ohhhh I've noticed:-) and wholeheartedly agree that they are getting exactly what they deserve.
What especially aggrovates me is the same fan bois who preach the holiness annointed to Apple for "standing up" to the RIAA by selling DRM free music for more money (yeah yeah better quality BS) are the same ones crying "but the evil RIAA won't let Apple give users the right to make free ringtones, and ATT couldn't possibly allow 3rd party apps for the good of the infrastructure, and they would never intentionally brick an unlocked phone although that might be a unexpected side effect of a patch, or won't them do this, or won't let them do that, because how could they possibly stand up to those evil empires?"
I agree with that statement and practice it myself. But what if you do like the product and not the "terms" which they try to hold you too. Its like buying a sleek new hybrid sports car and being told you can only put X brand's Y Octane into it. Sure, a lower octane might be bad for the engine, and someone else's high octane might be cheaper... so you use those. But now after plugging in your new hybrid sports car and it gets a firmware update, it won't run on the other brands gass...
I didn't mention anything about being forced to buy an iphone....but if Apple had their way, they would force those that did buy it to buy ringtones from them as well, instead of making free ones which is their right. Hell even if it was a ringtone of their kid singing whatever it is that kids sing, should u not have a way to make that your ringtone without Apple crying foul?
on the other hand, it seems that they are trying to force someone who did buy the iphone and ATT package not to unlock the phone and goto another provider. Perhaps someone needs to move for work or goes over seas? Hell... they could pay their contract cancelation fee, but according to Apple, they shouldn't be able to open the phone and use another provider that has better service, or any service even, where they are.
Other hacks, such as the much hyped iPhone Dev Team's anySIM unlocking tool, or the numerous free-ringtone tutorials that have been floating around the Net, can be more accurately described as a developer-lead attack upon Apple's revenue streams.
...ummm no, it means that people in a position too are trying to help others not get screwed by a vendor locked-in product that wants to charge you for a ringtone that you can make yourself. Instead of attacking developers who wish to enlighten a public entranced by Apple, perhaps they
shouldn't base a revenue stream on vendor lockin and ripoff ringtones. If you ask me (flame on that noones asking), they should be the ones providing such a ringtone app. They are all about ease of use for the masses... oh wait, I forgot its easier for someone to pay them then do it themselves.
Similarly, this year the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which counts most industrialized countries as members, issued a comprehensive report on counterfeiting that placed the global cost at $200 billion annually. That analysis, which makes suggestions that Canadian counterfeiting costs $30 billion each year even more implausible, was less than a third of what some business groups had previously claimed.
In fact, the OECD report concluded that while counterfeiting was an issue in all economies, it is most common in economies "where informal, open-air markets predominate." This suggests that far from being a hot-bed of counterfeiting, Canada is rarely the source of counterfeit products and it consumes far less than many other countries worldwide.
hah... totally agree, not too many "open-air markets" in Canada...
but in all seriousness, someone better stop the Ice Road Truckers for inspection! Who knows how many DVDs and CDs they could fit in those bad boys? I'm sure some **AA lawyerobbyist knows. We need him on the line stat to make up some new estimates based on this open source information I just provided...
"is the same defendant who exposed, with a little help from her friends, some of the weaknesses in the RIAA's expert testimony."
Considering how all the links from this particular quote are to/. articles, I have to say I had no idea that most/.ers are such excellent lawyers.
lol... well for starters, the "RIAA's expert testimony" was not given by lawyers, and regardless if I would hardly call them experts in their field of law, but by so called Computer / Network experts of the RIAA.
Those you will find in abundance here (sans RIAA assmunching part) and did help a bit I believe... you can ask Mr. Beckman about that one though...
Hah...true you might not be one they update without permission...but the fear comes from someone maliciously using that process to control every Windows PC out there today to ping that nice lil box of yours off the net until Duke Nukem Forever is ported for Hurd =)
Tell me something. How would they be able to know who the "bad guys" were in the first place? How would they be able to decide that you or I am not worth monitoring because we don't pose a threat, but that Ahmed and Yasir and their connections are worth investigating?
