I haven't RTFA but the story speaks for itself when it says "there's more information in a post-mortem PowerPoint presentation at Escape Factory's official site.".
Everyone knows the amount of PowerPoint presentations someone uses is inversely proportional to their skill/knowledge
I think that repeat theifs should be killed. They aren't stealing just property but really they are stealing a part of their victim's life. Say it takes me 30 hours to earn the money for the iPod, if I get mugged and they steal my iPod, they just stole 30 hours of my life. It's as if they tied me up for 30 hours. I just think that people who steal life from others should have their life taken away from them.
Well once they've stolen you're Ipod surely they've effectively got an illegal copy of thousands of RIAA protected songs and under a secret clause of the PIRATE act anyone under suspicion of violating intellectual property can be killed without trial so you might get your wish
Not exactly what you were asking for but when I was in a similar situation basically what I did was create a few free Yahoo briefcase accounts (each one holds 30 meg but there seems to be a 150meg one for btyahoo customers) and downloaded the songs whenever I wanted them and deleted them when I finished. This only worked because space requirements were only checked at log in time after which I had seemingly infinite space so YMMV depending on the set-up
When you have a problem like this, you should work with the other party to solve it. If they refuse to cooperate or explain, then you have something to complain about. Going immediately into crusade mode based on total ignorance is childish.
Yeah and it gets your webpage linked to on slashdot apparently. Can you say advertising revenue?
Darl: "Hey, let's sue the NSA."
Same scene, later that day.
Random SCO employee: "Umm, Mr. McBride, sir, there are a whole lot of people in ill-fitting suits who want to 'talk' with you...."
We used to have a pay service, ITV Digital (previously OnDigital) but it kinda flopped.
That really depends on how you measure success. Ok granted financially it was a disaster, the service wasn't as good as the competition and despite what you say there were at least some areas where it couldn't be received(Freeview suffers from the same problem).
On the other hand those monkey adverts were superb.
It already costs postage, printing, distribution, and lackie charges for them to put garbage in my mailbox, but that has yet to slow them down, I still get plenty of real junk mail. So do you really think charging postage would stop it? (Slow it down for a short while maybe). And besides, do you really want to pay postage on your email?
I don't have much experience with junk real mail but I've heard that they are much more likely to take you off their lists if you ask because it's not in their best interests to send mail to someone who isn't interested.
OTOH if spammers spam someone who isn't interested it doesn't matter, it cost them nothing and there's plenty more fish in the sea, put a charge on each spam sent and suddenly they have to start being a bit smarter they can't send breast implant spam to men anymore or blast you with the same viagra advert 15 times because it'll cut into their profits to much.
That said I'm not to hot on the pay for e-mail system either but it's one option currently on the table and if it could be made that only spammers pay then it'd be great.
Even if SMTP protocols are revised, even if Internet postage is applied to emails, as long as you're doing better revenues over your expenses, which in most cases you are, then there is no hope.
The point of those measures is to decrease the profitability of spam by either increasing the costs (making people pay to send email) or decreasing the revenue (altering SMTP protocol to stop spam getting through) eventually it will not be worth the spammers time and money to send the spam.
If that doesn't work then this might be a solution, putting a copyrighted haiku in every email so it will get past spam filters and suing any spammers that use it, I'm thinking of forcing everyone to attach an RIAA copyrighted song to all emails and report anyone sending spam to the RIAA. Spammers wouldn't risk pissing off those crazy bastards and as a plus point I get lots of free music
SCO: you stole our stuff!
Autozone: what stuff?
SCO: you know... like, our stuff.
Autozone:...er? we need more info than that.
SCO: I could tell you but then i would have to kill you!
If you replace autozone with IBM you have the other SCO case.
