Certainly not forgetting them, but it's worth noting that the lawyers (remember, the RIAA are lawyers), are typically the ones that hire (see "bribe") the lobbyists who, again, are typically lawyers themselves..
But new artists want to. They want to make music, not worry about distribution or marketing. Nor do they even have experience in that.
Have you met the "artists" you claim are seeking out labels? One could easily argue the opposite is true, that real musicians do not seek out labels and record contracts, that in fact those activities are reserved for the untalented whose prowess as a musician is not great enough to earn them deserved recognition.
The "real" talent cares not for contracts, marketing, market penetration, audience share, etc. etc.. They "just want to dance".
It's civil court, by definition there is no jail as jail is a punishment for criminal acts in criminal courts. As previously stated they could slap her with contempt, but it's unclear whether they could hold her in contempt for reviolating.. Aren't they simply subject to being sued again in civil court??
ianal, but is re-violating considered contempt?
I guess I'm not sure how that would work, because wouldn't the court have to order her not to use kazaa/filesharing programs, and then she'd have to violate that order or is that all implied due to the nature of the charge?
Now that they've virtually guaranteed her bankruptcy, how else could they possibly punish her? Couldn't she just go on a sharing spree and drum up attention about it?
Seems that once you ruin a person, they have no more motivation to do what you want as you've already leveled the most extreme punishment.
I wonder what the PIN Number was that they all used in those ATM Machines. Maybe they used a custom PCB Board to prototype the hack. Then they downloaded the plans onto a CD Disc.
bravo.
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As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool"
"A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular thinking device, a "Brain", as a potential terrorist tool. A chapter titled 'Potential for Terrorist Use of Brains' notes that brain users reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements. Brains are already used by some members to think of and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives,' the report said. The report goes on to say, 'Terrorists could theoretically use their brains in the US as an operation tool.'
Why not, for the immediate future, setup her voicemail to answer after 1 ring, and set the voicemail message to something like "This phone number is being falsely used by a telemarketing company as their caller ID. Please call your local phone company and tell them you have received a telemarketing call using an hijacked caller ID entry.". If you can find out the actual company doing it, I'd throw their real phone number and company name in their too, just for good measure.
At the very least, people will know not to leave a nice elderly lady death threats, and hopefully your phone company will take notice and track down the offending telemarketers and cut their "lines" off.
I'd bet the voicemail volume drops significantly, legitimate ones get through and leave a message, and you'll probably hear a few less death threats against grandma.
Nitrates, Nitrites, and Ammonia are all incredibly toxic to fish, which if I'm understanding will simply be washed into groundwater/lakes/rivers by rain..
What sort of nitrate levels are we talking about here? If a pound of "greenhouse" gasses are converted by this new cement, what are the concentrations of nitrates released into the atmosphere, ready to be washed into bodies of water by rainfall?
Nitrates are absolutely dangerous, it's a matter of who they're dangerous for, and in what concentrations they are dangerous at..
I've been using Redmine to host approximately 60+ projects for our entire organization from standard bug tracking to project management. Wiki,Forum, Bug tracking, easily extensible, ACL's, Sane project management features, integration to SVN, and everything else I've identified as a need is built right in.
All users auhenticate via LDAP, SVN also authenticates via LDAP through apache and is accessible via the web interface. SVN integration is quite good, and nearly every feature we've determined a requirement for is available in Redmine.
It's certainly worth a look, and while it may require a little reading up on RoR, it's very easy to administer, alter, update, and configure.
In fact I just moved a.6.4 install to version.7.3 with very very little difficulty, maintained all end-user configured options in the DB, (ACL's, authentication methods, project status etc) and it all took very little time.
I can honestly say Redmine has been a very very worthwhile implementation and I find it comparable to many of the commercial systems available on the market, and since the lead developer Jean-Phillipe is very very responsive to feature requests and bugfixes, we experience very few nagging issues..
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It really doesn't mean much. It's a poor rephrasing of "you should make more money," written in such a way as to try to give the impression "I'm way more expert-like than you. Don't dare disagree."
Yes it does mean make more money. And to be fair, it's actually a form of brevity, a manner of speaking with which you must not be accustomed.
Secondly, once a certain arbitrary minimum expense has been set, it will raise. Year after year. Nearly all major companies would love for there to be, say, a $1,000 yearly fee simply for the privilege of offering product on the internet.
Actually, when the dollar is strong and inflation is low, business is good and the cost of goods and services typically plateau and then reduce as long as that good or service is in demand. Remember $.79 gas during the Clinton years? The value of a dollar is down because our economy sucks and inflation is high so the cost of things go up, things like gas, electricity, food, and SSL certificates. You should be more concerned with an internet tax than the cost of SSL certs and FF's new way of dealing with self-signed certs.
