This prediction is like saying you predict all station wagons to disappear in the next few years because city runabouts exist. Some people need to be able to move larger loads of cargo (desktop). Others need the ability to park in a tight space (laptop). While trends may shift predicting percentages sold the complete demise of one is bone headed. Don't forget upgradability is one thing that contributed to the PC revolution and laptops are light on it.
Bullshit. Anyone who's not a computing professional and is hit with this has to pay good money to get the damned thing fixed. Money that might otherwise go towards something worthwhile - anything from feeding your family to taking them on holiday.
So if say Sony writes a root kit and you put their cd into your drive and it installs you're cool with that? Or if MS sends back detailed information about your surfing habits?
The fact that you installed software doesn't mean you've agreed to give the software writer unlimited access to your machine. Choosing the right software to trust isn't even straight forward these days.
You don't seem to realize any of this...and I'm the idiot? Have a nice day burying your head in the sand.
In my opinion in modern times, physical imprisonment should be _mainly_ for people who have proven themselves to be dangerous.
Someone who writes virii and releases them into the wild is dangerous. If physical imprisonment is the only way to guarantee keeping them doing so is to physically jail them that's actually called for. If you can have a reasonable level of confidence that you can keep them from doing so, sure put them on probation and punish them financially
You had a look at what some of the latest "pranks" have been. Ever heard of "happy slapping"? Where you video tape yourself walking up to a complete stranger and walloping them? Where I come from it's called assault. People have lost the ability to pull a harmless prank. Instead any fucking dangerous or stupid behaviour is being passed off as a childish prank. Even children have to act within the tolerances of society. They get a black mark against their name if they kill someone too. You suggesting we change that because "hey he's just a kid".
Writing a virus is not something you want to go unpunished. There are enough of the fucking things that an end user can end up in deep shit unless they very quickly learn what they're doing. That few hours work you're talking about isn't some optional extra overtime - it could be money that was meant to feed the man's family you.
Who gives a flying monkey? It's a grab for the end user's money and I couldn't care less who's pocket it ends up in. You can bet it won't be the artist in any case.
"Anyone who lost money should have known better than to install random games from the Internet on their work machine."
You're an idiot.
I would argue that a guy walking around in gold chains in a bad neighbourhood (or a woman walking around in a skimpy outfit) may contribute to being beaten up, raped, robbed or even killed but I'd never argue the murders, rapists, or robbers should therefore go free because they should have known better. That kind of logic makes slums and moves us towards the law of the jungle.
A prank that causes financial loss should be punished. Despite your cavallier attitude to it, kids have always been getting into trouble including going to jail when pranks go wrong...and so they should. We all need to be responsible for our own actions. We don't get a free pass because we were being mischeivious.
You wouldn't react to a "prank" where some teenage kids trashed your house because you left your door unlocked by saying "oh well it was my fault, kids will be kids".
By the way in case you haven't noticed by the way things have changed. Kids use to call in bomb scares all the time. Do that in this day and age and prison is a real possibility. Why? Because it diverts resources from real risks and because it does society a lot of financial and emmotional damage. (We may have gone overboard in recent years but the principle that you're responsible for the results of your actions is a sound one).
We have no concept of fair use in this country. Until the end of June this year copying your CD to your Ipod was technically illegal. The same laws that made it legal make it illegal to backup your DVD. You use to have to prove someone copied a DVD to put them in prison. Now you just have to be in possession of a copied DVD - EVEN if that DVD is your own! So while they made things a little more sane for music they made them less sane and more draconian for DVD.
It might be lame but a lot of computer users would have no fucking idea what to do if this were to hit their system. They'd have to go find and quite likely pay a techy to fix it.
It's like breaking into someone's car and pouring superglue into their ignition lock. It may be lame, stupid and easy to do, but just the same the owner will come back and be unable to start his car...and unless he's a mechanic he'll have to get it towed, examined and fixed for a handsome fee. In the meantime he can't use his car.
Justifications aside this is just a grab for money. They'll still persue downloaders and still seek to make downloading illegal in every country on the planet.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Canadian. I'm Australian. Our government's much worse on these issues.
What might be more interesting is to dock 10,000k from the salaries of the security team everytime someone finds a serious exploit. Sometimes punishments are far more effective than rewards.
You sir are a total moron. You've also just demonstrated the very worst spirit in an employer-employee relationship. I hope you're not a manager and I hope you never are one.
First of all it's not always possible to fix every serious flaw immediately.
Secondly security is always a tradeoff with ease of use of a system. Sometimes the security team doesn't have final say.
