Plant a few honeypot boxen around the Pentagon network, and load them up with tasty disinformation, aiming for outcomes like:
* Making an advanced US capability seem flaky or ineffective
* Making a flaky or undeveloped US capability seem advanced and devastating
* Sending the Chinese into fruitless directions in R&D, costing them billions
* Trick the Cninese into types of action that could yield up some useful intel for the US
The opportunities are endless.
Operation GW commenced January 20th 2001 and has successfully misled the world into thinking we are idiots. We have made it appear we make vast amounts of wealth disappear through military industrial graft and sunk our monetary values 40% relative to other western powers. We've gotten involved in a war we knew we couldn't leave gracefully, and shown corruption at every level. We have given the appearance of crushing our education system with theology, and appeared to have revised the public education curriculum to cater to the dumbest common denominator. We have lulled the entire world into thinking we are a country of backwards mouth breathers.As soon as we devalue our currency to 20% relative value and ensure 99% of all top ivy league school student are foreign we will truly be in a position to surprise the world without awesome cunning and leap forth and conquer the world.
Ironically, that, along with many other "Chinese" cuisine are virtually unknown in China. I've never been to China proper, but I've been to Hong Kong, and I was hard pressed to find anything that resembled Westernized "Chinese" food. Even the rice is different.
Being chinese and visiting often I can see the distinctions. Anything involving frying with batter is more San Fran then H K. Although dim sum is still close to home in style and substance.
A lot of stores in my area have clear signs stating that consenting to a bag search is a condition of entry. Don't like it? Don't go in the store. Not a problem. They also never seem to be struggling for business.
I wonder what this guy was trying to prove with his ass-hattery.
Unless you sign something, the sign itself means jack. Having a sign saying "trespassers will be shot" does not legalize the shooting of trespassers. Having a sign "Smoking allowed" does not trump local bylaws. Having a sign "No black allowed" is very similar to "we reserve the right to search your bags" to a civil rights lawyer.
Ha! You must be kidding. You mean huge multi-national conglomerations were repaying all the victims of their accidents and torts such as Exxon Valdez or Love Canal without being sued?
When was the last time a company paid for the damage it caused without being sued? Name one example.
I am aware of a company who had their company truck back into a fence by accident. The company paid for the fence and gave a few free months of service to compensate. I now the facts because I issued the damn credits. Companies themselves aren't evil. It's when management gets crazy ideas in their head and start acting like monsters, that we get evil.
It isn't mutual assured destruction. The problem is one-sided; if Circuit City or the police apologized, and the victim is sue happy, then his lawyer will use their apology as an admission of guilt. It's smartest for the alleged offender to assume that the thing is going to court and offer zero assistance to the enemy.
There is precedent in almost all juristications that a apology is not an admission of guilt to responsibility but is instead a expression of remorse/empathy over a situation. It does not mean anything to a court and it's basically some corporates started spreading stories about how apology=responsibility. It doesn't. It's not out of favor with the corprate crowd and you will hear "We're very sorry" good and often these days. It's come back into fashion. If pressed into a suit they will simply state we emphasize with the customer, and nothing more.
Why deal with this by creating a confrontation with officers? Why not simply state, "It is my right not to show what's in this bag. If you want to see it, I'll go back to the register and return it." This seems a lot easier, doesn't get you in trouble with the cops, and still makes your point.
Trrue, but that is not the law. Sometimes you need trouble makers to ensure the system works. The man acted within his rights, the store staff and officer did not. No matter how much fo a jerk the man was being, so long as he followed the laws the other parties deserved to be nailed to the judicial wall as examples.
The big mistake he made was giving the cop a hard time. When you call the police, you should be prepared to cooperate with them. Did he really think a police officer was going to take instructions from him? If you want a cop to help you, make it easy for him to be helpful.
