The technical mechanism is that they take your information and send you a bill if you keep it longer than you are supposed to or don't return it.
The secondary technical mechanism is that photocopies of a book are generally pretty shitty and not worth the time it takes to make a copy, since most people didn't previously own a copy machine, you'd also stand out like a sore thumb when you tried to make photocopies, so that was a hell of a deterrent.
Making a digital copy can be done 'in secret' for basically 0 cost to the thief. Of course, the only reason you can make such a copy is because you have a technical mechanism to do it for you.
But hey, why let reality cloud your fantasy world, you should totally be able to do whatever the fuck you want with the work someone else does, because thats your right, you self entitled fuck.
Because of search referrals. Downloads have absolutely nothing at all to do with the money Google gives Mozilla. Apple gets money from Google for Safari referrals.
I get money from Google for search referrals on my website, no one downloads anything other than the pages themselves.
So you think that you're being noble by giving money to a fork... that doesn't take money from Google... they just base all their work on code... taken from the company that takes money from Google.
... you're making a pathetic attempt to come up with some bullshit work around for the truth.
Mozilla was created from the closed source Netscape Navigator code base. Get your facts straight.
No amount of saying otherwise will actually make it true.
The Linux kernel was more or less created from scratch as open source, Mozilla was not, it came from a closed source product that failed and what could be opened from that was, which meant major portions weren't.
You have a fucked up view of morals. Its probably even more fucked up than people who think they have any right to control what other people view like porn.
Why is it that you think your position is so high and mighty that you get to force it on someone else when you can simply NOT use DRM'd content. No one forces you, but you want to force others because of some bullshit 'moral' argument.
You can kindly go shove your moral argument so far up your ass that you can taste it.
Firefox is 3rd in popularity, behind both Chrome and IE.
Google pays Mozilla because it of the standard Google referral program... but they also will pay anyone who uses the proper referral system... which includes Safari.
Javascript means its EASY to disassemble AND modify on the fly (think no script). When its easy to disassemble and modify, then it won't function. Any form of byte code that runs in an open source interpreter is going to be fairly trivial to work around.
DRM is closed source specifically because the obsfucation of the process is the only thing that provides any protection at all.
Assuming it was just a mistake and not malicious...
Probably not. This shit happens, and that person who did it will never do something like this again. Have you ever made a massive, expensive mistake?
I have, I was 19 years old and cost my company nearly a million dollars due to a silly misconfiguration. After I discovered it, corrected the error and notified my boss, I spent most of the night throwing up. The next morning, after everyone in the company (only 15 people or so) knew what happened, and I walked through the halls on the way to the meeting with the owner and my boss, I thought I'd pass out. As I walked into the Owner's office I didn't even bother to sit down, expecting a fairly short conversation. I was asked to sit down while my boss had this very stern look on his face. So I did, cost them that much money, I can do what they ask.
The owner than proceeded to tell me the story of how, when working for a certain Germany car company doing CICS programming, he made a mistake that screwed up a production line and cost the company several million dollars. He knew exactly how I felt, and he knew that it would never happen again because I had already punished myself more than he possibly could.
If they fire the person who did this, they just wasted the whole event. The person learned their lesson and will be extremely cautious in the future. Firing them now just means someone else will get to reap the benefits of this experience, and thats pretty stupid.
People make mistakes, and in this case the software is at least partially responsible. The SCCM server should have aborted during the preflight checks when it realized it was going to take itself out in the process. The best thing this IT department can do is for the manager/director to keep the specific employe's name under wraps, stop shit from flowing down hill from above and move on. Nothing will benefit anyone if all of Emory treats the person responsible as if he deserves to pay for all the time lost in repairing the damage, he simply can't.
The hard lesson has been learned by everyone, nothing else will make anyone any better off.
but still everyone is going to say how people don't read emails from companies....
