"If a person is too stupid to realize whether or not they're logging into THEIR bank or not, perhaps they don't deserve the privilege of online banking"
The scam that is scary is the bank of america scam where a bunch of miscreants copied the BOA website and had anyone typing in varieties of bankofamerica.com (I think one of them was bankofanerica.com...)directed to their copy of the BOA website. (Identicle to the BOA website BTW)
I am sure even you occasionally mistypes, and if you were not paying attention, you would enter you password into the wrong site.
Of course, I don't use online banking, but for someone who does, I can't see how you could keep that from happening without being extremly careful.
A plugin like mentioned would be very useful in this regard.
You honesty believe someone should be able to hack someone's system and not get punished for it?
Or lets reward them. You forget that they broke the law. Maybe their motivation was noble like you claim, but in our society the ends do not justify the means. Maybe they should, but thats another argument.
But in this case, I do believe you are really wrong. Their intensions were anything but good.
Quote from article:
"Hinsdale school officials say the accused students have had the Social Security numbers of their fellow students and teachers for months"
What were they doing holding onto this information for months? If their intentions were noble from the start, they should have informed the proper people about it immediatly, not wait months to do so.
Maybe IT personnal at HS's are stupid. But that is no excuse for stealing private SSN's and holding onto that information for an indefinate amount of time.
I went to a blockbuster a couple days ago, and they have a big sign on their door that explains the details.
Yes, they will charge you full price for the item after 7 days. However, if you bring the movie back after 7 days you will not be charged full price. You will be charged a "restocking fee" instead of a "late fee". Granted, it wasn't that bad at $1.50, but I still laughed after reading about the "restocking fee."
"""Well done man, but the syringe portion gave me a chill. The syringe part is more than just evidence...what the cop did was both illegal and insanely dangerous. "Sharps" are considered hazardous medical waste and in every state MUST be disposed of in a proper labeled container (NOT a Coke bottle.) They must be given to a company licensed to dispose of hazardous or medical waste and destroyed, usually in these massive incinerators. (I was a med student once...)"""
At the bottom of the article, the guy says that it turned out that the hotel had the proper facility to dispose of the needles. However, even if they didn't, wouldn't it be ironic if:
Some criminal roots through the hotels trash looking for information to steal someone's identity with and gets needled?
Normally you would be right, that MS should not be forced to give up trade secrets or patents, etc., but if you look at the facts of the case, it is not what it appears.
See, it works like this, MS is a vertical monopoly, and therefore they also develop software for their OS. If they use their superior position in the OS arena to help build their own applications, they are abusing their monopoly vertically.
That means, that if they use hidden or secret procedure calls, etc. to give their software an advantage, they are abusing their monopoly and therefore should be punished for it.
Remember, its not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to abuse that position.
Although you are correct that it appears we are going in reverse, by not actually adopting new things, and not going to the moon or doing big missions (such as Mars.) NASA has been doing things.
Since the 70's, NASA's budget has not been the top issue (it has gone down steadily since we stopped going to the moon.) And we also no longer wanted to beat the Soviets in space (since we already did that.)
We still have the technology to go to the moon, and I would even hazard to guess the technology is there to go to Mars as well, but the money is not there.
And the testing money NASA is spending, well think about that as trying to get itself to Mars on a limited budget. If something will not work to accomplish NASA's probable main mission, why stick with it?
NASA has accomplished several smaller probe missions. But the fact is, that with such a smaller budget and the fact that we are still the main financier's for the international space station; NASA has issues with its budget right now. So, write to your congressman if you want to go out to Mars or goto the moon again, because right now its those people who decide whether we go or not. (Think oversight committee as well.)
Everyone here is talking about how you should stop payment immediatly and sue.
Both of those options are wrong without knowing all the information and without being a lawyer who may know a thing or two from going to school for so long. What is important here is what the contract says.
1. What country/state/municipality is given jurisdiction over the contract? This is otherwise known as the Governing clause and it should be in every contract. Then the laws of this location need to be explored in terms of what legal redress there are.
2. How does the contract stipulate payment occurs? If it stipulates that you pay on final delivery, you do not stop payment. If it says you pay when the software is in a state that is satisfactory to you, you may want to stop payment.
