If you are an American and are going to participate in political demonstration in a foreign country, you deserve anything and everything that will be done to you.
After coming back on in an hour, and attempting to establish the tunnel again, we discovered, that traffic had slowed by 70% over the tunnel, and that two routers in the hops right before the gateway link out of China were dropping packets, but only the tunneled traffic. It looked to us that we had triggered some type of attempt to monitor our traffic, we stopped tunneling. In the coming months we found a bug in our board room, there were several attempts to hack into our office netwokr, two that we knew were successful. Coincidence?
No. Your network administration people suck incredible amount of ass, so they can't configure routers in a non-SSL-breaking way, and allow your network to be "hacked" by random skr1pt kiddies.
I'm sure that's what Manuel Noriega thought too. The United States actually has a reputations for prosecuting certain crimes far more aggressively than would be expected and with diminished regard for jurisdictional complications; such as First Degree Murder, Rape and various international organized criminal endeavors.
There is a little detail that it took an act of war to extend US jurisdiction there (for all practical purposes Panama was conquered by US at that point).
Assange could easily be better off being tried for rape in Sweden and subsequently protected from the US by virtue of the prohibition against double jeopardy.
This would be the stupidest idea ever expressed on Slashdot, if you exclude Microsoft astroturfers. Double jeopardy does not apply to being charged with multiple crimes, and on top of that Sweden can just refuse to prosecute Assange once he is extradited, and act as an agent for US from that point.
...and it all happens to be completely unrelated to the subject, because libraries in question are:
1. Absolutely identical between distributions, so static linking never was necessary in the first place. 2. Can be linked statically, or distributed with binaries, or plenty of other other supposedly disallowed things can be done as long as users get re-linkable object files with the product.
Case in point: Second Life client, that is linked to half of libraries one can find on a typical Linux system, and at least 1/3 of libraries that shouldn't be used on Linux by sane people in the first place.
No. The same binary runs on all Linux distributions for any given hardware (PC in this case). I dare you to show me an exception that was not specifically made to behave that way (and if you won't, we will all assume that you post from Microsoft PR company).
Normal consumers -- probably even the hypothetical reasonable person -- would not expect to run bootloaders, Linux or "Hello World" on a device that is sold as an entertainment device.
"Reasonable person" does not have to be a typical consumer, he just has to be reasonable. An engineer who buys the only currently commercially available device that contains cell processor, can reasonably expect it to be useful for software development as long as he has capability to use such device. It's also reasonable to expect that being a game console, it can be used for its primary purpose. Certainly "bans-for-life" and libel from Sony (association with pirates, etc.) would not be reasonably expected with any of this.
Especially since the jerks ripped out the "Other OS" functionality, it is not marketed as a general-purpose computing device.
Refusing to implement a popular functionality, especially while concocting "technical" excuses, does not in any way imply that it is supposed to be unavailable, or that it would trigger some kind of retaliation if accessed by other means.
You can't use a contract to "legalize" a crime such as fraud. It's legal to sell a useless product. It's also legal to disclaim responsibility for all kinds of things including a product being in any way useful. It still would be a fraud to rely on user being mislead into buying something while intending to make it useless for the user. For example, if I sold someone a device for making energy out of nothing, I would be charged with fraud because I would rely on selling the device that I know, does not work, to someone expecting it to work.
Sure they can. Just run a P2P app or other bit torrent client on your phone and see how fast your cell phone co drops you.
I use my T-Mobile "unlimited" plan for some rather massive data transfers, and it is just fine.
Or tether without paying for a tethering plan.
Carriers go out of their way to announce those things to users BEFORE user chooses the plan -- if for no other reason then to make sure that they will not have to deal with millions of users, all using features that are supposed to be a part of a more expensive plan.
What is another problem with Sony -- this whole thing with modding happened because Sony left no way for users to use hardware features that were available before. If cellular provider discontinued tethered plan, it would mean that everyone is free to tether (and this is why it never happened) -- and please note that "smartphone unlimited data" always costs at least as much as "tethered data", because provider knows that it can't maintain the distinction.
No. Among other things, they can't deny services by implementing various illegal forms of discrimination.
More importantly, they also can not advertise services as available and refuse to provide them to customers who paid for them. With PS3 being a relatively expensive device, customer's decision to buy it, is based on perceived usefulness. By denying services for a reason user can not reasonably expect (such as running benign software -- from bootloaders and Linux to hello.c), Sony fraudulently obtains user's money spent on the console, even if the user does not get a chance to pay for online service he intended to use.
I didn't miss anything, I have debunked his claim.
Nokia is basically being paid one-time sum (something it does not need now) to become an expendable Microsoft-controlled entity (something that it doesn't need in the future). One does not have to be a geek to recognize that this is setting the company for a fall, to please a foreign master -- rich but in no way useful for Nokia investors, managers, employees, developers, or users. You may believe that Microsoft "deserves" such slaves, and that its success will "rub" onto people who faithfully serve it, but this is American ideology, and Nokia is, for now, not an American company, like SGI was under Belluzzo.
