They all try the same thing. They simply start an installer and demand that you click next and that you agree to the EULA (which I don't think is shown, but they assume you've already read it). And Movie Networks tries to disconncet/dial into some CA-based server to download the rest of it. It doesn't even ask, it just says, "Disconnecting to call remote server" or something like that. Good thing I have DSL, or it would have made the call. Companies like that should be sued. It would be like watching a commercial, only to have a product arrive at your house, along with a bill demanding money.
Lets take an almost totally unique biometric pattern, and put it on a card! Now thieves and terrorists don't have to remove your skull to have access to your identity.
If you didn't mind sharing the area with lots of venomous creatures, nasty non-venomous creatures, aliens, secret government projects and a handful of radioactive yokels, it wouldn't be a bad place to live if you liked the heat. Front row seats to any nuclear accident that may occur in the area. Tickets go on sale now, call your local Ticketmaster for details.
I know a lot of people would like it if you could just say, store your comp inside of your desk drawer and forget about it. Couple that with a flatscreen monitor, wireless keyboard and mouse, and you have a pretty elite setup. Bonus points if you could mount your CD-ROM and floppy drives on top of your desk, so that they were the only part of the computer you could really see.
Well, if spyware is illegal in your country, don't use Kazaa. Simple as that. Porn is probably illegal in some countries, so should that nation sue and sue and sue because its citizens can have access to unregulated porn online? No. What you do with programs/information/porn is your own choice.
If this were like the much accalimed "Day" as in "Back in the Day" things wouldn't be like this. EULAs would be simple. Usually things like, "If this destroys your computer, we'll buy you a new one." Or, "If we destroy your house trying to re-roof it, we'll pay for repairs." Now, its like, "If this destroys your computer, you must buy a new copy, and you cannot sue us, and you are entitled to no reimbursement." and "If we destroy your house, you have to pay us full price, and we are not responsible."
I have some interesting (+1 interesting worthy!) ideas about the whole thing. First, instead of either blaming the company or the person, look at the circumstances. I realize that can't just shut down their entire network to patch everything, but it should be their risk if they choose not to. I also realize that shouldn't release obviously shitty software to make a profit, and then patch it into maturity. If has installed all their patches like a good , and they still get hacked and damaged somehow due to an obvious bug for which their is no patch, they should be entitled to some kind of compensation from . Not full compensation, but at least enough to give incentive to fix the gaping hole in their software.
Speeding is an easy thing to do, unfortunately. I haven't had a speeding ticket yet, because I drive either the limit or just over, unlike everyone around me which pass me in anger because they're going 30 over. It isn't really a black and white issue, either. Speeding tickets cost a lot of money for the 'average Joe' and if people everywhere else in the world drive like people in Tennessee generally do, then there are a lot of criminals out there. Soccer moms, church families, all these people violate the speed limit daily. If speed were the biggest factor in car wrecks, it would be more regulated. In both of the wrecks I've been in, speed wasn't the factor. One, my brakes went out, and the other a guy wasn't paying attention, ran a red light, and hit me in the rear passenger's side tire. It was then blamed on me because everyone in his vehicle said I stopped in the middle of the road and he couldn't avoid me. Stupidity causes wrecks. Not a sign that says, "Speed Limit 30"
JPEG has been around almost as long as I can remember the Internet. I remember spending long hours downloading single pr0n pics from Lynx using the Kermit protocol. Too bad half of 'em were zipped bitmap files instead of JPEGs.
I'll bet the EULA for an X-box strictly forbids that you purchase them somewhere other than within a 50 mile radius from your house or some other draconian rule. This is so Microsoft can control their prices and legally bust people who don't want to pay $300 for an X-box and just go to to buy one for $200. It wouldn't surprise me a bit.
When software can install itself without asking, and you're automatically bound by a EULA that gives it the RIGHT to do what its made to do, be it downloading your CCNs or checking your pr0n archives, we have little privacy. Sure, none of this is going to get back to anyone I know, but the information being out there is a nightmare. Imagine if you went to a pr0n site and started getting snail-spam from that site. Or you go to another site, and it automatically starts printing ads. Where does it end?
