As long as these guys don't brag about it openly in pubs, I bet many will never get caught.
You pull at the loose threads until the whole fabric begins to unravel.
I mean, c'mon - they couldn't find Osama Bin Laden when he was living in the same house for many years - what makes you think they'll magically be able to find hackers?
The hacker is an adolescent braggart who thinks he is bullet-proof.
Osama's father made billions on construction projects for the Saudi royal family. Osama's share was worth $100-300 million. That bought a lot of protection these hackers do not have.
Microsoft must have been late with its kickback check this quarter. I hope the check isn't already in the mail, otherwise these won't be available for long.
Strictly speaking in a free market sense, paying for Sony products does make you partially responsible. Why, you ask?... Continuing to purchase the corporation's products serves only to reinforce any behavior the it may be involved in.
70 million PSN accounts.
17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. 8 million MOVE controllers.
Taking your reasoning to its logical conclusion puts the geek at war with over 50 million middle-class households. That is not going to end well.
...if sony came out and apologized for being asshats and promising to never do it again.
I wonder if the Slashdot poster will ever learn how deeply the masses have come to hate and fear the hacker - that they don't care about his motives or his causes - that they aren't making any fine distinctions between white hat and black hat.
They are on the same side as Sony in this.
It is the masses who make the Revolution. If the geek wants to know who will be first for the chop, he only has to look in the mirror.
This could be the Skype killer we have been wishing for. It doesn't have to work with Skype, it just has to be as good as Skype and to be open. Imagine people being able to set up their own private Skype-like servers for personal and business use...
Nowhere are networking effects more important then in a telephone service.
Skype has 700 million users, demands nothing more of them the launch of the Skype client ---
and the Skype client is being built into everything:
The iOS mobile device. The PSP 2000. Soon to come Skype fpr MS Office and enterprise office systems. Microsoft SYNC for your Ford car or truck. Here today, Skype for your Samsung or Panasonic HDTV. Skype For HDTV
The FOSS server is the easy part.
Getting your FOSS client placed where it needs to be is hard.
There is no fundamental reason why the WiFi enabled home security system couldn't Skype in or out. The difference from the geek's DIY system is that the camera will be ready to run when you open the box from Home Depot.
You will give it a list of numbers that can dial in and a list of numbers it can dial out. There will be a few other user preference and set-up dialogs to complete. But that will be the end of it except for the occasional firmware upgrade.
Don't expect any of the currently free Skype services to continue. Asterisk already lost Skype support.
Asterisk is nominally open-source.
But as an enterprise application it is for all practical purposes a wholly owned subsidiary of Digium.
While Skype for Asterisk was a bit deeper than what Skype Connect (formerly Skype for SIP) offers for other telephony platforms, it's a "stronger business proposition" for Skype to offer more customers Connect than to support a proprietary product for a specific vendor...
"I don't think Skype for Asterisk was compelling enough, nor did it generate enough money for Skype to continue to support it,"
Skype Connect currently works with telephony systems for Avaya, ShoreTel, and Cisco, among others. Digium will be validating Skype Connect next month...so Asterisk customers will continue to have some Skype support.
LibreOffice is an open-source project. It is not a brand. You do not buy it off a shelf. You do not shop for it in a store or boutique (physical or electronic).
Of course you do.
You can call it an app store or give it some other name and features. But there has to place where users can discover your product, explore its features and give it a test drive.
If businesses bought software by their names, then it would be no surprise that IT is in such a sad shape.
Barriers to adoption remain barriers to adoption whether they are rational or not
The name no one can spell or pronounce.The name no one can understand or explain. Ekiga The name that reads as a sexual double entendre. The Gimp.
I wonder if there is a population here in the States that would be willing to take a compelling risk like this.
You have to ask whether these elderly volunteers have the necessary skills. You have to ask whether they have the strength and endurance needed for the job. You have to ask how vulnerable they are to radiation and other hazards. The rate of attrition.
If you do not ask these questions, what you have is a feel-good PR stunt, not a plan to secure the reactors.
it might be a sad day for scientific research, but it's a good day for the freedom of eating natural veggies.
Like sweet yellow corn?
The fruits and vegetables you eat can be thousands of years removed from their wild kin. Most, I suspect, like Golden Bantam, or the Fordhook Lima Bean, are little older than this century.
In this notice, the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announces that during the period from the time of this notice through October 27, 2009....
The general impression I have is that this was an academic/istitutional excemption.
The LOC on this same ruling rejected circumvention of CSS to allow DVD play under Linux. Rejected circumvention to play region-encoded DVDs.
