An attitude like that would bring windows software development to a halt. To run the debugger with visual studio, you must have elevated priveledges. If you start locking down computers without knowing what the users need, you'll have a lot of angry people on your hands.
Of course, developers should be held to a higher level of understanding when they're given greater access (as in "stop installing comet cursor you idiots!").
As the OP points out, most movies end up getting cammed. I doubt the impact is as great as studios say (in the US -- Asia is another matter). The people downloading a crappy version from the net are not the same ones buying DVDs or paying to go to the theater.
On another note, ep III is the first movie I've considered seeing in a theater in a long time. Netflix + widescreen projector + 5.1 = why go to the theater?
Actually, I don't think so. Developing countries have much higher piracy percentages (because they can't afford a year's wages for a single piece of software). However, recall that places like Korea are going crazy with broadband access for nearly everyone. This explosion of internet users will overrun the number of US/developed country internet users soon, if they haven't already. The US has something like 20% of the population of China, right?
So something to conclude from this report is that the US/UK/etc are not the real hubs of the piracy problem and they should stop screaming about the end of the world and trying to pass inappropriate anti-piracy laws in developed countries.
True enough - the things I often look for in reviews is if A) it seems like there are rampant quality control issues, and B) if the undocumented specifications don't match what I need. Often, I can disregard a good number of reviews as I don't care about that "problem" (i.e. "it doesn't come in hot pink! what at terrible company"). Using all caps and too much foul language also decreases a review's credibility.
Regarding your definition of "good spyware": what you really mean is that you may be willing to allow information aggregation software to run on your computer in exchange for free services/software.
OK. That's different from spyware. Information aggregation is still legal. The bill is littered with phrases like through intentionally deceptive means. The deception is a key part of software getting itself classified as spyware. I would posit that spyware is *always* bad (possibly with the exception of by law enforcement).
A bill like this helps draw the line as to what is acceptable commercial behavior. It makes it more difficult for shady operations to stay above ground, and therefore attract legitimate customers.
I experienced this a year ago from a large corporation
Sorry to hear how they treated you, but I think you said it right there. Large corporations tend to treat their employees with much less trust (from what I've seen).
I was laid off from a small company, but given a few days to close up my affairs. I even went back to visit a few months later; it was a different culture. I have, however, seen friends get walked out by security at other companies. Not much fun for anyone, even security.
Every time this argument comes up, someone tries using that line of logic
Someone tries using your line of logic every time the issue comes up as well. It's misleading. Sure the students should be reprimanded and possibly punished. However the school should be punished FAR more. Making private information (particularly SSNs) easily available to anyone who takes the initiative should be severely punished. Do you think everyone who knows how to get at the information would go public like this?
Second, there will always be a place for "middle men" if they provide sufficient value
Sure, but the problem is when middlemen who *don't* provide much value interfere with efforts to improve the system. You mention Amazon and netflix, but they're more like endpoints than middlemen. You forget the shipping guys, the warehousing guys, the organization that brings together a few movie houses (and take a cut) then resell it to other middlemen, and then the movie eventually makes it to amazon.
When systems improve and certain middlemen are no longer necessary, they get pissed. Tough. The business world changes rapidly, and while middlemen will always be useful, it won't always be the *same* middlemen. A little OT, but I think that's what is happening to TV stations - they're finding that they're not the preferred distribution method for TV shows...
Mod parent up. Slashdot just advertized a product that is almost guaranteed to be hazardous to your health. And it goes against recent trends to have LESS lead and mercury in electronics (ah, but who cares about the environment anyway).
"slanderous speach" No. First of all, the site was a parody, not a news site. Slander/libel doesn't apply to parody. Second, written materials would fall under libel, not slander.
I prefer what some guys were doing a while ago - they were collecting truckloads of AOL cds for a special return-to-sender delivery. Right to AOL's front door.
I need to find out if they succeeded. The pictures would be priceless.
Haha, I'd hate to have the job of transferring the data to tape and then shipping it simultaneously to 200 places. Good luck keeping up.
From TFA: "When the LHC starts operating in 2007, it will be the most data-intensive physics instrument on the planet, producing more than 1500 megabytes of data every second for over a decade."
"Scientists working at over two hundred other computing facilities...will access the data via the Grid."
