Ideally they wouldn't totally swallow ludicrous claims like this 500 gazillion loss due to Megaupload for example.
My latest theory (you should don your tinfoil hat now) is Slashdot, The Register, The Inquirer, and Ars Technica (among others) are in the background bankrolling/pushing Hollywood/*AAs to do all this !@#$ (buying/co-opting entire countries' politicians/LEOs), all in order to drive web traffic to their sites for stories like this. Nothing else makes a lick of sense.
With "Hollywood Accounting" in place, Hollywood's not hurting financially. So, why would Hollywood/*AAs care about piddling little amounts of ca. $2 million? They wouldn't. So why is this !@#$ happening?
Follow the money. Who pays/.'s wages? Advertisers/Madison Avenue! We've all been looking at the wrong side of the continent.:-(
It makes as much sense as any of the alternative theories I've seen.
Bhutan Botswana Brunei Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad China Comoros Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Guinea Guinea Bissau Indonesia Iran Ivory Coast Jordan Kuwait Laos Lebanon Libya Madagascar Mali Maldives Mauritania Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal Niger Oman Qatar Russia Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome e Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Somalia Sudan Syria Togo Tunisia Uganda United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Vietnam Yemen Yemen South Zaire
Wow... that's like a Who's Who of suck.
And you must be a US Citizen. Tell me, who the !@#$ hates Ethiopia, or Equatorial Guinea, or Gabon, or Indonesia?
Don't steal American property and you won't have American law enforcement on your ass. Don't hurt American citizens and you won't have American cruise missiles in your capital cities.
Chyaa, right. Nice try. You don't need to be a genius to remember Salvador Allende, or Reagan's mining the Nicaraguan harbours. Which Americans were being hurt by Sadaam Hussein? Oh yeah, those were Kuwaitis and Kurds. I dare you to even try to explain the invasion of Panama. And soon, Iran! You guys can't keep your noses out of anything, can you?
Since when has associating Apple with internationalism been hateful?
Hey Sam.:-) I'm confused. Is "hateful" a bad thing? Was the Nazi "Thousand Year Reich" Internationalism (Wikipedia is pretty confusing on this)? Is pointing out that Apple's abusing the patent and copyright systems "hateful"? Is acknowledging Foxconn's abysmal employee relations "hateful"?
Fourteen year old kids working sweatshop jobs for pennies per day so my sister can download iTunes to her iBauble? Is the world really a better place for this?
I don't think the world really needs the word "hateful". "Judgmental" is perfectly capable of handling this situation, IMO. For myself, I judge Apple to be lacking, overall, but perhaps I'm too judgmental.:-P
I always email myself a copy of my final submitted code, to cover my butt, to serve as a backup, and to optimize my ability to support my work. This is wrong? Why?
Sorry about teh unformatted post previous.. I am sure Slashdot is moving to WYSIWYG any day now;)
A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. No, I didn't bother to read your brain dump. dict succinct. If you can't bother to care what you write, why would I care to read it?
Taking those resources from the part-manufacturer arm and making them available to the device-manufacturer arm so that the parent company could build nearly identical devices for even less is, say, questionable.
Well, yeah. WTF were Apple's lawyers when that agreement was crafted?!? Apple should be suing its contract lawyers for negligence, not Samsung.
... if one of the knock-offs is low quality or problematic, it can end up hurting Apple's brand.
i) How can Samsung releasing a Samsung product hurt Apple's brand? Does Samsung hardware arrive with Apple's logo affixed? ii) No need to worry about Apple's brand hurting anyway. They're already shit in my eyes. iii) Apple's using the legal system the same way politicians use protectionism. Can't compete against less expensive, more nimble competition? Tie 'em up in court, get injunctions to prevent them from making any sales, yada, yada.
I used to recommend Apple to friends and family, but no more, and no I won't fix your broken Mac. Enjoy your brick, sucker. I go out of my way to steer people away from Apple now. Overpriced, mediocre, artsy-stylish hipster crap.
Apple's abusing the patent and copyright systems worse than just about everyone else with damned near every move they make these days, so to hell with them. No sympathy, whatsoever.
Interesting read, thanks, but I wish a few wikipedians would go over that article and flesh it out. I'm pretty geeky, but I can't see offhand how claims like "... the SRP protocol is more secure than the alternative SSH protocol..." are provable. Then again, I'm no cryptographer.