You'd be constantly docking the security team's pay for things they can't control and they'd come to resent the company. Suddenly the people who know the most about the security of your company resent it. Get it? That has got to be the dumbest thing I've heard in quite some time.
As someone else pointed out you'd quickly find you don't have a security team or at least you won't find one worth having. Taking away someone's ability to feed their family or provide them with an education or medical care is not the way to get work done.
Yeah look I'd have been happy if the guy didn't get defensive discussing it. I got the goods so I wasn't after any compensation I just wanted to know how the wrong address got put in there. (I think from memory it was an incorrect post code, so there was the potential that it wouldn't get to me, and it wasn't based on an old address.)
I've just found when things go well on Ebay you get what you expect, and when they go bad they have the potential to go REALLY bad. Use to be worth the risk for a bargain but I haven't had a bargain from Ebay in ages. I often find things cheaper brand new elsewhere.
Thanks. I think troll and flamebait are the most overused modifiers. Got tired of having a different point of view shouted down. Don't know if the sig makes people think, but I wanted to make a statement.
When I first started using Ebay you could really get a bargain, and that's why I went there. However that was a long time ago. These days you're likely to see used goods sold at 80% or more of the original "brand new" product...sometimes they go for more than brand new which makes me wonder how legit these sales are. The other thing that makes me wonder is how I started getting second chance offers. What put the nail in the coffin for me buying stuff off Ebay though was my dissatisfaction at the handling of a dispute over a very low value item. (About US20). I got broken used goods where the claim was that the goods were "still in shrink wrap". Yeah re-shrinkwrapped. The proof I had to get to get my money back was certainly not worth the $20 and the seller started threatening me with legal action over factual comments I left on his feedback instead of dealing with the issues. So I issued a chargeback on my credit card, I closed my paypal account, and haven't used my Ebay account since. That was sometime last year.
Another time I was very lucky to get a much more expensive pair of items because the seller got the address wrong. Fortunately the goods got to me, but when I questioned the seller over whether the address was obtained from my Ebay account they just got defensive. I'd have been out US350 if those goods hadn't arrived. I've heard much worse horror stories from acquaintances at work but I'm not privy to the details and don't know how true they are.
Also fee increase over the years have made it not worth it to list low value items. So these items don't show up if you're a buyer and if you want to sell them you know you're better off trying to pawn them off to friends.
In short, Ebay isn't what it once was, at least for me. It was once an excellent place to get a bargain or get rid of unwanted goods.
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Pity most settle for the red guitar, 3 chords and incoherent drug induced crapola. (Not saying that about Bono. He actually comes across as an intelligent guy in interviews and seems to have some kind of grip on issues like the envrionment...who knows if it's all part of the act or not though).
...at least in the world of Pop music. Have you listened to any pop lately? It's mostly interchangable shite.
But hey it all started with rock - 3 chords and an infinite variety of combinations and words...sometimes the whole is more than the sum of it's parts (and sometimes it's just pure garbage).
Kinda reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I read in primary school.
1. Whitelist police spyware 2. Crim gets hold of police spyware 3. Crim gets pwns your machine, steals your identity and makes your life a living hell for the next 3 years or more.
If you paid for a piece of anti-spyware and they leave a backdoor open like this, isn't that a case of negligence?
So buy your mother a fantastic phone, tell her to live without playing MP3s or taking lots of happy snaps, and problem solved. She really only needs to be able to get back to the root menu and use the handful of features she wants. As for battery life...well I typically get 4-5 days out of a charge of my Nokia N70, but that's with quite light phone use, and the only features I use regularly besides phone and SMS are calendar alarms. Hell I have a demo version of Doom installed and that chews battery, but who wants to play a 10 year old shooter on a tiny screen with tiny unusable keys when you've got porky fingers like mine. Also I own an iPod so why would I want to use the phone to play MP3s (unless it's all I have with me, and when I do I typically don't have a headset with me)?
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These are about the only things that would be interesting to learn from a spammer.
He can keep his "tell all" bullshit money grab.
This prediction is like saying you predict all station wagons to disappear in the next few years because city runabouts exist. Some people need to be able to move larger loads of cargo (desktop). Others need the ability to park in a tight space (laptop). While trends may shift predicting percentages sold the complete demise of one is bone headed. Don't forget upgradability is one thing that contributed to the PC revolution and laptops are light on it.
Off topic: Love the signature.
While some call this a bug others call it a feature and set about exploiting it.
"We have previously discussed this project, though this is a bit more complete rundown on the initiative."
