Intellectual or cognitive maturity is highly underrated.
FTFY. When I was growing up, the mantra was, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." I was nowhere near thirty, yet still I thought that was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard. Charles Manson was ca. 34 when Sharon Tate was murdered. Alexander the Great was ca. 33 when he died. Physical age has nothing to do with pretty near everything.
Maturity is highly overrated.
You must mean that in a way that I don't recognize. Marie Curie was ca. 67 when she died.
How can one be a "spokesman" for an "organization" that doesn't actually...you know... exist?
You mean like the Mafia or the Zetas? I think, based on past actions, anyone can assume they exist. What that means is up to interpretation. However, you don't need a corporate head office to be considered an organization. The prosecutor needs only to convince a jury of conspiracy, or obstruction, these days.
On topic, I really wonder why they can't just follow him to the Starbucks he goes to every morning and arrest him there (I would guess they've been collating his daily routine for weeks before this happened). Wouldn't that be a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer for everyone? The computers would be safe back in his apartment, nobody gets shot, he's in the pokey, and no headlines are made.
Why expensive and potentially catastrophic paramilitary intervention for a mouthy geek?
I can fit my $HOME on a CD actually. I use afio (cpio clone) with bzip. I've not noticed media degradation in the more than a decade I've been doing it this way, but then I've no kids splattering catsup everywhere. I also play around a lot with LiveCDs.
I won't be going to a tablet anytime soon. They appear to be entertaining trinkets from what I can tell, but that's all.
A laptop is a middling compromize. This sticking touch pad is a pain in the ass.
Which is why I always use external mice.
This screen is too fucking small for work. And this processessor is too big or small for what this peice of shit is going to be used for.
I hate that laptop screens seem to just get bigger and bigger, so I have to throw away perfectly good laptop bags.
Gimme a desktop for crunching numbers, coding, or anything else that requires hours on end in front of a fucking box.
AKA, gaming.
It's the fucking laptop that's a middling compromise for sit. And my fucking thumbs keeps hitting the goddman pad so I have to keep my hands at this god aweful angle to type without having the the damnn cursor go off into lala land.
My HP dv4 has a physical switch right beside the trackpad that I can use to turn it off. The software I use lets me turn it off on my other machines.
Laptops come with built-in UPS, ports (!!!), DVD burner (physical backups), and you might even be able to fix it if it ever breaks.
The "I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$" theory of life simply results in a whole lot more !@#$...
No it doesn't. The theory is:
i) First chance, treat them nice. ii) If they treat you shitilly back, treat them shitilly back. iii) In theory, they get sick of being treated shitilly at which point they treat you nice, at which point you treat them nice.
That Russian dog figured this out (Cf. Pavlov). Humans ought to be able to too. Yeah, that's kind of tangential, but it sounds nice.
But really, "I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$" makes more sense than anything I've ever seen.
On the other hand, it's only effective/useful in normal situations with non-psychopaths. Drat.
If you want to cut 40% of the internet users off from your content, that's your prerogative.
This's nonsensical.
I don't have a great deal of respect for this cert system you guys use, but since you do, you ought to all be using it in the best way it can be used to protect both yourselves and the users who're relying on your securing of your systems.
You're damned right I care whether my online banking is secure, and if my bank's doing it wrong, you're damned right I'm going to be looking to transfer to one that does it right.
Secure, or convenient? Hmm. "What's the potential downside of convenient?" !@#$, I hate watching you people cheap out on the basics!
Are you saying that you refuse to adopt a standard that progresses the security of our current computing environment? Because Safari does not support it??? I don't get it... Sorry.
I'll play.
"Are you saying that you refuse to adopt a standard that only purports to progress the abysmal security of our current computing environment, as far as Microsoft Operating Systems and its apps are concerned?"
Yup. If banks can do, and demand, 4096, why can't Microsoft up its game to protect its users and customers?
