thing up there (^^^). Or maybe you're so happy to have ads down the side of the page or a banner at the top in exchange for services you use so frequently, that you're repeating yourself.
Just saying.
I guess you're against free services then. I for one am happy for social networks or any website to have ads down the side of the page or a banner at the top in exchange for services I use so frequently.
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There will be hell to pay when footage of children burned to death is posted on bestgore.com or maybe youtube. (Bonus points for catching one in the act).
Fuck you, you fucking fucks!
The only reason you could want to ban cameras is to hide your mistakes. You have no expectation of privacy in public, especially when you're working to protect and serve the public. If anything, this shows why cameras should be MANDATORY . With cameras on every responder and 360 degrees of coverage from the top of every vehicle. If you screw up, you need to know it, determine liability, see what led to the mistake(s), and develop ways to avoid screwing up like that in the future.
SF's fire chief needs a swift kick in the groin.
Is it okay for the janitor to record the happenings in the bathrooms (or other rooms) of the, i dunno, let's say firehall, as long as he promises to keep the data secure in his locker? Or maybe a school. (Think of the Children!)
If privacy is what matters, then require that any firefighter with a camera keep the memory locked in a secure location at the station. Simply banning the cameras, especially after this incident, requires that they don't want to be subject to turning over any evidence. It's class CYA, plain and simple. I don't know who has the power to argue against this. These guys are union; but the union reps can surely see that such things might be used against them as well. They'll probably go along with the ban. The politicians are paid by the unions. Nobody really stands for the people here the way I see it. The people would, IMHO, best be served by having as much information as possible provided that it's properly secured, which is really not that hard to do.
1) It creates a shitload of data stored on some government controlled system somewhere. I think most of us can agree this will lead to a system that is ripe for abuse.
2) I think the last thing we need is our public employees wearing recording devices when they interact with the public. If firefighters, why not letter carriers? If letter carrieras, why not parking enforcement officers?
This strikes me as a bad idea.
Since when did government care about the right to privacy?
Exactly.
I think its probably time for the State Fire Marshal or other public safety official to step in and MANDATE the cameras on chief's helmets (at the very least) and essentially over-rule this guy before he starts a trend.
This is clearly ass-covering and nothing to do with privacy.
Did you know that truckers have to buy a different diesel fuel than non-commercial drivers? It's more expensive than the regular diesel, the only real difference other than price is the non-commercial has a dye in it so the tax collectors can identify when a driver cheaps out and buys the wrong fuel. This is just an example of where two otherwise identical products are priced differently and are required to be used for different purposes.
Nothing wrong with it, per se. It just sounds like a phrase that someone with a B.A. in English from the Gretchen Carlson School of Book Learning might use. I guess you could argue that it's poetic, and that Shakespeare himself would find it a clever turn of phrase. Woosh on me.
And I was feeling all crampy and stuff after moderating, and all I really had to say was that yeah, I mostly agree with your assessment of the situation. Like others in this thread have quoted:
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
America has had some pretty wise fellows in charge from time to time.
What's wrong with saying the law is 'ripe for abuse'? Sure, the most common uses of 'ripe' are literal references to fruits and cheese and stuff; but using to in the more generic sense of full maturation or maximum readiness is perfectly valid practice.
If you're going to go to the trouble to be emphatic in your statement, please consider the following words:
"The law is rife with abuse as written:"
Otherwise, yeah.
The law is ripe for abuse as written:
Or, similarly, as we say in Canada: "Smoke it if you got it".
Because in the event of an all out nuclear war, praying will be about as effective against an atomic blast as against an oncoming tidal wave, and everybody knows this.
What would you prefer? I've always liked "smoke 'em if you got 'em"
HO scale engineer here. I'm sure the words posted AC on Slashdot has assuaged our ignorant misguided concerns and fears. I know I feel better already.
Cisco engineer here. We don't modify our equipment for anybody beyond basic CALEA-type compliance requirements. We don't even market ourselves for interception/monitoring type roles in most cases. There is a ton of money in other, less politically contentious areas.
Hope this sets some of the record straight.
Here's an idea. Universal mounting points for adding or mounting your own accessories. Stereo/carputer, dvd/video players and screens, cameras etc, etc.
Something like an automotive version of the rail system on the M4. I really should write this down. Feeding the mayonaisse to the tuna was great!
I hope my car lasts more than 5 years. I'd like an integrated standard 'external' touch screen and audio. Then I just plug in my phone or pad and I have everything I want. GPS, phone, whatever. In a couple of years when I upgrade my phone, my car is upgraded. And again in a couple more years. And again in a couple more years. Then in 6 years I'm using new/updated software with a new 'computer' instead of the ancient crap that they installed for me with vendor lock-in crapware that was never updated because why bother.