Ideally, cops should arbitrate the letter of the law. In this case The cop did not follow the letter of the law and thus a lawsuit will result. It's too common these days for cops to over step their bounds. It takes a number of lawsuits to get them to back down. In my fair berg the cops have one of the worst reputations in all of Canada. IT's likely due to their hiring practices where they require "life experience" in the form of either doing renta-cop security or being a bouncer before. Every "Security gaurd" I have ever met was the utter dregs of society and bouncers tended to be jerks.
I am aware of their hiring criteria because a friend of mine applied and was turned down for lack of life experience. He's 6'1, exstremely fit, 25 and a bit of a boy scout. But I'd prefer him as a cop then some bully who turned pro by being a bouncer.
He called the police because the store manager was illegally detaining him. The police officer misread the situation and then made it worse by pressing charges. The man was within his rights to ask a officer of the law remove the store manager, the policer officer was over stepping his mandate by insisting on ID and then pressing charges when they weren't presented.
This case is so obvious and clear that it's a civil liberties lawyers wet dream. Unless the story is missing details such as some state law insiting on ID. It seems TFA made it clear that no such law existed although the officer assumed it did.
The reason for punative lawsuits is to ensure organizations and groups such as the police maintain the rule of law and do not over step their legal bounds. A lawsuit is meant as a deterent against those in power or have power over individuals for mis using it. If i get pulled over while I was obeying every law and someone decided to hassle me because I'm chinese I can then sue to discourage behavior such as this in the future. Same thing with the lawsuits aginst someone like macdonalds. The lady who was severely burned by hot coffee was partly responsible because she drank it in the car. But Macdonalds was responsible because they kept their coffee at a excessively hot state because they could store it longer if it's that hot. Thus they had to award money and agree to change.
I think lawsuits gets a bit excessive in the states but in this particular case it's a civil liberties suit I'd support.
I could imagine electro statically powered nano motors to slowly move the dust. After a dust storm then the small transparent motors just make the surface move and move the dust with it. they could be on all the time, powered by the dust collecting on the panel.
No shit, Sherlock! For the past 10-15 years, the record companies have been concentrating on quick-hit novelty hits such as the Flaming Lips (that horrible, amateurish "Peaches" song and the like). Virtuosity in musical performances and songwriting has been virtually eliminated, which is a major factor in getting people to connect emotionally to music. The huge success of Nirvana and the grunge movement, with the punk movement behind that, provided the impetus for the record companies to eschew with expensive talented musicians and take on any crap acts who can pump out a quick hit for the bean counters. Cheap, disposable music concocted of samples and computer-generated blips and bloops, with minimal human interaction with the actual creation of the music.
Heavy metal has lost any sort of melodic element and is now just a brutal assault with guitar-like sounds which for all we know might have been entirely generated by sampler (as Marylin Manson did with his Beautiful People song) and with not guitar virtuosity in sight (please somebody give me a challenging guitar solo - PLEASE!!).
Add to all of this the current propensity of the record companies to compress the music to the point of unlistenability and you have a recipe for disaster. Heart came out with a really good album a couple of years ago which was a real return to their awesome roots but was torpedoed by the Ultramaximiser applied to the final product. I couldn't listen for more than a few seconds before my ears started bleeding. You know, it's interesting that when I mention that I come on here and mention the superiority of analog sound on vinyl records the first thing people point out is the supposed greater dynamic range of digital. Yet if that is indeed the case, you'd be hard pressed to prove that with most modern pop recordings.
I think the primary motivation isn't because it's easier. It's always been hard spotting the virtuosos. In the last 15 years Trent Reznor, Tambaland, or Gwen Stefani are virtuosos in what they do. They are experts at making aural textures. The motivation to pump and dump one hit wonders is basically the contracts of the virtuosos get worse for the record companies over time. The initial contract may be 95/5 for 3 albums while the contracts of legends maybe be more 60/40. Resulting in a business bias towards young, dumb, quickly disposed of acts.
I think the filter of nostalgia bias everything too. What was before those 15 years? disposable pop. before then? Disco and rock operas. Before then? A musical renaissance but lots of crap too. Generally it's 80% crap to 20% good stuff in almost every human endeavor in all history. We just happen to remember history more fondly because we can forget 80% of the dreck.
