1) Therein lies the value of a good name. If they are under the umbrealla of SONY and they besmirch the name, then for right or for wrong, people will remember "SONY did a bad thing"
It works in their favour when they have a name for quality goods, why should anyone be surprised that it works against them when they mess up.
2) What do I know about the internal setup of Sony Group ? How may directors are on several of the boards ? How policy is set ? If they do or do not have a central policy group ? They are run in a country on the far side of the world in a culture that from what I little I do know of it values the cohesive whole more than the individual. Is it a stretch to imagine that the company that produces music video players would look out for the interest of the other company in it's group that sells music ?
I don't know - and there's the problem.
Sony have a nice video mp3 player which I am not buying as it would require installing Sony Software on my PC.
Sorry Sony.
You Blew It with your root kit.
OK - I consider my self smacked.
I laugh quitely to myself at the puny derision of a smack, briefly consider going Rambo on you - but decide it's not worth the trouble, since you probably hurt your virtual hand. And anyway my super models (yes plural) are calling.
>;-)
(And if you feel a need to post something like, "well, I'm a nerd and exercise daily, and look like Rambo, and fuck a super-model", then consider yourself smacked upside your head. I didn't say _everyone_ was like that, did
I?;)
This seems kind of like the old riddle about the plane crashing on a border - where do you bury the survivors ?
Most people focus on the border and merrily come up with ways to decide where to bury the survivors. The survivors meanwhile are not relishing the prospect of being buried alive.
"that fewer than 800 deaths are attributable to the after-effects of radiation in over 86,500 survivors of the Hiroshima bombing."
Hey - what about all the ones that were not survivors because the radiation killed them ?
It seems that you are doing for an absolute stranger, what I am doing for my friends....
Spending your time trying to help. In spite of the likelyhood that your and indeed I are tilting at windmills.
When my neighbour needed help setting up a wireless network, I could have told him to use google, or just set up the network, with WPA and put the key in an envelope for him.
He has helped me out in many ways in the past, and never suggested that I try the phone book.
OK, too stupid to operate computers connected to the internet etc.
but if you are going to get all pedantic on me, then I will refer you to the fact that I said "They Need their computers fixed again". I did not say that I actually bothered to fix their computers again.
That service is reserved for the ones who take advice, and don't try to take advantage.
My friend who is a Cook Often Cooks for me. I do not befriend debt collectors. Perhaps you need a better class of friend.*
*yes the last comment is just me being a wise ass. Don't bother with a serious reply to this bit. Feel free to take the piss if you like.
Some people Are just too stupid to own computers
Many are just uneducated, but some Are just too stupid to own computers
I have given up trying to educate some friends of friends who need their computers fixed again.
Sooner or later you do have to stop banging your head against a brick wall. It just hurts too much.
What fool would be so churlish as to suggest that we should only search for things that we know we can find.
Since powered flight was known to be impossible, then George and Orville should have clearly not have wasted their time.
Since man could not breath and would suffocate if he travelled faster than a horse could run, clearly Stephenson should have stuck to pumping water out of mines, and not wasted time on the Rocket.
Think of the number of "impossible" things that have beome part of our every day lives. - Anyone remember when they said 100 Mhz was the physical limit for CPUs ? (Think i486) Clearly any further research was inane and foolish.
One of the most defining aspects of Man is his Curiosity. Combine that with a refusal to believe that things are impossible, and you end up with thousands of crackpots, and a handful of Geniuses.
If we stop trying simply because someone else tells us "it can't be done" we may as well sleep out the remainder of our lives.
Really, shouldn't these guys go read the dummies guide to statistics ?
a) Are places with high crime more likely to install cameras ?
b) Are places with low % of solved crime more likely to install cameras ?
c) Can you fairly compare rate of crime solution without some idea of level of crime, size of police force, police budget per reported crime, police budget per resident ?
If they really wanted information rather than headlines, they would compare before and after statistics in each area.
