Just when Microshaft starts yelling at everyone that they should have patched their software, and it's all their own fault, Microshaft gets smacked down by the slammer themselves. Ha Ha Ha!
I bet a lot of the infected systems were current. A lot of good patching them did. Sometimes a Microsoft patch and fifty cents get you a can of pop. If this whole thing isn't a commercial for non-microsoft software, I don't know what is.
Hacker insurance. What a scam. Just like paying protection to the mob.
So, did the insurance industry unleash the slapper worm on companies that would not buy "network risk insurance?" I would not suprise me at all.
Imagine what we as a society could do with the billions and billions we piss away on vapor products like insurance if we spent it on something that benefits society in a tangible way like health care, or replacing our crumbling infrastructure.
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Comparing file trading to deadly drugs of abuse. Nice straw man.
Guess where the royalties would go if you had bought those Beatles CDs. TO Paul and Ringo? No, they would go to Michael Jackson because he bought the copyright. There is a classic example of how the original purpose of copyright has been perverted. If you buy used Beatles CDs, MJ gets nothing. If you have to have them, do it that way.
If the record companies weren't stupid, they would survive. A lot of people will always want tangible things, and an MP3 that goes poof if your hard drive fails isn't tangible enough. Back in the day, I collected LPs. I could have just copied music onto blank tapes from my friends' records, tapes and CDs, but I didn't get the cool artwork, or other tangible things that made buying records desireable. Their own short sightedness and greed is killing the industry, not "piracy." In the eighties, they said home taping would kill them. Now they whine about CDR, and file trading. Bullsh*t!
I suppose that AT&T is about to start marketing a line of electronic locks with key cards, and this FUD about regular locks is part of the plan. The telecom market is in the crapper, and AT&T is looking for other revenue streams. Corporations don't do reasearch, or publish findings as a public service, they do it to grab a buck.
She stepped down to spend time with her children. Yeah, right! She has harmed her industry beyond repair by trying to kill the free promotion of file trading, and calling paying customers thieves, all to slay a paper tiger called "piracy." They suggested that she should leave quietly. Expect more executives to be be forced out as more and more people get tired of their crap, and stop buying CDs.
This is an example of technophobes who think all computers are Hal 9000, and technically illiterate people with VCRs flashing 12:00 trying to regulate the internet.
The reasons to boycott the recording industry become more numerous every day. In their quest to slay a paper tiger they call piracy, they will not allow the fourth amendment, or anything else to get in the way.
Copyrights are usually held by record and publishing corporations, not the artists. I am sure you have heard the expression, "starving artist," but have not heard anything like "starving executive."
In other words, power is concentrated with the people who just want to take from others, rather than the people who actually create things of value. This goes way beyond the creative and performing arts to real, tangible things of value.
I'll bet most of the components in the computer you are using now were made in an asian sweatshop, and the workers got nearly nothing. Their slave drivers got all the profit. The same can probably be said about the shoes and clothing you are wearing.
If shrinkwrap EULAs are allowed to stand up in court, that would violate free spech, fair use, and the first sale principle. I applaud this decision, but I ignore EULAs anyway. I didn't sign anything, so I didn't agree to anything.
If it was not all scratched up, then I'll bet the vinyl would sound the best. Actual anlog sound is always more realistic than a computer synthesized immitation of it no matter what the bit-rate is.
Mybe we can argue that the name, Mickey Mouse has fallen into common use, and can no longer be used as a trademank. For example, a company that is poorly run is often called a "Mickey Mouse outfit" People often say that something is Mickey Mouse, meaning that it is silly, or ridiculous. Maybe we all need to use Mickey mouse that way more often, and prove that it has fallen into commmon use.
Except for Breyer and Stevens, the Supreme Court has sold out. Soon, no one but historians will remember what the public domain even was. We are all the public domain. We have all been robbed. An Idea once expressed, belongs to us, and is only on loan to copyright holders. Now the loan can last forever. Copyrights frequently don't even go to the artists, scientists, and inventors who do the actual creating, but the parasites who exploit them. From now on, as the public domain, we should all engage in "piracy" as a form of civil disobedience, and take back what rightfully belongs to us. To hell with phony laws that the corporations bribed Congress into passing, and bribed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices into upholding. We, the public domain, must declare them null and void, and ignore them.
Imagine the perpetual copyrights the corporations want to create actually existed, and always had existed. The King James version of the Bible would be copyrighted. To print copies of it, you would need permission from the British Crown, or at least the Church of England, and would also have to pay them Royalties. Imagine that. the KJV is so widely published because it is in the public domain. Many newer translations are still copyrighted. Anyone who wishes to may make copies of the KJV. Now, nothing created after 1923 may ever belong to us all in this manner again.
Congress arent a bunch of puppets, they are a bunch of whores. Big corporate lobbyists are their johns, and pimps. Somehow, it's always us who end up getting screwed though.
If there is any more loot left in the hold, then it's not time to leave the sinking yet. The best corporate raiders always take it all. Rats leave a shinking ship. Watch for a rash of resignations at AOLTW.
