Yes, because this one incident that got reported to slashdot and made the front page for some reason... is of course happening to everyone on the planet.
Except its not. Isolated incident != the sky is falling
However many or few people used the site this is a real betrayal and it's necessary for pirates and torrenters to find way to become even more robust against this kind of activity
Torrenters aren't warez pups. Anyone with half a clue knows better than to conduct your piracy using bit torrent, unless you want to get caught. Where you download the.torrent from doesn't matter one bit... its the fact that hosts in that swarm could very well be police or other law enforcement agencies and by participating in the torrent, you incriminate yourself and provide them with solid evidence of what you're doing. You're an idiot if you actually get your warez through torrents unless you're a small time, once in a blue moon kind of person so its not worth the effort to go after you.
I'm fairly certain you don't understand how bit torrent works. Your silly idea becomes useless when law enforcement just raids the datacenter and takes the servers with all the relationship information and then sets up a honey pot for your silly proxy site while detaining anyone that might realize or know that the original site was taken over by law enforcement.
Real pirates don't care about this, they know better than to give away the wrong information from the start.
Having actually invaded and been part of the scene oh so many years ago, I'm certain almost everyone who might be in it today would laugh that this guy thinks he got some 'information on some important people'. He's lucky if he even communicated with any 'important people', which I doubt he did.
I suckered $#!&loads of you. I built a history, got the trust of some very important people in the warez scene collecting information and data all the time.
That just makes me laugh like crazy, the only people got the trust of were morons who don't know any better. The real warez rats are safely hidden away saying:
Why did he EVER take a job with the NSA if he thought all forms of electronic intelligence were bad and worthy of spilling the details about to the whole world?
Because the CIA fired him for those very reasons. He's not a hero, he's just an attention whore like Assange. Both do things in the name of the moral high ground... yet utterly ignore the fact they do shit to harm all sorts of people.
I'd bet the only reason we heard about domestic spying FIRST from Snowden is because some newspaper reporter looking at the documents found them and wanted to run with it first, not because Snowden pointed it out. He's just another Bradley Manning, all pissed off he wasn't getting his way and determined to stick it to the man.
He is by definition a traitor and is just trying to use someone else's crimes (domestic spying by NSA and its ilk) to divert attention from his own treason.
You can't do anything (really) to prevent someone from crossing the line, but you can make it more difficult. While your co-workers are out working hard to keep management from decreasing your pay you sit on your ass reaping the benefits.
Wow, just wow. I would LOVE to see you say that to the Teamsters union. Next thing you know, you're ass will be wearing cement shoes and talking to fish.
Unions worked hard for the weekend - remember that any time you have a day off.
Yea, because... wait, what? Unions have nothing to do with the work week. There is absolutely nothing that prevents a company from requiring you to work more than 40 hours, and many many do, even those with unions.
The 40 hour work week can be traced back to Ford Motors, who found that by working 40 hour weeks, rotating shifts, and shutting down the main production line for servicing by a different crew on the weekends, productivity went through the roof. Unions didn't have dick to do with it.
On your last point - I hate people who reap all the benefits that we worked hard for in our union, but don't participate at all. If you don't like working in a union shop - leave the company - that's your right to work:).
Go fuck yourself you selfish prick. Who the fuck are you to tell someone else what they can and can't do. This shithead mentality is why states started with the whole right-to-work thing, effectively destroying the functionality of the union. Union politics were resulting in people unable to work because the union was preventing it to promote its own selfish needs. God you're an idiot, a hundred years of unions constantly fucking over their constituents and you're too ignorant of the history to even know you're getting fucked in the ass.
Unions have cost more money and jobs than they've ever helped.
OSHA and such wouldn't exist if unions didn't petition for them.
Not only is that bullshit, there is absolutely nothing to back up that claim.
If you sign a contract (in a right to work state) indicating that if the union votes to strike, you will strike, you should never be held to the contract you signed of your own free will? Why do you hate contracts?