I was sitting here on Slashdot, Tom's Hardware and AntiOnline, reading up on my usual sources of info. Comet cursor pops up. I wait for the cancel button to appear as I curse at it for being lame. No cancel button. A progress bar. The comet cursor icon appears in my task bar. It didn't even ask me if I wanted to install. It just installed. No licence agreement or anything. Movie Networks did the same thing with their software. And some antiviral program did that as well, and yet, there's no licences that I see before they install, do they just assume that I've said yes? Is this even legal at all? That's like a company breaking into your house and inserting its dangerous products, such as, "Gasoline-In-A-Coke-Can" and "Bag-o-Rattlesnakes! (tm)"
"Thus the 120-terabyte disk will hold some 60,000 hours worth of movies; if you want to watch them all day and all night without a break for popcorn, they will last somewhat less than seven years."
Most people can't even last seven minutes with high-res pr0n playing, much less seven YEARS.
Nope. I'm just 19, and there aren't many good tech jobs that don't require a BS and 10+ years of experience in the Knoxville area. Nor are there many open jobs where I'd have access to sensitive information and a computer. Ironically, I got fired from my last job for posting a theory on a message board that they must have been selling email addresses because of the spam I got when I signed up with them as my ISP. Won't go into details, its been posted before, but they sure wanted to keep that under wraps...
IM use at work should be monitored only if sensitive information could possibly get out through that route. But if you're going to monitor IMs, why not monitor email, phone usage, have searches upon arival and leaving, and so on? I used AIM when I had a job to communicate and plan stuff mostly, of course I used it for friendly chatting as well, but tech supporting is autonomous to me.
You don't have to use cell phones, though. You don't have to use phones period, but they're almost required to live effectively. As are cars. Cell phones are an option, and a very handy option for certain situations. I'm all for privacy, and I wouldn't want cell phones to be totally snooped, I see nothing wrong with the tracking of times and numbers called.
Maybe everyone doesn't want their privacy violated, but cellular phone devices are frequently used in criminal activities because of their mobility. I'm not saying this post is right or wrong, but at least they aren't tapping everyone's land line. While criminals could just switch to say, pay phones that work, to do their bidding, cell phones are a lot more convenient. Even if some do change their numbers every two days.
No, I'm not. I'm not saying its right or wrong that we've sold weapons to less-than-desirable leaders. What they do with the weapons is mostly their problem, and I'm sure people are pissed at the U.S. for selling them. Thing is, its different with viruses. You write a virus, it gets out, its your ass when the take-down happens. Not your friend who sent it to his friend who was infected and auto-sent it to his 500 mailing lists. But your fault for releasing the virus to begin with.
Why should you be writing code to damage/hinder other people in the first place? If you want to learn by the code just to act like a bad-ass, go for it, but when someone decides to compile it and set it loose upon the world, you created the program, so you're the one that the FBI will look at. The same could be said about email viruses. But no, any kind of EULA for a virus should be null and void, because of the possible loopholes someone could use to destroy millions of computers and get away with it because "the user let me run the virus by having Windows 9X installed..says right there in the readme file!"
I think it should be illegal to write and release viruses. Viruses should follow all standard software rules, which means, the maker could easily be sued for damages. And no, sending the virus with a EULA wouldn't protect the maker legally.
I don't think it would be all its cracked up to be, since so many people would be turning to YOU to review the next big game. People might get pissed off if you review their game badly, even if it deserved it. Too bad most reviewers can't be more skeptical. They usually say "This game will rule when it comes out. Just you wait." and when it comes out, it sucks. Look at C&C Renegade. Look at Dai..well..no more examples.
Evangelion is kind of like Lain. Its not all supposed to make sense. The best anime I've found doesn't lead you around, rather, it lets you come to your own conclusions. Evangelion seems to be doing just this. I only have the first 4 out of 8 DVDs, but I'm loving it so far. I really reccomend this series to anyone that is tired of the good-guy-always-wins situation. This anime makes you ask, "What price is too high for victory?"