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I bet a lot of the infected systems were current. A lot of good patching them did. Sometimes a Microsoft patch and fifty cents get you a can of pop. If this whole thing isn't a commercial for non-microsoft software, I don't know what is.
So, did the insurance industry unleash the slapper worm on companies that would not buy "network risk insurance?" I would not suprise me at all.
Imagine what we as a society could do with the billions and billions we piss away on vapor products like insurance if we spent it on something that benefits society in a tangible way like health care, or replacing our crumbling infrastructure.
Comparing file trading to deadly drugs of abuse. Nice straw man.
Rebublic. Democracy. Nothing quite as fun as splitting hairs, huh? By the way, neither is a synonym for oligarchy, or capitalism for that matter.
Guess where the royalties would go if you had bought those Beatles CDs. TO Paul and Ringo? No, they would go to Michael Jackson because he bought the copyright. There is a classic example of how the original purpose of copyright has been perverted. If you buy used Beatles CDs, MJ gets nothing. If you have to have them, do it that way.
Copyright reform just isn't going to happen, but here's hoping that new technologies make copyright irrelevant.
Hundred dollars. Definitely a hundred dollars.
If the record companies weren't stupid, they would survive. A lot of people will always want tangible things, and an MP3 that goes poof if your hard drive fails isn't tangible enough. Back in the day, I collected LPs. I could have just copied music onto blank tapes from my friends' records, tapes and CDs, but I didn't get the cool artwork, or other tangible things that made buying records desireable. Their own short sightedness and greed is killing the industry, not "piracy." In the eighties, they said home taping would kill them. Now they whine about CDR, and file trading. Bullsh*t!
I suppose that AT&T is about to start marketing a line of electronic locks with key cards, and this FUD about regular locks is part of the plan. The telecom market is in the crapper, and AT&T is looking for other revenue streams. Corporations don't do reasearch, or publish findings as a public service, they do it to grab a buck.
She stepped down to spend time with her children. Yeah, right! She has harmed her industry beyond repair by trying to kill the free promotion of file trading, and calling paying customers thieves, all to slay a paper tiger called "piracy." They suggested that she should leave quietly. Expect more executives to be be forced out as more and more people get tired of their crap, and stop buying CDs.
Only half are homosexual. The other half are bovine. Queers and steers.
This is an example of technophobes who think all computers are Hal 9000, and technically illiterate people with VCRs flashing 12:00 trying to regulate the internet.
The reasons to boycott the recording industry become more numerous every day. In their quest to slay a paper tiger they call piracy, they will not allow the fourth amendment, or anything else to get in the way.
Copyrights are usually held by record and publishing corporations, not the artists. I am sure you have heard the expression, "starving artist," but have not heard anything like "starving executive."
In other words, power is concentrated with the people who just want to take from others, rather than the people who actually create things of value. This goes way beyond the creative and performing arts to real, tangible things of value.
I'll bet most of the components in the computer you are using now were made in an asian sweatshop, and the workers got nearly nothing. Their slave drivers got all the profit. The same can probably be said about the shoes and clothing you are wearing.
The world is indeed f'd up.
They must not use Linux on the holodeck. It screws up all the time. That's windoze for sure.
If shrinkwrap EULAs are allowed to stand up in court, that would violate free spech, fair use, and the first sale principle. I applaud this decision, but I ignore EULAs anyway. I didn't sign anything, so I didn't agree to anything.
If it was not all scratched up, then I'll bet the vinyl would sound the best. Actual anlog sound is always more realistic than a computer synthesized immitation of it no matter what the bit-rate is.
There is a funny Life In Hell cartoon about that very thing, Akbar and Jeff's Compact Disk Hut. Check it out!
Mybe we can argue that the name, Mickey Mouse has fallen into common use, and can no longer be used as a trademank. For example, a company that is poorly run is often called a "Mickey Mouse outfit" People often say that something is Mickey Mouse, meaning that it is silly, or ridiculous. Maybe we all need to use Mickey mouse that way more often, and prove that it has fallen into commmon use.
Imagine the perpetual copyrights the corporations want to create actually existed, and always had existed. The King James version of the Bible would be copyrighted. To print copies of it, you would need permission from the British Crown, or at least the Church of England, and would also have to pay them Royalties. Imagine that. the KJV is so widely published because it is in the public domain. Many newer translations are still copyrighted. Anyone who wishes to may make copies of the KJV. Now, nothing created after 1923 may ever belong to us all in this manner again.
Yo Yo
Ya say ya wanna have a licence ta hack
That is really whack!
If ya think we're gonna give ya a licence ta hack
You be smokin'crack!
Yo!
It might be if the software related to these RFID bugs is not open souce, like Linux.
Congress arent a bunch of puppets, they are a bunch of whores. Big corporate lobbyists are their johns, and pimps. Somehow, it's always us who end up getting screwed though.
If there is any more loot left in the hold, then it's not time to leave the sinking yet. The best corporate raiders always take it all. Rats leave a shinking ship. Watch for a rash of resignations at AOLTW.
If they ditch Internet Exploder, and use Mozilla, the bandwidth crunch will go away, but there's no such thing as military intelligence.