And here I've been thinking all along that libraries are one of the last bastions of Constitutional rights and privacy. To rollover like this? If this had been my local library and my records were on that computer I'd be demanding his immediate firing.
This is an absolute disgrace for Apple. Admittedly the details of the hack were leaked out in the most stupid manner possible and the person who did it deserves to have their mousing hand cut off to prevent future such offenses, but there's simply no way for Apple to come out of this looking good and I'm very surprised at their laggardly ways regarding this issue.
The judge who allowed certification of this as a class action lawsuit in the first place is an idiot! You've suppose to realize these things before allowing a class action lawsuit to proceed as such.
Okay, time to download GPU-Z and look for what? How are the bad chips specifically identified by a user whose computer manufacturer is still stonewalling? Do it say Nvidia G84 or G86, or just LOOK OUT?
If you want to open-source Glider DO IT NOW. Don't wait for the court to tell you not to or you'll be in serious trouble. Once it's out the door onto the Internet the question is moot.
And for Blzzard to tell you what your future employment can, and can't, be in coding is the Overreach of the Year.
Yes, because everyone knows that getting your asshole ripped apart by a 250kg 6ft black guy from Georgia is JUST the punishment appropriate for typing admin, admin in 2 boxes...
Oh, and you know this for a certainty that this will happen in exactly this way. That it happens to everybody. 550 pound (you did say 250kg) black guy (a bit racist aren't we being here). Everyone in prison meets this guy. And who does it to this guy, if it happens to everyone?
You clearly don't know what you're talking about, what you describe says more about you than it does about the US prison system, and how you managed to find the 2 critical brain cells in your mind sufficient to post to Slashdot will forever remain a mystery to the rest of us.
This sort of "speech" should not be tolerated anywhere. Womens' rights and their safety is far more important than the "right" for misogynists to remain anonymous.
Using that logic I can make any speech illegal and exposed to retribution. Either Free Speech is an absolute right, or it is no right at all -- there is surprisingly little gray area in -between.
Did he kill anyone? Did he maim anyone? Did he steal anything? No, no and no, so why should he be punished more than someone who did?
And neither will he be killed, mamed, or stolen from. He took away the ability of other people to do their work, and he is losing his freedom in return. In fact, in terms of the person-hours impacted by this hacker's actions, his time in jail will be far less than the damage he has caused to other people -- meaning he's getting off lightly all things considered.
I may be a conservative, but after watching in disgust when he made his impassioned plea to save his Bridge to Nowhere from the Ax of Excess, and how he'd have to leave the Senate if that piece of governmental waste was cancelled, I was shouting at the TV: "DO IT! DO IT! PLEASE DO IT! GET HIM OUT OF THERE NOW!"
Unfortunately they bowed to his threat at the time.
If the Democrats were as hard on their elected politicians as I was on this one, we could have a much better Congress than we have now. Having someone as a member of your own party doesn't make them wonderful. Sometimes they're just embarassing.
There may not be any damages at all. None of those distributions, even if they occurred, may have resulted in a single lost sale because people who download files may not have bought the song had the free download not been available. Then the recording industry is out zero money overall.
During the court action, details briefly leaked on website Wikileaks.
How do you briefly leak something onto Wikileaks? Once something gets there it's pretty much there to stay, as several recent plaintiffs have found out.
Once again Apple shows that they can't really compete in a free market, and only survive through lock-ins. And that Steve Jobs is greedy for every single penny he can get.
As a result, continue to expect to pay the highest prices for what has become commodity PC hardware.
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This is good. The terrorist who checks out the Terrorist's Cookbook and blows himself (and others) up before returning it will still get nabbed.
And here I've been thinking all along that libraries are one of the last bastions of Constitutional rights and privacy. To rollover like this? If this had been my local library and my records were on that computer I'd be demanding his immediate firing.
It is possible to snoop requests - no prediction necessary.
This is an absolute disgrace for Apple. Admittedly the details of the hack were leaked out in the most stupid manner possible and the person who did it deserves to have their mousing hand cut off to prevent future such offenses, but there's simply no way for Apple to come out of this looking good and I'm very surprised at their laggardly ways regarding this issue.
The judge who allowed certification of this as a class action lawsuit in the first place is an idiot! You've suppose to realize these things before allowing a class action lawsuit to proceed as such.
Does this mean we can now make hydrogen 10X cheaper for cars than before?
Okay, time to download GPU-Z and look for what? How are the bad chips specifically identified by a user whose computer manufacturer is still stonewalling? Do it say Nvidia G84 or G86, or just LOOK OUT?
If you want to open-source Glider DO IT NOW. Don't wait for the court to tell you not to or you'll be in serious trouble. Once it's out the door onto the Internet the question is moot.
And for Blzzard to tell you what your future employment can, and can't, be in coding is the Overreach of the Year.
Oh, and you know this for a certainty that this will happen in exactly this way. That it happens to everybody. 550 pound (you did say 250kg) black guy (a bit racist aren't we being here). Everyone in prison meets this guy. And who does it to this guy, if it happens to everyone?
You clearly don't know what you're talking about, what you describe says more about you than it does about the US prison system, and how you managed to find the 2 critical brain cells in your mind sufficient to post to Slashdot will forever remain a mystery to the rest of us.
Using that logic I can make any speech illegal and exposed to retribution. Either Free Speech is an absolute right, or it is no right at all -- there is surprisingly little gray area in -between.
Okay, it computes dates. So does it also end on December 21, 2012?
And neither will he be killed, mamed, or stolen from. He took away the ability of other people to do their work, and he is losing his freedom in return. In fact, in terms of the person-hours impacted by this hacker's actions, his time in jail will be far less than the damage he has caused to other people -- meaning he's getting off lightly all things considered.
I may be a conservative, but after watching in disgust when he made his impassioned plea to save his Bridge to Nowhere from the Ax of Excess, and how he'd have to leave the Senate if that piece of governmental waste was cancelled, I was shouting at the TV: "DO IT! DO IT! PLEASE DO IT! GET HIM OUT OF THERE NOW!"
Unfortunately they bowed to his threat at the time.
If the Democrats were as hard on their elected politicians as I was on this one, we could have a much better Congress than we have now. Having someone as a member of your own party doesn't make them wonderful. Sometimes they're just embarassing.
The Incredible Machine was puzzle solving in its purest form. Great fun!
Maybe it's just that all the good puzzles have already been presented in past games and there are no new good puzzles for new puzzle games.
You flatter me.
There may not be any damages at all. None of those distributions, even if they occurred, may have resulted in a single lost sale because people who download files may not have bought the song had the free download not been available. Then the recording industry is out zero money overall.
Actually, estoppel came to mind first.
Too bad sig lines (which might identify posters) don't make it to meta-moderators.
Unless it involves substantially massive fines it's not punishment.
If Microsoft produced Tron we'd have to wait for Tr3n for them to get it right.
Talk about a reason to sue Craigslist. They should be under some obligation to protect your privacy and clearly breeched that duty.
And you'll win too, since they won't show up!
How do you briefly leak something onto Wikileaks? Once something gets there it's pretty much there to stay, as several recent plaintiffs have found out.
Once again Apple shows that they can't really compete in a free market, and only survive through lock-ins. And that Steve Jobs is greedy for every single penny he can get.
As a result, continue to expect to pay the highest prices for what has become commodity PC hardware.
Hey Google, anonymize your copy of the logs as well so that this can't happen again!