Why is this marked down as a troll? He's right. Our way of life is "offensive" to them and frankly I'm not willing to give it up any more thsan we've already done to ourselves here. No negotiation is going to work to fix this. Stopping the jumping at shadows whenever one of these guys sets his undies on fire might be a good start. Frankly the brightest spot I see in all of this is that every time one of these guys tries this now the other passengers jump him and damn near strangle him painfully. Good!
Look, we're playing defense here and as anyone who has done say network pen testing knows - defense sux! It takes but one crack in the defenses, one lax moron, one little slip up, to have a success on the part of the offense. Since we can't start glassing entire countries to stop this our options are somewhat limited but freaking out and spending millions every time one of these guys comes close to success isn't helpful.
So... they subpoena him for the name and he says he doesn't know who it was and signs a paper saying so. Then in order to coerce him into coughing up his laptop for further investigation they THREATEN to interfere with his business? Excuse me but if the warrant didn't cover searching computer media specifically PISS OFF. NO, you do NOT get access to my computer to further your witch hunt. If you want access to that get a damned warrant to search it. Oh that's inconvenient? Sorry. That does NOT make it okay to threaten and intimidate. Bad news for this dude, while they are going over that laptop if they find ANYTHING potentially illegal - say a ripped DVD or who knows what - they can come after him for that. F' that, if they do not have specific access granted to them by a legal document they can take a hike and I'd be damned if I'd even allow them in my house. Talk to them on the porch and hell no you cannot use my restroom or get a glass of water. Cop on the job doesn't get access to JACK, sorry. I don't need the hassle if he spots something he thinks might be hinky. It's MY home, he can goto hell unless he has papers to get in.
All models? that was the update via a new firmware download right? The one that Kindle 1 owners such as myself didn't receive? I haven't tried a native PDF on mine lately but I'm pretty sure the original Kindle owners were left out in the cold on that one and I know my Kindle has never received an updated firmware....
Actually it can folder things. Not sure if this will help you but if you order a magazine from Kindle it will show up in a "folder" with that magazine's name. So yeah there's a way to do it, I'm just not sure how you'll do it with your naming scheme or what they do to the file internally to enable this...
Ditto! My device works and works well although I think it might almost be time for a new battery in mine. Now the DRM is becoming easier to remove, this is good. I already have the capability to convert PDF to Mobi myself so what's not to like? In the end the device simply works and does what I need and I get discounts on many books, it was well worth the cost of admission for me...
And he may yet be found not guilty. Sometimes doing the right thing hurts but if we all buckled at the slightest threat we'd have even fewer rights than we have managed to hang onto so far...
And if they take those passwords with his name on them and screw things up? Blaming him? Then what? Sorry, they should have had a plan in place. If he sabotaged that plan and they can prove it then fine that's an issue but IMO he was under no obligation to support them after having been let go - especially when police and fire networks were at risk from their stupidity. These folks have already displayed their tendency to overreact, I can only imagine if they had screwed things up and blamed him for it...
Agreed, IF they are going to edit it to sell hits on their site then it's not news it's crap. Let's hope that someone releases an unedited transcript - Google perhaps? If this guy truly said something so stupid then providing the context to prove it shouldn't be a big deal right? And if in the end he was really that stupid then I think it should be everyone's sworn duty to crawl through any and all information he may have left laying around with a microscope and plaster it in bold headlines all over the place - just to prove a point about privacy:-)
Cue clarifying statement from Google in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....
Honestly it reminds me of how the movie companies screw people too. Stan Lee for instance. Big superhero movie makes piles of cash at the box office... but when it's time to pay HIS share well suddenly the accountants have done the math and he gets a pittance. It's sort of like what I call "hospital math", if you've ever looked at one of those bills and wondered why a tongue depressor cost $20 well now you know! Also reminds me of how when I was younger and someone said they worked for a "non profit" I thought wow they're really sacrificing... Until one day a story about a charity I was giving a *significant* portion of my paycheck to (I worked minimum wage at the time) was paying their executives truckloads of cash. Non profit just meant they didn't turn a profit, never mind that they didn't help anyone and paid their executives tons of money. Sorry world, I pretty much lost desire to give to charities after that, I was giving something like 25% of my money away at the time - never again.
