That assumes you can find them. Most of the big trolls are hidden behind so many shell companies, you'll never find them. You could intimidate their post office box maybe? To solve this problem, you need to stop it at the source. Revoke all software patents and outlaw any future ones. That involves you and all your angry developer friends standing outside your representatives' offices with pitchforks and torches. Want change? Organize.
In both of these cases nobody pays you a penny and you go broke real fast.
So you can't make money off the code. Who cares? Vine is free, yet they sell cute stickers in app. They make a ton of money and the messenger app is just the vehicle to sell stickers. What is to stop anyone making a messenger app with strong end to end encryption that is open source and also happens to sell these copyrighted stickers? Oh, right, nothing. That's a very easy, proven way to make money.
Want to add some trust to the build for regular people? Post a page stating "We have never received a request by the NSA to distribute a broken product" and leave that page posted so long as it is true. If the page goes down, someone not related to the company can post a build, post the same message and again, as long as it is true, the message stays up. If you think that third party is the NSA and lying, you have the build instructions. Build it yourself, just to be sure. In fact, the build instructions could be as simple as install java, click this.jnlp that installs a hudson build server locally which does the build for you.
because the opposition's records weren't private, while Obama's and the IRS' still were. I'd argue, that opening everybody's records and communications would help prevent tyranny just as much as keeping records properly private.
And now that you know about it, what have you done exactly? You've lifted a finger to complain on slashdot. I'm sure that will scare Obama into being a good boy again. Thanks Captain Freedom.
I was happy to hear it had a Tegra 4 until I read that it did not have the i500 software defined radio. The radio was one of the major selling points and might have allowed it to be used outside China.
> or they are simply going to be less effective once they've reduced their staff.
Which wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
Or they can be easily disabled by a small but disgruntled group of sys admins. See Terry Childs for an example of what can happen when a limited number of people hold the keys to the kingdom.
Work from home is a trap. I would only consider working from home if my employer is me. Work from home blurs the lines between home life and work life to the point where you are always on call. I work 40hrs a week as a software developer and sys admin. The rest of the time in my week is mine.
Oh wow. You're such a hard ass. We should all be inspired by your awesomeness. You sir have ended this discussion. This has nothing to do with predatory lending whatsoever. You have proven that nobody NEEDS loans, therefore, the government can simply stop giving them out and everything will be cool again. Any time now government... you can stop. Really. Oh no Cius! The government is still making the loans and sucking the blood out of kids foolish enough to take loans. Please save us with more of your wisdom.
There doesn't need to be a trial because there's no question that Apple is breaking the law. That is not in dispute. The Obama regime didn't say the judge was wrong and that laws were not broken. The Obama regime is specifically saying that Apple has the priviledge to break the law until Samsung decides to accept what Apple is willing to pay them.
You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the time when AllOfMP3 decided to sell music they didn't have rights to sell in the US. AllOfMP3 actually offered to pay licensing fees to the RIAA, but only what AllOfMP3 thought was fair. That amounted to a few pennies per song, and the RIAA wasn't hearing any of that. Russia sided with AllOfMP3 and it was all perfectly legal there. The US music industry had to pursue other avenues to shut them down. In the end, they cut of the payment processing with Visa/Mastercard.
So, I would expect to see new Korean law that allows Samsung to terminate Apple contracts for failure to pay licensing fees soon, if such a law does not already exist.
I'm really beginning to think the Obama regime is destined to destroy the entire tech industry in the US. Between this and Snowden's revelations, they've driven a stake through the heart of the tech industry. Now they're just nailing the coffin shut for good measure. By the end of his second term, no one anywhere is going to want to do business with US tech companies anymore. He will have accomplished what no other US dictator has managed to do. Kill the goose that laid the golden egg over in silicon valley...
Apple doesn't actually donate much to politicians at all, and their lobbying budget is exceptionally small for a company of their size, so I doubt that's the reason.
My guess is that this is actually for the stated reason. Whether it's a good reason or not is another question, but I don't think they're covering up a hidden motive here. Basically, the iPhone 2 and 4 sell a lot in the U.S., and banning them would disrupt the U.S. economy to some extent, so they chose not to.