Why does number 2 matter so much? It may not be legal for you to stop payment on the contract. This depends on number 1. In addition, your stopping of the payment may make YOU in breach of the contract, and it may ultimatly mean the other side burns you.
3. What does the contract say about faulty workmanship? Usually the person who wants work done will stipulate what satisfactory code or work is. This means the person you are paying will be required to fix the code free of charge in a timely matter.
I saw someone suggest to email them and patiently ask them for a schedule and spit the contract back out at them. This is probably the best course of action, but then again it depends on what the contract actually says.
What you really need to do above all else is talk to a lawyer and have them read the contract you signed. That is your first step once there is a problem.
For the lowly employee, stock options are a huge mistake anyway. For one thing, your salary is already tied up in the company you are working in.
What happens if the company goes bust? You already lose your salary, so do you want to lose your options as well?
Another thing, if you do not sell your options right away, they will devalue, or even go to nothing if the company declares bankrupcy.
Stock options can be beneficial for CEO's who run the company into the ground after they make their millions, but in the end there is no good reason to not cash in your options. You should invest in many companies instead of just putting all of your eggs in one basket.
So what does this article change for the common man? Nothing, except maybe there will be less stock options out there. IMO, this is for the best anyway for lowly wage earners.
I did some searching and discovered this: http://news.com.com/Finjan+Warning+users+or +scarin g+up+business/2100-1002_3-5449269.html
And this quote by the Finjan CEO pretty much sums up what I thought this was: "By using Finjan's proactive security solutions...users can enjoy a secure environment that protects them from such vulnerabilities."
Its just a ploy to scare up buisness for this security company. But lets not jump to conclusions, those 10 errors may exist, but the truth is that this security company may not have followed the industry guidelines.
That is the key question, did Finjan give MS these errors 30 days ago like traditionally is done? If they did, then they have every right to publicize the problem, but if not, they are engaging in questionable buisness practices.
I am willing to bet they are closing down their broadband services to focus on what they were good at. That is, providing a service for the technilogically illiterate. Everyone here may be right, that they will end up screwing the pooch on this one, but I have a feeling they are going to try to get their old customers to sign up for their service, and then make a big push to provide a service instead of a connection. Their success in my opinion will be based on whether they can actually provide a meaningful service for $10-$15 a month.
If you do not know what I am talking about, goto http://www.aol.com/
And check out their big promo: here is the first paragraph from it:
AOL FOR BROADBAND REQUIRES PURCHASE OF A SEPARATE HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION FROM YOUR LOCAL CABLE OR TELEPHONE COMPANY. HIGH-SPEED CONNECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN CERTAIN AREAS ONLY. FREE TRIAL MUST BE USED WITHIN 2 MONTHS OF REGISTRATION FOR AOL. TO AVOID BEING CHARGED FUTURE AOL FOR BROADBAND FEES, SIMPLY CANCEL BEFORE 2 MONTH FREE TRIAL ENDS
So there you go, they are dropping their high-speed connections to focus on "AOL for broadband". In fact, I looked up their high speed services awhile back, and they did not even offer them in our area!! Talk about not wanting to make money...maybe now they will.
Although restructuring is a ceo's task to cover someone else's butt or his(traditionally)
This may actually be beneficial to aol. AOL has always been the ISP for the internet newbie, and if the reorganization can help their broadband division actually give good services that are worth paying for, they may stick around.
As of now, their broadband and dial-up services have different aims, and you can not really keep those two together in the same division. AOL has got to step up and deliver a broadband service that gives something for the money you pay them.
They have started with the spyware removal and other neat things that work well for the busy family who does not have time to do that themselves. But they really need to seperate this service from their dial-up service. It is distinctly different in terms of scope. I looked it up because a friend of mine wanted to switch to broadband. He thought that AOL actually offered a broadband connection for $9.99 a month. After I told him what it did, he was still confused and couldn't figure out why someone would pay for that. Of course, he is a little ignorant of the net, but if he can not understand the need for this, a lot of potential user's out there also do not understand what AOL's broadband service is. This may be why AOL needs to seperate its two different services, because I have a feeling lots of ppl here also do not know what their broadband servoce is exactly. Maybe a seperate division will help distinguish what these two entities are exactly.
