Take the word "pirate" out of it and it's really a story of "programmers take code from somewhere else and use it for their own", and we know that never happens.
Heck, if you remove all nouns it's just "take from else and use for own" and we all know that's not news;)
The myth that cracked software = malware needs to die. It is simply untrue. Cracked software is no more susceptible or infected than legit software. Crackers =! malware authors. They have no incentive to include malware in their cracks.
Counterpoint: the recent iWorks suite that went around the torrent sites: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/mac_trojan_attack/
Crackers have as much incentive to crack machines as anyone does - which is to say, a lot. If you control a botnet you can get a pretty penny from some nefarious characters.
It's amazing the extremes some politicans will go to to cover up affairs from their wives. "You see honey, I spend all weekend with...uh...ALIENS!" In other news, Ilyumzhinov is also planning a hiking trip this weekend on the Appalachian Trail--where his cellphone won't work, so don't even bother calling.
I heard he's also hiring aliens to carry his luggage...?
They call themselves muslim, might as well insinuate the entire muslim population. If the rest of the muslim populace is doing nothing when these whack jobs are saying this shit then they are implicitly agreeing with it. This behaviour is completely unacceptable no matter who does it. Can you imagine if there was a miltant Athiest faction? Every religious nut job would jump at the chance to group them all together!
Also, it seems that Lightworks was only recently (August 2009) acquired by EditShare. Making it OpenSource now could mean that EditShare maybe was not able or willing to continue developing, selling and supporting the program and now tries to salvage something by open-sourcing it, hoping the community will pick up the slack.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though, look at blender:) That's taken off like fireweed!
Mod parent up. Piracy (as in people boarding ships to ransack the cargo or kidnap the crew) has never ceased, it was simply marginalised to third-world regions where it did not affect "our" trade and therefore seldom made it into the news.
Actually it still affects our trade, but it happens to multinational faceless megacorporations, so media doesn't talk about it - what reason have we to care of piracy in somalia if the only companies affected are giant assholes?
Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US... What the hell gives these assholes the right to demand ANYTHING?
Calm down, mate. If a chief of some remote Polynesian tribe demands tomorrow that all the pale-skins from the Great White North shall submit to the will of his powerful god Yaka-Yaka, or else suffer his wrath, are you going to pay attention as well?
If not, then treat this case the same way. After all, fundamentally, it is the same.
Though, Yaka Yaka is powerful, you just admitted it yourself! I bet they have it written down in an old book too, so it must mean it's true!
[...] But the EU could make life pretty unpleasant for Canadians in principle if it starts cancelling other agreements: travel, currency exchange, access to markets, landing rights, port privileges, etc. If Europe and Canada stop cooperating, Canada will degenerate into an appendage of the US even more so than it already is. For Europe, it would simply mean the loss of a fairly small trading partner. Big deal.
Fuck em then. I don't want to have to cowtow to some corporate sleezebucket government for whom I did not vote, just for the ability to travel to Paris or London every 5 years.
If I had a Quebec separatist here in BC, I'd vote for them. I tired of Quebec determining our national policies (they have a huge number of seats in Parliament)
He must not be married. If I turned down a mil, my wife would kill me, dig me back up, kill me again, film it all, and sell the film rights to recoup it.
I suspect that in Russia, as in other places, large amounts of cash, even if given away, attracts the attention of all sorts of unwelcome characters. The government with taxes; receiving the reward leads to paperwork which if not everything is in order can lead to huge repercussions, like jail time. Criminals who will only hear you received a lump sum, not that you gave it away.
I bet Russia is just a nice a place to live in as the USA. Your opinion seems skewed either by the media or scaremongers left over from the cold war era.
No. But why is he so stand-offish? Why not try to change what you don't like from a position of authority? Perelmen could do it if he wanted to, but it's like he's given up. That's what bothers me.
Does he entice a violent reaction in you?
No. Apparently in some other people it does though.
Do you hate it, when someone sticks out of the crowd not out of a desire to be more 'cool looking' but simply because he does not need the crowd?