Fairly meaningless 'security certificates' are about as arbitrary and meaningless as any other certification or license. Do they really deter actual criminals?
They're not meant to deter criminals, they're meant to deter morons.
Well, if your stupid and your stubborn, and your in the marines, you have an infinitely greater chance of killing yourself and others.
I admit I'm not quite sure what this means.
It just means make more money. If it's the only thing "paying" for the certificate, and not having the certificate is affecting his ability to make that $16-17/month, then make more off it or perhaps give it to public domain.
Besides, he's a pilot, he spends more on fuel per flight than a Root CA costs per year - even a "green" one - and built a full sized flight sim in his basement. Last I check flight lessons run about $5-$9k per year. I even tried to find the $3 software he's talking about, but I'm not going to look that hard. (I didn't find it.)
http://www.bradgoodman.com/
Education for users is what's needed here. The vast majority of web users don't know the difference between SSL and a CA's certificate or their arse and their elbow.
And this is Firefox's fault how? If you make $200/year off it, then why not open source it and let someone else take over the code you've abandoned, *ahem*, been "monetizing" off of, and go find something better to do and make more money at.. I'm pretty sure I spend $200 dollars on 4"x4" squares of paper a year to wipe my ass with. I'm pretty sure I paid more in taxes out of one paycheck a month than you've collected in 4 years at $200/year.
PayPal does this because *they* have the certificates to make *their* site secure. Just because Google happens to be more security conscious than paypal does not make this a FF problem and your apparent frustration is quite misdirected.
btw.. Paypal has had a few issues of it's own in the past - they're not god's gift to the internet, nor the safety of your data. Perhaps Google is doing this in the interest of not getting repeatedly sued, attacked via man-in-the-middle attacks, and putting their customers data at risk.
Again, FF's fault how?
It's not like it's impossible to accept a self-signed cert, and for all the "scripting" you've done, why don't you mention a quick blurb about FF3's advanced certificate security and validation mechanisms and how a user might go about accepting your self-signed cert.
It would have taken less time than bitching about it on slashdot.
The Marine's call that "stupid stubborn" and for your sake be glad your not in the Marines.
I'd say the fact you only make $200/year profit is your bigger concern. Learn to monetize your offering and buy a certificate, but don't refuse to recommend a superior browser because *you* are too cheap to operate like every other sensible website handling secure info. I'm shocked people buy anything from you without a proper signed cert.
This is not a new problem and never has a browser simply accepted self-signed certificates without displaying a warning - the problem is that assholes out there hijack domains and run CC phishing scams on and steal peoples info/identities - by not using proper security measures on your e-commerce site you are actually a big part of the problem.
I'm amazed you have any customers at all... The fact you only make $200/year should give you a clue.
I would have to agree.. As a linux user I've always been frustrated by the half-capable job evolution does of interfacing with exchange, and the overall lack of alternatives but Zimbra really has a winner on their hands..
I now run thunderbird with the sunbird lightning plugin to manage my own calendars on a Zimbra server using iCal over https, a very complete web frontend that's fast and featureful and just plain works, and all of my Outlook users have full access to every "exchange" like feature supported by the plugin which is everything short of public folders. I would rather use a real file server + vpn + other better tools for data/content management but that's just my preference.
The only real killer feature exchange has right now over Zimbra is rpc-over-http for remote access even over highly restrictive networks because everything is done over port 80 and http calls.. Zimbra's SOAP interface for calendaring is similar to this, but they lack the true mail/contacts/calendar -> port 80 sync that rpc-over-http allows remote roadwarriors who find themselves needing access from free wifi hotspots in airports, hotels, and other restricted networks..
The reason the Minitry of Information told people not to upgrade is the same reason 99% of the machines run windows - because of the ActiveX control issue regarding secure online transactions.
Thus forcing a huge number of machines who's security - albeit good when patched - is particularly poor right out of the box, on nearly the entire population of a country. I've worked in IT long enough to know that unless auto-updates are on 90% of people don't even know they need them or how to get them. Not only that but I think that when market domination is THAT ridiculously out of control, only the monopoly controlling the market benefits while everyone else suffers from Government to business, and on down to the little guy who can't pay his bills online with his shiny new Mac..
This basically makes the correlation between zombie machines and the amount of traffic coming from South Korea stand out. One draws the conclusion they are a relatively easy target for machines to make use of for just this purpose.
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Certainly not forgetting them, but it's worth noting that the lawyers (remember, the RIAA are lawyers), are typically the ones that hire (see "bribe") the lobbyists who, again, are typically lawyers themselves..