Congratulations on the world's first publicly disclosed open source dupe!
No real harm?
Bullshit. Anyone who's not a computing professional and is hit with this has to pay good money to get the damned thing fixed. Money that might otherwise go towards something worthwhile - anything from feeding your family to taking them on holiday.
So if say Sony writes a root kit and you put their cd into your drive and it installs you're cool with that? Or if MS sends back detailed information about your surfing habits?
The fact that you installed software doesn't mean you've agreed to give the software writer unlimited access to your machine. Choosing the right software to trust isn't even straight forward these days.
You don't seem to realize any of this...and I'm the idiot? Have a nice day burying your head in the sand.
Hell if it was done intentionally yeah they should be punished.
If law enforcement can't tell an innocent package not intentionally planted to fool them from a bomb, there's nothing to punish.
Reductio ad absurdum is the idiot's straw man.
In my opinion in modern times, physical imprisonment should be _mainly_ for people who have proven themselves to be dangerous.
Someone who writes virii and releases them into the wild is dangerous. If physical imprisonment is the only way to guarantee keeping them doing so is to physically jail them that's actually called for. If you can have a reasonable level of confidence that you can keep them from doing so, sure put them on probation and punish them financially
This is considered insightful?
You had a look at what some of the latest "pranks" have been. Ever heard of "happy slapping"? Where you video tape yourself walking up to a complete stranger and walloping them? Where I come from it's called assault. People have lost the ability to pull a harmless prank. Instead any fucking dangerous or stupid behaviour is being passed off as a childish prank. Even children have to act within the tolerances of society. They get a black mark against their name if they kill someone too. You suggesting we change that because "hey he's just a kid".
Writing a virus is not something you want to go unpunished. There are enough of the fucking things that an end user can end up in deep shit unless they very quickly learn what they're doing. That few hours work you're talking about isn't some optional extra overtime - it could be money that was meant to feed the man's family you.
...for being dim-wittedly negligent in their public service, and for endangering the public with their stupidity.
Seriously though: Why are people like this given power?
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Who gives a flying monkey? It's a grab for the end user's money and I couldn't care less who's pocket it ends up in. You can bet it won't be the artist in any case.
Copyright law is completely broken.
"Anyone who lost money should have known better than to install random games from the Internet on their work machine."
You're an idiot.
I would argue that a guy walking around in gold chains in a bad neighbourhood (or a woman walking around in a skimpy outfit) may contribute to being beaten up, raped, robbed or even killed but I'd never argue the murders, rapists, or robbers should therefore go free because they should have known better. That kind of logic makes slums and moves us towards the law of the jungle.
A prank that causes financial loss should be punished. Despite your cavallier attitude to it, kids have always been getting into trouble including going to jail when pranks go wrong...and so they should. We all need to be responsible for our own actions. We don't get a free pass because we were being mischeivious.
You wouldn't react to a "prank" where some teenage kids trashed your house because you left your door unlocked by saying "oh well it was my fault, kids will be kids".
By the way in case you haven't noticed by the way things have changed. Kids use to call in bomb scares all the time. Do that in this day and age and prison is a real possibility. Why? Because it diverts resources from real risks and because it does society a lot of financial and emmotional damage. (We may have gone overboard in recent years but the principle that you're responsible for the results of your actions is a sound one).
You're not paying much attention.
We have no concept of fair use in this country. Until the end of June this year copying your CD to your Ipod was technically illegal. The same laws that made it legal make it illegal to backup your DVD. You use to have to prove someone copied a DVD to put them in prison. Now you just have to be in possession of a copied DVD - EVEN if that DVD is your own! So while they made things a little more sane for music they made them less sane and more draconian for DVD.
MR T, Governor Schwartz and Silverster "those aren't my pills" Stallone think landing at anything less than mach 3 is for wimps!
It might be lame but a lot of computer users would have no fucking idea what to do if this were to hit their system. They'd have to go find and quite likely pay a techy to fix it.
It's like breaking into someone's car and pouring superglue into their ignition lock. It may be lame, stupid and easy to do, but just the same the owner will come back and be unable to start his car...and unless he's a mechanic he'll have to get it towed, examined and fixed for a handsome fee. In the meantime he can't use his car.
Justifications aside this is just a grab for money. They'll still persue downloaders and still seek to make downloading illegal in every country on the planet.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Canadian. I'm Australian. Our government's much worse on these issues.