I doubt it's because he "does not need the crowd". I think perhaps there is something more underlying his entire attitude. You've given him attributes that he may not have. Obviously, it's cool to think of the genius recluse who "doesn't need the crowd", but if we can learn from him, why is he not teaching us? We are a social animal after all - when one does well, all of us do well. Unfortunately, there's a problem with a lot of North Americans where they think "doing well" is "looking good and being rich". What Perelman's doing may seem noble, but why not give that knowledge to science? I think he's being selfish.
That's a wrong way to do this conversation - you really need to pull something like: "I'm concerned the radiation levels of your wireless router are causing you all to have brain cancer" followed by "innocent" inquiries into if anyone on the office has headaches or problems sleeping, suggesting the AP might be the cause. It's bullshit of course but the only way to get people interested is to make it about *their* asses. If you're good enough (i.e. go through it in a really circumspect way) you may even get them to pay you to investigate and reconfigure the said AP:)
Ahh.. Social Hacking. My favourite kind of hacking.
In Canada, if that person gets into an accident, my taxes are going to pay for his hospital bill. I'm all for saving lives, but I would rather prevent injury before it happens. In this case I worked goddamn hard for my money
The idea that you think this gives you the right to tell me how I should live my life is THE single primary reason that a nationalised health system is a bad idea.
Not at all. I'm not telling you how to live your life! I'm telling you that you shouldn't expect free healthcare if you do something stupid - like, oh, I don't know, breaking the law.
If you want to shoot yourself in the foot or cut off your own ear because of a stupid cult, go ahead! You're fucking crazy but go ahead - just don't expect to get some free healthcare to fix up that badly infected earhole.
Which is why, by a 3-1 margin, Americans are against ObamaCare. We do not want the Government telling us what we can or cannot do under the guise of "being good for you". I live in Illinois and I ride my motorcycle without my helmet. That is my choice; not yours, not the governments, so keep the fuck out of my life.
Bottom line... Obama wants to take over 1/6 of the US Economy.. that is basically the ENTIRE economy of France or England. The bill is about CONTROL, not Health Care.
Where the fuck did this come from??? I swear. You say one little thing and dumbass conservatives are all over it like stink on a dog.
Get a clue!! I like our healthcare here in Canada! It's saved my life from genuine illnesses many times!
A simple helmet can save thousands of dollars in taxpayer money
Every day, thousands of people hit their heads while performing mundane activities, requiring treatment for head injuries. I don't like the idea of my tax dollars paying for their care either, so I think we should mandate that helmets for EVERYONE to wear all the time, not just while riding a motorbike.
Pedestrians in New York City are especially at risk of getting hurt- and there happens to be a lot of people in NY who receive public healthcare, which means I'm paying for their care indirectly. I think we should stand up against this! I demand that all pedestrians in New York wear helmets, shoulder protection, elbow protection, knee protection, hip protection, sort of like the gear a hockey player wears. This will surely make the world a safer place and keep our insurance costs down.
These sorts of situations are genuine accidents. Do you need a license to walk around a city? Do you need a license to use a cupboard? NO. Stop coming up with stupid nonsensical shit to qualify a bullshit reason not to wear a helmet.
A motorcycle requires a license to use it. As such I would expect that they educate the licensee on the dangers and the law of the roads. Wearing a helmet on a motorbike is the law here in Canada, and if you are not wearing a helmet, you are breaking the law we tacitly agreed upon by being a part of this society. If you break our laws don't expect to receive the benefits of being in this society.
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Take the word "pirate" out of it and it's really a story of "programmers take code from somewhere else and use it for their own", and we know that never happens.
Heck, if you remove all nouns it's just "take from else and use for own" and we all know that's not news ;)
The myth that cracked software = malware needs to die. It is simply untrue. Cracked software is no more susceptible or infected than legit software. Crackers =! malware authors. They have no incentive to include malware in their cracks.
