From what I understand this was exactly the case back in the day. Corporations tried to lobby and to make them illegal. The US basically decided that libraries were in the peoples best interest so they lost. Too bad government doesn't seem too awfully concerned about that anymore.
It is also pulling you over for speeding, and charging you with any evidence they find of any crime you may have committed (or have been alleged to commit).
It is also likely to be used as time goes on by corporations to acquire evidence from police for use in civil suits (i.e. suing students and grandmothers into oblivion).
Not to nit pick, but I am pretty sure the "Stazi" came to be in Germany after the war, when the Soviet Union took over. So if you are looking to blame someone it would be the Communists not the Nazi's. Either way an extremist (just left VS right) totalitarian political party is involved.
The Nazi's had the Gestapo I believe, which I don't really know for sure, but I would guess they were a bit worse.
Ya I was about to mention that while Skyrim was a long game, it seems to be the most buggy I have played in awhile, on either the PC or a console. Well maybe WOW, with bugged quests/fights, but that was over years of playing and content releases, so it isn't quite the same.
I also have a brand new xbox360 that I am running it on (from Nov) fully patched. I have had half a dozen game crashing bugs, one mission bug, and several AI/power bugs (like clairvoyance always pointing to the guard on the right at the entrance of Solitude), as well as a couple of "clipping" bugs where you walk through walls, fall through floors, etc...
I don't recall any bugs in Fallout 3, but that was the PC version (which I don't think I played right away, so likely patched).
Currently they seem to think it is easier to legislate a new laws limiting personal freedoms to protect their profits rather than trying to produce a better product for a cheaper cost.
To even make your argument better for you take the simply example of books.
Why is no one pirating (at least at any grand scale) Hubbert's Battlefield Earth? Sure one could argue it isn't worth reading. However I could certainly argue than scanning 1200 pages so I can get a 10$ book for free seems like a lot of work. Also when the scan is likely to be crappy, reading said book is likely (even more) painful to read. Now compare that for example to the whole textbooks scam. I recall buying a survey book for 150$ in 1999. It was a new addition. We used one chapter. Nothing has changed in surveying more less for a very long time (not including GPS). Now there is a book worth pirating. Why? Because A) it is too expensive, B) you likely only read part of it anyway, and C) its not a good product to begin with.
I believe Apple was going to try and get a piece of that action soon. Here is a business model. Find an industry ripping people off. Now make an improved service that doesn't rip people off quite so much. Profit. Music. Textbooks. Movies. Common theme. IP and copyright.
Anyway it is a sure way to totally kill piracy. Make a better product cheaper.
The ONLY complication that I see that would NOT be addressed by that, is selling to a global economy where their is a HUGH disparity in income from one country to another. Regions don't work. Selling a copy for 120$ in one, and 0.12 cents in another doesn't really work either. Then again, until they make real money, your not losing any REAL money anyway, as they can't afford it in the first place. That is, if 100 Million copies are pirated in China, you didn't just lose 120 Billion in profit. You MAY have lost 12 million, which in the grand scheme of things isn't a big deal (particularity if you now have an established user base of 100 million in China). Anyway they are on their own to figure that out, I'm not here to provide everyone with answers dammit!:)
Its not forever, its only for 150 years + the life span of the artist which is another 50 years. 200 years is hardly enough time to even make a profit.
In jest of course.
Though I wonder how long it will take them to subvert the law further when they realize if they classify the corporation as the content creator/artist, which technically so long as it doesn't go insolvent is in fact immortal and thus granting copyright for infinity, or the sun burns out whichever comes first.
Exactly. I tried telling IT and any manager that would listen, but for naught.
Fun fact for someone like me who has access to a LOT of systems, applications, databases, multiple desktops, PLUS all the usually corporate fluff of expense systems, payroll/attendance systems...
Now replicate those "strong" password protocols on all of them. Also they all have to be different.
Yeah, your going to get good passwords that way. Hell the people who only have access to a handful of systems postit note passwords on their monitors.