So the prevailing feeling is apathy. You go to school, go to college, have kids and die. There's nothing else to do. The music reflects this.
For my particular slice of the demographic the prevailing feeling is bitterness that the generation that grew up in the 60's is refusing to make room for us so we have to make due with less. Graduating at the end of the tech boom and seeing exactly 0 entry level positions definitely inspired that. Right now every generation is living with the gradual decline of our living standards due to an aging and long lived generation taking the bulk of the good life. Likely will shift dramatically in 20 years.
Sad....I see young kids even today..wearing AC/DC and Zeppelin shirts....I mean, I'm very happy to see the music I grew up with has lasted...but, really, these bands should have been replace with quality groups today.
Zepplin I can understand but AC/DC? My god they made a career of playing the same song for 40 years.
"Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum? As a leftist, I know there are many people who share my ideological views, but have very little in common with me in terms of profession and non-work interests. Is the community's political bent directly tied to our higher than average economic success?" I haven't noticed this in the nerd community where I live. Only on slashdot. It's likely some confirmation bias mixe din with very vocal libertarians. Most nerds I know are all over the political spectrum's and I don't know a single self proclaimed libertarian at all. I live in Canada so it may be an American thing.
Socialism which centralizes all p;power in the government, causes this. When the same government that is responsible for policing, is repsonsible for economic activity such as providing electricity and even news to the public.. seriously fucked up shit like this can happen. It irreverasbly fucks a country hard.
Show me where socialism and government control over business activity has brought about prosperity and lifted a country out of poverty? I can show examples for capitalism: China, Singapore, South Korea (contrast with North Korea which was considered richer than S. Korea before the split -- and S. Korea was as poor as any African country).
You use a definition of socialism that most would assume is communism. This embezzlement happened because the government was corrupt. A capitalist state or a communist or a socialist state which is corrupt would have a similar result. Your attempting to distort the term so that when another person brings up "government owned industry", "universal health care", "taxation", "public works", etc.. You can drum up the scarecrow argument that such a socialist idea only has one end. However Socialism is a very broad term.
Socialists can describe Canada, most of the EU, Australia, most of Asia, actually depending on your definition it may be the much vaunted Capitalist nation of America.
The problem is differing definitions. There are many form of socialism and most of the "damned socialist" set would portray each and every one as evil. However the social democracies, self proclaimed and acknowledged socialist do as well as the capitalists. Africa is poor not because it is socialist but because it lacks infrastructure, capital, technology, rule of law, stable financial institutions etc.. No change in mere ideology will rectify the list of things wrong in Africa. Most cautionary tales individuals like your trot out are tales of how extreme ideologies tend to fail and putting mad men in power is a bad idea. Pure capitalism would fail just as spectacularly as pure communism, pure anything. They are models of systems that do not deal with the underlying complexities of humanity. There is no simple ideology that will give you a perfect system. Just dozens of ideological compromises that work to varying degrees.
Someone at Sony has just wizened up to what will move units. The apocalypse must be nigh.
I like the PS3 I own one and it seriously needs more exclusive games. Sony needs to open up the purse strings and start bribing or buying key developers like MS did. Maybe making a good developer tool suite would help too. I know Bioware swore off the PS2 platform after their PS2 efforts nearly sent the whole programming dept into mental institutes. By all accounts the PS3 is the same but harder.
A $15 CD is 3 hours of minimum wage work. Most of the people who do that work are high school and college students, an audience that spends nearly $200B of disposable cash according to marketing estimates thrown out in some of the magazines I've seen. Why is it too much to ask that if you like the CD, you pay the money? It's not like we're hurting for options on how to get it cheaper than a typical overpriced local store.
