And who exactly do you think is going to provide/pay for all the massive amounts of storage such a system entails? some previous systems worked this way and they were basically killed off becaue of the costs.
If I had mod points I would mod you up, I cannot think of a worse example of torrents then what blizzard do, they basically steal bandwidth from their clients while providing incredibly poor download speeds. I now disable their p2p SHIT and find another online source to download the patches from, even a slow site is 10 times faster than the garbage downloader blizz provide.
Not american, but I was under the impression that every american supposedly had a right of due process which included their right to defend themselves in court if accussed or charged with a crime? if you have punishment without due process it means you have a dictator not a president.
As it currently stands I know more people that pirate games for their Xbox and Wii than I do for PC Games. PC games being easier to pirate is irrelevent, people will pirate whatever they want to play if it is an option and it isn't exactly hard to pirate for the 360 or Wii (and now the PS3). I have been around gaming a long time and I can honestly say I don't know a single person that has hacked their console for any reason other than to play pirated games, even backups is a ridiculous excuse with the current guarentees and replacement disc deals you can get with most game shops.
There is a difference, even if its only a minor one. The decision on phones was so that consumers where not stuck with carrier lock ins. The intent was so you could take your phone to a competing carrier. There is no such issue with game consoles. Its not like you can "jail break" your PS3 and hook it up to XBOX live.
Theoretically at least, you can source games from suppliers other than Sony. Some of the indie games companies should do just that, compete with Sony for the supply of games to their console.
hmmmm targetting a segment of the market of whom the majority have gone out of their way to avoid having to purchase games, yeah that sounds like a successfull business model for those struggling indie developers.
I don't think peoples issues are with the fact of brand dillution, the point is pod is a commonly used term and existed prior to any apple related product. To then trademarked an english language word that has a valid meaning for MANY products is ridiculous in the extreme. If apple was so concerned about product dillution then they should have chosen a name that would not be easily confused with existing uses of the word.
Not only do they have no right, they have absolutely no ability to do it. They can shut themselves off from the internet removing a significant chunk, they can probably even hack and attack a few countries, but if they honestly think they have the ability to turn off the internet then they are delusional and should not be permitted to operate any role of authority.
The two did not need to be mutually exclusive. Had the accusations been deemed valid and a guilty verdict handed down as a result, the parents could have then sued him after that.
and had they found him innocent through insufficient evidence or simply him having better paid lawyers they would get nothing.
Instead they dropped the charges - an almost unquantifiably selfish and greedy choice - and took the money.
how the F@#$@# is it a greedy act to take what is on offer over a gamble of getting a conviction.
Who says that they actually helped their children with the money? They could have blown it on crack for all we know.
who says they blew it all on crack, they could have used it to save a thousand homeless children for all we know. wtf is your point here, assuming the worst of people just because you can?
hmmmm lets see, I can set my kid up for life, paying his college fund and getting him a decent start in life, no this certainly doesn't make up for any molestation but it is certainly better than the alternative of get nothing and hope the legal system finds him guilty. Nothing can ever compensate for molestation but I would hardly call anyone bad parents that uses such a disgraceful act to help their child in life.
that is an awesome achievement considering there are less than 100 million iphones and probably less than half would even use facebook. So at a guess every one of these iphone users has 4 or 5 facebook accounts??? something doesn't smell right.
For the vast majority DRM accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. like it or not most people don't try to break the DRM and most don't say "fuck that you put DRM on it I aint buying it", instead they might grumble a bit if at all and just pony up the money. The whole notion that everyone is like you and avoids DRM or bypasses it is idiotic, most struggle to install or run a game without assistance.
it's not just about cookies, it's about extracting the machineKey. for 99.9% of ASP.NET sites that's a complete disaster.
if you admin ASP.NET and you think this doesn't affect you, then you're probably wrong.
That really isn't true. It should be, if your a moron and you have incorrectly and insecurely setup your asp.net site then this may affect you. If you are said moron you should not be the admin of a site that has confidential data in the first place though. Any correctly configured site will not be vulnerable to this attack.
FWIW they claim keeping wages low wasn't the intent of the agreement:
If you believe that, then I have some prime real estate and a bridge to sell to you.
These are not companies struggling to pay their staff, more likely what thye were trying to do is prevent the highly disruptive process of key staff being poached in the middle of billion dollar projects, their pay is piddly compared to the damage that stealing key staff does to deliverable timelines. having said that it would also have a side affect of supressing staff wages, but I seriously doubt that was the intent.
If you buy a DVD player from the back of a pub and it turns out to be stolen, then you have to give it back and would be lucky not to be charged with being in reciept of stolen goods.
If you buy a DVD player from the back of a pub, you have to give back your remaining brain cell, because it turns out that your brain is faulty. You can buy a damn DVD player from K-Mart for $35 (Aussie Dollars). I'm sure there's even cheaper out there.