Counterpoint: the recent iWorks suite that went around the torrent sites: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/mac_trojan_attack/ Crackers have as much incentive to crack machines as anyone does - which is to say, a lot. If you control a botnet you can get a pretty penny from some nefarious characters.
nm. just got the joke. Been a long day. *facepalm*
Why is marriage a prerequisite for sexual intercourse and/or baby-making?
It's amazing the extremes some politicans will go to to cover up affairs from their wives. "You see honey, I spend all weekend with...uh...ALIENS!" In other news, Ilyumzhinov is also planning a hiking trip this weekend on the Appalachian Trail--where his cellphone won't work, so don't even bother calling.
I heard he's also hiring aliens to carry his luggage...?
They call themselves muslim, might as well insinuate the entire muslim population. If the rest of the muslim populace is doing nothing when these whack jobs are saying this shit then they are implicitly agreeing with it. This behaviour is completely unacceptable no matter who does it. Can you imagine if there was a miltant Athiest faction? Every religious nut job would jump at the chance to group them all together!
Also, it seems that Lightworks was only recently (August 2009) acquired by EditShare. Making it OpenSource now could mean that EditShare maybe was not able or willing to continue developing, selling and supporting the program and now tries to salvage something by open-sourcing it, hoping the community will pick up the slack.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though, look at blender :) That's taken off like fireweed!
Someone wants to make meetings longer? What the fuck is wrong with their head?
Mod parent up. Piracy (as in people boarding ships to ransack the cargo or kidnap the crew) has never ceased, it was simply marginalised to third-world regions where it did not affect "our" trade and therefore seldom made it into the news.
Actually it still affects our trade, but it happens to multinational faceless megacorporations, so media doesn't talk about it - what reason have we to care of piracy in somalia if the only companies affected are giant assholes?
... I still think it's a con.
By what set of criteria do you judge software to be less valuable than hardware?
BitTorrent.
I don't know about others, but that implies more value to me. Can you trade hardware over the ether?
Can someone post a source for the claim that Amazon did EC2 because of Christmas time servers that are no longer in use during the year?
If there is a god, he's not even *trying* to be fair.
I got news for you.
Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US... What the hell gives these assholes the right to demand ANYTHING?
Calm down, mate. If a chief of some remote Polynesian tribe demands tomorrow that all the pale-skins from the Great White North shall submit to the will of his powerful god Yaka-Yaka, or else suffer his wrath, are you going to pay attention as well?
If not, then treat this case the same way. After all, fundamentally, it is the same.
Though, Yaka Yaka is powerful, you just admitted it yourself! I bet they have it written down in an old book too, so it must mean it's true!
[...] But the EU could make life pretty unpleasant for Canadians in principle if it starts cancelling other agreements: travel, currency exchange, access to markets, landing rights, port privileges, etc. If Europe and Canada stop cooperating, Canada will degenerate into an appendage of the US even more so than it already is. For Europe, it would simply mean the loss of a fairly small trading partner. Big deal.
Fuck em then. I don't want to have to cowtow to some corporate sleezebucket government for whom I did not vote, just for the ability to travel to Paris or London every 5 years.
If I had a Quebec separatist here in BC, I'd vote for them. I tired of Quebec determining our national policies (they have a huge number of seats in Parliament)
He must not be married. If I turned down a mil, my wife would kill me, dig me back up, kill me again, film it all, and sell the film rights to recoup it.
Nice wife.
Shakespeare certainly didn't write for art. If he were alive today he'd be Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay.
I shudder to think that Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay will be considered the Shakespeares of our time in 500 years.
I suspect that in Russia, as in other places, large amounts of cash, even if given away, attracts the attention of all sorts of unwelcome characters. The government with taxes; receiving the reward leads to paperwork which if not everything is in order can lead to huge repercussions, like jail time. Criminals who will only hear you received a lump sum, not that you gave it away.
I bet Russia is just a nice a place to live in as the USA. Your opinion seems skewed either by the media or scaremongers left over from the cold war era.