Gustav Niel-Berggren, a 16-year-old student who said he tended to spend many hours a day several days a week playing an interactive online action game called Counter-Strike, which focuses on killing opponent soldiers
Soldiers!?!?!?!? I haven't played counter-strike in a while but last time I checked they were fighting terrorists. It seems that every other slashdot story accuses someone of being a terrorist and one finally comes along that is about real terrorists (well virtual real terrorists at least) and they are "soldiers". Why call them soldiers instead of terrorists? Could it possible be something to do with fighting terrorism perhaps being a good thing and video games couldn't possibly be good? Maybe "Video games are good" isn't as good of a headline.
This guy never intended to disrupt 911 services, he intended his 18 victims to have problems...
If that was true dialling 12345 would of worked just as well (or if he was feeling particularly malicious an international number) and would of caused no harm to the emergency services
And the Abydos gate was clearly still there, they used it to get off the planet. If it vanished after that, it was by Ascended 'magic', not by force.
So let me rephrase: We've never seen any gate destroyed by a physical external force, even some of the most powerful in the universe.
My interpretation was that the abydos gate was destroyed in full circle (hence the inability for them to dial it) and what they saw at the end was some kind of Ascended 'magic' but I could be wrong
Either way it was at least mentioned in singularity that it is possible to destroy a gate with a huge explosion (that was the plan with Cassandra and it was mentioned that it had worked at least once before) so its at least possible that a stargate can be destroyed by a massive ship size explosion.
I can't remember much about how the coordinate system works but I was under the impression that the gate had to be within a certain distance of a planet or other source of massive gravity in order to accept an incoming wormhole but I could be wrong. Either way since it was not recovered the logical assumption is it was destroyed or it was in a position that it was unrecoverable which is possible considering earth knowledge of ships was limited to space shuttles at that point in the show.
Yes, that ship blew up in orbit...but gates are literally indestructable We've never seen a stargate provably destroyed before
As I mentioned before one of the original 2 gates on earth was blown up in redemption part 2 and while it's not entirely clear i'm pretty sure the abydos gate was destroyed in full circle
And you're about to complain that we'll never find it...it's easy to find! Put the current stargate on a ship, fly it out of the system. From off-planet, gate in a probe and see where it ends up. (If you can't gate in, it landed on earth and buried itself. There are ways of find that.)
The problem is that if it is flying away (safe to assume considering its highly likely they'd of found it if it'd landed on earth) it'd of quickly got to far away to dial into in a similar way that they couldn't dial in to it to go after SG1 when it was still on the ship.
I believe there were at least three gates on Earth: * The original gate, discovered in Egypt, blown up as mentioned * The gate found in Antarctica, briefly used by the NID, now covered with a shield and stored somewhere in Area 51 * The gate discovered by the Russians, now in place at SG-1. > Yes, I'm a geek. Geekier than thou
Wrong. There have only ever been 2 gates found on earth (forgetting Orlin's 1 time gate from ascension). The original gate was found in Giza, Egypt and was used as the main stargate until it was transferred to Thor's ship to escape just before in blew up in nemesis, this gate survived and was recovered from the bottom of the ocean by the Russians who set up their own stargate program which was seen in watergate and later closed as part of an agreement between Russia and the USA. During this time the USA used the second gate that was found in Antarctica (in the episode solitudes) and used by the NID for various rogue operations before being shut down by SG1 in touchstone. This second gate was used by the USA until it was destroyed by Anubis in redemption part 2. After which they borrowed the original gate that was currently in Russian hands in return for money and plans for various technologies that were a result of gate travel including the X302 and X303.
The main reason the more recent episodes of SG-1 have been less good (but still very enjoyable in my opinion) then the previous seasons is mainly because of Richard Dean Anderson (jack) being unwilling to spend as much time on the show, every season he says he wants to quit to spend more time with his daughter and every season they negotiate a nice package for him which means less work. IIRC he works about 3 days a week now which is why there are so many episodes that he barely appears in or in some cases doesn't appear in at all. In the next season of SG1 (season 8) rumour has it that he'll be in a more Hammond like position in charge of the SGC. Atlantis is obviously a way to not only expand the series but to get away from relying on RDA signing on every year.
