If you can't find your knife fix on youtube, there are plenty other clones of it out there to find it. Not to mention that these clone sites are often run by people who don't really give a flying **** about internet users outside their country of jurisdiction.
This is all just a big PR stunt. Whether it will have a positive or negative effect will be up to the users (and not the shareholders, they are happy with whatever Gootube does as long as it makes them money.)
Mod me flamebait if you want, but I thought Wikipedia was all about information being free. For having the tendency to cave so easily, makes me wonder what kind of people are really running the place.
IANAL, but I fail to see how the Olympics have been financially damaged (financially being a key word) by this guy having a piece of prime cyber real estate. How can they prove that they made less money without that domain? In property lawsuits, often objective proof of damage is required. Anything less is not proof.
And on the side, if they want this prime real estate so bad, they should stop being cheapskates and cough up, just like in the physical world.
Where I used to work before I completed college, the registers ran windows but the backend server ran Unix. No idea why they didn't just do *nix all the way around, but meh, it was a job, and even though I was a techie, I didn't care as long as the register didn't crash, which only happened once.
I am just an ignorant American, but I believe if an ISP is now taking it on themselves to filter content, then they are possibly no longer a common carrier and as such can be subject to many other sanctions to block "bad" content.
In Italy it may be entirely different, but either way, if the ISP does not say in their TOS they can block sites at their will, then they could be in big trouble for breach of contract, if such a thing flies in Italy.
Just do it the way that they tried to do it in regards to the recent DNS exploits.
Tell the affected organization (Boston subway system authority) that there is a problem and you are willing to work with them to fix it. If they refuse, just leave them the information and say they have x number of days to fix it and if they refuse to do anything, you are going to the press, which technically is true since journalists are allowed in limited numbers at Defcon as far as I know. That way you give them the courtesy of warning them in advance, but you aren't needing to completely shut up about it or let the problem lie unfixed. As a white hat, this guy has a moral obligation to help get problems fixed before the black hats find out.
DOesn't prior art have some bearing on this? I mean, the gamecub controllers have been around for how many years now? And Anascape waits until how long ago to file suit? Can they still defend a patent after this long or am I missing something? Something definitely smells fishy here.
If they are able to quash a subpoena in the case, wouldn't it render the case pretty much over right there? With no evidence (which is what the subpoena(s) usually provide), how could the case not be dismissed (read between the lines: no settlement cost at all)?
If you are being bullied by someone online, there are trivial things you can do. Growing a spine would be one, but all cynicism aside, if its on IM, it is trivial to block someone. If it's on myspace, make your myspace page private and de-friend the individual. If it's in a chat room that you can't mod, don't go there anymore. Whatever happened to walking away knowing that you are mature enough that you won't be making french fries for a living.
Even if this story makes it to the mainstream media, its not going to get much airtime. Especially since no Joe User knows what Revision3 is. There just wouldn't be enough outrage to make it a worthwile story anywhere except the geek community.
Sell a new version of iPod software that encrypts your iPod's contents with a password, then you don't have to give them the password because of that recent Supreme Court ruling, where being forced into giving up an encryption password is not allowed under the 4th amendment, assuming the US Constitution is still in effect by then, not that I believe it is in force now.
It seems to me that the same people who really want that fully integrated home theatre experience are not necessarily the same people who know how to set up and purchase the componenets for said system. Apple having a one stop shop for home theatre purchase and installation, as well as having the avenue to deliver content to these systems would be very successful in the typical consumer home theatre market. Consumers like integrated, seamless, and easy. Power users like us like full control and customization. This wouldn't necessarily be for us, but if it were a decent system at the right price, I would fork over some of my customization control.
If Microsoft doesn't disclose what is going on, customers will be angry that they can't do what they thought they paid to be able to do, and in the future, will not give them anymore money
If they do disclose upfront, many customers will not give them money in the first place.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't when it comes to our friend DRM.
Good - Floppy warfare and all around destruction.
Bad - Sure, you can buffer those floppies into a pile at 2.88MB/s, but can your drive read the data that fast? Methinks not.
Ugly - Damn those evil girl scouts and their cookies. The spawn of satan they be! FIRE AT WILL!
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Do you think this thing can run Crysis with all the settings turned up?
If you can't find your knife fix on youtube, there are plenty other clones of it out there to find it. Not to mention that these clone sites are often run by people who don't really give a flying **** about internet users outside their country of jurisdiction. This is all just a big PR stunt. Whether it will have a positive or negative effect will be up to the users (and not the shareholders, they are happy with whatever Gootube does as long as it makes them money.)
Wasn't there some sort of ruling that parties who DMCA notices are required to do research as to if they really have merit?
