In other words... these guys were using P2P at the technical level, but they were really doing the uploading of the content. **AA has a long win streak against uploaders, it's downloaders that they've had so much problems with.
Liability from a properly registered coperation doesn't pass through to those who own it. When Enron and Worldcom went bust, their stocks went to zero... but they didn't go negative. That would be passing the liability from the crimes of the companies onto the shareholders and we just don't do that in the USA.
The flip side is that parent companies like Amazon.com can have as many shells as they want that let them own a company, but not have to pay for the debts that company runs into if it goes bust.
The real problem is that, as the summary said, they didn't change the security software username, and killed the old username at the server. Therefore, he was running unupdated software... leaving him open to any new Internet threat.
Sounds like the IT Department deserves to be fired.
RackShack was also the company with the "screwdriver incident" where the a tech working in the power room dropped the tool into a UPS and shorted out the facility. No customer data was lost, but the power outage caused them to be offline for more than a day.
TJX just doesn't get it. They hired a team to look for insider negative postings, and considered that an increase in security. They consider the negative poster a rouge insider... but they can't seem to track down who was at fault for the massive breach that they suffered from. That's the person we really want fired.
What we, the people who used to shop at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, AJ Wright, HomeGoods, and Bob's Stores, are looking to see is that they can finally claim that they increased their security (using the same standards we expect on the web) so that nobody can intercept what we show the cashier, our credit card stripe data and signature, on its way to the credit card processing company they're using. Good encryption is freely available, great would be hearing that they hired a company that cares about it.
They're thinking about what directly impacts the bottom line (profits) while forgetting that what upsets the customers will directly impact the top line (sales) that will impact that bottom line too.
The site was slashdotted well before the story was posted for subscribers... nice try JPL, but you'll have to do more to get through a Memorial Day Weekend slashdotting.
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Internet2 is poorly named. It's not meant to be the replacement to the consumer's.com Internet, it's meant to be the replacement for.edu and.gov's Internet that got ruined by.com.
In the bad old days of Napster, Internet2 used to be the primary venue of illegal file sharing because they connected college dorm to college dorm. Now, not so much. It's for researcher to researcher connections in the university offices.
It's just we, the Slashdot community, pulling a typical media simplification. See, any time any member of the RIAA does something, it gets reported as the "RIAA" because they're really all just interchangable, and it saves the excess words of saying "An RIAA member company today got embarassed because they put in front of the same judge another RIAA member company the same motions he had rejected eight months earlier, and not suprisingly he rejected them again."
IANAL, and this can vary from courthouse to courthouse, but the typical MO is for them to assign cases truely randomly... which means the odds are against the same judge getting the same plantiff twice, unless that plantiff happens to be lawsuit-happy and rolls the dice / spins the wheel / calls Rnd(0) so many times that they draw the same judge. Then, they better change up their legal plans or face their nonsense not working for a second time happened here.
IANAL, but that almost defines "frivious." The judge didn't need to hear from the plantiffs (those targeted by the RIAA) because the motion to dismiss by the RIAA was so bad, and so close to one he's rejected already, he could supply the rejection logic himself.
As Keith Olbermann reminds viewers of "Countdown" regularly, the technical definition of "insanity" is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
This actually had some chance of working before it was revealed on/.
Afterall, you don't usually publish your iPhone number to strangers, and if they ever caught the same user agent showing upo at two hotspots it'd be trivial to shut them both down.
Not the best security idea... but it got the system up until they had to come up with better.
IANAL, but if I've ever learned anything from Mock Trial in high school, it's that you never want to contradict what you say on the stand with what you've ever said publicly or under oath. See, it tends to give the impression that you're changing your story, and if the court doesn't know which one to think is true, they're just gonna ignore you.
Amazon already sets up its distribution centers in sales tax-free zones such as having one in Nashua, NH which is a border community to MA which has a 5% tax on most things that aren't food or clothing.
Doesn't the antidote to this seem clearer than day on this one? All Amazon has to do is ban publishers with payment addresses in NY... those big enough to care can simply reincorperate in a more tax-friendly state, those small enough not to matter will simply just go away.
You're forgetting that this "claimed" IP space has a legit owner who might want to use it someday. It'd be an internet turf war of people were simply able to advertise the availability of a network they don't own.
We're always hearing the employers claim that there's less H1-B Visas than jobs they want filled... how about letting supply and demand of the American workforce take over giving pay raises to nearly all of us IT workers.
If DISH network has corrected the problem with a new software download, why do they need to pursue this to the US Supreme Court?
Because the courts have valued the use of TiVos patents for the time that Dish was using them without permission at $92 Million. The appeals process is all they've got to avoid, or maybe just delay making that payment. Just because you've stopped doing the illegal act, doesn't mean you get away with what you did in the past.
Here's what makes this case different than the other StreetView suits... the Google van wasn't supposed to be on this road in the first place. A private road means that the owners of the road take no government funding or care for it, and therefore get to decide who they'll allow on it. Google wasn't wanted, so there's the problem.
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In other words... these guys were using P2P at the technical level, but they were really doing the uploading of the content. **AA has a long win streak against uploaders, it's downloaders that they've had so much problems with.
