The irony is that you think violations of IP is theft. Not so much ironic as subscribing to a different value system.
Ironic would be someone who pirates windows freaking out because somebody violated the GPL. Which happens all the time here.
The person who brute force discovers and uses someone else's code is not the one causing their Copy of Windows to be invalidated. Microsoft is doing that. This is a very important distinction..
Exactly, like when I used your card number to order all that stuff. It wasn't me who took the money from your account, it was the bank. I just typed in some numbers. Why are you so upset? Credit Card numbers are information and information wants to be free. How could anyone be upset about that?
The irony is that this is an example where IP theft *is* actually taking the original out of commission.
Unlike duplicating an mp3, here the original copy is no longer usable. It isn't just making another copy for yourself and leaving the original functional.
But the victim is MS or their customers, so it must be ok.
They probably aren't hobbyists. They are probably C++ geeks who are "stuck" working on Windows at their day job, hate it, don't respect it, and don't bother to learn it. I have seen it before.
It didn't take competition to identify the flaws, those we apparent to anyone who tried to lift one, then after doing that tried to write on it.
Users found that the writing experience they knew and understood (tactile and legible) just didn't work on the Newton. You got only visual feedback plus the damn thing couldn't make head or tail of most handwriting. (Might have been visionary, but the tech wasn't there.)
I suspect the iphone will have a similar reception, with the existing phone as the "low tech but vastly more satisfying" experience. No tactile feedback on buttons? Are they kidding?
Again, Apple makes a product that looks great but is totally unusable by anyone but a deluded fanboy, just like their mice.
What's the problem, too much focus on costs vs. benefits? Not enough of those great weasel words like "might", "could", and "possibly"?
Not enough Fear Uncertainty and Doubt for you?
The 2004 article was a piece of crap. "You could get infected with malware by browsing to a nasty web site." Um, yeah, assuming that the security configuration would be completely and totally wide open, and the ship's internal systems would be used for visiting Pr0N sites, then yes, it could.
By the same logic, submarines shouldn't have hatches either, because you could leave them all wide open and then submerge. In addition, you wouldn't want to use anything UNIX based, either, since when you could hand out root access to all sailors, and encourage them to experiment with rm.
You know, not everyone is interested in the Linux Jihad.
If its my money, I'm making sure you are the guy who's name appears on that credit card. If I have any doubt, I'm checking you out before I accept a piece of plastic. I'm the one on the hook for fraud. Not you.
Don't like proving your identity? Then pay cash. We accept that always. Want to give a promise instead? Then get ready for some verification.
How come "checking id when you promise payment in lieu of real money" = instant fascism!! Oh No Everybody Panic!!! 1984!!! AAAAHH!!
And the terms of my contract with VISA are none of your business. Don't like that I look out for my interests? Hit the road, jack.
Headline: "Blackberry Owners Chained To Work" Lede: "New survey data suggests that Americans are split over whether Blackberrys are chaining them to work."
"So what we suggest is having an encryption solution (and) having a tracking and recovery solution so that if you do get into trouble you can do something after the fact." - CEO of some company that will *gladly* sell you this.
What's so fuddy about that? If you have sensitive data on a laptop, you better encrypt it. Sounds like common sense to me.
And I'm *not* in the portable encryption business.
Is it an unspeakable crime to sell useful services and advocate for wider adoption of those services?
installed MySQL in 5 minutes, and created a basic data model in 30 minutes...and six months later we realized that none of our data integrity checks had actually been enforced.
riddled with misuse of certain words, left out some important and key details, misstated the implications of the story, and/or came up with a very strange and subjective conclusion that came out of the blue.
And this differs from the average Slashdot post how?
So who served the donuts?
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OK, so the forces of evil agreed in advance to steal the election. Where was the meeting held? Did they rent out a conference room? What was the cover story? How about the meeting to agree on the cover story for the meeting? How many phone calls, secretaries, coffee gofers, etc. were involved? Did the meeting run long? Did they get lunch catered in?
So at a minimum, how many people were involved in a conspiracy to steal democracy? 200? 500?
