Windows Product Activation earned them boatloads of money. From a business standpoint this is not subject to further debate. Previously, lax enforcement was instrumental in achieving market dominance. The people don't have to change to make this shift in business thinking. When you become a monopoly, the rules change.
It's too late now, but a concrete example for number 2 might be:
I'm pretty sure it would be a mistake to wipe my hard drive once a lawsuit has been brought against me. Destroying evidence is a big mistake, right? However, when you get the first notice from your ISP, maybe that would be a good time to install Edgy Eft....from scratch. After discovery, he mentioned in the court record, they drop the John Doe suit and open a new one against just you. So data was not erased before the suit was brought, right? Man, I'd sure hate for someone to get that one wrong. It just seems to me that with the law, it's most important to know what not to do.
BTW, number 3 was a useful answer to avoid all this. I admit here was some good information there too.
Is that why we got some useless answers? The questions are always hit or miss, but by my scorecard, the answers were only average:
1) Answered, but "Default Judgement" could use a clarification 2) Either none or his clients made mistakes, or they all did. He couldn't give us one example of tactics/negotiation that he'd seen fail? 3) Answered 4) Mostly answered 5) Answered - softball 6) Didn't know. Didn't check. 7) Confusing. b) see b, doubt it, don't know. The first part seems to say, "no copies". We still don't know if ripping CDs for our music players is legal? 8) Answered 9) Not answered. Cites an argument on discovery, which apparently only requires a valid copyright and the existence of a shared copy. What evidence is being successfully used? Has any evidence ever been thrown out as irrelevant or insufficient? 10) Answered
I'll give a 6.5/10, or in slashdot terms a Score:3, Informative. Maybe worth reading, but if you are up on the subject, you may not learn anything new. I was hoping to learn a lot more about what has actually been tried in negotiation and the court room. Perhaps he didn't feel it was the right format to mention these details.
The "just default" option was the most alarming. Isn't it $150,000 per violation? That $750 for court costs isn't going to matter much if the default judgement is in the millions.
As I recall the door magnet worked after the EMP was used. I didn't buy it. One pass through a magnet is not going to replace seven passes of writing various bit patterns right on top of the old data.
That would be funny if someone compelled you on your premesis, with the threat of taking your machine if you didn't comply. Unfortunately, if your machine is taken, they will of course create a master raw image and put the drive into storage, working off copies of the master image after that. Your evidence will not be destroyed. You have to make sure they don't get it in the first place.
Unusual case. Surely this strange store policy in the UK doesn't warrant the headline, "The Internet Not for Old People." I have no doubt that she eventually got her connection.
If VisiCalc is disqualified for not being great software, then Lotus 1-2-3, which was great software, is the next logical choice. Excel was completely unecessary at that point. If a spreadsheet clone like Excel deserves all the credit, then we'll need to mint a few more awards for Microsoft. I think the reviewer is confused about whether he wants to reward great code or great success.
He goes on to select Mosaic and System R, despite better and more successful follow-ups. He should have used that approach throughout.
You people are just stupid. The macbooks pro's all use the same broadcom base wireless chipsets found in ALL Airport Extreme cards. This exploit is on an Atheros based add-on card, not the onboard Airport Extreme. Learn to read.
Stupid?....Unable to read? Or is the problem believing everything you read?
1. MacBook Pros have Atheros built in (not hacked in the video). 2. The add-on card is almost certainly not Atheros.
That will work until I point them to the forums to get friendly and timely help with any problem they might have. "Just go to the section on Dapper Drake", I will tell them.
This is a nice suggestion otherwise, but you are ignoring the question of whether the names are silly or not. If your point was that it doesn't matter, then why not go with something that won't register as really odd to new users. It doesn't matter, right?
BTW, I will take your advice as much as I can. If someone asks, "You're using Dapper, right?" I'll say, "No, I'm using 6.06"
On Gun Control, it's right there in the Democratic Party Platform. They specifically support the assault weapon ban (which is not about assault weapons). Whether you have polled the personal opinions of all Democratic congressmen or not, the party will push for it.