This is the kind of crap that gives statistics a bad name.
You are assuming
1) That I am not trying to download something, and you taking up my bandwith is slowing it down.
2) That I have flat rate, and am nowhere near any ceiling on bandwidth.
That argmuent would suggest that it's ok to steal from Bill Gates, since he has so much money that he cannot ever spend it.
So if I have true crypt installed on my disk....
TrueCrypt has the facility to store encrypted data on the disk, such that if you do not have a password, you cannot even confirm that any data exists.
If you use the disk without the password, you can accidently overwrite the encrypted data - it is not part of any file, there is no "reserved" space. When you put in a password, truecrypt can find the data and your access to the disk is handled properly.
Then since there could be data encrypted on the disk, they can imply that there is. I downloaded TC out of interest. Having a laptop I would use it if there were anything more important on the laptop than holiday snaps, but does it mean I have nothing to hide.
PS TC can layer, one password gives access to baby pics, another gives access to ??Whatever??
You must do backups as working on the machine without the passwords will overwrite your data.
It means that when a litter warden confronts someone who just threw a Big Mac Wrapper / 20 Major Packet on the floor - the litterbug no longer has the following options
1) The good old "It wasn't me - you can't prove it." 2) Not giving his/her address and just walking off. 3) Smacking the warden around. (Yep - it happens)
I asked some guys not to smoke on the bus a while back - it's illegal here. The reply was "shut up or you'll get a black eye". Since litter wardens are not police, they often get the same sort of reply.
In a world where 12 year old kids have mobiles with video cameras built in, any notion that you have privacy in a public space it pure fantasy.
It was raising awareness of a particular disease. I can't remember the disease, but the poster stated something along the lines of
30% of people born with this genetic disorder will eventually die.
The corollary I presume is that the remaining 70% are immortal. While I don't want to die any time soon, I think being actually immortal could be a drag.
I've pushed many limits, mostly jumping out of reasonably good aircraft. I've also gone big water rafting where death was a real possibility. Been scuba diving in places where I really should not have been (OK, that wasn't co clever). All that time I had no real dependants. I have scars and broken bones to show for my troubles. But I also have experienced life in a way that most people never will.
It is intense like most people cannot imagine. The highs are Huge.... so are the Lows. Sometimes there's an adrenaline rush, sometimes you have to cope with massive stress and stay calm. Often your life depends on not doing stupid things. Sometimes you do stupid stuff and survive in spite of yourself.
Mostly you train, you prepare, you check, you have someone else check. Then you train again. When you do sometime stupid and survire in spite of yourself, you are glad that you're still able to be pissed off at your self.
You don't consider death on a regular basis. You tend to re-evaluate when a friend gets badly broken. I have a lot of friends who have gotten badly broken - most jumped again. Modern medicine is pretty good as far as acute traumatic injuries are concerned - mostly.
I never really planed on dying:-) People did die. Some people died doing dumb ass things, and some people did everything right and died anyway. Some people thing that we who push the limits have a death wish, that's just not true. When you push the limits you have to want to live. Sometimes you have to fight very hard to live.
You also re-evalute as life changes. Now that I'm married with a child, I would not even consider doing some of the things that I used to do. I'm glad I did them. Some days life was slow and easy, some days life was a freight train. I enjoyed both. Now I find other challanges.
I would imagine that you are correct in saying that it's not illegal to either buy or sell term papers per se.
But would submitting a term paper that you have not written as though it was your own would be a fradualent act.
Since you are paying the university for you education, there is an implicit contract, or possibly an explicit contract, that by submitting a bought term paper, are you committing fraud? You are certainly damaging the Universites reputation by lowering the value of their degrees. There is a victim.
If the submitter is committing fraud, then knowingly selling term papers to people who will commit a fraudulant act could be considered aiding and abetting / conspiracy ?
Disclaimer - this is pure conjecture - what I know about criminal law comes mostly from watching bad tv series.
