Ok I'm stuck, do I avoid Sonic Blue's PVR's because it will invade my privacy, or do I buy PVR from Sonic Blue, because they are as outraged about this as I am. I suppose I could record all kinds of crap on it too, that would at least subvert their data.
Hmmm, maybe if we could get everyone to do nothing but record Tech TV for 24 hours as a protest of our privacy being violated.
When I stated "First of all, since when do we start supporting corporate america?"
When I read the story, I got the impression that the author's attitude was "Look at all the money lost due to this single individual's actions, I'm surprised the jail sentence wasn't longer, corporations shouldn't be picked on like that!"
We all probably agree that figures used to make up a figure like the damage caused by a virus are laughable. No one says today the power company caused businesses to lose X millions of dollars due to the recent blackout. After reading the article again, more closely, yes what this person did was wrong, but I think the sentence was probably fair.
Now as for all these people not being able to work without e-mail, I find that hard to believe. I mean sure there was some major inconvience, but what kind of company has employees whose entire jobs center around e-mail? (besides the simple examples) I would think very few, and we do have a little invention called the telephone.
The point I'm trying to make is that there are more then one guilty party when it comes to looking at the grossly inflated damage estimations. The exploits that the melissa virus used were well known at the time, as well as ways to prevent them from being abused. If part of your job was to run the e-mail for your company shouldn't you know how to protect you systems? Yes, there are always people who will open vbs scripts or whatever, but I would think you can keep 95% of the e-mail accounts clean in your firm, from exploits that are known and fixable.
At the same time Microsoft has seen how these virus's have abused their e-mail client, and have done little to help novices protect their computers.
And what about all the people that clicked on the attachment?!?!?!? Are they not partially to blame as well? I know at our company people know not to open attachments, unless they are 100% sure about what's in it.
So all is probably fair in the sentence. However I'm not losing any sleep over poor corporate america losing some pocketchange then screaming they were robbed.
What's a little $80 million mistake among friends? Sinjun writes: "In what is believed to be one of the first prison sentences given to the creator of a virus, David L. Smith of the infamous Melissa plague recieves 20 months in federal lockup. I would have thought he would recieve more, seeing the massive amount of money lost by corporate America resulting from Melissa. Oh well, this is the precedent that has been set."
The massive amount of money lost by corporate America?!?!
First of all, since when do we start supporting corporate america?
Second, were do "they" get damage figures from? Probably the same accountant that say software firms lose "billions and billions" to piracy although many people would never buy the software anyways.
Also, if corporate america didn't have their heads up their asses, they could have avoided all the "damage" the melissa virus did. In fact many companies who know what their doing were completely unaffected.
By the way, why not jail the programmers at Microsoft for writing an e-mail client that allows "billions and billions of damage"
simple fact is this, It's well known that outlook is not secure. If companies have not taken steps to protect themselfs, I can hardly agree with jailing someone who wrote a program (and I believe didn't distribute).
20 members of the House, sent a letter last week to Librarian James H. Billington, who's approval is ultimately necessary to begin charging the fees CARP recommended.
http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/042302/in de x.asp
My friends, please make note if any of these members of the house represent your state, and please remember this the next time you vote.
So there you go. The next time you play Counter-Strike, you can tell yourself that the research that went into the anti-aliasing you're using and into achieving the fill rate necessary for flawless framerates when smoke grenades are being thrown about is also being used in fighter jets and tanks.
Finally! I can stop feeling guilty when I waste an entire night fragging.
"You are not allowed to use any third party program (e.g. Ad-Aware) to uninstall applications bundled with RadLight."
As far as I know a license statement should only apply to when one is using software, I think legally a court would uphold that a license cannot tell someone what hardware or other software they can or cannot use.
The interesting thing with this is that the are forcing users to comply with a license which is probably not even legal.
As for uninstalling software without any other warning, wouldn't this be on the same level as a destructive virus? I sure as hell wouldn't pout my name on a virus.
Also it never states that the software will be removed. It says you cannot use other applications to uninstall their spyware. So you can have anti-spyware installed on your computer without breaking this (probably illegal) license.
I would think the company is liable for criminal damage to property much like a virus writer would be.
Isn't is pointless to use current games to benchmark future videocards? I much rather like the idea of using the latest build of engines of future games (i.e. Unreal Tourney 2003) because it pushes the card harder than the final game will, plus it allows developers to fix bugs that arise before both the game and card is released.