I think they are trying to please too many people there. Gun ownership is already limited, and the nonsense ban they specifically support is a feel-good issue for liberals, while being divisive for those people who are gun owners. They also say they support gun ownership, so if they're splitting hairs anyway, why not focus on core values? I'd say Kerry's well publicized hunting trips indicated he'd like to have some of these people voting for him, but then you can't have a gun ban in the platform - and I reiterate, it's there for no good reason.
I'd be happy to support a Democrat who had an agenda I could support, but it's hard to be included when they're all over the map.
Strike two. Another Sunnyvale resident that lives north of the railroad tracks. Their advertising claims that it's "available" in Sunnyvale, but if less than half the city is covered, even that unqualified claim seems misleading. Sure it's available, just not for you.
Life was better when we had Metricom. It was slower, but ran on 900MHz for better home penetration, and their protocols supported mobility.
Shouldn't people be focusing on whether their software works rather than what it's called?
Of course, but it's not either/or. The same ten minutes alloted to naming could come up with "Golden Retriever" rather than "Spastic Spaniel". I suppose I was just hoping for something recognizable that I wouldn't mind repeating to non-linux people. They want to be mainstream, right?
Thank you for completely missing the point. It doesn't take market research to avoid ridiculous names that even a geek would be embarrassed to say. This arbitrary desire to be wacky does not constitute thinking outside of the box - it really is pointless. I don't expect them to be cool every time, but I sure wish they could summon the motivation to be a little further away from stupid.
Yeah, I'm gonna use it anyway (on June 1st). Thank you for all your hard work... I love you man!
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Windows Product Activation earned them boatloads of money. From a business standpoint this is not subject to further debate. Previously, lax enforcement was instrumental in achieving market dominance. The people don't have to change to make this shift in business thinking. When you become a monopoly, the rules change.
If the nuetron star is coming in one hundred million years, but I win the lottery next week, then I don't see a problem with this.
It's too late now, but a concrete example for number 2 might be:
I'm pretty sure it would be a mistake to wipe my hard drive once a lawsuit has been brought against me. Destroying evidence is a big mistake, right? However, when you get the first notice from your ISP, maybe that would be a good time to install Edgy Eft....from scratch. After discovery, he mentioned in the court record, they drop the John Doe suit and open a new one against just you. So data was not erased before the suit was brought, right? Man, I'd sure hate for someone to get that one wrong. It just seems to me that with the law, it's most important to know what not to do.
BTW, number 3 was a useful answer to avoid all this. I admit here was some good information there too.
Is that why we got some useless answers? The questions are always hit or miss, but by my scorecard, the answers were only average:
1) Answered, but "Default Judgement" could use a clarification
2) Either none or his clients made mistakes, or they all did. He couldn't give us one example of tactics/negotiation that he'd seen fail?
3) Answered
4) Mostly answered
5) Answered - softball
6) Didn't know. Didn't check.
7) Confusing. b) see b, doubt it, don't know. The first part seems to say, "no copies". We still don't know if ripping CDs for our music players is legal?
8) Answered
9) Not answered. Cites an argument on discovery, which apparently only requires a valid copyright and the existence of a shared copy. What evidence is being successfully used? Has any evidence ever been thrown out as irrelevant or insufficient?
10) Answered
I'll give a 6.5/10, or in slashdot terms a Score:3, Informative. Maybe worth reading, but if you are up on the subject, you may not learn anything new. I was hoping to learn a lot more about what has actually been tried in negotiation and the court room. Perhaps he didn't feel it was the right format to mention these details.
The "just default" option was the most alarming. Isn't it $150,000 per violation? That $750 for court costs isn't going to matter much if the default judgement is in the millions.
What he needed was a payment system.
I agree they're charging too much, but with the university computers at his disposal, clearly the problem wasn't bandwidth.
Learn to read, he's not selling lecture notes, he's selling video copies of his lectures that he has to edit himself.
First off, he's selling mp3s...
Second, people should mod down everyone who tries to direct the modding of others...no, wait...
The missing line from the summary is:
"Because Thomas' office can only deal with spam originating in the United Kingdom.."
They should wave the white flag. I don't see any incentive to pursue prosecutions with this restriction and those penalties.
As I recall the door magnet worked after the EMP was used. I didn't buy it. One pass through a magnet is not going to replace seven passes of writing various bit patterns right on top of the old data.