Anyway, you get the idea. Yes the fine print spells these things out but when a big name "hip" record guy is telling you you're going to make it BIG and he works for one of The BIGS and he tells you how this contract is "standard" well geez you're sick of eating mac and cheese and you SIGN. No pressure or anything right? Courtney isn't the only one who has spelled this out but that article was the one that turned me off of buying CDs forever. I have since slowly begun to buy MP3 from Amazon (sorry Apple, I prefer MP3) but a CD in a store? No way. If I could I'd pay the artist directly, fuck the labels. I sincerely hope this lawsuit eats them alive and that we see suits just like it here in the States - pretty please?
It's not so easy to catch these folks it seems. They are apparently taking the war on drugs approach of attempting to remove demand. In this case though it's apparently something that can occur accidentally. Rick Rolling and SWATting just took on a whole new aspect it seems!
Excellent! The company is standing by this, I hope this goes to court and that MANY eyes are opened by it. Zero tolerance? Really? Asshats! It's up to the prosecutors is it? The police apparently weren't really even interested in ARRESTING her, I am thinking no prosecutor in their right mind is going to want this hot potato.
Nice of them to provide an e-mail address for this representative though. Perhaps this will allow more people to see just what the monies of these companies have managed to purchase in the way of legislation? How about we have an independent study done of these losses next time while we're at it 'mmkay? The mind boggles....
I agree, I mean it's pretty obvious that the bounty the movie industry offers is directly responsible for them pushing this as far as they have. I don't goto the theaters very often, this simply adds very good reasons to go even less. This isn't just this manager, it's an industry adding incentive to prosecute customers. They have apparently not learned anything from having watched the RIAA antics.
I'll bite... a manager working in an industry who pays a $500 bonus to those who help prosecute people who film on premises? THAT is why this was carried so far, he wanted his cash! I'm betting HIS management isn't quite so pleased though and if the MPAA pays him I'll be quite surprised. They've stepped in deep doody and haven't realized it yet. I'll be remembering Muvico for a good long time to come that's for sure.
You got that from what the 3-4 reviews prior to the 90+ posted after this?
Apparently there's a $500 bonus paid to the theater for catching people filming and the manager was dumb enough to let that greed override common sense. I don't care if the place is gilded in gold I wouldn't go! It's going to take them a good long time to recover from this I predict...
I wish we had a moderation for "clueless fuck" as it certainly applies here! No AV app is going to protect you against all malware and to think otherwise is pure stupidity.
Sounds like there's actually some competition for customers! Here, not so much. Many if not most places can access only one, maybe two, and sometimes NO high speed options. No doubt when we do get decent speeds they will wish to limit us with caps for having the audacity to actually USE the bandwidth too.
That's what we call 5mbs cable here! If we get FIOS it's fiber and can be fairly quick - way quicker than most cable - but it's being rolled out *very* slowly. Cable is slowly moving to DOCSIS 3 due to increased competition from FIOS and customer demand. DOCSIS 3 is supposed to be VERY fast but judging from how the cable companies have performed in the past they will find a way to screw it up. I feel your pain though, hopefully your infrastructure will develop quickly. I once had 144K IDSL because neither the phone or cable companies would offer me anything. I had to get it through a 3rd party provider who used the phone companies infrastructure to offer it but the phone company couldn't do the same! I went years with the cable company telling me their 'net service offerings were "just around the corner". It was pathetic! I wasn't located in the middle of nowhere either...
Here we get to envy the Japanese, the Europeans, and a whole slew of other countries who's governments have paid attention to this infrastructure. Here the Govt. just seems bound and determined to change the definition of "broadband" to mean anything that doesn't make whistles and beeps as it connects over a telephone wire in order to claim higher penetration numbers. They have thrown billions at the telcos to improve things but most of it seems to have been squandered. Few areas have more than one competitor to choose from too. It's getting better but it's slow progress even in urban areas.