When it comes down to other IP rights, why should those be sacred? It doesn't bother me at all when the latest GPL violation is posted on Slashdot. In fact, I say that the rights of developers working under the GPL should be totally ignored as long as we're going to cheer on people who are getting sued for downloading music they didn't buy. Both are copyright violations, and neither is more sacred than the other. The issue isn't the actual right of authors to control distribution of their work. The problem is the shady practices and dodgy logic that the RIAA uses to press their suits. I fully support the right of a artist/author/creator to control the distribution of their work and profit directly or indirectly for their efforts. However we protest that IP = undeniably unique identifier, That use of any means to gather information is fair, that intimidation and harassment or misrepresentation to obtain information are legitimate tactics. They simply are not. The RIAA have bought the courts, they aught not be allowed to behave in such a manner.
We also do not agree that simply making a copy of works we own physical media to are in fact copy right infringements. Even more organizations like the Sound Exchange or acts like the Canadian media levy where a agencies is granted rights to collect monies for artists but in turn do not turn it over to the artists is unethical. If my unsigned band allows Digital imports to distribute our works via streaming radio the SoundExchange has no rights to charge any fee for this.
We protest these not the right to steal music, but the ethics and actions of the various agencies representing DISTRIBUTORS. As the members of the RIAA are not artists themselves but the distributing agent (Sony, EMI, Virgin etc..).
Of the compromised account, ten belong to the Kazakh embassy in Russia. Around 40 belong to Uzbeki embassies and consulates around the world. So half of the 100 accounts belong to underdeveloped former Soviet republics. It seems unsurprising that many of their staff would be unfamiliar with computer systems and computer security.
Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world, all other countries are run by little girls. Kazakhstan is number one exporter of internet security, Other Central Asian countries have inferior internet security.
He said he had published the list because it would have been too time-consuming to contact all 100 organizations named. Had he handed the list to the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), he would have been guilty of spying. He claimed that by publishing the list he saved himself trouble .
"This rescues me from the shit," he said. Well, I can see how that - huh???
The publicity makes disappearing in the night conspicuous. He's probably hoping that deters Governments from attempting to prosecute him for blackmail. If he mailed them individually they might indeed take it as a attempt to black mail them.
certain they didn't rip you off (and get a computer elsewhere, along with spreading bad word-of-mouth about their practices).
Your shopping at best buy. You got ripped off the second you decided to buy somethign from there. At least the list price. You may get a deal if you shop around first or check out some of the comparison sites. I just bought a TTV that is listed at $2,199 on the best buy main site and store. I got it for $1,799 at a smaller mom and pops outlet store.
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Plant a few honeypot boxen around the Pentagon network, and load them up with tasty disinformation, aiming for outcomes like:
* Making an advanced US capability seem flaky or ineffective
* Making a flaky or undeveloped US capability seem advanced and devastating
* Sending the Chinese into fruitless directions in R&D, costing them billions
* Trick the Cninese into types of action that could yield up some useful intel for the US
The opportunities are endless.
Operation GW commenced January 20th 2001 and has successfully misled the world into thinking we are idiots. We have made it appear we make vast amounts of wealth disappear through military industrial graft and sunk our monetary values 40% relative to other western powers. We've gotten involved in a war we knew we couldn't leave gracefully, and shown corruption at every level. We have given the appearance of crushing our education system with theology, and appeared to have revised the public education curriculum to cater to the dumbest common denominator. We have lulled the entire world into thinking we are a country of backwards mouth breathers.As soon as we devalue our currency to 20% relative value and ensure 99% of all top ivy league school student are foreign we will truly be in a position to surprise the world without awesome cunning and leap forth and conquer the world.
Ironically, that, along with many other "Chinese" cuisine are virtually unknown in China. I've never been to China proper, but I've been to Hong Kong, and I was hard pressed to find anything that resembled Westernized "Chinese" food. Even the rice is different.
Being chinese and visiting often I can see the distinctions. Anything involving frying with batter is more San Fran then H K. Although dim sum is still close to home in style and substance.
A lot of stores in my area have clear signs stating that consenting to a bag search is a condition of entry. Don't like it? Don't go in the store. Not a problem. They also never seem to be struggling for business.
I wonder what this guy was trying to prove with his ass-hattery.
