It's not like data leaks/traffic/theft/espionage was invented the other day and doesn't happen all the time. All the ad-tracking businesses, credit bureau, embassies, corporations, are full of undercover info smuggling all the time. You just dont *see* it very often. If they steal your data, you steal their data. It's not even violent. Heck, if you weren't so busy with those tons of skeletons in your closet, you might even think it was fun.
Problem is too many people are ignorant / apathetic, I always see people defending corporations and corporations rights over peoples, it's pretty disturbing how easily brainwashed people are.
It is hard but possible to find people who are honest, kind, bright, and strong. But you have to look hard for them. Propose a concrete activity, any one, and invite people to participate. I propose we setup another wikileaks mirror.
Seriously, if downloading was hurting the labels as much as their FUD machine states, then I'd find a way to pay for a T3 line and use it solely for seedboxing purposes.
Because I will get a huge smile on my face once this scourge goes broke, fucks off, and dies, preferably in burning cyanide.
Hmm. That would become more likely if the paths leading to purchase of their stuff was littered with signs pointing out how to get the same things for zero.
you can lie, you can deceive, you can screw customers, you can fraud, you can scam, but still in the end you can come up right, because they are allowed in the system - you just need to arrange your ToSes, legal clauses properly, and have a good legal team that the unwashed masses wont be able to buy.
Yes. And members of these unwashed masses who can see the origins of the problem have a responsibility to propose workarounds to their instruments of monopoly. There are many in my view, they all just require organization by lots of people.
Only a company which commits illegal acts would have a problem with this
Every company commits illegal acts. The nature of our legal system is that it's impossible to go through a normal day without breaking a few dozen laws. This is especially true of copyright infringement. Are you 100% certain that every piece of software in your company is licensed? No one has kept WinZIP installed past the shareware period? No one has copied a program from another machine without checking the licensing? The Windows installs are all on the corporate license key and not OEM versions?
That's not sufficient. Apparently you need the reciepts, proof of purchase. If you have all your CD's, stickers on the computers, serials installed correctly, software passes the audit, etc, but no reciepts, it seems you're still liable for piracy.
They either need to increase there notion of "sufficiently reliable", because there false-positive rate is to high, OR: there use Hollywood accounting that makes many positive samples fail to qualified for rewards.
In any case, there is a 26/42 = 62% chance that the actual reward is $0, instead of the $3,593.75.
They're not exactly the most ethical types, so I wouldn't expect them to actually be honest with the techs that turn in companies either. Go read their terms, it's rather a complicated "contract", seems to have quite a few holes.
https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/report/add.aspx?
pirated software also hurts open source take up too.
A tidal wave of software inspections and lawsuits would certainly accompany a tidal wave of open source interest. The only times I ever heard anyone seriously considering switching over to Linux was when they just couldn't pay for Windows, and running unlicensed was not an option. I have removed Linux many times and replaced it with unlicensed.
There is one heavyweight factor - *cost*. Zero cost Windows CD certainly competes with Zero cost Linux CD. People understand exactly what price means. They don't understand open source too well. They know what "pirated" means, but don't worry about it. I'm not in favor and would not support turning in a thousands of small businesses over their unlicensed or disorganized licenses. But I also have no illusions - once the cost of Windows in not zero, that would suddenly convert thousands of low-income, high costs, struggling and greedy businesspeople into stalwart supporters of the benefits of open source, especially the free-as-in-beer part, and generate great interest and support for Linux. They would soon hire lots of Linux techies and programmers, I suppose, and be upset they are harder to find and cost more.
Should have posted anonymously there bud..
Here come the pain!
Checked out. Nerdy kid with some rebellious ideas, enjoys attention, no intention to carry out any of it. No threatening links to weapons, training, or connections who do. No action required.
"In a Muslim country, you can simply count the number of women in the photos. If its not at least 10 percent, the police will use all force necessary, and will ultimately crush the protest."
Um, have you noticed that these aren't particularly religious people who led the protests in Egypt and Tunisia? They're not even using Islamic words in their protests eg they're talking about the Watan and not the Ummah.
Had some Arabic friends, learned some things. Islamic culture has pros and cons like everything else. They require good manners, dignity and respect in general. Western people don't normally know this, the media/military focuses on negative aspects. So this comment on women appears actually well informed. In general, as a culture, they treat women with more respect, protecting them. Yes, there are well known cases with that turns upside down too. In general, I think political opinion and participation is generally perfectly acceptable for women, even in official voting isn't. I think indeed if many women or older people are in a crowd with protesters, police simply cannot use too much force and risk hurting them, as they will be punished for it even by their own friends and families.
