The finger certainly points in the direction of the chinese. HOWEVER, It could just as easily be the US, the chinese rights groups or any other group looking to discredit china.
Google "Tiananmen Square Massacre" or "Tibet". Seems to me that those activists don't have to
manufacture any proof.
there is plenty of proof, however what there isn't is plenty of world support for them. Like it or not this attack could have easily originated from any number of foreign governments or rights groups, however the most likely suspect is still the chinese government.
The finger certainly points in the direction of the chinese. HOWEVER, It could just as easily be the US, the chinese rights groups or any other group looking to discredit china. Without proof all you have is likely suspects and given we are supposed to believe in freedoms such as "innocent until proven guilty", what does that make us if we act the way we "think" they themselves are acting.
Very few people, especially smaller sites actually require all the features of paypal, pick one of them that has the features you need and go with it, they are pretty much all better than paypal (with the exception of paymate, not sure why they would be listed there as if anything they are worse than paypal).
Because the largest part of time in the majority of patches is not development, but the testing of it. a patch that took a dev 5 minutes to write might take 2 or 3 days to run the full set of tests against depending on where and how critical the patch is, hence buddling more patches can reduce total time. MS is huge with a massive amount of reliant 1 st party and 3rd party software, I would bet it probably takes a good week for a full set of regression and break tests even if the patch is simple.
No one takes such threats lightly, if MS were making such threats you could be damn certain it would be constantly in the press. Think about it, this idiot is suggesting MS are going around threatening companies that are obviously already not pro MS as they are looking at other products and they are all mysteriously keeping perfectly quiet. There is no such thing as "off the record". EVERYTHING is always on the record.
The whole patent system is fukked up. I have no sympathy for any company that tries to take advantage of that screwed up system. I hate that companies like MS/IBM/Sun et al all collect huge patent portfolios, but at least they use them defensively rather than aggressively/abusively like Tivo.
Google are agressively trying to take Apples market, I am pretty sure Steve Hates losing money more than he hates Microsoft, At least his shareholders better hope so.
Tivo is a Sue happy obnoxious company that agressively sues its competitors through patents that should never have been granted to it. It is nice to see someone pound them in their face for a change. Tivo is attacking Microsofts biggest platform partner, Tivo deserves to be slapped around.
What I don't understand here is why people are saying this is a political thing. Avatar ran the EXACT same length in cinemas as every other foreign film and is sitll running in their 3D cinemas. Avatar has in no way been limited in its viewing there (at least no more than any other movie), and given how shit the movie is in 2D it is no great loss either. What exactly about removing a movie from cinemas after it has run its normal cinema time suggests that their is some sinister political motive?
No, buying the game means I liked the game. I could not give a crap about how they con or bribe the reviewers, I don't care if it is made by sony, MS, blizzard or adolf hitler for that matter. If the game is fun (and it is) and is well made (it is) then I am more than happy to pay for it regardless of how they treat the scumbag media.
I don't know how much of my comment history is available at present, but it doesn't seem that long ago that I was commenting that Google is not to be trusted because they are a corporation and they are all about advertising revenue. The fact that they have capitulated to China in the past was reaffirming to my perspective.
But if this story plays out and Google pulls out of China based on the Chinese government's persecution of descenters, opposition and critics, then I have to say that Goggle will actually start changing my mind about them after all. And I have to say, just like many others, changing my mind about something is not particularly easy to do -- but if they do this, I will be PLEASANTLY surprised.
In addition to that, any U.S. company that fails to take a similar approach to dealing with China is simply without balls by comparison.
I think you are giving google far to much credit if you believe their reasons here are human rights. Google has failed miserably in china, just about every search engine has kicked their arse, especially baidu, more likely google has realised they need to pull out of the their and by using this PR stunt they can do so and come out looking like the good guy rather than just another failed business venture.
Firstly why is MS singled out in the slashdot version of the story? 100% of mail products failed this so called test.
secondly what a piece of garbage, the mail products ALL did what they were supposed to, looking at how the email was constructed there was no piece of information in it that would allow any of the products to automatically detect it as an attack, sadly this is the nature of how SMTP mail is built, there is no easy way to determine a real email from fake one as is easily demonstrated by the 100% failure of every product, or more to the point the 100% failure of the researchers in understanding what they are doing, claiming they were trying to measure the levels of security is just complete crap, all they are after is publicity on a well known and understood technology and its many flawes.
I don't like the movie studios much but the article is highly misleading, it only mentions total revenue and if you dig into the articles the article itself references it clearly shows a declining profit per movie and less movies being made which kinda supports the studios positions. Personally though I think the declining profit is because most movies made nowadays are utter shit.
The current Windows (NT based) did not evolve from DOS at all, it has its roots firmly with OS/2 and was a multi user platform from the start. The windows 3.1/95/98/ME evolved from dos, those are long since dead.