You would think so right? But there's a WIDE disparity in what some routers can and can't do! http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_chart&Itemid=167 When you throw in NAT and any additional filtering you begin to ask a great deal of the processor and many of these little boxes just do not have the CPU power or memory. What happens when you begin to flood it with UDP connection requests ala bittorent? What happens if you add blacklists? Do you want content filtering? QOS? VPN? All of the above?
Neither of those appear to support wireless and Endian appears to be pretty much commercial oriented despite being Open Source. Am I missing something? Untangle looks interesting and has some plug-ins that are both commercial and free but I cannot really get a very good feel for Endian. Wireless is a must for me if I build something like this - would want to dump the WRT54GS!
I have had some SMC hardware, mostly small switches and hubs. One thing I noticed about the ones I had was that man they seemed to run REALLY hot! Your story doesn't give me a warm fuzzy! i think I still have one behind my home theater setup too. Might have to check on that one....
Why must it be a single connection? Is it not possible to have multiple family members accessing things? Perhaps someone is downloading more than one thing at a time? Say game patches or torrents? IMO it's quite possible to max out a slow router although sustaining that for a long period of time is difficult but I've done it sending large amounts of data to friends via FTP or VPN tunnel...
My router reboots daily at 2am already. There have been evenings where I've had to reboot it 2 and 3 times. Sadly I'm on the latest release so no help there. What I'd like is a more robust piece of hardware that supports 802.11n as well as G with two different radios. I'd even be willing to build it myself using something capable like Smoothwall but they and others seem to eschew wireless support altogether. so for now I simply try not to overrun my current router's capacity. It's even got active cooling so I know this isn't a heat issue or anything. VERY annoying...
You must be an American. It seems that in the rest of the world high speed actually means high speed. Here in the States unless you're looking at a high tier FIOS or DOCSIS 3 install yeah speed pretty much sux!
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Why is this marked down as a troll? He's right. Our way of life is "offensive" to them and frankly I'm not willing to give it up any more thsan we've already done to ourselves here. No negotiation is going to work to fix this. Stopping the jumping at shadows whenever one of these guys sets his undies on fire might be a good start. Frankly the brightest spot I see in all of this is that every time one of these guys tries this now the other passengers jump him and damn near strangle him painfully. Good!
Look, we're playing defense here and as anyone who has done say network pen testing knows - defense sux! It takes but one crack in the defenses, one lax moron, one little slip up, to have a success on the part of the offense. Since we can't start glassing entire countries to stop this our options are somewhat limited but freaking out and spending millions every time one of these guys comes close to success isn't helpful.
Airline employees are sworn to secrecy? Really? Even the ones who are foreign citizens who fly planes into the US? Wow.....
So... they subpoena him for the name and he says he doesn't know who it was and signs a paper saying so. Then in order to coerce him into coughing up his laptop for further investigation they THREATEN to interfere with his business? Excuse me but if the warrant didn't cover searching computer media specifically PISS OFF. NO, you do NOT get access to my computer to further your witch hunt. If you want access to that get a damned warrant to search it. Oh that's inconvenient? Sorry. That does NOT make it okay to threaten and intimidate. Bad news for this dude, while they are going over that laptop if they find ANYTHING potentially illegal - say a ripped DVD or who knows what - they can come after him for that. F' that, if they do not have specific access granted to them by a legal document they can take a hike and I'd be damned if I'd even allow them in my house. Talk to them on the porch and hell no you cannot use my restroom or get a glass of water. Cop on the job doesn't get access to JACK, sorry. I don't need the hassle if he spots something he thinks might be hinky. It's MY home, he can goto hell unless he has papers to get in.
All models? that was the update via a new firmware download right? The one that Kindle 1 owners such as myself didn't receive? I haven't tried a native PDF on mine lately but I'm pretty sure the original Kindle owners were left out in the cold on that one and I know my Kindle has never received an updated firmware....
Actually it can folder things. Not sure if this will help you but if you order a magazine from Kindle it will show up in a "folder" with that magazine's name. So yeah there's a way to do it, I'm just not sure how you'll do it with your naming scheme or what they do to the file internally to enable this...
