Are we going to be in the insane situation where our children will need to dust off the old C64 from half a century ago just to learn the basics for themselves?
Yes, if we end up in a bizarro world where every other platform and OS not-Apple disappears.
Sending a piece of postal mail is what passes for "not making it easy on them at all?" Registered mail is the de facto method for sending any sort of legal correspondence.
Newsbin handpicks warez (or even posts them themselves), then creates nzb files and garnishes them with detailed descriptions, only to charge a small fee from everyone who wants access to their "catalog". Quite different from a simple aggregator.
This is not how Newzbin works at all. It's community-driven. Paying users can 'editorialize' the search results by marking posts of interest and grouping together files in "reports." These reports can have a title, description, article IDs, filenames, and then other users can post comments on them. Newzbin, itself, provides nothing but an index of Usenet headers.
$500 (or even $1337) seems a bit low to encourage a would be criminal to go legit with some clever zero day, rather than exploit it. And, if it isn't now, it will be as Chrome's user base increases.
No 'would-be criminal' is going to come forward to claim this stuff, it's not worth the effort. It's likely targeted at users like me who have stumbled upon potential exploits in the past but couldn't justify investing a day or more writing a PoC, submitting it and hoping someone would read it.
Is it just me or does Google have this disgusting sense of righteousness that makes them think they are always right and can do whatever they want.
Apple told you No, stop trying to circumvent it.
Hi Steve,
I think Google is trying to increase the visibility, for the average user, of Apple's strong handed walled garden approach. Most people outside of Slashdot don't know how ridiculous Apple's policies are with the iPhone, so Google is helping Apple make an ass of themselves in a way Google can publicize.
While I applaud Nintendo for their financial success, I can't help but worry that this will simply encourage developers to skimp on innovation in future games. After all, if you can make an inexpensive game that sells millions to casual gamers, why bother spending time and money to create an innovative new experience?
Still, I must admit 2D Mario has always had great appeal to me. It really is a fun game.
Yeah, now that this has been a success we'll probably see like 6 Calls of Duty, 17 and a half Final Fantasy games, etc.. oh wait.
Actually, if you RTA, the previous attempt epic failed. The guy was about to climb into the balloon when the balloon broke free and left for the sky without him.
There are precious few alternatives. How else on the net can you easily solicit contributions / donations? The real problem is that Paypal has no competition.
The real confusion here for me is why PayPal was not just a single avenue that they received contributions via. They should have been transferring funds out to a real deposit bank immediately upon receipt.
The company should get dissolved to pay remunerations towards those it defrauded, all patents released into public domain, and its board charged with felonies.
lol, you must be new here. (here being any modern, western society)
I was always under the impression that EMP did something to the battery as well. If not then I guess I could nuclear-proof my voltage regulator and be livin' large when the days of Mad Max come around.
If driving an early 80s diesel Benz doesn't screamin livin' large, I don't know what does.
Hint, trains don't have "crumple zones" but somehow the train engineers survive and easily walk away when they hit cars. Perhaps you don't understand the concepts in physics called "momentum" and "energy"?
You're using the analogy of a several-ton train hitting a 1-2 ton car, and talking to someone else about not understanding momentum?
The base assumption of this seems to be, that the point of a pharma company is to heal people with safe drugs.
It’s not. In fact, if they don’t lose money from it, it is completely irrelevant if you die a slow and horrible death. Proven by many, many products that are out there right now. Like Prozac. It does help nobody. In fact it does the exact opposite, because it drives people even further into repression. And therefore dependency on the stuff.
The point of pharma companies, is to make money. As long as that is not 100% and without any loopholes, tied to what we want from them, we will have no guarantee at all to get it.
You might want to consider some Prozac, you sound anxious.
They've already given out $5,000 for top methods, and there's $15,000 still up for grabs.
Whoa there, big spender! I'm all for serving the public good, but if I was to work all those extra hours and discovered a useful new technique for using this data, and I have to choose between maybe getting somewhat less than what I still owe on my car, or trying to sell the code to the deep pockets of Big Pharma, I know which one I'm going to go with.
Can't disagree there, but I wanted to point out you probably want to sell this to class action attorneys for the real money. Pharmaceutical companies will bury this quicker than you can sign over the rights to it.
As long as eighteen HIPAA identifiers are removed, the data is considered deidentified by HIPAA. Deidentified data does not need patients' consent. De-identified data-only studies only need the hospital IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval. Believe me, it's not an easy task to get the IRB approval.
I don't really care about my phone records (I never really call anyone anyway). But how hard is it for them to sift through my credit card records looking for dirt?
That's odd, I still get those. They're rubbish links running through the Google spyware-system, but they are there.
For instance my first hit for Bing is: '....google.../url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&ei=8xRYS-yCOsfx-QbzpImJBA&usg=AFQjCNH_kUbuWB-3hS1tAW84OLUSYqT8MQ'
Slashdot Mirror
Are we going to be in the insane situation where our children will need to dust off the old C64 from half a century ago just to learn the basics for themselves?
Yes, if we end up in a bizarro world where every other platform and OS not-Apple disappears.
Newzbin does comply with takedown requests however they don't make it easy on them at all.
http://docs.newzbin.com/index.php/Newzbin:Item_Removal
Sending a piece of postal mail is what passes for "not making it easy on them at all?" Registered mail is the de facto method for sending any sort of legal correspondence.
Newsbin handpicks warez (or even posts them themselves), then creates nzb files and garnishes them with detailed descriptions, only to charge a small fee from everyone who wants access to their "catalog". Quite different from a simple aggregator.
