That's reasonable? 18,000 for sharing 24 files? You think she SHOULD have settled? REALLY??? Sure it's less INSANE than millions of dollars but it's still INSANE.
Hell, why don't we go back to sending kids who steal bread to Australia while we're at it.
If you could use my car without having any chance of crashing it and with no wear/fuel usage, I'd be completely fine with it. I'm not going to be upset that you gained some benefit with no negative consequences for me.
Nor would I. The car manufacturer on the other hand would, and if they lost sales they'd argue they have to raise their prices to cover manufacturing costs since people aren't buying the cars but copying them instead. This is exactly what the distributors are arguing.
The difference is they're not manufacturers. They don't add value as far as I'm concerned.
Why frame this debate with one of the worst car analogies I've ever heard? The equivalent of petrol in a phone is battery charge... last I checked, I didn't need to get apple authorization when I plug my phone into an outlet. I don't even need an Apple-certified outlet. The fluffy dice is the iPhone equivalent of an iPhone case.
Congratulations. I think that's actually a worse analogy. How is a case like fluffy dice? Must be one hell of a useless case.
his debate is more equivalent to changing your Ford engine for a VW engine
What rubbish. If you're going to use an analogy try this - having to authorise every CD you buy to play in the car. That's much closer to what the iPhone does with ring tones and software restriction. You don't need the CD for the car to work for its primary funciton. You don't need software addons for the iPhone to work for its primary function.
Viruses and Malware are always a risk. However I limit my exposure by only transfering to backup no 3 every few weeks. Of course, for that period I only have 2 copies of new files.
It's not perfect. The best system would be a write once solution like DVD, but DVDs are too small for today's requirements, they're only readable for a few years, and it's painful to copy them.
The lesser known 5 minutes 5 second rule combines the two: It states that if the case is left off a desktop computer for more than 5 minutes and 5 seconds Pizza and coke will spontaneously migrate from a computer lab desk and contaminate your RAM, CPU and motherboard.
I tend to recommend people buy an inexpensive external USB or firewire drive, leave it attached and assigned as a backup device, and have some software package run a daily backup of all the relevant folders and files they might need to save.
1. I do this for my digital photography. (1 weekend can yield several GB of data).
2. I am better off manually backing up my files than trusting the computer to get it right. I haven't found backup software I trust. Yes I realize I can miss things too, but I periodically compare the list of backup directories with the ones on the main drive.
3. This whole regime is useless unless you regularly backup your 2nd device (external drive) to a 3rd one and copy it off site. (It gets packed off and sent to my mother's house). This mitigates against losing data if I have a house fire or if malware erases drives 1 and 2. I limit exposure to a few weeks.
4. Once you've backed something up to a 2nd or 3rd drive, you should NEVER overwrite it with another copy. Never copy over the top of one directory if a few files have changed in it. Otherwise if you've damaged/corrupted the files on your first copy, you're propagating that damage.
5. I wish I could get individual drives to show up as read only in Windows. I took it for granted that there'd be something like mount readonly. There isn't anything simple or standard. I think there are utils that do it but they're expensive, non-standard. There are free apps that will change registry settings to block all removable drives but that hardly allows copying from a backup to another USB drive. There are expensive hardware USB write blockers used in computer foresnics. If I were using Linux it'd be trivial to mount a filesystem readonly by default.
People buy the iPhone, or the kindle, or some other device that requires everything to be signed, then they either "jailbreak" them or whine about the restrictions.
If you want these restrictions to go away stop buying the devices, and educate everyone who'll listen about why YOU won't touch them, then let them make up their own minds.
You wouldn't buy a car that required you to call the manufacturer and get authorisation every time you wanted to put petrol in it or attach those sickly fluffy dice to the rear vision mirror, would you? And if you did buy it despite such a ridiculous restriction, would you then be complaining to everyone about the restriction?
We don't need 2 slashdot stories per week about this. We're just chasing our own tails here.
I simply didn't find the book as compelling as the hype. I don't think it was predictive. It certainly pre-dated fiction like the Matrix, but the terminology, and the feel of how things work feel very much rooted in a sooped-up virtual reality extension of the technology that was around back then.
It's a while since I read it, and I'm not inclined to revisit it. Perhaps its just me *shrug*
Well if you're complaining about the quality of information, stop reading rubbish. There's still plenty of good information out there AND a lot more which takes advantage of the bandwidth. You've just got to be selective. Use specialist sites to look up what you're interested in and specialist boards for discussion.