Nah, it is more like quoting Martin Luther on matters of Catholic theology. The Copenhagen Consensus people are heretics because they don't buy into the apocalyptic mythology that informs today's environmental movement.
That and they ask hard questions like: Cut global temps by.05 degrees or cut AIDS by 90% You have enough political capital to do one. Choose.
Put the question that way and suddenly reasonable people don't see radical change to the global economy as a priority.
>I don't get why the "man has no effect" crowd are so vehemently against taking any action.
Or because "taking action" is hugely expensive, not effective, and diverts resources from real here and now problems. Just look where global warming lies on the Copenhagen Consensus project's to do list: dead last. No matter what happens, internal combustion engines are on their way out. Why burn enormous political and economic capital kicking them to the curb 10 years earlier to cut global temperatures by.005 degrees?
GW has the advantages of fueling into peoples apocalyptic fantasies while blaming fat SUV driving red-staters for all the world's problems. That's why the Guardian and BBC both run a "the sky is falling" article every single day. They love this stuff.
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Huh,
I intentionally used your specific registration code to invalidate your copy of windows,
Seen the Twilight Zone episode where the lady gets a magic box with a button. Push it and someone she doesn't know dies.
Here's an example of push it and someone's copy of Windows stops working. But the guy who pushes it isn't responsible for what happens.
As far as the rest goes...
Lay off the bong hits kid.
The irony is that you think violations of IP is theft.
Not so much ironic as subscribing to a different value system.
Ironic would be someone who pirates windows freaking out because somebody violated the GPL. Which happens all the time here.
The person who brute force discovers and uses someone else's code is not the one causing their Copy of Windows to be invalidated. Microsoft is doing that.
This is a very important distinction..
Exactly, like when I used your card number to order all that stuff. It wasn't me who took the money from your account, it was the bank. I just typed in some numbers. Why are you so upset? Credit Card numbers are information and information wants to be free. How could anyone be upset about that?
The irony is that this is an example where IP theft *is* actually taking the original out of commission.
Unlike duplicating an mp3, here the original copy is no longer usable. It isn't just making another copy for yourself and leaving the original functional.
But the victim is MS or their customers, so it must be ok.
The slashbots are excited because this, *this* will be the thing that makes people go to desktop Linux.
Nobody will upgrade to XP--er.... Nobody will upgrade to Vista because of activation.
Yes! 199-, er...
2003, er....
2007 WILL BE THE YEAR FOR DESKTOP LINUX!!!
The first rule of cynicism masquerading as wisdom is...
oh never mind.
Yep, cross platform like Google Earth and Picasa...
They probably aren't hobbyists. They are probably C++ geeks who are "stuck" working on Windows at their day job, hate it, don't respect it, and don't bother to learn it. I have seen it before.
>identify the flaws in the Newton, and beat it.
It didn't take competition to identify the flaws, those we apparent to anyone who tried to lift one, then after doing that tried to write on it.
Users found that the writing experience they knew and understood (tactile and legible) just didn't work on the Newton. You got only visual feedback plus the damn thing couldn't make head or tail of most handwriting. (Might have been visionary, but the tech wasn't there.)
I suspect the iphone will have a similar reception, with the existing phone as the "low tech but vastly more satisfying" experience. No tactile feedback on buttons? Are they kidding?
Again, Apple makes a product that looks great but is totally unusable by anyone but a deluded fanboy, just like their mice.
What's the problem, too much focus on costs vs. benefits? Not enough of those great weasel words like "might", "could", and "possibly"?
Not enough Fear Uncertainty and Doubt for you?
The 2004 article was a piece of crap. "You could get infected with malware by browsing to a nasty web site." Um, yeah, assuming that the security configuration would be completely and totally wide open, and the ship's internal systems would be used for visiting Pr0N sites, then yes, it could.
By the same logic, submarines shouldn't have hatches either, because you could leave them all wide open and then submerge. In addition, you wouldn't want to use anything UNIX based, either, since when you could hand out root access to all sailors, and encourage them to experiment with rm.
You know, not everyone is interested in the Linux Jihad.
In other words: WAAAAAHHH!!
