Actually, you're absolutely right. That's exactly what the people filing these lawsuits want. They know it's ridiculous and they're hoping a giant amount of press will back them up.
Well, either that or they talk to trees. You never know these days...
Well, I'd say he's right but about the wrong thing. The gPhone will fail because the carrier is going to want the platform locked. And I may be mistaken, but isn't it the Open Handset Alliance? There were murmurs of this phone going to Verizon, which would be a ridiculously huge step away from open. One thing I love about AT&T? I'm not forced to buy anything from them if I want to enhance my phone. I can make my own ringtones, backgrounds, and games. And I can put all the music I can fit on an SD card into my phone and listen to it. Verizon doesn't allow this (their idea of BlueTooth is headset and object push.. and nothing else), and neither does Sprint. Anyone wanna clarify for T-Mobile?
Maybe from a moral standing it's true. And I do agree with you. But from a legal standing there's no reason they shouldn't be sold to minors. That's the issue on trial, here. Well, will be if any court actually cares to hear what he has to say anymore.
Jack reminds me of that scene in the Simpsons movie where Rev. Lovejoy asks the church congregation who wants to speak, and Flanders raises his hand, garnering a great anguished sign from Lovejoy. Flanders is Jack Thompson, and Rev. Lovejoy is the court system.
Steve Jobs messed up. But, as you can very plainly see, he's taking his problem child to the shrink. In a manner of speaking, anyway. Of course people who wanted an SDK wouldn't buy a phone with no SDK. They'd wait until the SDK release was closer at hand. Or at least officially announced. There are plenty of other, cheaper platforms to hack.
Not sure why you were modded Informative, but you make a weak point. Cable providers (internet or otherwise) are very much regional here in the US, even inside the same company. I can drive 30 minutes in one direction and the TV channels are the same, but 30 minutes in the opposite direction and all the channels are different. And that is just Bright House Tampa and Bright House Central Florida, not yet different providers.
But what happens is a small company starts up, gets gobbled by a larger company (Time Warner owns Comcast, IIRC), and then dominates the area because that's more cost effective than rebranding. Especially in larger coverage areas.
Another issue you fail to realize is that for every spam host, there are probably 10 people legitimately using smtp. Believe it or not, ISPs simply cannot do all of our spam filtering for us because those spam hosts also send legitimate e-mails. Besides, with software like SpamAssassin, there really is no need for the ISP to do our work. I, for one, would be very upset if I no longer received e-mail from Sourceforge because of an ISP-side filter that I couldn't control.
The ISPs around here aren't stupid. They know that there isn't much they can do about BitTorrent traffic because of the ability for legitimate use. In fact, there is legal precedence to protect BitTorrent as the same issue was addressed with the blank VHS tape. There was a legitimate use, so blank media is legal. BitTorrent really isn't THAT much different, in that case.
As for encryption, there's nothing anyone can do about it. It is 100% perfectly legal to encrypt anything I want and send it over the internet. The content itself may not be legal, but the act itself most certainly is. I have yet to see anything about a government raid on anything OpenSSL related.
I think it's hard to accuse CC of malpractice here. They don't claim the licenses as individually suitable for your work and situation, they just offer boilerplate licenses that you can pick if you desire. Also, there's no reason to believe that the photographer had no idea what the CC license entails. He probably just picked that because it was the first on the list, or he had a "general idea" of how it worked. CC is just a bystander that got yanked in because some photographer made an uninformed decision.
You'd be hard pressed to justify that, to be perfectly honest. Do you agree that the Dvorak keyboard layout is garbage simply because you don't like it?
I just wanna be able to play and use my software I do now, without a performance hit because I'm kinda backwards engineering software to run on a different OS. That's already been done at the software layer. You game runs just as it does on Windows, except in Linux. Basically, WINE is Windows' core ported to Linux (if that makes more sense).
Somewhere in this array of comments everyone forgot to mention that 99% of the time, online-based games store all user data on the server's end, not the client's end. And so you can hack, hack, hack the day away and the game's server will stop you dead in your tracks.
The DMCA may have made that illegal, but the DMCA also makes the mod10 algo illegal because you have to reverse engineer a credit card number to verify it. In short, no one is really going to care if the Wii's save files get decrypted. And that includes Nintendo.
Personally, I find it very hard to believe that Nintendo had anything to do with this. Microsoft, sure. Sony, sure. But in the past, Nintendo hasn't seemed to be very outspoken about console mods.
Rant or not, he's absolutely right. I, for one, record many an episode of Futurama and any other number of shows and I constantly wonder if my DVR actually counts towards the ratings for that show. Not that it matters for Futurama at this point (well, not yet), but it's been on my mind.
It all comes down to the fact that eventually someone was going to have to point out the problem. Otherwise, how would the problem be addressed?
And as far as everyone's problems with "news or rant," the root word of editorial is, well... That's an easy one. And isn't Slashdot actually a blog in disguise, anyway?
This thing is great. I put in Programming Python and the list came back with a bunch of books that my girlfriend loves. It worked the same for every book title we tried.
Actually, he didn't do any hacking. The kid willingly gave him the information he asked for. Posing as a Valve employee, however, if something of which he's 100% guilty. Then again, so is the kid. Regardless, the kid got what he deserved. This isn't something you try with just anyone. There's more than one Kevin Mitnick out there.
That's like saying Microsoft won't support the JPEG format because there's been child pornography in JPEG and they don't want to annoy the cops. Divx is one of the more effective compression formats, which is why it's so popular with pirated movie groups.
That doesn't mean I don't completely agree with you.
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Actually, you're absolutely right. That's exactly what the people filing these lawsuits want. They know it's ridiculous and they're hoping a giant amount of press will back them up.