When I first saw the picture in the article I thought someone had posted some image of a fire and was trying to pass it off as a practical joke image of the space station hitting the ground and exploding for 4th July celebrations...
It doesn't even have anything onboard to which you could apply the phase "reverse the polarity".
You can reverse the polarity on anything electrical. Just swap the positive and negative terminals. Don't ever expect to use many of those things you do that to ever again though. Most of the things that die will wimper but some higher voltage things will get dangerous and explode.
I also second, but for different reasons: "I have a lot of experience with games, having played them for most of my adult life, and have always toyed with the idea of making them one day."
If this qualifies as lots of experience, then I have a lot of experience being a porn star, an astronaut, and world dictator.
I feel very sorry for your sex partners. That's one kinky bedroom, especially if you combine all 3!
Saying no to SQL and relational databases is just fine if you've got something better to replace it with. However I know of no such thing. The reason they're popular is that they are so powerful for data storage. If something better came along you wouldn't even need to say no to SQL. You'd just say yes to the newer better rival.
You sound like my grand parents defending the fact that they paid enough money repairing their CRT that they could have bought a flat panel. You can dinosaur yourself and convince yourself there isn't a difference, but the reality is there is a significant difference in audio and video quality that you don't have to be an audiophile or videophile to appreciate.
I don't care about these things...
I'm sure your 386 is more than fast enough to browse slashdot, and your CGA monitor shows enough colors to read the logo too.:)...and if that's all I did and had a good working 386 I wouldn't spend money on another computer.
It's like the studios invented blu-ray just to piss people off and turn them off to the whole idea of a HD video format.
If so it worked for me! I grew up with crappy VHS tapes that lost tracking, had snow, and generally had poor picture quality. DVD is heaven to me. Why the hell would I pay $1000+ for a HD tv and $300+ for a blu ray player so I can put up with unbreakable encryption, crappy region coding, overpriced discs, unskipable ads and propaganda. For what? A bit more detail in the picture? There truly isn't another advantage to the format that even interests me. They can keep it.
I win against blue ray every day because I don't own a blu ray player and have never bought a blu ray disc. I recommend you do the same. Don't buy the discs then get pissed and try to sue. Vote with your feet.
We've had violent games and movies for a long time now. Take a look at the blood and gore in horror films. It currently does and will continue to outdo any realism a game can provide for some time to come.
Take a look at games where we play murderers. How to host a murder/murder mystery nights. What are you going to do next. Ban Murder She Wrote because some idiot might decide to copy one of the murders?
The solution is simple. You need to educate children about the difference between fiction and reality. It's really not that hard.
Will there be people who copy the fiction and commit murder? Sure. They're mentally unstable and would find some other reason to do it anyway.
Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing achievement but clearly it'll need work to be practical. 95% sounds great until you realise that if you're on a footpath with oncoming traffic, or near the top of some stairs, that 5% can be painful or deadly.
Earlier TomToms had a developers kit. With the latest versions of the OS that offer many new features, like text to speech and use of faster aquiring GPS chips, they've removed the ability to do any kind of hacking. A real pity. I came into the game just a little too late. So I get the nice features, but not the nice hacks.
Yes, some hackers are criminals but not all are - and *a lot* of the ones who aren't are in fact highly paid consultants. Please stop spreading the misperception that hacking is criminal or unethical.
I am not spreading any such misconceptions. In the context of this story we're talking about hackers who have broken the law but managed to get a job inspite of or notionally due to their experience with hacking.
Surely if you were any good at it you wouldn't get caught
Eventually most criminals get complacent or unlucky and slip up and are caught.
Why should "the man" have everything his way
Really this is the best you've got? 1960s rhetoric that didn't make much sense even back then unless you were completely stoned?
"Hacking" drives security, and keeps the corporations and the govt. awake. Information is control, why should the powers that be have all the control ?
It is the exception, not the rule, that a hacker becomes employed as a highly paid consultant. A lot of jobs require security checks, which you will fail if you have a criminal record. Some places have the flexibility to allow exceptions. Most don't. Even if they do you have to prove you offer something so unique and worthwhile that an exception should be made.
It does happen. Hackers do sometimes get jobs. People also win the lottery. Doesn't mean it's smart to play against the odds.
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That's reasonable? 18,000 for sharing 24 files? You think she SHOULD have settled? REALLY??? Sure it's less INSANE than millions of dollars but it's still INSANE.
Hell, why don't we go back to sending kids who steal bread to Australia while we're at it.