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They all try the same thing. They simply start an installer and demand that you click next and that you agree to the EULA (which I don't think is shown, but they assume you've already read it). And Movie Networks tries to disconncet/dial into some CA-based server to download the rest of it. It doesn't even ask, it just says, "Disconnecting to call remote server" or something like that. Good thing I have DSL, or it would have made the call. Companies like that should be sued. It would be like watching a commercial, only to have a product arrive at your house, along with a bill demanding money.
Lets take an almost totally unique biometric pattern, and put it on a card! Now thieves and terrorists don't have to remove your skull to have access to your identity.
If you didn't mind sharing the area with lots of venomous creatures, nasty non-venomous creatures, aliens, secret government projects and a handful of radioactive yokels, it wouldn't be a bad place to live if you liked the heat. Front row seats to any nuclear accident that may occur in the area. Tickets go on sale now, call your local Ticketmaster for details.
It would have taken some real skill to steal all of that via the Internet.
I know a lot of people would like it if you could just say, store your comp inside of your desk drawer and forget about it. Couple that with a flatscreen monitor, wireless keyboard and mouse, and you have a pretty elite setup. Bonus points if you could mount your CD-ROM and floppy drives on top of your desk, so that they were the only part of the computer you could really see.
Well, if spyware is illegal in your country, don't use Kazaa. Simple as that. Porn is probably illegal in some countries, so should that nation sue and sue and sue because its citizens can have access to unregulated porn online? No. What you do with programs/information/porn is your own choice.
If this were like the much accalimed "Day" as in "Back in the Day" things wouldn't be like this. EULAs would be simple. Usually things like, "If this destroys your computer, we'll buy you a new one." Or, "If we destroy your house trying to re-roof it, we'll pay for repairs." Now, its like, "If this destroys your computer, you must buy a new copy, and you cannot sue us, and you are entitled to no reimbursement." and "If we destroy your house, you have to pay us full price, and we are not responsible."
I have some interesting (+1 interesting worthy!) ideas about the whole thing. First, instead of either blaming the company or the person, look at the circumstances. I realize that can't just shut down their entire network to patch everything, but it should be their risk if they choose not to. I also realize that shouldn't release obviously shitty software to make a profit, and then patch it into maturity. If has installed all their patches like a good , and they still get hacked and damaged somehow due to an obvious bug for which their is no patch, they should be entitled to some kind of compensation from . Not full compensation, but at least enough to give incentive to fix the gaping hole in their software.
Uplink is a great workplace game. Its fun, adds stress to a stressless job, and is rewarding at the same time. Hell, even bosses would like that game.
Speeding is an easy thing to do, unfortunately. I haven't had a speeding ticket yet, because I drive either the limit or just over, unlike everyone around me which pass me in anger because they're going 30 over. It isn't really a black and white issue, either. Speeding tickets cost a lot of money for the 'average Joe' and if people everywhere else in the world drive like people in Tennessee generally do, then there are a lot of criminals out there. Soccer moms, church families, all these people violate the speed limit daily. If speed were the biggest factor in car wrecks, it would be more regulated. In both of the wrecks I've been in, speed wasn't the factor. One, my brakes went out, and the other a guy wasn't paying attention, ran a red light, and hit me in the rear passenger's side tire. It was then blamed on me because everyone in his vehicle said I stopped in the middle of the road and he couldn't avoid me. Stupidity causes wrecks. Not a sign that says, "Speed Limit 30"
JPEG has been around almost as long as I can remember the Internet. I remember spending long hours downloading single pr0n pics from Lynx using the Kermit protocol. Too bad half of 'em were zipped bitmap files instead of JPEGs.
"Hacktivism chooses open code, mostly." Guess this means a lot of people will be against it because its not totally open.
I'll bet the EULA for an X-box strictly forbids that you purchase them somewhere other than within a 50 mile radius from your house or some other draconian rule. This is so Microsoft can control their prices and legally bust people who don't want to pay $300 for an X-box and just go to to buy one for $200. It wouldn't surprise me a bit.
When software can install itself without asking, and you're automatically bound by a EULA that gives it the RIGHT to do what its made to do, be it downloading your CCNs or checking your pr0n archives, we have little privacy. Sure, none of this is going to get back to anyone I know, but the information being out there is a nightmare. Imagine if you went to a pr0n site and started getting snail-spam from that site. Or you go to another site, and it automatically starts printing ads. Where does it end?