...hmmm perhaps everyone who's a "bad guy" should have an evil bit RFID, we could know they are bad, and start killing them slowly with cancer!
President Putin last month ordered a permanent resumption of strategic bomber flights around the world, ending a 15-year suspension of long-range air patrols. The move is to protect Russia's shipping routes and ``economic zone,'' he said.
Wow... OT, but I think this might be a first... two CONSECUTIVE comments on slashdot by women! That made my day... gotta love IT chicks;)
CNET is so jealous!(Score:1)
by BoyIHateMicrosoft! (1044838) on Monday September 10, @02:16PM (#20542179)
I think CNET is just drinking a little too much haterade as of late. They might also just be jealous cause Slashdot readers can actually understand big words and stuff. I love how they say that people that read here must look like the dude in the pic. For one I'm female and two my glasses aren't taped, well they aren't today. They are superglued. Thank you very much!!
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oh geez.(Score:1)
by that IT girl (864406) on Monday September 10, @02:22PM (#20542251)
What Slashdot says about you: Slashdot's tagline is "news for nerds", so no prizes for guessing what type of people visit the site. The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses.
Which is sexy.
Users are 23 years old but look twice their age and steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system.
Well, I'm not 23, nor do I look twice that, but Windows...actually...yep, it is a bad operating system. Especially when you have options.
Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.
Hadn't used it then.. or much now except when installing it for some folks. Sounds like a bad implementation of grub or lilo... but eh, to each their own.
hmmm I actually recommend in some situations people installing Linux to do so on a second hard drive...specially if they are already dual-booting the first. Or for security reasons. Easy enough to boot to with this great boot cd .
Why would they do that when they can embrace a community atmosphere (FOSSy baby) for free and not have to pay for improved support. Hell they are probably planning on cutting support with this initiative. Not saying I agree with the tactic, but unfortunately it seems that more and more corps are going this route to open up their software support communities while at the same time closing the source.
mmmmm cake... they have it, they want to eat it too.
Hah, can't say much more as in don't know... or won't;) I think you hit the nail on the head with better words than I could muster "help people understand the threat, how to identify and to counter it." I'm interested in throwing some of my own resources behind such an initiative (however very limited they are, mostly just time) and I am sure there are many others who would stand behind such a front. When you mention that cooperating does happen to some degree, do you mean AV in general or as in the Storm / Worms. I can imagine that there is always a scramble between AV providers to stay one step ahead of their competition with viruses... however, I think a differation needs to be made between them and worms. Sure viruses suck, but Worms can be devastating to the infrastructure itself. I take it you work for an AV firm or research facility of some kind where NDAs definitely hinder progress on certain levels. I admit I am not too familiar with Storm in general other than reading about it here and there, but its beginning to become something responsible computer / network experts can't ignore for long. Unfortunately I think that a barrier to cooperation between corporations / businesses / consulting firms on this issue would be the lack of threat to corporate networks and infestation, for now, with the ease (at least the ease this worm has seen in unaware / uneducated, on the issue) of infected home users. Any private network worth a damn is going to have counter-measures where even if infected PCs are on it, they will be identified quicker and prevented from harassing outside IPs.
Curious, perhaps a united front is needed in this research, although resources would be a must along with the balls to host an anti-storm wiki or something...are you familiar with what types of DDOS this thing is capable of? Though I suppose with the reach behind it, it hardly matters. Identifying at least a percentage of the infected hosts might be usefull for some vigilante measures (counter-measures?) if possible for anti-worm targets or hell even DOS targets... perhaps if someones internet connection keeps dropping, they'd have the brains to say, "hey maybe I should see wtf is up with my PC". Ok that's a stretch, but a hosted site with a Storm identification information or automated scan could be helpfull to those who actually want to be proactive and make sure they are not infected. I admit I am not as familiar with bots as I used to be (ahhhh IRC how I miss thee)...have the Anti-Virus peeps been able to successfully ID this thing and its derivatives?