If anyone cares Gateworld is a fantastic site for information on all things stargate.
Again, parroted on slashdot numerous times -- why hit the less than 1/3 IIS installations out there when you can hit 2/3 with an Apache bug?
popularity isn't exactly directly related to the number of exploits it has.:)
That's a different situation firstly Macs have much smaller percentage market share then IIS (about 3% according to goggle Zeitgeist). Secondly Microsoft is viewed as "The Evil Empire"(TM) so people are more likely to go after one of their products. Thirdly Mydoom basically relies on user idiocy, the people who open attachments when they have been told the risks are not likely to get magically smarter just by using a Mac. Fourthly Mydoom as well as most other virus/worms need as many infected machines as possible to propagate (and in the case of DDOS attacks release the payload) so the more machines that can be effected the better from a virus writers point of view
I'm not saying other OSes aren't more secure just that no OS is bullet proof and it seems to me windows gets more virus not only due to its problems but also due to it's successes.
how long can the music industry survive when it can't even make the Internet a cost-effective channel for distribution?
They have made the Internet a cost-effective channel for distribution, the reason that napster is losing money is that the RIAA have used their monopoly to screw the online stores into a bad deal. It's very cost-effective as long as you happen to be a record label.
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I haven't RTFA but the story speaks for itself when it says "there's more information in a post-mortem PowerPoint presentation at Escape Factory's official site.".
Everyone knows the amount of PowerPoint presentations someone uses is inversely proportional to their skill/knowledge
even in Communist Russia, there was always money - you just couldn't buy anything with it.
Is that because in soviet erm I mean communist Russia money spends you???
I think that repeat theifs should be killed. They aren't stealing just property but really they are stealing a part of their victim's life. Say it takes me 30 hours to earn the money for the iPod, if I get mugged and they steal my iPod, they just stole 30 hours of my life. It's as if they tied me up for 30 hours. I just think that people who steal life from others should have their life taken away from them.
Well once they've stolen you're Ipod surely they've effectively got an illegal copy of thousands of RIAA protected songs and under a secret clause of the PIRATE act anyone under suspicion of violating intellectual property can be killed without trial so you might get your wish
Not exactly what you were asking for but when I was in a similar situation basically what I did was create a few free Yahoo briefcase accounts (each one holds 30 meg but there seems to be a 150meg one for btyahoo customers) and downloaded the songs whenever I wanted them and deleted them when I finished. This only worked because space requirements were only checked at log in time after which I had seemingly infinite space so YMMV depending on the set-up
file-sharing.
sharing music illegally.
Yep because that is exactly the same thing legal uses of P2P? Nonsense
Basically, until you land something off-planet, you have no room to talk
So until you write an OS with a 90%+ market share you won't say a bad word about microsoft?
When you have a problem like this, you should work with the other party to solve it. If they refuse to cooperate or explain, then you have something to complain about. Going immediately into crusade mode based on total ignorance is childish.
Yeah and it gets your webpage linked to on slashdot apparently. Can you say advertising revenue?
Darl: "Hey, let's sue the NSA." Same scene, later that day. Random SCO employee: "Umm, Mr. McBride, sir, there are a whole lot of people in ill-fitting suits who want to 'talk' with you ...."
Reminds me of a horoscope I once got from BBspot
"Suing Linux users may have seemed a good idea at the time but now there are 10,000 penguins waiting in the lobby and they look pretty pissed"
We used to have a pay service, ITV Digital (previously OnDigital) but it kinda flopped.
That really depends on how you measure success. Ok granted financially it was a disaster, the service wasn't as good as the competition and despite what you say there were at least some areas where it couldn't be received(Freeview suffers from the same problem).
On the other hand those monkey adverts were superb.