But new artists want to. They want to make music, not worry about distribution or marketing. Nor do they even have experience in that.
Have you met the "artists" you claim are seeking out labels? One could easily argue the opposite is true, that real musicians do not seek out labels and record contracts, that in fact those activities are reserved for the untalented whose prowess as a musician is not great enough to earn them deserved recognition. The "real" talent cares not for contracts, marketing, market penetration, audience share, etc. etc.. They "just want to dance".
Why do the RIAA's members still control the music business? Why do these dinosaur publishing businesses still manage to thrive despite the Internet?
Lawyers..
It's civil court, by definition there is no jail as jail is a punishment for criminal acts in criminal courts. As previously stated they could slap her with contempt, but it's unclear whether they could hold her in contempt for reviolating.. Aren't they simply subject to being sued again in civil court??
ianal, but is re-violating considered contempt? I guess I'm not sure how that would work, because wouldn't the court have to order her not to use kazaa/filesharing programs, and then she'd have to violate that order or is that all implied due to the nature of the charge?
Now that they've virtually guaranteed her bankruptcy, how else could they possibly punish her? Couldn't she just go on a sharing spree and drum up attention about it? Seems that once you ruin a person, they have no more motivation to do what you want as you've already leveled the most extreme punishment.
Lucky theres a man who positively can do all the things that make us laugh and cry. He's a family guy.
Windows Vista?
I wonder what the PIN Number was that they all used in those ATM Machines. Maybe they used a custom PCB Board to prototype the hack. Then they downloaded the plans onto a CD Disc.
bravo.
Thanks, my brain hurts now...
As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" "A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular thinking device, a "Brain", as a potential terrorist tool. A chapter titled 'Potential for Terrorist Use of Brains' notes that brain users reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements. Brains are already used by some members to think of and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives,' the report said. The report goes on to say, 'Terrorists could theoretically use their brains in the US as an operation tool.'
Lake Michigan?
... They just keep on doing what they're told..
Yup. It's a junk account. :)
It is truly a pleasure to meet an individual at least as cynical as I.. ;-)
Why not, for the immediate future, setup her voicemail to answer after 1 ring, and set the voicemail message to something like "This phone number is being falsely used by a telemarketing company as their caller ID. Please call your local phone company and tell them you have received a telemarketing call using an hijacked caller ID entry.". If you can find out the actual company doing it, I'd throw their real phone number and company name in their too, just for good measure. At the very least, people will know not to leave a nice elderly lady death threats, and hopefully your phone company will take notice and track down the offending telemarketers and cut their "lines" off. I'd bet the voicemail volume drops significantly, legitimate ones get through and leave a message, and you'll probably hear a few less death threats against grandma.
What sort of nitrate levels are we talking about here? If a pound of "greenhouse" gasses are converted by this new cement, what are the concentrations of nitrates released into the atmosphere, ready to be washed into bodies of water by rainfall?
Nitrates are absolutely dangerous, it's a matter of who they're dangerous for, and in what concentrations they are dangerous at..
Didn't RTFA btw..
All users auhenticate via LDAP, SVN also authenticates via LDAP through apache and is accessible via the web interface. SVN integration is quite good, and nearly every feature we've determined a requirement for is available in Redmine.
It's certainly worth a look, and while it may require a little reading up on RoR, it's very easy to administer, alter, update, and configure. In fact I just moved a .6.4 install to version .7.3 with very very little difficulty, maintained all end-user configured options in the DB, (ACL's, authentication methods, project status etc) and it all took very little time.
I can honestly say Redmine has been a very very worthwhile implementation and I find it comparable to many of the commercial systems available on the market, and since the lead developer Jean-Phillipe is very very responsive to feature requests and bugfixes, we experience very few nagging issues..
All in all I'm one happy redmine user, and so are my developers!
It really doesn't mean much. It's a poor rephrasing of "you should make more money," written in such a way as to try to give the impression "I'm way more expert-like than you. Don't dare disagree."
Yes it does mean make more money. And to be fair, it's actually a form of brevity, a manner of speaking with which you must not be accustomed.
Secondly, once a certain arbitrary minimum expense has been set, it will raise. Year after year. Nearly all major companies would love for there to be, say, a $1,000 yearly fee simply for the privilege of offering product on the internet.
Actually, when the dollar is strong and inflation is low, business is good and the cost of goods and services typically plateau and then reduce as long as that good or service is in demand. Remember $.79 gas during the Clinton years? The value of a dollar is down because our economy sucks and inflation is high so the cost of things go up, things like gas, electricity, food, and SSL certificates. You should be more concerned with an internet tax than the cost of SSL certs and FF's new way of dealing with self-signed certs.