But in reality, I do not see the purpose of them dividing up into four seperate divisions instead of just the two. I guess this is what happens when corporate america has someone in their elitist circle that they need to protect from losing their 40 hour a week paid solitaire playing job. Or maybe four is the CEO's lucky number....
Well, its now clear, I will never buy something at best buy again.
Any company that simply says that our lower sales "are the customers fault" deserve to get blasted in the marketplace.
Sure, they do not specifically blame customers, but they are implying that these so called evil customers are resulting in less profits, and they would rather not have them shop at best buy. The next logical conclusion is to blame the actual customers for the sales, when the truth is that you sell inferior technology at an elevated price.
Best Buy may just be another greedy and evil corporation, but in the end their success comes down to the principal of economics. If they sell things for cheap enough with good service, they will stick around. But if they plan on offering deals they do not honor, no one will want to shop there anymore.
The DMCA contradicts itself, which is why companies have had some success on eroding fair usage. In this case XM MIGHT have cause for concern.
Here are the relevant sections in the dmca.
Title 17, chapter 12 section 1201 part c section 1 from dmca: "Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringment including fair use under this title."
But, Section 1201 part b section 1: "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that - "
part B: "has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof"
So, if someone makes a product that say copies a dvd even if its only for fair use, it could be construed as circumventing a technological measure(breaking encryption). Thus it could be said that they can be held liable for copyright infringement.
Think this is far-fetched? Its already happened. Look at 321 studios and what has happened to their company.
Now, looking at that example, the question comes down to whether this poor guy broke ANY form of encryption, or broke any technological measure to allow people to achieve fair usage. If he did, then he can be held liable.
This is what XM is talking about when they say they are looking into the matter. I think its cruddy too, but if they can prove he broke a technological measure, then copying XM will never happen.
That is unless you code it yourself. You see, everyone still has the right to fair-usage, but no one can sell or distribute tools to allow fair-usage if there is any form of encryption involved.
Just like breaking DVD encryption, you can do it legally, but you just can't give the software out(legally).
To me, it seems pointless. The wheel must be reinvented everytime, but what can we do with laws such as the DMCA, which just contradicts itself.
This guy reminds me of Fry from Futurama in the episode where he kept drinking coffee. I wonder if this guy shakes when he is flying over the ocean because the soda doesn't have enough caffeine?
Either way, its not good when you can be compared to a character on a tv show who is an idiot.
If your company forces you to sign a contract, you are obligated to either sign it and sign away your rights, or to not work for them.
Now if your contract doesn't stipulate that you must pay for internet access, cell phones, etc., its your choice.(but it could cost you your job.) If they want to fire you, they will find a a way.
The other option is to pull an office space. That is, turn off your phones, internet, etc. and just ignore the outside world during your supposed time off. But like I said before, same thing applies about maybe losing your job.
Of course, nowadays, companies are crunching dollars by forcing mandatory overtime, less vacation time, etc. My uncle recently lost 2 weeks of vacation time just because the company decided that after 20 years of service, that someone doesn't need 6 weeks, that four is enough. Seems like a similar issue to me.
"I do believe that peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are here to stay"
from: http://judiciary.senate.gov/print_member_statement.cfm?id=623&wit_id=51
So the famous senetor from Utah says that. And then he turns around and talks about how people share out personal information and that it is a security risk for both individuals and for the Government.
How is making it possible to get sued making P2P software going to make it safer? No one will innovate if their reward is going to be the gov. on their ass.
So instead of encouraging safer P2P (which he gives unstantiated claims that is unsafe), he tries to kill it off. Does he really believe it is here to stay? I wish I lived in Utah so I could vote this lier out of office.
Don't know if it will get done, however one thing to consider, if the filament in traditional lightbulbs was made just a little larger, light bulbs would burn out about once every ten years. It doesn't cost very much, however, the lightbulb making companies would not make as much money...
How much money they will make with the new scheme is the issue here..
Since they censored a discussion about movie decryption in a legitimate magazine (2600), couldn't they censor the discussion about the discussion about movie decryption?
Hell, here slashdot is having a discussion about a discussion about a discussion about movie decryption. It may be legitimate, but someone is bound to pull a 1201 on everyone here.
The backwards compatibility problem has not been solved yet for the legacy 802.11b systems to inter-operate with 802.11g. Until that happens, 802.11a, despite its problems with permeating substances such as brick and other building materials, is still the better alternative.
