It is not so cut and dry. Suing a manufacturer for security vulnerabilities means that you can sue other industries e.g. lock manufacturers for break-ins, car manufacturers for car theft, etc. which is unrealistic.
That said, I am all for legislation that forces manufacturers to fix any known security vulnerabilities.
I don't know why people keep repeating this bullshit. Wait times depend on severity, which makes sense, otherwise more people would die.
Have you been to an emerg in a Canadian hospital? Idiots come there for minor cuts and scrapes and then whine about the 4 hour wait time.
When my dad had a bypass, he saw his doc one week, the cardiologist the same week, and had the surgery within 2 weeks (and that was by choice, they we willing to operate on him within days).
Conversely, when we went to have non-urgent knee surgery, it took 3 months which was fine by him.
One saved his life, the other made it more comfortable, all for $0.
There is solid ink which is technically newer than laser or inkjet (started in 90s I believe).
The downside of that though is that warmup time is long, and printer consumes a lot of energy in standby as it need to keep a pool of heated (melted) ink for quick printing.
You seem like one of those people who would say "Look at country XYZ wasting money investing in space travel/launches while half their people are starving".
Just because someone cares about ethics doesn't mean that they should spend every last dollar on charity. It sucks that the world is divided economically as it is today, but people in better off parts shouldn't have to feel guilty about spending a little on themselves; cerainly not for the small amount (in developed countries) that Netflix costs.
Great, so you do admit that it is still wrong since copyright infringement is illegal, right?
Stop being an idiot, namecalling as anonymous, and finally stop trying to defend something illegal on technical terms and defend it on merit.
Empty space contains a very low concentration of hydrogen which could be used via fusion, not to mention there are solar panels that can, you know, generate electricity.
Yes, the reported MILLINEWTON thrust was surely the missing link to warp drive.
The discovery, if real, would have not gotten us warp speed. The parent posted said "relativistic" speed, which means close to c, but not higher than c.
If this discovery were true, then that implication absolutely holds as we would then have a mechanism where we could gain speed without need for a propellant.
Good lord. I know some people will find any asnine thing to complain about in the name of the environment, but seriously?
The computer/device you are on to make that post caused large amounts of pollution. Perhaps you should give that up and go live in a cave with nature.
I know this is/. and no one RTFA and all but seriously, at least try to search for key words like "Sim" or "City" before submitting an article with a moronic sensationalist headline like this.
His resignation has nothing to do with Sim City. Dream on.
"Keep in mind that FB _customers_ are the shareholders, not the sheep that use the system."
Um, no they are not. FB customers are the advertisers who pay them. The users clicks are the commodity that they are selling, and the shareholders are part owners.
Putting aside a potential flaw in reporting, you are still ignoring efficiency.
Gasoline engines are only 15-20% efficient. Even at 20%, that is 47.2*0.2 = 9.44
Electric engines are around 80% efficient. 9*0.8 = 7.2
Suddenly it is a lot more comparable...
ipod or other portable music devices like walkman's, discman's, etc. I hate it when I am away from an electrical outlet and the battery runs out =/ would be nice if you could just crank it up again.. I don't think stuff like ipods take too much power.. do they?
Other than the power for hd, other power intake should be reasonably low. And hd's dont alway need to be spinning.. they could set up a small 128MB flash buffer of somekind, so hd isn't always spinning..
Yeah.. just a matter of time before.zip files with key+song start appearing on p2p's (assuming my understanding of this article is correct).
And unlike the previous arguments (e.g. I don't want to pay RIAA, they overcharge, etc.) this time it IS stealing with no excuses. I guess this will be a true test of whether or not in internet based model without DRM can survive. I for one hope that I am wrong and that people will respect fair pricing (let's no get into $0.99 is too much per song, I don't think it's *that* much. Definately way better than CD prices in most cases where you get 2 good and 10 crappy songs for $15)
While it may be statistically true, don't forget that car accidents can be avoided (in most cases) by careful driving. How do you avoid a cell phone explosion other than to stop using it?
It's interesting that this is happening now, after china has acquired windows' source code. Could they have found newer vulnarabilities that no one knows about yet?
When musicians and artists create music, they expect copies to be out (legitimate or otherwise is another debate).
Information entered by users such as their name, company name, etc. is NOT expected to be copied. You cannot blindly equate copying of data. They are two very different kinds of data. By your logic, posting someone's initials on a site, and posting, say their photograph, address and SIN# are the same thing since they are "copying", and the 'someone' hasn't lost anything.
I know there is a huge thread on this but my problem is much more specific, and not really related to not being able to eject unless processes are killed. In my case, the process refuses to die.
