Bitcoin miners are being integrated with third party potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that come bundled with legitimate applications.... However, it seems that the company behind the application has a specific clause 3 in EULA that talks about mathematical calculations similar to Bitcoin mining operation. This means that the company behind the software can and will install Bitcoin miners and use system resources to perform operations as required to mine Bitcoins and keep the rewards for themselves
Incorrect.
Software that includes "PUPs" from the original software producer is not "legitimate". Any company with a EULA such as the one described is not a "legitimate" software company.
I told him to accentuate his large bank account. After that he found a nice girl looking for a sugar daddy. He gets regular sex, and she gets to go shopping. Laugh all you want, but they are both happy.
Why bother with a "dating" site if all you want is a hot chick for a steamy fuck? Just go to Backpage.com or Craig's List, or the back pages of whatever "alturnative" weekly your city has, and schedule a "date" or a "massage"...
A race when an opponent has reached the finish line in friggin 1969?
The equation is different now. There are resources to be mined on the moon. It's not a matter of if we will exploit the moon's natural resources, it's when. China already holds the cards on many basic materials of technology, they would like to hold more.
Maybe in the 24th century when The Federation is building starships, colonizing the galaxy and zooming around the universe, all without any apparent need for money, they can also build your "no ads, no profit motive" social network.
According to court documents filed in 2012, the deal with the military meant up to 500 named users could access the software.
Apptricity later estimated that 9,000 users were accessing the program, in addition to the 500 that had been paid for.
The unauthorised copying only came to light after a US Army official mentioned "thousands" of devices running the software during a presentation on technology.
Well there's your problem right there!
One might have assumed a BSA sting except, well, it's the gub'ment.
I wonder if "open relays" are even that much of a problem these days when I can hire non-"p0wnd" servers in certain Eastern European countries for a pittance? Why bother with "open relays" when I can pay quite reasonable rates to have my SPAM enter the Tubes quite legitimately?
Seriously? OVER a million? It's a nice controller, but really... Maybe this is one of the things wrong with Microsoft (and perhaps many big corps these days), they are not "nimble" and hevent been for at least 20 years. They have a lot to overcome if they want to remain "relevent", and Ballmer's departure is onle a very small part of that.
EPIC had filed the challenge directly with the Supreme Court rather than going through the lower courts.
This is the issue. The Supremes like you to work your way up through the lower courts as it is the proper procedure. If they accepted even a fraction of cases that didn't work the system the way it was designed, they would have a HUGE case load that could have been solved at a lower level.
EPIC will whine about this, but they should have been able to predict the outcome.
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I'm sorry, I should have posted my unfunny racist post under yours, but I just got too cought up in the unfunny H1B jokes.
Like all the qualified citizens here that get pushed out of jobs by H1Bs - it never happens, you know.
In this great country, we just don't have enough "smart people" because we are all MORONS that want a living wage and benefits
It's such a shame we will not work for basic wages with no benefits,WHO DO THE FUCK DO WE THINK WE ARE.
Blaw, blaw, blaw....
We shall not just send probes, we shall send many many QUALIFIED people to satisfy all the IT needs on the Sun.
That's pretty brave of you to say at /. but I agree.
Someone smells a game plaform....
And, Mr. Troll, what is the common interpretation of the word "incorrect" when used in context?
Do you also lecture people on There, Their, and They're?
I think the first country to establish a permanent settlement on the moon would have more claim over that territory.
And what exactly do you think China is doing developing manned moon mission technology?
End users need to learn to be responsible for their own systems.
True to a certain extent. But think about downloads from CNet.
Isn't CNet a trustworthy source? No? It certainly LOOKS like a trustworthy source. It's not a warez site, right?
But of course most /. folks know otherwise, we know that CNet is one the major sources of malware.
Also, please remember that not everyone who uses a computer is an "IT pro". This should not be necessary to avoid shit like this crap.
Bitcoin miners are being integrated with third party potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that come bundled with legitimate applications. ... However, it seems that the company behind the application has a specific clause 3 in EULA that talks about mathematical calculations similar to Bitcoin mining operation. This means that the company behind the software can and will install Bitcoin miners and use system resources to perform operations as required to mine Bitcoins and keep the rewards for themselves
Incorrect.