This new higher speed for 802.11b mentioned in the article gives buisnesses NOW the opprotunity to upgrade their current hardware without installing a brand new system to operate in the 5ghz range.
The movie industry has a track record of not wanting to change the way they do buisness.
They will fight any technology that starts to rear its ugly head and threaten to destroy its profits. Right now, they feel threatened by the PC, so they attack the PC. Later, DVD's will be evil, and then Linux will be as well.
The reason they did not fight CDr's or DVD'rs is that they are not smart enough technologuically to figure out how technology will effect their profits. We are talking about people with degrees in buisness and/or liberal arts degrees. They think a computer is still powered by a hamster on a wheel. The problem with people who are good in buisness is that they have no vision as far as technology goes. They tried to sue VCR companies even!
Just remember, who succeeded with computers? It was the geeks, not the liberal arts majors. Until the people who own the music studios and the movie studios realize the impact that technology can have on movies and music, they will be playing catchup like they have been for years.
Great, 1000 Million Chinese to contend with on the mirrors. Download times are going to hell..
Guess Maybe we should all stay away from this distribution to avoid the traffic jams.
"Everything will be authentic. "There is no purpose, in our opinion, to not be," he said"
They even contradict themselves. They tell us it will be authentic while making concessions that The Wright Brothers would not make.
Does not sound like it is authentic if they use better glue, materials, etc. I do not like to hear about re-creations going bad more then anything, but it seems a little outregous that people are spending so much time and money to test this plane to make it better. Why not just buy a cesna, save money, and fly that and say its a recreation of the first flight?
I guess I just do not see the thrill in watching people fly a plane that is supposed to be authentic when it really is not.
I like how they talk about earth english and space english. We already have ebonics english, British English, and the English that my foreign professors have that is completly different then the english I speak. We could always use another English...
I say if you want to go to another solar system, go for it. I would rather stay here and respond to slashdot articles.
Slashdot Mirror
"If a person is too stupid to realize whether or not they're logging into THEIR bank or not, perhaps they don't deserve the privilege of online banking"
...)directed to their copy of the BOA website. (Identicle to the BOA website BTW)
The scam that is scary is the bank of america scam where a bunch of miscreants copied the BOA website and had anyone typing in varieties of bankofamerica.com (I think one of them was bankofanerica.com
I am sure even you occasionally mistypes, and if you were not paying attention, you would enter you password into the wrong site.
Of course, I don't use online banking, but for someone who does, I can't see how you could keep that from happening without being extremly careful.
A plugin like mentioned would be very useful in this regard.
Maybe its just me, but it seems that their solution would not work for their supposed problem.
How well does sheet metal block out radio waves? Don't people use aluminum foil to boost radio and/or TV waves?
I just can't see this actually being that successful since people can get radios to work inside of large buildings made out of metal.
Or maybe they are only blocking out "SPECIAL Radio waves put out by terrorists"
You honesty believe someone should be able to hack someone's system and not get punished for it?
Or lets reward them. You forget that they broke the law. Maybe their motivation was noble like you claim, but in our society the ends do not justify the means. Maybe they should, but thats another argument.
But in this case, I do believe you are really wrong. Their intensions were anything but good.
Quote from article:
"Hinsdale school officials say the accused students have had the Social Security numbers of their fellow students and teachers for months"
What were they doing holding onto this information for months? If their intentions were noble from the start, they should have informed the proper people about it immediatly, not wait months to do so.
Maybe IT personnal at HS's are stupid. But that is no excuse for stealing private SSN's and holding onto that information for an indefinate amount of time.
I went to a blockbuster a couple days ago, and they have a big sign on their door that explains the details.
Yes, they will charge you full price for the item after 7 days. However, if you bring the movie back after 7 days you will not be charged full price. You will be charged a "restocking fee" instead of a "late fee". Granted, it wasn't that bad at $1.50, but I still laughed after reading about the "restocking fee."