In the last ignorant rant about this posted just a day or so before this story, it was pointed out that their provider DID in fact send them an email that told them what they had to do when they switched phones.
At some point, the user has to actually pay attention to what they are doing and put some personal effort into it.
Yes, in order to form oil, fossil fuels and coal, it had to be tied up in plants... and plants got it from the air, so at one point it most certainly WAS in the air... or are you just plain stupid?
You do realize that the way hangouts is on Android is just a shitty, incomplete reimplementation of what iMessage is on iOS right? Read the rest of the comments in this thread fanboy, you'll find not everyone things its so awesome.
do you have an clue at all about the topic of this discussion?
Yes, but you clearly don't.
Do you have any clue that this discussion is borne out of pure ignorance because... IT CAN be disabled any time, any place, via a simple web page, or any number of other methods, including --- because its apple, a simple phone call to Apple to have THEM turn it off if you're so incompetent that you can't run a simple Google search to get the bunches of different methods for doing so.
... so when you tell Apple that you want your phone number associated with your Apple ID for messages when you setup the phone... its Apples fault?
Perhaps if you had bothered to read the text on the screen, you wouldn't have to do anything to switch phones, but during the phone setup process you actively made a decision to associate your phone number with an Apple ID for the purpose of messages.
How exactly is it magically supposed to understand when you no longer want that to be the case if you don't tell it so? It didn't magically know when you first set it up, you told it, now you think it has to magically know when you change your mind?
I take it you're one of those morons who talks out his ass about things he doesn't actually understands and pretends he's not a fanboy while calling everyone else one.
Yes, it is reasonable, because its the way YOU'VE made the choice to get message YOUR messages via iMessage. Y ou don't need to know what your contacts use because it is YOUR settings that are wrong if you're no longer using an iPhone.
YOU tell iMessage that YOU want messages to YOUR phone number over iMessage.
So until you tell iMessage that YOU don't want messages delivered that way anymore, it will do what YOU told it to do.
The GP post doesn't understand the problem any better than you do.
Google Talk is 'dead', everything is going to Hangouts, which is not XMPP. Hence, I can't send a file via XMPP to a Hangouts user because their current bridge sucks ass and doesn't support it.
I no longer need to spend an extra $15/month so AT&T can rip me off for text messages.
I no longer have to wonder if the SMS was actually delivered or if it went into a black hole and AT&T just didn't let me know.
I don't have to wonder WHEN it gets delivered, I get notified in real time.
The fact that I can send and receive messages from my Mac, my iPad, my iPhone and they show up the same on all devices regardless of which one is in front of me?
Its not limited to 140 characters, so sending long messages don't get broken apart and sent in random order?
Maps - Sending files via SMS? Not happening. MMS? Sure for certain types, which doesn't include whatever format Maps (on OSX or iOS) uses for data exchange.
You ask these questions because you've never used iMessage.
SMS and MMS suck, move on. Ideally, we'd all use XMPP but the designers thought extremely verbose XML was a brilliant idea so a 140 character text message consumes 4 or 5k of data, so its kind of shitty on underpowered devices.
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So by restricting what people can use their browser for, you think its more free?
You can choose not to use DRM content or you can choose not to, but if the browser doesn't support it, there is no freedom of choice, is there?
Publicly traded has jack shit to do with it, but thanks for pretending to understand business.
How the organization is structured, its legal status and possibly its charter define how it must behave.
Being publicly traded only matters when the corporate charter defines profit or dividends as a goal, which is in no way required.
No, they aren't going to add it.
They already did.
Contrary to what you may think, cockroaches depend on humans for survival on most of the planet. They only survive in tiny band of regions.
Cockroaches would take a hell of a population hit if humans didn't exist to feed them and provide heat/air conditioning for them to thrive.
Wrong.
The technical mechanism is that they take your information and send you a bill if you keep it longer than you are supposed to or don't return it.