It already costs postage, printing, distribution, and lackie charges for them to put garbage in my mailbox, but that has yet to slow them down, I still get plenty of real junk mail. So do you really think charging postage would stop it? (Slow it down for a short while maybe). And besides, do you really want to pay postage on your email?
I don't have much experience with junk real mail but I've heard that they are much more likely to take you off their lists if you ask because it's not in their best interests to send mail to someone who isn't interested.
OTOH if spammers spam someone who isn't interested it doesn't matter, it cost them nothing and there's plenty more fish in the sea, put a charge on each spam sent and suddenly they have to start being a bit smarter they can't send breast implant spam to men anymore or blast you with the same viagra advert 15 times because it'll cut into their profits to much.
That said I'm not to hot on the pay for e-mail system either but it's one option currently on the table and if it could be made that only spammers pay then it'd be great.
Even if SMTP protocols are revised, even if Internet postage is applied to emails, as long as you're doing better revenues over your expenses, which in most cases you are, then there is no hope.
The point of those measures is to decrease the profitability of spam by either increasing the costs (making people pay to send email) or decreasing the revenue (altering SMTP protocol to stop spam getting through) eventually it will not be worth the spammers time and money to send the spam.
If that doesn't work then this might be a solution, putting a copyrighted haiku in every email so it will get past spam filters and suing any spammers that use it, I'm thinking of forcing everyone to attach an RIAA copyrighted song to all emails and report anyone sending spam to the RIAA. Spammers wouldn't risk pissing off those crazy bastards and as a plus point I get lots of free music
SCO: you stole our stuff! ... like, our stuff. ...er? we need more info than that.
Autozone: what stuff?
SCO: you know
Autozone:
SCO: I could tell you but then i would have to kill you!
If you replace autozone with IBM you have the other SCO case.
Almost like there is some kind of pattern
I have yet to find any spyware that wasn't easily removed
I'm more worried about the stuff I might not of found
Gustav Niel-Berggren, a 16-year-old student who said he tended to spend many hours a day several days a week playing an interactive online action game called Counter-Strike, which focuses on killing opponent soldiers
Soldiers!?!?!?!? I haven't played counter-strike in a while but last time I checked they were fighting terrorists. It seems that every other slashdot story accuses someone of being a terrorist and one finally comes along that is about real terrorists (well virtual real terrorists at least) and they are "soldiers". Why call them soldiers instead of terrorists? Could it possible be something to do with fighting terrorism perhaps being a good thing and video games couldn't possibly be good? Maybe "Video games are good" isn't as good of a headline.
This guy never intended to disrupt 911 services, he intended his 18 victims to have problems...
If that was true dialling 12345 would of worked just as well (or if he was feeling particularly malicious an international number) and would of caused no harm to the emergency services
I saw nothing that came anywhere near spoiler material, nice imagery though.
These aren't the spoilers you're looking for
You can go about you business
Move along
I once hacked a nuclear reactor with a paper clip, my shoe laces and a piece of gum
Angus Macgyver
What do you think the chances are that this has something to do with the microsoft source code leak?
And the Abydos gate was clearly still there, they used it to get off the planet. If it vanished after that, it was by Ascended 'magic', not by force.
So let me rephrase: We've never seen any gate destroyed by a physical external force, even some of the most powerful in the universe.
My interpretation was that the abydos gate was destroyed in full circle (hence the inability for them to dial it) and what they saw at the end was some kind of Ascended 'magic' but I could be wrong
Either way it was at least mentioned in singularity that it is possible to destroy a gate with a huge explosion (that was the plan with Cassandra and it was mentioned that it had worked at least once before) so its at least possible that a stargate can be destroyed by a massive ship size explosion.
I can't remember much about how the coordinate system works but I was under the impression that the gate had to be within a certain distance of a planet or other source of massive gravity in order to accept an incoming wormhole but I could be wrong. Either way since it was not recovered the logical assumption is it was destroyed or it was in a position that it was unrecoverable which is possible considering earth knowledge of ships was limited to space shuttles at that point in the show.