Well, either that or they talk to trees. You never know these days...
Well, I'd say he's right but about the wrong thing. The gPhone will fail because the carrier is going to want the platform locked. And I may be mistaken, but isn't it the Open Handset Alliance? There were murmurs of this phone going to Verizon, which would be a ridiculously huge step away from open. One thing I love about AT&T? I'm not forced to buy anything from them if I want to enhance my phone. I can make my own ringtones, backgrounds, and games. And I can put all the music I can fit on an SD card into my phone and listen to it. Verizon doesn't allow this (their idea of BlueTooth is headset and object push.. and nothing else), and neither does Sprint. Anyone wanna clarify for T-Mobile?
You could always get UNX Utils.
Luckily for everyone it's a lie.
Jack Thompson would sue you because there's a lawyer in the game.
Maybe from a moral standing it's true. And I do agree with you. But from a legal standing there's no reason they shouldn't be sold to minors. That's the issue on trial, here. Well, will be if any court actually cares to hear what he has to say anymore.
Jack reminds me of that scene in the Simpsons movie where Rev. Lovejoy asks the church congregation who wants to speak, and Flanders raises his hand, garnering a great anguished sign from Lovejoy. Flanders is Jack Thompson, and Rev. Lovejoy is the court system.
You're absolutely correct. My collection is 870 megs, brought down from almost 2 gigs. I'd say that's a bit bigger than 256 megs.
Steve Jobs messed up. But, as you can very plainly see, he's taking his problem child to the shrink. In a manner of speaking, anyway. Of course people who wanted an SDK wouldn't buy a phone with no SDK. They'd wait until the SDK release was closer at hand. Or at least officially announced. There are plenty of other, cheaper platforms to hack.
Not sure why you were modded Informative, but you make a weak point. Cable providers (internet or otherwise) are very much regional here in the US, even inside the same company. I can drive 30 minutes in one direction and the TV channels are the same, but 30 minutes in the opposite direction and all the channels are different. And that is just Bright House Tampa and Bright House Central Florida, not yet different providers.
But what happens is a small company starts up, gets gobbled by a larger company (Time Warner owns Comcast, IIRC), and then dominates the area because that's more cost effective than rebranding. Especially in larger coverage areas.
Another issue you fail to realize is that for every spam host, there are probably 10 people legitimately using smtp. Believe it or not, ISPs simply cannot do all of our spam filtering for us because those spam hosts also send legitimate e-mails. Besides, with software like SpamAssassin, there really is no need for the ISP to do our work. I, for one, would be very upset if I no longer received e-mail from Sourceforge because of an ISP-side filter that I couldn't control.
The ISPs around here aren't stupid. They know that there isn't much they can do about BitTorrent traffic because of the ability for legitimate use. In fact, there is legal precedence to protect BitTorrent as the same issue was addressed with the blank VHS tape. There was a legitimate use, so blank media is legal. BitTorrent really isn't THAT much different, in that case.
As for encryption, there's nothing anyone can do about it. It is 100% perfectly legal to encrypt anything I want and send it over the internet. The content itself may not be legal, but the act itself most certainly is. I have yet to see anything about a government raid on anything OpenSSL related.
Ah, but how many people know the rule that "ain't" follows to be a grammatically correct word? Yes, there is one.
It doesn't much matter whether or not it's legal in Sweden, as the site itself is based in Sealand.
Interestingly enough, I attempted to visit the Open Office site after reading this article and it was down. Hmm...
You'd be hard pressed to justify that, to be perfectly honest. Do you agree that the Dvorak keyboard layout is garbage simply because you don't like it?
Somewhere in this array of comments everyone forgot to mention that 99% of the time, online-based games store all user data on the server's end, not the client's end. And so you can hack, hack, hack the day away and the game's server will stop you dead in your tracks.
The DMCA may have made that illegal, but the DMCA also makes the mod10 algo illegal because you have to reverse engineer a credit card number to verify it. In short, no one is really going to care if the Wii's save files get decrypted. And that includes Nintendo.
Personally, I find it very hard to believe that Nintendo had anything to do with this. Microsoft, sure. Sony, sure. But in the past, Nintendo hasn't seemed to be very outspoken about console mods.
Rant or not, he's absolutely right. I, for one, record many an episode of Futurama and any other number of shows and I constantly wonder if my DVR actually counts towards the ratings for that show. Not that it matters for Futurama at this point (well, not yet), but it's been on my mind.
It all comes down to the fact that eventually someone was going to have to point out the problem. Otherwise, how would the problem be addressed?
And as far as everyone's problems with "news or rant," the root word of editorial is, well... That's an easy one. And isn't Slashdot actually a blog in disguise, anyway?
What about Christian students and the Big Bang?
This thing is great. I put in Programming Python and the list came back with a bunch of books that my girlfriend loves. It worked the same for every book title we tried.
Actually, he didn't do any hacking. The kid willingly gave him the information he asked for. Posing as a Valve employee, however, if something of which he's 100% guilty. Then again, so is the kid. Regardless, the kid got what he deserved. This isn't something you try with just anyone. There's more than one Kevin Mitnick out there.
That's like saying Microsoft won't support the JPEG format because there's been child pornography in JPEG and they don't want to annoy the cops. Divx is one of the more effective compression formats, which is why it's so popular with pirated movie groups.
That doesn't mean I don't completely agree with you.
Also, don't forget our show on Nov. 18th in Tampa. Information is on the Rhyme Torrents forums.
My local EB is one of the top 10 in the nation, they got 16 PS3s. But they only got 12 Wiis. Doesn't make any sense, but I was #4 so it's all good. =)