Moral of the story. Intellectual property can only be enforced in the USA if your company has connections. Samsung violates Apple patents? 1 Beeeeelion dollar fine. Apple violates Samsung patents? Presidential pardon.
If I were Samsung, I'd stop selling components to Apple until they decided to pay their licensing fees. That would put a stop to iPhone4 and iPad2 just as fast as an injuction. That would put a dent in new Apple products too.
The statute authorizing the ITC pretty explicitly contemplated that possibility, which is why it has an opt-out clause for the president to cancel ITC orders if he determines they would be too disruptive to the economy.
'too disruptive to the economy'? Read: Enforce laws only on companies full of dirty slant eyes who we don't like here in 'murica.
The issue is very much one of the NSA having these vast powers. It goes way beyond what they are allowed by the US Constitution, however much they would like to interpret it otherwise.
We marvel that the runtime environment of the web browser can do things that we had working 25 years ago on the Mac.
Did the Mac, 25 years ago, allow people to load code from a remote server and execute it locally in a sandbox and in a platform independent manner all in a matter of a couple of seconds? No. No it did not.
Articles like this always miss the point. Apple is a hardware company. Samsung is a hardware company. They make hardware, and the software is provided as a means of enticing users to buy the hardware.
Google is an entirely different animal. Google is a data company. Google's product is data. Google makes hardware and software for the same reasons Samsung/Apple make software. Google wants to attract as many people to the platform as it can because those users provide more data to Google. Data is the product.
Just look at Apple Maps for a single example. Apple is clearly out of their league with maps, because maps is a data product. Apple just doesn't have the data or the infrastructure to handle the data even if they had it. Apple may have brilliant designers, but their data science wing is empty.
As a result, Google maps can correctly guide me through a dirt parking lot with turn by turn directions. Google's software can do this because their software is designed from the start to collect data and learn from its users. Some users went to that parking lot before I did, and their driving paths were assimilated. Google's map app learns in real-time. Apple maps will guide me to the bottom of the ocean, beautifully. It is designed from the paint job down.
I like printed books; but, they don't match the convenience of electronic books
Depends on what you mean by electronic books. Not all are the same. A DRM'ed copy of anything is not convenient to me at all. I may want to transfer it to another device or sell it. DRM prevents me from doing legal things that I can do with a paper book. So I won't even consider a DRM'ed book. A simple, unecrypted PDF on the other hand is much better than the printed book IMO. I can easily search a PDF's contents. I can't do that with paper.
There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime.
You're right. If my dad was brutally murdered on video, I would not want everyone in the world gawking at it for a cheap thrill. So has Canada asked youtube to take down all those grisly 9/11 videos yet? Oh, yeah, forgot... Hipocracy. "We must never forget!" Sick bastards watching people fall to their deaths, over and over again.
I stand corrected. 512 c 3 a vi of the US copyright code:
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The perjury part only applies to the claim that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
DMCA takedown requests are filed and sworn to be accurate under penalty of perjury. Perjury is a felony. Perjury penalties include fines and up to 5 years in prison. I doubt we will see any such thing applied to HBO for lying to the courts. There are two sets of laws in the US. Laws for the rich (HBO) and laws for the rest (file sharers).
Seriously. Thanks to Obama's administration we have this problem. He has single handedly wrecked trust in US operating systems, web hosts, hardware, online services... everything.
Fuck you Obama/Biden. You've broken the trust of everyone who elected you.
The problem with the US system of democracy is there's no way to FIRE dirtbag politicians who run on specific campaign promises and then turn around and do the exact opposite. That mother fucker promised to end this shit and instead made it worse, intentionally. He should be fired without a pension or golden parachute. Where are the calls for impeachment over this direct breach of the Constitution that he swore to protect?
I doubt perfect forward secrecy will help very much when the NSA could just create a validly signed certificate to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on a routine basis. All they need to do is exploit one of your default 'trusted' CAs and you're done.
