Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden has nothing to do with the swedish government, and is funded by the record/movie companies.
This has also caused a lot of debate in sweden. From what I can tell, as long as you are not selling warez/pirated music, it will most likely be perfectly safe to use P2P programs in sweden.
In open source though, there is always the chance that an experienced and talanted individual notices the program. tests it. makes some bug fixes. And later might even engage himself more actively in the development of the stuff as a hobby.
Closed source... you better hope they hire someone. On the other hand, an experienced and talented programmer would want to get paid for his work too.
Companies don't sell their stuff in the US or are hesitant to enter the market, because they are afraid of ridiculus lawsuits.
Also the "I just need it today" shopper that returns the stuff after a day or 2 and expects a full refund. A company can't repackage these and sell them as new, so they are basicly worthless. There are people in jail for having done that.
Considering RAM business is high competition market, your profit margin isn't very large.
You will also need to give your distributors 34% extra chips when they come back as returns.
Combine that with the nightmare of angry customers calling and demanding refunds all day. Can you imagine the callcenter needed to take care of that? You sell 1 million chips you have 340,000 potential calls. But these guys don't sell 1 million chips they sell MORE.
Your distributors will be bitching at YOU not your callcenters for getting so many returns.
Not to mention the bad press you are going to get when someone tips off some journalists that your chips might need some looking into. Then a government agency decides your quality isn't good enough for their country and you might have to revoke all your chips from that market if the quality issue isn't isolated to a certain batch.
Of course there is a pretty big chance it will hit an ocean. Sure there'll be a big wave but the scientist will have calculated the exact point of impact years before. The deaths from that impact will be very few.
Still if it hits ground. There will not be any people near that area either.
In this case it seems like there is a specific program installed to disrupt that ISPs traffic. How about they just write a tool to remove the crap and force all pageviews to a site with that removal tool. Once the tool is run and the offending program is removed, the tool sends a message to the ISP letting it know that the machine is clean and patched. The ISP automaticly lets the user back on the net.
Yes?
Of course other stuff may have been done to some computers. Used as FTP sites etc.
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I thought it was more along the lines of
the average George Beddingworth XIV duke of Essex jolly good chap.
Please don't do that, you'll get kicked out in a year and it will be a awkward situation getting rid of your replacement.
Seems right up their alley to me.
Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden Planted Evidence
Anti-Piracy Bureau of Sweden has nothing to do with the swedish government, and is funded by the record/movie companies.
This has also caused a lot of debate in sweden.
From what I can tell, as long as you are not selling warez/pirated music, it will most likely be perfectly safe to use P2P programs in sweden.
In open source though, there is always the chance that an experienced and talanted individual notices the program. tests it. makes some bug fixes. And later might even engage himself more actively in the development of the stuff as a hobby.
Closed source... you better hope they hire someone. On the other hand, an experienced and talented programmer would want to get paid for his work too.
Git..
Gimp..
GNU..
Gnome..
And people wonder why Open source isn't taken seriously.
This is true for hardware too.
Not because of patents but...
Companies don't sell their stuff in the US or are hesitant to enter the market, because they are afraid of ridiculus lawsuits.
Also the "I just need it today" shopper that returns the stuff after a day or 2 and expects a full refund. A company can't repackage these and sell them as new, so they are basicly worthless. There are people in jail for having done that.
34% faulty rate?
Considering RAM business is high competition market, your profit margin isn't very large.
You will also need to give your distributors 34% extra chips when they come back as returns.
Combine that with the nightmare of angry customers calling and demanding refunds all day. Can you imagine the callcenter needed to take care of that? You sell 1 million chips you have 340,000 potential calls. But these guys don't sell 1 million chips they sell MORE.
Your distributors will be bitching at YOU not your callcenters for getting so many returns.
Not to mention the bad press you are going to get when someone tips off some journalists that your chips might need some looking into. Then a government agency decides your quality isn't good enough for their country and you might have to revoke all your chips from that market if the quality issue isn't isolated to a certain batch.
It would be suicide to allow 34% faulty rate.
Of course there is a pretty big chance it will hit an ocean. Sure there'll be a big wave but the scientist will have calculated the exact point of impact years before. The deaths from that impact will be very few.
Still if it hits ground. There will not be any people near that area either.
*starts playing a Slayer CD*
Damn hippies!
Cartman is an inspiration to us all.
Perhaps the mods and story posters are on the other hemisphere?
In this case it seems like there is a specific program installed to disrupt that ISPs traffic. How about they just write a tool to remove the crap and force all pageviews to a site with that removal tool. Once the tool is run and the offending program is removed, the tool sends a message to the ISP letting it know that the machine is clean and patched. The ISP automaticly lets the user back on the net.
Yes?
Of course other stuff may have been done to some computers. Used as FTP sites etc.
Geeks - dancefloor
;P
Hmmm...
Geeks - Internet
More probable...
Geeks - Internet - webcams
Uh oh...
Geeks - Dancefloor - webcams
I think we have found the reason they made this, they added webcams and light to the floor. Getting a limitless supply of upskirt shots.
Either that or, you know, a pin code to go with your fingerprint.
Of course, if someone is going to chop your finger off, he can probably get the pin code out of you too.
But it would at least stop someone from copying your fingerprint and making a replica.
Until the moment they make the mistake of going into a chatroom saying "Hi my name is Jessica" hoping for some attention.
Only to get the response "Go away you 50 year old pedohomo!"
It'll be the horrible return of goatse...
You don't happen to live in the "American Dad" house do you?
Let me guess football players taking one for the team have got something to do with this. ;)
Cost...
I bet they want a pretty big sum of money for their show. Then it goes down each year after that.
TV companies in smaller countries might not afford the show when it comes out but waits until next year.
Viewers say "#%& that" and download it from BitTorrent instead.
You are looking for a device to store imaginary data. Data that doesn't exist if someone starts looking, but can be very nice to use.
Still some years away but I hear Apple is working on the iData storage.
Ah, windows user I presume.
Lets not forget when they run the trailer of the movie you are about to see...
Of course, before windows update has a chance to do anything your machine will be filled with mal/spyware crap.
I think this classic is in order.
In Sweden, entrapment is illegal.
So is planting evidence.
Doesn't look like anyone was entraped here though.
Actually, the really funny part of this is that the infiltrator really is named Rouge.