My examples are not hypothetical. They are two actual cases that happened. In one case there were cameras, and a sucessful prosecution, in the other case, no cameras, long drawn out court case and most of the thugs walked.
I still haven't heard you come up with a concrete example of where these cameras were abused.
I saw a video clip of some you gentlemen kicking some poor unfortunates head in while he lay on the road. Stamped his head against the kerb stones, several times.
Thanks to the video
1) they were caught 2) they were found guilty 3) they could not have a lawyer pretend it was self defence, or a row that got out of hand, or provoked, or not all that serious an asault.
While they rot in Jail, I for one will not be protesting for their civil liberties.
Aw poor babies didn't get a fair trial, there was too much evidence against them...
Not quite..
If a person who was profoundly handicapped killed someone, he should not be allowed to be in a position where he would likely kill again, but neither should he be punished - in a sense, while he is dangerous, he has not comitted a crime, no more than a Lion killing someone commits a crime.
His right to freedom are superceded by other peoples right to life.
Hence the much abused "Guilty but insane" defence.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Therein lies the value of a good name. If they are under the umbrealla of SONY and they besmirch the name, then for right or for wrong, people will remember "SONY did a bad thing" It works in their favour when they have a name for quality goods, why should anyone be surprised that it works against them when they mess up. 2) What do I know about the internal setup of Sony Group ? How may directors are on several of the boards ? How policy is set ? If they do or do not have a central policy group ? They are run in a country on the far side of the world in a culture that from what I little I do know of it values the cohesive whole more than the individual. Is it a stretch to imagine that the company that produces music video players would look out for the interest of the other company in it's group that sells music ? I don't know - and there's the problem.
Sony have a nice video mp3 player which I am not buying as it would require installing Sony Software on my PC. Sorry Sony. You Blew It with your root kit.
OK - I consider my self smacked. I laugh quitely to myself at the puny derision of a smack, briefly consider going Rambo on you - but decide it's not worth the trouble, since you probably hurt your virtual hand. And anyway my super models (yes plural) are calling. >;-) (And if you feel a need to post something like, "well, I'm a nerd and exercise daily, and look like Rambo, and fuck a super-model", then consider yourself smacked upside your head. I didn't say _everyone_ was like that, did I?;)
This seems kind of like the old riddle about the plane crashing on a border - where do you bury the survivors ?
Most people focus on the border and merrily come up with ways to decide where to bury the survivors. The survivors meanwhile are not relishing the prospect of being buried alive.
"that fewer than 800 deaths are attributable to the after-effects of radiation in over 86,500 survivors of the Hiroshima bombing."
Hey - what about all the ones that were not survivors because the radiation killed them ?
Just a thought ?
It seems that you are doing for an absolute stranger, what I am doing for my friends....
Spending your time trying to help. In spite of the likelyhood that your and indeed I are tilting at windmills.
When my neighbour needed help setting up a wireless network, I could have told him to use google, or just set up the network, with WPA and put the key in an envelope for him.
He has helped me out in many ways in the past, and never suggested that I try the phone book.
OK, too stupid to operate computers connected to the internet etc.
but if you are going to get all pedantic on me, then I will refer you to the fact that I said "They Need their computers fixed again".
I did not say that I actually bothered to fix their computers again.
That service is reserved for the ones who take advice, and don't try to take advantage.
My friend who is a Cook Often Cooks for me. I do not befriend debt collectors. Perhaps you need a better class of friend.*
*yes the last comment is just me being a wise ass. Don't bother with a serious reply to this bit. Feel free to take the piss if you like.
Some people Are just too stupid to own computers
Many are just uneducated, but some Are just too stupid to own computers
I have given up trying to educate some friends of friends who need their computers fixed again.
Sooner or later you do have to stop banging your head against a brick wall. It just hurts too much.
What fool would be so churlish as to suggest that we should only search for things that we know we can find.