Interesting questions... How about would it be illegal to forward that Trojan to someone else unsuspecting so it's installed on their PC instead... or hell a disorderly conduct charge for running it on your PC and knowing its there...keeping the enforcement agency busy with a script to continuously peruse some Goatse and tubgirl links of course...
The RIAA's "expert" has admitted [blogspot.com] that he doesn't have a clue as to what 'individual' may have been doing the file sharing, and that his methods and MediaSentry's methods haven't been subjected [blogspot.com] to any of the testing that is required for them to be usable as evidence in Court, yet in my presence, a couple of months ago, an RIAA lawyer stood up in court and said to the judge that MediaSentry's investigator "detected an individual downloading and uploading".
I'm curious, would this not open that lawyer up to a contempt of court or perjury charge for lying to the judge?
Why is it too much to ask that if you like the CD, you pay the money?
Well, since people are refusing to pay the money and since -- according to your numbers -- they spend loads of cash on other crap, then it must be too much to ask.
That... or they don't like the CD. They download it to find out its crap that's not worth their $15. The RIAA just assumes that everyone must love the shit they shovel down our throats with payola and flood the airwaves with.
According to court documents, the MPAA came into possession of the e-mails after first being approached by Robert Anderson. Anderson is a former business associate of Justin Bunnell, TorrentSpy's founder.
Besides the 15 grand they paid for these "legally" aquired emails, one wonders what else they offered Mr. Anderson... perhaps the Blue Pill? But in all seriousness, this guy just happened to spend the time and risk of hacking the email servers with no prior contact with the MPAA? That smells awfully fishy too me. Perhaps someone out there needs to "legally" aquire some MPAA emails and find out the truthiness of this.
While I don't hope it's an error, (learning something new can always be a positive) Gene swapping in the wild and mutations due to antibacteria soap let alone who knows what else, may lead to some interesting problems to solve in the future. I for one, eh never mind, our new bacteria overlords haven't mutated enough to hear me, yet. But kidding aside, innovation can be driven by necessity...but even lacking some dire, yet I'm sure comically relieving dependant on how dark your humor is, circumstances; who's to say that a discovery such as this won't lead to some sort of world changing improvement?
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What especially aggrovates me is the same fan bois who preach the holiness annointed to Apple for "standing up" to the RIAA by selling DRM free music for more money (yeah yeah better quality BS) are the same ones crying "but the evil RIAA won't let Apple give users the right to make free ringtones, and ATT couldn't possibly allow 3rd party apps for the good of the infrastructure, and they would never intentionally brick an unlocked phone although that might be a unexpected side effect of a patch, or won't them do this, or won't let them do that, because how could they possibly stand up to those evil empires?"
damn, where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him...
on the other hand, it seems that they are trying to force someone who did buy the iphone and ATT package not to unlock the phone and goto another provider. Perhaps someone needs to move for work or goes over seas? Hell... they could pay their contract cancelation fee, but according to Apple, they shouldn't be able to open the phone and use another provider that has better service, or any service even, where they are.
...ummm no, it means that people in a position too are trying to help others not get screwed by a vendor locked-in product that wants to charge you for a ringtone that you can make yourself. Instead of attacking developers who wish to enlighten a public entranced by Apple, perhaps they shouldn't base a revenue stream on vendor lockin and ripoff ringtones. If you ask me (flame on that noones asking), they should be the ones providing such a ringtone app. They are all about ease of use for the masses... oh wait, I forgot its easier for someone to pay them then do it themselves.
hah... totally agree, not too many "open-air markets" in Canada...
but in all seriousness, someone better stop the Ice Road Truckers for inspection! Who knows how many DVDs and CDs they could fit in those bad boys? I'm sure some **AA lawyerobbyist knows. We need him on the line stat to make up some new estimates based on this open source information I just provided
lol... well for starters, the "RIAA's expert testimony" was not given by lawyers, and regardless if I would hardly call them experts in their field of law, but by so called Computer / Network experts of the RIAA.
Those you will find in abundance here (sans RIAA assmunching part) and did help a bit I believe... you can ask Mr. Beckman about that one though...