"""Well done man, but the syringe portion gave me a chill. The syringe part is more than just evidence...what the cop did was both illegal and insanely dangerous. "Sharps" are considered hazardous medical waste and in every state MUST be disposed of in a proper labeled container (NOT a Coke bottle.) They must be given to a company licensed to dispose of hazardous or medical waste and destroyed, usually in these massive incinerators. (I was a med student once...)""" At the bottom of the article, the guy says that it turned out that the hotel had the proper facility to dispose of the needles. However, even if they didn't, wouldn't it be ironic if: Some criminal roots through the hotels trash looking for information to steal someone's identity with and gets needled?
Normally you would be right, that MS should not be forced to give up trade secrets or patents, etc., but if you look at the facts of the case, it is not what it appears.
See, it works like this, MS is a vertical monopoly, and therefore they also develop software for their OS. If they use their superior position in the OS arena to help build their own applications, they are abusing their monopoly vertically.
That means, that if they use hidden or secret procedure calls, etc. to give their software an advantage, they are abusing their monopoly and therefore should be punished for it.
Remember, its not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to abuse that position.
Although you are correct that it appears we are going in reverse, by not actually adopting new things, and not going to the moon or doing big missions (such as Mars.) NASA has been doing things.
Since the 70's, NASA's budget has not been the top issue (it has gone down steadily since we stopped going to the moon.) And we also no longer wanted to beat the Soviets in space (since we already did that.)
We still have the technology to go to the moon, and I would even hazard to guess the technology is there to go to Mars as well, but the money is not there.
And the testing money NASA is spending, well think about that as trying to get itself to Mars on a limited budget. If something will not work to accomplish NASA's probable main mission, why stick with it?
NASA has accomplished several smaller probe missions. But the fact is, that with such a smaller budget and the fact that we are still the main financier's for the international space station; NASA has issues with its budget right now. So, write to your congressman if you want to go out to Mars or goto the moon again, because right now its those people who decide whether we go or not. (Think oversight committee as well.)
Everyone here is talking about how you should stop payment immediatly and sue.
Both of those options are wrong without knowing all the information and without being a lawyer who may know a thing or two from going to school for so long. What is important here is what the contract says.
1. What country/state/municipality is given jurisdiction over the contract? This is otherwise known as the Governing clause and it should be in every contract. Then the laws of this location need to be explored in terms of what legal redress there are.
2. How does the contract stipulate payment occurs? If it stipulates that you pay on final delivery, you do not stop payment. If it says you pay when the software is in a state that is satisfactory to you, you may want to stop payment.
Why does number 2 matter so much? It may not be legal for you to stop payment on the contract. This depends on number 1. In addition, your stopping of the payment may make YOU in breach of the contract, and it may ultimatly mean the other side burns you.
3. What does the contract say about faulty workmanship? Usually the person who wants work done will stipulate what satisfactory code or work is. This means the person you are paying will be required to fix the code free of charge in a timely matter.
I saw someone suggest to email them and patiently ask them for a schedule and spit the contract back out at them. This is probably the best course of action, but then again it depends on what the contract actually says.
What you really need to do above all else is talk to a lawyer and have them read the contract you signed. That is your first step once there is a problem.
For the lowly employee, stock options are a huge mistake anyway. For one thing, your salary is already tied up in the company you are working in.
What happens if the company goes bust? You already lose your salary, so do you want to lose your options as well?
Another thing, if you do not sell your options right away, they will devalue, or even go to nothing if the company declares bankrupcy.
Stock options can be beneficial for CEO's who run the company into the ground after they make their millions, but in the end there is no good reason to not cash in your options. You should invest in many companies instead of just putting all of your eggs in one basket.
So what does this article change for the common man? Nothing, except maybe there will be less stock options out there. IMO, this is for the best anyway for lowly wage earners.
I did some searching and discovered this:r +scarin g+up+business/2100-1002_3-5449269.html
http://news.com.com/Finjan+Warning+users+o
And this quote by the Finjan CEO pretty much sums up what I thought this was:
"By using Finjan's proactive security solutions...users can enjoy a secure environment that protects them from such vulnerabilities."
Its just a ploy to scare up buisness for this security company. But lets not jump to conclusions, those 10 errors may exist, but the truth is that this security company may not have followed the industry guidelines.
That is the key question, did Finjan give MS these errors 30 days ago like traditionally is done? If they did, then they have every right to publicize the problem, but if not, they are engaging in questionable buisness practices.
