The problem is not, what you consider a damage, but what the law determines to be a damage. Assessment of the damage differs always depending on which side (damaging, damaged) you would rather see yourself;-). Guess you a rather a sysadmin than a city mayor (probably not much of them on/.).
Since being in business for 20 years now, i have seen several lawsuits concerning IT-related damages. Concerning the circumstances i wouldn't have been surprised if the damage were assessed to be ten times as much. And i live in Germany where damages are awarded a lot more conservative compared to the US.
There is no need for any conspiracy to make Anon fall apart. This will happen automagically. Loosely organized, ideologicaly motivated, idealistic organisations have appeared and disappeared by thousands during the last century alone.
There are reasons why most organisations don't work like Anon and that's because this model will not work over a prolonged time. Organisations like Greenpeace are slightly more democratic than North-Korea because they wouldn't be as effective and stable otherwise.
I would love to be wrong on that issue....
It even doesn't take an evil character for starting the downward spiral of death. The assholes usually just end on the top at the end because they can stand the endless bickering longer than anyone else.
It doesn't work that way. They don't "write up things". They talk to others who talk to another group and so on. Writing such things up is not considered to be career enhancing;-).
"Contact" is a big word for a small tinhg. I am glad if anyone of them ever remembers having talked to me;-).
The only consolation i can give you: some very influential people are currently getting very pissed about the content industry. The content industry is pushing very hard and not making a lot of friends along the way (at least in the telco industry). But I have no idea about how this will turn out.
Predictions in this area is something for professionals (which i am not). Five years ago i talked to someone who is now a top member of the german goverment about data retention. She made a lot of predictions then (european law, german law, supreme court decisions), which all turned out to be 100% accurate. The only thing i understand is how little i know about the game is played.
Due to other constraints (making a living), my time to go lobbying myself is pretty limited. But i do what i can.
This idea is floating around for some time now. Various reasons have been given for such internet blocks: child porn, illegal gambling, drugs,.... Interestingly, the real reason has rarely been named. If you look where the money for the campaigns come from, at the end you always find the content industry.
I had a talk with some upper echelons of the biggest European Telcos a few months ago. They were complaining about the content industry spending money like water to get somehow internet blocks turned into law. Most Telcos didn't like the idea....
The idea of the content industry is, that once internet blocks are legal, they can be used to shoot down sites like PirateBay.
In a shocking development, the famous tech web site "Slashdot" has been found to post misleading headlines *again*. While the european court is moving to ban internet blocking without a law, it clearly states that it would be legal if a specific law would allow and specify the conditions for it.
Honestly, the chance of a virtual team becoming a real team is much lower than for a team at a single site. No matter the technology, the chances are stacked against you. In my observation a lot of virtual teams have to improve to reach a dysfunctional level.
Less than 1/3 of the virtual teams i know have reached any status resembling a real team (e.g. partitioning the work, fail-over in case of illness/vacation, successful handovers inside the team, cooperation, load sharing). If you take social aspects into consideration, the rate is even lower.
From the technical side, the best effect has been a permanent open chat with all present team members and an internal Wiki. In all cases, this has improved the situation.
If they want a fight, they are invited to post the secret key on their own web site (including a manual how to use it), add their contact details and wait for Sony (or their lawyers) to come for them. Then they can show how brave they are...
They show that they can beat the iPhone in one discipline (browser speed) with some cheating (custom app, not the default browser). Well, that's not the trick. You have to beat the complete package to be the better phone.
Yet another repeating news story.... How many times Atlantis has been located by now? 100+ times at least. What's the next news? Transparent Aluminium again?
Choosing your move on random is mathematically proven to be the best strategy in this game. Since this game has no strategy to guarantee winning, the best strategy to play aims for not loosing.
This Rock-Paper-Scissor game is typically game No. 1 or 2 studied within game theory (part of Operations Research).
if everyone who read the series knew he was going to take 5 years to write half a book, no one would buy until the series was finished.
Contrary to my experience. No one usually cares how many books a series contains before he/she buys it. Once they started with the first and liked it, they buy the next ones wether the series is finished or not.
The author does in fact owe his or her readers to a certain extent.
100% disagreement on this. Being a fan does not give you one ounce of rights towards the author (or any other artist). You pay and get the book; this is the complete transaction. Everything beyond this is voluntary service from the author.
CU, Martin
i consider the reference to Jordan as bad taste and offensive toward Jordans family. Do you think he intended to die? As a comment, i would have expected such a missstep, but as story this is a very, very low level.
Furthermore: the story belongs to the author and only him. If he decides to take 17 years for the next book (as Tokien did after The Hobbit), one has to wait. I would rather wait in vain, than pushing for a book the author feels not happy with.
I would expect such results to depend on the precise use case. I can (without breaking sweat) name a lot of use cases where the OSS i know is more expensive *to use* than comercial, non-open software. But also (without breaking sweat) i can name many cases where OSS has the upper hand cost-wise. A use case always has so many parameters, that there is no general statement "OSS software is cheaper/more expensive than comercial softare".
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is not, what you consider a damage, but what the law determines to be a damage. Assessment of the damage differs always depending on which side (damaging, damaged) you would rather see yourself ;-). Guess you a rather a sysadmin than a city mayor (probably not much of them on /.).
Since being in business for 20 years now, i have seen several lawsuits concerning IT-related damages. Concerning the circumstances i wouldn't have been surprised if the damage were assessed to be ten times as much. And i live in Germany where damages are awarded a lot more conservative compared to the US.
CU, Martin
None, but this is not the issue of the court. The court has to determine the damage caused and award restitution accordingly.
Terry Childs did some mistakes. I think the restitution for damages is more justified than the criminal punishment he got.