Ditto! My device works and works well although I think it might almost be time for a new battery in mine. Now the DRM is becoming easier to remove, this is good. I already have the capability to convert PDF to Mobi myself so what's not to like? In the end the device simply works and does what I need and I get discounts on many books, it was well worth the cost of admission for me...
And he may yet be found not guilty. Sometimes doing the right thing hurts but if we all buckled at the slightest threat we'd have even fewer rights than we have managed to hang onto so far...
And if they take those passwords with his name on them and screw things up? Blaming him? Then what? Sorry, they should have had a plan in place. If he sabotaged that plan and they can prove it then fine that's an issue but IMO he was under no obligation to support them after having been let go - especially when police and fire networks were at risk from their stupidity. These folks have already displayed their tendency to overreact, I can only imagine if they had screwed things up and blamed him for it...
Agreed, IF they are going to edit it to sell hits on their site then it's not news it's crap. Let's hope that someone releases an unedited transcript - Google perhaps? If this guy truly said something so stupid then providing the context to prove it shouldn't be a big deal right? And if in the end he was really that stupid then I think it should be everyone's sworn duty to crawl through any and all information he may have left laying around with a microscope and plaster it in bold headlines all over the place - just to prove a point about privacy :-)
Cue clarifying statement from Google in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....
Suggested reading -> http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/
Honestly it reminds me of how the movie companies screw people too. Stan Lee for instance. Big superhero movie makes piles of cash at the box office... but when it's time to pay HIS share well suddenly the accountants have done the math and he gets a pittance. It's sort of like what I call "hospital math", if you've ever looked at one of those bills and wondered why a tongue depressor cost $20 well now you know! Also reminds me of how when I was younger and someone said they worked for a "non profit" I thought wow they're really sacrificing... Until one day a story about a charity I was giving a *significant* portion of my paycheck to (I worked minimum wage at the time) was paying their executives truckloads of cash. Non profit just meant they didn't turn a profit, never mind that they didn't help anyone and paid their executives tons of money. Sorry world, I pretty much lost desire to give to charities after that, I was giving something like 25% of my money away at the time - never again.
Anyway, you get the idea. Yes the fine print spells these things out but when a big name "hip" record guy is telling you you're going to make it BIG and he works for one of The BIGS and he tells you how this contract is "standard" well geez you're sick of eating mac and cheese and you SIGN. No pressure or anything right? Courtney isn't the only one who has spelled this out but that article was the one that turned me off of buying CDs forever. I have since slowly begun to buy MP3 from Amazon (sorry Apple, I prefer MP3) but a CD in a store? No way. If I could I'd pay the artist directly, fuck the labels. I sincerely hope this lawsuit eats them alive and that we see suits just like it here in the States - pretty please?
It's not so easy to catch these folks it seems. They are apparently taking the war on drugs approach of attempting to remove demand. In this case though it's apparently something that can occur accidentally. Rick Rolling and SWATting just took on a whole new aspect it seems!
Excellent! The company is standing by this, I hope this goes to court and that MANY eyes are opened by it. Zero tolerance? Really? Asshats! It's up to the prosecutors is it? The police apparently weren't really even interested in ARRESTING her, I am thinking no prosecutor in their right mind is going to want this hot potato.
Nice of them to provide an e-mail address for this representative though. Perhaps this will allow more people to see just what the monies of these companies have managed to purchase in the way of legislation? How about we have an independent study done of these losses next time while we're at it 'mmkay? The mind boggles....
I agree, I mean it's pretty obvious that the bounty the movie industry offers is directly responsible for them pushing this as far as they have. I don't goto the theaters very often, this simply adds very good reasons to go even less. This isn't just this manager, it's an industry adding incentive to prosecute customers. They have apparently not learned anything from having watched the RIAA antics.
I'll bite... a manager working in an industry who pays a $500 bonus to those who help prosecute people who film on premises? THAT is why this was carried so far, he wanted his cash! I'm betting HIS management isn't quite so pleased though and if the MPAA pays him I'll be quite surprised. They've stepped in deep doody and haven't realized it yet. I'll be remembering Muvico for a good long time to come that's for sure.