Of course, the devil's in the details. SRP on top of a Win* box infested with keylogger trojans will be a waste of effort (false sense of security), so it'd be better to expend effort on that front (trash Win*:-) before implementing SRP.
'Sounds like something every geek needing to secure remote accounts should know about these days. Why don't we? I'm not getting my memos!:-P
fwiw, I tend to agree with your point of view, but that screed is not what you should be pointing people at. It may describe your point of view, but it doesn't enlighten.
IMO, the GPL is a reaction to a bad situation. Absent the bad situation, the GPL would be unnecessary.
And I bet you whack off to Ayn Rand and think that you're some sort of John Galt for doing it, too.
Geez, I've yet to meet a manager who even knows who Ayn Rand or John Galt are. Holy ad hominem argument, Batman!
I also read Nietzsche and Aristotle. Wanna slap me around for that too?
They're just ideas. If you can't handle people entertaining ideas, just crawl back in your hole til it all blows over. "Greetings, professor Falken." Now, if you don't mind, Wargames is on.
You're what's wrong with 21st Century management. You immediately leap on the dishonest button when confronted with something new, instead of looking at it as potentially a smart innovation that would be good for all concerned.
I've worked lots of places where there was no time during the day to train subordinates and not enough time to get everything done. When half my working day's taken up attending meetings and other such BS, when do we actually get any work done?
I'd consider it a pleasure to be online after hours with my PFNG teaching them what they need to know should I get kissed by a bus some morning. I've sent many a 0300h email describing to superiors what I'd been doing all evening coming up with a fix for their latest raging forest fire.
Yet you see us all as obviously out to game the system. News: we're desperately trying to find a way to work around your hideously unworkable accepted procedures.
In other News: 21st Century management is labour hostile.
It's often easier to concentrate on work when you have music to drown out the hum of annoying coworkers around you in the cube farm
And then I put some music on to drown out the annoying hum of your music. Where will it end?
I think fondly back to the day that I received an irate email from a supervisor. We'd been working all morning, conversing over email, then he decided to walk around to my office for a chat, and I wasn't there! I'd been logged in via ssh all morning, still in my jammies, and it peed him off no end that he hadn't realized that was possible without him noticing.
... no i don't boot with a windows CD to fix my computers...
He didn't say "a windows CD". He said "a Live CD." I'd much rather be booting a Live Linux (or whatever) CD when I'm trying to fix whatever problem a box may be experiencing, regardless of what OS it thinks it's supposed to be running.
I had an interesting moment during the holidays with my b-in-law's laptop. He has a fingerprint reader on the thing for secure logins. It's not secure. Booting from a live CD bypasses that completely. A running Win* OS is all that stands between a cracker and his data, and a Live bootable CD eliminates it from the equation. So, he has to password protect his BIOS to prevent booting from Live CDs? That's simple to get around too.
I doubt any more than 0.1% of the populace are even aware that the MPAA / RIAA are exerting their influence beyond American borders and attempting to interfere with the law making process of every major country in the world.
I suspect you're correct. Post SOPA/PIPA, $shit's going to hit the wall, though, when pedestrians learn they can't go anywhere useful. Interesting times.:-P
Historians of the future are going to have a field day with present day USA. Hollywood, that dinky little movie making town, part of the city of Los Angeles, bought the US gov't to the point Hollywood could compel the extradition of web link posters from England, its former masters?!? What's next, the moon really is made of cheese? I thought 20th Century Prohibition was a stretch, but this is truly audacious.
I think that the framers of the Constitution should have spent less time worrying about the power of gov't, and a lot more on the power of lawyers.
USA: I commend your restraint. That you can watch this batshit craziness go on and still not implode is damned near amazing.
music industry is using a failing business model and costing the Irish Government lots of money in lost taxes from the music industry not adapting to the current business environment.
What bit of the music industry is this referring to? It's not like there is a single unifying world wide music industry controlling body is there?
Pretty much every country I know of has its own version of the ubiquitous "collecting societies", which collect royalties to (ostensibly) pay its artists.
Multi-national class action suits against collecting societies for egregious failures to modernize their business model in order to pay their rightfully due tax obligations?:-) 'Sounds fun, and it might even be salable to politicos (money!).