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Sounds like a good idea, I'd love to know of any that are in existance,
From the ACLU: A national ID would not prevent terrorism. An identity card is only as good as the information that establishes identity in the first place. Terrorists and criminals will continue to be able to obtain -- by legal and illegal means -- the documents needed to get a government ID, such as birth certificates and social security numbers. A national ID would create a false sense of security because it would enable individuals with an ID -- who may in fact be terrorists -- to avoid heightened security measures.
A national ID would depend on a massive bureaucracy that would limit our basic freedoms. A national ID system would depend on both the issuance of an ID card and the integration of huge amounts of personal information included in state and federal government databases. One employee mistake, an underlying database error or common fraud could take away an individual's ability to move freely from place to place or even make them unemployable until the government fixed their "file."
A national ID could require all Americans to carry an internal passport at all times, compromising our privacy, limiting our freedom, and exposing us to unfair discrimination based on national origin or religion. A national ID would foster new forms of discrimination and harassment. The ID could be used to stop, question, or challenge anyone perceived as looking or sounding "foreign" or individuals of certain religious affiliations.
By the way you can send a free fax to your congressmen opposing the national ID at the aclu's website at: http://www.aclu.org/action/id107.html
I say we do everything possible to run their faxes outta toner.
From the ACLU A national ID would not prevent terrorism. An identity card is only as good as the information that establishes identity in the first place. Terrorists and criminals will continue to be able to obtain -- by legal and illegal means -- the documents needed to get a government ID, such as birth certificates and social security numbers. A national ID would create a false sense of security because it would enable individuals with an ID -- who may in fact be terrorists -- to avoid heightened security measures.
A national ID would depend on a massive bureaucracy that would limit our basic freedoms. A national ID system would depend on both the issuance of an ID card and the integration of huge amounts of personal information included in state and federal government databases. One employee mistake, an underlying database error or common fraud could take away an individual's ability to move freely from place to place or even make them unemployable until the government fixed their "file."
A national ID could require all Americans to carry an internal passport at all times, compromising our privacy, limiting our freedom, and exposing us to unfair discrimination based on national origin or religion. A national ID would foster new forms of discrimination and harassment. The ID could be used to stop, question, or challenge anyone perceived as looking or sounding "foreign" or individuals of certain religious affiliations.
By the way you can send a free fax to your congressmen opposing the national ID at the aclu's website at: http://www.aclu.org/action/id107.html
I say we do everything possible to run their faxes outta toner.
Most cell phones (at least domestically in the US) are either CDMA or GSM, and once you buy the phone you should be able to program it to and provider with the same service.
I've had no problems switching from Verizon to Sprint, and from ATT to voicestream.
ok, look, service for tivo is like 12.95 a month or a one time $250 fee, there are other PVR's on the market without service fees.
I understand the business model. The hardware is the loss leader for the service.
What annoys me is that the ratio of service provided to outrageous.
When you buy a cell phone, you can always drop service (assuming you ended or fufilled your contract and choose a new service provider). Tivo does not do this. The other PVR's seem to have no problems without charging for service.
Tivo will have to do a lot more for me than what it currently does for $12.95 a month.
Also I believe if you buy the lifetime plan it only gives life time service to that unit, so you're screwed if you upgrade.
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Ok I'm stuck, do I avoid Sonic Blue's PVR's because it will invade my privacy, or do I buy PVR from Sonic Blue, because they are as outraged about this as I am. I suppose I could record all kinds of crap on it too, that would at least subvert their data.
Hmmm, maybe if we could get everyone to do nothing but record Tech TV for 24 hours as a protest of our privacy being violated.
let me clarify a few things,
When I stated "First of all, since when do we start supporting corporate america?"
When I read the story, I got the impression that the author's attitude was "Look at all the money lost due to this single individual's actions, I'm surprised the jail sentence wasn't longer, corporations shouldn't be picked on like that!"
We all probably agree that figures used to make up a figure like the damage caused by a virus are laughable. No one says today the power company caused businesses to lose X millions of dollars due to the recent blackout. After reading the article again, more closely, yes what this person did was wrong, but I think the sentence was probably fair.
Now as for all these people not being able to work without e-mail, I find that hard to believe. I mean sure there was some major inconvience, but what kind of company has employees whose entire jobs center around e-mail? (besides the simple examples) I would think very few, and we do have a little invention called the telephone.
The point I'm trying to make is that there are more then one guilty party when it comes to looking at the grossly inflated damage estimations. The exploits that the melissa virus used were well known at the time, as well as ways to prevent them from being abused. If part of your job was to run the e-mail for your company shouldn't you know how to protect you systems?