If you could use my car without having any chance of crashing it and with no wear/fuel usage, I'd be completely fine with it. I'm not going to be upset that you gained some benefit with no negative consequences for me.
Nor would I. The car manufacturer on the other hand would, and if they lost sales they'd argue they have to raise their prices to cover manufacturing costs since people aren't buying the cars but copying them instead. This is exactly what the distributors are arguing.
The difference is they're not manufacturers. They don't add value as far as I'm concerned.
Why frame this debate with one of the worst car analogies I've ever heard? The equivalent of petrol in a phone is battery charge... last I checked, I didn't need to get apple authorization when I plug my phone into an outlet. I don't even need an Apple-certified outlet. The fluffy dice is the iPhone equivalent of an iPhone case.
Congratulations. I think that's actually a worse analogy. How is a case like fluffy dice? Must be one hell of a useless case.
his debate is more equivalent to changing your Ford engine for a VW engine
What rubbish. If you're going to use an analogy try this - having to authorise every CD you buy to play in the car. That's much closer to what the iPhone does with ring tones and software restriction. You don't need the CD for the car to work for its primary funciton. You don't need software addons for the iPhone to work for its primary function.
Viruses and Malware are always a risk. However I limit my exposure by only transfering to backup no 3 every few weeks. Of course, for that period I only have 2 copies of new files.
It's not perfect. The best system would be a write once solution like DVD, but DVDs are too small for today's requirements, they're only readable for a few years, and it's painful to copy them.
The lesser known 5 minutes 5 second rule combines the two: It states that if the case is left off a desktop computer for more than 5 minutes and 5 seconds Pizza and coke will spontaneously migrate from a computer lab desk and contaminate your RAM, CPU and motherboard.
I tend to recommend people buy an inexpensive external USB or firewire drive, leave it attached and assigned as a backup device, and have some software package run a daily backup of all the relevant folders and files they might need to save.
1. I do this for my digital photography. (1 weekend can yield several GB of data).
2. I am better off manually backing up my files than trusting the computer to get it right. I haven't found backup software I trust. Yes I realize I can miss things too, but I periodically compare the list of backup directories with the ones on the main drive.
3. This whole regime is useless unless you regularly backup your 2nd device (external drive) to a 3rd one and copy it off site. (It gets packed off and sent to my mother's house). This mitigates against losing data if I have a house fire or if malware erases drives 1 and 2. I limit exposure to a few weeks.
4. Once you've backed something up to a 2nd or 3rd drive, you should NEVER overwrite it with another copy. Never copy over the top of one directory if a few files have changed in it. Otherwise if you've damaged/corrupted the files on your first copy, you're propagating that damage.
5. I wish I could get individual drives to show up as read only in Windows. I took it for granted that there'd be something like mount readonly. There isn't anything simple or standard. I think there are utils that do it but they're expensive, non-standard. There are free apps that will change registry settings to block all removable drives but that hardly allows copying from a backup to another USB drive. There are expensive hardware USB write blockers used in computer foresnics. If I were using Linux it'd be trivial to mount a filesystem readonly by default.
People buy the iPhone, or the kindle, or some other device that requires everything to be signed, then they either "jailbreak" them or whine about the restrictions.
If you want these restrictions to go away stop buying the devices, and educate everyone who'll listen about why YOU won't touch them, then let them make up their own minds.
You wouldn't buy a car that required you to call the manufacturer and get authorisation every time you wanted to put petrol in it or attach those sickly fluffy dice to the rear vision mirror, would you? And if you did buy it despite such a ridiculous restriction, would you then be complaining to everyone about the restriction?
We don't need 2 slashdot stories per week about this. We're just chasing our own tails here.
I simply didn't find the book as compelling as the hype. I don't think it was predictive. It certainly pre-dated fiction like the Matrix, but the terminology, and the feel of how things work feel very much rooted in a sooped-up virtual reality extension of the technology that was around back then.
It's a while since I read it, and I'm not inclined to revisit it. Perhaps its just me *shrug*
Well if you're complaining about the quality of information, stop reading rubbish. There's still plenty of good information out there AND a lot more which takes advantage of the bandwidth. You've just got to be selective. Use specialist sites to look up what you're interested in and specialist boards for discussion.
When I first saw the picture in the article I thought someone had posted some image of a fire and was trying to pass it off as a practical joke image of the space station hitting the ground and exploding for 4th July celebrations...
It doesn't even have anything onboard to which you could apply the phase "reverse the polarity".