CU, Martin
There is no need for any conspiracy to make Anon fall apart. This will happen automagically. Loosely organized, ideologicaly motivated, idealistic organisations have appeared and disappeared by thousands during the last century alone.
There are reasons why most organisations don't work like Anon and that's because this model will not work over a prolonged time. Organisations like Greenpeace are slightly more democratic than North-Korea because they wouldn't be as effective and stable otherwise.
I would love to be wrong on that issue....
It even doesn't take an evil character for starting the downward spiral of death. The assholes usually just end on the top at the end because they can stand the endless bickering longer than anyone else.
Sorry, Martin
Even simpler, the search&removal, the complains, the complain handling: all probably have cost more than another monitor....
It doesn't work that way. They don't "write up things". They talk to others who talk to another group and so on. Writing such things up is not considered to be career enhancing ;-).
"Contact" is a big word for a small tinhg. I am glad if anyone of them ever remembers having talked to me ;-).
The only consolation i can give you: some very influential people are currently getting very pissed about the content industry. The content industry is pushing very hard and not making a lot of friends along the way (at least in the telco industry). But I have no idea about how this will turn out.
Predictions in this area is something for professionals (which i am not). Five years ago i talked to someone who is now a top member of the german goverment about data retention. She made a lot of predictions then (european law, german law, supreme court decisions), which all turned out to be 100% accurate. The only thing i understand is how little i know about the game is played.
Due to other constraints (making a living), my time to go lobbying myself is pretty limited. But i do what i can.
CU. Martin
This idea is floating around for some time now. Various reasons have been given for such internet blocks: child porn, illegal gambling, drugs, .... Interestingly, the real reason has rarely been named. If you look where the money for the campaigns come from, at the end you always find the content industry.
I had a talk with some upper echelons of the biggest European Telcos a few months ago. They were complaining about the content industry spending money like water to get somehow internet blocks turned into law. Most Telcos didn't like the idea....
The idea of the content industry is, that once internet blocks are legal, they can be used to shoot down sites like PirateBay.
CU, Martin
In a shocking development, the famous tech web site "Slashdot" has been found to post misleading headlines *again*. While the european court is moving to ban internet blocking without a law, it clearly states that it would be legal if a specific law would allow and specify the conditions for it.
Honestly, the chance of a virtual team becoming a real team is much lower than for a team at a single site. No matter the technology, the chances are stacked against you. In my observation a lot of virtual teams have to improve to reach a dysfunctional level.
Less than 1/3 of the virtual teams i know have reached any status resembling a real team (e.g. partitioning the work, fail-over in case of illness/vacation, successful handovers inside the team, cooperation, load sharing). If you take social aspects into consideration, the rate is even lower.
From the technical side, the best effect has been a permanent open chat with all present team members and an internal Wiki. In all cases, this has improved the situation.
CU, Martin
My message was not "Do this" but "Don't expect others to do the messy work for you if you are not prepared to do it yourself".
If they want a fight, they are invited to post the secret key on their own web site (including a manual how to use it), add their contact details and wait for Sony (or their lawyers) to come for them. Then they can show how brave they are...
CU, Martin
They show that they can beat the iPhone in one discipline (browser speed) with some cheating (custom app, not the default browser). Well, that's not the trick. You have to beat the complete package to be the better phone.
They will have much better chances than fining Atlantis. Tolkien left a lot more clues behind than Platon did :-).
Funny thing is: Platon probably "invented" Atlantis to give some background to a story too...
If the summary makes it clear...this is a POSSIBLE location.
Exactly: Finding Atlantis would be news, a possible locations you get a dozen for a dime.
CU, Martin
Yet another repeating news story.... How many times Atlantis has been located by now? 100+ times at least. What's the next news? Transparent Aluminium again?
Choosing your move on random is mathematically proven to be the best strategy in this game. Since this game has no strategy to guarantee winning, the best strategy to play aims for not loosing.
This Rock-Paper-Scissor game is typically game No. 1 or 2 studied within game theory (part of Operations Research).
CU, Martin
The best strategy is:
a) You roll a dice (6 sides) that only you can see
b) 1-2 Rock, 3-4 Scissor, 5-6 Paper
No Watson can beat that one...
CU, Martin
if everyone who read the series knew he was going to take 5 years to write half a book, no one would buy until the series was finished.
Contrary to my experience. No one usually cares how many books a series contains before he/she buys it. Once they started with the first and liked it, they buy the next ones wether the series is finished or not.
The author does in fact owe his or her readers to a certain extent.
100% disagreement on this. Being a fan does not give you one ounce of rights towards the author (or any other artist). You pay and get the book; this is the complete transaction. Everything beyond this is voluntary service from the author. CU, Martin
Hi,
i consider the reference to Jordan as bad taste and offensive toward Jordans family. Do you think he intended to die? As a comment, i would have expected such a missstep, but as story this is a very, very low level.
Furthermore: the story belongs to the author and only him. If he decides to take 17 years for the next book (as Tokien did after The Hobbit), one has to wait. I would rather wait in vain, than pushing for a book the author feels not happy with.
Disappointed, Martin
I'd have screwed that up.
2 Points awarded for being honest and being right....
CU, Martin
In other news: Iran claims posession of the Stuxnet virus as well
The judges didn't have any chance to rule otherwise; their horoscope said so....
Do a "/images/music/" and you will notice that you have seen this scheme before.....
I would expect such results to depend on the precise use case. I can (without breaking sweat) name a lot of use cases where the OSS i know is more expensive *to use* than comercial, non-open software. But also (without breaking sweat) i can name many cases where OSS has the upper hand cost-wise. A use case always has so many parameters, that there is no general statement "OSS software is cheaper/more expensive than comercial softare".
CU, Martin
Yeah, my favorite slashdot story zombie