There were licensed DVD players for the Linux OS. There were many inexpensive ways to play DVDs from other regions and many still legitimate reasons for region encoding.
The burden is always on the one demanding an excemption.
IMO figuring out what the *market* wants is the biggest issue.In general, corporate software developers build what their customers want, and open source developers build what they want.
The program is more than the code.
The MPEG-LA licensors have been studying the perception of sound, color, motion and detail for the better part of 100 years. The reproduction of flesh tones, for example, must look right to every ethnic and racial audience.
You can't approach a problem like that - much less solve it - simply as a newly-minted engineer.
As long as we have software patents. Look at the h264/Theora/WebM fiasco.
The H.264 licensors include global industrial giants like Mitsubishi. Companies that have been researching video technologies since the 1920s. Companies which manufacture damn near every piece of video hardware sold on the planet.
Google can deliver a slice of the web and the mobile market --- a generous slice, to be sure, but still only a slice. It has no significant presence elsewhere in video. It can't stop or slow development of a codec like HEVC/H.265 which is going to look very good to Netflix and has the potential for strong sales elsewhere.
The real reason why open source often lags isn't patents or licensing.
It is experience, organization, money. manpower. resources, markets and marketing,
No child is being harmed, regardless of where you position the camera.
But Nintendo can be harmed when someone asks why the camera is being allowed that particular view. The game developer can be harmed when someone asks why the camera is being allowed that particular view.
Software patents need to be abolished internationally, it's that simple.
and below:
I guess the side effect which will be seen as beneficial to some is that over the coming century as more and more of the "real world" moves into structures in cyberspace all property will essentially be communal property.
I wouldn't count on any of this happening.
The Entropia Universe entered the Guinness World Records Book in both 2004 and 2008 for the most expensive virtual world objects ever sold, and in 2009, a virtual space station, a popular destination, sold for $330,000. This was then eclipsed in November 2010 when a player sold a virtual resort on Planet Calypso for $635,000; this property was sold in chunks, with the largest sold for $335,000
There are, I suspect, more people who are comfortable with the imperfections and contractions of the commercial, competitive - secular - world than with any communal ideal of socialist perfection.
The story is the fact that the organization behind Area 51, the US Department of Energy, can classify information so tightly that no one in the US Government (Including the President) could be deemed to have a "need to know" to see it.
Trash that video of "Independence Day" and get back to taking your meds.
GEOS was working on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga was multitasking multimedia in 512k... Yes indeed, computer "history" is all about MS and Apple... (rolls eyes)
Microsoft prospered with the modular design of the PC and the evolution of mass-market hardware upgrades produced for the IBM PC and PC clone.
The plug-in card that takes audio from 8 bit to 16 bit.
Microsoft prospered with the discovery that your home office PC could also play games. That was - and remains - a potent one-two punch in the consumer market.
We're almost only skyping with each other. What would you recommend ?
The only chat client that makes sense is the client used by those you want to chat with. Skype works so well for so many, you simply can't expect them to switch.
"Rumors floating around IRC" strikes me as somewhere between Fox News and Homeless Guy on Street Corner in terms of credibility. This is exactly the sort of story that someone would make up as a joke, and people would repeat as though it's real.
Not to mention that the 100 kWH mine makes Bitcoin look like just another Ponzi scheme.
So if you want to grow pot mine a bunch of bitcoins and get the police to inspect your house. Once that's done setup your grow operation, because the suspicion has been relieved?
You don't know small towns and you do not know cops.
The suspicion never goes away and the police will just wait you out, let you get comfortably settled in.
if your device is faulty, that may be entered into evidence in a trial against you, as evidence of your guilt
With very few exceptions, anything that points towards guilt can be used as evidence against you. The testimony of an eyewitness, for example. You'll find that very tough to break, even if the black box is inherently more reliable.
The jury wants to hear a story that is consistent, straight-forward and plausible.
"Keep it simple, Stupid."
When you argue that evidence against you was faked, the jury is going to ask, "Who? and "How?" and. above all, "Why?"
Slashdot Mirror
As long as these guys don't brag about it openly in pubs, I bet many will never get caught.
You pull at the loose threads until the whole fabric begins to unravel.
I mean, c'mon - they couldn't find Osama Bin Laden when he was living in the same house for many years - what makes you think they'll magically be able to find hackers?
The hacker is an adolescent braggart who thinks he is bullet-proof.
Osama's father made billions on construction projects for the Saudi royal family. Osama's share was worth $100-300 million. That bought a lot of protection these hackers do not have.
But Osama is still dead.
Microsoft must have been late with its kickback check this quarter. I hope the check isn't already in the mail, otherwise these won't be available for long.
and if sales tank. what will your excuse be then?