Whatever floats your boat. For me it is the exact opposite, intelligent chicks are hot, dumb chicks get uglier the more they open there mouths and are a complete turn off.
how is that even remotely related? people do and have always wanted cell phones, people don't and if anything have shown a complete hatred for thin client server dependant technologies to the extent that the market is completely non existant despite many companies attempts to get to going.
Googles approach here has been tried many times in the past and I am betting this attempt will end like all the others in complete failure. It is not that they are doing anything wrong, it is simply they are a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist, i.e. there is no mass market desire out there for a limited machine that you MUST be connected to the web to work and cannot install applications on or store your data on.
While it definitely isn't worth it now, it was only 4 or 5 years ago that you had to stay close to the cutting edge if you wanted to play games as they were released in full resolution. Now though even a middle of the range card is adequate for even the most system taxing games. Graphics cards have outpaced gaming.
I just bought a new 5870 but I had been sitting on a card that was 2 generations old before that and was still able to play most games at full res, the only real reason for the 5870 was it is a new machine and should hold me in good stead for a few years.
Raw hamburger NOT exposed to air is grey, expose it to air for even a short amount of time and it will go pink. (my friends are butchers and we regularly pack meat for ourselves and family).
it is not about punishing the big business, it is about equality in business, every other store has to charge local taxes and amazon by claiming exemption are therefore gaining an unfair pricing advantage. either every business big and small must collect taxes or none of them shoul dhave to, just because amazon is big should not justify them being exempt.
Deal with the annoying ATI bugs or deal with Nvidia shithouse drivers constantly crashing your machine while Nvidia point the finger at anyone but themselves....hmmmm tough choice.
There are three reasons to mod your Xbox:
1. Turn it into a cheap PC
2. Play homebrew software (basically #1)
3. Steal games.
All of these rely on the same method: replace or disable protections on the OS or base firmware. It's in the quick start guide(the thing that tells you what is and isn't included) that if you mod your xbox, you will not be able to play Live! and may not be able to play the games you own.
So why the hell is anyone surprised about the ban?
And why the hell is anyone even angry about the ban? They expected it!
1. No the mods only allows game backups to run, not to turn it into a PC.
2. NO, see point 1. There is free dev kits provided by MS for homebrew, modding your Xbox does not provide further homebrew advantages in any way.
3. YES, this in effect the only advantage to current Xbox 360 mods as they have only really bypassed the checks for original DVD's.
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Google "Tiananmen Square Massacre" or "Tibet". Seems to me that those activists don't have to manufacture any proof.
there is plenty of proof, however what there isn't is plenty of world support for them. Like it or not this attack could have easily originated from any number of foreign governments or rights groups, however the most likely suspect is still the chinese government.
The finger certainly points in the direction of the chinese. HOWEVER, It could just as easily be the US, the chinese rights groups or any other group looking to discredit china. Without proof all you have is likely suspects and given we are supposed to believe in freedoms such as "innocent until proven guilty", what does that make us if we act the way we "think" they themselves are acting.
Very few people, especially smaller sites actually require all the features of paypal, pick one of them that has the features you need and go with it, they are pretty much all better than paypal (with the exception of paymate, not sure why they would be listed there as if anything they are worse than paypal).
Because the largest part of time in the majority of patches is not development, but the testing of it. a patch that took a dev 5 minutes to write might take 2 or 3 days to run the full set of tests against depending on where and how critical the patch is, hence buddling more patches can reduce total time. MS is huge with a massive amount of reliant 1 st party and 3rd party software, I would bet it probably takes a good week for a full set of regression and break tests even if the patch is simple.
No one takes such threats lightly, if MS were making such threats you could be damn certain it would be constantly in the press. Think about it, this idiot is suggesting MS are going around threatening companies that are obviously already not pro MS as they are looking at other products and they are all mysteriously keeping perfectly quiet. There is no such thing as "off the record". EVERYTHING is always on the record.
The whole patent system is fukked up. I have no sympathy for any company that tries to take advantage of that screwed up system. I hate that companies like MS/IBM/Sun et al all collect huge patent portfolios, but at least they use them defensively rather than aggressively/abusively like Tivo.
Google are agressively trying to take Apples market, I am pretty sure Steve Hates losing money more than he hates Microsoft, At least his shareholders better hope so.
this has nothing to do with linux
Tivo is a Sue happy obnoxious company that agressively sues its competitors through patents that should never have been granted to it. It is nice to see someone pound them in their face for a change. Tivo is attacking Microsofts biggest platform partner, Tivo deserves to be slapped around.
In other words, "all foreign enterprises will be treated the same as domestic enterprises in China".
The US doesn't consistently abide by such rules why should china?
What I don't understand here is why people are saying this is a political thing. Avatar ran the EXACT same length in cinemas as every other foreign film and is sitll running in their 3D cinemas. Avatar has in no way been limited in its viewing there (at least no more than any other movie), and given how shit the movie is in 2D it is no great loss either. What exactly about removing a movie from cinemas after it has run its normal cinema time suggests that their is some sinister political motive?
unlike some I am happy to wait for at least a day after release so I can try before I buy.