Also now that IT support is likely getting about a BAZILLION tech support calls a day for "Hey I for got my password for X system..." they likely give it out like candy, which really means rather than even trying to break a weak password using a postit note that is right there staring you in the face, just call up tech support, and ask for a password and they will give it to you.
I propose we use Fairy Dust Reactors. Through the application of rainbows to a highly compressed gas composed of Fairy Dust and ground unicorn horn (acts as a stabilizer), it generates 83% more power, and it 97% more efficient. The real added bonus is that if something goes wrong, such as the Troll workforce rioting and accidentally blowing of the facility the only result will be the loss of the Troll work force (who cares really), and the explosive release of happiness. The Fairy Dust and ground unicorn horn may tickle your nose a bit, making you scrunch your nose up like Renée Zellweger or Meg Ryan, and perhaps sneeze, but it is 100% non-toxic! Now some people might argue about the cruel killing of unicorns for their horns to be ground up for use in the reactor. Not to worry, they are safely chained up by the thousands in compact and efficient "Hornaries" where the horn is extracted and processed before sending the material to the plant. Using this method, the horns regrow every 15 days, to be extracted again, and again essentially making this a renewable resource. Currently the only thing holding back operations is the lack of trained leprechauns used to harness the rainbow power within the catalytic process. Some have suggested importing Care Bears to do the work, however it has also been pointed out that they are highly unionized and are not afraid to use their "Care Bare Countdown". Even with these challenges however, this is by far a better alternative to those filthy nuclear operations!
Its called subsistence farming. Back when a heavy chunk of your nations workforce was producing food manually from fields.
Now in modern society its less than 5%.
So yes your right, if that translated for say China and India alone directly into that you suggest there would be problems. However the transition itself requires a lot of energy itself, and a lot of petrol (tractors and fertilizer), water, and education. There is likely that the whole process will at least stumble a bit trying to overcome those challenges first.
I think the previous post is just an expression of current frustration, as it seems apparent in recent times (say the last 10-20 years) we have had a regression of the principles you expose. The divide between the ultra rich and the poor has become a lot larger. Likely even more distressing is the gutting of the middle class, and its decline. There has been also an increase of laws trying to restrict freedoms, most of which proposed by large corporations, which are owned by the ultra rich, to purpose of acquiring more wealth. To a political environment dominated by corruption by which the ultra rich or through their surrogates the corporations which are merely vassals at this point buy the political power in which to create laws to further enrich themselves. Add to that injury the insult of the whole mess collapsing under the weight of greed, yet the consequences being born by the serfs through taxation. Now mention the fact that the ultra rich pay less tax than most due to loopholes, and I think it is pretty understandable that people might be a bit bitter, jaded, frustrated, angry, etc... I know because I am.
Though managers being what they are, likely some might intentionally try and scuttle the shuttle just to free up a potential position for advancement...
Yeah I saw a YouTube video a year or so ago (I'm sure its still floating around out there if you want to find it), from a company (in Texas I believe) that made bulletproof glass for armored cars.
Yes. In the video the owner of the company hides behind the glass, and an employee (who humorously remarks its not everyday you get to shoot your boss) takes out a gun (I can't remember if it was a pistol or an M16, I think it might have been a M16), and fires a bunch of shots right at him (3+).
Obviously it worked, or it wouldn't have been be posted. Anyway that's some confidence in product!
From my experience 90% of the girls on these sites that are over 30, things have changed, and have realized that there is no such thing as Prince Charming and its time to settle for someone who treats them well and isn't going to leave, is because they dated/married "Prince Charming" had a few kids, he/she left one another, and is looking for someone to pick up the pieces.
I have nothing against kids, even those that are not mine, however dealing with the douchebag "Prince Charming" and Co. forever now is not high on my life lists of things to do. Also when women say things like "my kids are everything to me", or "my entire life is devoted to my kids", or "my kids come first in everything, so deal", it just tells me you have no space or inclination for me, and that I am to look elsewhere. I get it. Kids are a big deal. I will have assumed a bit of maternal instinct already, don't rub it in my face.