Brigate Rosse, [Red] Army Faction, Action Directe, Basque terrorism, Al Quaeda. They are all terrorist groups and they apply violence in the pursuit of a political endgame.
You forgot to mention George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, actually all the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Add in all those "Indians" tossing tea into Boston harbour and Betsy Ross, Paul Revere,...
There's no reason to ban drunk-driving per se. Just treat the result as what it is, premeditated murder or assault or vandalism, depending on the accident's result. If no accident takes place, good for everyone.
OT (yet again, sorry), but you can't seriously believe this, do you? You expect drunks to consciously evaluate their level of sobriety at exit from a bar, and then make the right choice? Not even mentioning alcohol, what's your definition of "accident"? Sober people get in accidents too, you know? We don't get to choose what kind of accident (fender bender vs. multiple fatality) we're involved in.
Banning DUI is just raising the bar based on scientific evidence, which proves that certain behaviours decrease our level of competence. Distracted driving is more dangerous than the alternative, drunk driving is more dangerous than the alternative, & etc.
My Mom's Mom was killed by a drunk driver so Mom's pretty much a MADD whacko. You're the opposite extreme if you really believe what you wrote above.
I can't walk thru any street in the downtown without someone poisoning themselves and me at the same time..
I'll bet you you're getting a much higher dose of Carbon Monoxide on that walk than damned near any number of smokers could produce. Get a sense of proportion, FFS.
Slashdot Mirror
... people who quite my Slashdot posts ...
What? "Preview", people. Proofread, demmit (rasafrackin, jiggafriggin ...)!
Actually, I looked it up, and it's about $5.80.
Five hundred and eighty pennies a day now. Wow! Damned inflation. :-)
Other than that, ACK. Love the way you write; "... suddenly ricochet into busting out gang signs and making accusations of hate ...). Funnee!
Ideally they wouldn't totally swallow ludicrous claims like this 500 gazillion loss due to Megaupload for example.
My latest theory (you should don your tinfoil hat now) is Slashdot, The Register, The Inquirer, and Ars Technica (among others) are in the background bankrolling/pushing Hollywood/*AAs to do all this !@#$ (buying/co-opting entire countries' politicians/LEOs), all in order to drive web traffic to their sites for stories like this. Nothing else makes a lick of sense.
With "Hollywood Accounting" in place, Hollywood's not hurting financially. So, why would Hollywood/*AAs care about piddling little amounts of ca. $2 million? They wouldn't. So why is this !@#$ happening?
Follow the money. Who pays /.'s wages? Advertisers/Madison Avenue! We've all been looking at the wrong side of the continent. :-(
It makes as much sense as any of the alternative theories I've seen.
Hang on, someone's at the door ...
Tell that to my ISP, who won't let me run a 'server' as part of my terms and conditions...
How do they define "server"? In my book, anything that answers to "ssh" is a server.
Regardless, the way around that pathetic limitation is to buy hosting on Amazon or in $some_foreign_country. And then you get extradited, apparently.
Bhutan Botswana Brunei Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad China Comoros Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Guinea Guinea Bissau Indonesia Iran Ivory Coast Jordan Kuwait Laos Lebanon Libya Madagascar Mali Maldives Mauritania Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal Niger Oman Qatar Russia Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome e Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Somalia Sudan Syria Togo Tunisia Uganda United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Vietnam Yemen Yemen South Zaire
Wow... that's like a Who's Who of suck.
And you must be a US Citizen. Tell me, who the !@#$ hates Ethiopia, or Equatorial Guinea, or Gabon, or Indonesia?
Can you even point to them on a map?
Don't steal American property and you won't have American law enforcement on your ass. Don't hurt American citizens and you won't have American cruise missiles in your capital cities.
Chyaa, right. Nice try. You don't need to be a genius to remember Salvador Allende, or Reagan's mining the Nicaraguan harbours. Which Americans were being hurt by Sadaam Hussein? Oh yeah, those were Kuwaitis and Kurds. I dare you to even try to explain the invasion of Panama. And soon, Iran! You guys can't keep your noses out of anything, can you?
Open your eyes. You're lying to yourself.
Since when has associating Apple with internationalism been hateful?
Hey Sam. :-) I'm confused. Is "hateful" a bad thing? Was the Nazi "Thousand Year Reich" Internationalism (Wikipedia is pretty confusing on this)? Is pointing out that Apple's abusing the patent and copyright systems "hateful"? Is acknowledging Foxconn's abysmal employee relations "hateful"?
