GeoHot should have waited to see if the suit against Sony prevailed. Breaking into their code in violation of his license is likely an illegal act that can get him in trouble even if he did it to get back a right he thinks he had.
Try that again, only this time without equating the deaths of thousands of Sony employees with the inability of some pimply suburban kid to surf for pr0n and warez on his game console...
You've failed to establish that Sony's license permitted users to use what GeoHot did.
I'm sure GeoHot will be trying to establish that. But you didn't.
And unless you or GeoHot can establish that, your argument doesn't hold any merit.
Sure, turning off formerly-blessed OS functionality is douchey. But if the license permitted Sony to do that and prohibited users from circumventing Sony's code, then tough.
Unless somehow GeoHot can convince a court to void Sony's license terms. Until then, this is going to look a lot like a court case, including all kinds of legalisticky things like discovery and deposition and idle threats.
Who, the Japanese? No. They did this one time conduct a long-distance aerial bombardment of a tourist trap, but they were forgiven for that, eventually, after the people they attacked dropped an atomic bomb on them. And there's that business with the death marches and such.
Currently they're trying to nuke themselves, in between forming chirpy girl groups and dressing up like comic-book characters.
They're also, per capita, the wealthiest people on the planet.
When you're suing someone, you are law enforcement. You don't have a right to barge in and demand the records, but you can petition the court to allow you access to them.
Conversely, the defendant here can request a look at all kinds of things Sony might be hiding.
Suppressing evidence and preventing the defense from presenting its case is a hard thing to dismiss out of hand. It's not like a typo on a form or mis-marked exhibits. Why did the lower court refuse to let him make the argument? "Because it's silly" isn't enough.
I haven't given anyone a business card since 1992. I have a box of them, printed by my employer at the time. I use them to floss my teeth, clean scunge out of my watch-band, and write down network config parameters that I need to sneakernet elsewhere (though I never have to do that any more either).
Everything I need to know about someone I can get from the network, and the network is always with me.
I'm pretty sure this is how the conversation went:
E1: why not run the cooling pumps off the electricity we're generating? E2: well, what happens when you have to scram it? it stops generating. then your cooling pumps stop and you get cascading failure. E1: oh. no shit. so we need an external source of power for the pumps. E2: and a backup in case that external source has a blackout, which happens a lot in less-developed countries like 1960s Japan. E1: well, we also sell diesel generators, how about a few of those at each reactor? E2: sure. now we've got double backups and nothing can go wrong. E1: so we're done with the safety design? E2: ayup. as long as we have a double-backup system, the cooling water will keep flowing, so the rods will never be exposed to air, so they'll never melt, never release hydrogen gas, never catch on fire. if it weren't for those stupid regulations we wouldn't even need to build the containment vessel thick enough to contain a meltdown...
Their Nth mistake was wiring the generators in a nonstandard way, so that when the Fukushima guys got replacements delivered for the ones the tsunami damaged, they'd be ready to run.
1. what is the weight of a copyright? how much momentum does it have when you throw it? when it is converted to energy, what is the maximum amount of gamma radaition it can emit?
2. it is. if you think it isn't, go do it in the lobby of Sony Pictures.
3. okay, 90% is stretching it. 80%, then. and don't use the UN's definition. they're being kind to the unfortunate.
The radation didn't spike up until things got out of control.
Each of those buckets they're now dumping on the plant holds about 7.5 tons, or about 1200 gallons.
A pumper truck can pump about 1000 gallons per minute.
Pumper truck >> helicopter bucket.
Pumper truck 24 hours after emergency that prevents explosions and meltdowns >>>>>>> helicopter bucket 5 days later that just makes the catastrophe damp...
interesting. I double-replied to the same post without noticing. I need to get into the lab and clear this shit out of my brain for the rest of the day.
You? You'll be jacked into port 12B888 on pylon zed-zed-plural-zed-alpha. 200 watts of continuous thermal output as long as we have enough beer and donuts in intravenous form.
Stupid move. Any nuke plant you shut down will have to be maintained as though it's running while you wait for a decade or more for the fuel to be unreactive enough to be transported off-site. You might as well make money on the electricity it can generate while that's happening, and you would be better off retrofitting it with a gravity-fed flooding mechanism with an inlet a long distance away and behind significant shielding.
It's not starting back up. Ever. If the salt water wasn't enough, the potassium borate that they were pumping in (remember the report of the US delivering "coolant"? boron is a neutron absorber, it's not normally in the cooling water, it's used when the cooling water isn't working, and it gums up the core) was. Those reactors are useless forever now.
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3) two wrongs don't make a right.
GeoHot should have waited to see if the suit against Sony prevailed. Breaking into their code in violation of his license is likely an illegal act that can get him in trouble even if he did it to get back a right he thinks he had.
It's not possible to transact electronic currency outside the normal banking system (PayPal's own bank account suffices as its inside avatar).
You can't just throw bits with ascii '$' codes at banks' modem ports and expect them to know from whom to debit the credit you're trying to deposit.
To make it work, you'd have to hack the banks, or the clearinghouses.
Try that again, only this time without equating the deaths of thousands of Sony employees with the inability of some pimply suburban kid to surf for pr0n and warez on his game console...
You've failed to establish that Sony's license permitted users to use what GeoHot did.