Unless you sign something, the sign itself means jack. Having a sign saying "trespassers will be shot" does not legalize the shooting of trespassers. Having a sign "Smoking allowed" does not trump local bylaws. Having a sign "No black allowed" is very similar to "we reserve the right to search your bags" to a civil rights lawyer.
precedent defines "reasonable". Other similar cases dictate what is reasonable so latitude is slim if the law isn't' new.
They may request a receipt, they may not search any bags or containers however as that is illegal search and seizure.
Ha! You must be kidding. You mean huge multi-national conglomerations were repaying all the victims of their accidents and torts such as Exxon Valdez or Love Canal without being sued?
When was the last time a company paid for the damage it caused without being sued? Name one example.
I am aware of a company who had their company truck back into a fence by accident. The company paid for the fence and gave a few free months of service to compensate. I now the facts because I issued the damn credits. Companies themselves aren't evil. It's when management gets crazy ideas in their head and start acting like monsters, that we get evil.
It isn't mutual assured destruction. The problem is one-sided; if Circuit City or the police apologized, and the victim is sue happy, then his lawyer will use their apology as an admission of guilt. It's smartest for the alleged offender to assume that the thing is going to court and offer zero assistance to the enemy.
There is precedent in almost all juristications that a apology is not an admission of guilt to responsibility but is instead a expression of remorse/empathy over a situation. It does not mean anything to a court and it's basically some corporates started spreading stories about how apology=responsibility. It doesn't. It's not out of favor with the corprate crowd and you will hear "We're very sorry" good and often these days. It's come back into fashion. If pressed into a suit they will simply state we emphasize with the customer, and nothing more.
Why deal with this by creating a confrontation with officers? Why not simply state, "It is my right not to show what's in this bag. If you want to see it, I'll go back to the register and return it." This seems a lot easier, doesn't get you in trouble with the cops, and still makes your point.
Trrue, but that is not the law. Sometimes you need trouble makers to ensure the system works. The man acted within his rights, the store staff and officer did not. No matter how much fo a jerk the man was being, so long as he followed the laws the other parties deserved to be nailed to the judicial wall as examples.
The big mistake he made was giving the cop a hard time. When you call the police, you should be prepared to cooperate with them. Did he really think a police officer was going to take instructions from him? If you want a cop to help you, make it easy for him to be helpful.
Ideally, cops should arbitrate the letter of the law. In this case The cop did not follow the letter of the law and thus a lawsuit will result. It's too common these days for cops to over step their bounds. It takes a number of lawsuits to get them to back down. In my fair berg the cops have one of the worst reputations in all of Canada. IT's likely due to their hiring practices where they require "life experience" in the form of either doing renta-cop security or being a bouncer before. Every "Security gaurd" I have ever met was the utter dregs of society and bouncers tended to be jerks.
I am aware of their hiring criteria because a friend of mine applied and was turned down for lack of life experience. He's 6'1, exstremely fit, 25 and a bit of a boy scout. But I'd prefer him as a cop then some bully who turned pro by being a bouncer.
He called the police because the store manager was illegally detaining him. The police officer misread the situation and then made it worse by pressing charges. The man was within his rights to ask a officer of the law remove the store manager, the policer officer was over stepping his mandate by insisting on ID and then pressing charges when they weren't presented.
This case is so obvious and clear that it's a civil liberties lawyers wet dream. Unless the story is missing details such as some state law insiting on ID. It seems TFA made it clear that no such law existed although the officer assumed it did.
The reason for punative lawsuits is to ensure organizations and groups such as the police maintain the rule of law and do not over step their legal bounds. A lawsuit is meant as a deterent against those in power or have power over individuals for mis using it. If i get pulled over while I was obeying every law and someone decided to hassle me because I'm chinese I can then sue to discourage behavior such as this in the future. Same thing with the lawsuits aginst someone like macdonalds. The lady who was severely burned by hot coffee was partly responsible because she drank it in the car. But Macdonalds was responsible because they kept their coffee at a excessively hot state because they could store it longer if it's that hot. Thus they had to award money and agree to change.
I think lawsuits gets a bit excessive in the states but in this particular case it's a civil liberties suit I'd support.