Of course it doesn't look good that he signed up right before it happened too:
http://slashdot.org/~rcpeterson
That would be funny if someone compelled you on your premesis, with the threat of taking your machine if you didn't comply. Unfortunately, if your machine is taken, they will of course create a master raw image and put the drive into storage, working off copies of the master image after that. Your evidence will not be destroyed. You have to make sure they don't get it in the first place.
He created more than 150 fake registrations to get that account. 999847-999999 are all trashed. He wants us to congratulate him on the accomplishment?
I'd much rather congratulate the admins on deleting his account. Or just delete all the fake accounts and move him down to 999847.
No, there were several references to one million before and after user id 1000000:
http://slashdot.org/~0000001
http://slashdot.org/~million%20one
We can safely assume that this is the asshat who did it.
Unusual case. Surely this strange store policy in the UK doesn't warrant the headline, "The Internet Not for Old People." I have no doubt that she eventually got her connection.
If VisiCalc is disqualified for not being great software, then Lotus 1-2-3, which was great software, is the next logical choice. Excel was completely unecessary at that point. If a spreadsheet clone like Excel deserves all the credit, then we'll need to mint a few more awards for Microsoft. I think the reviewer is confused about whether he wants to reward great code or great success.
He goes on to select Mosaic and System R, despite better and more successful follow-ups. He should have used that approach throughout.
MacBooks do ***NOT*** have Intel wireless chips. (And they used an external card anyway.)
A +5 informative sure isn't what it used to be.
You people are just stupid. The macbooks pro's all use the same broadcom base wireless chipsets found in ALL Airport Extreme cards. This exploit is on an Atheros based add-on card, not the onboard Airport Extreme. Learn to read.
Stupid?....Unable to read? Or is the problem believing everything you read?
1. MacBook Pros have Atheros built in (not hacked in the video).
2. The add-on card is almost certainly not Atheros.
Apparently I have the right to be a web hermit. Otherwise this wouldn't be YRO, right?
...who is finishing off her double degree in women's studies and political science.
Thanks for a good laugh. I'm sure you meant for that to sound impressive.
That will work until I point them to the forums to get friendly and timely help with any problem they might have. "Just go to the section on Dapper Drake", I will tell them.
This is a nice suggestion otherwise, but you are ignoring the question of whether the names are silly or not. If your point was that it doesn't matter, then why not go with something that won't register as really odd to new users. It doesn't matter, right?
BTW, I will take your advice as much as I can. If someone asks, "You're using Dapper, right?" I'll say, "No, I'm using 6.06"
Maybe they'll discover something between dorky and market-droid.
On Gun Control, it's right there in the Democratic Party Platform. They specifically support the assault weapon ban (which is not about assault weapons). Whether you have polled the personal opinions of all Democratic congressmen or not, the party will push for it.
I think they are trying to please too many people there. Gun ownership is already limited, and the nonsense ban they specifically support is a feel-good issue for liberals, while being divisive for those people who are gun owners. They also say they support gun ownership, so if they're splitting hairs anyway, why not focus on core values? I'd say Kerry's well publicized hunting trips indicated he'd like to have some of these people voting for him, but then you can't have a gun ban in the platform - and I reiterate, it's there for no good reason.
I'd be happy to support a Democrat who had an agenda I could support, but it's hard to be included when they're all over the map.
Strike two. Another Sunnyvale resident that lives north of the railroad tracks. Their advertising claims that it's "available" in Sunnyvale, but if less than half the city is covered, even that unqualified claim seems misleading. Sure it's available, just not for you.
Life was better when we had Metricom. It was slower, but ran on 900MHz for better home penetration, and their protocols supported mobility.
Shouldn't people be focusing on whether their software works rather than what it's called?
Of course, but it's not either/or. The same ten minutes alloted to naming could come up with "Golden Retriever" rather than "Spastic Spaniel". I suppose I was just hoping for something recognizable that I wouldn't mind repeating to non-linux people. They want to be mainstream, right?
Thank you for completely missing the point. It doesn't take market research to avoid ridiculous names that even a geek would be embarrassed to say. This arbitrary desire to be wacky does not constitute thinking outside of the box - it really is pointless. I don't expect them to be cool every time, but I sure wish they could summon the motivation to be a little further away from stupid.
Yeah, I'm gonna use it anyway (on June 1st). Thank you for all your hard work... I love you man!