Fourteen year old kids working sweatshop jobs for pennies per day so my sister can download iTunes to her iBauble? Is the world really a better place for this?
I don't think the world really needs the word "hateful". "Judgmental" is perfectly capable of handling this situation, IMO. For myself, I judge Apple to be lacking, overall, but perhaps I'm too judgmental. :-P
Did he steal the code and dance out of the place?
I always email myself a copy of my final submitted code, to cover my butt, to serve as a backup, and to optimize my ability to support my work. This is wrong? Why?
As for dancing out, damned right!
Sorry about teh unformatted post previous.. I am sure Slashdot is moving to WYSIWYG any day now ;)
A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. No, I didn't bother to read your brain dump. dict succinct. If you can't bother to care what you write, why would I care to read it?
Taking those resources from the part-manufacturer arm and making them available to the device-manufacturer arm so that the parent company could build nearly identical devices for even less is, say, questionable.
Well, yeah. WTF were Apple's lawyers when that agreement was crafted?!? Apple should be suing its contract lawyers for negligence, not Samsung.
... if one of the knock-offs is low quality or problematic, it can end up hurting Apple's brand.
i) How can Samsung releasing a Samsung product hurt Apple's brand? Does Samsung hardware arrive with Apple's logo affixed?
ii) No need to worry about Apple's brand hurting anyway. They're already shit in my eyes.
iii) Apple's using the legal system the same way politicians use protectionism. Can't compete against less expensive, more nimble competition? Tie 'em up in court, get injunctions to prevent them from making any sales, yada, yada.
I used to recommend Apple to friends and family, but no more, and no I won't fix your broken Mac. Enjoy your brick, sucker. I go out of my way to steer people away from Apple now. Overpriced, mediocre, artsy-stylish hipster crap.
Apple's abusing the patent and copyright systems worse than just about everyone else with damned near every move they make these days, so to hell with them. No sympathy, whatsoever.
Would it be so much to say what this company with millions of users does/sells?
You apparently don't have a wife/girlfriend. Or any female friends, for that matter.
Yeah, I really look forward to getting together with female friends to discuss their shoes. :-P
The correct answer is, "If you can post a dumb comment on /., you can look it up in a search engine, idiot!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
Interesting read, thanks, but I wish a few wikipedians would go over that article and flesh it out. I'm pretty geeky, but I can't see offhand how claims like "... the SRP protocol is more secure than the alternative SSH protocol ..." are provable. Then again, I'm no cryptographer.
Of course, the devil's in the details. SRP on top of a Win* box infested with keylogger trojans will be a waste of effort (false sense of security), so it'd be better to expend effort on that front (trash Win* :-) before implementing SRP.
'Sounds like something every geek needing to secure remote accounts should know about these days. Why don't we? I'm not getting my memos! :-P
What about GPL? That's based on copyright. No copyright, no GPL.
The GPL is a means, not an end. Please see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2612412&cid=38648850 ...
fwiw, I tend to agree with your point of view, but that screed is not what you should be pointing people at. It may describe your point of view, but it doesn't enlighten.
IMO, the GPL is a reaction to a bad situation. Absent the bad situation, the GPL would be unnecessary.
And I bet you whack off to Ayn Rand and think that you're some sort of John Galt for doing it, too.
Geez, I've yet to meet a manager who even knows who Ayn Rand or John Galt are. Holy ad hominem argument, Batman!
I also read Nietzsche and Aristotle. Wanna slap me around for that too?
They're just ideas. If you can't handle people entertaining ideas, just crawl back in your hole til it all blows over. "Greetings, professor Falken." Now, if you don't mind, Wargames is on.
The system relies on people being honest.
You're what's wrong with 21st Century management. You immediately leap on the dishonest button when confronted with something new, instead of looking at it as potentially a smart innovation that would be good for all concerned.
I've worked lots of places where there was no time during the day to train subordinates and not enough time to get everything done. When half my working day's taken up attending meetings and other such BS, when do we actually get any work done?
I'd consider it a pleasure to be online after hours with my PFNG teaching them what they need to know should I get kissed by a bus some morning. I've sent many a 0300h email describing to superiors what I'd been doing all evening coming up with a fix for their latest raging forest fire.