Strictly speaking in a free market sense, paying for Sony products does make you partially responsible. Why, you ask? ... Continuing to purchase the corporation's products serves only to reinforce any behavior the it may be involved in.
70 million PSN accounts.
17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. 8 million MOVE controllers.
Taking your reasoning to its logical conclusion puts the geek at war with over 50 million middle-class households. That is not going to end well.
...if sony came out and apologized for being asshats and promising to never do it again.
I wonder if the Slashdot poster will ever learn how deeply the masses have come to hate and fear the hacker - that they don't care about his motives or his causes - that they aren't making any fine distinctions between white hat and black hat.
They are on the same side as Sony in this.
It is the masses who make the Revolution. If the geek wants to know who will be first for the chop, he only has to look in the mirror.
This could be the Skype killer we have been wishing for. It doesn't have to work with Skype, it just has to be as good as Skype and to be open. Imagine people being able to set up their own private Skype-like servers for personal and business use...
Nowhere are networking effects more important then in a telephone service.
Skype has 700 million users, demands nothing more of them the launch of the Skype client ---
and the Skype client is being built into everything:
The iOS mobile device. The PSP 2000. Soon to come Skype fpr MS Office and enterprise office systems. Microsoft SYNC for your Ford car or truck. Here today, Skype for your Samsung or Panasonic HDTV. Skype For HDTV
The FOSS server is the easy part.
Getting your FOSS client placed where it needs to be is hard.
There is no fundamental reason why the WiFi enabled home security system couldn't Skype in or out. The difference from the geek's DIY system is that the camera will be ready to run when you open the box from Home Depot.
You will give it a list of numbers that can dial in and a list of numbers it can dial out. There will be a few other user preference and set-up dialogs to complete. But that will be the end of it except for the occasional firmware upgrade.
This really is a game changer.
The game changer is the "app." It installs on any device with Internet access. It doesn't need the browser. It doesn't need the "brand-name" OS.
Don't expect any of the currently free Skype services to continue. Asterisk already lost Skype support.
Asterisk is nominally open-source.
But as an enterprise application it is for all practical purposes a wholly owned subsidiary of Digium.
While Skype for Asterisk was a bit deeper than what Skype Connect (formerly Skype for SIP) offers for other telephony platforms, it's a "stronger business proposition" for Skype to offer more customers Connect than to support a proprietary product for a specific vendor...
"I don't think Skype for Asterisk was compelling enough, nor did it generate enough money for Skype to continue to support it,"
Skype Connect currently works with telephony systems for Avaya, ShoreTel, and Cisco, among others. Digium will be validating Skype Connect next month...so Asterisk customers will continue to have some Skype support.
Skype Ends Support For Open-Source Digium Asterisk VOIP PBX
LibreOffice is an open-source project. It is not a brand. You do not buy it off a shelf. You do not shop for it in a store or boutique (physical or electronic).
Of course you do.
You can call it an app store or give it some other name and features. But there has to place where users can discover your product, explore its features and give it a test drive.
If businesses bought software by their names, then it would be no surprise that IT is in such a sad shape.
Barriers to adoption remain barriers to adoption whether they are rational or not
The name no one can spell or pronounce.The name no one can understand or explain. Ekiga The name that reads as a sexual double entendre. The Gimp.
I wonder if there is a population here in the States that would be willing to take a compelling risk like this.
You have to ask whether these elderly volunteers have the necessary skills. You have to ask whether they have the strength and endurance needed for the job. You have to ask how vulnerable they are to radiation and other hazards. The rate of attrition.
If you do not ask these questions, what you have is a feel-good PR stunt, not a plan to secure the reactors.
it might be a sad day for scientific research, but it's a good day for the freedom of eating natural veggies.
Like sweet yellow corn?
The fruits and vegetables you eat can be thousands of years removed from their wild kin. Most, I suspect, like Golden Bantam, or the Fordhook Lima Bean, are little older than this century.
"Knowledge Sir, should be free to all." ----Harcourt Fenton Mudd
You forgot the other side of that exchange:
Harry Mudd: Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb V?
Spock: The guilty party has his choice-- death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging...
Harry Mudd: The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was... death.
In this notice, the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, announces that during the period from the time of this notice through October 27, 2009....
[Federal Register: November 27, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 227)][Rules and Regulations][Page 68472-68480]
Expired?
How did the LOC define a library or an archive?
The general impression I have is that this was an academic/istitutional excemption.
The LOC on this same ruling rejected circumvention of CSS to allow DVD play under Linux. Rejected circumvention to play region-encoded DVDs.