Honest to $DEITY, I'm not an Apple fanboi, but Apple saw the writing on the wall and made the jump from OS9 to OSX. Why hasn't Microsoft even attempted anything that forward thinking? How long will we have to put up with Microsoft's blinkered thinking as it relates to the basics of system security? Why isn't Microsoft malware obsolete yet? Why are we still suffering from the deluges of spam and malware from MS related botnets & etc?
Rattling the same response to every user you calls you up is still going to cost in terms of call centre resources.
That's just depressing to even think of. There's this thing out there called the web and on it is a site called microsoft.com. I'll bet they even have a link to "News" there, maybe even "Search."
A ton of money is made by the PC "security" industry surrounding Windows.
Why would Microsoft support an industry that they don't make money from that actually makes their product look bad?
I've been wondering that ever since I first heard of Windows malware. I have to assume either they think it makes them look good ("Oh look, my virus checker stopped an infection, yay!"), or they have no idea how to eliminate the problem (painted themselves into a corner) now that billions of copies of Windows are in the wild.
So what you're saying is that companies should adopt the same ethics as the reading audience...
How about we individuals adopt the same valueless ethics in our dealings with them for as long as it takes us to take them down? We can then go back to treating other individuals with the respect they deserve. Whatever works? It's basic game theory. I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$,...
With the state of computer security being utterly insecure at nearly every juncture, and our unwillingness to fix the legal risk of us meeting the demand for affordable distributed computing, I think it's only natural that such is done illegally.
Hyperbole much? Sue the pants off Microsoft for selling easily p0wned software, or sue the average computer user for not being knowledgable enough to use it.
Should they require an Internet driver's licence? No thanks, very much.
I run (so far) secure FLOSS boxes. Don't blame me for the state of computer security. I don't need any more laws to protect me, as if they could. The vast majority of what's wrong with computer security as it relates to botnets can firmly be placed at Bill Gates and Steve Balmer's door for continuing not to fix it, despite all our protestations on the subject for decades now.
I do distributed computing. I've not been boned. Fancy that.
I think the answer should be the same as in "Shall illegal arms dealer get charged with being accessory to murder/robbery/etc?" and I think legally it's a no.
I think, legally it should not be no. A getaway driver's just driving a car. He's not robbing the bank.
If he sold the weapon legally, he should be in the clear. There's no way he could have known what was going to be done with it. Illegaly, complicit.
minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.
I'm pretty sure I heard that quote in a movie. What, no-one's delivering him crepes in bed now? Yeah, that's gotta be hell.
There is nothing wrong with the (?) Linux Desktop. Use it, or don't; I don't fscking care. That I can use it is all that matters (to me). I'd be happy to tutor you if you wish, but that's as far as I'll go. I don't much care what you want. That's primarily your problem (which I would be happy to help you with, but I'm only volunteering...).
I really hate that so many people fixate on this so much. It's a non-issue. If you don't want it, stay with what you're presently using (gasp!). It's no skin off my nose (gasp; not really).
Hi Linus.:-) Hug your wife and kids for me, please.
[I was going to say a lot of even more insightful things here, but thought better of it. "Quit while you're ahead!!!" is always a smart plan, I think.]
Why the F do these 'bots' have the power to block this stuff in the first place?
Money. Moneeeeeeeeyy! MONEY!!!111
Is everyone so beaten to death by the Copyright Industry that this is all acceptable collateral damage without need for immediate and harsh punishment?
No. I boycott the crap out of everything related to this stuff. However, kind of like stirring entrails, I remain fascinated by the whole ugly, disgusting business. Making popcorn.:-)
The US definition of fair use is the best in the world...
The US' definition of fair use is irrelevant as long as the US' courts choose to ignore it, which they do. There's a lot of things that we grew up believing that we thought the US stood for which are no longer the case. This's just one in a long line of them.
The US today needs a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer to seriously kick some ass. It's in the business of making itself look foolish these days. Very sad.
media outlets could certainly make an argument that such automated "take downs" constitute an unfair burden and so are invalid.
And the legal theory on this could develop from Lenz v. Universal: a copyright owner's representative must consider fair use and other defenses in good faith before filing a notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA.