I do live in the US, and I get to see the extra bits on a lot of DVDs. It doesn't really matter what country the warning is for, or what language it's in. All of the warnings are useless. I'd say if you have the urge to fast forward through it, you already know what it is well enough.
Even worse, my dvd player won't even tell me that I can't fast forward. It tells me that the action *may* be prohibited, depending on the disc. What kind of wishy-washy crap is that?
I'd argue that your points are stumbling blocks due to insufficient demand for encryption. If there is sufficient demand, the boundaries of speed and interoperability always get pushed.
There's nothing preventing realtime encryption from being used on large amounts of data besides bandwidth. I'd argue that it's not really realtime if it can't keep up with the bandwidth of the medium (either the speed of SCSI, or say the maximum write speed of the tape).
The hardware issue sounds specific to the architecture in question... and every data center will probably have different requirements.
And most importantly, the real issue here is the cost of stolen data. If it's important enough to do, people will find a way to back up with encryption, and still meet time windows. If the company isn't willing to pay what is needed for this, then they are not concerned about the security of the data that leaves the site.
1. There are algorithms that are designed for realtime encryption, i.e. twofish.
2. There is special hardware that can perform encryption/decryption much more efficiently than your general-purpose CPU.
Just because microsoft backup doesn't support encryption doesn't mean that any serious backup software won't do it. If your backup software/system doesn't support encryption, it was designed for home-users (despite what it claims). When the market demands encryption, software vendors will step up. Or maybe I should say "if".
You're kindof missing the point. Parents aren't expected to watch their children 24/7. They're expected to teach their children the values and skills they need to survive. And to respond to the obvious warning signs that something is going wrong. In many of the stories we hear about kids gone wrong, there was something the parents could have done, and should have known to do.
Honestly, I laughed at the kid who told me his parents didn't let him play with lighters and fireworks. I suppose he was treated for burns less often, though.
Yes, people are quick to pop the "where's the parents" comment out, but it reflects society's trend to not expect any personal responsibility from anyone. Of course, some people are mindlessly repeating that mantra.
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I *do* read most of my privacy notices, and you have the opportunity to opt-out of most marketing-related information sharing... at least with scrupulous businesses. If there is no opt-out mentioned in the privacy notice (it doesn't have to be obvious or easy), then they adhere to a more strict set of guidelines (supposedly).
From what I've read and gathered, the law forbids sharing information in certain ways without offering an opt-out. You do NOT have a choice about them sharing info in ways necessary to provide you the service you've signed up for.
Of course, this doesn't apply to the government. Buy a house, and it's a matter of public record. You suddenly get loan offers out the wazoo. At least you can reduce credit card offers when you tell the credit agencies to not share your credit-worthiness. Do it here . Scroll to the bottom for opt-out, the rest is good info on your rights.
Good point. Further, you don't even have to RTFA to see that this only affects users who turn on automatic updates even after their company tries to block SP2. Any company truly interested in controlling their computers won't have automatic updates turned on, so this really isn't a big deal. You'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to have sp2 installed without your knowledge... and you'd have to be rather dense.
Personally, I think the penalties should be pretty harsh for stealing sensetive information from a bank, and using it to gain illegal entry to state-owned systems.
Social security numbers are so easy to abuse, that society needs to appropriately punish those who are abuse their access to that sensetive information.
You're probably missing a lot of the more obscure web sites. As great as google is, it doesn't cover the entire web. When searching for something hard to find, I often cycle through a few search engines, such as the apparently unknown allthweb. I usually find different results than google can supply.
I haven't seen any updated stats, but back in the early 2000's, I remember that northernlight.com (no longer a public search engine) covered 16% of the internet. It was at the top of the pile. So if google is your entire world, you may be missing a lot.
Anyone have updated stats on how much of the internet is actively covered by google?
Free software that runs a pop server at localhost and lets your mail client access Yahoo through pop3. Only downside is you have to either run it in the background all the time, or start it up every time you want to check Yahoo. I'm thinking of mangling it into a plugin for my mail client to make that automatic.
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An attitude like that would bring windows software development to a halt. To run the debugger with visual studio, you must have elevated priveledges. If you start locking down computers without knowing what the users need, you'll have a lot of angry people on your hands.
