Personally, I'd strip them of all their assets, and leave them destitude. Rule that they need to pay back the entire value of the software they stole and profited from. And have the ruling follow them past bankruptcy. I can't stand people who profit from other people's hard work.
However hard time in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison wouldn't hurt either.
Playing devil's advocate for a momeny (I personally AM glad that they got nailed btw).
I don't think you have the right to call it lost revenue. You aren't certain that this $600 in revenue would have ever made it to the game makers. It's probably not right to call it lost revenue.
That being said, what these guys did was dead wrong - they were capitalizing on the hard work of another company, and not providing fair compensation for it. I hope they do some hard time in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison =D
Hmmm... I could never see England banning a soccer game. Football maybe, but not soccer... And imaging the hooligans if England banned a football game?
IANAL, but the easiest defence to this lawsuit is to prove that the plantif has been deceiving users into installing their software, and have been doing illegal activities.
Of course that also might incriminate the defendant. But you can't sue for damages over an illegal activity.
Let's hope they get a judge who's had a computer taken over by spyware / adware...
When an app goes to production, a few things happen: 1) You add a network layer that didn't exist in your development environment. 2) You add a server OS that didn't exist either.
If you're going to develop, might as well use an environment that somewhat mimics your intended environment.
I'm from Canada you insensitive clod! The American History category is crappy enough to make us take hours upon end to find one that's easy enough to answer:)
I thought CIsco bought Linksys to turn a company that producted good routers and wireless access points into a company that produces abosultely unstable shit.
I have a Linksys Wireless router that crashes constantly. I've had to pull the plug at least a dozen times yesterday on it.
I've flashed it. I've reset it. Nothing works. These wireless routers are truly pieces of shit.
Sorry, pissed off today that I don't have access at home, and thought I'd rant a little.
Congrats - you know, I'd personally be all for that... But it's a cultural thing - Greeks and Italians - they want the party.
She has a family of 80, and I have a family of 60. We have a 30 close friends.
She's Italian and I'm Greek. Culturally the gifts are pretty high. Our parents pay for the reception and booze. We're just doing flowers, decorations, limos (actually we're renting minis - ultra cool), tuxes, and her mom is a dress-maker so the wedding dress costs just the satin. Oh, and she's making our seat covers, table runners, and sashes for the chairs.
Overall it isn't too bad... Her brother got married a year ago and had $40,000 worth of gifts from 400 people, not including the shower. With the shower they hit $60,000 worth of gifts.
That's the greek and italian way - big reception + big gifts.
(Don't know why I went on that tangent - I think I just wanted to brag about renting a fleet of minis lol)
1)bang a whore with three doctors supervisong you (three adware removal progs), 2)bang a whore and wear a rubber (Spy Sweeper), or 3)bag a nice girl and not need a rubber or three doctors.
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I think I'll patent it and sue the US PTO! =D
Sort of like how Sonique went from being a nice, decent music player to... Sonique 2 - which has been like, four years in the making? Good job Lycos!
And why do patent lawyers get 10000x the salaray of the managers who make 2-3x as much as the engineers?
You know America puts out 7 lawyers to 1 engineer. What a messed up country.
And I'm not an author of an article. But yeah, good point ;)
ROFLMAO
Wireless at it's best????
This speaks loads for the credibility of the authors who make such a dumb gramatical mistake lol.
Too many players out there that only support mp3. Less suppoert wma and aac, and way less support ogg.
Unless you come up with a format that will play on existing hardware players, it'll be extremely slow to adopt.
Remember who XP was built for - not people running a server process.
and FWIW I'm a sybase developer now. I don't run Unix or Linux, so I have no choice but to use a dev server.
And I've programmed tonnes for SQL Server. Never once had the need to run it locally.
In fact, at home I keep a seperate win2k3 box for running server processes.
Personally, I'd strip them of all their assets, and leave them destitude. Rule that they need to pay back the entire value of the software they stole and profited from. And have the ruling follow them past bankruptcy. I can't stand people who profit from other people's hard work.