Uhm, you need to get a clue. 'Right to work' does EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you're implying. The Right to Work means the union can not force you to be part of their strike, nor can you be required to join a union in order to get a job. Unions are toothless in right to work states because they can't force anyone to participate in their games. This is why... there generally aren't any unions in right to work states, they are pointless, union says strike! and the people go on strike... only to be replaced immediately by people who are happy to get paid rather than hang out with those people who clearly make enough money that they can bitch about work rather than get paid to work.
Do you ever make a post here that isn't ridiculously inaccurate?
Uhm, the 'license to kill' thing you are referring to was the Pinkertons... and a strike and what they did have no relation. They didn't go to anyones homes and shoot people, they shot at the mob breaking the fence down at the factory they were striking in front of.
Today, we'd just let the cops shoot them for destruction of property.
If you think modern unions are a good thing, you're an idiot to stupid to realize you're just feeding someone else money to use you as their pawn in a game of politics.
They aren't even a little bit random, he's just not qualified to talk about what he's talking about.
No two compiled windows binaries should ever be 100% identical. A new PE file should have all sorts of unique bits of data in it, the most obvious one being the debug symbol id, which is randomly generate for every EXE built, even if you run the build twice in a row back to back, if a new EXE is written, a new debug symbol ID is generated and embedded in it.
Seriously, they're replacing the bodies built in wiring with man made wiring... this isn't even a little bit new, its been done experimentally for most of my life and functionally for a while.
The only thing ground breaking is that some moron thinks this is ground breaking... but I guess thats not really ground breaking either.
How is it that so many stories get posted to slashdot about 'new' shit that's been around for 30 freaking years?
Seriously, the only useful thing Google Glass does is act as a piss poor GoPro that costs over 3 times as much, only allows you to record a few seconds of video at low resolution with shitty optics.
Google Glass is such a ridiculous failure its not even funny.
So... theres this thing... its called the app store... try it, it has pre-built packages, even some open source!
Of course there are also several other ways to get OSS binaries on your system, such as ports. Do you even own a Mac or are you just so fucking stupid that you're not aware that these things have existed for nearly 10 years already?
Adults use Linux because they prefer it, not because its $0 cost.
If you're still concerned about the 'cost' of purchasing an OS license as an adult, you need to seriously take a look around you at the real cost of a license for something like OSX or Windows (even the $350 style windows licenses) versus the rest of the shit you do in your life.
If you're bitching about software licensing costs, you're ignorant of the cost compared to what it does for you and how it compares to other things that accomplish the same task for you.
Seriously, software licesing is nothing. $2,000 for a copy of Adobe Creative Suite is fucking pocket change considering a days work will pay for it. A Windows Server license SHOULD pay for itself in just a few days or you're business/service has already failed, even with a massive server farm.
If you're asking if the Free OSX upgrade or Free Windows 8.1 upgrade is a threat to Linux, what you're actually doing is telling everyone you're not qualified to ask the question in the first place.
If you're using Linux because of its cost of license rather than a technical reason, you've already failed in at least 8 different ways.
You don't have a 3D TV. You have a shitty stereoscopic knock-off.
Real 3D would let you see around corners in the movie when you moved your head to the side, but when your head moves, nothing happens. You don't see a different perspective without the camera moving. This is not 3D.
Congratulations, you've got a shitty knock off that a large portion of the population just gets a headache from because its so poorly done, and even better, you think you've got something bad ass.
Are you stupid? Does you neck hurt yet? Are you tired of having to lean over to get a good head on look at the 1/3rd of the screen on either side of the middle or do you just ignore 2/3rds of your screen.
Sitting 2 feet away from a 42" display makes you a moron unqualified to continue this conversation.
3D TV doesn't actually exist. Every production model on the planet is a half assed fake 3D that a good portion of the population can't even actually perceive 3D from.