I was sitting here on Slashdot, Tom's Hardware and AntiOnline, reading up on my usual sources of info. Comet cursor pops up. I wait for the cancel button to appear as I curse at it for being lame. No cancel button. A progress bar. The comet cursor icon appears in my task bar. It didn't even ask me if I wanted to install. It just installed. No licence agreement or anything. Movie Networks did the same thing with their software. And some antiviral program did that as well, and yet, there's no licences that I see before they install, do they just assume that I've said yes? Is this even legal at all? That's like a company breaking into your house and inserting its dangerous products, such as, "Gasoline-In-A-Coke-Can" and "Bag-o-Rattlesnakes! (tm)"
"Thus the 120-terabyte disk will hold some 60,000 hours worth of movies; if you want to watch them all day and all night without a break for popcorn, they will last somewhat less than seven years." Most people can't even last seven minutes with high-res pr0n playing, much less seven YEARS.
Nope. I'm just 19, and there aren't many good tech jobs that don't require a BS and 10+ years of experience in the Knoxville area. Nor are there many open jobs where I'd have access to sensitive information and a computer. Ironically, I got fired from my last job for posting a theory on a message board that they must have been selling email addresses because of the spam I got when I signed up with them as my ISP. Won't go into details, its been posted before, but they sure wanted to keep that under wraps...
IM use at work should be monitored only if sensitive information could possibly get out through that route. But if you're going to monitor IMs, why not monitor email, phone usage, have searches upon arival and leaving, and so on? I used AIM when I had a job to communicate and plan stuff mostly, of course I used it for friendly chatting as well, but tech supporting is autonomous to me.
You don't have to use cell phones, though. You don't have to use phones period, but they're almost required to live effectively. As are cars. Cell phones are an option, and a very handy option for certain situations. I'm all for privacy, and I wouldn't want cell phones to be totally snooped, I see nothing wrong with the tracking of times and numbers called.
Maybe everyone doesn't want their privacy violated, but cellular phone devices are frequently used in criminal activities because of their mobility. I'm not saying this post is right or wrong, but at least they aren't tapping everyone's land line. While criminals could just switch to say, pay phones that work, to do their bidding, cell phones are a lot more convenient. Even if some do change their numbers every two days.
No, I'm not. I'm not saying its right or wrong that we've sold weapons to less-than-desirable leaders. What they do with the weapons is mostly their problem, and I'm sure people are pissed at the U.S. for selling them. Thing is, its different with viruses. You write a virus, it gets out, its your ass when the take-down happens. Not your friend who sent it to his friend who was infected and auto-sent it to his 500 mailing lists. But your fault for releasing the virus to begin with.
Why should you be writing code to damage/hinder other people in the first place? If you want to learn by the code just to act like a bad-ass, go for it, but when someone decides to compile it and set it loose upon the world, you created the program, so you're the one that the FBI will look at. The same could be said about email viruses. But no, any kind of EULA for a virus should be null and void, because of the possible loopholes someone could use to destroy millions of computers and get away with it because "the user let me run the virus by having Windows 9X installed..says right there in the readme file!"
I think it should be illegal to write and release viruses. Viruses should follow all standard software rules, which means, the maker could easily be sued for damages. And no, sending the virus with a EULA wouldn't protect the maker legally.
I don't think it would be all its cracked up to be, since so many people would be turning to YOU to review the next big game. People might get pissed off if you review their game badly, even if it deserved it. Too bad most reviewers can't be more skeptical. They usually say "This game will rule when it comes out. Just you wait." and when it comes out, it sucks. Look at C&C Renegade. Look at Dai..well..no more examples.
Evangelion is kind of like Lain. Its not all supposed to make sense. The best anime I've found doesn't lead you around, rather, it lets you come to your own conclusions. Evangelion seems to be doing just this. I only have the first 4 out of 8 DVDs, but I'm loving it so far. I really reccomend this series to anyone that is tired of the good-guy-always-wins situation. This anime makes you ask, "What price is too high for victory?"