Not to defend Steam here, but 24 hours isn't a bad resolution time for a service which, to my knowledge, doesn't actually have any stated SLAs for support.
No you're not and that's the problem. By not buying the game you're sending a clear signal that you found a way to pirate it and so they need to add even more draconian anti-piracy measures to their next release.
It's not a matter of them "winning" per se as the claimants don't even have the legal right to sue as neither they nor MediaCAT are the rights-holders, or acting on behalf of the rights-holders, of the properties that are alleged to have been infringed.
At this point, with all the legal bodies that are investigating his firm, Andrew Crossley will be lucky to walk away from all of this without being disbarred.
Wrong. They have helped to solve quite a lot of crimes (though probably not enough to justify the cost and invasion of privacy), but what they haven't done is help to reduce crime (although in a few cases they have relocated crime to an area with lower CCTV coverage which can give the appearance of reducing crime if you don't look at the numbers too closely).
No, the true skill was in convincing people that the expiry of the tax cuts would have a substantial impact on their finances. Most (Read 95% of) Americans would have paid little, if any, extra taxes if the cuts had expired; all the $1800/year figures that were floating around were mean averages that were massively distorted by including the top 5% of earners in the calculations and then pretending that said "averages" were representative for everyone in the country.
Well it doesn't really work with the iPlayer - the BBC will tell ISPs to fuck off because it would be a massive waste of licence-payer money to give in to their extortion and pay for "better" service (Outside of the fact that the BBC is one of the bigger Peers in the UK) and the BBC Trust wouldn't let them do it.
But, with other services who are willing to pay to stifle their competition it's going to be very tempting for ISPs to accept that money; it's a lot easier to take the moral high ground when people aren't lining up to throw money at you. That said, there are a *lot* of ISPs in the UK (Over 100 according to ISPA) so it's going to start getting very, very expensive for companies to pay them all off.
P2P Protocols are *already* dumped into the slow lane; most ISPs these days actively throttle P2P traffic to some degree because, as someone else already stated, it's only used for pirating stuff - everyone knows that (and because poorly configured bittorrent clients running 24/7 and downloading Tb of data a week do tend to have a rather dramatic impact on network performance when you've massively oversold your capacity).
Rejecting apps because they're potential malware vectors (or outright malware) - Fine Rejecting apps because they offend your delicate sensibilities or the menu bar is the wrong shade of teal, at least for this week - Less Fine
Both my post and its parent were commenting on the relative stability of Seamonkey 2.1, which is also currently in Beta and shares much of the same codebase. Thus, were people looking for a stand-in for Firefox in light of its potential buggy release, they may wish to look at Seamonkey due to their similarities.
The way Firefox is going, they might as well just ship wget with addon functionality and tell everyone to write their own extensions if they want "extra" features like a GUI or mouse support.
I've been running the Seamonkey nightlies since they announced 2.1 Alpha and I've barely had any issues at all outside of a couple of plugins that took a while to update their version support. There was a minor issue for a couple of weeks where the browser would hang on startup for ~10 seconds, as well as a weird one with the Dell DRAC5 web interface not working properly and obviously Flash is as shit as on any platform, but otherwise it's been a smooth ride.
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Surely as a minimum you should just be able to turn off the ability to install apps remotely.
Not to defend Steam here, but 24 hours isn't a bad resolution time for a service which, to my knowledge, doesn't actually have any stated SLAs for support.
No you're not and that's the problem. By not buying the game you're sending a clear signal that you found a way to pirate it and so they need to add even more draconian anti-piracy measures to their next release.
Hi Ubisoft!
Take responsibility for the security of the services you host on the internet?
Wi-Fi "bucket chain" from Canada or Mexico.
Tell that to the entire corporations.
It's not a matter of them "winning" per se as the claimants don't even have the legal right to sue as neither they nor MediaCAT are the rights-holders, or acting on behalf of the rights-holders, of the properties that are alleged to have been infringed.
At this point, with all the legal bodies that are investigating his firm, Andrew Crossley will be lucky to walk away from all of this without being disbarred.
The BBC is not a government programme, they are a publicly funded independent organization.
A fully CGI horse with twitching so realistic you'd swear it was a live-action horse.
Wrong. They have helped to solve quite a lot of crimes (though probably not enough to justify the cost and invasion of privacy), but what they haven't done is help to reduce crime (although in a few cases they have relocated crime to an area with lower CCTV coverage which can give the appearance of reducing crime if you don't look at the numbers too closely).
Because sometimes waiting for terrorist or activist groups to come up with their own illegal activities is just boring.
No, the true skill was in convincing people that the expiry of the tax cuts would have a substantial impact on their finances. Most (Read 95% of) Americans would have paid little, if any, extra taxes if the cuts had expired; all the $1800/year figures that were floating around were mean averages that were massively distorted by including the top 5% of earners in the calculations and then pretending that said "averages" were representative for everyone in the country.
Well it doesn't really work with the iPlayer - the BBC will tell ISPs to fuck off because it would be a massive waste of licence-payer money to give in to their extortion and pay for "better" service (Outside of the fact that the BBC is one of the bigger Peers in the UK) and the BBC Trust wouldn't let them do it.
But, with other services who are willing to pay to stifle their competition it's going to be very tempting for ISPs to accept that money; it's a lot easier to take the moral high ground when people aren't lining up to throw money at you. That said, there are a *lot* of ISPs in the UK (Over 100 according to ISPA) so it's going to start getting very, very expensive for companies to pay them all off.
Or, you know, how the non-internet world works right now :)
P2P Protocols are *already* dumped into the slow lane; most ISPs these days actively throttle P2P traffic to some degree because, as someone else already stated, it's only used for pirating stuff - everyone knows that (and because poorly configured bittorrent clients running 24/7 and downloading Tb of data a week do tend to have a rather dramatic impact on network performance when you've massively oversold your capacity).
Rejecting apps because they're potential malware vectors (or outright malware) - Fine
Rejecting apps because they offend your delicate sensibilities or the menu bar is the wrong shade of teal, at least for this week - Less Fine
Not until you get an equal number of people using Linux who are determined to see the dancing bunnies.
1.5 million as of end of December so somewhere between 0 and 60,000 affected users (assuming "Low single digit" maxes out at 4%).
I'm on a 1Gb/month plan (Nexus One), but between Wi-Fi and not streaming video 24/7 I've only pulled 2.5Gb of Cell data in the last 9 months.
Really? Attack Toolkits are a new worry? I mean, I know they consulted a guy from Symantec for the article, but even so...
Attack Toolkits have been in existence for a long time, even if you only count the newer "hosted" solutions.
Well done for spotting that.
Both my post and its parent were commenting on the relative stability of Seamonkey 2.1, which is also currently in Beta and shares much of the same codebase. Thus, were people looking for a stand-in for Firefox in light of its potential buggy release, they may wish to look at Seamonkey due to their similarities.
That's the thing about standards, you're not supposed to skip bits of them just because you don't think they're important.
Chrome 9 is. Chrome 10 is alpha (ish (I guess)).
The way Firefox is going, they might as well just ship wget with addon functionality and tell everyone to write their own extensions if they want "extra" features like a GUI or mouse support.
I've been running the Seamonkey nightlies since they announced 2.1 Alpha and I've barely had any issues at all outside of a couple of plugins that took a while to update their version support. There was a minor issue for a couple of weeks where the browser would hang on startup for ~10 seconds, as well as a weird one with the Dell DRAC5 web interface not working properly and obviously Flash is as shit as on any platform, but otherwise it's been a smooth ride.