Its not 3D, its lameass stereoscopic.
3D TV requires my perspective to change when I move MY head, not just when the camera moves.
My laptop has a higher resolution than that, not sure what stagnation is being referred to. Perhaps one should stop buying bargain bin laptops and then bitching about it afterwords.
So let me get this straight... guy who uses technology A exclusively... says alternative/possibly competing technology B is bad, except when he uses it on his other projects... FILM AT 11!!!
Seriously, who the fuck cares what Musk says, he didn't design the Tesla or anything in it. He's not an expert in the field, he's just a guy who had some money from a company he started that just happen to be in the right place at the right time, and that company was a pretty shitty one that only made money due to timing and dumb luck. Then he started a couple new companies with the ridiculous amount of money he made by idiots buying stocks. He has a fuckton of engineers all talking in his ear telling him things and then he goes out, mixes it up a bit and puts a spin on it so he's products come out rosy and everyone else products are shitty.
How is this news for nerds? This is news for wall street groupies who aren't smart enough to follow the actual technologies involved and instead listen to the company sales leaders, I'm sorry, CEO.
So what is your magical definition of framework versus library? Last I checked, they were the former was just a buzzword for the latter, or perhaps a collection of libraries.
From a practical perspective, saying they are different illustrates how much you don't understand what either is.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't meet the design requirements.
If you think the 'stuff that ships with my food production systems is FLAWLESS' you are an idiot who doesn't understand the way the world works.
I've worked in food production and medical, nothing is flawless, you have to be an idiot to make such retarded statements.
You mitigate the risk, try to double/triple/quadrupal check for problems and build in fail-SAFE systems, but you are not flawless.
Your statement sounds more like an arrogant cluebie beginner who's going to get a nice spanking when reality finally hits.
Nothing is flawless, to imply you've created something flawless shows your ignorance.
Yes, because this one incident that got reported to slashdot and made the front page for some reason ... is of course happening to everyone on the planet.
Except its not. Isolated incident != the sky is falling
So let me get this straight ... he watches the original ... and thats some how sub par to a copy of the original? In what universe does that make sense?
However many or few people used the site this is a real betrayal and it's necessary for pirates and torrenters to find way to become even more robust against this kind of activity
Torrenters aren't warez pups. Anyone with half a clue knows better than to conduct your piracy using bit torrent, unless you want to get caught. Where you download the .torrent from doesn't matter one bit ... its the fact that hosts in that swarm could very well be police or other law enforcement agencies and by participating in the torrent, you incriminate yourself and provide them with solid evidence of what you're doing. You're an idiot if you actually get your warez through torrents unless you're a small time, once in a blue moon kind of person so its not worth the effort to go after you.
I'm fairly certain you don't understand how bit torrent works. Your silly idea becomes useless when law enforcement just raids the datacenter and takes the servers with all the relationship information and then sets up a honey pot for your silly proxy site while detaining anyone that might realize or know that the original site was taken over by law enforcement.
Real pirates don't care about this, they know better than to give away the wrong information from the start.
Having actually invaded and been part of the scene oh so many years ago, I'm certain almost everyone who might be in it today would laugh that this guy thinks he got some 'information on some important people'. He's lucky if he even communicated with any 'important people', which I doubt he did.
I suckered $#!&loads of you. I built a history, got the trust of some very important people in the warez scene collecting information and data all the time.
That just makes me laugh like crazy, the only people got the trust of were morons who don't know any better. The real warez rats are safely hidden away saying:
Who is UploaderTalk?
Why did he EVER take a job with the NSA if he thought all forms of electronic intelligence were bad and worthy of spilling the details about to the whole world?
Because the CIA fired him for those very reasons. He's not a hero, he's just an attention whore like Assange. Both do things in the name of the moral high ground ... yet utterly ignore the fact they do shit to harm all sorts of people.