QNX has been running automotive systems for some time. It has been proprietary and rt from the start, to the best of my recollection.
And no, I ain't googooglyin shit, since it doesn't look like you did either. And I am pretty sure the next guy down (replying to your post) didn't either. So, I might even be just spewing my half-baked opinion based on something I think I read on the web in 2001. That sort of thing is bound to happen from time to time when one just says whatever's on one's mind Statistically speaking, of course.
Anyone happen to know whatever happened to the QNX that was a FREE operating system and accompanying software including word processors, spreadsheets, networking, games, etc that was written in Assembler and fit all on a single floppy with most of the floppy still unwritten to? Any relation to this, other then being a Posix OS too?
You are so right. I hope the rest of you are paying attention. Those with ears, hear these wise words of the prophet.
Whose Curve ain't cool now? The girls go wild when I whip out my white 9360! Suck on that, Shuttleworth.
Linux, after all these years on Android, with every faster CPUs, still suffers from uncontrolled pauses and interruptions in user interaction that clearly are to do with scheduling and not to do with the available CPU resources.
This is because its scheduling tries to serve all purposes from database servers to desktop games. This is why it is unsuited for a car UI. QNX is fine.
I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
I'd like to know what this has to do with SQL.
At least it's a nice change from the "do my job for me" Ask Slashdots.
So, then he says to me, "Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
Eh...there probably was some half baked documentation at some point, but I doubt it was maintained very well by the people who edited that codebase over the decades.
I also doubt they fired any of them unless they were contractors...you have no idea how ugly the federal workers union is about things like this. They almost can't lose their jobs through incompetence or anything else. Which brings me to the problem...the people who wrote it probably wrote half-assed spaghetti code, didn't document it well, and then died off or retired. No one is learning cobol anymore, so you get what we've got right here.
Plus...trying to replace any system in the government or military is an extremely painful exercise that probably fails more often than it succeeds. Between the people you need to deal with, and the policies you need to dance around...it's almost impossible to stand a new system up. (Unless you have someone in a high place that really gets it, and champions the hell out of it...and even then, it's iffy.)
I was a defense contractor for 4 or 5 years. It was quite a few years ago now. Left that behind, and I don't miss it.
With the tendency of the deranged minds who take a gun to school to eat a bullet at the first hint that armed first responders have arrived on scene, makes me think that they *have* thought about it ahead of time.
Right, I'm sure one of the considerations of the deranged minds who take a gun to school is "uh, could I possibly be shot back at?". What you're saying sounds like a thinly veiled NRA talk point, like the idiotic meme that "a hero with a gun could have avoided [whatever]".
Funny thing.
I downloaded the .txt file from the pastebin page, because I don't like the way the text doesn't wrap in firefox. So, I load the text file in gedit, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, then paste the text into a new libreoffice document. So, I'm reading along, since I figure it's good training for when I get to be a well-respected Microsoft spokesperson some day, and some of the spaces between the words look like they've been highlighted somehow.
It seems that there are a number of places where the spaces between words are represented by the sequence of "\302\240" (which i "discovered" by pasting the mystery character into an lxterm window, and hitting the enter key. When I did a global search and replace, this character sequence occured 33 times.
This isn't the most eloquent post, but I'm just laying down the basics of what I saw so that another can test it for themselves. Maybe it's nothing, I'm sure someone way smarter than me, will tell me how foolish I am, and am just ignorant in some way, but it's there.
Does that sound like it could be used as a watermark to track down a disloyal employee? I admit it's not very hack-proof, but it looks like it could work in a pinch, and maybe is "working" (since the odd character combination seems to have survived being leaked and posted on the net).
Discuss.
Wonder if MS decided to "watermark" the list before sending it around. A typo here, maybe swap two points there, each person receives an individualized version and the leak can be tracked back to the source. In which case I feel sorry for the person who gets the axe.
America FUCK yeah!!!1111111
Okay, you take a break there now, you're embarrassing the rest of us.
And lay off the brownies in the lunchroom.
UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines.
I apologise, as I'm not going to put much effort into this reply, solely on the basis of you posting as AC. I try not to reply to AC here (I do understand why you might post AC). But, what you said rang so true with me, I feel compelled to say so.
While I have never been employed in the tech industry, what you said rings true more or less everywhere.