I'm sure GeoHot will be trying to establish that. But you didn't.
And unless you or GeoHot can establish that, your argument doesn't hold any merit.
Sure, turning off formerly-blessed OS functionality is douchey. But if the license permitted Sony to do that and prohibited users from circumventing Sony's code, then tough.
Unless somehow GeoHot can convince a court to void Sony's license terms. Until then, this is going to look a lot like a court case, including all kinds of legalisticky things like discovery and deposition and idle threats.
They can't drag them into it without cause. You have to put the cause on the piece of paper you use to get the court to do the dragging.
Geohot did something that is probably illegal, and the court is letting the plaintiff discover the facts.
You sue someone some day, and you'll get the same legal right. And you'll be pissed if you didn't.
Who, the Japanese? No. They did this one time conduct a long-distance aerial bombardment of a tourist trap, but they were forgiven for that, eventually, after the people they attacked dropped an atomic bomb on them. And there's that business with the death marches and such.
Currently they're trying to nuke themselves, in between forming chirpy girl groups and dressing up like comic-book characters.
They're also, per capita, the wealthiest people on the planet.
Interesting folks.
When you're suing someone, you are law enforcement. You don't have a right to barge in and demand the records, but you can petition the court to allow you access to them.
Conversely, the defendant here can request a look at all kinds of things Sony might be hiding.
It is in Luxembourg.
Regardless, financial records is financial records. If the court says Sony can look as part of discovery, then that's what they can do.
The most popular is the -1 Checked the Anonymous Coward Box As If Anyone Gave A Shit About Their Cleartext Handle one.
Cloudless = no rain. No rain = no rainbows. No rainbows = well, you can do the math, there.
I think they're wise to the shenanigans ye be tryin' te pull on Sin Paddy's daih.
Much better. And it gives you a clearer view of the plume of piss running off the downhill slope into the sea.
Suppressing evidence and preventing the defense from presenting its case is a hard thing to dismiss out of hand. It's not like a typo on a form or mis-marked exhibits. Why did the lower court refuse to let him make the argument? "Because it's silly" isn't enough.
Yeah. They said something about binary riddles, which users love.
If, and I say if I ever get a business card again, it's going to have nothing on it but a bit.ly address.
l'd like you to meet Mohammet, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton.
I haven't given anyone a business card since 1992. I have a box of them, printed by my employer at the time. I use them to floss my teeth, clean scunge out of my watch-band, and write down network config parameters that I need to sneakernet elsewhere (though I never have to do that any more either).
Everything I need to know about someone I can get from the network, and the network is always with me.
I'm pretty sure this is how the conversation went:
E1: why not run the cooling pumps off the electricity we're generating?
E2: well, what happens when you have to scram it? it stops generating. then your cooling pumps stop and you get cascading failure.
E1: oh. no shit. so we need an external source of power for the pumps.
E2: and a backup in case that external source has a blackout, which happens a lot in less-developed countries like 1960s Japan.
E1: well, we also sell diesel generators, how about a few of those at each reactor?
E2: sure. now we've got double backups and nothing can go wrong.
E1: so we're done with the safety design?
E2: ayup. as long as we have a double-backup system, the cooling water will keep flowing, so the rods will never be exposed to air, so they'll never melt, never release hydrogen gas, never catch on fire. if it weren't for those stupid regulations we wouldn't even need to build the containment vessel thick enough to contain a meltdown...
Their Nth mistake was wiring the generators in a nonstandard way, so that when the Fukushima guys got replacements delivered for the ones the tsunami damaged, they'd be ready to run.
1. what is the weight of a copyright? how much momentum does it have when you throw it? when it is converted to energy, what is the maximum amount of gamma radaition it can emit?
2. it is. if you think it isn't, go do it in the lobby of Sony Pictures.
3. okay, 90% is stretching it. 80%, then. and don't use the UN's definition. they're being kind to the unfortunate.
4. utterly not what i said. read it again.
5. utterly not what i said. read it again.
The radation didn't spike up until things got out of control.
Each of those buckets they're now dumping on the plant holds about 7.5 tons, or about 1200 gallons.
A pumper truck can pump about 1000 gallons per minute.
Pumper truck >> helicopter bucket.
Pumper truck 24 hours after emergency that prevents explosions and meltdowns >>>>>>> helicopter bucket 5 days later that just makes the catastrophe damp...
Until things started exploding the radiation levels outside the core were not much higher than normal for the plant.
interesting. I double-replied to the same post without noticing. I need to get into the lab and clear this shit out of my brain for the rest of the day.
You? You'll be jacked into port 12B888 on pylon zed-zed-plural-zed-alpha. 200 watts of continuous thermal output as long as we have enough beer and donuts in intravenous form.
Stupid move. Any nuke plant you shut down will have to be maintained as though it's running while you wait for a decade or more for the fuel to be unreactive enough to be transported off-site. You might as well make money on the electricity it can generate while that's happening, and you would be better off retrofitting it with a gravity-fed flooding mechanism with an inlet a long distance away and behind significant shielding.
It's not starting back up. Ever. If the salt water wasn't enough, the potassium borate that they were pumping in (remember the report of the US delivering "coolant"? boron is a neutron absorber, it's not normally in the cooling water, it's used when the cooling water isn't working, and it gums up the core) was. Those reactors are useless forever now.