Because digital piracy has always been a grey area. Is it theft? Does the industry really lose sales? If so how much?
And traditionally, people are afraid of going to the courts because of uncertainty of the outcome, and more importantly the lack of experience to act and react in a courtroom.
Why do people so scared of doing bad things? Because somehow they thought that they might be going to hell when they died, and that uncertainty is enough to keep most people on track.
Now imagine if someone went to hell and back, and told everyone that it's actually not that bad, and he's publishing "The Bad People's Guide To Hell" telling you which road to take to avoid demons and punishments.
I read the summary as if IT Department itself is a security risk, because they have the highest level of access to everything on the network, and one wee mistake, such as failure to lock an unattended admin pc, inappropriate disposal of a backup tape, a misconfigured spam filter and whatnot can easily knock out the company for at least a few hours or cause great harms.
Having said that, it's also true that computer users protected by a competent IT Department do get spoiled and when they're out with a laptop, they can easily be infected on a dial-up. It's like kids with over-protective parents will likely to get hurt/scammed/killed more easily when they're alone.
This naturally leads to the most important discussion in the article, i.e. user education. And I believe in order to really get the message through, IT Department needs to have some sort of security drill (like fire drill, annoying but everybody gets the idea after several attempts).
For example, if a user clicked on an obvious suspicious link (spoofed by yours truly IT Department of course), his computer will be taken away for "maintenance" for a week, and he'll be assigned to another area of the office with a crappy machine. This way, not only does he suffer from his action, others will know why he is working at the "Concentration Cubicle".
I guess in this case, Brown has the fun, Ortiz has the fame.
I find this kind of conflict interesting. When developing a web tool or game, one can keep it secret until the day of public release, but someone else can come along and release something similar sooner, thus claim the market. Or, one can quickly put something together and release it, this way attracts attention as well as competition/copycats while the idea hasn't been polished yet.
The thing is, if someone walking in front of you saw a $10 note on the street, but didn't pick it up, you were about 10m behind, saw the same note and picked it up, can that someone claim he saw the note first and want to claim it back?
From my understanding of the event, Dr Brown was telescoping at something, but he didn't tell anyone what he was looking at. Ortiz came along and looked at Brown's telescoping logs. Based on the coordinates, Ortiz saw something interesting, and since no one claimed to have seen that interesting something yet, Ortiz made the claim.
Richard Pogge, an Ohio State astronomer who uncovered the apparent breach, said that scientists had long lived mostly successfully by a kind of honor system. Astronomers, he said, routinely serve on time allocation committees for telescopes and peer review panels without stealing one another's ideas. "It allows us to have an open, collaborative community,"
So why can't Dr Brown (the USian) publish his discovery immediately and let the community to chip in and further investigate the finding?
It's not Microsoft's responsibility to complain about unfair and preferential treatment given to its own products, other vendors are welcome to voice their concern when that happens.
The problem is, most "other vendors" are unlikely to do that, and even if they do, their voice is not strong enough to do any good/harm.
The article mentioned Rokr lacks the clickwheel that makes its big brothers function so slickly.
I wonder if Apple is able to pull such a trick where it uses its Mighty Mouse technology to provide both keypad and clickwheel on the same surface. Icons/numbers will be displayed accordingly through this LCD-type surface.
Now that will not only change the way we interact with mobile phones. For example, on game-playing mode, this Mighty-Panel will switch to a gamepad; On net-browsing mode, it offers scrollbars, back/forward buttons.
The spokesman said he still did not know whether or not Ms Nugent's lunch was stolen.
Rumor has it that Nugent's lunch was stolen by her ex-boyfriend who is now with Bird.
Warning: Do not pass this on.
Regardless, the person who forwarded these emails to external parties should be fired because company emails shouldn't be forwarded to unintended recipients without original author's consent.
I believe if WoW n00bs are constantly being hammered by veterans, they will quit in no time too.
Besides, how many idiots can be born every second when most of their wealth will be redistributed almost immediately? So maybe what we are seeing here is just a down cycle, like in stock exchange.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe to make sure you don't misplace it too easily?
I'm sure James Bond uses the same thing but with a smaller form factor.
One woman always said, "Hey that's a nice shirt... are you gay!?"
Don't tell me you didn't know. That woman was making sure that your NOT A GAY so that she can ask you out.
Are you talking to me or CmdrTaco?
First they were collaborating on technology, so the next natural step is to form a partnership. All in all took less than 10 hours to decide.
Because digital piracy has always been a grey area. Is it theft? Does the industry really lose sales? If so how much?
And traditionally, people are afraid of going to the courts because of uncertainty of the outcome, and more importantly the lack of experience to act and react in a courtroom.
Why do people so scared of doing bad things? Because somehow they thought that they might be going to hell when they died, and that uncertainty is enough to keep most people on track.
Now imagine if someone went to hell and back, and told everyone that it's actually not that bad, and he's publishing "The Bad People's Guide To Hell" telling you which road to take to avoid demons and punishments.