And it smells like a lawsuit. I don't think either the police or the store is going to go unscathed.
I could imagine electro statically powered nano motors to slowly move the dust. After a dust storm then the small transparent motors just make the surface move and move the dust with it. they could be on all the time, powered by the dust collecting on the panel.
No shit, Sherlock! For the past 10-15 years, the record companies have been concentrating on quick-hit novelty hits such as the Flaming Lips (that horrible, amateurish "Peaches" song and the like). Virtuosity in musical performances and songwriting has been virtually eliminated, which is a major factor in getting people to connect emotionally to music. The huge success of Nirvana and the grunge movement, with the punk movement behind that, provided the impetus for the record companies to eschew with expensive talented musicians and take on any crap acts who can pump out a quick hit for the bean counters. Cheap, disposable music concocted of samples and computer-generated blips and bloops, with minimal human interaction with the actual creation of the music.
Heavy metal has lost any sort of melodic element and is now just a brutal assault with guitar-like sounds which for all we know might have been entirely generated by sampler (as Marylin Manson did with his Beautiful People song) and with not guitar virtuosity in sight (please somebody give me a challenging guitar solo - PLEASE!!).
Add to all of this the current propensity of the record companies to compress the music to the point of unlistenability and you have a recipe for disaster. Heart came out with a really good album a couple of years ago which was a real return to their awesome roots but was torpedoed by the Ultramaximiser applied to the final product. I couldn't listen for more than a few seconds before my ears started bleeding. You know, it's interesting that when I mention that I come on here and mention the superiority of analog sound on vinyl records the first thing people point out is the supposed greater dynamic range of digital. Yet if that is indeed the case, you'd be hard pressed to prove that with most modern pop recordings.
I think the primary motivation isn't because it's easier. It's always been hard spotting the virtuosos. In the last 15 years Trent Reznor, Tambaland, or Gwen Stefani are virtuosos in what they do. They are experts at making aural textures. The motivation to pump and dump one hit wonders is basically the contracts of the virtuosos get worse for the record companies over time. The initial contract may be 95/5 for 3 albums while the contracts of legends maybe be more 60/40. Resulting in a business bias towards young, dumb, quickly disposed of acts.
I think the filter of nostalgia bias everything too. What was before those 15 years? disposable pop. before then? Disco and rock operas. Before then? A musical renaissance but lots of crap too. Generally it's 80% crap to 20% good stuff in almost every human endeavor in all history. We just happen to remember history more fondly because we can forget 80% of the dreck.
So the prevailing feeling is apathy. You go to school, go to college, have kids and die. There's nothing else to do. The music reflects this.
For my particular slice of the demographic the prevailing feeling is bitterness that the generation that grew up in the 60's is refusing to make room for us so we have to make due with less. Graduating at the end of the tech boom and seeing exactly 0 entry level positions definitely inspired that. Right now every generation is living with the gradual decline of our living standards due to an aging and long lived generation taking the bulk of the good life. Likely will shift dramatically in 20 years.
I don't know how many of you have noticed, but the current pope looks and acts like palpatine!!palpatine!!.
Sad....I see young kids even today..wearing AC/DC and Zeppelin shirts....I mean, I'm very happy to see the music I grew up with has lasted...but, really, these bands should have been replace with quality groups today.
Zepplin I can understand but AC/DC? My god they made a career of playing the same song for 40 years.
Socialism which centralizes all p;power in the government, causes this. When the same government that is responsible for policing, is repsonsible for economic activity such as providing electricity and even news to the public .. seriously fucked up shit like this can happen. It irreverasbly fucks a country hard.
Show me where socialism and government control over business activity has brought about prosperity and lifted a country out of poverty? I can show examples for capitalism: China, Singapore, South Korea (contrast with North Korea which was considered richer than S. Korea before the split -- and S. Korea was as poor as any African country).
