Just you dummies forget about Canada. This shit is all coming down on your watch. Why the hell would we want you here, where you'd just let it happen again? You made your bed, you sleep in it. Don't come over here and mess up mine.
BoingBoing has a nice list of what Sony has done wrong. Take the boycott suggestion seriously: this is a prime opportunity for the consumer to communicate with the company. Opportunities for communicating such a very clear message do not come around often. In fact, if the companies have their way, the opportunity will never, ever happen again.
Summarized:
Oct 31: Sony DRM uses black-hat rootkits Nov 3: Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits Nov 3: Felten on Sony's rootkit-"remover: they're still adding something" Nov 3: Defeat WoW spyware using Sony's rootkit: proof it has side-effects Nov 9: List of CDs infected with Sony's rootkit DRM Nov 9: Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit Nov 10: Sony Music CDs infect Macs, too Nov 10: Fantastic screed against the coders who wrote the previous Sony DRM junk: they've done it before Nov 11: Sony will stop shipping infectious CDs -- too little, too late Nov 12: Sony's *other* malicious audio CD trojan Nov 12: New Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games Nov 13: Sony's malware uninstaller leaves your computer vulnerable Nov 13: Sony's rootkit infringes on software copyrights
Other stuff: Sony lied about its rootkit. They said it didn't phone home with information about your deeds. It does. When they were caught in the lie, they said that they didn't pay attention to the information it sent back, so it's OK Microsoft is building a Sony rootkit-remover into its anti-spyware product Lawsuits against Sony are already underway in Italy and the US At least one piece of malicious software that exploits Sony's rootkit has been discovered in the wild
Update: Christopher sez, "You missed one in your Sony timeline that I think is excellent. A call from Dan Goodin over on Wired to boycott all Sony products until they make amends..." posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:40:06 AM
If you expect to be treated fairly, you must take this seriously. You need to boycott Sony products. You harm yourself if you do not: you will make it okay for them to harm you again and again.
First, Sony needs to be boycotted as a consumer act that sends a clear message to Big Business that we will not accept invasive DRM, such as that which made the headlines this past week. Smashing a security hole into our systems? That must be protested, no two ways about it.
Second, Sony will not be destroyed by the boycott. And to your benefit it will motivate Sony to perform so very, very well that they regain their loyal customers. This time next year they'd re-release the product with such stunning capabilities that you'd happily purchase it at even a premium price. Your boycott will spur them to outperform themselves.
Enough of this crap about "star formation theory" and "gravitational lense theory" and all that other tripe!
We need to start teaching Intelligent Astrology in our schools. The stars were put there BY GOD for our use. That is why we have constellations like Libra and Virgo: they are part of God's plan.
We don't need no stinking Hubble Telescope, named after some queer godless astronomer, when we have books like Of Stars and People, which spells out exactly how God's plan is better than man's godless theories.
Funny how on the one hand we can get into wars "to bring democracy to the mid-East," yet at the same time actively support China in laying the beat-down on its citizens yet again. Why the hell is the government allowing companies to do this sort of business?! Let's try to have some sort of morals, hey?
the big Canadian telcos have been replacing all their copper with fiber for years now. I know for a fact you'd have a damn difficult time finding copper between towns in British Columbia -- even the dead-end podunk town 100km to the east of my home, population 400, has fiber to its switch. And if what I've heard is correct, all new developments this past five to ten years have been laid with fiber to the local switch, and possibly dark fiber to the home in addition to the copper pairs.
I a little startled to hear that fiber is a big deal in the USA. Talk about behind the times!
And if so, why the hell isn't the Corporate Death Penalty being applied against some of the nation's biggest offenders? There are any number of corporations that have caused hellish environmental destruction, have screwed bajillions of dollars out of consumers, have outright lied about their products, have been caught red-handed cheating the government out of billions, etcetera. As far as I know, most of those companies are allowed to continue to exist... yet surely they are more harmful to society than the spammers.
No shit! You can tell this study was done by a bunch of city kids.
I'm not going to reveal our farm secrets, because it would ruin the fun, but I will tell y'all that proper cow-tipping involves a bit more than just giving ol' Bessie a short, sharp shove.
The cost of entry to use a *nice* Apple is just too damned high -- and this coming from an Apple FAN!
How do you figure this? I purchased a 12" iBook this summer. It cost about the same as my last Windows laptop. The iBook feels as fast, or faster; it came with more memory, wireless, bluetooth, firewire, larger hard drive, and a far better OS. And it looks to me that a Mac mini is about price-equivalent to low-end Windows boxen.
I'm not exactly seeing the "too damned high" here. Perhaps 10% higher price, but with more than 10% extra value, IMO.
Maybe the USPTO is saying "Ooh, good idea!" because it is purposefully committing suicide?