There are plenty if you Google "Enigma Emulator" or "Enigma Simulator"/"Enigma simulation"
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http://homepages.tesco.net/~andycarlson/enigma/en
If you want to build something mechanical try a remote control aircraft. Much more fun.
What might be more interesting is to dock 10,000k from the salaries of the security team everytime someone finds a serious exploit. Sometimes punishments are far more effective than rewards.
You sir are a total moron. You've also just demonstrated the very worst spirit in an employer-employee relationship. I hope you're not a manager and I hope you never are one.
First of all it's not always possible to fix every serious flaw immediately.
Secondly security is always a tradeoff with ease of use of a system. Sometimes the security team doesn't have final say.
You'd be constantly docking the security team's pay for things they can't control and they'd come to resent the company. Suddenly the people who know the most about the security of your company resent it. Get it? That has got to be the dumbest thing I've heard in quite some time.
As someone else pointed out you'd quickly find you don't have a security team or at least you won't find one worth having. Taking away someone's ability to feed their family or provide them with an education or medical care is not the way to get work done.
Yeah look I'd have been happy if the guy didn't get defensive discussing it. I got the goods so I wasn't after any compensation I just wanted to know how the wrong address got put in there. (I think from memory it was an incorrect post code, so there was the potential that it wouldn't get to me, and it wasn't based on an old address.)
I've just found when things go well on Ebay you get what you expect, and when they go bad they have the potential to go REALLY bad. Use to be worth the risk for a bargain but I haven't had a bargain from Ebay in ages. I often find things cheaper brand new elsewhere.
Thanks. I think troll and flamebait are the most overused modifiers. Got tired of having a different point of view shouted down. Don't know if the sig makes people think, but I wanted to make a statement.
When I first started using Ebay you could really get a bargain, and that's why I went there. However that was a long time ago. These days you're likely to see used goods sold at 80% or more of the original "brand new" product...sometimes they go for more than brand new which makes me wonder how legit these sales are. The other thing that makes me wonder is how I started getting second chance offers. What put the nail in the coffin for me buying stuff off Ebay though was my dissatisfaction at the handling of a dispute over a very low value item. (About US20). I got broken used goods where the claim was that the goods were "still in shrink wrap". Yeah re-shrinkwrapped. The proof I had to get to get my money back was certainly not worth the $20 and the seller started threatening me with legal action over factual comments I left on his feedback instead of dealing with the issues. So I issued a chargeback on my credit card, I closed my paypal account, and haven't used my Ebay account since. That was sometime last year.
Another time I was very lucky to get a much more expensive pair of items because the seller got the address wrong. Fortunately the goods got to me, but when I questioned the seller over whether the address was obtained from my Ebay account they just got defensive. I'd have been out US350 if those goods hadn't arrived. I've heard much worse horror stories from acquaintances at work but I'm not privy to the details and don't know how true they are.
Also fee increase over the years have made it not worth it to list low value items. So these items don't show up if you're a buyer and if you want to sell them you know you're better off trying to pawn them off to friends.
In short, Ebay isn't what it once was, at least for me. It was once an excellent place to get a bargain or get rid of unwanted goods.
Pity most settle for the red guitar, 3 chords and incoherent drug induced crapola. (Not saying that about Bono. He actually comes across as an intelligent guy in interviews and seems to have some kind of grip on issues like the envrionment...who knows if it's all part of the act or not though).
...at least in the world of Pop music. Have you listened to any pop lately? It's mostly interchangable shite.
But hey it all started with rock - 3 chords and an infinite variety of combinations and words...sometimes the whole is more than the sum of it's parts (and sometimes it's just pure garbage).
Kinda reminds me of the "choose your own adventure" books I read in primary school.
1. Whitelist police spyware
2. Crim gets hold of police spyware
3. Crim gets pwns your machine, steals your identity and makes your life a living hell for the next 3 years or more.
If you paid for a piece of anti-spyware and they leave a backdoor open like this, isn't that a case of negligence?
So buy your mother a fantastic phone, tell her to live without playing MP3s or taking lots of happy snaps, and problem solved. She really only needs to be able to get back to the root menu and use the handful of features she wants. As for battery life...well I typically get 4-5 days out of a charge of my Nokia N70, but that's with quite light phone use, and the only features I use regularly besides phone and SMS are calendar alarms. Hell I have a demo version of Doom installed and that chews battery, but who wants to play a 10 year old shooter on a tiny screen with tiny unusable keys when you've got porky fingers like mine. Also I own an iPod so why would I want to use the phone to play MP3s (unless it's all I have with me, and when I do I typically don't have a headset with me)?