I do understand the point you're making but your example's a bit dated.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Nigerian scammers still make a fortune, people still believe that they are being sent that hot naked photo of Actress XYZ, greed clouds many normally rational humans, take someone a little below average and you have a free ATM. I bet if I tried I could find people in a pub to buy your $35 DVD player for $50 and they would think they got a bargain.
yep it is an incredibly dangerous tax in what is currently a declining market. There is also a lot of questions around the estimated tax income considering labor seem to have claimed tax revenues on the market increasing rather than going backwards 50% + like it has been doing.
surplus? I am sorry you must be thinking of some other country. We have a deficit since labor came in with a projected surplus in 2 or 3 years time, but even that is dependent on geting controversial mining tax through and NBN actually staying on budget, neither is currently highly likely.
What planet are you from? have you not seen or heard of the literally dozens of exploits and vulnerabilities constantly flowing from Adobe's readers and file format? they make microsoft look like fort knox.
not that I condone what this idiotic company is doing. But how exactly would you manage to get an extradition for him on the basis of crimes commited in another country (where what he is doing isn't illegal), unless you can somehow show the pirates he attacked are on American soil, even then I doubt it would hold up.
The reality is that all the proof you need is a labour shortage in your field and it is incredibly easy to get in. myself and several friends did 6-12 month stints over there working as programmers and when we left the companies were still begging for us to stay (no not because we were anything special, just that the shortages of decent programmers at the time were that bad).
Europe is like trying to jump over a barbed wire fence to get a work visa, The US is like trying to break into Fort Knox.
There is most definitely a monopoly and a huge lock-in. People keep making the mistake you are in thinking that you are googles customers, you are googles product and you are sold to their customers (advertisers), Their product is the users and they sell them for advertising as such they have a massive market share to the point that there is "almost" no choice but to advertise with google or lose access to a significant portion of the internet audience.
It has NEVER been about who is your default search engine or what ISP/OEM/phone etc puts as their home page. It is about an advertising monopoly that forces googles users (ie people that want to advertise) to be locked into them.
There is NOTHING great about using your market strength to clobber the competition no matter how much you despise them. the walled garden that is the iphone and ipad is doing more to harm consumers freedom than any perceived good you may see in the results.
IF flash is so bad (which I think it is) the way to kill it is to make sure users are aware that if they install it they will get 50% battery life, it should be a choose not dictated to by nazi jobs.
and so they should be bashed. It wasn't that they don't specifically push flash, flash is shit after all, it is the fact that they actively block a user from having flash. HAting flash for all its shitiness is fine, but dictating to a user they are not allowed to have there shitty preference because Apple deem they know better is bullshit.
After all we don't see Apple blocking quicktime despite it being almost as god aweful as flash
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And who exactly do you think is going to provide/pay for all the massive amounts of storage such a system entails? some previous systems worked this way and they were basically killed off becaue of the costs.
If I had mod points I would mod you up, I cannot think of a worse example of torrents then what blizzard do, they basically steal bandwidth from their clients while providing incredibly poor download speeds. I now disable their p2p SHIT and find another online source to download the patches from, even a slow site is 10 times faster than the garbage downloader blizz provide.
Ipad's are relatively new and they also fail to render the web properly.
Not american, but I was under the impression that every american supposedly had a right of due process which included their right to defend themselves in court if accussed or charged with a crime? if you have punishment without due process it means you have a dictator not a president.
As it currently stands I know more people that pirate games for their Xbox and Wii than I do for PC Games. PC games being easier to pirate is irrelevent, people will pirate whatever they want to play if it is an option and it isn't exactly hard to pirate for the 360 or Wii (and now the PS3). I have been around gaming a long time and I can honestly say I don't know a single person that has hacked their console for any reason other than to play pirated games, even backups is a ridiculous excuse with the current guarentees and replacement disc deals you can get with most game shops.
There is a difference, even if its only a minor one. The decision on phones was so that consumers where not stuck with carrier lock ins. The intent was so you could take your phone to a competing carrier. There is no such issue with game consoles. Its not like you can "jail break" your PS3 and hook it up to XBOX live.
Theoretically at least, you can source games from suppliers other than Sony. Some of the indie games companies should do just that, compete with Sony for the supply of games to their console.
hmmmm targetting a segment of the market of whom the majority have gone out of their way to avoid having to purchase games, yeah that sounds like a successfull business model for those struggling indie developers.
I don't think peoples issues are with the fact of brand dillution, the point is pod is a commonly used term and existed prior to any apple related product. To then trademarked an english language word that has a valid meaning for MANY products is ridiculous in the extreme. If apple was so concerned about product dillution then they should have chosen a name that would not be easily confused with existing uses of the word.
Not only do they have no right, they have absolutely no ability to do it. They can shut themselves off from the internet removing a significant chunk, they can probably even hack and attack a few countries, but if they honestly think they have the ability to turn off the internet then they are delusional and should not be permitted to operate any role of authority.
The two did not need to be mutually exclusive. Had the accusations been deemed valid and a guilty verdict handed down as a result, the parents could have then sued him after that.
and had they found him innocent through insufficient evidence or simply him having better paid lawyers they would get nothing.
Instead they dropped the charges - an almost unquantifiably selfish and greedy choice - and took the money.
how the F@#$@# is it a greedy act to take what is on offer over a gamble of getting a conviction.