I have 3 cdroms on my system and all of them have this problem (I see it on my other system too). If I put in an svcd (using cdfs.o module to mount it) and try something like cp to a local drive, it usually locks up. There is no way to get out of this other than restart.
I have tried everything.. lsof, kill -9 , umount -l.. nothing can kill the cp process during such a lockup:( If I kill the parent, it simply becomes a zombie process but continues to keep the drive locked. Even when I do init 6, it shows 5 or 6 message saying cannot unmount because its busy.. ultimately linux gives up and forces a restart. I am afraid to put svcds in my drive now:(
This is not a troll but I just wanted to point out that your view seems contradictory (sp). Your initial statement seems to indicate that what the RIAA did was wrong, but the latter re: "teenagers into crime" suggests that setting up a p2p IS a crime. This is one of the major problems with the current views. p2p by itself is NOT bad. Its the users that use it for bad things and make it look bad in general.
Reminds me of (the saying?) "Guns don't kill people. People do."
No. Why should they? not like they are running an honest business.
If they *are* in fact so legit and honest, I don't see why they should have to worry about privacy protection. Thousands of addresses are out there on the net, I don't see those people whining.
People don't go about harassing someone for "fun" (unless you are a criminal I suppose but spammers aren't complaining due to criminals attacking them). The only reason people hate and go against spammers is because the business of spam is interfering with their day to day life and they are pissed off.
To those who think spam is not annoying and should "just be deleted", you are morons. By the same logic, 10 pop-ups coming up on EVERY site should "just be closed" too. Do you think thats justified too? If you do, chances are, you are one of these low-life spammers and your address should be up on the web too.
Its not the fact that there is a default thats the problem. Its what it IS that's the problem. If the default password was something like -8*k|-- , there is a lesser chance that a brute force password cracker could crack it.
With a combination like 1234, you don't even need software, just guess and you have it. Even if you use software, it will probably take 5 seconds to crack. As a result, the system can be compromised long before an admin can even check what's up with it..
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It is not so cut and dry. Suing a manufacturer for security vulnerabilities means that you can sue other industries e.g. lock manufacturers for break-ins, car manufacturers for car theft, etc. which is unrealistic.
That said, I am all for legislation that forces manufacturers to fix any known security vulnerabilities.
I don't know why people keep repeating this bullshit. Wait times depend on severity, which makes sense, otherwise more people would die. Have you been to an emerg in a Canadian hospital? Idiots come there for minor cuts and scrapes and then whine about the 4 hour wait time. When my dad had a bypass, he saw his doc one week, the cardiologist the same week, and had the surgery within 2 weeks (and that was by choice, they we willing to operate on him within days). Conversely, when we went to have non-urgent knee surgery, it took 3 months which was fine by him. One saved his life, the other made it more comfortable, all for $0.
There is solid ink which is technically newer than laser or inkjet (started in 90s I believe). The downside of that though is that warmup time is long, and printer consumes a lot of energy in standby as it need to keep a pool of heated (melted) ink for quick printing.
We may be reaching the limits of current design, but there is a path forward to continue with performance leaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You seem like one of those people who would say "Look at country XYZ wasting money investing in space travel/launches while half their people are starving". Just because someone cares about ethics doesn't mean that they should spend every last dollar on charity. It sucks that the world is divided economically as it is today, but people in better off parts shouldn't have to feel guilty about spending a little on themselves; cerainly not for the small amount (in developed countries) that Netflix costs.
Great, so you do admit that it is still wrong since copyright infringement is illegal, right? Stop being an idiot, namecalling as anonymous, and finally stop trying to defend something illegal on technical terms and defend it on merit.
Yeah, fuck them! How dare they try to protect themselves from theft on PRIVATE property that no one is REQUIRED to go to. Fuck them indeed.
Empty space contains a very low concentration of hydrogen which could be used via fusion, not to mention there are solar panels that can, you know, generate electricity.
Yes, the reported MILLINEWTON thrust was surely the missing link to warp drive.
The discovery, if real, would have not gotten us warp speed. The parent posted said "relativistic" speed, which means close to c, but not higher than c. If this discovery were true, then that implication absolutely holds as we would then have a mechanism where we could gain speed without need for a propellant.
Good lord. I know some people will find any asnine thing to complain about in the name of the environment, but seriously? The computer/device you are on to make that post caused large amounts of pollution. Perhaps you should give that up and go live in a cave with nature.
Haven't you heard?
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds[1]
1: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.dev.kernel/2OEgUvDbNbo/bTk-VE1zrnYJ
Good God.