I am willing to bet they are closing down their broadband services to focus on what they were good at. That is, providing a service for the technilogically illiterate. Everyone here may be right, that they will end up screwing the pooch on this one, but I have a feeling they are going to try to get their old customers to sign up for their service, and then make a big push to provide a service instead of a connection. Their success in my opinion will be based on whether they can actually provide a meaningful service for $10-$15 a month.
If you do not know what I am talking about, goto
http://www.aol.com/
And check out their big promo: here is the first paragraph from it:
AOL FOR BROADBAND REQUIRES PURCHASE OF A SEPARATE HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION FROM YOUR LOCAL CABLE OR TELEPHONE COMPANY. HIGH-SPEED CONNECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN CERTAIN AREAS ONLY. FREE TRIAL MUST BE USED WITHIN 2 MONTHS OF REGISTRATION FOR AOL. TO AVOID BEING CHARGED FUTURE AOL FOR BROADBAND FEES, SIMPLY CANCEL BEFORE 2 MONTH FREE TRIAL ENDS
So there you go, they are dropping their high-speed connections to focus on "AOL for broadband". In fact, I looked up their high speed services awhile back, and they did not even offer them in our area!! Talk about not wanting to make money...maybe now they will.
Although restructuring is a ceo's task to cover someone else's butt or his(traditionally)
This may actually be beneficial to aol. AOL has always been the ISP for the internet newbie, and if the reorganization can help their broadband division actually give good services that are worth paying for, they may stick around.
As of now, their broadband and dial-up services have different aims, and you can not really keep those two together in the same division. AOL has got to step up and deliver a broadband service that gives something for the money you pay them.
They have started with the spyware removal and other neat things that work well for the busy family who does not have time to do that themselves. But they really need to seperate this service from their dial-up service. It is distinctly different in terms of scope. I looked it up because a friend of mine wanted to switch to broadband. He thought that AOL actually offered a broadband connection for $9.99 a month. After I told him what it did, he was still confused and couldn't figure out why someone would pay for that. Of course, he is a little ignorant of the net, but if he can not understand the need for this, a lot of potential user's out there also do not understand what AOL's broadband service is. This may be why AOL needs to seperate its two different services, because I have a feeling lots of ppl here also do not know what their broadband servoce is exactly. Maybe a seperate division will help distinguish what these two entities are exactly.
But in reality, I do not see the purpose of them dividing up into four seperate divisions instead of just the two. I guess this is what happens when corporate america has someone in their elitist circle that they need to protect from losing their 40 hour a week paid solitaire playing job. Or maybe four is the CEO's lucky number....
Well, its now clear, I will never buy something at best buy again.
Any company that simply says that our lower sales "are the customers fault" deserve to get blasted in the marketplace.
Sure, they do not specifically blame customers, but they are implying that these so called evil customers are resulting in less profits, and they would rather not have them shop at best buy. The next logical conclusion is to blame the actual customers for the sales, when the truth is that you sell inferior technology at an elevated price.
Best Buy may just be another greedy and evil corporation, but in the end their success comes down to the principal of economics. If they sell things for cheap enough with good service, they will stick around. But if they plan on offering deals they do not honor, no one will want to shop there anymore.
The DMCA contradicts itself, which is why companies have had some success on eroding fair usage. In this case XM MIGHT have cause for concern.
Here are the relevant sections in the dmca.
Title 17, chapter 12 section 1201 part c section 1 from dmca:
"Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringment including fair use under this title."
But,
Section 1201 part b section 1:
"No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that - "
part B:
"has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof"
So, if someone makes a product that say copies a dvd even if its only for fair use, it could be construed as circumventing a technological measure(breaking encryption). Thus it could be said that they can be held liable for copyright infringement.
Think this is far-fetched? Its already happened. Look at 321 studios and what has happened to their company.
Now, looking at that example, the question comes down to whether this poor guy broke ANY form of encryption, or broke any technological measure to allow people to achieve fair usage. If he did, then he can be held liable.
This is what XM is talking about when they say they are looking into the matter. I think its cruddy too, but if they can prove he broke a technological measure, then copying XM will never happen.
That is unless you code it yourself. You see, everyone still has the right to fair-usage, but no one can sell or distribute tools to allow fair-usage if there is any form of encryption involved.
Just like breaking DVD encryption, you can do it legally, but you just can't give the software out(legally).
