Interesting reading. You do realize he was captured in a firefight in Afghanistan don't you? That is the very definition of enemy combatant. He pled guilty to five charges and is serving an 8 year sentence for murder. Hardly sounds like a tourist and at least he can look forward to going home one day. I'm not a fan of Guantanamo Bay, if people are caught they should be tried and sentenced if guilty or sent home if innocent. This crap of holding on to people for years with no trial is definetly wrong and should be stopped.
Strangely enough the CIA, which is reviewing this thread, doesn't mind you bad mouthing it. In fact, I think they enjoy knowing that they are feared. They do, however, have a problem if you start talking about blowing things up or something of that ilk. I can't imagine why. And I'm pretty sure they enjoy looking at Porn so the dude would have been fine on a trip to the US.
Ack! I missed that. You're right, Breyer was President Clinton's pick. I skimmed the page too fast. No need to be snippy, I don't give a shit about Clinton, Bush or Obama. One lying ass politician or another, they're all out to fuck me over for their owners. I did kinda think it was weird that two Bush appointees would oppose something and it appears it was too good to be true.
That's because Apple is a hardware company foremost. It works the other way with them. They don't want you installing their software on other hardware and work to prevent it. Microsoft is being forced into attacking linux on ARM in this way because they can't really compete against them any other way on that platform and they are desperate not to start losing market share even if they maintain their monopoly on pc architecture. MS knows that once linux really starts to take hold anywhere at all they are in danger everywhere.
IF I was involved in anything where security was paramount. I mean here life or death basically. I'd certainly need to be sure of all my code and that would mean analyzing and compiling code. As for my own, individual security I feel more comfortable with a linux distro. It might be backdoored but I'm absolutely certain that Windows is compromised and I'm almost as sure about OS X.
This is borderline FUD. Yes it's possible to poison the code but with a proprietary closed system it's damn near certain you're backdoored. If for nothing else than for the company who sells the software to keep tabs on it. It's in their best interests not to sell you out because loss of credibility means loss of revenue but if the stakes are high enough they can be persuaded. For this reason it's not a problem for the average Joe usually but if you have anything you want kept secure and the stakes are high you'd be a fool to rely on your proprietary OS being secure. Risk management rules apply.
I think we can safely assume any closed operating system is backdoored. If I was a foriegn government I'd never use an operating system that I couldn't compile from source myself. I think this is one reason that MS was let off from the Fedreal Lawsuit so easily, so they could aid in surveillance. It makes sense, if I was in their shoes I'd do the same.
It sounds like they're saying they'll all be shutdown in 40 years unless they're safe. Thus making it sound like if they are newer than 40 years they don't have to be safe. Of course that's from the summary which so often has little or nothing to do with the article.
The bad thing is that people who drive 30mpg cars will get hurt too. Generally people driving 12mpg cars have money to pay for the fuel. Even at 10 bucks a gallon I can afford to drive my 4x4 that gets 10mpg because I don't commute in it. It's for off roading and only gets driven maybe 2 thousand miles a year tops. Unfortunately I do have to commute to work and even though my auto for that gets better mileage it still adds up. I, however, make enough to pay that even though I would of course like to avoid it if possible. The problem is all the people on the edge. That shit will just push them over it. With resulting resentment and anger and a backlash in the polls. Yeah, jack up everyones gas tax. Go ahead, once they feel the pain they'll make sure their congress critter feels it back.
I've still got my C64 I bought at the exchange at Keesler AFB in Mississippi. I took that thing all over the world along with the 1541 disk drive that I got with it for $199 each. I bet I turned it off and on dozens of times a day for 6 years when in 89 I bought an Amiga to take it's place. I took it out of the closet in 2000 to find an old recipe for my wife that she had placed on disk years earlier. After printing the recipe I left the computer out and my son came in from school and said "The C64! Leave that out." He played with it for several weeks remembering all the games he had played as a little fellow. The charm never goes away. Something about those quirky little things just endeared them to people.
This article is nothing but flamebait. It's misleading and incorrect and designed only to generate mass negative posts. Enough already, I know this is slashdot but this is too much.
Trying to protect games makes them suck. I remember I had a game from EA on my C64 that hammered the hell out of my disk drive every time it loaded. It took almost 5 minutes to load and by the time it was finished the drive was hot enough to fry with. It finally hammered it out of alignment and I had to fix it. I finally learned at a user group meeting (when I was stationed in Germany in the 80's, damn those German crackers were good) how to strip the protection off the disk and I never, ever bought a legit copy of any EA software since. As a matter of honor I always pay for shareware but those who try to stick it to me I stick it to them. Screw EA.
The biggest selling model of all time is the toyota corolla and it's not even in the top 10 of stolen cars. Maybe because it's affordable enough to buy?
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Interesting reading. You do realize he was captured in a firefight in Afghanistan don't you? That is the very definition of enemy combatant. He pled guilty to five charges and is serving an 8 year sentence for murder. Hardly sounds like a tourist and at least he can look forward to going home one day. I'm not a fan of Guantanamo Bay, if people are caught they should be tried and sentenced if guilty or sent home if innocent. This crap of holding on to people for years with no trial is definetly wrong and should be stopped.
