If enough paying customers stand up, they can retrieve their own data and start a legit service... otherwise, the data will be lost and the company gone.
MegaUpload's problem is that they never implemented a DMCA Takedown system like YouTube has had for years now. If they do that, they can likely have their servers back quickly... if they don't and nobody steps in to pay the bills then the data is already lost.
MegaUpload's shutdown didn't need SOPA to pass... it's just a simple DMCA escalation that says if you ignore DMCA Takedown letters, your server farm will be ordered to down your server. The DMCA is still missing the provision for a penalty for an invalid takedown request but that's what we should be telling Congress to work on.
They left out an important fact in the summary... he didn't lose the things under the rules of the game, he lost them because the suspect threatened him with a knife. This puts it in the same category as "give me your password or else" threats. Maybe robbery might be the wrong charge to give him, but there's got to be something illegal about gaining game objects by real-world threats.
Maybe we can talk someone in the White House press office to use Ask Slashdot for technical questions and Your Rights Online for recommendations on tech bills... Would somebody please put together a resume for We the People of Slashdot?
Maybe it happened around the end of the Ice Age... which is exactly the problem here. Ice melting and dumping into the ocean will trigger a chain reaction.
This is all going according to the long-term global warming forecast laid out by Al Gore in his book and movie "An Inconvenient Truth" where ice at the poles melting means more water and less ice in the ocean which leads to flooding in coastal areas... and it all goes downhill from there.
All phone service is really a credit account because you have access to overage minutes, pay-for numbers, etc. You can run up an unlimited bill if you or your teenager goes over the usage plan. Pay those bills on time and you can gain credit score points, run up a higher bill than you can pay and it goes as a missed payment.
If Apple really wanted to stop jailbreaking, they'd just have to issue a required iOS update that patches the hole and cut off access for the older release, They don't do that. Instead, they allow the jailbreaks to happen and learn from what they develop such as teathering going from non-existent to paid to included.
The Google announcement doesn't leave many people stranded, it's just taking acquired products and sending the users to more popular web-based products. Examples include Urchiin users told to move to Google Analyitics, and Exchange backup users to move to GMail for Google Apps. In total, nothing of value is being lost, and developer resources move from maintaining the old to innovating the new.
Interesting point that the main cost of music or movie is the "first copy"... duplication costs very little in the digital world. Seems like the movie industry are offering sequels to drive up interest in future movies.
The history of the web is filled with play-online games for points that could be used for other things... but all crash in an inflationary spiral. Points are free, but the prizes offered are not and eventually the value falls below the "par value" the site originally had. Has anybody recently cashed out with GSN Oodles or Moola.com's Moola points?
SOPA might as well be called iDMCA because it basically takes the DMCA Takedown system to an international level. (I.E. If a TLD won't take down a piracy site, ban the whole TLD from the US Internet.) Maybe what we should trade for that is a punitive damages clause added for incorrect DMCA letters.
Anybody surprised by this story must be new here. File Lockers like MP3.com have been shut down regularly for ages now. You can't have an online database of content that isn't secured right...
The pay-for antivirus industry makes most of its money in valuing the updates that they send out. Open source at his point can write an antivirus heuristics program but can't get the staff to write good enough updates for known trouble programs.
Yes I am. If you know of an exploit the source code doesn't cover, you know of a 0-day. That use to happen all the time but Microsoft has gotten better at it.
Source code in this case is mostly a list of things the software does to attack viruses... they gave away a copy of their secret sauce recipe. Doesn't make the burgers taste worse, it just opens them up to being subject to competition.
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If enough paying customers stand up, they can retrieve their own data and start a legit service... otherwise, the data will be lost and the company gone.
MegaUpload - piracy = ???
The problem was, people were using it for piracy and since MegaUpload didn't shut the piracy down, the whole site got shutdown at the data centers.
MegaUpload's problem is that they never implemented a DMCA Takedown system like YouTube has had for years now. If they do that, they can likely have their servers back quickly... if they don't and nobody steps in to pay the bills then the data is already lost.
MegaUpload's shutdown didn't need SOPA to pass... it's just a simple DMCA escalation that says if you ignore DMCA Takedown letters, your server farm will be ordered to down your server. The DMCA is still missing the provision for a penalty for an invalid takedown request but that's what we should be telling Congress to work on.
They left out an important fact in the summary... he didn't lose the things under the rules of the game, he lost them because the suspect threatened him with a knife. This puts it in the same category as "give me your password or else" threats. Maybe robbery might be the wrong charge to give him, but there's got to be something illegal about gaining game objects by real-world threats.
Come on, were you against the SOPA/PIPA blackouts?
Maybe we can talk someone in the White House press office to use Ask Slashdot for technical questions and Your Rights Online for recommendations on tech bills... Would somebody please put together a resume for We the People of Slashdot?
Citation needed.
Maybe it happened around the end of the Ice Age... which is exactly the problem here. Ice melting and dumping into the ocean will trigger a chain reaction.
This is all going according to the long-term global warming forecast laid out by Al Gore in his book and movie "An Inconvenient Truth" where ice at the poles melting means more water and less ice in the ocean which leads to flooding in coastal areas... and it all goes downhill from there.
All phone service is really a credit account because you have access to overage minutes, pay-for numbers, etc. You can run up an unlimited bill if you or your teenager goes over the usage plan. Pay those bills on time and you can gain credit score points, run up a higher bill than you can pay and it goes as a missed payment.
This data center with 60 parking spaces better be close to a highway or else traffic getting there will bother the neighbors.
If Apple really wanted to stop jailbreaking, they'd just have to issue a required iOS update that patches the hole and cut off access for the older release, They don't do that. Instead, they allow the jailbreaks to happen and learn from what they develop such as teathering going from non-existent to paid to included.
Search is profitable because AdWords works well with it. The closed services were things that had Google compete with itself.
Microsoft is constantly trying to move Office into the cloud, so what's the difference?
The Google announcement doesn't leave many people stranded, it's just taking acquired products and sending the users to more popular web-based products. Examples include Urchiin users told to move to Google Analyitics, and Exchange backup users to move to GMail for Google Apps. In total, nothing of value is being lost, and developer resources move from maintaining the old to innovating the new.
Interesting point that the main cost of music or movie is the "first copy"... duplication costs very little in the digital world. Seems like the movie industry are offering sequels to drive up interest in future movies.
The history of the web is filled with play-online games for points that could be used for other things... but all crash in an inflationary spiral. Points are free, but the prizes offered are not and eventually the value falls below the "par value" the site originally had. Has anybody recently cashed out with GSN Oodles or Moola.com's Moola points?
SOPA might as well be called iDMCA because it basically takes the DMCA Takedown system to an international level. (I.E. If a TLD won't take down a piracy site, ban the whole TLD from the US Internet.) Maybe what we should trade for that is a punitive damages clause added for incorrect DMCA letters.
Anybody surprised by this story must be new here. File Lockers like MP3.com have been shut down regularly for ages now. You can't have an online database of content that isn't secured right...
In other words, you want to break the paywall.... these guys know security so that ain't happening.
The pay-for antivirus industry makes most of its money in valuing the updates that they send out. Open source at his point can write an antivirus heuristics program but can't get the staff to write good enough updates for known trouble programs.
Yes I am. If you know of an exploit the source code doesn't cover, you know of a 0-day. That use to happen all the time but Microsoft has gotten better at it.
Source code in this case is mostly a list of things the software does to attack viruses... they gave away a copy of their secret sauce recipe. Doesn't make the burgers taste worse, it just opens them up to being subject to competition.