I know this is /. and no one RTFA and all but seriously, at least try to search for key words like "Sim" or "City" before submitting an article with a moronic sensationalist headline like this.
His resignation has nothing to do with Sim City. Dream on.
"Keep in mind that FB _customers_ are the shareholders, not the sheep that use the system."
Um, no they are not. FB customers are the advertisers who pay them. The users clicks are the commodity that they are selling, and the shareholders are part owners.
Putting aside a potential flaw in reporting, you are still ignoring efficiency. Gasoline engines are only 15-20% efficient. Even at 20%, that is 47.2*0.2 = 9.44 Electric engines are around 80% efficient. 9*0.8 = 7.2 Suddenly it is a lot more comparable...
Neither of which are real languages. Hindi, Mandarin and Cantonese on the other hand, are actual languages.
ipod or other portable music devices like walkman's, discman's, etc. I hate it when I am away from an electrical outlet and the battery runs out =/ would be nice if you could just crank it up again.. I don't think stuff like ipods take too much power.. do they?
Other than the power for hd, other power intake should be reasonably low. And hd's dont alway need to be spinning.. they could set up a small 128MB flash buffer of somekind, so hd isn't always spinning..
Yeah.. just a matter of time before .zip files with key+song start appearing on p2p's (assuming my understanding of this article is correct).
And unlike the previous arguments (e.g. I don't want to pay RIAA, they overcharge, etc.) this time it IS stealing with no excuses. I guess this will be a true test of whether or not in internet based model without DRM can survive. I for one hope that I am wrong and that people will respect fair pricing (let's no get into $0.99 is too much per song, I don't think it's *that* much. Definately way better than CD prices in most cases where you get 2 good and 10 crappy songs for $15)
While it may be statistically true, don't forget that car accidents can be avoided (in most cases) by careful driving. How do you avoid a cell phone explosion other than to stop using it?
It's interesting that this is happening now, after china has acquired windows' source code. Could they have found newer vulnarabilities that no one knows about yet?
When musicians and artists create music, they expect copies to be out (legitimate or otherwise is another debate).
Information entered by users such as their name, company name, etc. is NOT expected to be copied. You cannot blindly equate copying of data. They are two very different kinds of data. By your logic, posting someone's initials on a site, and posting, say their photograph, address and SIN# are the same thing since they are "copying", and the 'someone' hasn't lost anything.
I know there is a huge thread on this but my problem is much more specific, and not really related to not being able to eject unless processes are killed. In my case, the process refuses to die.
:( If I kill the parent, it simply becomes a zombie process but continues to keep the drive locked. Even when I do init 6, it shows 5 or 6 message saying cannot unmount because its busy.. ultimately linux gives up and forces a restart. I am afraid to put svcds in my drive now :(
I have 3 cdroms on my system and all of them have this problem (I see it on my other system too). If I put in an svcd (using cdfs.o module to mount it) and try something like cp to a local drive, it usually locks up. There is no way to get out of this other than restart.
I have tried everything.. lsof, kill -9 , umount -l.. nothing can kill the cp process during such a lockup
When rambus sued other manufacturers, it didn't threaten a suit against those who were using DDR ram.
When MS was being tried, the government didn't threaten to sue everyone using their products.
SCO has threatened to sue the end users. Whether that is ever going to happen, is a completely different issue..
This is not a troll but I just wanted to point out that your view seems contradictory (sp). Your initial statement seems to indicate that what the RIAA did was wrong, but the latter re: "teenagers into crime" suggests that setting up a p2p IS a crime. This is one of the major problems with the current views. p2p by itself is NOT bad. Its the users that use it for bad things and make it look bad in general.
Reminds me of (the saying?) "Guns don't kill people. People do."
No. Why should they? not like they are running an honest business. If they *are* in fact so legit and honest, I don't see why they should have to worry about privacy protection. Thousands of addresses are out there on the net, I don't see those people whining. People don't go about harassing someone for "fun" (unless you are a criminal I suppose but spammers aren't complaining due to criminals attacking them). The only reason people hate and go against spammers is because the business of spam is interfering with their day to day life and they are pissed off. To those who think spam is not annoying and should "just be deleted", you are morons. By the same logic, 10 pop-ups coming up on EVERY site should "just be closed" too. Do you think thats justified too? If you do, chances are, you are one of these low-life spammers and your address should be up on the web too.
Its not the fact that there is a default thats the problem. Its what it IS that's the problem. If the default password was something like -8*k|-- , there is a lesser chance that a brute force password cracker could crack it.
With a combination like 1234, you don't even need software, just guess and you have it. Even if you use software, it will probably take 5 seconds to crack. As a result, the system can be compromised long before an admin can even check what's up with it..