If its my money, I'm making sure you are the guy who's name appears on that credit card. If I have any doubt, I'm checking you out before I accept a piece of plastic. I'm the one on the hook for fraud. Not you.
Don't like proving your identity? Then pay cash. We accept that always. Want to give a promise instead? Then get ready for some verification.
How come "checking id when you promise payment in lieu of real money" = instant fascism!! Oh No Everybody Panic!!! 1984!!! AAAAHH!!
And the terms of my contract with VISA are none of your business. Don't like that I look out for my interests? Hit the road, jack.
What, and miss out on the educational aspect of firing a customer?
*******
"Waaah! I want [totally unreasonable thing]."
Sorry.
"Waaah! If you don't give in, I'll take my valuable [read easily replaced] business elsewhere."
Good, go.
"Waaah! I want to speak to the manager."
I'm the owner.
"Waaah! But I'm the customer, and the customer is always right."
No. The customer is often wrong. And you are not our customer anymore. Go away.
"Wah! But...but...but..."
Get out now!
*******
I wouldn't feel right depriving you of the valuable attitude adjustment. Just think of it as my form of public service.
Waaah! I'm being oppressed! You can't ask for ID! Waah! = PITA/not worth dealing with/some asshole we can do without.
it's hard enough for small businesses, arbitrarily pissing off customers
As a small business owner, let me say,
Get the hell out of my store!
I don't need customers like you.
Things got a lot better around here once we started "firing" customers who were assholes. More trouble than they are worth.
Which is it?
Headline: "Blackberry Owners Chained To Work"
Lede: "New survey data suggests that Americans are split over whether Blackberrys are chaining them to work."
Are you suggesting that bashing Microsoft is *bad* for your karma?
"So what we suggest is having an encryption solution (and) having a tracking and recovery solution so that if you do get into trouble you can do something after the fact." - CEO of some company that will *gladly* sell you this.
What's so fuddy about that? If you have sensitive data on a laptop, you better encrypt it. Sounds like common sense to me.
And I'm *not* in the portable encryption business.
Is it an unspeakable crime to sell useful services and advocate for wider adoption of those services?
Hey no fair! You read the article. You are supposed to just post something about M$ sux! or Vi$ta blows! or something.
People don't like to talk about peak oil
Are you kidding? It crops up in every single discussion of energy, waved about like a totem of doom.
The audio mixer in Vista...
This is Slashdot, you can't admit the existence of *features* in Vista.
installed MySQL in 5 minutes, and created a basic data model in 30 minutes ...and six months later we realized that none of our data integrity checks had actually been enforced.
riddled with misuse of certain words, left out some important and key details, misstated the implications of the story, and/or came up with a very strange and subjective conclusion that came out of the blue.
And this differs from the average Slashdot post how?
OK, so the forces of evil agreed in advance to steal the election. Where was the meeting held? Did they rent out a conference room? What was the cover story? How about the meeting to agree on the cover story for the meeting? How many phone calls, secretaries, coffee gofers, etc. were involved? Did the meeting run long? Did they get lunch catered in?
So at a minimum, how many people were involved in a conspiracy to steal democracy? 200? 500?
And NOBODY ratted them out?
Lay off the bong hits kids.
Nah, it is more like quoting Martin Luther on matters of Catholic theology. The Copenhagen Consensus people are heretics because they don't buy into the apocalyptic mythology that informs today's environmental movement.
.05 degrees or cut AIDS by 90% You have enough political capital to do one. Choose.
That and they ask hard questions like: Cut global temps by
Put the question that way and suddenly reasonable people don't see radical change to the global economy as a priority.
>I don't get why the "man has no effect" crowd are so vehemently against taking any action.
.005 degrees?
Or because "taking action" is hugely expensive, not effective, and diverts resources from real here and now problems. Just look where global warming lies on the Copenhagen Consensus project's to do list: dead last. No matter what happens, internal combustion engines are on their way out. Why burn enormous political and economic capital kicking them to the curb 10 years earlier to cut global temperatures by
GW has the advantages of fueling into peoples apocalyptic fantasies while blaming fat SUV driving red-staters for all the world's problems. That's why the Guardian and BBC both run a "the sky is falling" article every single day. They love this stuff.