If it is a service, then the net start/stop code that I posted will work fine. If it is a process, then you can kill it with the "End Task" option.
Except, of course, it won't be restarted -- it will remain in such state until you reboot or log in again (depending on what triggers the start). And nothing will happen with DLLs.
If you take home $3000 a month (this is also known as you "net income"), you should be able to fairly easily afford a home that costs the median home price in the US in December of 2010, even with not-so-great credit & only 10% down payment.
I did. And then I have moved to another state for a new job (because my old one disappeared). "Owning" a place I could not sell, resulted in majority of my income being spent on paying mortgage on an empty condo plus rent for an apartment where I lived. If I lost a job at any point in this process I would be absolutely royally screwed. I was incredibly lucky (not to mention, had education and experience most people don't have, and no one can currently obtain in US), and could pay for all this bullshit until the condo was sold. No one in his right mind, myself included, can rely on this, and most people in similar position are completely screwed.
If you are spending $1500 a month on rent and making $3000 a month, you are being ripped off, you are stupid, or (most likely) you, Alex Belits, are a liar.
Not everyone lives in Bumfuck, AL. This is what most people in large cities have, after taxes, and there is almost no flexibility either way. Families with two working members are occasionally in a slightly better position (more income but need larger house and more expenses on kids), professionals with higher salaries are somewhat better off, and obviously there are people living in disgusting slums, but as long as you are in an urban area with more than a million of people, you are going to be somewhere around this range.
It's possible to select to download all maps covering a huge territory, but I never was in a situation when it made much sense, considering that map sources (Mappero can use Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, etc.) are easily accessible, and storage is limited.
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If you are an American and are going to participate in political demonstration in a foreign country, you deserve anything and everything that will be done to you.
After coming back on in an hour, and attempting to establish the tunnel again, we discovered, that traffic had slowed by 70% over the tunnel, and that two routers in the hops right before the gateway link out of China were dropping packets, but only the tunneled traffic. It looked to us that we had triggered some type of attempt to monitor our traffic, we stopped tunneling. In the coming months we found a bug in our board room, there were several attempts to hack into our office netwokr, two that we knew were successful. Coincidence?
No. Your network administration people suck incredible amount of ass, so they can't configure routers in a non-SSL-breaking way, and allow your network to be "hacked" by random skr1pt kiddies.
I'm sure that's what Manuel Noriega thought too. The United States actually has a reputations for prosecuting certain crimes far more aggressively than would be expected and with diminished regard for jurisdictional complications; such as First Degree Murder, Rape and various international organized criminal endeavors.
There is a little detail that it took an act of war to extend US jurisdiction there (for all practical purposes Panama was conquered by US at that point).
Assange could easily be better off being tried for rape in Sweden and subsequently protected from the US by virtue of the prohibition against double jeopardy.
This would be the stupidest idea ever expressed on Slashdot, if you exclude Microsoft astroturfers. Double jeopardy does not apply to being charged with multiple crimes, and on top of that Sweden can just refuse to prosecute Assange once he is extradited, and act as an agent for US from that point.
...and it all happens to be completely unrelated to the subject, because libraries in question are:
1. Absolutely identical between distributions, so static linking never was necessary in the first place.
2. Can be linked statically, or distributed with binaries, or plenty of other other supposedly disallowed things can be done as long as users get re-linkable object files with the product.
Case in point: Second Life client, that is linked to half of libraries one can find on a typical Linux system, and at least 1/3 of libraries that shouldn't be used on Linux by sane people in the first place.
No. The same binary runs on all Linux distributions for any given hardware (PC in this case). I dare you to show me an exception that was not specifically made to behave that way (and if you won't, we will all assume that you post from Microsoft PR company).
Normal consumers -- probably even the hypothetical reasonable person -- would not expect to run bootloaders, Linux or "Hello World" on a device that is sold as an entertainment device.
"Reasonable person" does not have to be a typical consumer, he just has to be reasonable. An engineer who buys the only currently commercially available device that contains cell processor, can reasonably expect it to be useful for software development as long as he has capability to use such device. It's also reasonable to expect that being a game console, it can be used for its primary purpose. Certainly "bans-for-life" and libel from Sony (association with pirates, etc.) would not be reasonably expected with any of this.
Especially since the jerks ripped out the "Other OS" functionality, it is not marketed as a general-purpose computing device.
Refusing to implement a popular functionality, especially while concocting "technical" excuses, does not in any way imply that it is supposed to be unavailable, or that it would trigger some kind of retaliation if accessed by other means.