I don't recognize "OCILLA" (sorry, I'm Canuckian), but I do have to point out this's the 21st Century. "Shoot first, ask questions later" is SOP. This century, everything works like accountants and bankers work. Allow anything, no matter how brain dead or stupid, then roll it back when/if the error's discovered later.
Just a "heads up." I don't make the rules. I tend not to even bother following them, and YMMV.
We have repeated cases of people going to court to dispute 'fair use', which shows that it is not well defined enough for humans to get right...
Pretty much bullshit, "fair use" is indeed well defined.
I'll call BS on you for that. "I'd like to live in theory. Everything works in theory." There's a revolving door between The MafiAA and the US gov't, meaning MafiAA lobbyists are getting placed into position as judges on these cases. One court goes one way, another court goes the opposite, the Supremes decline to sort out the difference, lawyers get rich, people get destroyed financially, Hollywood gets to "Lalalalala..." (fingers in ears) interminably, and we just sit back and let this !@#$ go on and on and on...
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the YT video in question: ...
Yeah, and about thirteen minutes into it, I'm thinking he wants to get busted because it's a cheap and simple way to bust into heroin rehab.
Why is anyone wasting time on this again?
Intellectual or cognitive maturity is highly underrated.
FTFY. When I was growing up, the mantra was, "Don't trust anyone over thirty." I was nowhere near thirty, yet still I thought that was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard. Charles Manson was ca. 34 when Sharon Tate was murdered. Alexander the Great was ca. 33 when he died. Physical age has nothing to do with pretty near everything.
Maturity is highly overrated.
You must mean that in a way that I don't recognize. Marie Curie was ca. 67 when she died.
How can one be a "spokesman" for an "organization" that doesn't actually ...you know... exist?
You mean like the Mafia or the Zetas? I think, based on past actions, anyone can assume they exist. What that means is up to interpretation. However, you don't need a corporate head office to be considered an organization. The prosecutor needs only to convince a jury of conspiracy, or obstruction, these days.
On topic, I really wonder why they can't just follow him to the Starbucks he goes to every morning and arrest him there (I would guess they've been collating his daily routine for weeks before this happened). Wouldn't that be a lot simpler, cheaper, and safer for everyone? The computers would be safe back in his apartment, nobody gets shot, he's in the pokey, and no headlines are made.
Why expensive and potentially catastrophic paramilitary intervention for a mouthy geek?
Do you actually use DVDs for backups?
I can fit my $HOME on a CD actually. I use afio (cpio clone) with bzip. I've not noticed media degradation in the more than a decade I've been doing it this way, but then I've no kids splattering catsup everywhere. I also play around a lot with LiveCDs.
I won't be going to a tablet anytime soon. They appear to be entertaining trinkets from what I can tell, but that's all.
A laptop is a middling compromize. This sticking touch pad is a pain in the ass.
Which is why I always use external mice.
This screen is too fucking small for work. And this processessor is too big or small for what this peice of shit is going to be used for.
I hate that laptop screens seem to just get bigger and bigger, so I have to throw away perfectly good laptop bags.
Gimme a desktop for crunching numbers, coding, or anything else that requires hours on end in front of a fucking box.
AKA, gaming.
It's the fucking laptop that's a middling compromise for sit. And my fucking thumbs keeps hitting the goddman pad so I have to keep my hands at this god aweful angle to type without having the the damnn cursor go off into lala land.
My HP dv4 has a physical switch right beside the trackpad that I can use to turn it off. The software I use lets me turn it off on my other machines.
Laptops come with built-in UPS, ports (!!!), DVD burner (physical backups), and you might even be able to fix it if it ever breaks.
The "I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$" theory of life simply results in a whole lot more !@#$ ...
No it doesn't. The theory is:
i) First chance, treat them nice.
ii) If they treat you shitilly back, treat them shitilly back.
iii) In theory, they get sick of being treated shitilly at which point they treat you nice, at which point you treat them nice.