MicroStorm,
yup... you are afraid now aren't you? As well you should be...
although kind of reminds me of the saying... if there's ever a land invasion of the US, they won't be starting in Harlem...
In Soviet Russia, bombs protect YOU!.
...sorry couldn't resist.
Hah! Very much so... thanks for that one :D will you be here all week?
Hadn't used it then.. or much now except when installing it for some folks. Sounds like a bad implementation of grub or lilo... but eh, to each their own.
hmmm I actually recommend in some situations people installing Linux to do so on a second hard drive...specially if they are already dual-booting the first. Or for security reasons. Easy enough to boot to with this great boot cd .
mmmmm cake... they have it, they want to eat it too.
Hah, can't say much more as in don't know... or won't ;) I think you hit the nail on the head with better words than I could muster "help people understand the threat, how to identify and to counter it." I'm interested in throwing some of my own resources behind such an initiative (however very limited they are, mostly just time) and I am sure there are many others who would stand behind such a front. When you mention that cooperating does happen to some degree, do you mean AV in general or as in the Storm / Worms. I can imagine that there is always a scramble between AV providers to stay one step ahead of their competition with viruses... however, I think a differation needs to be made between them and worms. Sure viruses suck, but Worms can be devastating to the infrastructure itself. I take it you work for an AV firm or research facility of some kind where NDAs definitely hinder progress on certain levels. I admit I am not too familiar with Storm in general other than reading about it here and there, but its beginning to become something responsible computer / network experts can't ignore for long. Unfortunately I think that a barrier to cooperation between corporations / businesses / consulting firms on this issue would be the lack of threat to corporate networks and infestation, for now, with the ease (at least the ease this worm has seen in unaware / uneducated, on the issue) of infected home users. Any private network worth a damn is going to have counter-measures where even if infected PCs are on it, they will be identified quicker and prevented from harassing outside IPs.
Curious, perhaps a united front is needed in this research, although resources would be a must along with the balls to host an anti-storm wiki or something...are you familiar with what types of DDOS this thing is capable of? Though I suppose with the reach behind it, it hardly matters. Identifying at least a percentage of the infected hosts might be usefull for some vigilante measures (counter-measures?) if possible for anti-worm targets or hell even DOS targets... perhaps if someones internet connection keeps dropping, they'd have the brains to say, "hey maybe I should see wtf is up with my PC". Ok that's a stretch, but a hosted site with a Storm identification information or automated scan could be helpfull to those who actually want to be proactive and make sure they are not infected. I admit I am not as familiar with bots as I used to be (ahhhh IRC how I miss thee) ...have the Anti-Virus peeps been able to successfully ID this thing and its derivatives?
I told those fucks down at the league office a thousand times that I don't roll on Shabbos!
Interesting questions... How about would it be illegal to forward that Trojan to someone else unsuspecting so it's installed on their PC instead... or hell a disorderly conduct charge for running it on your PC and knowing its there...keeping the enforcement agency busy with a script to continuously peruse some Goatse and tubgirl links of course...
I'm curious, would this not open that lawyer up to a contempt of court or perjury charge for lying to the judge?
Besides the 15 grand they paid for these "legally" aquired emails, one wonders what else they offered Mr. Anderson... perhaps the Blue Pill? But in all seriousness, this guy just happened to spend the time and risk of hacking the email servers with no prior contact with the MPAA? That smells awfully fishy too me. Perhaps someone out there needs to "legally" aquire some MPAA emails and find out the truthiness of this.
While I don't hope it's an error, (learning something new can always be a positive) Gene swapping in the wild and mutations due to antibacteria soap let alone who knows what else, may lead to some interesting problems to solve in the future. I for one, eh never mind, our new bacteria overlords haven't mutated enough to hear me, yet. But kidding aside, innovation can be driven by necessity...but even lacking some dire, yet I'm sure comically relieving dependant on how dark your humor is, circumstances; who's to say that a discovery such as this won't lead to some sort of world changing improvement?
This might have an interesting impact on the 10 year forecast to creating artificial life discussion from earlier today.