Stand your ground when they swoop and try to hit them. After you do this a few times, and especially if you manage to connect with one, they'll never bother you again.
Umm.. yeah, and then you'll say "sure, install this program I didn't even ask to install". If that's something to be worried about then no amount of "security" is going to protect these people.
If someone was truly talented they wouldn't be giving it away on the street corner.
There's more musicians on this planet than our societies can support. That's why copyright has become more and more draconian, to prop up a drastically dropping market price.
Turn *off* your laptop before going through customs. Turn off the GRUB menu and change the default key combination to have it come up. Have a WinXP install to boot up into and set it as the default boot option.
Strong cryptography is lovely but it is not for idiots.
Excuse me, but who are you? Have you done any breaking of DRM? Ever? I have, and I'm telling you that products based on open source stuff are a LOT easier to crack than proprietary stuff. I'm baffled that you'd even argue with me about this.
Acquired, not produced.. and since we're talking about openness, what was open about it exactly?
I like all of Google's offerings. I use Gmail, Google News, Google Maps (including street view) and all the rest, but let's not get too carried away here.. all of those offerings are decidedly closed. Android is expected to be open, but it remains to be seen.
A better question is: am I valuable enough to the company that threatening to quit if they patent my work likely to be of any concern to them? If the answer is no, you make your own decision about what is more important to you, your job or your ethics.
Umm.. my family certainly has a combined income of over $300k a year.. but, ya know, my wife, my father, my mother, her father, her mother, her brother, my brother, their husbands and wives, all have jobs or own businesses, properties, etc. It's that thing grown ups do.. and unfortunately, every time you sign a contract or sell something the tax man might be interested in, you need to talk to the family lawyer or the family accountant or you're going to get ass raped.
On the other hand, if I personally was earning over $300k a year I'd have my own personal lawyer and accountant no doubt.
"I have a family to support" so "I was just following orders".. grow a spine. There's plenty of other jobs out there that don't require you to do morally repugnant things. Desperate people are the problem with capitalism.
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"every detail of your life" and "the public record" are not the same thing.. in fact, they're not even in the same ballpark.
The children are right to laugh at you Ralph.
How can any reasonable person have an expectation of privacy when their words are on the public record?
It's the public record.. it's open to the public..
Stand your ground when they swoop and try to hit them. After you do this a few times, and especially if you manage to connect with one, they'll never bother you again.
"Download this exe and run it for me, I've put the url in your clipboard for you".. exactly what would you have the security community do?
Ahh, good point. Thanks. There's even a $699 desktop there. No monitor of course.
Umm.. yeah, and then you'll say "sure, install this program I didn't even ask to install". If that's something to be worried about then no amount of "security" is going to protect these people.
Normal people like to write to their hard disk.
a PC with 6GB of RAM for $999? Really? That's funny, I don't see a shop by option for 6GB.
But I fail to see how you can leverage this to gain privs.
If that's possible, then maybe that should be the subject of the article.
If someone was truly talented they wouldn't be giving it away on the street corner.
There's more musicians on this planet than our societies can support. That's why copyright has become more and more draconian, to prop up a drastically dropping market price.
Threaten to kill the president and you'll quickly find out how capable the US government is at tracking individual slashdot posters.
Umm, they're clearly *not* friendly.
Reality is a bitch.
Because if your rights and freedoms do not stand up when applied to the worst of the worst then they most likely won't stand up when applied to you.
What does that make us who may have a girlfriend who dress in school girl outfits for us?
lucky bastards?
Turn *off* your laptop before going through customs.
Turn off the GRUB menu and change the default key combination to have it come up.
Have a WinXP install to boot up into and set it as the default boot option.
Strong cryptography is lovely but it is not for idiots.
Ahh, ok. Thanks for the update.
You mean other than not having to pay for access to an SDK and such?
Excuse me, but who are you? Have you done any breaking of DRM? Ever? I have, and I'm telling you that products based on open source stuff are a LOT easier to crack than proprietary stuff. I'm baffled that you'd even argue with me about this.
Acquired, not produced.. and since we're talking about openness, what was open about it exactly?
I like all of Google's offerings. I use Gmail, Google News, Google Maps (including street view) and all the rest, but let's not get too carried away here.. all of those offerings are decidedly closed. Android is expected to be open, but it remains to be seen.
Going to be pretty hard to lock down an open source product.
No, you're a paranoid freak and the rest of us get on with our lives and enjoy the free services that Google provides.
Or you could choose not to use Google.
The rest of us shouldn't have to suffer for your paranoia.
Well yeah. John Carmack did exactly this, but hey, he's John Carmack.
A better question is: am I valuable enough to the company that threatening to quit if they patent my work likely to be of any concern to them? If the answer is no, you make your own decision about what is more important to you, your job or your ethics.
Umm.. my family certainly has a combined income of over $300k a year.. but, ya know, my wife, my father, my mother, her father, her mother, her brother, my brother, their husbands and wives, all have jobs or own businesses, properties, etc. It's that thing grown ups do.. and unfortunately, every time you sign a contract or sell something the tax man might be interested in, you need to talk to the family lawyer or the family accountant or you're going to get ass raped.
On the other hand, if I personally was earning over $300k a year I'd have my own personal lawyer and accountant no doubt.
"I have a family to support" so "I was just following orders".. grow a spine. There's plenty of other jobs out there that don't require you to do morally repugnant things. Desperate people are the problem with capitalism.