no. the companies plan was to test all their cows and claim i was 100% safe from mad cow, which is fraud. mad cow is only detectable after 2 years which is later than most cows are slaughtered anyway. effectively the USDA just saved you from higher beef prices, you can thank them anytime now....
oh they are working on it don't worry. imagine this for a nightmare scenario. drm on everything that phones home to validate and you have to pay extra to access that part of the internet to validate it.... it's not that far fetched at all.
the problem with solar is everyones obession with PV solar. PV is useless for large scale operations and always will be. solar molten salt is where it's at. in a nutshell it's a few acres of mirrors focused on a tower with a line of salt in it that melts at 300c and gets pumped down into storage tanks enabling smooth energy production during the night.
the industrial components already exist for salt and it's fairly non toxic and cheap to operate and build.
the problem with such a man in the middle attack is you are almost assured of being caught. unless you are sitting in the same complex as a backbone link someone is going to notice the huge spike in network laytency and track down where it's comming from. also since your inserting yourself between peers, it's like painting a giant target on yourself, similar to the target bubba from C lock is going to paint on your buttocks after the feds throw you in jail....
"You could have walked into a local branch and asked to speak to the manager, carrying the drive"
thats a really really stupid idea. he'd have been thrown in the slammr for sure. he only had 2 options. stay quiet and tell no one at all, or go full blown public screaming from the hill tops so that there was too much public attention to risk making him disappear.
it's my property, how can i extort someone when they WANT to purchase something i own? by that logic every service fee ever paid on new car sales is extortion.
now if i went to them and said "pay me or i'll tell the media what retards your IT security guys are" that's extortion. but since it's already all over the news sites it's not possible to call it extortion.
it's also pretty damn cheeky (and just the thing i'd expect from a bank) to expect him to just hand back his purchase.
this would in fact be an interesting case to test in court as to who owns data when you purchase a pc. no doubt IP lawyers would be foaming at the mouth saying your buying hardware not software (that might shoot some of their, but then this isn't software but plain data which they didn't license so he'd have a reasonable expectation that it came with the sale.
i'd charge the pricks a consulting fee for my time. a few grand should cover it. i certainly wouldn't be handing back what is entirely his property, since he purchased it fair and square they have no recourse.
mind you in his day and age i wouldn't be suprised if he ends up in jail for his honesty, if it was me i wouldn't be saying anything. if i was a more desperate man i might even have sold those details online for a princely sum....
back in the early days of the web, if a website was 500k in TOTAL is was large. now days chewing 10 megs on a single site is nothing, most of it is ads and very little content. all of this is paid for by us, without our permission. so what if a website is offering free content in exchange for banner hits, they don't ask me if i'd like to be tracked and bombarded with ads for the pleasure of it first do they, in fact i'm pretty sure if websites started placing a front page stating you had to unblock ads and allow 50 doubleclick cookies to be placed not many people would visit them. So cry me a fucking river if they go broke from all the ad blocking.
wait he made a game depecting an event in which lots of peoples family memebers were murdered, and THEY are the assholes?
while i agree freedom of expression is important, it doesn't make it ok for this prick to exploit a tragic event for his own gain (which is clearly all this is).
well done america, another dangerous criminal behind bars.
seriously aren't your jails over flowing with enough non violent criminals. 390,000 amounts to pocket change for the game industry, so much so i'd argue it's petty cash. it should be enough that he has this huge debt to pay, top it off with 15 months community service every weekend (cleaning the freeway verge or some shit)
There isn't any debate that i have the freedom to do so. the point is that FSF/RMS would love nothing better than to take that away from me, as demonstrated by many of their statements and the release of this rediculous distro, and they do it all under the guise of freedom.
having everything in the world GPL'd IS NOT FREEDOM.
I think RMS is a very poor role model for free software, he lacks any sense of compromise and appears to have a huge chip on his shoulder from linus stealing his thunder
it's ironic that the ideaology behind removing binary drivers is an attack on peoples freedoms - the freedom to develop and release software and hardware under the license that suits you. it's always seemed to me that RMS isn't about freedom, just his own twisted version of it.
it varies according the what the business needs. there is no set ratio thats "good" so please any manager reading this don't make it your next brain fart.
the key here is "uses more memory"... i'm sure i could make any bog standard application run as fast as it's c counterpart if i throw resources at it. when JS runs as fast as c++ using the same resources then i'll be impressed.
given firefox's track record on memory useage, i won't hold my breath.
the problem is FAIR compensation. RIAA do not let the market decide as they are a cartel controlling the vast majority of music. they also activly lobby, and have been sucessful at, having copyright periods extended beyond any kind of reasonable time frame. 99 years?? give me a fucking break. they have violated the very reason copyright was estabilish - for the good of the public, to give creators a chance to make money on their creations before it passes into the public domain.