Also Men have been called shallow in the past, but they got nothing on women online. True I have no doubt they are bombarded by requests from so many men, who most of them are pretending or lying about half the stuff they say just to get an "audience". However I have seen women posting specifications, or need not apply, like dark hair, 6+ feet tall, earn X amount of money, etc... Anyway I find it pretty hard to take most of the girls seriously online, I mean why even bother.
I saw this joke from a stand up comic, who was quoting one of those vapid women's magazines.
Top 3 things a women wants as polled by X women's magazine: 3) Money 2) Good Looks 1) Sense of Humor (to which the comic arches an eyebrow and shakes head)
I'm pretty sure if I am good looking and have lots of money, she'll laugh at any damn joke I tell her.
The other thing is hearing from girls that have just dated "assholes". If you want to stop dating assholes. Then stop dating assholes! Seriously!
Take one such "manager" and put him on the thing for take off. If they believe it is safe, let them put their money where their mouth is.
Call it a 10,000$ a pound insurance policy.
In the future they may want to make hiring light/small/tiny managers standard procedure. It may have the unintended consequence of allowing for the now larger engineers to physically push management around and intimidate them.
Agreed, they didn't exactly have a shiny reputation before this.
However if you only really do one thing, that you sell. Then you epically fail at it, to the point that its not even your customers that are getting owned, but your own company. Then Announce it to the world, "Hey look at us, we are a bunch of stupid idiots!"
I can't see how this company even exists anymore. You can get FREE software that does a better job.
As been pointed out already, this is a report of a FAILED sting. Which makes those doing the sting look stupid, and the hackers at least cautious.
It also brings to light that a security company that sells software to prevent people from being hacked, got hacked, had source code stolen, and perhaps extorted for money to cover it up.
I am not sure how you could possibly ruin your reputation any further than they have already done.
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From what I understand this was exactly the case back in the day. Corporations tried to lobby and to make them illegal. The US basically decided that libraries were in the peoples best interest so they lost. Too bad government doesn't seem too awfully concerned about that anymore.
It is that and much more.
It is also pulling you over for speeding, and charging you with any evidence they find of any crime you may have committed (or have been alleged to commit).
It is also likely to be used as time goes on by corporations to acquire evidence from police for use in civil suits (i.e. suing students and grandmothers into oblivion).
Not to nit pick, but I am pretty sure the "Stazi" came to be in Germany after the war, when the Soviet Union took over. So if you are looking to blame someone it would be the Communists not the Nazi's. Either way an extremist (just left VS right) totalitarian political party is involved.
The Nazi's had the Gestapo I believe, which I don't really know for sure, but I would guess they were a bit worse.
Is basically what it is. The only casualties will just be those people who eat.
Ya I was about to mention that while Skyrim was a long game, it seems to be the most buggy I have played in awhile, on either the PC or a console. Well maybe WOW, with bugged quests/fights, but that was over years of playing and content releases, so it isn't quite the same.
I also have a brand new xbox360 that I am running it on (from Nov) fully patched. I have had half a dozen game crashing bugs, one mission bug, and several AI/power bugs (like clairvoyance always pointing to the guard on the right at the entrance of Solitude), as well as a couple of "clipping" bugs where you walk through walls, fall through floors, etc...
I don't recall any bugs in Fallout 3, but that was the PC version (which I don't think I played right away, so likely patched).
Just another good reason to get rid of all the Catholic Schools in Ontario.
I agree.
Currently they seem to think it is easier to legislate a new laws limiting personal freedoms to protect their profits rather than trying to produce a better product for a cheaper cost.
To even make your argument better for you take the simply example of books.
Why is no one pirating (at least at any grand scale) Hubbert's Battlefield Earth? Sure one could argue it isn't worth reading. However I could certainly argue than scanning 1200 pages so I can get a 10$ book for free seems like a lot of work. Also when the scan is likely to be crappy, reading said book is likely (even more) painful to read. Now compare that for example to the whole textbooks scam. I recall buying a survey book for 150$ in 1999. It was a new addition. We used one chapter. Nothing has changed in surveying more less for a very long time (not including GPS). Now there is a book worth pirating. Why? Because A) it is too expensive, B) you likely only read part of it anyway, and C) its not a good product to begin with.