Since powered flight was known to be impossible, then George and Orville should have clearly not have wasted their time.
Since man could not breath and would suffocate if he travelled faster than a horse could run, clearly Stephenson should have stuck to pumping water out of mines, and not wasted time on the Rocket.
Think of the number of "impossible" things that have beome part of our every day lives. - Anyone remember when they said 100 Mhz was the physical limit for CPUs ? (Think i486) Clearly any further research was inane and foolish.
One of the most defining aspects of Man is his Curiosity. Combine that with a refusal to believe that things are impossible, and you end up with thousands of crackpots, and a handful of Geniuses.
If we stop trying simply because someone else tells us "it can't be done" we may as well sleep out the remainder of our lives.
Really, shouldn't these guys go read the dummies guide to statistics ?
a) Are places with high crime more likely to install cameras ?
b) Are places with low % of solved crime more likely to install cameras ?
c) Can you fairly compare rate of crime solution without some idea of level of crime, size of police force, police budget per reported crime, police budget per resident ?
If they really wanted information rather than headlines, they would compare before and after statistics in each area.
This is the kind of crap that gives statistics a bad name.
Have you considered that you may be born at the very end of humanities history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
How much does it cost to save a child from malnutrition in some of the poorer countries in Africa ?
I imagine $200 would go a long way.
Seems to me - in the greater scale of things, the life of a person in a far away country ain't worth $200 to the world at large.
Now if you have a Cause....
Then the world will spend money.
You are assuming 1) That I am not trying to download something, and you taking up my bandwith is slowing it down. 2) That I have flat rate, and am nowhere near any ceiling on bandwidth. That argmuent would suggest that it's ok to steal from Bill Gates, since he has so much money that he cannot ever spend it.
There is no net energy gain here.
The cat, due to the spinning motion dies pretty quickly.
It turns out that the lenght of time it will survive, and thue spin for, is a function of it's body fat.
In short - you are simply using up the stored energy in the cat. No Net Gain.
Simply chucking the cat into a furnace and generating electricity that way would be more efficient.
Identical Twins
Need I say More ?
So if I have true crypt installed on my disk.... TrueCrypt has the facility to store encrypted data on the disk, such that if you do not have a password, you cannot even confirm that any data exists. If you use the disk without the password, you can accidently overwrite the encrypted data - it is not part of any file, there is no "reserved" space. When you put in a password, truecrypt can find the data and your access to the disk is handled properly. Then since there could be data encrypted on the disk, they can imply that there is. I downloaded TC out of interest. Having a laptop I would use it if there were anything more important on the laptop than holiday snaps, but does it mean I have nothing to hide. PS TC can layer, one password gives access to baby pics, another gives access to ??Whatever?? You must do backups as working on the machine without the passwords will overwrite your data.
Optimal For Whom ?
Clearly not the owner of the works.
I fail to see why Disney should allow anyone to copy and sell their movies after a period of time. They made them they own them.
Would you hand over your house after 56 years ? Even for the good of society ?
Maybe it would be optimal for society if people living in large houses in prime location had to give up their houses so that society could benefit.
Hmmm - I guess that happens too....
Oh well.
I guess that it's kinda like the p... poor battery in the IPOD and the that it costs to have Apple replace it.
That at least was not soldered in. I just replaced it myself.
I guess Apple has learned from their mistake. Now, unless you are prepared to solder, it looks like Apple will have you by the Nuts.
It means that when a litter warden confronts someone who just threw a Big Mac Wrapper / 20 Major Packet on the floor - the litterbug no longer has the following options
1) The good old "It wasn't me - you can't prove it."
2) Not giving his/her address and just walking off.
3) Smacking the warden around. (Yep - it happens)
I asked some guys not to smoke on the bus a while back - it's illegal here. The reply was "shut up or you'll get a black eye". Since litter wardens are not police, they often get the same sort of reply.
