"Unfortunately, it will be the top of the landfill"
How does one dump an SDK on a landfill? Do you have to take the developer's computer with it, or do you burn it on a CD, and then dump it? Or maybe the developer manual?
I wonder what percentage of slashdot readers never read the articles people post about before commenting on it?
I wonder what percentage of slashdot readers never read the summary before commenting on it?
It does look like when the article is about N-Cage, the percentage is about 80%.
I'm not. I couldn't give a flying fuck what caused the Skype outage, since I don't really use it more frequently than one a month.
However, it appears that SKYPE is blaming Skype for the outage quite contrary to the completely misleading headline on this article. Who am I to argue with Skype about what cause their failure. But I'm sure you know better.
The minute I saw the headlines on some of the blogs about this, I KNEW it'd be on Slashdot with the same misleading headline.
Normally Skype's peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.
The issue has now been identified explicitly within Skype.
That's what Skype says. Doesn't sound like they're blaming anyone but themselves.
It sure would be nice if the DAs in this country took identity theft crimes targeting the Forbes 270,000,000 list just as seriously as they appear to be taking crimes against the Forbes 400 list.
It also would be nice if the press called them out on it once in a while, especially during a press conference announcing the arrests of these criminals where the Manhattan DA spewed the nonsense about being tough on identity crime.
"I think Jon Stewart's opinions will weigh in favor of YouTube."
I wouldn't count on that. I bet Mr. Stewart will be thoroughly "briefed" by Viacom Corporate Counsel prior to the deposition about what's an appropriate response in behalf of Mr. Stewart's employer.
Good question. I'm beginning to think their number one priority is to harrass all immigrants, legal or illegal, as much as they possibly can, and hunt down domestic terrorists putting up LED advertisement signs in major US cities.
The bill passed the NYS Assembly vote. It hasn't been enacted as a law yet.
The minute it will be enacted, the various entertainment and retail industry groups are going to sue New York State, and after a costly legal battle it will be ruled unconstitutional. One can only hope the various out of touch insane jackasses in Albany will be forced to pay the legal bills from their personal funds. That won't happen, of course, and the bill will be paid by NYS tax payers.
The person who wrote the article is not your average joe with malware up the wazoo, but someone who does research on spyware and malware related issues. I think your fourth option is pretty damn unlikely.
There's a 100% chance false positives will occur with this list. Someone legal will get their name on this list, and be forever banned from working in the US again.
You'd then be fighting against the United States Government, alone, with no job, to get your name off the list. Good luck with that.
The million Jose Gonzales' who are legally in this country should be very afraid right about now.
People's lives will be ruined. Just how many lives is the only question. The followup question is how are these people going to react to being outcast for no reason whatsoever. How many of them will do something drastic.
This isn't just a bad idea, but a monumentally bad idea.
The difference between what the Russian (Bulgarian, whatever) mobsters are doing and state sponsored terrorism is that the cybercriminals are directly attacking the network infrastructure itself, and supporting terrorism is not (directly).
Cutting Russia off the net is not a way to punish the criminals or the authorities looking the other way, but to protect the very network they're destroying. If the Russians aren't doing it, the victims must.
I've said this again, but until Russia (and other Eastern bloc countries) start taking cybercrime seriously, it should just be cut off the net entirely.
Most of the botnets in the world are controlled by Russian mafia. The rest of the world is spending an insane amount of time, money and effort defending against these attacks that orginate 90% from one part of the world. It's like criminally created welfare program, and we're all paying.
The real solution is to completely overhaul the information broker industry and move to a system where the subject of the credit information has total control over who gets to access the data. That's how it should've been from the get go.
That's going to happen about at the same time hell freezes over though, because it would mean no profits for the information thieves.
Except that if you did read the article, the cases weren't dismissed because of missing pages, pages being glued together or any other problems with the actual documents.
In all cases the judges dismissed the cases due to the contents of the documents they had clearly not read at all.
It's a clear case of prejudice from the judges part. They had already decided before reading the filing that the spammer was to get set free. It's a pretty serious miscarriage of justive if you ask me. Same sort of shit happens at family courts all the time, unfortunately there the stakes are a little bit higher than in small claims courts.
UN = pushed by and large by everyone else but the US WTO = pushed by and large by nobody but the US (especially with respect to IP policy)
The US is selectively picking which WTO policies and decisions it's obeying. The US obeys no policy or agreement that harms them economically or politically, but on the other hand is proactively forcing other countries to obey policies and agreements that DO harm the target country. It sure doesn't sound like a good idea to me. What the hell happened to reciprocity?
Rather it looks like the WTO is the modern day equivalent of gunboat diplomacy. The threat is just a little more subtle than a previously unscheduled military exercise near your borders.
GamePolitics.com is a site that covers video game stories that touch on politics. This is a story that was created elsewhere (like the first poster mentioned) and is exactly the sort of a story GamePolitics.com covers.
They don't need the/. traffic, they get plenty without.
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"Unfortunately, it will be the top of the landfill"
How does one dump an SDK on a landfill? Do you have to take the developer's computer with it, or do you burn it on a CD, and then dump it? Or maybe the developer manual?
I wonder what percentage of slashdot readers never read the articles people post about before commenting on it?
