The problem is the only reason it does generate billions is because it is tax free.
I myself am tired of paying $50 plus tax for a video game I can get for $35 no taxes shipped for $5 on the inter tubes thingy.
It keeps roughly $12 in my pocket, to spend on other life bettering things , like say the new law in massachusetts that makes it illegal for me, to not have healthcare. Man do I hate politicians,when are people going to realize these people are scum and definately not for the people but more for themselves and voting getting their buddies into jobs that pay great.
I often thought of that same thing , how can they track what I watch and what I do. I realized that i have digital cable and satellite. And both can hold searchs and stuff in memory , plus every digital cable box asks the head end for a key to the channel.
My assumption is that my dvr and cables boxes are telling comcast what I do. Which I wouldn't mind if it helps keep my favorite shows on.
I think Tivo can do the same. I had a Tivo connected to the net to retrieve it's guide info and I realized it must be tracking me , it started recommending shows and such for me. What I wasd a little ticked off about is it didn't seperate the users.
After using the Tivo for a couple weeks before giving in and turning it over to my wife , it must have determined me to be gay after 3 months of use. I came home to episodes of shows like queer eye for the straight guy , queer as folk , oz and other shows from lifetime like designing women.
None the less I feel this is how they track some. It could log all the button presses and errors to try and make it a better product , and a side affect is that it tracks your usage.
Or how about simply stop trying to protect "content" I paid for and let me use it as I see fit.
This "war on piracy" crap has to stop , all it is doing is creating a false market for companies to sell them content management (and I use the term loosely) systems.
They need to rally sit back and look at the hacks that are widely available. Satellite , software , hell even bank cards. They need to either make the system more expensive to break , so there is no point in cracking it , but just buying the disc or they need to embrace what the people want.
Since at this point you are driving your customers away I would choose the second option , don't DRM the discs and let people use the content they paid for. Why make them pay 3 times for the same content, that is just basic bad business and money mongering.
you know how hard it is to manage the rsa tokens and the smart cards ? I use them here and daily we get people who have to call out to have the things resynch witht the servers.
The banks are financial institutes at their finest , they don't want to pay out money if they don't have to. And supporting that is pure loss for them.
First , how many small counties offices are running linux let alone SE ? These places get by on using the most common stuff they can find. To make it easy on the city worker.
These folks run MS and fail to apply security updates , do you really think they will run updates on a linux box ? A badly patched linux box is much more dangerous then windows boxen that are not patched. A linux box you can control much more of the box then an MS box. It just happens with having more control over the platform there is more that can be done with it. Linux is a superior platform in that respect and that makes it more dangerous.
A physical Key logger ? You mean a keyboard ? yeah we use those a lot , EVERYWHERE.
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Fact: DragonflyBSD, yet another offshoot of the beleaguered FreeBSD "project", is already collapsing under the weight of internal power struggles and in-fighting. "They haven't done a single decent release," notes Mark Baron, an industry watcher and columnist. "Their mailing lists read like an online version of a Jerry Springer episode, complete with food fights, swearing, name-calling, and chair-throwing." Netcraft reports that DragonflyBSD is run on exactly 0% of internet servers.
Since when did Steve Balmer start working at dragonflyBSD ?
Not so easy in a high availability environment. Where boot times can cost thousands of dollars a second. These root kits can cause havok there.
I work at Sun and some of the worlds largest companies use our gear. I know one case where a heavy iron machine went down and it would have cost over 200 k for the 2 hours the box was down. Thankfully we have a good support crew and they had fail over components , dedicated to that company or it could have been bad.
Of all the *nix variants I have used Solaris seems to fit the bill for me and I run it at home beside the old red hat 7.3 box. The more i work with it on heavy iron the more I get to like it.
What you don't know is it is actually a conspiracy to put all the geeks in jail. Then only then my friend will all the user$ roam free and admin-less to destroy our years of trouble making and tweaking the tech gadgets they love so much !
I for one would like to welcome our , new non-geeky , law making non-technically inclined overlords.
Default and why is he installing hacking tools in Linux distro's ?
On a serious note doesn't this basically make watching dvds on a linux computer illegal as well ? Sounds to me like this can be wide open for abuse much like our beloved DMCA.
And I wouldn't disagree with that. We have always been you pay for the support. My experience has been that other comp[anies don't have quite as much "talent" in the center and on the streets as sun has.
As a sun employee , we love those arrays , barely ever get calls on them. And when we do it's mostly service on disks that went bad that they didn't notice some times for weeks (unattentive sa?).
I am quite the opposite. I find myself playing the wii so often, every day I get home from work I play , my wife even likes to play with my wii. Well that sounded so sexual.
Quite honestly between wiiplay and wiisports I spend at least an hour a day playing. With Super Mario Paper and Trauma Center it's time for sleep before i even get a chance to watch some TV.
To me I play the wii more often then my 360 , I got bored of the constant fps and sports games constantly being released. They need to get me more into the game like the wii does, in order to get me back on a different system.
Maybe the new GTA will do that , but my guess is I will play it for 5 days and beat it like I did with crackdown and never touch it again , then sell it back to Gamestop or on Ebay.
In other news the Windows Vista car was slow off the line, but the car looked good and the driver was heard screaming "accept" as the car lurched forward and stopped every time he used the accelerator.
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Apparently from my email box , Penis enlargement pills.
Yes, yes pun intended !
Probably because our brothers to the north know that if it goes over well in the US it will hppen to Canada as well.
The problem is the only reason it does generate billions is because it is tax free.
,when are people going to realize these people are scum and definately not for the people but more for themselves and voting getting their buddies into jobs that pay great.
