Given that this is coming from the maker of antispyware software, I'd say this is premature FUD. However, he does bring up a valid point. In the future, as MS loses marketshare, I'm sure these people WILL target other browsers.
Thankfully for us though, it will be done less through exploits, and more through social engineering. Now, I'm not sure if this is whats best for the unwashed masses or not. I've personally always believed that the best way to combat spam/spyware is to EDUCATE people, and if they don't spend money on stupid shit, or let stupid shit get installed, the people making money off them won't get anything, and will stop doing it.
Of course, I will have no problem in the future telling friends/family that the reason their computer got all screwed up was NOT because of a virus, it was because they were not educated enough about using the internet. I will refuse to fix the problem until they agree to be educated.
I think we're talking about two different things. I'm saying that if they can make the rebooting such that it does not affect your driving in any way, as in, you could be driving, and it reboots, and you don't notice anything at all, then it is fine.
If you have to pull over, or if it causes problems while you drive, then I agree, it is not acceptable.
But if they can make it transparent so that rebooting doesn't really affect driving in any way, then it doesn't matter whether you're driving or not when it happens.
You're not understanding what I'm saying. I agree that it is unacceptable to have to reboot while driving if it would screw up your driving. But if it just happens while you're driving and doesn't affect anything, and doesn't get you in an accident, doesn't make you pullover or anything (in otherwords, its transparent), then its fine.
Now see, my argument is that we shouldn't terraform the planet unless there is no life there. However, if there is life there, and we do need another planet, which do you put first, our survival, or theirs?
And if you put ours first, then your statement of "I'll believe the sky is falling when I see it" will get us all killed. If you won't believe it till you see it, it is already too late. If we are to inhabit our solar system, the time to start preparations is now, because we have no idea what it will take to actually do this.
If you had actually read what I posted, you would see that I said rebooting was fine as long as it DID NOT INTERFERE WITH DRIVING, and I could do it on the fly.
Bottom line is I hope the people who don't know enough to do this already don't find out in the future. They are my protection buffer until all these legal issues get taken care of in the near future.
They are the ones sharing gigs and gigs and gigs of this stuff with absolutely no protection, and they are the ones who will get dragged into lawsuits, not me. I know that is incredibly selfish, but when you are a college student who wants to engage in this activity without getting sued, thats the mindset.
Interesting comment. You do realize porn is 99.9% of the time just as copyrighted as every thing else people are getting sued for right?
The difference is, porn makers are once again at the forefront of technology and realize "hey, this is what people want, we can't fight them, lets find out some way to make money off of it".
So what happens? You get tons of free porn off Kazaa and the TGP sites, and they manage to get plenty of people to actually pay for those sites to make them money. Especially with these new reality themed pornos that are out there, because when you've seen one girl, you suddenly get curious and want to see them all, so you check out the page to see what other models they have, and hey, you just might decide to sign up because its only a couple of bucks.
As funny as it may sound to some, there's a lot of industries out there that could take some cues from the porn industry.
What I wonder is in the previous cases, they were actively tracking for this sort of thing. This would kind of be like saying "ok, we THINK these people have these files, and they definitely downloaded somethign with this filename, but we can't be sure exactly what file it was since it happened in the past and we weren't watching it.
This is kinda like how you can't be arrested for admitting that you smoked pot last year, but you are definitely going to get busted if they watch you do it.
I don't care if I have to reboot my car. I understand that with advances in systems, there comes problems, and as long as I can reboot it as easily as my PC, thats fine. And it needs to have a lot of redundancy built in so that not only does it not disrupt my driving, but I can do it on the fly too.
I will NOT pay to bring it to some expensive certified dealership to get my fucking car rebooted.
That would be akin to bringing your computer to M$ and paying them to fix it every time it crashed.
Well, I'm a Windows user who is positively in love with my iPod (and wish that Steve would get off his high horse and make a damn video ipod already that can play divx and xvid and be updatable for future codecs).
That being said, I use my computer first and foremost as my *shudder* media center. I use it for music, watching downloaded tv shows, movies, and games.
Simply put, in terms of what I download, the Mac falls far behind the PC in terms of availability of those things.
ESPECIALLY in the games department, although that is starting to change.
Is it any wonder that a large portion of the mac crowd still think the only video format for the mac is Quicktime's?
"But would you grandma be pleased when she gets a link "Meet us at the mall at location 'cvnt5d1ck5'", which would be a vlaid coordinate. I wonder who live there."
And there you have it. This is probably part of a project of theirs where they want to map the world in latitude and longitude coordinates to make it sink up to a global location search function. That would actually be serious competition to Google's similar offer that I believe they were working on (anybody with a link to what i'm talking about please post instead of mod).
"Where are tinyurl and similar websites to claim that they have been converting URLs to relatively-compact-form, using non-negative integers and letters?"
Wow, just when you think you've seen the most random story about tech on the internet, you find out there's predecessors. Boggles the mind I tell you.