Liability from a properly registered coperation doesn't pass through to those who own it. When Enron and Worldcom went bust, their stocks went to zero... but they didn't go negative. That would be passing the liability from the crimes of the companies onto the shareholders and we just don't do that in the USA. The flip side is that parent companies like Amazon.com can have as many shells as they want that let them own a company, but not have to pay for the debts that company runs into if it goes bust.
The real problem is that, as the summary said, they didn't change the security software username, and killed the old username at the server. Therefore, he was running unupdated software... leaving him open to any new Internet threat. Sounds like the IT Department deserves to be fired.
RackShack was also the company with the "screwdriver incident" where the a tech working in the power room dropped the tool into a UPS and shorted out the facility. No customer data was lost, but the power outage caused them to be offline for more than a day.
TJX is a range of store brands listed here.
TJX just doesn't get it. They hired a team to look for insider negative postings, and considered that an increase in security. They consider the negative poster a rouge insider... but they can't seem to track down who was at fault for the massive breach that they suffered from. That's the person we really want fired.
What we, the people who used to shop at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, AJ Wright, HomeGoods, and Bob's Stores, are looking to see is that they can finally claim that they increased their security (using the same standards we expect on the web) so that nobody can intercept what we show the cashier, our credit card stripe data and signature, on its way to the credit card processing company they're using. Good encryption is freely available, great would be hearing that they hired a company that cares about it.
They're thinking about what directly impacts the bottom line (profits) while forgetting that what upsets the customers will directly impact the top line (sales) that will impact that bottom line too.
I think the interplanetary cable got severed when it got run through the Sun.
The site was slashdotted well before the story was posted for subscribers... nice try JPL, but you'll have to do more to get through a Memorial Day Weekend slashdotting.
Internet2 is poorly named. It's not meant to be the replacement to the consumer's .com Internet, it's meant to be the replacement for .edu and .gov's Internet that got ruined by .com.
In the bad old days of Napster, Internet2 used to be the primary venue of illegal file sharing because they connected college dorm to college dorm. Now, not so much. It's for researcher to researcher connections in the university offices.
It's just we, the Slashdot community, pulling a typical media simplification. See, any time any member of the RIAA does something, it gets reported as the "RIAA" because they're really all just interchangable, and it saves the excess words of saying "An RIAA member company today got embarassed because they put in front of the same judge another RIAA member company the same motions he had rejected eight months earlier, and not suprisingly he rejected them again."
IANAL, and this can vary from courthouse to courthouse, but the typical MO is for them to assign cases truely randomly... which means the odds are against the same judge getting the same plantiff twice, unless that plantiff happens to be lawsuit-happy and rolls the dice / spins the wheel / calls Rnd(0) so many times that they draw the same judge. Then, they better change up their legal plans or face their nonsense not working for a second time happened here.
IANAL, but that almost defines "frivious." The judge didn't need to hear from the plantiffs (those targeted by the RIAA) because the motion to dismiss by the RIAA was so bad, and so close to one he's rejected already, he could supply the rejection logic himself.
As Keith Olbermann reminds viewers of "Countdown" regularly, the technical definition of "insanity" is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
This actually had some chance of working before it was revealed on /.
Afterall, you don't usually publish your iPhone number to strangers, and if they ever caught the same user agent showing upo at two hotspots it'd be trivial to shut them both down.
Not the best security idea... but it got the system up until they had to come up with better.
IANAL, but if I've ever learned anything from Mock Trial in high school, it's that you never want to contradict what you say on the stand with what you've ever said publicly or under oath. See, it tends to give the impression that you're changing your story, and if the court doesn't know which one to think is true, they're just gonna ignore you.
Amazon already sets up its distribution centers in sales tax-free zones such as having one in Nashua, NH which is a border community to MA which has a 5% tax on most things that aren't food or clothing.
Doesn't the antidote to this seem clearer than day on this one? All Amazon has to do is ban publishers with payment addresses in NY... those big enough to care can simply reincorperate in a more tax-friendly state, those small enough not to matter will simply just go away.
Call it "ink" or "toner" or whatever... there's going to be a refill-needing part that each phone with this tech is going to need. Instant goldmine.
Be careful with that joke.. some of us actually pay for this.
In a related development to a story posted eariler today Taco has bought copies for the entire /. dev team.
You're forgetting that this "claimed" IP space has a legit owner who might want to use it someday. It'd be an internet turf war of people were simply able to advertise the availability of a network they don't own.
Seriously, when?
We're always hearing the employers claim that there's less H1-B Visas than jobs they want filled... how about letting supply and demand of the American workforce take over giving pay raises to nearly all of us IT workers.
How many times have your Slashdot Foes told you to comitt suicide?
If DISH network has corrected the problem with a new software download, why do they need to pursue this to the US Supreme Court? Because the courts have valued the use of TiVos patents for the time that Dish was using them without permission at $92 Million. The appeals process is all they've got to avoid, or maybe just delay making that payment. Just because you've stopped doing the illegal act, doesn't mean you get away with what you did in the past.
Here's what makes this case different than the other StreetView suits... the Google van wasn't supposed to be on this road in the first place. A private road means that the owners of the road take no government funding or care for it, and therefore get to decide who they'll allow on it. Google wasn't wanted, so there's the problem.
I think I may be looking to move to ... IBM.
Ahem... IBM doesn't make PCs anymore.