Yes, a man in the middle is doable. But as there are no confirmations of these deleted accounts or exactly what happens, I would think it is more likely that "facebook account deleted", after translation from facebook-newbie-user-speak, and from languages tranlations, could mean a variety of things. Like "Access temporarily restricted due to unlicenced content". I work in a cybercafe with these users every day... have heard descriptions of the simplest things that practically require an detective work to figure out what on earth they were talking about. For example, on numerous cases people have told they read their email every day, and can access it anytime. They mean their Orkut messages. They don't know what is e-mail and have never used it.
If they have national ISP level intercepting and filtering, it's possible the accounts are simply being denied access, and these "deletions" are confused newbie level reports spread by rumour. They could also simply be using some Algerian legal or security argument to force Facebook to delete accounts. Much easier and more typical of an oppressive, controlling regime. High level Intelligence, using undetectable methods, are not required there, I think those are more typical of countries with pseudo, formal democracies, where to keep appearnces, these things can't become known to be attributed to government.
It appears you are using "Cease and Desist letters" without proper licensing. We have patented this method for stimulating human brain cells psychologically into the production of "ligalis phobis", a chemical which induces the subject to reach into pocket and produce settlement money for various reasons. If you would like a licence continue to use our product "Cease and Desist letters", please contact sales at 800-FEAR-NOW. We are awaiting your contact, pending further notifications, in an avalanche of random threats to your well-being, intending to drive you quickly to deep psychological terror, or poverty, or preferably, both.
Torrents will be more successful when our home connections have the same upload and download speeds. I don't quite see why ISP's always limit your upload speeds.
I think it's not necessary to get radical one way or the other. A reduction in the number of years that IP becomes public and some other options I believe would serve everyone's interest. If an inventor or writer can't earn something on his work after a decade or two, doesn't make an effort to sell or donate or license his ideas, and he's invented the equivalent of the cure to cancer or electricity, well, some mechanism is needed for people to get the right to use it. The need to be fairly compensated for one's creations is one thing, to be protected at the cost of social benefits of the ideas, but a state-protected right to make millions off it for a hundred years, while the idea may be badly needed by society for lesser costs, is something quite different. Financial ambition is not the only motivator for human beings as well. Plenty of people always create things for their own pleasure, or as a hobby, curiosity, need for improvement, to express their capacity, and other reasons. It's ridiculous to assert than human intellectual activity and creativity began when intellectual property law was created.
I'm all for people being able to decide what they put into their bodies
Yes, me too, I'd favor legalizing everything. However, people doing it must also face the personal and social consequences. If someone becomes a nuisance as a crackhead out of free choice I don't see why he deserves to get lots of help from everyone once he becomes a mess, becoming a burden to the public, family and community.
All those votes were probably from me. I just got really high and forgot that I'd already voted.
It's funny to abuse internet elections but it's also very sad that they can't be legitimate. It would be good to have elections more often for more things and with less costs and trouble. Sadder still, it seems the only way to do it is some sort of universal electronic ID, which could from then on be requested all the time.
Yep. Remember what happened the last time the President used the internet to ask the people what they wanted? The most popular response, by a long shot, was marijuana reform. The President came out and laughed, as if tens of thousands of people in jail were some sort of joke. I don't expect patent reform to be taken any more seriously.
The public doesn't get anything by just asking, it has to demand, challenge, confront and shove the government into change and out of their free-tax-and-campaign-money-is-comfortable zone. Weapons are not helpful, it's about vigorous persistent strength in numbers and lack of respect for illegitimate authority.
If we want to change IP laws, we have to break them in public in large numbers, demand change, and make a public issue, not do it hidden in private and anonymously as if selling drugs. Setup a p2p in Union Sqare with 1000 laptops and copy lots of DVD and give them away, and call the press.
Letter writing campaigns help influence but won't do it alone. China is ignoring the IP laws and doing very well.
So within a few titles they have saturated the market..
I think so too. People don't produce money in their digestive tract and have it just come out every day in the bathroom to be tossing it at everything they see in front of them.
Why? Because somewhere lawyers are starting that soft, pre-orgasmic type of moaning that precedes a class action lawsuit...
I agree. They're a router company, and they wait until after ipv4 runs out and there's all kinds of news and demand to start producing ipv6 routers? It's not like ipv6 is some new technology, all new routers should have been reviewed for ipv6 a long time ago.
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It's not like data leaks/traffic/theft/espionage was invented the other day and doesn't happen all the time. All the ad-tracking businesses, credit bureau, embassies, corporations, are full of undercover info smuggling all the time. You just dont *see* it very often. If they steal your data, you steal their data. It's not even violent. Heck, if you weren't so busy with those tons of skeletons in your closet, you might even think it was fun.