Who says that they actually helped their children with the money? They could have blown it on crack for all we know.
who says they blew it all on crack, they could have used it to save a thousand homeless children for all we know. wtf is your point here, assuming the worst of people just because you can?
hmmmm lets see, I can set my kid up for life, paying his college fund and getting him a decent start in life, no this certainly doesn't make up for any molestation but it is certainly better than the alternative of get nothing and hope the legal system finds him guilty. Nothing can ever compensate for molestation but I would hardly call anyone bad parents that uses such a disgraceful act to help their child in life.
But at least every toon comes with a free squire boy pet.
that is an awesome achievement considering there are less than 100 million iphones and probably less than half would even use facebook. So at a guess every one of these iphone users has 4 or 5 facebook accounts??? something doesn't smell right.
For the vast majority DRM accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. like it or not most people don't try to break the DRM and most don't say "fuck that you put DRM on it I aint buying it", instead they might grumble a bit if at all and just pony up the money. The whole notion that everyone is like you and avoids DRM or bypasses it is idiotic, most struggle to install or run a game without assistance.
it's not just about cookies, it's about extracting the machineKey. for 99.9% of ASP.NET sites that's a complete disaster.
if you admin ASP.NET and you think this doesn't affect you, then you're probably wrong.
That really isn't true. It should be, if your a moron and you have incorrectly and insecurely setup your asp.net site then this may affect you. If you are said moron you should not be the admin of a site that has confidential data in the first place though. Any correctly configured site will not be vulnerable to this attack.
If you believe that, then I have some prime real estate and a bridge to sell to you.
These are not companies struggling to pay their staff, more likely what thye were trying to do is prevent the highly disruptive process of key staff being poached in the middle of billion dollar projects, their pay is piddly compared to the damage that stealing key staff does to deliverable timelines. having said that it would also have a side affect of supressing staff wages, but I seriously doubt that was the intent.
If you buy a DVD player from the back of a pub and it turns out to be stolen, then you have to give it back and would be lucky not to be charged with being in reciept of stolen goods.
If you buy a DVD player from the back of a pub, you have to give back your remaining brain cell, because it turns out that your brain is faulty. You can buy a damn DVD player from K-Mart for $35 (Aussie Dollars). I'm sure there's even cheaper out there.
I do understand the point you're making but your example's a bit dated.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Nigerian scammers still make a fortune, people still believe that they are being sent that hot naked photo of Actress XYZ, greed clouds many normally rational humans, take someone a little below average and you have a free ATM. I bet if I tried I could find people in a pub to buy your $35 DVD player for $50 and they would think they got a bargain.
yep it is an incredibly dangerous tax in what is currently a declining market. There is also a lot of questions around the estimated tax income considering labor seem to have claimed tax revenues on the market increasing rather than going backwards 50% + like it has been doing.
surplus? I am sorry you must be thinking of some other country. We have a deficit since labor came in with a projected surplus in 2 or 3 years time, but even that is dependent on geting controversial mining tax through and NBN actually staying on budget, neither is currently highly likely.
You normally think of PDF's as safe.
What planet are you from? have you not seen or heard of the literally dozens of exploits and vulnerabilities constantly flowing from Adobe's readers and file format? they make microsoft look like fort knox.
not that I condone what this idiotic company is doing. But how exactly would you manage to get an extradition for him on the basis of crimes commited in another country (where what he is doing isn't illegal), unless you can somehow show the pirates he attacked are on American soil, even then I doubt it would hold up.
The reality is that all the proof you need is a labour shortage in your field and it is incredibly easy to get in. myself and several friends did 6-12 month stints over there working as programmers and when we left the companies were still begging for us to stay (no not because we were anything special, just that the shortages of decent programmers at the time were that bad).
Europe is like trying to jump over a barbed wire fence to get a work visa, The US is like trying to break into Fort Knox.
There is most definitely a monopoly and a huge lock-in. People keep making the mistake you are in thinking that you are googles customers, you are googles product and you are sold to their customers (advertisers), Their product is the users and they sell them for advertising as such they have a massive market share to the point that there is "almost" no choice but to advertise with google or lose access to a significant portion of the internet audience.
It has NEVER been about who is your default search engine or what ISP/OEM/phone etc puts as their home page. It is about an advertising monopoly that forces googles users (ie people that want to advertise) to be locked into them.
There is NOTHING great about using your market strength to clobber the competition no matter how much you despise them. the walled garden that is the iphone and ipad is doing more to harm consumers freedom than any perceived good you may see in the results.
IF flash is so bad (which I think it is) the way to kill it is to make sure users are aware that if they install it they will get 50% battery life, it should be a choose not dictated to by nazi jobs.
and so they should be bashed. It wasn't that they don't specifically push flash, flash is shit after all, it is the fact that they actively block a user from having flash. HAting flash for all its shitiness is fine, but dictating to a user they are not allowed to have there shitty preference because Apple deem they know better is bullshit.
After all we don't see Apple blocking quicktime despite it being almost as god aweful as flash
an article with a somehwat anti MS slant but here is one example for ya. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/yes_linus_microsoft_hating_disease_and_its_pandemic