I was rather unimpressed with some of the submissions which seem to think that this inquiry is only about the classification of Games in the R18+ category, people unaware that when it was talking about media platforms it meant via what media (print, audio, TV, Cinema, interactive) rather than what games platform (XBox, PS3, PC, etc). I hope such people didn't clog the tubes too much that the important information was lost. A lot of the random ones I clicked on seemed to miss the point with a lot of the questions (as in they were pro R18+ for Games, but failed to come across as to why).
In which case then he violated GPL the moment that the ICGA requested the code from him to verify their facts. By failing to comply with their request if there were GPL code involved he would have been forced to release that code to them. So, he is clearly in the wrong if he did indeed use GPLd code within his app without disclosing the source to the ICGA. Therefore by them finding similarities in the Binary he really is out of options for proving his innocence.
A simple laser is no good for this. We all know that the Nova 5 (owned by The Coca-Cola Company) was sent on a mission to induce the supernova of 128 supergiant stars in order to create a five-week-long message in the sky visible even in daylight, reading "COKE ADDS LIFE!".
When you patent something, aren't you required to include the workings of your patent in the application? If he patents this then he will be forced to show HOW he uses his Godly powers. Wouldn't this mean he has to show to the world how his powers work? For somebody with "Godly" powers I would find this kind of self defeating.
Would it have been accepted if they had said they were the victims of Anonymous blindly stumbling in and finding a hoard of credit card numbers? I think that would sound worse. They are trying to deceive those who known not of Anonymous' MO.
You mean they haven't filled it all up with Two and a Half Men? j/k.
I think the major issue that TV has had with the Internet generation is that it airs the "new" US shows from 6-18 months behind their release dates in the US, which lead to widespread piracy of the shows at their release time in the US and less people watching the "New Episode" release on TV 6 months later. Recently they started lagging behind by only a couple of weeks, but in peak sport times we tend to put shows on hold and catch up 3 months later, which again leads to downloading and watching for the die-hard core fans.
Once the digital channels fill out their allotments and continue showing series through these key sport periods (even if relegated to one of the secondary or tertiary channels over this period) there will be a lot less piracy.
Outside of the piracy aspect, though, there is not a whole lot of worthwhile original content on TV these days anyway. The Internet has hours of distraction a click away and TV simply cannot compete with that. It does not surprise me that people are on the Internet while TV is on in the background (this is the case for me at this moment).
Most of the "Bad Vendor Programming" I've seen in this situation did not actually require Admin Access, but required specific permissions set for Users to be able to get the programs to function. The reason that these users were ever added to Local Admin was due to "Bad IT Admin" more than anything else.
After I re-trained the one guy who kept adding users into Local Admin on how to determine (regmon/filemon/procmon) which folders/files/regkeys needed additional permissions (and how to manage a local group for those settings) and he continued to do it, I was only too happy to remove his access to be able to change any security settings or add any users to any groups. Problem was solved.
It wouldn't surprise me if far too many people in those Workstation Admin roles don't fully understand security, particularly in places like Hospitals where Doctors think they have the authority to tell everybody how things should be done.
Personally I think the first thing that they should do prior to disabling gmail or hotmail is disable USB keys from working on the computers in the network... I'm surprised at how many places haven't locked this down... What's the point of locking down the services if they can just copy whatever information and then email it from home?
Or maybe they should look closer at how they are operating first and try to mitigate the risk by running a clean house and educating staff of the finer points of netiquette "no Jill, we do not open executable attachments from outside, even if you think it might have been from Jack". Better still, disable users from running untrusted executables! So many things they could start with, why bother with webmail?
My personal favourite on top of that is when you hit an Autoreply shitstorm as the email was sent to the entire company and x% of employees were on leave and had an Out of Office Autoreply which Replied to All (for some reason). Even though Groupwise (Glad I don't have to use that anymore, although I now have to use Notes.. yuk) is supposed to stop a autoreply storm it usually manages to fire off a half a dozen of them per person before it kicks in... This leads to lots of full inboxes.
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As did I.
I was rather unimpressed with some of the submissions which seem to think that this inquiry is only about the classification of Games in the R18+ category, people unaware that when it was talking about media platforms it meant via what media (print, audio, TV, Cinema, interactive) rather than what games platform (XBox, PS3, PC, etc). I hope such people didn't clog the tubes too much that the important information was lost. A lot of the random ones I clicked on seemed to miss the point with a lot of the questions (as in they were pro R18+ for Games, but failed to come across as to why).
This is just Astronomical Porn. Rule 34 still holds true.
Sure! What else is it going to play with while he's looking at his newly jailbroken iPad 2?