No kidding. I could only guess halfway through that they were talking about some sort of computer case. At first I thought they were talking about some random new piece of OSS which they never describe either, or even a new space shuttle.
I gotta say, its interesting to watch the quality of Slashdot decline over the years as their readership grows and they grow lazy in the way they run their site since they're getting more ad dollars.
It's called Gallows Humor. It is a coping method many people use to deal with a situation that is extremely serious/depressing/etc. Try not to judge them too harshly, its just their way of dealing with it.
"Leaving a 'ghost' reminds people that their was a victim there, allowing people to review the background in a more neutral format while maintining the victim's privacy."
And what about the owners of those locations? I'm sure the owner of the hotel doesn't want people knowing what took place there, and I'm sure they didn't know it took place there in the first place.
I'm all for making people aware of the crimes, but lets not go damaging more peoples lives than necessary.
The reality that students don't want to get themselves into ungodly amounts of debt without more of a guarantee of getting a job. Because to many people, college IS about getting a job.
But I have to tell you, as someone in a more "reality" based program that strive to give real world experience, I have found it unbelievably insightful and useful. Not only that, but they manage to throw in a lot of courses that ARE about theory and higher level thought. When you combine the two, you end up with an extremely powerful curriculum that creates students who are able to think freely AND run circles around their more traditionally schooled peers in the real business world.
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Thankfully for us though, it will be done less through exploits, and more through social engineering. Now, I'm not sure if this is whats best for the unwashed masses or not. I've personally always believed that the best way to combat spam/spyware is to EDUCATE people, and if they don't spend money on stupid shit, or let stupid shit get installed, the people making money off them won't get anything, and will stop doing it.
Of course, I will have no problem in the future telling friends/family that the reason their computer got all screwed up was NOT because of a virus, it was because they were not educated enough about using the internet. I will refuse to fix the problem until they agree to be educated.
If you have to pull over, or if it causes problems while you drive, then I agree, it is not acceptable.
But if they can make it transparent so that rebooting doesn't really affect driving in any way, then it doesn't matter whether you're driving or not when it happens.
And if you put ours first, then your statement of "I'll believe the sky is falling when I see it" will get us all killed. If you won't believe it till you see it, it is already too late. If we are to inhabit our solar system, the time to start preparations is now, because we have no idea what it will take to actually do this.
They are the ones sharing gigs and gigs and gigs of this stuff with absolutely no protection, and they are the ones who will get dragged into lawsuits, not me. I know that is incredibly selfish, but when you are a college student who wants to engage in this activity without getting sued, thats the mindset.
So let them keep being dumb, they save my ass.
The difference is, porn makers are once again at the forefront of technology and realize "hey, this is what people want, we can't fight them, lets find out some way to make money off of it".
So what happens? You get tons of free porn off Kazaa and the TGP sites, and they manage to get plenty of people to actually pay for those sites to make them money. Especially with these new reality themed pornos that are out there, because when you've seen one girl, you suddenly get curious and want to see them all, so you check out the page to see what other models they have, and hey, you just might decide to sign up because its only a couple of bucks.
As funny as it may sound to some, there's a lot of industries out there that could take some cues from the porn industry.
This is kinda like how you can't be arrested for admitting that you smoked pot last year, but you are definitely going to get busted if they watch you do it.
They can sell it to market research firms who in turn sell outrageously expensive reports on "The State of P2P" to their clients.
They sell it to the recording industry for marketing data.
The list goes on. Needless to say, they collect it because they get paid very well for it.
Um....is it just me, or is the only real reason people WANT to talk to a real person occur when there has been a policy violation?
I will NOT pay to bring it to some expensive certified dealership to get my fucking car rebooted.
That would be akin to bringing your computer to M$ and paying them to fix it every time it crashed.
Give the razor away, rake it in selling blades.
And there you have it. This is probably part of a project of theirs where they want to map the world in latitude and longitude coordinates to make it sink up to a global location search function. That would actually be serious competition to Google's similar offer that I believe they were working on (anybody with a link to what i'm talking about please post instead of mod).
Wow, just when you think you've seen the most random story about tech on the internet, you find out there's predecessors. Boggles the mind I tell you.
I gotta say, its interesting to watch the quality of Slashdot decline over the years as their readership grows and they grow lazy in the way they run their site since they're getting more ad dollars.
And what about the owners of those locations? I'm sure the owner of the hotel doesn't want people knowing what took place there, and I'm sure they didn't know it took place there in the first place.
I'm all for making people aware of the crimes, but lets not go damaging more peoples lives than necessary.
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The reality that students don't want to get themselves into ungodly amounts of debt without more of a guarantee of getting a job. Because to many people, college IS about getting a job.
But I have to tell you, as someone in a more "reality" based program that strive to give real world experience, I have found it unbelievably insightful and useful. Not only that, but they manage to throw in a lot of courses that ARE about theory and higher level thought. When you combine the two, you end up with an extremely powerful curriculum that creates students who are able to think freely AND run circles around their more traditionally schooled peers in the real business world.
Wow, talk about a double-whammy...