There were licensed DVD players for the Linux OS. There were many inexpensive ways to play DVDs from other regions and many still legitimate reasons for region encoding.
The burden is always on the one demanding an excemption.
The king of Thailand is a dirty bastard who fucked a chicken. On multiple occasions. In the ass.
Post this from your hospital bed in Thailand using your real name and then we will have something worth a mod up to +3.
IMO figuring out what the *market* wants is the biggest issue.In general, corporate software developers build what their customers want, and open source developers build what they want.
The program is more than the code.
The MPEG-LA licensors have been studying the perception of sound, color, motion and detail for the better part of 100 years. The reproduction of flesh tones, for example, must look right to every ethnic and racial audience.
You can't approach a problem like that - much less solve it - simply as a newly-minted engineer.
As long as we have software patents. Look at the h264/Theora/WebM fiasco.
The H.264 licensors include global industrial giants like Mitsubishi. Companies that have been researching video technologies since the 1920s. Companies which manufacture damn near every piece of video hardware sold on the planet.
Google can deliver a slice of the web and the mobile market --- a generous slice, to be sure, but still only a slice. It has no significant presence elsewhere in video. It can't stop or slow development of a codec like HEVC/H.265 which is going to look very good to Netflix and has the potential for strong sales elsewhere.
The real reason why open source often lags isn't patents or licensing.
It is experience, organization, money. manpower. resources, markets and marketing,
No child is being harmed, regardless of where you position the camera.
But Nintendo can be harmed when someone asks why the camera is being allowed that particular view. The game developer can be harmed when someone asks why the camera is being allowed that particular view.
Because there are no good answers.
Software patents need to be abolished internationally, it's that simple.
and below:
I guess the side effect which will be seen as beneficial to some is that over the coming century as more and more of the "real world" moves into structures in cyberspace all property will essentially be communal property.
I wouldn't count on any of this happening.
The Entropia Universe entered the Guinness World Records Book in both 2004 and 2008 for the most expensive virtual world objects ever sold, and in 2009, a virtual space station, a popular destination, sold for $330,000. This was then eclipsed in November 2010 when a player sold a virtual resort on Planet Calypso for $635,000; this property was sold in chunks, with the largest sold for $335,000
Entropia Universe
There are, I suspect, more people who are comfortable with the imperfections and contractions of the commercial, competitive - secular - world than with any communal ideal of socialist perfection.
More who would choose to carve out some territory in cyberspace that was uniquely their own: Companies Explore Private Virtual Worlds
The story is the fact that the organization behind Area 51, the US Department of Energy, can classify information so tightly that no one in the US Government (Including the President) could be deemed to have a "need to know" to see it.
Trash that video of "Independence Day" and get back to taking your meds.
GEOS was working on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga was multitasking multimedia in 512k... Yes indeed, computer "history" is all about MS and Apple... (rolls eyes)
Microsoft prospered with the modular design of the PC and the evolution of mass-market hardware upgrades produced for the IBM PC and PC clone.
The plug-in card that takes audio from 8 bit to 16 bit.
Microsoft prospered with the discovery that your home office PC could also play games. That was - and remains - a potent one-two punch in the consumer market.
1) Poorly researched, out of date information.
2) Inaccurate, inflammatory headline.
) Short, information-free stub.
4) Which draws moths to the flames for the better part of day before being corrected. Got to get those page hits.
We're almost only skyping with each other. What would you recommend ?
The only chat client that makes sense is the client used by those you want to chat with. Skype works so well for so many, you simply can't expect them to switch.
"Rumors floating around IRC" strikes me as somewhere between Fox News and Homeless Guy on Street Corner in terms of credibility. This is exactly the sort of story that someone would make up as a joke, and people would repeat as though it's real.
Not to mention that the 100 kWH mine makes Bitcoin look like just another Ponzi scheme.
So if you want to grow pot mine a bunch of bitcoins and get the police to inspect your house. Once that's done setup your grow operation, because the suspicion has been relieved?
You don't know small towns and you do not know cops.
The suspicion never goes away and the police will just wait you out, let you get comfortably settled in.
If you can't connect Skype to SIP, why do you need it?
But you can connect Skype to SIP: Skype Connect for SIP
if your device is faulty, that may be entered into evidence in a trial against you, as evidence of your guilt
With very few exceptions, anything that points towards guilt can be used as evidence against you. The testimony of an eyewitness, for example. You'll find that very tough to break, even if the black box is inherently more reliable.
The jury wants to hear a story that is consistent, straight-forward and plausible.
"Keep it simple, Stupid."
When you argue that evidence against you was faked, the jury is going to ask, "Who? and "How?" and. above all, "Why?"