Problem is too many people are ignorant / apathetic, I always see people defending corporations and corporations rights over peoples, it's pretty disturbing how easily brainwashed people are.
It is hard but possible to find people who are honest, kind, bright, and strong. But you have to look hard for them. Propose a concrete activity, any one, and invite people to participate. I propose we setup another wikileaks mirror.
This shit again?
Seriously, if downloading was hurting the labels as much as their FUD machine states, then I'd find a way to pay for a T3 line and use it solely for seedboxing purposes.
Because I will get a huge smile on my face once this scourge goes broke, fucks off, and dies, preferably in burning cyanide.
Hmm. That would become more likely if the paths leading to purchase of their stuff was littered with signs pointing out how to get the same things for zero.
you can lie, you can deceive, you can screw customers, you can fraud, you can scam, but still in the end you can come up right, because they are allowed in the system - you just need to arrange your ToSes, legal clauses properly, and have a good legal team that the unwashed masses wont be able to buy.
Yes. And members of these unwashed masses who can see the origins of the problem have a responsibility to propose workarounds to their instruments of monopoly. There are many in my view, they all just require organization by lots of people.
Only a company which commits illegal acts would have a problem with this
Every company commits illegal acts. The nature of our legal system is that it's impossible to go through a normal day without breaking a few dozen laws. This is especially true of copyright infringement. Are you 100% certain that every piece of software in your company is licensed? No one has kept WinZIP installed past the shareware period? No one has copied a program from another machine without checking the licensing? The Windows installs are all on the corporate license key and not OEM versions?
That's not sufficient. Apparently you need the reciepts, proof of purchase. If you have all your CD's, stickers on the computers, serials installed correctly, software passes the audit, etc, but no reciepts, it seems you're still liable for piracy.
They either need to increase there notion of "sufficiently reliable", because there false-positive rate is to high, OR: there use Hollywood accounting that makes many positive samples fail to qualified for rewards. In any case, there is a 26/42 = 62% chance that the actual reward is $0, instead of the $3,593.75.
They're not exactly the most ethical types, so I wouldn't expect them to actually be honest with the techs that turn in companies either. Go read their terms, it's rather a complicated "contract", seems to have quite a few holes. https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/report/add.aspx?
Do you drive (in the usa)?
Because I'm pretty sure I speed enough times a day to lose my license.
Nobody earns or loses anything with you getting caught or escaping. Well the car companies earn a little more perhaps if people can drive fast.
Tell that to the poor bastard who can never work again.
Whistleblowers are screwed for life - they never come out whole - ever.
Depends if you live in a big city or not. If you were an employee or little known freelancer. Or from another town or country.
pirated software also hurts open source take up too.
A tidal wave of software inspections and lawsuits would certainly accompany a tidal wave of open source interest. The only times I ever heard anyone seriously considering switching over to Linux was when they just couldn't pay for Windows, and running unlicensed was not an option. I have removed Linux many times and replaced it with unlicensed.
There is one heavyweight factor - *cost*. Zero cost Windows CD certainly competes with Zero cost Linux CD. People understand exactly what price means. They don't understand open source too well. They know what "pirated" means, but don't worry about it. I'm not in favor and would not support turning in a thousands of small businesses over their unlicensed or disorganized licenses. But I also have no illusions - once the cost of Windows in not zero, that would suddenly convert thousands of low-income, high costs, struggling and greedy businesspeople into stalwart supporters of the benefits of open source, especially the free-as-in-beer part, and generate great interest and support for Linux. They would soon hire lots of Linux techies and programmers, I suppose, and be upset they are harder to find and cost more.
Should have posted anonymously there bud.. Here come the pain!
Checked out. Nerdy kid with some rebellious ideas, enjoys attention, no intention to carry out any of it. No threatening links to weapons, training, or connections who do. No action required.
"In a Muslim country, you can simply count the number of women in the photos. If its not at least 10 percent, the police will use all force necessary, and will ultimately crush the protest."
Um, have you noticed that these aren't particularly religious people who led the protests in Egypt and Tunisia? They're not even using Islamic words in their protests eg they're talking about the Watan and not the Ummah.
Had some Arabic friends, learned some things. Islamic culture has pros and cons like everything else. They require good manners, dignity and respect in general. Western people don't normally know this, the media/military focuses on negative aspects. So this comment on women appears actually well informed. In general, as a culture, they treat women with more respect, protecting them. Yes, there are well known cases with that turns upside down too. In general, I think political opinion and participation is generally perfectly acceptable for women, even in official voting isn't. I think indeed if many women or older people are in a crowd with protesters, police simply cannot use too much force and risk hurting them, as they will be punished for it even by their own friends and families.