Yet you see us all as obviously out to game the system. News: we're desperately trying to find a way to work around your hideously unworkable accepted procedures.
In other News: 21st Century management is labour hostile.
It's often easier to concentrate on work when you have music to drown out the hum of annoying coworkers around you in the cube farm
And then I put some music on to drown out the annoying hum of your music. Where will it end?
I think fondly back to the day that I received an irate email from a supervisor. We'd been working all morning, conversing over email, then he decided to walk around to my office for a chat, and I wasn't there! I'd been logged in via ssh all morning, still in my jammies, and it peed him off no end that he hadn't realized that was possible without him noticing.
Funneeee! :-)
... no i don't boot with a windows CD to fix my computers ...
He didn't say "a windows CD". He said "a Live CD." I'd much rather be booting a Live Linux (or whatever) CD when I'm trying to fix whatever problem a box may be experiencing, regardless of what OS it thinks it's supposed to be running.
I had an interesting moment during the holidays with my b-in-law's laptop. He has a fingerprint reader on the thing for secure logins. It's not secure. Booting from a live CD bypasses that completely. A running Win* OS is all that stands between a cracker and his data, and a Live bootable CD eliminates it from the equation. So, he has to password protect his BIOS to prevent booting from Live CDs? That's simple to get around too.
Encrypt your hard drives, folks.
I doubt any more than 0.1% of the populace are even aware that the MPAA / RIAA are exerting their influence beyond American borders and attempting to interfere with the law making process of every major country in the world.
I suspect you're correct. Post SOPA/PIPA, $shit's going to hit the wall, though, when pedestrians learn they can't go anywhere useful. Interesting times. :-P
Historians of the future are going to have a field day with present day USA. Hollywood, that dinky little movie making town, part of the city of Los Angeles, bought the US gov't to the point Hollywood could compel the extradition of web link posters from England, its former masters?!? What's next, the moon really is made of cheese? I thought 20th Century Prohibition was a stretch, but this is truly audacious.
I think that the framers of the Constitution should have spent less time worrying about the power of gov't, and a lot more on the power of lawyers.
USA: I commend your restraint. That you can watch this batshit craziness go on and still not implode is damned near amazing.
music industry is using a failing business model and costing the Irish Government lots of money in lost taxes from the music industry not adapting to the current business environment.
What bit of the music industry is this referring to? It's not like there is a single unifying world wide music industry controlling body is there?
Pretty much every country I know of has its own version of the ubiquitous "collecting societies", which collect royalties to (ostensibly) pay its artists.
Multi-national class action suits against collecting societies for egregious failures to modernize their business model in order to pay their rightfully due tax obligations? :-) 'Sounds fun, and it might even be salable to politicos (money!).
Brigate Rosse, [Red] Army Faction, Action Directe, Basque terrorism, Al Quaeda. They are all terrorist groups and they apply violence in the pursuit of a political endgame.
You forgot to mention George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, actually all the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Add in all those "Indians" tossing tea into Boston harbour and Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, ...
Really wanna go there? :-|
Really, can a corporation really sue a government for not passing a law and win??!
Someone above suggested they're suing because Ireland's not holding up their end wrt the Berne Convention.
There's no reason to ban drunk-driving per se. Just treat the result as what it is, premeditated murder or assault or vandalism, depending on the accident's result. If no accident takes place, good for everyone.
OT (yet again, sorry), but you can't seriously believe this, do you? You expect drunks to consciously evaluate their level of sobriety at exit from a bar, and then make the right choice? Not even mentioning alcohol, what's your definition of "accident"? Sober people get in accidents too, you know? We don't get to choose what kind of accident (fender bender vs. multiple fatality) we're involved in.
Banning DUI is just raising the bar based on scientific evidence, which proves that certain behaviours decrease our level of competence. Distracted driving is more dangerous than the alternative, drunk driving is more dangerous than the alternative, & etc.
My Mom's Mom was killed by a drunk driver so Mom's pretty much a MADD whacko. You're the opposite extreme if you really believe what you wrote above.
I can't walk thru any street in the downtown without someone poisoning themselves and me at the same time..
I'll bet you you're getting a much higher dose of Carbon Monoxide on that walk than damned near any number of smokers could produce. Get a sense of proportion, FFS.