I believe Apple was going to try and get a piece of that action soon. Here is a business model. Find an industry ripping people off. Now make an improved service that doesn't rip people off quite so much. Profit. Music. Textbooks. Movies. Common theme. IP and copyright.
Anyway it is a sure way to totally kill piracy. Make a better product cheaper.
The ONLY complication that I see that would NOT be addressed by that, is selling to a global economy where their is a HUGH disparity in income from one country to another. Regions don't work. Selling a copy for 120$ in one, and 0.12 cents in another doesn't really work either. Then again, until they make real money, your not losing any REAL money anyway, as they can't afford it in the first place. That is, if 100 Million copies are pirated in China, you didn't just lose 120 Billion in profit. You MAY have lost 12 million, which in the grand scheme of things isn't a big deal (particularity if you now have an established user base of 100 million in China). Anyway they are on their own to figure that out, I'm not here to provide everyone with answers dammit! :)
Just imagine the intelligent advertising your going to get to your account after that!
Its not forever, its only for 150 years + the life span of the artist which is another 50 years. 200 years is hardly enough time to even make a profit.
In jest of course.
Though I wonder how long it will take them to subvert the law further when they realize if they classify the corporation as the content creator/artist, which technically so long as it doesn't go insolvent is in fact immortal and thus granting copyright for infinity, or the sun burns out whichever comes first.
News: Crazy guy... does something crazy... news at 11!
However when I read into it a bit the same company of paid off by Microsoft for 500m (that's HALF A BILLION!) for a patent.
With incentive like that, can't blame a guy for tryin'!
Exactly. I tried telling IT and any manager that would listen, but for naught.
Fun fact for someone like me who has access to a LOT of systems, applications, databases, multiple desktops, PLUS all the usually corporate fluff of expense systems, payroll/attendance systems...
Now replicate those "strong" password protocols on all of them. Also they all have to be different.
Yeah, your going to get good passwords that way. Hell the people who only have access to a handful of systems postit note passwords on their monitors.
Also now that IT support is likely getting about a BAZILLION tech support calls a day for "Hey I for got my password for X system..." they likely give it out like candy, which really means rather than even trying to break a weak password using a postit note that is right there staring you in the face, just call up tech support, and ask for a password and they will give it to you.
I propose we use Fairy Dust Reactors. Through the application of rainbows to a highly compressed gas composed of Fairy Dust and ground unicorn horn (acts as a stabilizer), it generates 83% more power, and it 97% more efficient. The real added bonus is that if something goes wrong, such as the Troll workforce rioting and accidentally blowing of the facility the only result will be the loss of the Troll work force (who cares really), and the explosive release of happiness. The Fairy Dust and ground unicorn horn may tickle your nose a bit, making you scrunch your nose up like Renée Zellweger or Meg Ryan, and perhaps sneeze, but it is 100% non-toxic! Now some people might argue about the cruel killing of unicorns for their horns to be ground up for use in the reactor. Not to worry, they are safely chained up by the thousands in compact and efficient "Hornaries" where the horn is extracted and processed before sending the material to the plant. Using this method, the horns regrow every 15 days, to be extracted again, and again essentially making this a renewable resource. Currently the only thing holding back operations is the lack of trained leprechauns used to harness the rainbow power within the catalytic process. Some have suggested importing Care Bears to do the work, however it has also been pointed out that they are highly unionized and are not afraid to use their "Care Bare Countdown". Even with these challenges however, this is by far a better alternative to those filthy nuclear operations!
Yes and 50% of India is the same now.
Its called subsistence farming. Back when a heavy chunk of your nations workforce was producing food manually from fields.
Now in modern society its less than 5%.
So yes your right, if that translated for say China and India alone directly into that you suggest there would be problems. However the transition itself requires a lot of energy itself, and a lot of petrol (tractors and fertilizer), water, and education. There is likely that the whole process will at least stumble a bit trying to overcome those challenges first.