To me, it seems pointless. The wheel must be reinvented everytime, but what can we do with laws such as the DMCA, which just contradicts itself.
This guy reminds me of Fry from Futurama in the episode where he kept drinking coffee. I wonder if this guy shakes when he is flying over the ocean because the soda doesn't have enough caffeine?
Either way, its not good when you can be compared to a character on a tv show who is an idiot.
Now if your contract doesn't stipulate that you must pay for internet access, cell phones, etc., its your choice.(but it could cost you your job.) If they want to fire you, they will find a a way.
The other option is to pull an office space. That is, turn off your phones, internet, etc. and just ignore the outside world during your supposed time off. But like I said before, same thing applies about maybe losing your job.
Of course, nowadays, companies are crunching dollars by forcing mandatory overtime, less vacation time, etc. My uncle recently lost 2 weeks of vacation time just because the company decided that after 20 years of service, that someone doesn't need 6 weeks, that four is enough. Seems like a similar issue to me.
"I do believe that peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are here to stay" from: http://judiciary.senate.gov/print_member_statement .cfm?id=623&wit_id=51
So the famous senetor from Utah says that. And then he turns around and talks about how people share out personal information and that it is a security risk for both individuals and for the Government.
How is making it possible to get sued making P2P software going to make it safer? No one will innovate if their reward is going to be the gov. on their ass.
So instead of encouraging safer P2P (which he gives unstantiated claims that is unsafe), he tries to kill it off. Does he really believe it is here to stay? I wish I lived in Utah so I could vote this lier out of office.
its 3G's in a shuttle launch which may explain why astronauts train under G forces like that for awhile.
Don't know if it will get done, however one thing to consider, if the filament in traditional lightbulbs was made just a little larger, light bulbs would burn out about once every ten years. It doesn't cost very much, however, the lightbulb making companies would not make as much money...
How much money they will make with the new scheme is the issue here..
Since they censored a discussion about movie decryption in a legitimate magazine (2600), couldn't they censor the discussion about the discussion about movie decryption?
Hell, here slashdot is having a discussion about a discussion about a discussion about movie decryption. It may be legitimate, but someone is bound to pull a 1201 on everyone here.
The backwards compatibility problem has not been solved yet for the legacy 802.11b systems to inter-operate with 802.11g. Until that happens, 802.11a, despite its problems with permeating substances such as brick and other building materials, is still the better alternative.
This new higher speed for 802.11b mentioned in the article gives buisnesses NOW the opprotunity to upgrade their current hardware without installing a brand new system to operate in the 5ghz range.
The movie industry has a track record of not wanting to change the way they do buisness.
They will fight any technology that starts to rear its ugly head and threaten to destroy its profits. Right now, they feel threatened by the PC, so they attack the PC. Later, DVD's will be evil, and then Linux will be as well.
The reason they did not fight CDr's or DVD'rs is that they are not smart enough technologuically to figure out how technology will effect their profits. We are talking about people with degrees in buisness and/or liberal arts degrees. They think a computer is still powered by a hamster on a wheel. The problem with people who are good in buisness is that they have no vision as far as technology goes. They tried to sue VCR companies even!
Just remember, who succeeded with computers? It was the geeks, not the liberal arts majors. Until the people who own the music studios and the movie studios realize the impact that technology can have on movies and music, they will be playing catchup like they have been for years.
Great, 1000 Million Chinese to contend with on the mirrors. Download times are going to hell.. Guess Maybe we should all stay away from this distribution to avoid the traffic jams.
"Everything will be authentic. "There is no purpose, in our opinion, to not be," he said"
They even contradict themselves. They tell us it will be authentic while making concessions that The Wright Brothers would not make.
Does not sound like it is authentic if they use better glue, materials, etc. I do not like to hear about re-creations going bad more then anything, but it seems a little outregous that people are spending so much time and money to test this plane to make it better. Why not just buy a cesna, save money, and fly that and say its a recreation of the first flight?
I guess I just do not see the thrill in watching people fly a plane that is supposed to be authentic when it really is not.
I like how they talk about earth english and space english. We already have ebonics english, British English, and the English that my foreign professors have that is completly different then the english I speak. We could always use another English...
I say if you want to go to another solar system, go for it. I would rather stay here and respond to slashdot articles.