Of course, developers should be held to a higher level of understanding when they're given greater access (as in "stop installing comet cursor you idiots!").
As the OP points out, most movies end up getting cammed. I doubt the impact is as great as studios say (in the US -- Asia is another matter). The people downloading a crappy version from the net are not the same ones buying DVDs or paying to go to the theater.
On another note, ep III is the first movie I've considered seeing in a theater in a long time. Netflix + widescreen projector + 5.1 = why go to the theater?
Actually, I don't think so. Developing countries have much higher piracy percentages (because they can't afford a year's wages for a single piece of software). However, recall that places like Korea are going crazy with broadband access for nearly everyone. This explosion of internet users will overrun the number of US/developed country internet users soon, if they haven't already. The US has something like 20% of the population of China, right?
So something to conclude from this report is that the US/UK/etc are not the real hubs of the piracy problem and they should stop screaming about the end of the world and trying to pass inappropriate anti-piracy laws in developed countries.
True enough - the things I often look for in reviews is if A) it seems like there are rampant quality control issues, and B) if the undocumented specifications don't match what I need.
Often, I can disregard a good number of reviews as I don't care about that "problem" (i.e. "it doesn't come in hot pink! what at terrible company"). Using all caps and too much foul language also decreases a review's credibility.
Regarding your definition of "good spyware": what you really mean is that you may be willing to allow information aggregation software to run on your computer in exchange for free services/software.
OK. That's different from spyware. Information aggregation is still legal. The bill is littered with phrases like through intentionally deceptive means. The deception is a key part of software getting itself classified as spyware. I would posit that spyware is *always* bad (possibly with the exception of by law enforcement).
A bill like this helps draw the line as to what is acceptable commercial behavior. It makes it more difficult for shady operations to stay above ground, and therefore attract legitimate customers.
I experienced this a year ago from a large corporation
Sorry to hear how they treated you, but I think you said it right there. Large corporations tend to treat their employees with much less trust (from what I've seen).
I was laid off from a small company, but given a few days to close up my affairs. I even went back to visit a few months later; it was a different culture. I have, however, seen friends get walked out by security at other companies. Not much fun for anyone, even security.
Every time this argument comes up, someone tries using that line of logic
Someone tries using your line of logic every time the issue comes up as well. It's misleading. Sure the students should be reprimanded and possibly punished. However the school should be punished FAR more. Making private information (particularly SSNs) easily available to anyone who takes the initiative should be severely punished. Do you think everyone who knows how to get at the information would go public like this?
Second, there will always be a place for "middle men" if they provide sufficient value
Sure, but the problem is when middlemen who *don't* provide much value interfere with efforts to improve the system. You mention Amazon and netflix, but they're more like endpoints than middlemen. You forget the shipping guys, the warehousing guys, the organization that brings together a few movie houses (and take a cut) then resell it to other middlemen, and then the movie eventually makes it to amazon.
When systems improve and certain middlemen are no longer necessary, they get pissed. Tough. The business world changes rapidly, and while middlemen will always be useful, it won't always be the *same* middlemen. A little OT, but I think that's what is happening to TV stations - they're finding that they're not the preferred distribution method for TV shows...
Mod parent up. Slashdot just advertized a product that is almost guaranteed to be hazardous to your health. And it goes against recent trends to have LESS lead and mercury in electronics (ah, but who cares about the environment anyway).
"slanderous speach"
No. First of all, the site was a parody, not a news site. Slander/libel doesn't apply to parody. Second, written materials would fall under libel, not slander.
I prefer what some guys were doing a while ago - they were collecting truckloads of AOL cds for a special return-to-sender delivery. Right to AOL's front door.
I need to find out if they succeeded. The pictures would be priceless.
Haha, I'd hate to have the job of transferring the data to tape and then shipping it simultaneously to 200 places. Good luck keeping up.
From TFA:
"When the LHC starts operating in 2007, it will be the most data-intensive physics instrument on the planet, producing more than 1500 megabytes of data every second for over a decade."
"Scientists working at over two hundred other computing facilities...will access the data via the Grid."
So, who's under investigation here?
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I'm thinking it's the attention to detail of the
I do live in the US, and I get to see the extra bits on a lot of DVDs. It doesn't really matter what country the warning is for, or what language it's in. All of the warnings are useless. I'd say if you have the urge to fast forward through it, you already know what it is well enough.