I wonder what percentage of slashdot readers never read the summary before commenting on it?
It does look like when the article is about N-Cage, the percentage is about 80%.
"In this case, why are you blaming Skype?"
I'm not. I couldn't give a flying fuck what caused the Skype outage, since I don't really use it more frequently than one a month.
However, it appears that SKYPE is blaming Skype for the outage quite contrary to the completely misleading headline on this article. Who am I to argue with Skype about what cause their failure. But I'm sure you know better.
That's what Skype says. Doesn't sound like they're blaming anyone but themselves.
No
It sure would be nice if the DAs in this country took identity theft crimes targeting the Forbes 270,000,000 list just as seriously as they appear to be taking crimes against the Forbes 400 list.
It also would be nice if the press called them out on it once in a while, especially during a press conference announcing the arrests of these criminals where the Manhattan DA spewed the nonsense about being tough on identity crime.
"I think Jon Stewart's opinions will weigh in favor of YouTube."
I wouldn't count on that. I bet Mr. Stewart will be thoroughly "briefed" by Viacom Corporate Counsel prior to the deposition about what's an appropriate response in behalf of Mr. Stewart's employer.
You don't think abandoning scientific research methodology in behalf of political agendas is "news for nerds"?
I do.
This sounds exactly like the old Soviet Political Officer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar) system.
Way to go!
Yea, cause everyone knows Google hires people for pennies.
Get a clue.
"What exactly do they do?"
Good question. I'm beginning to think their number one priority is to harrass all immigrants, legal or illegal, as much as they possibly can, and hunt down domestic terrorists putting up LED advertisement signs in major US cities.
What's so weird about it?
People have families and other commitments.
I wouldn't move half way across the country for any company either unless they made it REALLY worthwhile to me and my family.
The bill passed the NYS Assembly vote. It hasn't been enacted as a law yet.
The minute it will be enacted, the various entertainment and retail industry groups are going to sue New York State, and after a costly legal battle it will be ruled unconstitutional. One can only hope the various out of touch insane jackasses in Albany will be forced to pay the legal bills from their personal funds. That won't happen, of course, and the bill will be paid by NYS tax payers.
The person who wrote the article is not your average joe with malware up the wazoo, but someone who does research on spyware and malware related issues. I think your fourth option is pretty damn unlikely.
There's a 100% chance false positives will occur with this list. Someone legal will get their name on this list, and be forever banned from working in the US again.
You'd then be fighting against the United States Government, alone, with no job, to get your name off the list. Good luck with that.
The million Jose Gonzales' who are legally in this country should be very afraid right about now.
People's lives will be ruined. Just how many lives is the only question. The followup question is how are these people going to react to being outcast for no reason whatsoever. How many of them will do something drastic.
This isn't just a bad idea, but a monumentally bad idea.
The difference between what the Russian (Bulgarian, whatever) mobsters are doing and state sponsored terrorism is that the cybercriminals are directly attacking the network infrastructure itself, and supporting terrorism is not (directly).
Cutting Russia off the net is not a way to punish the criminals or the authorities looking the other way, but to protect the very network they're destroying. If the Russians aren't doing it, the victims must.
Wow, a Russian talking about human rights violations.
Man, my ironymeter just went off the scale.
I've said this again, but until Russia (and other Eastern bloc countries) start taking cybercrime seriously, it should just be cut off the net entirely.
Most of the botnets in the world are controlled by Russian mafia. The rest of the world is spending an insane amount of time, money and effort defending against these attacks that orginate 90% from one part of the world. It's like criminally created welfare program, and we're all paying.
The real solution is to completely overhaul the information broker industry and move to a system where the subject of the credit information has total control over who gets to access the data. That's how it should've been from the get go.
That's going to happen about at the same time hell freezes over though, because it would mean no profits for the information thieves.
Except that if you did read the article, the cases weren't dismissed because of missing pages, pages being glued together or any other problems with the actual documents.
In all cases the judges dismissed the cases due to the contents of the documents they had clearly not read at all.
It's a clear case of prejudice from the judges part. They had already decided before reading the filing that the spammer was to get set free. It's a pretty serious miscarriage of justive if you ask me. Same sort of shit happens at family courts all the time, unfortunately there the stakes are a little bit higher than in small claims courts.
UN = pushed by and large by everyone else but the US
WTO = pushed by and large by nobody but the US (especially with respect to IP policy)
The US is selectively picking which WTO policies and decisions it's obeying. The US obeys no policy or agreement that harms them economically or politically, but on the other hand is proactively forcing other countries to obey policies and agreements that DO harm the target country. It sure doesn't sound like a good idea to me. What the hell happened to reciprocity?
Rather it looks like the WTO is the modern day equivalent of gunboat diplomacy. The threat is just a little more subtle than a previously unscheduled military exercise near your borders.
What good is the organization and agreement when the biggest proponent of it fails to obey it?
Thanks for the advertisement, we sure appreciate it.
*laugh all the way to the bank*
Uh, no.
/. traffic, they get plenty without.
GamePolitics.com is a site that covers video game stories that touch on politics. This is a story that was created elsewhere (like the first poster mentioned) and is exactly the sort of a story GamePolitics.com covers.
They don't need the
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