2. Comply with the wishes of the FBI, provide the IP addresses, and count on the fact that I will catch a lot of heat and hatred from my comrades in the anarchist movement worldwide.
Though it pains me to comply with the State in any manner, I have to choose option #2.
Sir, you have violated our bylaws, and I fully intend to raise a motion at the next monthly meeting to HAVE YOU VOTED OUT!
Tires blowing out due to design flaws can end someone's life. Spyware infecting a computer due to design flaws can cause someone to format their hard-drive.
Many medical devices run on customized Windows PCs. See here .
Have you forgotten to consider the IDIOTS who create these "malware" lists? After the first time you've had software automatically deleted because someone, somewhere doesn't like it, you'll rethink your suggestion.
Recent history shows the North Koreans could launch a successful strike on every garage and driveway in America...by detonating a suitcase bomb in Baghdad.
Otherwise, twenty years from now, India and China will run the IT industry, and it will be the Americans sending their children to work in coal mines. (Just joking; there won't be any coal mines left.)
If you download a movie, there isn't remotely as much risk (remember the last time you had an adrenalin rush when clicking on a.torrent link?).
Surely you jest!
Your ISP knows about every torrent you download. So does the uploader, and many of download peers. They choose not to forward this information to prosecutors, but there is nothing stopping them from changing their minds.
A more appropriate analogy: the security guard at the shop sees you shove a disc down your pants every week. Luckily for you, he is lazy, and he knows he'll get paid the same whether he grabs you or not.
Giant pile of pretention, drenched with arrogance, topped with a fundamental inability to understand cookery and garnished with a four-digit bill? They have that, too -- actually, it's compulsory.
Of course it is. Have you checked the prices of replacement printer cartridges lately?
Creating subtitles for an AV stream is, and always was legal. Distributing the original video is illegal, and will remain so.
There are websites (such as Kloofy's) that distibute subtitle files *only*. These are usually formatted text files read by media player software. These sites leave acquisition of the source video up to you. This is probably the best solution for all parties concerned.
Actually, it sounds like those high school kids are far more savvy then your average Slashdot editor. They know that policemen, judges, legislators etc will apply what they infer to be the spirit of the law. In real life (compare: video game) you cannot expect success via a clever technicality.
The statute of limitations is measured in YEARS, as are the MPAA's logfiles. It certainly does not matter how many movies you are sharing at any particular moment.
On the contrary, it is as inherently accurate and maintainable as the printed Yellow Pages.
99% of businesses have an interest in promoting themselves, and if their picture was inaccurate or flawed, they would submit a better one themselves. Many would even PAY for the privilege of doing so.
Treating co-workers as you would would have them treat you, does not mean ensuring their absolute comfort. It has more to do with communicating clear, timely and reasonable expectations.
There may are valid reasons to fire an employee, but there is no valid reason to antagonize one. That kind of behavior runs counter to the interests of the employee, the boss AND the business.
Tell me, which is easier? Upload this image and try to find out where you are via this Visual Google, or enter the street name (street sign in the photo says "Queen Street") in Text Google?
Try doing that in China*, and then get back to us. Oh, and don't forget to take your Chinese keyboard. And a manual on how to use it. And sufficient experience to distinguish between similar-looking ideograms.
* But not on one of the few streets where signs are printed in both Chinese and English; that's cheating.
That particular percentage was presented as a joke, but it does raise an interesting question on how these old laws will be applied to digital content.
Is uploading 5000 bytes of a video file, analogous to reprinting half a sentence from a book or magazine article?
I'm guessing you were one of those kids who had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill both ways, gnawing on crusts of stale bread before heading off to work the graveyard shift at the coal mine...
If any software containing advertisements is a "virus," then so is Slashdot. Oh, and so are TV and radio, magazines and movies, ballgames, and the sides of buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas...yup, definititely all viruses.
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No, you cannot retrofit quality and performance into a software project.
Quality != performance != speed. A better quality metric for most modern software is clarity of design. With clearly and cleanly designed modules and interfaces, speed improvements CAN be retrofitted. Without this clarity, a secure, reliable and bug-free program cannot even be tested for, much less achieved.
Actually, the rules of the H1-B program _require_ employers to pay a competitive wage to their guest workers. So, where is your evidence that these companies are driven by greed?
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Have you forgotten to consider the IDIOTS who create these "malware" lists? After the first time you've had software automatically deleted because someone, somewhere doesn't like it, you'll rethink your suggestion.
Recent history shows the North Koreans could launch a successful strike on every garage and driveway in America...by detonating a suitcase bomb in Baghdad.
Otherwise, twenty years from now, India and China will run the IT industry, and it will be the Americans sending their children to work in coal mines. (Just joking; there won't be any coal mines left.)
Your ISP knows about every torrent you download. So does the uploader, and many of download peers. They choose not to forward this information to prosecutors, but there is nothing stopping them from changing their minds.
A more appropriate analogy: the security guard at the shop sees you shove a disc down your pants every week. Luckily for you, he is lazy, and he knows he'll get paid the same whether he grabs you or not.
You forgot one important step: get Windows Firewall onto your machine--without connecting to the Internet.
There are websites (such as Kloofy's) that distibute subtitle files *only*. These are usually formatted text files read by media player software. These sites leave acquisition of the source video up to you. This is probably the best solution for all parties concerned.
[See "shouting fire in a crowded theater".]
The statute of limitations is measured in YEARS, as are the MPAA's logfiles. It certainly does not matter how many movies you are sharing at any particular moment.
99% of businesses have an interest in promoting themselves, and if their picture was inaccurate or flawed, they would submit a better one themselves. Many would even PAY for the privilege of doing so.
There may are valid reasons to fire an employee, but there is no valid reason to antagonize one. That kind of behavior runs counter to the interests of the employee, the boss AND the business.
...so I could rate the last sentence of your comment "redundant." ;p
* Since this is Slashdot, just use your imagination.
* But not on one of the few streets where signs are printed in both Chinese and English; that's cheating.
That particular percentage was presented as a joke, but it does raise an interesting question on how these old laws will be applied to digital content. Is uploading 5000 bytes of a video file, analogous to reprinting half a sentence from a book or magazine article?
I'm guessing you were one of those kids who had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill both ways, gnawing on crusts of stale bread before heading off to work the graveyard shift at the coal mine...
If any software containing advertisements is a "virus," then so is Slashdot. Oh, and so are TV and radio, magazines and movies, ballgames, and the sides of buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas...yup, definititely all viruses.
Actually, the rules of the H1-B program _require_ employers to pay a competitive wage to their guest workers. So, where is your evidence that these companies are driven by greed?
He's not a criminal -- he won the presidential election fair and square. :D