I'm sure US authorities have already rolled up into Verisign and demanded a copy of their private keys. Even if Snowden doesn't reveal this, given the other unconstitutional actions taken by the US, I have to assume this has already happened.
The system we have is built on trust. We've now learned we cannot trust the US government. The entire system has been broken. We have to rethink it.
Just US services? What about US closed source OSes? Flashback to 1999 and the _NSAKEY discovery. Microsoft denied speculations that _NSAKEY meant exactly what it sounds like. Everyone mostly believed it. If you didn't you were a tin foil hat conspiracy nut.
Off the top of my head, the sort of thing you don't get with Oracle:
select * from table limit 10 offset 20;
source code
free
I recently benchmarked postgres 9.2.4 on a Dell PowerEdge at Rackspace with a four disk raid 10, a two disk raid 1 for the WAL logs, and 48GB of RAM. It's good up to around 14000 transactions per second until you exceed what fits into RAM. Then it drops off to around 2000. That was the select benchmark with no writes involved.
grahamsaa, if you really want to know what postgres can do, I suggest you install it and run some benchmarks to find out for yourself. You can find all the info you need to do this in Postgresql 9.0 High Performance It won't cost you anything to do this and if you decide it can't handle your workload, then you can always go purchase Oracle.
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But you are confident that one grossly simplified computer model, without any field data to test it, is the answer?
Wait a second. Are we talking about petro scientists or climate scientists?
That assumes you can find them. Most of the big trolls are hidden behind so many shell companies, you'll never find them. You could intimidate their post office box maybe? To solve this problem, you need to stop it at the source. Revoke all software patents and outlaw any future ones. That involves you and all your angry developer friends standing outside your representatives' offices with pitchforks and torches. Want change? Organize.
FTFA "California has already chosen a small, unknown startup"... Oh, now I get it. Kickbacks.
Have you ever tried to read an LCD screen in sunlight? This is the best privacy idea evar! Thanks moron legislators from California.
In both of these cases nobody pays you a penny and you go broke real fast.
So you can't make money off the code. Who cares? Vine is free, yet they sell cute stickers in app. They make a ton of money and the messenger app is just the vehicle to sell stickers. What is to stop anyone making a messenger app with strong end to end encryption that is open source and also happens to sell these copyrighted stickers? Oh, right, nothing. That's a very easy, proven way to make money.
Want to add some trust to the build for regular people? Post a page stating "We have never received a request by the NSA to distribute a broken product" and leave that page posted so long as it is true. If the page goes down, someone not related to the company can post a build, post the same message and again, as long as it is true, the message stays up. If you think that third party is the NSA and lying, you have the build instructions. Build it yourself, just to be sure. In fact, the build instructions could be as simple as install java, click this .jnlp that installs a hudson build server locally which does the build for you.
because the opposition's records weren't private, while Obama's and the IRS' still were. I'd argue, that opening everybody's records and communications would help prevent tyranny just as much as keeping records properly private.
And now that you know about it, what have you done exactly? You've lifted a finger to complain on slashdot. I'm sure that will scare Obama into being a good boy again. Thanks Captain Freedom.
I was happy to hear it had a Tegra 4 until I read that it did not have the i500 software defined radio. The radio was one of the major selling points and might have allowed it to be used outside China.
> or they are simply going to be less effective once they've reduced their staff.
Which wouldn't be such a terrible thing.
Or they can be easily disabled by a small but disgruntled group of sys admins. See Terry Childs for an example of what can happen when a limited number of people hold the keys to the kingdom.
Work from home is a trap. I would only consider working from home if my employer is me. Work from home blurs the lines between home life and work life to the point where you are always on call. I work 40hrs a week as a software developer and sys admin. The rest of the time in my week is mine.
Oh wow. You're such a hard ass. We should all be inspired by your awesomeness. You sir have ended this discussion. This has nothing to do with predatory lending whatsoever. You have proven that nobody NEEDS loans, therefore, the government can simply stop giving them out and everything will be cool again. Any time now government... you can stop. Really. Oh no Cius! The government is still making the loans and sucking the blood out of kids foolish enough to take loans. Please save us with more of your wisdom.
