The article states a google search found over 500,000 modified pages. The post states over 500,000 servers. This is seriously misleading. If a site is hacked you could have several hundred modified pages on the site. This brings the number of servers down considerably.
Cuba no. Castro may be an asshole but he's not really dangerous at this point. North Korea on the other hand is ruled by an insane person with small dog syndrome and nukes. I'm sure if he ever launched nukes at a NATO protected country then the rest of the world would turn his entire country into a flat piece of molten glass but this doesn't mean he's not a threat. He might not be crazy enough yet to wage war on the rest of the planet but it would only take the right push for that to happen.
I do agree that the first post guy was an idiot though. Christian rock? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that piracy has nothing to do with the downfall of his business. He's trying to sell music that nobody will buy in the first place. It's a capitalist world, and although it is sad to say religion has no place in it. The only people I know who survive as a salesman this day and age are also the most dishonest people I know.
They have fought the War on Drugs with skill, so why not the War on Piracy? Um... are you sure you're on the right website? This is slashdot. I can't even count the number of times it's been said here that a war on a concept (eg. war on drugs, war on communism, war on terror, war on blah blah blah) has been ineffective. Drugs are still very much a problem, communist countries still exist, and Osama Bin Laden is still at large. Check your facts before posting such drivel.
I think the issue lies with the fact that Bell itself is confused. Just remember that upper management doesn't know squat about techie stuff like internets and tubes and stuff. The CEO used to work for CN rail - a company he nearly ran into the ground by causing numerous safety issues, firing inspectors for mentioning things that needed repair. He probably just told the techies to "Make it cheaper for us using any and all means possible. Fuck the customers."
Bell spokesman Jason Laszlo on Friday reiterated the company's position --that it was shaping traffic in order to prevent a small portion of bandwidth hogs from slowing speeds down for all customers.
He said there has been no backlash from customers, despite the incidents of the past week. I call bullshit. I used to work for Sympatico's technical support so I KNOW. If a customer complained about traffic shaping, no matter how savvy they are and how much evidence they presented, we would have just told them bit torrent is not supported. Regardless of the fact that the problem has nothing to do with bit torrent, that's where the blame would go. If we escalated something like this we would get written up for it. There is no backlash because management ensures they won't hear any backlash.
My only questions is whether this fungus has similar properties to a certain fungus that grows on rye grain - ergot fungus, an important ingredient in the manufacturing of LSD. Perhaps this has something to do with the poor quality control of everything we import from china.
Chinese Factory Worker: What's this RavMonE.exe file? Whoa - look at the colors on this ipod man - far out!
Supervisor: You just installed a virus on the ipod. Ship it anyway. I don't feel like filling out the paperwork. If Apple tries to sue us after the recall, our government will just ignore it. This will never see a courtroom. The West will be screwed with another virus, we'll get contracts with antivirus vendors to press their CD's, package them and ship them. Meanwhile we'll leak free copies to every pirate in the country, so they don't get infected, and when they sue, our government will just ignore it... and the cycle starts again.
When will North American companies start wising up to this?
I'm pretty sure it's the people funding the science journalists that need a boot to the head. For instance, in our new world of energy efficient political correctness, I recently read an article about a study that was done to prove that laptops use less power when they are in sleep mode. Ummm.... really, isn't that what sleep mode was designed for? You needed a study to prove that? So we're all supposed to keep our laptops in sleep mode instead of doing something productive? How about we fund a study to prove that your laptop accomplishes far less when it's in sleep mode. Better yet, how about a study to show how much taxpayer money gets wasted on frivolous studies that prove facts we already know. Then maybe these scientific journalists will have to start proving things that aren't useless, well-known facts.
A number of ISP's do this. Up here in Canada, Rogers does the same. They won't admit to it but everybody knows that Rogers does traffic shaping to slow down torrents. It doesn't make sense for them to do it though. Rogers has monthly bandwidth caps, which means they profit if you go over your limit. Blocking the bandwidth hogging software is just shooting themselves in the foot. Unless of course they don't charge enough for the excess usage to make a profit - in which case they should fire their accountants and hire some that know how to make a buck.
Because it is (a) too damned expensive to put in rail lines Not to mention difficult. Imagine trying to make all those rail lines stay up at 40,000 feet so the planes can stay on them and not collide with each other!
Actually, paying in pennies would get them in more hot water. Beleive it or not, it's against the law to pay a bill with coin if the bill exceeds $20.
Not that I am a law abiding citizen though. Interesting anecdote: I deposited a government issued tax rebate cheque. The bank held the cheque for 3 days even though their policy is to honor government cheques the day they are deposited. As a result my rent cheque bounced. I got nailed with a $35 NSF fee and they refused to reimburse me for it. I returned the favour by putting $35 into a deposit envelope, and depositing the money into my bank account at one of their ATM's. Shortly after my deposit, "Out of service" flashed up on the screen. I'm guessing the repair bill came to more than $35 dollars. They haven't held a government issued cheque on me since.