Fairly meaningless 'security certificates' are about as arbitrary and meaningless as any other certification or license. Do they really deter actual criminals?
They're not meant to deter criminals, they're meant to deter morons.
I'm quaking in my boots here.
Well, if your stupid and your stubborn, and your in the marines, you have an infinitely greater chance of killing yourself and others.
I admit I'm not quite sure what this means.
It just means make more money. If it's the only thing "paying" for the certificate, and not having the certificate is affecting his ability to make that $16-17/month, then make more off it or perhaps give it to public domain. Besides, he's a pilot, he spends more on fuel per flight than a Root CA costs per year - even a "green" one - and built a full sized flight sim in his basement. Last I check flight lessons run about $5-$9k per year. I even tried to find the $3 software he's talking about, but I'm not going to look that hard. (I didn't find it.) http://www.bradgoodman.com/
Education for users is what's needed here. The vast majority of web users don't know the difference between SSL and a CA's certificate or their arse and their elbow.
Agreed.
And this is Firefox's fault how? If you make $200/year off it, then why not open source it and let someone else take over the code you've abandoned, *ahem*, been "monetizing" off of, and go find something better to do and make more money at.. I'm pretty sure I spend $200 dollars on 4"x4" squares of paper a year to wipe my ass with. I'm pretty sure I paid more in taxes out of one paycheck a month than you've collected in 4 years at $200/year.
PayPal does this because *they* have the certificates to make *their* site secure. Just because Google happens to be more security conscious than paypal does not make this a FF problem and your apparent frustration is quite misdirected.
btw.. Paypal has had a few issues of it's own in the past - they're not god's gift to the internet, nor the safety of your data. Perhaps Google is doing this in the interest of not getting repeatedly sued, attacked via man-in-the-middle attacks, and putting their customers data at risk.
Again, FF's fault how?
It's not like it's impossible to accept a self-signed cert, and for all the "scripting" you've done, why don't you mention a quick blurb about FF3's advanced certificate security and validation mechanisms and how a user might go about accepting your self-signed cert.
It would have taken less time than bitching about it on slashdot.
The Marine's call that "stupid stubborn" and for your sake be glad your not in the Marines.
I'd say the fact you only make $200/year profit is your bigger concern. Learn to monetize your offering and buy a certificate, but don't refuse to recommend a superior browser because *you* are too cheap to operate like every other sensible website handling secure info. I'm shocked people buy anything from you without a proper signed cert.
This is not a new problem and never has a browser simply accepted self-signed certificates without displaying a warning - the problem is that assholes out there hijack domains and run CC phishing scams on and steal peoples info/identities - by not using proper security measures on your e-commerce site you are actually a big part of the problem. I'm amazed you have any customers at all... The fact you only make $200/year should give you a clue.
Hey there Buzz Killington, we're not all slogging around "silly-assed" references to God Particles, The Force and Star Wars...
Some of us prefer a good Family Guy reference instead.
I would have to agree.. As a linux user I've always been frustrated by the half-capable job evolution does of interfacing with exchange, and the overall lack of alternatives but Zimbra really has a winner on their hands..
I now run thunderbird with the sunbird lightning plugin to manage my own calendars on a Zimbra server using iCal over https, a very complete web frontend that's fast and featureful and just plain works, and all of my Outlook users have full access to every "exchange" like feature supported by the plugin which is everything short of public folders. I would rather use a real file server + vpn + other better tools for data/content management but that's just my preference.
The only real killer feature exchange has right now over Zimbra is rpc-over-http for remote access even over highly restrictive networks because everything is done over port 80 and http calls.. Zimbra's SOAP interface for calendaring is similar to this, but they lack the true mail/contacts/calendar -> port 80 sync that rpc-over-http allows remote roadwarriors who find themselves needing access from free wifi hotspots in airports, hotels, and other restricted networks..
No.
The reason the Minitry of Information told people not to upgrade is the same reason 99% of the machines run windows - because of the ActiveX control issue regarding secure online transactions.
Thus forcing a huge number of machines who's security - albeit good when patched - is particularly poor right out of the box, on nearly the entire population of a country. I've worked in IT long enough to know that unless auto-updates are on 90% of people don't even know they need them or how to get them. Not only that but I think that when market domination is THAT ridiculously out of control, only the monopoly controlling the market benefits while everyone else suffers from Government to business, and on down to the little guy who can't pay his bills online with his shiny new Mac..
This basically makes the correlation between zombie machines and the amount of traffic coming from South Korea stand out. One draws the conclusion they are a relatively easy target for machines to make use of for just this purpose.