Even worse, my dvd player won't even tell me that I can't fast forward. It tells me that the action *may* be prohibited, depending on the disc. What kind of wishy-washy crap is that?
I'd argue that your points are stumbling blocks due to insufficient demand for encryption. If there is sufficient demand, the boundaries of speed and interoperability always get pushed.
There's nothing preventing realtime encryption from being used on large amounts of data besides bandwidth. I'd argue that it's not really realtime if it can't keep up with the bandwidth of the medium (either the speed of SCSI, or say the maximum write speed of the tape).
The hardware issue sounds specific to the architecture in question... and every data center will probably have different requirements.
And most importantly, the real issue here is the cost of stolen data. If it's important enough to do, people will find a way to back up with encryption, and still meet time windows. If the company isn't willing to pay what is needed for this, then they are not concerned about the security of the data that leaves the site.
1. There are algorithms that are designed for realtime encryption, i.e. twofish. 2. There is special hardware that can perform encryption/decryption much more efficiently than your general-purpose CPU. Just because microsoft backup doesn't support encryption doesn't mean that any serious backup software won't do it. If your backup software/system doesn't support encryption, it was designed for home-users (despite what it claims). When the market demands encryption, software vendors will step up. Or maybe I should say "if".
You're kindof missing the point. Parents aren't expected to watch their children 24/7. They're expected to teach their children the values and skills they need to survive. And to respond to the obvious warning signs that something is going wrong. In many of the stories we hear about kids gone wrong, there was something the parents could have done, and should have known to do.
Honestly, I laughed at the kid who told me his parents didn't let him play with lighters and fireworks. I suppose he was treated for burns less often, though.
Yes, people are quick to pop the "where's the parents" comment out, but it reflects society's trend to not expect any personal responsibility from anyone. Of course, some people are mindlessly repeating that mantra.
I *do* read most of my privacy notices, and you have the opportunity to opt-out of most marketing-related information sharing... at least with scrupulous businesses. If there is no opt-out mentioned in the privacy notice (it doesn't have to be obvious or easy), then they adhere to a more strict set of guidelines (supposedly).
From what I've read and gathered, the law forbids sharing information in certain ways without offering an opt-out. You do NOT have a choice about them sharing info in ways necessary to provide you the service you've signed up for.
Of course, this doesn't apply to the government. Buy a house, and it's a matter of public record. You suddenly get loan offers out the wazoo. At least you can reduce credit card offers when you tell the credit agencies to not share your credit-worthiness. Do it here . Scroll to the bottom for opt-out, the rest is good info on your rights.
Well, male complaints about these rubber keyboard covers included that 1. you never have one around when you need one, and 2. they're uncomfortable. :)
Yeah, like I'm going to tell people that I have NADD
Well, would you rather tell people you're NADD-free?
THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC INSTALL OF SP2
Good point. Further, you don't even have to RTFA to see that this only affects users who turn on automatic updates even after their company tries to block SP2. Any company truly interested in controlling their computers won't have automatic updates turned on, so this really isn't a big deal. You'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to have sp2 installed without your knowledge... and you'd have to be rather dense.
I don't think this will really take off until they involve Larry Flynt with the content design.
Personally, I think the penalties should be pretty harsh for stealing sensetive information from a bank, and using it to gain illegal entry to state-owned systems.
Social security numbers are so easy to abuse, that society needs to appropriately punish those who are abuse their access to that sensetive information.
what am I missing out
You're probably missing a lot of the more obscure web sites. As great as google is, it doesn't cover the entire web. When searching for something hard to find, I often cycle through a few search engines, such as the apparently unknown allthweb. I usually find different results than google can supply.
I haven't seen any updated stats, but back in the early 2000's, I remember that northernlight.com (no longer a public search engine) covered 16% of the internet. It was at the top of the pile. So if google is your entire world, you may be missing a lot.
Anyone have updated stats on how much of the internet is actively covered by google?
Yahoopops.
Free software that runs a pop server at localhost and lets your mail client access Yahoo through pop3. Only downside is you have to either run it in the background all the time, or start it up every time you want to check Yahoo. I'm thinking of mangling it into a plugin for my mail client to make that automatic.