That Russian dog figured this out (Cf. Pavlov). Humans ought to be able to too. Yeah, that's kind of tangential, but it sounds nice.
But really, "I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$" makes more sense than anything I've ever seen.
On the other hand, it's only effective/useful in normal situations with non-psychopaths. Drat.
If you want to cut 40% of the internet users off from your content, that's your prerogative.
This's nonsensical.
I don't have a great deal of respect for this cert system you guys use, but since you do, you ought to all be using it in the best way it can be used to protect both yourselves and the users who're relying on your securing of your systems.
You're damned right I care whether my online banking is secure, and if my bank's doing it wrong, you're damned right I'm going to be looking to transfer to one that does it right.
Secure, or convenient? Hmm. "What's the potential downside of convenient?" !@#$, I hate watching you people cheap out on the basics!
Are you saying that you refuse to adopt a standard that progresses the security of our current computing environment? Because Safari does not support it??? I don't get it... Sorry.
I'll play.
"Are you saying that you refuse to adopt a standard that only purports to progress the abysmal security of our current computing environment, as far as Microsoft Operating Systems and its apps are concerned?"
Yup. If banks can do, and demand, 4096, why can't Microsoft up its game to protect its users and customers?
Honest to $DEITY, I'm not an Apple fanboi, but Apple saw the writing on the wall and made the jump from OS9 to OSX. Why hasn't Microsoft even attempted anything that forward thinking? How long will we have to put up with Microsoft's blinkered thinking as it relates to the basics of system security? Why isn't Microsoft malware obsolete yet? Why are we still suffering from the deluges of spam and malware from MS related botnets & etc?
What the fuck is !@#$?
Anything the !@#$ that you want it to be.
Rattling the same response to every user you calls you up is still going to cost in terms of call centre resources.
That's just depressing to even think of. There's this thing out there called the web and on it is a site called microsoft.com. I'll bet they even have a link to "News" there, maybe even "Search."
Sigh.
A ton of money is made by the PC "security" industry surrounding Windows.
Why would Microsoft support an industry that they don't make money from that actually makes their product look bad?
I've been wondering that ever since I first heard of Windows malware. I have to assume either they think it makes them look good ("Oh look, my virus checker stopped an infection, yay!"), or they have no idea how to eliminate the problem (painted themselves into a corner) now that billions of copies of Windows are in the wild.
I am sorry to tell you that Certs are predominately ...
Just an FYI:
(0) kiak /home/keeling_ dict predominately /home/keeling_ dict predominantly
No definitions found for "predominately"
(20) kiak
2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Predominantly \Pre*dom"i*nant*ly\, adv.
In a predominant manner.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
predominantly
adv 1: much greater in number or influence; "the patients are
predominantly indigenous" [syn: {predominantly},
{preponderantly}]
Feel free to use it to look smarter than your boss when s/he misuses it.
So what you're saying is that companies should adopt the same ethics as the reading audience ...
How about we individuals adopt the same valueless ethics in our dealings with them for as long as it takes us to take them down? We can then go back to treating other individuals with the respect they deserve. Whatever works? It's basic game theory. I'll treat you like !@#$ until you stop treating me like !@#$, ...
...Off for snitching I bet
Perhaps s/he was a LEO, doing his/her job, or a LEO who bought into the scheme and subsequently woke up.
With the state of computer security being utterly insecure at nearly every juncture, and our unwillingness to fix the legal risk of us meeting the demand for affordable distributed computing, I think it's only natural that such is done illegally.
Hyperbole much? Sue the pants off Microsoft for selling easily p0wned software, or sue the average computer user for not being knowledgable enough to use it.
Should they require an Internet driver's licence? No thanks, very much.
I run (so far) secure FLOSS boxes. Don't blame me for the state of computer security. I don't need any more laws to protect me, as if they could. The vast majority of what's wrong with computer security as it relates to botnets can firmly be placed at Bill Gates and Steve Balmer's door for continuing not to fix it, despite all our protestations on the subject for decades now.