This is not how Newzbin works at all. It's community-driven. Paying users can 'editorialize' the search results by marking posts of interest and grouping together files in "reports." These reports can have a title, description, article IDs, filenames, and then other users can post comments on them. Newzbin, itself, provides nothing but an index of Usenet headers.
$500 (or even $1337) seems a bit low to encourage a would be criminal to go legit with some clever zero day, rather than exploit it. And, if it isn't now, it will be as Chrome's user base increases.
No 'would-be criminal' is going to come forward to claim this stuff, it's not worth the effort. It's likely targeted at users like me who have stumbled upon potential exploits in the past but couldn't justify investing a day or more writing a PoC, submitting it and hoping someone would read it.
What you said is certainly true today, but it is the cause of a lot of problems...
Hey, no argument here. But since I am a socialist you guys would probably think I am a communist or something.
Socialism is awesome until you run out of other peoples' money. See: every truly socialist society, ever.
Is it just me or does Google have this disgusting sense of righteousness that makes them think they are always right and can do whatever they want.
Apple told you No, stop trying to circumvent it.
Hi Steve,
I think Google is trying to increase the visibility, for the average user, of Apple's strong handed walled garden approach. Most people outside of Slashdot don't know how ridiculous Apple's policies are with the iPhone, so Google is helping Apple make an ass of themselves in a way Google can publicize.
While I applaud Nintendo for their financial success, I can't help but worry that this will simply encourage developers to skimp on innovation in future games. After all, if you can make an inexpensive game that sells millions to casual gamers, why bother spending time and money to create an innovative new experience?
Still, I must admit 2D Mario has always had great appeal to me. It really is a fun game.
Yeah, now that this has been a success we'll probably see like 6 Calls of Duty, 17 and a half Final Fantasy games, etc.. oh wait.
Do you lop off your fingers when handling Christmas tinsel? How about aluminium ("tin") foil?
you would if it was brittle enough to keep a relatively wrinkle-free page.
Fusion Power Stealth
Actually, if you RTA, the previous attempt epic failed. The guy was about to climb into the balloon when the balloon broke free and left for the sky without him.
Was Falcon inside?!
There are precious few alternatives. How else on the net can you easily solicit contributions / donations?
The real problem is that Paypal has no competition.
The real confusion here for me is why PayPal was not just a single avenue that they received contributions via. They should have been transferring funds out to a real deposit bank immediately upon receipt.
That can hardly be described as "civil".
And much of what people are persecuted & prosecuted for criminal courts could hardly be described as "criminal".
I mean, the patent lawyer at my company explicitly told my whole group not to do patent searches
What's it like working at Microsoft? Do you have the lowest Slashdot ID there? :)
Only problem with that is, is that RAMBUS controls almost all of the DDR patents as well. They submarined the entire standard.
That's not submarining - submarining would be if they quietly patented these technologies, waited for infringers, and attacked.
Anyone who has ever even considered manufacturing any sort of memory knows who RAMBUS is.
The company should get dissolved to pay remunerations towards those it defrauded, all patents released into public domain, and its board charged with felonies.
lol, you must be new here. (here being any modern, western society)
I was always under the impression that EMP did something to the battery as well. If not then I guess I could nuclear-proof my voltage regulator and be livin' large when the days of Mad Max come around.
If driving an early 80s diesel Benz doesn't screamin livin' large, I don't know what does.
Hint, trains don't have "crumple zones" but somehow the train engineers survive and easily walk away when they hit cars. Perhaps you don't understand the concepts in physics called "momentum" and "energy"?
You're using the analogy of a several-ton train hitting a 1-2 ton car, and talking to someone else about not understanding momentum?
wow shut up.
Best +5 post I've read on Slashdot in 13 years.
The base assumption of this seems to be, that the point of a pharma company is to heal people with safe drugs.
It’s not. In fact, if they don’t lose money from it, it is completely irrelevant if you die a slow and horrible death.
Proven by many, many products that are out there right now. Like Prozac. It does help nobody. In fact it does the exact opposite, because it drives people even further into repression. And therefore dependency on the stuff.
The point of pharma companies, is to make money.
As long as that is not 100% and without any loopholes, tied to what we want from them,
we will have no guarantee at all to get it.
You might want to consider some Prozac, you sound anxious.
They've already given out $5,000 for top methods, and there's $15,000 still up for grabs.
Whoa there, big spender! I'm all for serving the public good, but if I was to work all those extra hours and discovered a useful new technique for using this data, and I have to choose between maybe getting somewhat less than what I still owe on my car, or trying to sell the code to the deep pockets of Big Pharma, I know which one I'm going to go with.
Can't disagree there, but I wanted to point out you probably want to sell this to class action attorneys for the real money. Pharmaceutical companies will bury this quicker than you can sign over the rights to it.
As long as eighteen HIPAA identifiers are removed, the data is considered deidentified by HIPAA. Deidentified data does not need patients' consent. De-identified data-only studies only need the hospital IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval. Believe me, it's not an easy task to get the IRB approval.
Here's the list of the 18 HIPAA identifiers.
Even though it's a bit of a different situation, I'm reminded of the Netflix debacle..
Try enabling web history and then clearing & disabling it.
Wish I could mod you to +11.
I don't really care about my phone records (I never really call anyone anyway). But how hard is it for them to sift through my credit card records looking for dirt?
Not as hard as it should be. :(
That's odd, I still get those. They're rubbish links running through the Google spyware-system, but they are there.
For instance my first hit for Bing is:
'....google.../url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&ei=8xRYS-yCOsfx-QbzpImJBA&usg=AFQjCNH_kUbuWB-3hS1tAW84OLUSYqT8MQ'
https://www.google.com/history/edit
Clear your web history and it should pause it. That will stop this behavior..