The secondary technical mechanism is that photocopies of a book are generally pretty shitty and not worth the time it takes to make a copy, since most people didn't previously own a copy machine, you'd also stand out like a sore thumb when you tried to make photocopies, so that was a hell of a deterrent.
Making a digital copy can be done 'in secret' for basically 0 cost to the thief. Of course, the only reason you can make such a copy is because you have a technical mechanism to do it for you.
But hey, why let reality cloud your fantasy world, you should totally be able to do whatever the fuck you want with the work someone else does, because thats your right, you self entitled fuck.
Because of search referrals. Downloads have absolutely nothing at all to do with the money Google gives Mozilla. Apple gets money from Google for Safari referrals.
I get money from Google for search referrals on my website, no one downloads anything other than the pages themselves.
You really have no idea how it works, do you?
So you think that you're being noble by giving money to a fork ... that doesn't take money from Google ... they just base all their work on code ... taken from the company that takes money from Google.
Thats pretty retarded logic.
Well its a good thing that everyone in the world agrees with the FSFs narrow view of 'free' ...
Well, except most of the world doesn't, only a narrow group of fanatics.
... you're making a pathetic attempt to come up with some bullshit work around for the truth.
Mozilla was created from the closed source Netscape Navigator code base. Get your facts straight.
No amount of saying otherwise will actually make it true.
The Linux kernel was more or less created from scratch as open source, Mozilla was not, it came from a closed source product that failed and what could be opened from that was, which meant major portions weren't.
You have a fucked up view of morals. Its probably even more fucked up than people who think they have any right to control what other people view like porn.
Why is it that you think your position is so high and mighty that you get to force it on someone else when you can simply NOT use DRM'd content. No one forces you, but you want to force others because of some bullshit 'moral' argument.
You can kindly go shove your moral argument so far up your ass that you can taste it.
Firefox is 3rd in popularity, behind both Chrome and IE.
Google pays Mozilla because it of the standard Google referral program ... but they also will pay anyone who uses the proper referral system ... which includes Safari.
Javascript means its EASY to disassemble AND modify on the fly (think no script). When its easy to disassemble and modify, then it won't function. Any form of byte code that runs in an open source interpreter is going to be fairly trivial to work around.
DRM is closed source specifically because the obsfucation of the process is the only thing that provides any protection at all.
hahaha, fucking priceless :)
Assuming it was just a mistake and not malicious ...
Probably not. This shit happens, and that person who did it will never do something like this again. Have you ever made a massive, expensive mistake?
I have, I was 19 years old and cost my company nearly a million dollars due to a silly misconfiguration. After I discovered it, corrected the error and notified my boss, I spent most of the night throwing up. The next morning, after everyone in the company (only 15 people or so) knew what happened, and I walked through the halls on the way to the meeting with the owner and my boss, I thought I'd pass out. As I walked into the Owner's office I didn't even bother to sit down, expecting a fairly short conversation. I was asked to sit down while my boss had this very stern look on his face. So I did, cost them that much money, I can do what they ask.
The owner than proceeded to tell me the story of how, when working for a certain Germany car company doing CICS programming, he made a mistake that screwed up a production line and cost the company several million dollars. He knew exactly how I felt, and he knew that it would never happen again because I had already punished myself more than he possibly could.
If they fire the person who did this, they just wasted the whole event. The person learned their lesson and will be extremely cautious in the future. Firing them now just means someone else will get to reap the benefits of this experience, and thats pretty stupid.
People make mistakes, and in this case the software is at least partially responsible. The SCCM server should have aborted during the preflight checks when it realized it was going to take itself out in the process. The best thing this IT department can do is for the manager/director to keep the specific employe's name under wraps, stop shit from flowing down hill from above and move on. Nothing will benefit anyone if all of Emory treats the person responsible as if he deserves to pay for all the time lost in repairing the damage, he simply can't.
The hard lesson has been learned by everyone, nothing else will make anyone any better off.