I mean, that's a weird idea, but it seems to me that they're basically forcing the government to deal with the problem. Surely any halfway intelligent person can see that this system just isn't working
If you truly are that gung-ho, then I shall send you twenty buck with which to purchase the CD. You can then do exactly as you describe.
Mind, that you aren't purchasing the CD yourself for the express purpose of following-through on what you've written, kinda indicates to me that I'll just be wasting my money. You won't start any lawsuits at all.
Please explain to me how the outing of Plame did not blow out a significant portion of the CIA's assets in Africa!
Flamebait would be posting an outrageous claim meant to sucker people into an endless shouting match.
That the outing of Plame was harmful to the US's best interests is a statement of fucking fact my friend, and is of such importance that everyone in the USA should be hearing it.
I can only assume the moderator is a supporter of the Bush presidency. That's fine: just don't allow your ideology to interfere with your responsibilities as a moderator.
As an spy operative, her primary goal was to obtain information. To accomplish this, she needed to develop contacts within the administration of other nations' governments and large corporations. These are the people who make it possible to spy: they have direct knowledge of, or direct access to, important information, and they are careless enough or traitorous enough to leak it.
So immediately, outing Plame outed dozens of the CIA's primary sources of spy information. Everyone she has dealt with under the pretext of a Brewster-Jennings corporate executive or research assistant or disloyal secretary (counter-espionage). In the harsh regimes, all the people she treated as friends and companions will also be under suspicion.
This is a major loss: primary contacts don't come a dime a dozen.
Not only that, but outing Plame also outed Brewster-Jennings as a cover story. Every CIA spy using that cover has also been outed. What a fuck-up! That means at least three to six spies have been lost: Plame's cover story undoubtedly included co-workers who posed as her assistants or her bosses.
This is an extremely major loss: it is multiplied by the number of spies working under that cover.
And to make things even worse, any corporations, research labs, wholesalers, arms dealers, government officials, etcetera -- they're all going to be running a tight security check on those areas Brewster-Jennings was known or suspected of contacting. This places other CIA spies and other nations' spies at risk of being discovered. Oh, for fucks' sake, what a fucking mess!
Now you know what they mean by treason: the USA's most important asset in Africa, the spy network that keeps tabs on what's going on with the uranium, has been blown wide open.
Why should they have any concern whatsoever about the type of content? Do you think the telcos care whether you chat up your ooky-wooky hunnybuns, or plan the overthrow of the government? Hint: they don't. It's called "common carrier status," and means that while they provide the means of communication, they are not responsible for the editorial control of that same communication.
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If you read TFA, you'll find that making coloured bubbles IS hard, and making disappearing coloured bubbles is even harder.
5) Separate UI from Functionality.
Offer the old-style MSWord 97, XP, WordPerfect, and Office12 interfaces. Let the end-user choose their UI.
Pray tell, what is it you are doing that would benefit by a CPU speed boost?
In my opinion, you'd be better focusing on hard drive and memory speed boosts.
Just you dummies forget about Canada. This shit is all coming down on your watch. Why the hell would we want you here, where you'd just let it happen again? You made your bed, you sleep in it. Don't come over here and mess up mine.
Oh, irony of ironies... I thought I was joking, but it appears it is real!
Summarized:If you expect to be treated fairly, you must take this seriously. You need to boycott Sony products. You harm yourself if you do not: you will make it okay for them to harm you again and again.
First, Sony needs to be boycotted as a consumer act that sends a clear message to Big Business that we will not accept invasive DRM, such as that which made the headlines this past week. Smashing a security hole into our systems? That must be protested, no two ways about it.
:-)
Second, Sony will not be destroyed by the boycott. And to your benefit it will motivate Sony to perform so very, very well that they regain their loyal customers. This time next year they'd re-release the product with such stunning capabilities that you'd happily purchase it at even a premium price. Your boycott will spur them to outperform themselves.
Win-win situation all around. Boycott Sony.
Enough of this crap about "star formation theory" and "gravitational lense theory" and all that other tripe!
We need to start teaching Intelligent Astrology in our schools. The stars were put there BY GOD for our use. That is why we have constellations like Libra and Virgo: they are part of God's plan.
We don't need no stinking Hubble Telescope, named after some queer godless astronomer, when we have books like Of Stars and People, which spells out exactly how God's plan is better than man's godless theories.
Who said anything about invading China? I'm merely talking about not selling repressive tools to them.
Funny how on the one hand we can get into wars "to bring democracy to the mid-East," yet at the same time actively support China in laying the beat-down on its citizens yet again. Why the hell is the government allowing companies to do this sort of business?! Let's try to have some sort of morals, hey?
the big Canadian telcos have been replacing all their copper with fiber for years now. I know for a fact you'd have a damn difficult time finding copper between towns in British Columbia -- even the dead-end podunk town 100km to the east of my home, population 400, has fiber to its switch. And if what I've heard is correct, all new developments this past five to ten years have been laid with fiber to the local switch, and possibly dark fiber to the home in addition to the copper pairs.