Yes, a man in the middle is doable. But as there are no confirmations of these deleted accounts or exactly what happens, I would think it is more likely that "facebook account deleted", after translation from facebook-newbie-user-speak, and from languages tranlations, could mean a variety of things. Like "Access temporarily restricted due to unlicenced content". I work in a cybercafe with these users every day... have heard descriptions of the simplest things that practically require an detective work to figure out what on earth they were talking about. For example, on numerous cases people have told they read their email every day, and can access it anytime. They mean their Orkut messages. They don't know what is e-mail and have never used it.
If they have national ISP level intercepting and filtering, it's possible the accounts are simply being denied access, and these "deletions" are confused newbie level reports spread by rumour. They could also simply be using some Algerian legal or security argument to force Facebook to delete accounts. Much easier and more typical of an oppressive, controlling regime. High level Intelligence, using undetectable methods, are not required there, I think those are more typical of countries with pseudo, formal democracies, where to keep appearnces, these things can't become known to be attributed to government.
It appears you are using "Cease and Desist letters" without proper licensing. We have patented this method for stimulating human brain cells psychologically into the production of "ligalis phobis", a chemical which induces the subject to reach into pocket and produce settlement money for various reasons. If you would like a licence continue to use our product "Cease and Desist letters", please contact sales at 800-FEAR-NOW. We are awaiting your contact, pending further notifications, in an avalanche of random threats to your well-being, intending to drive you quickly to deep psychological terror, or poverty, or preferably, both.
Credibility increases by offering credible alternatives, which inspire people and they can implement. Pointing out problems is easy.
Torrents will be more successful when our home connections have the same upload and download speeds. I don't quite see why ISP's always limit your upload speeds.
I think it's not necessary to get radical one way or the other. A reduction in the number of years that IP becomes public and some other options I believe would serve everyone's interest. If an inventor or writer can't earn something on his work after a decade or two, doesn't make an effort to sell or donate or license his ideas, and he's invented the equivalent of the cure to cancer or electricity, well, some mechanism is needed for people to get the right to use it. The need to be fairly compensated for one's creations is one thing, to be protected at the cost of social benefits of the ideas, but a state-protected right to make millions off it for a hundred years, while the idea may be badly needed by society for lesser costs, is something quite different. Financial ambition is not the only motivator for human beings as well. Plenty of people always create things for their own pleasure, or as a hobby, curiosity, need for improvement, to express their capacity, and other reasons. It's ridiculous to assert than human intellectual activity and creativity began when intellectual property law was created.
I'm all for people being able to decide what they put into their bodies
Yes, me too, I'd favor legalizing everything. However, people doing it must also face the personal and social consequences. If someone becomes a nuisance as a crackhead out of free choice I don't see why he deserves to get lots of help from everyone once he becomes a mess, becoming a burden to the public, family and community.
All those votes were probably from me. I just got really high and forgot that I'd already voted.
It's funny to abuse internet elections but it's also very sad that they can't be legitimate. It would be good to have elections more often for more things and with less costs and trouble. Sadder still, it seems the only way to do it is some sort of universal electronic ID, which could from then on be requested all the time.
Yep. Remember what happened the last time the President used the internet to ask the people what they wanted? The most popular response, by a long shot, was marijuana reform. The President came out and laughed, as if tens of thousands of people in jail were some sort of joke. I don't expect patent reform to be taken any more seriously.
The public doesn't get anything by just asking, it has to demand, challenge, confront and shove the government into change and out of their free-tax-and-campaign-money-is-comfortable zone. Weapons are not helpful, it's about vigorous persistent strength in numbers and lack of respect for illegitimate authority.
If we want to change IP laws, we have to break them in public in large numbers, demand change, and make a public issue, not do it hidden in private and anonymously as if selling drugs. Setup a p2p in Union Sqare with 1000 laptops and copy lots of DVD and give them away, and call the press.
Letter writing campaigns help influence but won't do it alone. China is ignoring the IP laws and doing very well.
So within a few titles they have saturated the market..
I think so too. People don't produce money in their digestive tract and have it just come out every day in the bathroom to be tossing it at everything they see in front of them.
Those are out of fashion, the new trend I believe is crash landing.
Let it go, it doesnt help to keep spreading rumors about your ex, even if you say it in Martian.
HP has also swallowed a few other companies with their own OS's. DEC for example.
Why? Because somewhere lawyers are starting that soft, pre-orgasmic type of moaning that precedes a class action lawsuit...
I agree. They're a router company, and they wait until after ipv4 runs out and there's all kinds of news and demand to start producing ipv6 routers? It's not like ipv6 is some new technology, all new routers should have been reviewed for ipv6 a long time ago.