No, buying the game means I liked the game. I could not give a crap about how they con or bribe the reviewers, I don't care if it is made by sony, MS, blizzard or adolf hitler for that matter. If the game is fun (and it is) and is well made (it is) then I am more than happy to pay for it regardless of how they treat the scumbag media.
I don't know how much of my comment history is available at present, but it doesn't seem that long ago that I was commenting that Google is not to be trusted because they are a corporation and they are all about advertising revenue. The fact that they have capitulated to China in the past was reaffirming to my perspective.
But if this story plays out and Google pulls out of China based on the Chinese government's persecution of descenters, opposition and critics, then I have to say that Goggle will actually start changing my mind about them after all. And I have to say, just like many others, changing my mind about something is not particularly easy to do -- but if they do this, I will be PLEASANTLY surprised.
In addition to that, any U.S. company that fails to take a similar approach to dealing with China is simply without balls by comparison.
I think you are giving google far to much credit if you believe their reasons here are human rights. Google has failed miserably in china, just about every search engine has kicked their arse, especially baidu, more likely google has realised they need to pull out of the their and by using this PR stunt they can do so and come out looking like the good guy rather than just another failed business venture.
Firstly why is MS singled out in the slashdot version of the story? 100% of mail products failed this so called test.
secondly what a piece of garbage, the mail products ALL did what they were supposed to, looking at how the email was constructed there was no piece of information in it that would allow any of the products to automatically detect it as an attack, sadly this is the nature of how SMTP mail is built, there is no easy way to determine a real email from fake one as is easily demonstrated by the 100% failure of every product, or more to the point the 100% failure of the researchers in understanding what they are doing, claiming they were trying to measure the levels of security is just complete crap, all they are after is publicity on a well known and understood technology and its many flawes.
Whats next, patenting the use of punctuation in sentances?
At least /. posters will be safe.
I don't like the movie studios much but the article is highly misleading, it only mentions total revenue and if you dig into the articles the article itself references it clearly shows a declining profit per movie and less movies being made which kinda supports the studios positions. Personally though I think the declining profit is because most movies made nowadays are utter shit.
The current Windows (NT based) did not evolve from DOS at all, it has its roots firmly with OS/2 and was a multi user platform from the start. The windows 3.1/95/98/ME evolved from dos, those are long since dead.
Whatever floats your boat. For me it is the exact opposite, intelligent chicks are hot, dumb chicks get uglier the more they open there mouths and are a complete turn off.
how is that even remotely related? people do and have always wanted cell phones, people don't and if anything have shown a complete hatred for thin client server dependant technologies to the extent that the market is completely non existant despite many companies attempts to get to going.
Googles approach here has been tried many times in the past and I am betting this attempt will end like all the others in complete failure. It is not that they are doing anything wrong, it is simply they are a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist, i.e. there is no mass market desire out there for a limited machine that you MUST be connected to the web to work and cannot install applications on or store your data on.
While it definitely isn't worth it now, it was only 4 or 5 years ago that you had to stay close to the cutting edge if you wanted to play games as they were released in full resolution. Now though even a middle of the range card is adequate for even the most system taxing games. Graphics cards have outpaced gaming. I just bought a new 5870 but I had been sitting on a card that was 2 generations old before that and was still able to play most games at full res, the only real reason for the 5870 was it is a new machine and should hold me in good stead for a few years.
Raw hamburger NOT exposed to air is grey, expose it to air for even a short amount of time and it will go pink. (my friends are butchers and we regularly pack meat for ourselves and family).
it is not about punishing the big business, it is about equality in business, every other store has to charge local taxes and amazon by claiming exemption are therefore gaining an unfair pricing advantage. either every business big and small must collect taxes or none of them shoul dhave to, just because amazon is big should not justify them being exempt.
Deal with the annoying ATI bugs or deal with Nvidia shithouse drivers constantly crashing your machine while Nvidia point the finger at anyone but themselves....hmmmm tough choice.
There are three reasons to mod your Xbox: 1. Turn it into a cheap PC 2. Play homebrew software (basically #1) 3. Steal games. All of these rely on the same method: replace or disable protections on the OS or base firmware. It's in the quick start guide(the thing that tells you what is and isn't included) that if you mod your xbox, you will not be able to play Live! and may not be able to play the games you own. So why the hell is anyone surprised about the ban? And why the hell is anyone even angry about the ban? They expected it!
1. No the mods only allows game backups to run, not to turn it into a PC. 2. NO, see point 1. There is free dev kits provided by MS for homebrew, modding your Xbox does not provide further homebrew advantages in any way. 3. YES, this in effect the only advantage to current Xbox 360 mods as they have only really bypassed the checks for original DVD's.