What about those cases where people get infected shortly after installing the OS? If you've just done a reformat/reinstall or you just bought a computer (with a fresh OS install), it's possible for you to become infected with a virus before you can download and install the various patches that are out. This is especially true for modem users, who may have to spend hours downloading patches before the system is up to date.
What about virii that exploit holes in the OS before a patch is available?
And, as mentioned below: It is if the manufacturer has issued a recall (car:recall::software:patch).
If a software patch was like a recall, the OS manufacturer would email everyone that had a (legal) copy when a patch came out. The general public doesn't check security bulletins regularly, and most probably wouldn't know where to check. This could be helped a little by making IE's default page http://www.microsoft.com/security/ after a fresh install of Windows (and the appropriate website for other browser/OS combinations).
It also means that damages are reasonable to low (as opposed to much to high to insane in the US).
How does Germany handle punative damages against corporations? More often than not, even the insane million-dollar awards aren't large enough to affect a sufficiently large company.
I hate seeing lawsuits left and right in this country, and I hate seeing multi-million dollar awards for stupid shit like hurting yourself while doing something that is obviously hazardous. However, large awards are seemingly necessary when they are used to affect change in a corporation's practices.
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Since the primary purpose of Kazaa is to tarde pirated music
...and here I thought the primary purpose of Kazaa was to trade porn. It is surprisingly good at this task.
Even in our economic downturn, we still have a rather small unemployment rate.
Don't forget how unemployment is defined - the number is lower than it could be because many people have simply given up looking. Should the market start to recover, it's been theorized that unemployment will actually increase for a time, as the people who have given up will begin looking again.
Today not a year goes by without an act of serious wanton violence by kids. It's getting harder and harder to maintain that culture products such as movies, the news, and (yes) also games don't have any influence on this.
One must wonder how much of this "increased violence" isn't simply due to better media coverage of the event (and the obvious slant that violence is increasing)? I wouldn't doubt that many people think that Columbine was the first incident of a school shooting in this nation's history.
When people die, that is a major burden on the families. Financial impact of the funeral, medical bills just prior to death, possible loss of wages- it all adds up. Plus dealing with the stress of losing a loved one, added onto the stress of normal life, can be a lot.
So MS says dont bundle our product with this other one, we dont want to be taking support calls for them, we dont want their shit shipping with us. It's like Pantera saying they dont want a Britney Spears track on their next CD. Big deal.
I have a closer analogy: the RIAA tells Best Buy not to sell CDs from independent artists, or RIAA member labels will discontinue selling CDs to Best Buy stores.
It does pose a greater good. Education. Instant availability of information. It can level the field in regard to access to opportunity or knowledge. Wikipedia. Google. How Things Work. Instant access to news, movies, weather. Pay your bills online. Find a job in a different city. There are more useful and informative sites than you can possibly bookmark. There is even the Internet's crowning achievement: Slashdot.;-}
Note that you don't need broadband specifically for any of that. Anyone with a phone line can get on the Internet, should they desire it. The issue is whether or not forcing ISPs to provide broadband to everyone is for the common good.
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to justify a mandate that everyone has access to broadband.
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In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
One should note that this is per infringement (i.e. per song in this case), but that the court has to increase the award to $150k. It looks as if the RIAA can't actually sue for $150k/song right off the bat, but as none of these suits have actually gone to court, I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
Are you sure he's even half right? If you get unlucky and use a particular ISP (library computers, AOL, etc.) or live in a particular country (China and Saudi Arabia are good examples), the former is no longer true. If you read any Microsoft story here on Slashdot, you know the latter can't possibly be true.
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All of the RPC vulnerability worms affected the entire NT-kernel tree, including 2K3.
tools that could help virus writers? like, what? c++? visual basic? or, more realistically, nessus?
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Apparently American CEOs were underpaid, since the average CEO salary has continually increased.
Solution: go on a killing spree and blame HALO.
What about those cases where people get infected shortly after installing the OS? If you've just done a reformat/reinstall or you just bought a computer (with a fresh OS install), it's possible for you to become infected with a virus before you can download and install the various patches that are out. This is especially true for modem users, who may have to spend hours downloading patches before the system is up to date.
What about virii that exploit holes in the OS before a patch is available?