Does Perelman not taking the money scare you?
No. I find it rather childish and odd.
Does he offend you?
No. But why is he so stand-offish? Why not try to change what you don't like from a position of authority? Perelmen could do it if he wanted to, but it's like he's given up. That's what bothers me.
Does he entice a violent reaction in you?
No. Apparently in some other people it does though.
Do you hate it, when someone sticks out of the crowd not out of a desire to be more 'cool looking' but simply because he does not need the crowd?
I doubt it's because he "does not need the crowd". I think perhaps there is something more underlying his entire attitude. You've given him attributes that he may not have. Obviously, it's cool to think of the genius recluse who "doesn't need the crowd", but if we can learn from him, why is he not teaching us? We are a social animal after all - when one does well, all of us do well. Unfortunately, there's a problem with a lot of North Americans where they think "doing well" is "looking good and being rich". What Perelman's doing may seem noble, but why not give that knowledge to science? I think he's being selfish.
It got infected by the internet.
That's a wrong way to do this conversation - you really need to pull something like: "I'm concerned the radiation levels of your wireless router are causing you all to have brain cancer" followed by "innocent" inquiries into if anyone on the office has headaches or problems sleeping, suggesting the AP might be the cause. It's bullshit of course but the only way to get people interested is to make it about *their* asses. If you're good enough (i.e. go through it in a really circumspect way) you may even get them to pay you to investigate and reconfigure the said AP :)
Ahh.. Social Hacking. My favourite kind of hacking.
In Canada, if that person gets into an accident, my taxes are going to pay for his hospital bill. I'm all for saving lives, but I would rather prevent injury before it happens. In this case I worked goddamn hard for my money
The idea that you think this gives you the right to tell me how I should live my life is THE single primary reason that a nationalised health system is a bad idea.
Not at all. I'm not telling you how to live your life! I'm telling you that you shouldn't expect free healthcare if you do something stupid - like, oh, I don't know, breaking the law.
If you want to shoot yourself in the foot or cut off your own ear because of a stupid cult, go ahead! You're fucking crazy but go ahead - just don't expect to get some free healthcare to fix up that badly infected earhole.
Which is why, by a 3-1 margin, Americans are against ObamaCare. We do not want the Government telling us what we can or cannot do under the guise of "being good for you". I live in Illinois and I ride my motorcycle without my helmet. That is my choice; not yours, not the governments, so keep the fuck out of my life. Bottom line... Obama wants to take over 1/6 of the US Economy.. that is basically the ENTIRE economy of France or England. The bill is about CONTROL, not Health Care.
Where the fuck did this come from??? I swear. You say one little thing and dumbass conservatives are all over it like stink on a dog. Get a clue!! I like our healthcare here in Canada! It's saved my life from genuine illnesses many times!
A simple helmet can save thousands of dollars in taxpayer money
Every day, thousands of people hit their heads while performing mundane activities, requiring treatment for head injuries. I don't like the idea of my tax dollars paying for their care either, so I think we should mandate that helmets for EVERYONE to wear all the time, not just while riding a motorbike. Pedestrians in New York City are especially at risk of getting hurt- and there happens to be a lot of people in NY who receive public healthcare, which means I'm paying for their care indirectly. I think we should stand up against this! I demand that all pedestrians in New York wear helmets, shoulder protection, elbow protection, knee protection, hip protection, sort of like the gear a hockey player wears. This will surely make the world a safer place and keep our insurance costs down.
These sorts of situations are genuine accidents. Do you need a license to walk around a city? Do you need a license to use a cupboard? NO. Stop coming up with stupid nonsensical shit to qualify a bullshit reason not to wear a helmet.
A motorcycle requires a license to use it. As such I would expect that they educate the licensee on the dangers and the law of the roads. Wearing a helmet on a motorbike is the law here in Canada, and if you are not wearing a helmet, you are breaking the law we tacitly agreed upon by being a part of this society. If you break our laws don't expect to receive the benefits of being in this society.