There doesn't need to be a trial because there's no question that Apple is breaking the law. That is not in dispute. The Obama regime didn't say the judge was wrong and that laws were not broken. The Obama regime is specifically saying that Apple has the priviledge to break the law until Samsung decides to accept what Apple is willing to pay them.
You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the time when AllOfMP3 decided to sell music they didn't have rights to sell in the US. AllOfMP3 actually offered to pay licensing fees to the RIAA, but only what AllOfMP3 thought was fair. That amounted to a few pennies per song, and the RIAA wasn't hearing any of that. Russia sided with AllOfMP3 and it was all perfectly legal there. The US music industry had to pursue other avenues to shut them down. In the end, they cut of the payment processing with Visa/Mastercard.
So, I would expect to see new Korean law that allows Samsung to terminate Apple contracts for failure to pay licensing fees soon, if such a law does not already exist.
I'm really beginning to think the Obama regime is destined to destroy the entire tech industry in the US. Between this and Snowden's revelations, they've driven a stake through the heart of the tech industry. Now they're just nailing the coffin shut for good measure. By the end of his second term, no one anywhere is going to want to do business with US tech companies anymore. He will have accomplished what no other US dictator has managed to do. Kill the goose that laid the golden egg over in silicon valley...
Apple doesn't actually donate much to politicians at all, and their lobbying budget is exceptionally small for a company of their size, so I doubt that's the reason.
They don't need money. They have connections. Apple has Al Gore on their board of directors.
My guess is that this is actually for the stated reason. Whether it's a good reason or not is another question, but I don't think they're covering up a hidden motive here. Basically, the iPhone 2 and 4 sell a lot in the U.S., and banning them would disrupt the U.S. economy to some extent, so they chose not to.
Moral of the story. Intellectual property can only be enforced in the USA if your company has connections. Samsung violates Apple patents? 1 Beeeeelion dollar fine. Apple violates Samsung patents? Presidential pardon.
If I were Samsung, I'd stop selling components to Apple until they decided to pay their licensing fees. That would put a stop to iPhone4 and iPad2 just as fast as an injuction. That would put a dent in new Apple products too.
The statute authorizing the ITC pretty explicitly contemplated that possibility, which is why it has an opt-out clause for the president to cancel ITC orders if he determines they would be too disruptive to the economy.
'too disruptive to the economy'? Read: Enforce laws only on companies full of dirty slant eyes who we don't like here in 'murica.
I don't think anyone but the crazy wingnuts think that governments should be deprived of intelligence. The issue here isn't really that the NSA has these vast powers. After all, we've known this was likely long before 9-11, and historians have even pointed out that the Lincoln Administration had moved to gather information from all telegraph transmissions, so this has been around for a helluva lot longer than the Internet.
The issue is accountability. ...
The issue is very much one of the NSA having these vast powers. It goes way beyond what they are allowed by the US Constitution, however much they would like to interpret it otherwise.
We marvel that the runtime environment of the web browser can do things that we had working 25 years ago on the Mac.
Did the Mac, 25 years ago, allow people to load code from a remote server and execute it locally in a sandbox and in a platform independent manner all in a matter of a couple of seconds? No. No it did not.
We should then pay homage to the Mac 25 years ago, when it basically did what Doug Englebart demonstrated 45 years ago. Nice logic you have there.
Articles like this always miss the point. Apple is a hardware company. Samsung is a hardware company. They make hardware, and the software is provided as a means of enticing users to buy the hardware.
Google is an entirely different animal. Google is a data company. Google's product is data. Google makes hardware and software for the same reasons Samsung/Apple make software. Google wants to attract as many people to the platform as it can because those users provide more data to Google. Data is the product.
Just look at Apple Maps for a single example. Apple is clearly out of their league with maps, because maps is a data product. Apple just doesn't have the data or the infrastructure to handle the data even if they had it. Apple may have brilliant designers, but their data science wing is empty.