Bear in mind that if you were making $300+/hr as a programmer - you would be more than happy to waste time figuring out all the other nonsense instead of just writing the code and being done with it. And I'm sure that you would try to find a way of including several other "theories" that haven't been proven into the job just to make more work for yourself. The entire so called "justice system" is designed by lawyers for lawyers, so that they can milk you for every penny you have and then sue you for more. It has nothing to do with the justice. It's just a big scam. If lawyers were actually paid what they are worth - lets say $20/hr then greed wouldn't become such a big factor and legal issues would actually get dealt with. The SCO case would have been done and over with in probably less than an hour.
SCO Lawyer - They used our code! Judge - Do you have any evidence? SCO Lawyer - They used our code! Judge - Do you have any evidence? SCO Lawyer - They used our code! Judge - Since you don't have any evidence - get the **ck out of my courtroom! Costs awarded to IBM - $20. Case dismissed.
Antitrust laws maybe? Perhaps Dell - being the largest computer manufacturer in the world is afraid that they may be considered a monopoly and end up in an anti-trust lawsuit with AMD? Basically for the same thing microsoft did when they increased prices for computer manufacturers that offered other operating systems. Is there really any difference between lowering your price for manufacturers that exclusively use your product and increasing it for manufacturers that don't?
When the bible-thumpers start up their little riot, just ask them why the first few pages of their bible are stuck together. (The part where adam and eve are still naked)
In addition, Bainwol said, the ability of consumers to use legally purchased tunes on different devices is not crippled by DRM systems per se. "We're for interoperability," he said, "and there's nothing intrinsic to DRM that prevents interoperability."
I was under the impression that DRM doesn't allow you to copy music from one device to another. Have I got this wrong or is this Mr. Bainwol braindead and hasn't been paying attention?
Once again - I have to agree that parental irresponsibility is the cause of these sorts of problems.
Would you let Michael Jackson babysit your kids? or for that matter - in cases of parents suing video game companies, would you let Charles Manson babysit them? If the answer to these questions is no, then why do parents expect the internet, tv, and videogames to be their babysitter?
I think the parents should be thrown in jail for negligence.
In each case, the principal distinction between what is and is not covered by the AHRA is determined by whether or not the device is marketed or designed (or in the case of media, commonly used by consumers) to make audio recordings, not the device's capabilities. For consumers this means that copies of copyrighted works made with two technically identical media or devices may or may not be subject to civil penalties, depending on how the device was marketed. A CD-R recorder included as part of a personal computer would not be a digital audio recording device under the Act, since the personal computer was not marketed primarily for making copies of music. The same recorder, sold as a peripheral and marketed for the express purpose of making digital audio recordings, would fall under the Act's definition of a recording device.
So the only question is whether or not the device was marketed for the purpose of recording off the radio, or if it's primary function was for just listening to the radio.
And the reason he said it is because the kessel run is extremely difficult/dangerous to navigate. He went through it in the shortest distance. It really had nothing to do with speed.
That's because sex offenders are unholy merchants of sin, corrupting our children with the devil's ways.Next you'll want notification when a priest moves into your neighborhood. Isn't that what the registered priest^H^H^H sex offender list is for?
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The article states a google search found over 500,000 modified pages. The post states over 500,000 servers. This is seriously misleading. If a site is hacked you could have several hundred modified pages on the site. This brings the number of servers down considerably.
Cuba no. Castro may be an asshole but he's not really dangerous at this point. North Korea on the other hand is ruled by an insane person with small dog syndrome and nukes. I'm sure if he ever launched nukes at a NATO protected country then the rest of the world would turn his entire country into a flat piece of molten glass but this doesn't mean he's not a threat. He might not be crazy enough yet to wage war on the rest of the planet but it would only take the right push for that to happen. I do agree that the first post guy was an idiot though. Christian rock? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that piracy has nothing to do with the downfall of his business. He's trying to sell music that nobody will buy in the first place. It's a capitalist world, and although it is sad to say religion has no place in it. The only people I know who survive as a salesman this day and age are also the most dishonest people I know.
OK, now you have me confused. If the ISP is blocking your website, what difference does it make if you start blocking them?
I think the issue lies with the fact that Bell itself is confused. Just remember that upper management doesn't know squat about techie stuff like internets and tubes and stuff. The CEO used to work for CN rail - a company he nearly ran into the ground by causing numerous safety issues, firing inspectors for mentioning things that needed repair. He probably just told the techies to "Make it cheaper for us using any and all means possible. Fuck the customers."
He said there has been no backlash from customers, despite the incidents of the past week. I call bullshit. I used to work for Sympatico's technical support so I KNOW. If a customer complained about traffic shaping, no matter how savvy they are and how much evidence they presented, we would have just told them bit torrent is not supported. Regardless of the fact that the problem has nothing to do with bit torrent, that's where the blame would go. If we escalated something like this we would get written up for it. There is no backlash because management ensures they won't hear any backlash.
My only questions is whether this fungus has similar properties to a certain fungus that grows on rye grain - ergot fungus, an important ingredient in the manufacturing of LSD. Perhaps this has something to do with the poor quality control of everything we import from china.