Strangely enough the CIA, which is reviewing this thread, doesn't mind you bad mouthing it. In fact, I think they enjoy knowing that they are feared. They do, however, have a problem if you start talking about blowing things up or something of that ilk. I can't imagine why. And I'm pretty sure they enjoy looking at Porn so the dude would have been fine on a trip to the US.
I don't think Cuba will be a threat to Canada until they build their navy up a bit.
Ack! I missed that. You're right, Breyer was President Clinton's pick. I skimmed the page too fast. No need to be snippy, I don't give a shit about Clinton, Bush or Obama. One lying ass politician or another, they're all out to fuck me over for their owners. I did kinda think it was weird that two Bush appointees would oppose something and it appears it was too good to be true.
Did anyone notice the two dissenters were appointed to the court by President George W. Bush?
Wrong! The purpose of copyright is to make money for our Corporate Overlords.
Ah, but the Native Americans got casinos in the bargain. The last laugh may be on the palefaces.
I think someone forgot to give the President his cut.
Come on man, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
That's because Apple is a hardware company foremost. It works the other way with them. They don't want you installing their software on other hardware and work to prevent it. Microsoft is being forced into attacking linux on ARM in this way because they can't really compete against them any other way on that platform and they are desperate not to start losing market share even if they maintain their monopoly on pc architecture. MS knows that once linux really starts to take hold anywhere at all they are in danger everywhere.
I think Barnes and Nobles outed the patents in question and they were, as most suspected, patently ridiculous. (Pun intended)
heh....I'm certain enough for me. But you feel free to do what you want. I don't feel the need to prove it to people who I don't value.
This is what I so dislike about President Obama. He's not even a good liberal. This is the kind of thing I would Expect from the Bush administration.
Really, imagine only owning Nokia equipment. The horror.
IF I was involved in anything where security was paramount. I mean here life or death basically. I'd certainly need to be sure of all my code and that would mean analyzing and compiling code. As for my own, individual security I feel more comfortable with a linux distro. It might be backdoored but I'm absolutely certain that Windows is compromised and I'm almost as sure about OS X.
This is borderline FUD. Yes it's possible to poison the code but with a proprietary closed system it's damn near certain you're backdoored. If for nothing else than for the company who sells the software to keep tabs on it. It's in their best interests not to sell you out because loss of credibility means loss of revenue but if the stakes are high enough they can be persuaded. For this reason it's not a problem for the average Joe usually but if you have anything you want kept secure and the stakes are high you'd be a fool to rely on your proprietary OS being secure. Risk management rules apply.
I think we can safely assume any closed operating system is backdoored. If I was a foriegn government I'd never use an operating system that I couldn't compile from source myself. I think this is one reason that MS was let off from the Fedreal Lawsuit so easily, so they could aid in surveillance. It makes sense, if I was in their shoes I'd do the same.
What does legality have to do with it?
It sounds like they're saying they'll all be shutdown in 40 years unless they're safe. Thus making it sound like if they are newer than 40 years they don't have to be safe. Of course that's from the summary which so often has little or nothing to do with the article.
The bad thing is that people who drive 30mpg cars will get hurt too. Generally people driving 12mpg cars have money to pay for the fuel. Even at 10 bucks a gallon I can afford to drive my 4x4 that gets 10mpg because I don't commute in it. It's for off roading and only gets driven maybe 2 thousand miles a year tops. Unfortunately I do have to commute to work and even though my auto for that gets better mileage it still adds up. I, however, make enough to pay that even though I would of course like to avoid it if possible. The problem is all the people on the edge. That shit will just push them over it. With resulting resentment and anger and a backlash in the polls. Yeah, jack up everyones gas tax. Go ahead, once they feel the pain they'll make sure their congress critter feels it back.
I've still got my C64 I bought at the exchange at Keesler AFB in Mississippi. I took that thing all over the world along with the 1541 disk drive that I got with it for $199 each. I bet I turned it off and on dozens of times a day for 6 years when in 89 I bought an Amiga to take it's place. I took it out of the closet in 2000 to find an old recipe for my wife that she had placed on disk years earlier. After printing the recipe I left the computer out and my son came in from school and said "The C64! Leave that out." He played with it for several weeks remembering all the games he had played as a little fellow. The charm never goes away. Something about those quirky little things just endeared them to people.
This article is nothing but flamebait. It's misleading and incorrect and designed only to generate mass negative posts. Enough already, I know this is slashdot but this is too much.
We're talking about Microsoft here. Let's leave facts out of it. The truth is whatever the Microsoft Shills say it is.
Trying to protect games makes them suck. I remember I had a game from EA on my C64 that hammered the hell out of my disk drive every time it loaded. It took almost 5 minutes to load and by the time it was finished the drive was hot enough to fry with. It finally hammered it out of alignment and I had to fix it. I finally learned at a user group meeting (when I was stationed in Germany in the 80's, damn those German crackers were good) how to strip the protection off the disk and I never, ever bought a legit copy of any EA software since. As a matter of honor I always pay for shareware but those who try to stick it to me I stick it to them. Screw EA.
The biggest selling model of all time is the toyota corolla and it's not even in the top 10 of stolen cars. Maybe because it's affordable enough to buy?