I think the previous post is just an expression of current frustration, as it seems apparent in recent times (say the last 10-20 years) we have had a regression of the principles you expose. The divide between the ultra rich and the poor has become a lot larger. Likely even more distressing is the gutting of the middle class, and its decline. There has been also an increase of laws trying to restrict freedoms, most of which proposed by large corporations, which are owned by the ultra rich, to purpose of acquiring more wealth. To a political environment dominated by corruption by which the ultra rich or through their surrogates the corporations which are merely vassals at this point buy the political power in which to create laws to further enrich themselves. Add to that injury the insult of the whole mess collapsing under the weight of greed, yet the consequences being born by the serfs through taxation. Now mention the fact that the ultra rich pay less tax than most due to loopholes, and I think it is pretty understandable that people might be a bit bitter, jaded, frustrated, angry, etc... I know because I am.
Two things:
1) Its a pain in the ass.
2) Its not worth it.
The law never really enters into it.
We're not banging rocks together here people, this is science!
Now all we need is some sort of AI to aim the thing and we'll be all set!
He would have a job, that of hostage! :)
Though managers being what they are, likely some might intentionally try and scuttle the shuttle just to free up a potential position for advancement...
Yeah I saw a YouTube video a year or so ago (I'm sure its still floating around out there if you want to find it), from a company (in Texas I believe) that made bulletproof glass for armored cars.
Yes. In the video the owner of the company hides behind the glass, and an employee (who humorously remarks its not everyday you get to shoot your boss) takes out a gun (I can't remember if it was a pistol or an M16, I think it might have been a M16), and fires a bunch of shots right at him (3+).
Obviously it worked, or it wouldn't have been be posted. Anyway that's some confidence in product!
From my experience 90% of the girls on these sites that are over 30, things have changed, and have realized that there is no such thing as Prince Charming and its time to settle for someone who treats them well and isn't going to leave, is because they dated/married "Prince Charming" had a few kids, he/she left one another, and is looking for someone to pick up the pieces.
I have nothing against kids, even those that are not mine, however dealing with the douchebag "Prince Charming" and Co. forever now is not high on my life lists of things to do. Also when women say things like "my kids are everything to me", or "my entire life is devoted to my kids", or "my kids come first in everything, so deal", it just tells me you have no space or inclination for me, and that I am to look elsewhere. I get it. Kids are a big deal. I will have assumed a bit of maternal instinct already, don't rub it in my face.
Also Men have been called shallow in the past, but they got nothing on women online. True I have no doubt they are bombarded by requests from so many men, who most of them are pretending or lying about half the stuff they say just to get an "audience". However I have seen women posting specifications, or need not apply, like dark hair, 6+ feet tall, earn X amount of money, etc... Anyway I find it pretty hard to take most of the girls seriously online, I mean why even bother.
I saw this joke from a stand up comic, who was quoting one of those vapid women's magazines.
Top 3 things a women wants as polled by X women's magazine:
3) Money
2) Good Looks
1) Sense of Humor (to which the comic arches an eyebrow and shakes head)
I'm pretty sure if I am good looking and have lots of money, she'll laugh at any damn joke I tell her.
The other thing is hearing from girls that have just dated "assholes".
If you want to stop dating assholes. Then stop dating assholes! Seriously!
Easy Solution:
Take one such "manager" and put him on the thing for take off. If they believe it is safe, let them put their money where their mouth is.
Call it a 10,000$ a pound insurance policy.
In the future they may want to make hiring light/small/tiny managers standard procedure. It may have the unintended consequence of allowing for the now larger engineers to physically push management around and intimidate them.
You buy the next generation of console.
I think the whole point is this may prevent stumps...
Agreed, they didn't exactly have a shiny reputation before this.
However if you only really do one thing, that you sell. Then you epically fail at it, to the point that its not even your customers that are getting owned, but your own company. Then Announce it to the world, "Hey look at us, we are a bunch of stupid idiots!"
I can't see how this company even exists anymore. You can get FREE software that does a better job.
As been pointed out already, this is a report of a FAILED sting. Which makes those doing the sting look stupid, and the hackers at least cautious.
It also brings to light that a security company that sells software to prevent people from being hacked, got hacked, had source code stolen, and perhaps extorted for money to cover it up.
I am not sure how you could possibly ruin your reputation any further than they have already done.