As a result, Google maps can correctly guide me through a dirt parking lot with turn by turn directions. Google's software can do this because their software is designed from the start to collect data and learn from its users. Some users went to that parking lot before I did, and their driving paths were assimilated. Google's map app learns in real-time. Apple maps will guide me to the bottom of the ocean, beautifully. It is designed from the paint job down.
I like printed books; but, they don't match the convenience of electronic books
Depends on what you mean by electronic books. Not all are the same. A DRM'ed copy of anything is not convenient to me at all. I may want to transfer it to another device or sell it. DRM prevents me from doing legal things that I can do with a paper book. So I won't even consider a DRM'ed book. A simple, unecrypted PDF on the other hand is much better than the printed book IMO. I can easily search a PDF's contents. I can't do that with paper.
There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime.
You're right. If my dad was brutally murdered on video, I would not want everyone in the world gawking at it for a cheap thrill. So has Canada asked youtube to take down all those grisly 9/11 videos yet? Oh, yeah, forgot... Hipocracy. "We must never forget!" Sick bastards watching people fall to their deaths, over and over again.
Canada will send you to prison for purchasing a sex doll. No need to harm children. Just crimethink.
I stand corrected. 512 c 3 a vi of the US copyright code:
The perjury part only applies to the claim that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
DMCA takedown requests are filed and sworn to be accurate under penalty of perjury. Perjury is a felony. Perjury penalties include fines and up to 5 years in prison. I doubt we will see any such thing applied to HBO for lying to the courts. There are two sets of laws in the US. Laws for the rich (HBO) and laws for the rest (file sharers).
Seriously. Thanks to Obama's administration we have this problem. He has single handedly wrecked trust in US operating systems, web hosts, hardware, online services... everything.
I know someone's gonna say this started under Bush, but Obama could have stopped it. In fact, Obama ran on the promise that he would stop it.I know someone is going to split hairs: "He's NOT wiretapping!!11!!ONE He's only collecting teh metadatas." Obama's running mate, Joe Biden would like to have a word with you.
Fuck you Obama/Biden. You've broken the trust of everyone who elected you.
The problem with the US system of democracy is there's no way to FIRE dirtbag politicians who run on specific campaign promises and then turn around and do the exact opposite. That mother fucker promised to end this shit and instead made it worse, intentionally. He should be fired without a pension or golden parachute. Where are the calls for impeachment over this direct breach of the Constitution that he swore to protect?
I doubt perfect forward secrecy will help very much when the NSA could just create a validly signed certificate to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on a routine basis. All they need to do is exploit one of your default 'trusted' CAs and you're done.
I'm sure US authorities have already rolled up into Verisign and demanded a copy of their private keys. Even if Snowden doesn't reveal this, given the other unconstitutional actions taken by the US, I have to assume this has already happened.
The system we have is built on trust. We've now learned we cannot trust the US government. The entire system has been broken. We have to rethink it.
Don't use US services.
Just US services? What about US closed source OSes? Flashback to 1999 and the _NSAKEY discovery. Microsoft denied speculations that _NSAKEY meant exactly what it sounds like. Everyone mostly believed it. If you didn't you were a tin foil hat conspiracy nut.
Off the top of my head, the sort of thing you don't get with Oracle:
select * from table limit 10 offset 20;
source code
free
I recently benchmarked postgres 9.2.4 on a Dell PowerEdge at Rackspace with a four disk raid 10, a two disk raid 1 for the WAL logs, and 48GB of RAM. It's good up to around 14000 transactions per second until you exceed what fits into RAM. Then it drops off to around 2000. That was the select benchmark with no writes involved.
grahamsaa, if you really want to know what postgres can do, I suggest you install it and run some benchmarks to find out for yourself. You can find all the info you need to do this in Postgresql 9.0 High Performance It won't cost you anything to do this and if you decide it can't handle your workload, then you can always go purchase Oracle.
Yeah. Only on /. can you turn "city sized" piece of ice falling off into possible "entire west antarctica" falling in too.