Software that includes "PUPs" from the original software producer is not "legitimate". Any company with a EULA such as the one described is not a "legitimate" software company.
I told him to accentuate his large bank account. After that he found a nice girl looking for a sugar daddy. He gets regular sex, and she gets to go shopping. Laugh all you want, but they are both happy.
Why bother with a "dating" site if all you want is a hot chick for a steamy fuck? Just go to Backpage.com or Craig's List, or the back pages of whatever "alturnative" weekly your city has, and schedule a "date" or a "massage" ...
Doesn't make much sense to send a million dollars worth of material back if shipping will cost 10 million dollars.
Not now . Who knows about the future.
It may not be "profitable" now, but the ground work for the mining technology has to be done sometime.
And as some commenters have suggested, China may very well declare some large slice of moon to be Chinese territory by having a human plant a flag...
The /. summary is straight from the blog, and really, the only interesting part of the blog post.
Here's the actual paper (PDF): http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1311/1311.2526.pdf
A race when an opponent has reached the finish line in friggin 1969?
The equation is different now. There are resources to be mined on the moon. It's not a matter of if we will exploit the moon's natural resources, it's when. China already holds the cards on many basic materials of technology, they would like to hold more.
Their is no money in open source for DOD US government jobs!
Illiterate moron.
Maybe in the 24th century when The Federation is building starships, colonizing the galaxy and zooming around the universe, all without any apparent need for money, they can also build your "no ads, no profit motive" social network.
USENET.
If it doesn't exist, then they could have developed it; probably would have cost much less than this did.
Clearly you are not familiar with both internal and external government software development.
I doubt the Army official knew they were pirated.
I don't believe this.
The Army has a professional IT program. Everyone from the commanders down to the bottom have to do CBT's and attend briefings on this subject.
The grunts using the apps might have no clue what / when / where the software was loaded, but the officers from the butter-bars on up certainly did.
So the Army should have used Open Source, folks say? Which project does the same or close to this commercial product?
According to court documents filed in 2012, the deal with the military meant up to 500 named users could access the software.
Apptricity later estimated that 9,000 users were accessing the program, in addition to the 500 that had been paid for.
The unauthorised copying only came to light after a US Army official mentioned "thousands" of devices running the software during a presentation on technology.
Well there's your problem right there!
One might have assumed a BSA sting except, well, it's the gub'ment.
How the fuck is this a "Troll"? This moderator abuse gets worse every day.
It's called an "opinion", look it up.
There are a number of ways to "abuse" the moderation system here, but expressing one's opinion through moderation is not one of them.
Since it would be almost impossible to take the parent up on this offer, what would you call it?
By the way, Anonymous Coward , as I type this, the parent post is no longer moderated as "Troll".
The price may go up a little more, but all indications are sell now before the crash.
I wonder if "open relays" are even that much of a problem these days when I can hire non-"p0wnd" servers in certain Eastern European countries for a pittance? Why bother with "open relays" when I can pay quite reasonable rates to have my SPAM enter the Tubes quite legitimately?
Perhaps Spamhaus is looking for relevancy.
Seriously? OVER a million? It's a nice controller, but really... Maybe this is one of the things wrong with Microsoft (and perhaps many big corps these days), they are not "nimble" and hevent been for at least 20 years. They have a lot to overcome if they want to remain "relevent", and Ballmer's departure is onle a very small part of that.
There is no lower court which is capable of hearing a FISA case.
But they will still have to work their way up the chain to establish that.
EPIC had filed the challenge directly with the Supreme Court rather than going through the lower courts.
This is the issue. The Supremes like you to work your way up through the lower courts as it is the proper procedure. If they accepted even a fraction of cases that didn't work the system the way it was designed, they would have a HUGE case load that could have been solved at a lower level.
EPIC will whine about this, but they should have been able to predict the outcome.
And at $1,250, overpriced. And of course they can then point to poor sales as to why they only sell Windows laptops / tablets at a reasonable price.