You use a definition of socialism that most would assume is communism. This embezzlement happened because the government was corrupt. A capitalist state or a communist or a socialist state which is corrupt would have a similar result. Your attempting to distort the term so that when another person brings up "government owned industry", "universal health care", "taxation", "public works", etc.. You can drum up the scarecrow argument that such a socialist idea only has one end. However Socialism is a very broad term.
Socialists can describe Canada, most of the EU, Australia, most of Asia, actually depending on your definition it may be the much vaunted Capitalist nation of America.
The problem is differing definitions. There are many form of socialism and most of the "damned socialist" set would portray each and every one as evil. However the social democracies, self proclaimed and acknowledged socialist do as well as the capitalists. Africa is poor not because it is socialist but because it lacks infrastructure, capital, technology, rule of law, stable financial institutions etc.. No change in mere ideology will rectify the list of things wrong in Africa. Most cautionary tales individuals like your trot out are tales of how extreme ideologies tend to fail and putting mad men in power is a bad idea. Pure capitalism would fail just as spectacularly as pure communism, pure anything. They are models of systems that do not deal with the underlying complexities of humanity. There is no simple ideology that will give you a perfect system. Just dozens of ideological compromises that work to varying degrees.
The most dangerous man is a ideologist in power.
Someone at Sony has just wizened up to what will move units. The apocalypse must be nigh.
I like the PS3 I own one and it seriously needs more exclusive games. Sony needs to open up the purse strings and start bribing or buying key developers like MS did. Maybe making a good developer tool suite would help too. I know Bioware swore off the PS2 platform after their PS2 efforts nearly sent the whole programming dept into mental institutes. By all accounts the PS3 is the same but harder.
When it comes down to other IP rights, why should those be sacred? It doesn't bother me at all when the latest GPL violation is posted on Slashdot. In fact, I say that the rights of developers working under the GPL should be totally ignored as long as we're going to cheer on people who are getting sued for downloading music they didn't buy. Both are copyright violations, and neither is more sacred than the other. The issue isn't the actual right of authors to control distribution of their work. The problem is the shady practices and dodgy logic that the RIAA uses to press their suits. I fully support the right of a artist/author/creator to control the distribution of their work and profit directly or indirectly for their efforts. However we protest that IP = undeniably unique identifier, That use of any means to gather information is fair, that intimidation and harassment or misrepresentation to obtain information are legitimate tactics. They simply are not. The RIAA have bought the courts, they aught not be allowed to behave in such a manner.
We also do not agree that simply making a copy of works we own physical media to are in fact copy right infringements. Even more organizations like the Sound Exchange or acts like the Canadian media levy where a agencies is granted rights to collect monies for artists but in turn do not turn it over to the artists is unethical. If my unsigned band allows Digital imports to distribute our works via streaming radio the SoundExchange has no rights to charge any fee for this.
We protest these not the right to steal music, but the ethics and actions of the various agencies representing DISTRIBUTORS. As the members of the RIAA are not artists themselves but the distributing agent (Sony, EMI, Virgin etc..).
Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world, all other countries are run by little girls. Kazakhstan is number one exporter of internet security, Other Central Asian countries have inferior internet security.
High Five!
He said he had published the list because it would have been too time-consuming to contact all 100 organizations named. Had he handed the list to the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), he would have been guilty of spying. He claimed that by publishing the list he saved himself trouble .
"This rescues me from the shit," he said.
Well, I can see how that - huh???
The publicity makes disappearing in the night conspicuous. He's probably hoping that deters Governments from attempting to prosecute him for blackmail. If he mailed them individually they might indeed take it as a attempt to black mail them.
I'm all out of skepticism, all I have left is disbelief.
You roll a 18, you disbelieve the illusion.
certain they didn't rip you off (and get a computer elsewhere, along with spreading bad word-of-mouth about their practices).
Your shopping at best buy. You got ripped off the second you decided to buy somethign from there. At least the list price. You may get a deal if you shop around first or check out some of the comparison sites. I just bought a TTV that is listed at $2,199 on the best buy main site and store. I got it for $1,799 at a smaller mom and pops outlet store.
Sharp Aquos LC42D62U, the price is CND.