RIAA don't start out with copyright - we the public, GIVE it to them. since they are subverting the process with a total disregard for the public i think it's not surpising the public is taking that gift away from them.
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no. the companies plan was to test all their cows and claim i was 100% safe from mad cow, which is fraud. mad cow is only detectable after 2 years which is later than most cows are slaughtered anyway. effectively the USDA just saved you from higher beef prices, you can thank them anytime now....
the government has a duty to prevent the fraud in the first place, genius.
oh they are working on it don't worry. imagine this for a nightmare scenario. drm on everything that phones home to validate and you have to pay extra to access that part of the internet to validate it.... it's not that far fetched at all.
freesoftware all too frequently can't make that claim, hence it's ignored.
the industrial components already exist for salt and it's fairly non toxic and cheap to operate and build.
the problem with such a man in the middle attack is you are almost assured of being caught. unless you are sitting in the same complex as a backbone link someone is going to notice the huge spike in network laytency and track down where it's comming from. also since your inserting yourself between peers, it's like painting a giant target on yourself, similar to the target bubba from C lock is going to paint on your buttocks after the feds throw you in jail....
thats a really really stupid idea. he'd have been thrown in the slammr for sure. he only had 2 options. stay quiet and tell no one at all, or go full blown public screaming from the hill tops so that there was too much public attention to risk making him disappear.
now if i went to them and said "pay me or i'll tell the media what retards your IT security guys are" that's extortion. but since it's already all over the news sites it's not possible to call it extortion.
it's also pretty damn cheeky (and just the thing i'd expect from a bank) to expect him to just hand back his purchase.
this would in fact be an interesting case to test in court as to who owns data when you purchase a pc. no doubt IP lawyers would be foaming at the mouth saying your buying hardware not software (that might shoot some of their, but then this isn't software but plain data which they didn't license so he'd have a reasonable expectation that it came with the sale.
mind you in his day and age i wouldn't be suprised if he ends up in jail for his honesty, if it was me i wouldn't be saying anything. if i was a more desperate man i might even have sold those details online for a princely sum....
back in the early days of the web, if a website was 500k in TOTAL is was large. now days chewing 10 megs on a single site is nothing, most of it is ads and very little content. all of this is paid for by us, without our permission. so what if a website is offering free content in exchange for banner hits, they don't ask me if i'd like to be tracked and bombarded with ads for the pleasure of it first do they, in fact i'm pretty sure if websites started placing a front page stating you had to unblock ads and allow 50 doubleclick cookies to be placed not many people would visit them. So cry me a fucking river if they go broke from all the ad blocking.
while i agree freedom of expression is important, it doesn't make it ok for this prick to exploit a tragic event for his own gain (which is clearly all this is).
seriously aren't your jails over flowing with enough non violent criminals. 390,000 amounts to pocket change for the game industry, so much so i'd argue it's petty cash. it should be enough that he has this huge debt to pay, top it off with 15 months community service every weekend (cleaning the freeway verge or some shit)
having everything in the world GPL'd IS NOT FREEDOM.
I think RMS is a very poor role model for free software, he lacks any sense of compromise and appears to have a huge chip on his shoulder from linus stealing his thunder
wrong. it's price has gone through the roof in the last few months.
it's ironic that the ideaology behind removing binary drivers is an attack on peoples freedoms - the freedom to develop and release software and hardware under the license that suits you. it's always seemed to me that RMS isn't about freedom, just his own twisted version of it.
it still has a freaking BUTTON you need to use all the time. wtf is the point please?
maybe, but what if it's a bank which lives and dies by it's it systems?
it varies according the what the business needs. there is no set ratio thats "good" so please any manager reading this don't make it your next brain fart.
memory chewing applications don't affect performance? can i quote you on that down the track?
if you feel so bad about it you can send me the contents of your bank account to relieve that guilt. anything else is hypocritical
gold farmers have wrecked mmo's for me. why bother when farmers can sell high level gear to 12 year olds?
given firefox's track record on memory useage, i won't hold my breath.
the problem is FAIR compensation. RIAA do not let the market decide as they are a cartel controlling the vast majority of music. they also activly lobby, and have been sucessful at, having copyright periods extended beyond any kind of reasonable time frame. 99 years?? give me a fucking break. they have violated the very reason copyright was estabilish - for the good of the public, to give creators a chance to make money on their creations before it passes into the public domain.
RIAA don't start out with copyright - we the public, GIVE it to them. since they are subverting the process with a total disregard for the public i think it's not surpising the public is taking that gift away from them.
they will just go younger, MPAA already does it with walt disney caroons.