I myself am tired of paying $50 plus tax for a video game I can get for $35 no taxes shipped for $5 on the inter tubes thingy.
It keeps roughly $12 in my pocket, to spend on other life bettering things , like say the new law in massachusetts that makes it illegal for me, to not have healthcare. Man do I hate politicians
Try getting out of that dark basement and doing this with real people in a real place ! It may surprise you , you might find a girlfriend.
Only the ones with big hulking men and long bathing scenes....ahhh damn I may be gay !
Damn now they are even outsourcing posters ! Damn you out sources , damn you to HELL !
Sorry we recently outsourced the editing jobs to China , but give it a chance , you too will soon be talking broken Engrish.
I often thought of that same thing , how can they track what I watch and what I do. I realized that i have digital cable and satellite. And both can hold searchs and stuff in memory , plus every digital cable box asks the head end for a key to the channel.
My assumption is that my dvr and cables boxes are telling comcast what I do. Which I wouldn't mind if it helps keep my favorite shows on.
I think Tivo can do the same. I had a Tivo connected to the net to retrieve it's guide info and I realized it must be tracking me , it started recommending shows and such for me. What I wasd a little ticked off about is it didn't seperate the users.
After using the Tivo for a couple weeks before giving in and turning it over to my wife , it must have determined me to be gay after 3 months of use. I came home to episodes of shows like queer eye for the straight guy , queer as folk , oz and other shows from lifetime like designing women.
None the less I feel this is how they track some. It could log all the button presses and errors to try and make it a better product , and a side affect is that it tracks your usage.
Or how about simply stop trying to protect "content" I paid for and let me use it as I see fit.
This "war on piracy" crap has to stop , all it is doing is creating a false market for companies to sell them content management (and I use the term loosely) systems.
They need to rally sit back and look at the hacks that are widely available. Satellite , software , hell even bank cards. They need to either make the system more expensive to break , so there is no point in cracking it , but just buying the disc or they need to embrace what the people want.
Since at this point you are driving your customers away I would choose the second option , don't DRM the discs and let people use the content they paid for. Why make them pay 3 times for the same content, that is just basic bad business and money mongering.
you know how hard it is to manage the rsa tokens and the smart cards ? I use them here and daily we get people who have to call out to have the things resynch witht the servers.
The banks are financial institutes at their finest , they don't want to pay out money if they don't have to. And supporting that is pure loss for them.
First , how many small counties offices are running linux let alone SE ? These places get by on using the most common stuff they can find. To make it easy on the city worker.
These folks run MS and fail to apply security updates , do you really think they will run updates on a linux box ? A badly patched linux box is much more dangerous then windows boxen that are not patched. A linux box you can control much more of the box then an MS box. It just happens with having more control over the platform there is more that can be done with it. Linux is a superior platform in that respect and that makes it more dangerous.
A physical Key logger ? You mean a keyboard ? yeah we use those a lot , EVERYWHERE.
Since when did Steve Balmer start working at dragonflyBSD ?
Not so easy in a high availability environment. Where boot times can cost thousands of dollars a second. These root kits can cause havok there.
I work at Sun and some of the worlds largest companies use our gear. I know one case where a heavy iron machine went down and it would have cost over 200 k for the 2 hours the box was down. Thankfully we have a good support crew and they had fail over components , dedicated to that company or it could have been bad.
Of all the *nix variants I have used Solaris seems to fit the bill for me and I run it at home beside the old red hat 7.3 box. The more i work with it on heavy iron the more I get to like it.
Probably not , since after all this is slashdot and we all know no one RTFA.
Germany has actually sprouted some of the great minds in the security industry , one has to wonder how they let this slide by.
What you don't know is it is actually a conspiracy to put all the geeks in jail. Then only then my friend will all the user$ roam free and admin-less to destroy our years of trouble making and tweaking the tech gadgets they love so much !
I for one would like to welcome our , new non-geeky , law making non-technically inclined overlords.
That post in and of itself was redundant ! That has been posted many times before ;)
Nope , just the stupid ones who use simple passwords !
Well Im getting on the first train out of Germany , I know Im screwed when it comes to stupidity.
Default and why is he installing hacking tools in Linux distro's ?
On a serious note doesn't this basically make watching dvds on a linux computer illegal as well ? Sounds to me like this can be wide open for abuse much like our beloved DMCA.
Can't RTFA since the laws are in German.
Ah Super Troopers reference wish I had mod points for that one.
I guess we could always just ask them for thier home number and call them back during dinner. Hell waste some of thier personal time as well.
And I wouldn't disagree with that. We have always been you pay for the support. My experience has been that other comp[anies don't have quite as much "talent" in the center and on the streets as sun has.
That is a major reason why i chose to work here.
As a sun employee , we love those arrays , barely ever get calls on them. And when we do it's mostly service on disks that went bad that they didn't notice some times for weeks (unattentive sa?).
I am quite the opposite. I find myself playing the wii so often, every day I get home from work I play , my wife even likes to play with my wii. Well that sounded so sexual.
Quite honestly between wiiplay and wiisports I spend at least an hour a day playing. With Super Mario Paper and Trauma Center it's time for sleep before i even get a chance to watch some TV.
To me I play the wii more often then my 360 , I got bored of the constant fps and sports games constantly being released. They need to get me more into the game like the wii does, in order to get me back on a different system.
Maybe the new GTA will do that , but my guess is I will play it for 5 days and beat it like I did with crackdown and never touch it again , then sell it back to Gamestop or on Ebay.
That my friend was a horrible joke.
In other news the Windows Vista car was slow off the line, but the car looked good and the driver was heard screaming "accept" as the car lurched forward and stopped every time he used the accelerator.