You got that from what the 3-4 reviews prior to the 90+ posted after this?
Apparently there's a $500 bonus paid to the theater for catching people filming and the manager was dumb enough to let that greed override common sense. I don't care if the place is gilded in gold I wouldn't go! It's going to take them a good long time to recover from this I predict...
I wish we had a moderation for "clueless fuck" as it certainly applies here! No AV app is going to protect you against all malware and to think otherwise is pure stupidity.
Sounds like there's actually some competition for customers! Here, not so much. Many if not most places can access only one, maybe two, and sometimes NO high speed options. No doubt when we do get decent speeds they will wish to limit us with caps for having the audacity to actually USE the bandwidth too.
That's what we call 5mbs cable here! If we get FIOS it's fiber and can be fairly quick - way quicker than most cable - but it's being rolled out *very* slowly. Cable is slowly moving to DOCSIS 3 due to increased competition from FIOS and customer demand. DOCSIS 3 is supposed to be VERY fast but judging from how the cable companies have performed in the past they will find a way to screw it up. I feel your pain though, hopefully your infrastructure will develop quickly. I once had 144K IDSL because neither the phone or cable companies would offer me anything. I had to get it through a 3rd party provider who used the phone companies infrastructure to offer it but the phone company couldn't do the same! I went years with the cable company telling me their 'net service offerings were "just around the corner". It was pathetic! I wasn't located in the middle of nowhere either...
Here we get to envy the Japanese, the Europeans, and a whole slew of other countries who's governments have paid attention to this infrastructure. Here the Govt. just seems bound and determined to change the definition of "broadband" to mean anything that doesn't make whistles and beeps as it connects over a telephone wire in order to claim higher penetration numbers. They have thrown billions at the telcos to improve things but most of it seems to have been squandered. Few areas have more than one competitor to choose from too. It's getting better but it's slow progress even in urban areas.
You would think so right? But there's a WIDE disparity in what some routers can and can't do! http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_chart&Itemid=167 When you throw in NAT and any additional filtering you begin to ask a great deal of the processor and many of these little boxes just do not have the CPU power or memory. What happens when you begin to flood it with UDP connection requests ala bittorent? What happens if you add blacklists? Do you want content filtering? QOS? VPN? All of the above?
Neither of those appear to support wireless and Endian appears to be pretty much commercial oriented despite being Open Source. Am I missing something? Untangle looks interesting and has some plug-ins that are both commercial and free but I cannot really get a very good feel for Endian. Wireless is a must for me if I build something like this - would want to dump the WRT54GS!
I have had some SMC hardware, mostly small switches and hubs. One thing I noticed about the ones I had was that man they seemed to run REALLY hot! Your story doesn't give me a warm fuzzy! i think I still have one behind my home theater setup too. Might have to check on that one....
That one actually rates decently here -> http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_chart&Itemid=167 but it looks like there's a bunch of others beating it pretty badly too. An OpenWRT port or something like it would be a major attraction though!
Why must it be a single connection? Is it not possible to have multiple family members accessing things? Perhaps someone is downloading more than one thing at a time? Say game patches or torrents? IMO it's quite possible to max out a slow router although sustaining that for a long period of time is difficult but I've done it sending large amounts of data to friends via FTP or VPN tunnel...
My router reboots daily at 2am already. There have been evenings where I've had to reboot it 2 and 3 times. Sadly I'm on the latest release so no help there. What I'd like is a more robust piece of hardware that supports 802.11n as well as G with two different radios. I'd even be willing to build it myself using something capable like Smoothwall but they and others seem to eschew wireless support altogether. so for now I simply try not to overrun my current router's capacity. It's even got active cooling so I know this isn't a heat issue or anything. VERY annoying...
You must be an American. It seems that in the rest of the world high speed actually means high speed. Here in the States unless you're looking at a high tier FIOS or DOCSIS 3 install yeah speed pretty much sux!