Certainly a page on Apple's website explaining this would be useful.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts...
http://www.samsung.com/us/supp...
http://www.htc.com/www/support...
but still everyone is going to say how people don't read emails from companies....
In the last ignorant rant about this posted just a day or so before this story, it was pointed out that their provider DID in fact send them an email that told them what they had to do when they switched phones.
At some point, the user has to actually pay attention to what they are doing and put some personal effort into it.
Yes, in order to form oil, fossil fuels and coal, it had to be tied up in plants ... and plants got it from the air, so at one point it most certainly WAS in the air ... or are you just plain stupid?
You do realize that the way hangouts is on Android is just a shitty, incomplete reimplementation of what iMessage is on iOS right? Read the rest of the comments in this thread fanboy, you'll find not everyone things its so awesome.
... I'd love to hear the bullshit excuse you have as to why its Apples fault your buddy almost got arrested.
I'd love to see how the judge/magistrate heard the case as well if it did happen.
If your buddy had a court issue and didn't confirm the message was delivered himself, your buddy deserves to be in jail for being a fucking moron.
do you have an clue at all about the topic of this discussion?
Yes, but you clearly don't.
Do you have any clue that this discussion is borne out of pure ignorance because ... IT CAN be disabled any time, any place, via a simple web page, or any number of other methods, including --- because its apple, a simple phone call to Apple to have THEM turn it off if you're so incompetent that you can't run a simple Google search to get the bunches of different methods for doing so.
... so when you tell Apple that you want your phone number associated with your Apple ID for messages when you setup the phone ... its Apples fault?
Perhaps if you had bothered to read the text on the screen, you wouldn't have to do anything to switch phones, but during the phone setup process you actively made a decision to associate your phone number with an Apple ID for the purpose of messages.
How exactly is it magically supposed to understand when you no longer want that to be the case if you don't tell it so? It didn't magically know when you first set it up, you told it, now you think it has to magically know when you change your mind?
I take it you're one of those morons who talks out his ass about things he doesn't actually understands and pretends he's not a fanboy while calling everyone else one.
Grow up and get a clue.
Yes, it is reasonable, because its the way YOU'VE made the choice to get message YOUR messages via iMessage.
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ou don't need to know what your contacts use because it is YOUR settings that are wrong if you're no longer using an iPhone.
YOU tell iMessage that YOU want messages to YOUR phone number over iMessage.
So until you tell iMessage that YOU don't want messages delivered that way anymore, it will do what YOU told it to do.
The GP post doesn't understand the problem any better than you do.
That stops YOU from SENDING messages using iMessage. Does absolutely nothing for anyone sending to you.
Google Talk is 'dead', everything is going to Hangouts, which is not XMPP. Hence, I can't send a file via XMPP to a Hangouts user because their current bridge sucks ass and doesn't support it.
Try again.
Speed, reliability, features, cost?
I no longer need to spend an extra $15/month so AT&T can rip me off for text messages.
I no longer have to wonder if the SMS was actually delivered or if it went into a black hole and AT&T just didn't let me know.
I don't have to wonder WHEN it gets delivered, I get notified in real time.
The fact that I can send and receive messages from my Mac, my iPad, my iPhone and they show up the same on all devices regardless of which one is in front of me?
Its not limited to 140 characters, so sending long messages don't get broken apart and sent in random order?
Maps - Sending files via SMS? Not happening. MMS? Sure for certain types, which doesn't include whatever format Maps (on OSX or iOS) uses for data exchange.
You ask these questions because you've never used iMessage.
SMS and MMS suck, move on. Ideally, we'd all use XMPP but the designers thought extremely verbose XML was a brilliant idea so a 140 character text message consumes 4 or 5k of data, so its kind of shitty on underpowered devices.
Go to the website and do it there?
Samsung has a nice right up on how to resolve the problem using any number of methods:
http://www.samsung.com/us/supp...
Have you people not heard of Google?