Chinese Factory Worker: What's this RavMonE.exe file? Whoa - look at the colors on this ipod man - far out!
Supervisor: You just installed a virus on the ipod. Ship it anyway. I don't feel like filling out the paperwork. If Apple tries to sue us after the recall, our government will just ignore it. This will never see a courtroom. The West will be screwed with another virus, we'll get contracts with antivirus vendors to press their CD's, package them and ship them. Meanwhile we'll leak free copies to every pirate in the country, so they don't get infected, and when they sue, our government will just ignore it... and the cycle starts again.
When will North American companies start wising up to this?
I'm pretty sure it's the people funding the science journalists that need a boot to the head. For instance, in our new world of energy efficient political correctness, I recently read an article about a study that was done to prove that laptops use less power when they are in sleep mode. Ummm.... really, isn't that what sleep mode was designed for? You needed a study to prove that? So we're all supposed to keep our laptops in sleep mode instead of doing something productive? How about we fund a study to prove that your laptop accomplishes far less when it's in sleep mode. Better yet, how about a study to show how much taxpayer money gets wasted on frivolous studies that prove facts we already know. Then maybe these scientific journalists will have to start proving things that aren't useless, well-known facts.
A number of ISP's do this. Up here in Canada, Rogers does the same. They won't admit to it but everybody knows that Rogers does traffic shaping to slow down torrents. It doesn't make sense for them to do it though. Rogers has monthly bandwidth caps, which means they profit if you go over your limit. Blocking the bandwidth hogging software is just shooting themselves in the foot. Unless of course they don't charge enough for the excess usage to make a profit - in which case they should fire their accountants and hire some that know how to make a buck.
Actually, paying in pennies would get them in more hot water. Beleive it or not, it's against the law to pay a bill with coin if the bill exceeds $20.
Not that I am a law abiding citizen though. Interesting anecdote: I deposited a government issued tax rebate cheque. The bank held the cheque for 3 days even though their policy is to honor government cheques the day they are deposited. As a result my rent cheque bounced. I got nailed with a $35 NSF fee and they refused to reimburse me for it. I returned the favour by putting $35 into a deposit envelope, and depositing the money into my bank account at one of their ATM's. Shortly after my deposit, "Out of service" flashed up on the screen. I'm guessing the repair bill came to more than $35 dollars. They haven't held a government issued cheque on me since.
Bear in mind that if you were making $300+/hr as a programmer - you would be more than happy to waste time figuring out all the other nonsense instead of just writing the code and being done with it. And I'm sure that you would try to find a way of including several other "theories" that haven't been proven into the job just to make more work for yourself. The entire so called "justice system" is designed by lawyers for lawyers, so that they can milk you for every penny you have and then sue you for more. It has nothing to do with the justice. It's just a big scam. If lawyers were actually paid what they are worth - lets say $20/hr then greed wouldn't become such a big factor and legal issues would actually get dealt with. The SCO case would have been done and over with in probably less than an hour.
SCO Lawyer - They used our code!
Judge - Do you have any evidence?
SCO Lawyer - They used our code!
Judge - Do you have any evidence?
SCO Lawyer - They used our code!
Judge - Since you don't have any evidence - get the **ck out of my courtroom! Costs awarded to IBM - $20. Case dismissed.
When is the RIAA going to get sued by SCO for patent infringement? (Method for generating revenue with baseless lawsuits)
Guess this guy can't blog in the EU now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_the_sock/
Antitrust laws maybe? Perhaps Dell - being the largest computer manufacturer in the world is afraid that they may be considered a monopoly and end up in an anti-trust lawsuit with AMD? Basically for the same thing microsoft did when they increased prices for computer manufacturers that offered other operating systems. Is there really any difference between lowering your price for manufacturers that exclusively use your product and increasing it for manufacturers that don't?
Apparently Exxon is looking for scientists. Although I think that $10k salary is a little low... http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/ 02/1511229/
The internet is not a dump truck!!! How are all those paper ballots going to fit through the tubes!
Bush: All your tube are belong to us!!!
The people: ?????
Step 3: Profit!!!!
When the bible-thumpers start up their little riot, just ask them why the first few pages of their bible are stuck together. (The part where adam and eve are still naked)
Duke Nukem Forever?
3D Realms: We promised this game but it would be really wrong to not release it. So we'll just keep promising it.
Once again - I have to agree that parental irresponsibility is the cause of these sorts of problems.
Would you let Michael Jackson babysit your kids?
or for that matter - in cases of parents suing video game companies, would you let Charles Manson babysit them?
If the answer to these questions is no, then why do parents expect the internet, tv, and videogames to be their babysitter?
I think the parents should be thrown in jail for negligence.
So the only question is whether or not the device was marketed for the purpose of recording off the radio, or if it's primary function was for just listening to the radio.
And the reason he said it is because the kessel run is extremely difficult/dangerous to navigate. He went through it in the shortest distance. It really had nothing to do with speed.
I was thinking more along the lines of a sundial, problem is you have to wind it once in a while.