And, as mentioned below:
It is if the manufacturer has issued a recall (car:recall::software:patch).
If a software patch was like a recall, the OS manufacturer would email everyone that had a (legal) copy when a patch came out. The general public doesn't check security bulletins regularly, and most probably wouldn't know where to check. This could be helped a little by making IE's default page http://www.microsoft.com/security/ after a fresh install of Windows (and the appropriate website for other browser/OS combinations).
nobody ever caught a virus from a telephone
Are you sure?
It also means that damages are reasonable to low (as opposed to much to high to insane in the US).
How does Germany handle punative damages against corporations? More often than not, even the insane million-dollar awards aren't large enough to affect a sufficiently large company.
I hate seeing lawsuits left and right in this country, and I hate seeing multi-million dollar awards for stupid shit like hurting yourself while doing something that is obviously hazardous. However, large awards are seemingly necessary when they are used to affect change in a corporation's practices.
Since the primary purpose of Kazaa is to tarde pirated music
...and here I thought the primary purpose of Kazaa was to trade porn. It is surprisingly good at this task.
I think those all fall under the "there's no way my skills can be found in the States" requirement.
Even in our economic downturn, we still have a rather small unemployment rate.
Don't forget how unemployment is defined - the number is lower than it could be because many people have simply given up looking. Should the market start to recover, it's been theorized that unemployment will actually increase for a time, as the people who have given up will begin looking again.
messages to everyone from a corporate director saying "I Love You!" -- the inconvenience of zipping/unzipping
Did anyone else look at that funny when they first read it?
I wonder if explaining that I am radioactive will keep a boss away...
Wow! 0.05% of Washington DC's population is murdered every year! Those are bad odds...
Arguably, it needs to be much higher.
Today not a year goes by without an act of serious wanton violence by kids. It's getting harder and harder to maintain that culture products such as movies, the news, and (yes) also games don't have any influence on this.
One must wonder how much of this "increased violence" isn't simply due to better media coverage of the event (and the obvious slant that violence is increasing)? I wouldn't doubt that many people think that Columbine was the first incident of a school shooting in this nation's history.
When people die, that is a major burden on the families. Financial impact of the funeral, medical bills just prior to death, possible loss of wages- it all adds up. Plus dealing with the stress of losing a loved one, added onto the stress of normal life, can be a lot.
Isn't this what life insurance is for?
Perhaps OpenBeOS?
So MS says dont bundle our product with this other one, we dont want to be taking support calls for them, we dont want their shit shipping with us. It's like Pantera saying they dont want a Britney Spears track on their next CD. Big deal.
I have a closer analogy: the RIAA tells Best Buy not to sell CDs from independent artists, or RIAA member labels will discontinue selling CDs to Best Buy stores.
Would a person be worth as much if his body were reduced to raw materials?
You might be surprised.
It does pose a greater good. Education. Instant availability of information. It can level the field in regard to access to opportunity or knowledge. Wikipedia. Google. How Things Work. Instant access to news, movies, weather. Pay your bills online. Find a job in a different city. There are more useful and informative sites than you can possibly bookmark. There is even the Internet's crowning achievement: Slashdot. ;-}
Note that you don't need broadband specifically for any of that. Anyone with a phone line can get on the Internet, should they desire it. The issue is whether or not forcing ISPs to provide broadband to everyone is for the common good.
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to justify a mandate that everyone has access to broadband.
No, it comes from 17 U.S.C. 504:
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In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
One should note that this is per infringement (i.e. per song in this case), but that the court has to increase the award to $150k. It looks as if the RIAA can't actually sue for $150k/song right off the bat, but as none of these suits have actually gone to court, I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
You know, snooping around a spammers site looking for open files is really fighting abuse with abuse
... and here I thought leaving the information available was just another way to "opt-in."
I thought the real precedent for this was forcing websites to remove DeCSS links.
Are you sure he's even half right? If you get unlucky and use a particular ISP (library computers, AOL, etc.) or live in a particular country (China and Saudi Arabia are good examples), the former is no longer true. If you read any Microsoft story here on Slashdot, you know the latter can't possibly be true.
It would appear we now have legal precedent that size doesn't matter. I can breathe easy now :)
Better to sleep alone than to get W32.STD :o