I'd bet the only reason we heard about domestic spying FIRST from Snowden is because some newspaper reporter looking at the documents found them and wanted to run with it first, not because Snowden pointed it out. He's just another Bradley Manning, all pissed off he wasn't getting his way and determined to stick it to the man.
He is by definition a traitor and is just trying to use someone else's crimes (domestic spying by NSA and its ilk) to divert attention from his own treason.
That is their job after all. If this surprises you, you're a moron.
They aren't supposed to spy on their OWN citizens, but the very definition of their job is to spy on important people in other countries.
And when you finally realize its not a better way because you got fucked over by some unlicensed hack ... then what will you say?
So basically, you're trying to force your will on others by not allowing them to work for what you're unwilling to work for.
Spoiled asshole.
You can't do anything (really) to prevent someone from crossing the line, but you can make it more difficult. While your co-workers are out working hard to keep management from decreasing your pay you sit on your ass reaping the benefits.
Wow, just wow. I would LOVE to see you say that to the Teamsters union. Next thing you know, you're ass will be wearing cement shoes and talking to fish.
Unions worked hard for the weekend - remember that any time you have a day off.
Yea, because ... wait, what? Unions have nothing to do with the work week. There is absolutely nothing that prevents a company from requiring you to work more than 40 hours, and many many do, even those with unions.
The 40 hour work week can be traced back to Ford Motors, who found that by working 40 hour weeks, rotating shifts, and shutting down the main production line for servicing by a different crew on the weekends, productivity went through the roof. Unions didn't have dick to do with it.
On your last point - I hate people who reap all the benefits that we worked hard for in our union, but don't participate at all. If you don't like working in a union shop - leave the company - that's your right to work :).
Go fuck yourself you selfish prick. Who the fuck are you to tell someone else what they can and can't do. This shithead mentality is why states started with the whole right-to-work thing, effectively destroying the functionality of the union. Union politics were resulting in people unable to work because the union was preventing it to promote its own selfish needs. God you're an idiot, a hundred years of unions constantly fucking over their constituents and you're too ignorant of the history to even know you're getting fucked in the ass.
Unions have cost more money and jobs than they've ever helped.
OSHA and such wouldn't exist if unions didn't petition for them.
Not only is that bullshit, there is absolutely nothing to back up that claim.
If you sign a contract (in a right to work state) indicating that if the union votes to strike, you will strike, you should never be held to the contract you signed of your own free will? Why do you hate contracts?
Uhm, you need to get a clue. 'Right to work' does EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you're implying. The Right to Work means the union can not force you to be part of their strike, nor can you be required to join a union in order to get a job. Unions are toothless in right to work states because they can't force anyone to participate in their games. This is why ... there generally aren't any unions in right to work states, they are pointless, union says strike! and the people go on strike ... only to be replaced immediately by people who are happy to get paid rather than hang out with those people who clearly make enough money that they can bitch about work rather than get paid to work.
Do you ever make a post here that isn't ridiculously inaccurate?
Uhm, the 'license to kill' thing you are referring to was the Pinkertons ... and a strike and what they did have no relation. They didn't go to anyones homes and shoot people, they shot at the mob breaking the fence down at the factory they were striking in front of.
Today, we'd just let the cops shoot them for destruction of property.
If you think modern unions are a good thing, you're an idiot to stupid to realize you're just feeding someone else money to use you as their pawn in a game of politics.
Or just the more likely answer: Shitty code that doesn't work on any compiler that doesn't suck
They aren't even a little bit random, he's just not qualified to talk about what he's talking about.
No two compiled windows binaries should ever be 100% identical. A new PE file should have all sorts of unique bits of data in it, the most obvious one being the debug symbol id, which is randomly generate for every EXE built, even if you run the build twice in a row back to back, if a new EXE is written, a new debug symbol ID is generated and embedded in it.
Seriously, they're replacing the bodies built in wiring with man made wiring ... this isn't even a little bit new, its been done experimentally for most of my life and functionally for a while.