I do distributed computing. I've not been boned. Fancy that.
I think the answer should be the same as in "Shall illegal arms dealer get charged with being accessory to murder/robbery/etc?" and I think legally it's a no.
I think, legally it should not be no. A getaway driver's just driving a car. He's not robbing the bank.
If he sold the weapon legally, he should be in the clear. There's no way he could have known what was going to be done with it. Illegaly, complicit.
minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.
I'm pretty sure I heard that quote in a movie. What, no-one's delivering him crepes in bed now? Yeah, that's gotta be hell.
There is nothing wrong with the (?) Linux Desktop. Use it, or don't; I don't fscking care. That I can use it is all that matters (to me). I'd be happy to tutor you if you wish, but that's as far as I'll go. I don't much care what you want. That's primarily your problem (which I would be happy to help you with, but I'm only volunteering ...).
I really hate that so many people fixate on this so much. It's a non-issue. If you don't want it, stay with what you're presently using (gasp!). It's no skin off my nose (gasp; not really).
Hi Linus. :-) Hug your wife and kids for me, please.
[I was going to say a lot of even more insightful things here, but thought better of it. "Quit while you're ahead!!!" is always a smart plan, I think.]
Linus, keep on keepin' on. :-)
Who really cares if one particular video stream goes down temporarily ...
Scripps Howard does.
Why the F do these 'bots' have the power to block this stuff in the first place?
Money. Moneeeeeeeeyy! MONEY!!!111
Is everyone so beaten to death by the Copyright Industry that this is all acceptable collateral damage without need for immediate and harsh punishment?
No. I boycott the crap out of everything related to this stuff. However, kind of like stirring entrails, I remain fascinated by the whole ugly, disgusting business. Making popcorn. :-)
Sue them into oblivion when they screw up.
No. The solution involves C4
I like the way you think. Please sign me up for your newsletter/mailing list/whatever. I don't suppose you've any you could spare (*blink* *blink*)?
I really wish I owned a Warp Core that I could eject. Every problem can be solved by ejecting a Warp Core, yes? Next best thing to ningas, always. :-|
The US definition of fair use is the best in the world ...
The US' definition of fair use is irrelevant as long as the US' courts choose to ignore it, which they do. There's a lot of things that we grew up believing that we thought the US stood for which are no longer the case. This's just one in a long line of them.
The US today needs a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer to seriously kick some ass. It's in the business of making itself look foolish these days. Very sad.
So do away with fair use.
Want to use something copyrighted? Pay the rights holder what is due for the amount of the copyrighted content to be used.
How's about I just steal a copy instead? Every blank CD/DVD sold in Canada includes tax to compensate for assumed piracy on buyers' part.
Bite my shiney ...
media outlets could certainly make an argument that such automated "take downs" constitute an unfair burden and so are invalid.
And the legal theory on this could develop from Lenz v. Universal: a copyright owner's representative must consider fair use and other defenses in good faith before filing a notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA.
I don't recognize "OCILLA" (sorry, I'm Canuckian), but I do have to point out this's the 21st Century. "Shoot first, ask questions later" is SOP. This century, everything works like accountants and bankers work. Allow anything, no matter how brain dead or stupid, then roll it back when/if the error's discovered later.
Just a "heads up." I don't make the rules. I tend not to even bother following them, and YMMV.
We have repeated cases of people going to court to dispute 'fair use', which shows that it is not well defined enough for humans to get right...
Pretty much bullshit, "fair use" is indeed well defined.
I'll call BS on you for that. "I'd like to live in theory. Everything works in theory." There's a revolving door between The MafiAA and the US gov't, meaning MafiAA lobbyists are getting placed into position as judges on these cases. One court goes one way, another court goes the opposite, the Supremes decline to sort out the difference, lawyers get rich, people get destroyed financially, Hollywood gets to "Lalalalala..." (fingers in ears) interminably, and we just sit back and let this !@#$ go on and on and on ...
Why? This show's getting really old. Moldy even.