Mod me flamebait if you want, but I thought Wikipedia was all about information being free. For having the tendency to cave so easily, makes me wonder what kind of people are really running the place.
IANAL, but I fail to see how the Olympics have been financially damaged (financially being a key word) by this guy having a piece of prime cyber real estate. How can they prove that they made less money without that domain? In property lawsuits, often objective proof of damage is required. Anything less is not proof. And on the side, if they want this prime real estate so bad, they should stop being cheapskates and cough up, just like in the physical world.
How long is it now before we have WoWA (World of Warcraft Anonymous)?
Where I used to work before I completed college, the registers ran windows but the backend server ran Unix. No idea why they didn't just do *nix all the way around, but meh, it was a job, and even though I was a techie, I didn't care as long as the register didn't crash, which only happened once.
Just one more example of how physical access to a machine can often circumvent any sort of software based security.
It very may not be. I am just presenting a potential argument.
I am just an ignorant American, but I believe if an ISP is now taking it on themselves to filter content, then they are possibly no longer a common carrier and as such can be subject to many other sanctions to block "bad" content. In Italy it may be entirely different, but either way, if the ISP does not say in their TOS they can block sites at their will, then they could be in big trouble for breach of contract, if such a thing flies in Italy.
Just do it the way that they tried to do it in regards to the recent DNS exploits. Tell the affected organization (Boston subway system authority) that there is a problem and you are willing to work with them to fix it. If they refuse, just leave them the information and say they have x number of days to fix it and if they refuse to do anything, you are going to the press, which technically is true since journalists are allowed in limited numbers at Defcon as far as I know. That way you give them the courtesy of warning them in advance, but you aren't needing to completely shut up about it or let the problem lie unfixed. As a white hat, this guy has a moral obligation to help get problems fixed before the black hats find out.
DOesn't prior art have some bearing on this? I mean, the gamecub controllers have been around for how many years now? And Anascape waits until how long ago to file suit? Can they still defend a patent after this long or am I missing something? Something definitely smells fishy here.
We have one for engineering. http://order-of-the-engineer.org/oblig.htm
If they are able to quash a subpoena in the case, wouldn't it render the case pretty much over right there? With no evidence (which is what the subpoena(s) usually provide), how could the case not be dismissed (read between the lines: no settlement cost at all)?
It's just like they said in the Dilbert TV series, "credit travels up, blame travels down."
If you are being bullied by someone online, there are trivial things you can do. Growing a spine would be one, but all cynicism aside, if its on IM, it is trivial to block someone. If it's on myspace, make your myspace page private and de-friend the individual. If it's in a chat room that you can't mod, don't go there anymore. Whatever happened to walking away knowing that you are mature enough that you won't be making french fries for a living.
Google and Yahoo have so much bandwidth and server distribution that an attempt at a DoS on them would be futile.
Even if this story makes it to the mainstream media, its not going to get much airtime. Especially since no Joe User knows what Revision3 is. There just wouldn't be enough outrage to make it a worthwile story anywhere except the geek community.
Sell a new version of iPod software that encrypts your iPod's contents with a password, then you don't have to give them the password because of that recent Supreme Court ruling, where being forced into giving up an encryption password is not allowed under the 4th amendment, assuming the US Constitution is still in effect by then, not that I believe it is in force now.
Great, more excuse for people to not recycle. It takes so much energy and oil to make new plastics that we are having to beg people for oil now.
It seems to me that the same people who really want that fully integrated home theatre experience are not necessarily the same people who know how to set up and purchase the componenets for said system. Apple having a one stop shop for home theatre purchase and installation, as well as having the avenue to deliver content to these systems would be very successful in the typical consumer home theatre market. Consumers like integrated, seamless, and easy. Power users like us like full control and customization. This wouldn't necessarily be for us, but if it were a decent system at the right price, I would fork over some of my customization control.
If Microsoft doesn't disclose what is going on, customers will be angry that they can't do what they thought they paid to be able to do, and in the future, will not give them anymore money If they do disclose upfront, many customers will not give them money in the first place. Damned if you do, damned if you don't when it comes to our friend DRM.
Good - Floppy warfare and all around destruction.
Bad - Sure, you can buffer those floppies into a pile at 2.88MB/s, but can your drive read the data that fast? Methinks not.
Ugly - Damn those evil girl scouts and their cookies. The spawn of satan they be! FIRE AT WILL!
Another remote to lose? Sonnofa squirrell. Make it work with my universal remote and I'll consider it. And get off my lawn!
Men are clueless about womens' signals about sex. In other news, water is wet and fire is hot. Move along, nothing to see here.