I a little startled to hear that fiber is a big deal in the USA. Talk about behind the times!
And if so, why the hell isn't the Corporate Death Penalty being applied against some of the nation's biggest offenders? There are any number of corporations that have caused hellish environmental destruction, have screwed bajillions of dollars out of consumers, have outright lied about their products, have been caught red-handed cheating the government out of billions, etcetera. As far as I know, most of those companies are allowed to continue to exist... yet surely they are more harmful to society than the spammers.
Oh, chances are that it won't become impossible to innovate.
It'll just be impossible to innovate in the USA.
Which will, in the end, ultimately serve to remove the USA from the competitive global market.
I'm sure India, China, and Brazil won't mind in the least!
No shit! You can tell this study was done by a bunch of city kids.
I'm not going to reveal our farm secrets, because it would ruin the fun, but I will tell y'all that proper cow-tipping involves a bit more than just giving ol' Bessie a short, sharp shove.
Ah, good times, good times.
The cost of entry to use a *nice* Apple is just too damned high -- and this coming from an Apple FAN!
How do you figure this? I purchased a 12" iBook this summer. It cost about the same as my last Windows laptop. The iBook feels as fast, or faster; it came with more memory, wireless, bluetooth, firewire, larger hard drive, and a far better OS. And it looks to me that a Mac mini is about price-equivalent to low-end Windows boxen.
I'm not exactly seeing the "too damned high" here. Perhaps 10% higher price, but with more than 10% extra value, IMO.
Maybe the USPTO is saying "Ooh, good idea!" because it is purposefully committing suicide?
I mean, that's a weird idea, but it seems to me that they're basically forcing the government to deal with the problem. Surely any halfway intelligent person can see that this system just isn't working
Turns out that MailActOn or MailTags was at fault! Problem solved.
In Mail, I can not access the "advanced" panel of Junk Mail Preferences; nor can I edit the rules listed in the Pref Pane. :-(
If you truly are that gung-ho, then I shall send you twenty buck with which to purchase the CD. You can then do exactly as you describe.
Mind, that you aren't purchasing the CD yourself for the express purpose of following-through on what you've written, kinda indicates to me that I'll just be wasting my money. You won't start any lawsuits at all.
Flamebait? Are you fucking kidding me?
Please explain to me how the outing of Plame did not blow out a significant portion of the CIA's assets in Africa!
Flamebait would be posting an outrageous claim meant to sucker people into an endless shouting match.
That the outing of Plame was harmful to the US's best interests is a statement of fucking fact my friend, and is of such importance that everyone in the USA should be hearing it.
I can only assume the moderator is a supporter of the Bush presidency. That's fine: just don't allow your ideology to interfere with your responsibilities as a moderator.
Plame was outed. What were the consequences?
As an spy operative, her primary goal was to obtain information. To accomplish this, she needed to develop contacts within the administration of other nations' governments and large corporations. These are the people who make it possible to spy: they have direct knowledge of, or direct access to, important information, and they are careless enough or traitorous enough to leak it.
So immediately, outing Plame outed dozens of the CIA's primary sources of spy information. Everyone she has dealt with under the pretext of a Brewster-Jennings corporate executive or research assistant or disloyal secretary (counter-espionage). In the harsh regimes, all the people she treated as friends and companions will also be under suspicion.
This is a major loss: primary contacts don't come a dime a dozen.
Not only that, but outing Plame also outed Brewster-Jennings as a cover story. Every CIA spy using that cover has also been outed. What a fuck-up! That means at least three to six spies have been lost: Plame's cover story undoubtedly included co-workers who posed as her assistants or her bosses.
This is an extremely major loss: it is multiplied by the number of spies working under that cover.
And to make things even worse, any corporations, research labs, wholesalers, arms dealers, government officials, etcetera -- they're all going to be running a tight security check on those areas Brewster-Jennings was known or suspected of contacting. This places other CIA spies and other nations' spies at risk of being discovered. Oh, for fucks' sake, what a fucking mess!
Now you know what they mean by treason: the USA's most important asset in Africa, the spy network that keeps tabs on what's going on with the uranium, has been blown wide open.
Oh joy.
No, that works: they've replaced the working politicians with expendable clones, while the real ones stay in Yamantau.
Sounds like there is potential to develop a great male contraceptive out of this, too.
Be even better if a single gene therapy would damage the HIRA gene, and another could reverse the damage.
...but you've got bad breath, too. :-(
Why should they have any concern whatsoever about the type of content? Do you think the telcos care whether you chat up your ooky-wooky hunnybuns, or plan the overthrow of the government? Hint: they don't. It's called "common carrier status," and means that while they provide the means of communication, they are not responsible for the editorial control of that same communication.