The threat is that, if they don't comply, legislation will follow.
Oh, this is such an old trick. There is no law. You can't oppose it's passage. You can't ask for a Presidential veto. You can't fight it in court. It might never have even passed given some elected representative's insistence on privacy. But the big scare here is, if you don't do this we'll have a law for sure, and you'll like that even less. Hey folks, I like this much less than I'd like a law that can be seen, touched, explained, and overturned.
There are things the government can't do, but gets away with anyway. Anyone remember how Congress managed to impose a national 55mph speed-limit on the states a few decades ago?
I'd love to switch to an ISP whose approach is: We shred all electronic records in 24 hours.
If it's the same password for every infection, wouldn't it be likely that the first victim who actually paid for it would then release it to the wild to screw-over the extortionist ASAP?
After all, if the best tasting watermelon is one that's been snitched (to quote an old line), then isn't the best music a track that's been P2P'd? After all, one's expectations are much simpler for something you have 'acquired by other means'.
the head of the state Gambling Commission says it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest
Then why have the stupid law in the first place? If you wonder why people disrespect the laws these days, it's because of crap like this. Who are they going to go after? Internet gambling cafes?
Considering how Sandra Day O'Connor was against the eminent domain decision last year -- truly one of the worst decisions of the last decade, if not longer -- along with the rest of the right leaning side of the bench, I hardly consider her departure has been replaced by someone that different overall than she is.
So this is the absolute final, ultimate, tells-it-all version -- until the next absolute final, ultimate, tells-it-all version. Amazing how Hollywood has found so many ways to resell the same movie over and over again. And this is before the upgrade to High Def DVD versions on the HD system of your choice.
Just how long will it be before they don't even have to bother with lousy remakes *cough* Poseidon Adventure *cough* and can just resell their film vaults over and over again?
Speaking of image file formats, what has ever happened to JPEG2000? Wasn't that supposed to sweep away everything before it with a much improved format? It doesn't even seem to have made a ripple, and now Microsoft is coming out with PIC to replace everything that came before. How about it?
These days you could probably get a patent for a "process of expelling excess gas generated by metabolic processing of protein and accumulated in the large intestine and colon."
Especially if you promote it as a new Energy Source.
Heck, you can probably get VC funding for it as well.
the USPTO has ruled the broadest claims of the JPEG Patent held by Fogent to be invalid.
Why does it take them so d@mn long to accomplish this in the first place? Even when a patent is finally ruled invalid -- and should have never been granted in the first place -- it seems it happens only after years of legal damage. No one is served well by this, except the lawyers.
They report that both sides are to benefit from the deal, and that 'more is to come.
Dell's obvious benefit is obviously that they're being paid by Google to do this, which means they'll make it hard for the customer to remove.
So how does the third side of all this joy -- the customer -- benefit by having software they didn't order and may not want? It wouldn't be the first time I've heard about a customer actually having to pay Dell support to be told how to uninstall some crap Dell stuck on his system that he didn't want.
Computers get faster, opening delays go down. Anyone remember the first version of MSWord on the IBM PC? Horrible. But MS knew that the PC/AT was coming in about five months, and it's processor was nearly four times faster in that first incarnation alone. If this is the best objection MS can mount against Open Document Format, they've lost for sure.
Trivia question of the day: What did the "AT" stand for at the time?
Glad to know that annoying solutions are evolving as quickly as annoying intrusions. A weakness was discovered in the first system, and now an improved version is available. Clearly the first system was sufficiently annoying to be attacked, which means it was working. In the end it's all a question of who you want to annoy. I vote for annoying spammers since they've annoyed me for far too long.
As far as "poisoning" the black list with a wrong target, who needs to? That would only be an overly complicated form of DDoS attack, which can be accomplished much more simply already. It's not something to worry about yet.
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But does it let me run pharming macros for WoW?
Isn't water basically clear? So aren't rainstorms basically clear as well?
This sounds more like an article referring to a show on SciFi Channel, than something I should be tuning into National Geographic to watch.
Hey, it's open source. Why don't you port it yourself, instead of asking someone else to do your work for you for free!!
The Lovejoy Gambit. Haven't seen that one defined before. Is it as official as Godwin's Law?
Oh, this is such an old trick. There is no law. You can't oppose it's passage. You can't ask for a Presidential veto. You can't fight it in court. It might never have even passed given some elected representative's insistence on privacy. But the big scare here is, if you don't do this we'll have a law for sure, and you'll like that even less. Hey folks, I like this much less than I'd like a law that can be seen, touched, explained, and overturned.
There are things the government can't do, but gets away with anyway. Anyone remember how Congress managed to impose a national 55mph speed-limit on the states a few decades ago?
I'd love to switch to an ISP whose approach is: We shred all electronic records in 24 hours.
And if the Supremes uphold the 11th Circuit, then every SCA conviction so far should be overturned pronto!
If it's the same password for every infection, wouldn't it be likely that the first victim who actually paid for it would then release it to the wild to screw-over the extortionist ASAP?
And changing the virus's password is how hard again?
After all, if the best tasting watermelon is one that's been snitched (to quote an old line), then isn't the best music a track that's been P2P'd? After all, one's expectations are much simpler for something you have 'acquired by other means'.
Then why have the stupid law in the first place? If you wonder why people disrespect the laws these days, it's because of crap like this. Who are they going to go after? Internet gambling cafes?
Considering how Sandra Day O'Connor was against the eminent domain decision last year -- truly one of the worst decisions of the last decade, if not longer -- along with the rest of the right leaning side of the bench, I hardly consider her departure has been replaced by someone that different overall than she is.
To quote Roger Rabbit: "I don't think so."
If anyone was on top of this, there wouldn't be over 200 mobile phone viruses out in the wild. There would be none.
Just how long will it be before they don't even have to bother with lousy remakes *cough* Poseidon Adventure *cough* and can just resell their film vaults over and over again?
All things considered, I'd rather jack them where it hurts a bit more.
Speaking of image file formats, what has ever happened to JPEG2000? Wasn't that supposed to sweep away everything before it with a much improved format? It doesn't even seem to have made a ripple, and now Microsoft is coming out with PIC to replace everything that came before. How about it?
Especially if you promote it as a new Energy Source.
Heck, you can probably get VC funding for it as well.
I vote for jailed. Fines are just a part of doing business, and do not appear to be much of a deterrent these days.
Why does it take them so d@mn long to accomplish this in the first place? Even when a patent is finally ruled invalid -- and should have never been granted in the first place -- it seems it happens only after years of legal damage. No one is served well by this, except the lawyers.
So how much more vulnerable is your new computer with all this other stuff included? I'll bet more than you wish!
And this is all aside from how much gaming performance you lose from this crap running in the background.
Dell's obvious benefit is obviously that they're being paid by Google to do this, which means they'll make it hard for the customer to remove.
So how does the third side of all this joy -- the customer -- benefit by having software they didn't order and may not want? It wouldn't be the first time I've heard about a customer actually having to pay Dell support to be told how to uninstall some crap Dell stuck on his system that he didn't want.
So Symantec is actually secretly Microsoft. I tell you I've suspected it all along.
So now we all know that Scott Adams posts to Slashdot as SomeGuyFromCA (197979). :^)
Trivia question of the day: What did the "AT" stand for at the time?
As far as "poisoning" the black list with a wrong target, who needs to? That would only be an overly complicated form of DDoS attack, which can be accomplished much more simply already. It's not something to worry about yet.
I don't think so. The kid is simply babysitting your VCR while you're away.