Yes, there are always people who will open vbs scripts or whatever, but I would think you can keep 95% of the e-mail accounts clean in your firm, from exploits that are known and fixable.
At the same time Microsoft has seen how these virus's have abused their e-mail client, and have done little to help novices protect their computers.
And what about all the people that clicked on the attachment?!?!?!? Are they not partially to blame as well? I know at our company people know not to open attachments, unless they are 100% sure about what's in it.
So all is probably fair in the sentence. However I'm not losing any sleep over poor corporate america losing some pocketchange then screaming they were robbed.
What's a little $80 million mistake among friends? Sinjun writes: "In what is believed to be one of the first prison sentences given to the creator of a virus, David L. Smith of the infamous Melissa plague recieves 20 months in federal lockup. I would have thought he would recieve more, seeing the massive amount of money lost by corporate America resulting from Melissa. Oh well, this is the precedent that has been set."
The massive amount of money lost by corporate America?!?!
First of all, since when do we start supporting corporate america?
Second, were do "they" get damage figures from? Probably the same accountant that say software firms lose "billions and billions" to piracy although many people would never buy the software anyways.
Also, if corporate america didn't have their heads up their asses, they could have avoided all the "damage" the melissa virus did. In fact many companies who know what their doing were completely unaffected.
By the way, why not jail the programmers at Microsoft for writing an e-mail client that allows "billions and billions of damage"
simple fact is this, It's well known that outlook is not secure. If companies have not taken steps to protect themselfs, I can hardly agree with jailing someone who wrote a program (and I believe didn't distribute).
I believe it was Tim Johnson from Illinois because everything I read said it was 20 members of the house that signed it.
20 members of the House, sent a letter last week to Librarian James H. Billington, who's approval is ultimately necessary to begin charging the fees CARP recommended.
n de x.asp
http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/042302/i
My friends, please make note if any of these members of the house represent your state, and please remember this the next time you vote.
Oh yeah, vote dammit!
So there you go. The next time you play Counter-Strike, you can tell yourself that the research that went into the anti-aliasing you're using and into achieving the fill rate necessary for flawless framerates when smoke grenades are being thrown about is also being used in fighter jets and tanks.
Finally! I can stop feeling guilty when I waste an entire night fragging.
there is a difference between trying to rip someone off in a contract, and damaging property in a contract, I think a judge would hear the case.
find a way to let ad-aware run in the background and alert the user if another program attempts to access its files...
In order for a contract to be valid there must be:
1.) a valid offer
a. must be serious
b. must be specific
2.) A valid acceptence
3.) exchange of consideration
As far as I'm concerned, not telling someone that the contract allows them to delete information on your computer, that's not very specific.
As for taking this to court, a remedy would probably be for damages or recission(null) of the contract.
all we need now is someone pissed enough to take this damn company to court.
"You are not allowed to use any third party program (e.g. Ad-Aware) to uninstall applications bundled with RadLight."
As far as I know a license statement should only apply to when one is using software, I think legally a court would uphold that a license cannot tell someone what hardware or other software they can or cannot use.
The interesting thing with this is that the are forcing users to comply with a license which is probably not even legal.
As for uninstalling software without any other warning, wouldn't this be on the same level as a destructive virus? I sure as hell wouldn't pout my name on a virus.
Also it never states that the software will be removed. It says you cannot use other applications to uninstall their spyware. So you can have anti-spyware installed on your computer without breaking this (probably illegal) license.
I would think the company is liable for criminal damage to property much like a virus writer would be.
If I were IBM I would avoid Lego comparisions
and 2nd, I would change the name.
This is one of the worst ideas I've seen in while.
How about we add a tax to sporting goods to support the olympics.
How about we add a tax to classical music Cds to support music education.
How about we add a tax to rolling papers to fight the drug war.
This is just stupid, classification is nearly impossible, and actually almost discrimination.
If people would fund public programs by their purchases, I fear that many good causes would dissappear and other causes would be flodded with money.
anything to make wardriving easier.
2 year contracts, and whatnot.
I swear there was a meeting of the wireless providers and each took a section of the country and decided to not compete with each other.
in europe, you have the choice of what provider to use each call you make. That should be the case here too.
Isn't is pointless to use current games to benchmark future videocards? I much rather like the idea of using the latest build of engines of future games (i.e. Unreal Tourney 2003) because it pushes the card harder than the final game will, plus it allows developers to fix bugs that arise before both the game and card is released.
Sounds like a good idea,
I'd love to know of any that are in existance,
I'd say it's more of a hopeful theory.