The only thing ground breaking is that some moron thinks this is ground breaking ... but I guess thats not really ground breaking either.
How is it that so many stories get posted to slashdot about 'new' shit that's been around for 30 freaking years?
Seriously, the only useful thing Google Glass does is act as a piss poor GoPro that costs over 3 times as much, only allows you to record a few seconds of video at low resolution with shitty optics.
Google Glass is such a ridiculous failure its not even funny.
Anyone who has one knows how pointless it is.
So ... theres this thing ... its called the app store ... try it, it has pre-built packages, even some open source!
Of course there are also several other ways to get OSS binaries on your system, such as ports. Do you even own a Mac or are you just so fucking stupid that you're not aware that these things have existed for nearly 10 years already?
Teenagers use Linux because its free and trendy.
Adults use Linux because they prefer it, not because its $0 cost.
If you're still concerned about the 'cost' of purchasing an OS license as an adult, you need to seriously take a look around you at the real cost of a license for something like OSX or Windows (even the $350 style windows licenses) versus the rest of the shit you do in your life.
If you're bitching about software licensing costs, you're ignorant of the cost compared to what it does for you and how it compares to other things that accomplish the same task for you.
Seriously, software licesing is nothing. $2,000 for a copy of Adobe Creative Suite is fucking pocket change considering a days work will pay for it. A Windows Server license SHOULD pay for itself in just a few days or you're business/service has already failed, even with a massive server farm.
If you're asking if the Free OSX upgrade or Free Windows 8.1 upgrade is a threat to Linux, what you're actually doing is telling everyone you're not qualified to ask the question in the first place.
If you're using Linux because of its cost of license rather than a technical reason, you've already failed in at least 8 different ways.
You don't have a 3D TV. You have a shitty stereoscopic knock-off.
Real 3D would let you see around corners in the movie when you moved your head to the side, but when your head moves, nothing happens. You don't see a different perspective without the camera moving. This is not 3D.
Congratulations, you've got a shitty knock off that a large portion of the population just gets a headache from because its so poorly done, and even better, you think you've got something bad ass.
You're 2 feet away from a 42" display?
Are you stupid? Does you neck hurt yet? Are you tired of having to lean over to get a good head on look at the 1/3rd of the screen on either side of the middle or do you just ignore 2/3rds of your screen.
Sitting 2 feet away from a 42" display makes you a moron unqualified to continue this conversation.
3D TV doesn't actually exist. Every production model on the planet is a half assed fake 3D that a good portion of the population can't even actually perceive 3D from.
Its not 3D, its lameass stereoscopic.
3D TV requires my perspective to change when I move MY head, not just when the camera moves.
My laptop has a higher resolution than that, not sure what stagnation is being referred to. Perhaps one should stop buying bargain bin laptops and then bitching about it afterwords.
So let me get this straight ... guy who uses technology A exclusively ... says alternative/possibly competing technology B is bad, except when he uses it on his other projects ... FILM AT 11!!!
Seriously, who the fuck cares what Musk says, he didn't design the Tesla or anything in it. He's not an expert in the field, he's just a guy who had some money from a company he started that just happen to be in the right place at the right time, and that company was a pretty shitty one that only made money due to timing and dumb luck. Then he started a couple new companies with the ridiculous amount of money he made by idiots buying stocks. He has a fuckton of engineers all talking in his ear telling him things and then he goes out, mixes it up a bit and puts a spin on it so he's products come out rosy and everyone else products are shitty.
How is this news for nerds? This is news for wall street groupies who aren't smart enough to follow the actual technologies involved and instead listen to the company sales leaders, I'm sorry, CEO.
So what is your magical definition of framework versus library? Last I checked, they were the former was just a buzzword for the latter, or perhaps a collection of libraries.
From a practical perspective, saying they are different illustrates how much you don't understand what either is.