Yes, that ship blew up in orbit...but gates are literally indestructable
We've never seen a stargate provably destroyed before
As I mentioned before one of the original 2 gates on earth was blown up in redemption part 2 and while it's not entirely clear i'm pretty sure the abydos gate was destroyed in full circle
And you're about to complain that we'll never find it...it's easy to find! Put the current stargate on a ship, fly it out of the system. From off-planet, gate in a probe and see where it ends up. (If you can't gate in, it landed on earth and buried itself. There are ways of find that.)
The problem is that if it is flying away (safe to assume considering its highly likely they'd of found it if it'd landed on earth) it'd of quickly got to far away to dial into in a similar way that they couldn't dial in to it to go after SG1 when it was still on the ship.
I believe there were at least three gates on Earth: * The original gate, discovered in Egypt, blown up as mentioned * The gate found in Antarctica, briefly used by the NID, now covered with a shield and stored somewhere in Area 51 * The gate discovered by the Russians, now in place at SG-1. > Yes, I'm a geek. Geekier than thou
Wrong. There have only ever been 2 gates found on earth (forgetting Orlin's 1 time gate from ascension). The original gate was found in Giza, Egypt and was used as the main stargate until it was transferred to Thor's ship to escape just before in blew up in nemesis, this gate survived and was recovered from the bottom of the ocean by the Russians who set up their own stargate program which was seen in watergate and later closed as part of an agreement between Russia and the USA. During this time the USA used the second gate that was found in Antarctica (in the episode solitudes) and used by the NID for various rogue operations before being shut down by SG1 in touchstone. This second gate was used by the USA until it was destroyed by Anubis in redemption part 2. After which they borrowed the original gate that was currently in Russian hands in return for money and plans for various technologies that were a result of gate travel including the X302 and X303.
I AM THE UBERGEEK!!!!
The main reason the more recent episodes of SG-1 have been less good (but still very enjoyable in my opinion) then the previous seasons is mainly because of Richard Dean Anderson (jack) being unwilling to spend as much time on the show, every season he says he wants to quit to spend more time with his daughter and every season they negotiate a nice package for him which means less work. IIRC he works about 3 days a week now which is why there are so many episodes that he barely appears in or in some cases doesn't appear in at all. In the next season of SG1 (season 8) rumour has it that he'll be in a more Hammond like position in charge of the SGC. Atlantis is obviously a way to not only expand the series but to get away from relying on RDA signing on every year.
If anyone cares Gateworld is a fantastic site for information on all things stargate.
Sure why not? 70 bits is plenty for every person on the planet.
Enough for 1180591620717411303424 people
Again, parroted on slashdot numerous times -- why hit the less than 1/3 IIS installations out there when you can hit 2/3 with an Apache bug? popularity isn't exactly directly related to the number of exploits it has. :)
That's a different situation firstly Macs have much smaller percentage market share then IIS (about 3% according to goggle Zeitgeist). Secondly Microsoft is viewed as "The Evil Empire"(TM) so people are more likely to go after one of their products. Thirdly Mydoom basically relies on user idiocy, the people who open attachments when they have been told the risks are not likely to get magically smarter just by using a Mac. Fourthly Mydoom as well as most other virus/worms need as many infected machines as possible to propagate (and in the case of DDOS attacks release the payload) so the more machines that can be effected the better from a virus writers point of view
I'm not saying other OSes aren't more secure just that no OS is bullet proof and it seems to me windows gets more virus not only due to its problems but also due to it's successes.
how long can the music industry survive when it can't even make the Internet a cost-effective channel for distribution? They have made the Internet a cost-effective channel for distribution, the reason that napster is losing money is that the RIAA have used their monopoly to screw the online stores into a bad deal. It's very cost-effective as long as you happen to be a record label.