However hard time in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison wouldn't hurt either.
Playing devil's advocate for a momeny (I personally AM glad that they got nailed btw).
I don't think you have the right to call it lost revenue. You aren't certain that this $600 in revenue would have ever made it to the game makers. It's probably not right to call it lost revenue.
That being said, what these guys did was dead wrong - they were capitalizing on the hard work of another company, and not providing fair compensation for it. I hope they do some hard time in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison =D
Even more OT, that'll hurt Xbox the same way it Hurt Sega. Half the reason PS2 is the market leader is that it plays PS1 games.
FWIW there's also a special version of XP that doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independant country.
Makes me sad really.
UK doesn't ban a soccer game that...
Hmmm... I could never see England banning a soccer game. Football maybe, but not soccer... And imaging the hooligans if England banned a football game?
IANAL, but the easiest defence to this lawsuit is to prove that the plantif has been deceiving users into installing their software, and have been doing illegal activities.
Of course that also might incriminate the defendant. But you can't sue for damages over an illegal activity.
Let's hope they get a judge who's had a computer taken over by spyware / adware...
Hmm... Development?
When an app goes to production, a few things happen: 1) You add a network layer that didn't exist in your development environment. 2) You add a server OS that didn't exist either.
If you're going to develop, might as well use an environment that somewhat mimics your intended environment.
WTF are you doing running a server database on XP in the first place? Really buddy, c'mon... SQL Server in XP?
I'm from Canada you insensitive clod! The American History category is crappy enough to make us take hours upon end to find one that's easy enough to answer :)
I thought CIsco bought Linksys to turn a company that producted good routers and wireless access points into a company that produces abosultely unstable shit.
I have a Linksys Wireless router that crashes constantly. I've had to pull the plug at least a dozen times yesterday on it.
I've flashed it. I've reset it. Nothing works. These wireless routers are truly pieces of shit.
Sorry, pissed off today that I don't have access at home, and thought I'd rant a little.
Congrats - you know, I'd personally be all for that... But it's a cultural thing - Greeks and Italians - they want the party.
She has a family of 80, and I have a family of 60. We have a 30 close friends.
She's Italian and I'm Greek. Culturally the gifts are pretty high. Our parents pay for the reception and booze. We're just doing flowers, decorations, limos (actually we're renting minis - ultra cool), tuxes, and her mom is a dress-maker so the wedding dress costs just the satin. Oh, and she's making our seat covers, table runners, and sashes for the chairs.
Overall it isn't too bad... Her brother got married a year ago and had $40,000 worth of gifts from 400 people, not including the shower. With the shower they hit $60,000 worth of gifts.
That's the greek and italian way - big reception + big gifts.
(Don't know why I went on that tangent - I think I just wanted to brag about renting a fleet of minis lol)
Not if they jump up & down afterwards ;)
And Microsoft's market share. One shouldn't neglect that point either.
Really, asking for root password to install software wouldn't prevent shit like Bonzai buddy from being installed.
If MacOS became more popular I'm sure you'd see a Bonzai buddy port for it.
I just use Firefox. No problems at all.
You can either:
1)bang a whore with three doctors supervisong you (three adware removal progs),
2)bang a whore and wear a rubber (Spy Sweeper), or
3)bag a nice girl and not need a rubber or three doctors.
I take option 3.
Microsoft has a usenet tool that's really cool called netscan.
Take a look at usage for one newsgroup here: Here
In the new feature, you can reply to a usenet thread online.
One of the problems with Usenet is that its use is declining... The other is the horrible spam.
Getting people to reply to threads is way better for usenet as a whole (which IMO has much better content than www right now for programmers).
Still, the ability to view a single message bothers me.
Are you looking at the beta version of google groups, are are you just arguing for the sake of arguing today?
Take look Here for what the changes are.
Right here you can see it...