In a world where 12 year old kids have mobiles with video cameras built in, any notion that you have privacy in a public space it pure fantasy.
More on and find a better battle to fight.
It was raising awareness of a particular disease. I can't remember the disease, but the poster stated something along the lines of
30% of people born with this genetic disorder will eventually die.
The corollary I presume is that the remaining 70% are immortal. While I don't want to die any time soon, I think being actually immortal could be a drag.
We all die. Sooner or later. We all die.
:-) People did die. Some people died doing dumb ass things, and some people did everything right and died anyway. Some people thing that we who push the limits have a death wish, that's just not true. When you push the limits you have to want to live. Sometimes you have to fight very hard to live.
I've pushed many limits, mostly jumping out of reasonably good aircraft. I've also gone big water rafting where death was a real possibility. Been scuba diving in places where I really should not have been (OK, that wasn't co clever). All that time I had no real dependants. I have scars and broken bones to show for my troubles. But I also have experienced life in a way that most people never will.
It is intense like most people cannot imagine. The highs are Huge.... so are the Lows. Sometimes there's an adrenaline rush, sometimes you have to cope with massive stress and stay calm. Often your life depends on not doing stupid things. Sometimes you do stupid stuff and survive in spite of yourself.
Mostly you train, you prepare, you check, you have someone else check. Then you train again. When you do sometime stupid and survire in spite of yourself, you are glad that you're still able to be pissed off at your self.
You don't consider death on a regular basis. You tend to re-evaluate when a friend gets badly broken. I have a lot of friends who have gotten badly broken - most jumped again. Modern medicine is pretty good as far as acute traumatic injuries are concerned - mostly.
I never really planed on dying
You also re-evalute as life changes. Now that I'm married with a child, I would not even consider doing some of the things that I used to do. I'm glad I did them. Some days life was slow and easy, some days life was a freight train. I enjoyed both. Now I find other challanges.
I would imagine that you are correct in saying that it's not illegal to either buy or sell term papers per se.
But would submitting a term paper that you have not written as though it was your own would be a fradualent act.
Since you are paying the university for you education, there is an implicit contract, or possibly an explicit contract, that by submitting a bought term paper, are you committing fraud? You are certainly damaging the Universites reputation by lowering the value of their degrees. There is a victim.
If the submitter is committing fraud, then knowingly selling term papers to people who will commit a fraudulant act could be considered aiding and abetting / conspiracy ?
Disclaimer - this is pure conjecture - what I know about criminal law comes mostly from watching bad tv series.
My examples are not hypothetical. They are two actual cases that happened. In one case there were cameras, and a sucessful prosecution, in the other case, no cameras, long drawn out court case and most of the thugs walked.
I still haven't heard you come up with a concrete example of where these cameras were abused.
Incidently, what's "negative social engineering"?
"Further, jokers who attack people generally find their way to prison regardless. That's just how it works."
It does ?
I thought the way it worked was rich kids kick someone to death.
Daddies lawyers work the system.
Rich kids get a not guilty verdict.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0114/murphyb.html
What do you reckon the outcome would have been if the Jury had seen them on tape?
D
I saw a video clip of some you gentlemen kicking some poor unfortunates head in while he lay on the road. Stamped his head against the kerb stones, several times.
Thanks to the video
1) they were caught
2) they were found guilty
3) they could not have a lawyer pretend it was self defence, or a row that got out of hand, or provoked, or not all that serious an asault.
While they rot in Jail, I for one will not be protesting for their civil liberties.
Aw poor babies didn't get a fair trial, there was too much evidence against them...
Not quite.. If a person who was profoundly handicapped killed someone, he should not be allowed to be in a position where he would likely kill again, but neither should he be punished - in a sense, while he is dangerous, he has not comitted a crime, no more than a Lion killing someone commits a crime. His right to freedom are superceded by other peoples right to life. Hence the much abused "Guilty but insane" defence.