In which case then he violated GPL the moment that the ICGA requested the code from him to verify their facts. By failing to comply with their request if there were GPL code involved he would have been forced to release that code to them. So, he is clearly in the wrong if he did indeed use GPLd code within his app without disclosing the source to the ICGA. Therefore by them finding similarities in the Binary he really is out of options for proving his innocence.
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knights?
A simple laser is no good for this. We all know that the Nova 5 (owned by The Coca-Cola Company) was sent on a mission to induce the supernova of 128 supergiant stars in order to create a five-week-long message in the sky visible even in daylight, reading "COKE ADDS LIFE!".
Argh! By observing this post it has changed the outcome I read in the previous one... Damn you Schrödinger!
Soul-less? But how will all the Calculators get to Silicon Heaven?
When you patent something, aren't you required to include the workings of your patent in the application? If he patents this then he will be forced to show HOW he uses his Godly powers. Wouldn't this mean he has to show to the world how his powers work? For somebody with "Godly" powers I would find this kind of self defeating.
One kidney? That's a bargain! Over here it costs an arm and a leg.
And here I thought you were about to say that Lawyers are far more likely than biologists to become rats. Actually, that's about right too.
Would it have been accepted if they had said they were the victims of Anonymous blindly stumbling in and finding a hoard of credit card numbers? I think that would sound worse. They are trying to deceive those who known not of Anonymous' MO.
Absolutely. Too hard for monkeys to randomly press things and get things set up perfectly. Solution: Hire more monkeys...
They don't realise that paying a bit more for a few Good people would save them money in the long run, instead of flooding the ranks with monkeys.
Damn.. I kept using ATDP ... it took AGES to dial...
So, if you have XP does this make the gadget Schrödinger's gadget. You can't tell if it's out of support until you upgrade...
We could also argue that since our Time is ahead of yours, so too could our Seasons be ahead. :)
You mean they haven't filled it all up with Two and a Half Men? j/k.
I think the major issue that TV has had with the Internet generation is that it airs the "new" US shows from 6-18 months behind their release dates in the US, which lead to widespread piracy of the shows at their release time in the US and less people watching the "New Episode" release on TV 6 months later. Recently they started lagging behind by only a couple of weeks, but in peak sport times we tend to put shows on hold and catch up 3 months later, which again leads to downloading and watching for the die-hard core fans.
Once the digital channels fill out their allotments and continue showing series through these key sport periods (even if relegated to one of the secondary or tertiary channels over this period) there will be a lot less piracy.
Outside of the piracy aspect, though, there is not a whole lot of worthwhile original content on TV these days anyway. The Internet has hours of distraction a click away and TV simply cannot compete with that. It does not surprise me that people are on the Internet while TV is on in the background (this is the case for me at this moment).
How many libraries of congress is that?
If only they could get there dAlH2Orean up to 88mph they could have traveled back to 1955... Oh well.
Most of the "Bad Vendor Programming" I've seen in this situation did not actually require Admin Access, but required specific permissions set for Users to be able to get the programs to function. The reason that these users were ever added to Local Admin was due to "Bad IT Admin" more than anything else.
After I re-trained the one guy who kept adding users into Local Admin on how to determine (regmon/filemon/procmon) which folders/files/regkeys needed additional permissions (and how to manage a local group for those settings) and he continued to do it, I was only too happy to remove his access to be able to change any security settings or add any users to any groups. Problem was solved.
It wouldn't surprise me if far too many people in those Workstation Admin roles don't fully understand security, particularly in places like Hospitals where Doctors think they have the authority to tell everybody how things should be done.
Personally I think the first thing that they should do prior to disabling gmail or hotmail is disable USB keys from working on the computers in the network... I'm surprised at how many places haven't locked this down... What's the point of locking down the services if they can just copy whatever information and then email it from home?
Or maybe they should look closer at how they are operating first and try to mitigate the risk by running a clean house and educating staff of the finer points of netiquette "no Jill, we do not open executable attachments from outside, even if you think it might have been from Jack". Better still, disable users from running untrusted executables! So many things they could start with, why bother with webmail?
My personal favourite on top of that is when you hit an Autoreply shitstorm as the email was sent to the entire company and x% of employees were on leave and had an Out of Office Autoreply which Replied to All (for some reason). Even though Groupwise (Glad I don't have to use that anymore, although I now have to use Notes.. yuk) is supposed to stop a autoreply storm it usually manages to fire off a half a dozen of them per person before it kicks in... This leads to lots of full inboxes.
Is that because you are running Linux?
The lawyers help you suck all that money from them, then they suck all that money from you. You are better off without them.