I have been in the (more or less) same postition as you describe since July 2011. Winter 2011, and April 2012 were when I was supposed to die (so far). Didn't happen (yet), I'm still here, and I'm spending whatever time I have left to do what I want, and everyone else can FRO. I do hope things go well for you. There will be no praying on my end, of course, as I am not a believer, but I wish you well.
These things seem to become clear when you are in that situation.
Sorry guys (and gals - yes I know there are a couple of you out there), I won't play this game anymore. I recently have been faced with a life threatening (potentially weeks to months to live) illness (still trying to determine what it is). I have been chasing tech since the 80's and after first hearing I may not have long to live, I shit you not, I actually felt relief. I'll skip the rest of the drama, but it didn't take long in my thought process to decide with whatever time I have left, I am going to pursue things I actually like, instead of worrying about the next technology MS or Oracle or BigCompanyThatWantsToOwnMyAss is going to shit out, then kill and reinvent once again.
No thank you. I really enjoy retro computing, so that's what I'm going to do. That's what got me into computers in the first place. If I don't pick up the technology on the job, I'm not chasing it down. Kiss my ass.
Look boys and girls, if life sucks, then change it while you have time. Don't keep living the sucky life. Get on with what you want to do, and do it now. Regardless of my outcome, I am now free. Thank you. That is all.
I would say there's a shitload more than a degree of nuance if you want to compare Kim Dotcom with starving families in Calcutta. Perhaps you mean to speak of the starving family as "groups whose collective food intake is less than Kim Dotcom" or "things than Kim Dotcom could eat in one sitting".
I'm only watching this freak show for the entertainment value, myself.
You "would" but you didn't. So what exactly ARE you saying? I even explained how this benefits us and all you've got is a cheap shot at his weight? Come on; I expected better. ;p
Kim Dotcom is not comparable to a starving family Calcutta. The crack about his weight was not very mature, I'll give you that, but Kim Dotcom is hardly starving. Last I was aware, he was still living in a large mansion, and where I come from, if you don't have money, you don't live in a home like that. What I am saying, is what I did say, I'm only watching this for the entertainment value. My reasons are that I can't bring myself to care what Kim Dotcom does, because I am prejudiced with regards to him, I feel he's an attention whore. But that's just me. My attention wrt this situation is the (apparent) overwhelming use of force in raiding this man's home. I don't see a whole lot of difference between mega download or whatever he was running, and other file locker services, but I have never used any of them, so my knowledge is admittedly limited.
I think the use of U.S. law enforcement resources to enforce copyright(s) is beyond what I would consider appropriate.
Are you happy now? You made me say *something*.
Come on; I expected better. ;p
You are right, and I will try to better next time, Dad.
He should start with Newegg.
See what happens.
I would say there's a shitload more than a degree of nuance if you want to compare Kim Dotcom with starving families in Calcutta. Perhaps you mean to speak of the starving family as "groups whose collective food intake is less than Kim Dotcom" or "things than Kim Dotcom could eat in one sitting".
I'm only watching this freak show for the entertainment value, myself.
Eh, the situation isn't exactly as clear-cut as it appears though. Is he acting like a patent troll? Yes. But could he pay for his own legal defense? No.
He's as much a patent troll as someone who steals a loaf of bread to feed their starving child in the Calcutta slums is a thief. There's a degree off nuance to the whole thing. Although his past actions do make it clear he's doing this to get rich and doesn't care about the politics...if we all benefit from this fight (by having less draconian copyright laws) then why not root for him, for now at least?
You posted so fast, with such insightful prose. I wish I was you, because you are awesome!
When you get first post that survives moderation, usually it means you control the majority of the discussion. I hope it works, because Microsoft is teh bestorz! I really want in on this, why should the rest of us post for free? We want to be paid for our first posts too. I need to get me some of that software Microsoft is supplying you and your friends so I can achieve Most Outstanding Wise First Post achievement.
Tell me, when you create an account, how many times do you use it? What are the guidelines? Post once, and on to the next account? I really think it's unfair of you and your friends to not cut us in on the action.
If you want to edit or create videos, there's no better software than Windows Movie Maker. Create real or faked videos - it's all possible.
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To address the *actual* topic at hand, the problem as I see it, is that the video doesn't (and probably couldn't) "prove" what Coach Ford was smoking in that pipe. My gut instinct is that it is him in the video, and his recorded words will do the most harm.
Just saying.
I guess you're against free services then. I for one am happy for social networks or any website to have ads down the side of the page or a banner at the top in exchange for services I use so frequently.
"Oh, I don't know. Take him hunting with Dick Cheney?"
And how exactly would I go about shooting Microsoft in the face?
I don't know...Ballmer's head is a pretty big target... Seems doable.