They shouldn't have let it go to the court.
But good news for everyone else.
As my form 2 teacher, Mrs Federline, always told me, if you don't understand something, just do it againjust done it yesterday.
Gizmodo found a hidden video button in iTunes 5 and Mac Rumors discovered iPod's trademark expanded to include video support.
Ultra-Low Power != Ultra Low-Power
Is it dot-com again? Should we recommend what type of car to drive too?
But if you really want to spend some money, maybe get a couple of LCD monitors.
I read the summary as if IT Department itself is a security risk, because they have the highest level of access to everything on the network, and one wee mistake, such as failure to lock an unattended admin pc, inappropriate disposal of a backup tape, a misconfigured spam filter and whatnot can easily knock out the company for at least a few hours or cause great harms.
Having said that, it's also true that computer users protected by a competent IT Department do get spoiled and when they're out with a laptop, they can easily be infected on a dial-up. It's like kids with over-protective parents will likely to get hurt/scammed/killed more easily when they're alone.
This naturally leads to the most important discussion in the article, i.e. user education. And I believe in order to really get the message through, IT Department needs to have some sort of security drill (like fire drill, annoying but everybody gets the idea after several attempts).
For example, if a user clicked on an obvious suspicious link (spoofed by yours truly IT Department of course), his computer will be taken away for "maintenance" for a week, and he'll be assigned to another area of the office with a crappy machine. This way, not only does he suffer from his action, others will know why he is working at the "Concentration Cubicle".
And its Gadgets vs Yahoo's Widgets and Apple's Dashboard.
I guess in this case, Brown has the fun, Ortiz has the fame.
I find this kind of conflict interesting. When developing a web tool or game, one can keep it secret until the day of public release, but someone else can come along and release something similar sooner, thus claim the market. Or, one can quickly put something together and release it, this way attracts attention as well as competition/copycats while the idea hasn't been polished yet.
The thing is, if someone walking in front of you saw a $10 note on the street, but didn't pick it up, you were about 10m behind, saw the same note and picked it up, can that someone claim he saw the note first and want to claim it back?
From my understanding of the event, Dr Brown was telescoping at something, but he didn't tell anyone what he was looking at. Ortiz came along and looked at Brown's telescoping logs. Based on the coordinates, Ortiz saw something interesting, and since no one claimed to have seen that interesting something yet, Ortiz made the claim.
Richard Pogge, an Ohio State astronomer who uncovered the apparent breach, said that scientists had long lived mostly successfully by a kind of honor system. Astronomers, he said, routinely serve on time allocation committees for telescopes and peer review panels without stealing one another's ideas. "It allows us to have an open, collaborative community,"
So why can't Dr Brown (the USian) publish his discovery immediately and let the community to chip in and further investigate the finding?
It's not Microsoft's responsibility to complain about unfair and preferential treatment given to its own products, other vendors are welcome to voice their concern when that happens.
The problem is, most "other vendors" are unlikely to do that, and even if they do, their voice is not strong enough to do any good/harm.
Since local body is so interested in a company's staffing decision, couldn't HP threaten to lay off more employees unless it gets more tax relief?
The article mentioned Rokr lacks the clickwheel that makes its big brothers function so slickly.
I wonder if Apple is able to pull such a trick where it uses its Mighty Mouse technology to provide both keypad and clickwheel on the same surface. Icons/numbers will be displayed accordingly through this LCD-type surface.
Now that will not only change the way we interact with mobile phones. For example, on game-playing mode, this Mighty-Panel will switch to a gamepad; On net-browsing mode, it offers scrollbars, back/forward buttons.
What happens when there is a melt down? You can't stop water from spreading to the rest of the world.
Funny that I can't find the word "safety" in the whole article.
Stop responding to the trolling grandparent post, you're only giving attention to his/her sig and invite discussion.
Simply foe him/her and your problem's solved.
The spokesman said he still did not know whether or not Ms Nugent's lunch was stolen.
Rumor has it that Nugent's lunch was stolen by her ex-boyfriend who is now with Bird.
Warning: Do not pass this on.
Regardless, the person who forwarded these emails to external parties should be fired because company emails shouldn't be forwarded to unintended recipients without original author's consent.
Is it too early to expect built-in virus protection from Intel CPUs in the future? Like an extension of Centrino?
Haven't we discovered that pokerbots making online players sad?
I believe if WoW n00bs are constantly being hammered by veterans, they will quit in no time too.
Besides, how many idiots can be born every second when most of their wealth will be redistributed almost immediately? So maybe what we are seeing here is just a down cycle, like in stock exchange.
Still, shouldn't have problem getting $20m. There are people who watch everything-comic, or just couldn't buy seats for their intended movies.
Ant Man - Like Spiderman, but with 6 legs.
Based on the statistics, comic-turn-movies are bringing in around $350 millions each after cost.
It's a pretty safe investment, they just need two good ones to break even, and another 8 crappy ones @ $20m each to have 30% return.