You can reverse the polarity on anything electrical. Just swap the positive and negative terminals. Don't ever expect to use many of those things you do that to ever again though. Most of the things that die will wimper but some higher voltage things will get dangerous and explode.
I also second, but for different reasons: "I have a lot of experience with games, having played them for most of my adult life, and have always toyed with the idea of making them one day."
If this qualifies as lots of experience, then I have a lot of experience being a porn star, an astronaut, and world dictator.
I feel very sorry for your sex partners. That's one kinky bedroom, especially if you combine all 3!
Saying no to SQL and relational databases is just fine if you've got something better to replace it with. However I know of no such thing. The reason they're popular is that they are so powerful for data storage. If something better came along you wouldn't even need to say no to SQL. You'd just say yes to the newer better rival.
You sound like my grand parents defending the fact that they paid enough money repairing their CRT that they could have bought a flat panel. You can dinosaur yourself and convince yourself there isn't a difference, but the reality is there is a significant difference in audio and video quality that you don't have to be an audiophile or videophile to appreciate.
I don't care about these things...
I'm sure your 386 is more than fast enough to browse slashdot, and your CGA monitor shows enough colors to read the logo too. :) ...and if that's all I did and had a good working 386 I wouldn't spend money on another computer.
It's like the studios invented blu-ray just to piss people off and turn them off to the whole idea of a HD video format.
If so it worked for me! I grew up with crappy VHS tapes that lost tracking, had snow, and generally had poor picture quality. DVD is heaven to me. Why the hell would I pay $1000+ for a HD tv and $300+ for a blu ray player so I can put up with unbreakable encryption, crappy region coding, overpriced discs, unskipable ads and propaganda. For what? A bit more detail in the picture? There truly isn't another advantage to the format that even interests me. They can keep it.
Well, you _can_ pick it up. It just burns stuck in your hand so you can't let go of it. Definitely a feature!
I was wondering when Apple would get around to branding it's users.
I win against blue ray every day because I don't own a blu ray player and have never bought a blu ray disc. I recommend you do the same. Don't buy the discs then get pissed and try to sue. Vote with your feet.
Sorry but this is very very silly.
We've had violent games and movies for a long time now. Take a look at the blood and gore in horror films. It currently does and will continue to outdo any realism a game can provide for some time to come.
Take a look at games where we play murderers. How to host a murder/murder mystery nights. What are you going to do next. Ban Murder She Wrote because some idiot might decide to copy one of the murders?
The solution is simple. You need to educate children about the difference between fiction and reality. It's really not that hard.
Will there be people who copy the fiction and commit murder? Sure. They're mentally unstable and would find some other reason to do it anyway.
Don't get me wrong, this is an amazing achievement but clearly it'll need work to be practical. 95% sounds great until you realise that if you're on a footpath with oncoming traffic, or near the top of some stairs, that 5% can be painful or deadly.
rename it to GNU/Mono
Better yet, rename Personal hygiene to GNU/Personal hygiene.
Earlier TomToms had a developers kit. With the latest versions of the OS that offer many new features, like text to speech and use of faster aquiring GPS chips, they've removed the ability to do any kind of hacking. A real pity. I came into the game just a little too late. So I get the nice features, but not the nice hacks.
Yes, some hackers are criminals but not all are - and *a lot* of the ones who aren't are in fact highly paid consultants. Please stop spreading the misperception that hacking is criminal or unethical.
I am not spreading any such misconceptions. In the context of this story we're talking about hackers who have broken the law but managed to get a job inspite of or notionally due to their experience with hacking.
Surely if you were any good at it you wouldn't get caught
Eventually most criminals get complacent or unlucky and slip up and are caught.
Why should "the man" have everything his way
Really this is the best you've got? 1960s rhetoric that didn't make much sense even back then unless you were completely stoned?
"Hacking" drives security, and keeps the corporations and the govt. awake. Information is control, why should the powers that be have all the control ?
I see. You are stoned.
Sir, you get one "fuck" per post for free on the Basic Slashdot PricePlan(tm)
Slashdot is pimping?
It is the exception, not the rule, that a hacker becomes employed as a highly paid consultant. A lot of jobs require security checks, which you will fail if you have a criminal record. Some places have the flexibility to allow exceptions. Most don't. Even if they do you have to prove you offer something so unique and worthwhile that an exception should be made.
It does happen. Hackers do sometimes get jobs. People also win the lottery. Doesn't mean it's smart to play against the odds.