You can't use a contract to "legalize" a crime such as fraud. It's legal to sell a useless product. It's also legal to disclaim responsibility for all kinds of things including a product being in any way useful. It still would be a fraud to rely on user being mislead into buying something while intending to make it useless for the user. For example, if I sold someone a device for making energy out of nothing, I would be charged with fraud because I would rely on selling the device that I know, does not work, to someone expecting it to work.
Sure they can. Just run a P2P app or other bit torrent client on your phone and see how fast your cell phone co drops you.
I use my T-Mobile "unlimited" plan for some rather massive data transfers, and it is just fine.
Or tether without paying for a tethering plan.
Carriers go out of their way to announce those things to users BEFORE user chooses the plan -- if for no other reason then to make sure that they will not have to deal with millions of users, all using features that are supposed to be a part of a more expensive plan.
What is another problem with Sony -- this whole thing with modding happened because Sony left no way for users to use hardware features that were available before. If cellular provider discontinued tethered plan, it would mean that everyone is free to tether (and this is why it never happened) -- and please note that "smartphone unlimited data" always costs at least as much as "tethered data", because provider knows that it can't maintain the distinction.
What about cheaters whom Sony can not detect? Those far outnumber people with custom firmware.
No. Among other things, they can't deny services by implementing various illegal forms of discrimination.
More importantly, they also can not advertise services as available and refuse to provide them to customers who paid for them. With PS3 being a relatively expensive device, customer's decision to buy it, is based on perceived usefulness. By denying services for a reason user can not reasonably expect (such as running benign software -- from bootloaders and Linux to hello.c), Sony fraudulently obtains user's money spent on the console, even if the user does not get a chance to pay for online service he intended to use.
No. A country can't unilaterally extend its law's jurisdiction.
I didn't miss anything, I have debunked his claim.
Nokia is basically being paid one-time sum (something it does not need now) to become an expendable Microsoft-controlled entity (something that it doesn't need in the future). One does not have to be a geek to recognize that this is setting the company for a fall, to please a foreign master -- rich but in no way useful for Nokia investors, managers, employees, developers, or users. You may believe that Microsoft "deserves" such slaves, and that its success will "rub" onto people who faithfully serve it, but this is American ideology, and Nokia is, for now, not an American company, like SGI was under Belluzzo.
Uwe Boll!
Uwe Boll!
Uwe Boll!
(at very least, they could've adopted his tactics to get funding)
They do care what will be Nokia's position on the market -- and "Windows delivery vehicle" is unlikely to please them.
Oh wow.
If it is a service, then the net start/stop code that I posted will work fine. If it is a process, then you can kill it with the "End Task" option.
Except, of course, it won't be restarted -- it will remain in such state until you reboot or log in again (depending on what triggers the start). And nothing will happen with DLLs.
He actually meant Candlejack. ...what? Of course, I am here. I just gave him some Microsoft marketing people from this site, they are dime a dozen.
Why no one claims that I wrote it?
It would be just as plausible.
If you take home $3000 a month (this is also known as you "net income"), you should be able to fairly easily afford a home that costs the median home price in the US in December of 2010, even with not-so-great credit & only 10% down payment.
I did. And then I have moved to another state for a new job (because my old one disappeared). "Owning" a place I could not sell, resulted in majority of my income being spent on paying mortgage on an empty condo plus rent for an apartment where I lived. If I lost a job at any point in this process I would be absolutely royally screwed. I was incredibly lucky (not to mention, had education and experience most people don't have, and no one can currently obtain in US), and could pay for all this bullshit until the condo was sold. No one in his right mind, myself included, can rely on this, and most people in similar position are completely screwed.
If all those people used Ubuntu, they would not be able to run sudo, because they would not know their own password.
If you are spending $1500 a month on rent and making $3000 a month, you are being ripped off, you are stupid, or (most likely) you, Alex Belits, are a liar.
Not everyone lives in Bumfuck, AL. This is what most people in large cities have, after taxes, and there is almost no flexibility either way. Families with two working members are occasionally in a slightly better position (more income but need larger house and more expenses on kids), professionals with higher salaries are somewhat better off, and obviously there are people living in disgusting slums, but as long as you are in an urban area with more than a million of people, you are going to be somewhere around this range.
Are you an idiot? No one can afford that. Rent usually takes more than 50% of income -- for people who have no debt and no real estate at all.
Actually the best strategy for Microsoft marketing is to do more astroturfing on Slashdot.
It's not like there is anything other than fear, that promotes Microsoft products anywhere now, and you don't need "marketing" for that.
It's possible to select to download all maps covering a huge territory, but I never was in a situation when it made much sense, considering that map sources (Mappero can use Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, etc.) are easily accessible, and storage is limited.
I have never seen the last generation of Ovi maps, but Mappero (that I use on N900) is far superior to the old one in all aspects.
(posted from N900, too)