There's going to have to be better software to even get me to consider the Xbox.
Jet Set Radio future is the only thing I can thing of that makes the ShitBox worth buying.
Personally I'd rather play the original on my dreamcast and run a little Xmame if I get bored.
yeah, but out of all the things our reps do, theat we pay for, this would certainly be worth it if it got their attention.
If it took a few hours to get a code, I would simply find somewhere else to download the version from.
What is causing the delay? Are you manually auth. requests?
I would find a better way to give a passcode, and also send a reminder e-mail a few days later.
From the ACLU:
A national ID would not prevent terrorism. An identity card is only as good as the information that establishes identity in the first place. Terrorists and criminals will continue to be able to obtain -- by legal and illegal means -- the documents needed to get a government ID, such as birth certificates and social security numbers. A national ID would create a false sense of security because it would enable individuals with an ID -- who may in fact be terrorists -- to avoid heightened security measures.
A national ID would depend on a massive bureaucracy that would limit our basic freedoms. A national ID system would depend on both the issuance of an ID card and the integration of huge amounts of personal information included in state and federal government databases. One employee mistake, an underlying database error or common fraud could take away an individual's ability to move freely from place to place or even make them unemployable until the government fixed their "file."
A national ID could require all Americans to carry an internal passport at all times, compromising our privacy, limiting our freedom, and exposing us to unfair discrimination based on national origin or religion. A national ID would foster new forms of discrimination and harassment. The ID could be used to stop, question, or challenge anyone perceived as looking or sounding "foreign" or individuals of certain religious affiliations.
By the way you can send a free fax to your congressmen opposing the national ID at the aclu's website at:
http://www.aclu.org/action/id107.html
I say we do everything possible to run their faxes outta toner.
From the ACLU
A national ID would not prevent terrorism. An identity card is only as good as the information that establishes identity in the first place. Terrorists and criminals will continue to be able to obtain -- by legal and illegal means -- the documents needed to get a government ID, such as birth certificates and social security numbers. A national ID would create a false sense of security because it would enable individuals with an ID -- who may in fact be terrorists -- to avoid heightened security measures.
A national ID would depend on a massive bureaucracy that would limit our basic freedoms. A national ID system would depend on both the issuance of an ID card and the integration of huge amounts of personal information included in state and federal government databases. One employee mistake, an underlying database error or common fraud could take away an individual's ability to move freely from place to place or even make them unemployable until the government fixed their "file."
A national ID could require all Americans to carry an internal passport at all times, compromising our privacy, limiting our freedom, and exposing us to unfair discrimination based on national origin or religion. A national ID would foster new forms of discrimination and harassment. The ID could be used to stop, question, or challenge anyone perceived as looking or sounding "foreign" or individuals of certain religious affiliations.
By the way you can send a free fax to your congressmen opposing the national ID at the aclu's website at:
http://www.aclu.org/action/id107.html
I say we do everything possible to run their faxes outta toner.
The people question at the FBI raid of the chicago 2600 meeting were threatened with the death penality under the patriot act...
another law do to mass hysteria and paranoia
The USPS *should* raise stamp prices periodically, because otherwise they'd go bankrupt.
off topic but the USPS went bankrupt years ago, too bad the government subdises it and gives them a monopoly.
XM is satelite radio by the way.
And yes most of the services listed are not necessary.
The point I'm trying to make is, I don't like it when companies provide a service for a product that dosent cost much to provide.
Fine raise the price of the recorders. But when the old models are obsolete am I still going to have to pay $250 for a 3 year old TIVO for service?
Much like XM radio, I believe that once initial costs are made, it probably does not cost Tivo much more to add users to the system.
(like radio, once you spend the money to get one listener, you dont have to spend more as more people tuen in.)
Most cell phones (at least domestically in the US) are either CDMA or GSM, and once you buy the phone you should be able to program it to and provider with the same service.
I've had no problems switching from Verizon to Sprint, and from ATT to voicestream.
ok, look, service for tivo is like 12.95 a month or a one time $250 fee, there are other PVR's on the market without service fees.
I understand the business model. The hardware is the loss leader for the service.
What annoys me is that the ratio of service provided to outrageous.
When you buy a cell phone, you can always drop service (assuming you ended or fufilled your contract and choose a new service provider). Tivo does not do this. The other PVR's seem to have no problems without charging for service.
Tivo will have to do a lot more for me than what it currently does for $12.95 a month.
Also I believe if you buy the lifetime plan it only gives life time service to that unit, so you're screwed if you upgrade.