Well that case, it even is still directly doing damage (crashing the server, downtime = lost sales/productivity). Compared to several other hackers that get in comparable trouble for literally just connecting and reading the content. Companies/government tend to want to hold the hackers liable when they connect/access, without actually causing any downtime. Time spent applying security updates for a flaw that should have been fixed before, is not downtime caused by the hacker that is downtime caused by the security team not having done it right the first time. Unless trade secretes were sold to a competitor, or downtime/data loss was caused, there are no "damages". In the same way that trespassing is not by definition theft.
I agree that the OWS movement should find a spokesperson. I guess they are most likely afraid of repeating the tea party's actions by starting out with a half decent idea, and then the leaders getting bought out. Really if they could find someone with a hint of pollitical background but not having been in pollitics long enough to have been flooded, they may get a viable independent candidate. John stewart 2012!!
Would I like companies to be double taxed, yes that is how it is done in every other first world country in the world. But hey that makes us the best country in the world for a business to set up up here and sell too, while sending any income to other countries. Our economy is perfect for siphoning money out of itself, why would anyone want to risk these companies moving elsewhere.
PETA is corrupt throughout the core of it. More then just the stupid stunts for publicity, they also greatly harm far more then they help in protests. Peta "Rescues" dogs and cats. In 2009 of the animals "rescued" by peta 2,301 were euthanized and a total of 8 were adopted out.
Yes and no, it is a mythical creature, and it is also a term used to refer to a Japanese raccoon dog or sometimes badgers, it depends on the location. The fictional ones have balls the size of watermelons.
Wait you think Hollywood producers actually care what the fans of the original think when they remake? How many people who liked Douglas Adam's books thought positive things about the movie? How many DBZ fans were happy with the movie? Heck even when it's the same creator of the original they don't care about what the fans of the original think, just ask George Lucas. Hollywood is about taking an idea, dumbing it down low enough that the fans of jersey shore can follow it, and targetting it towards the largest possible group of people with money. They know that the fans of the origional are 1. an inconsequential number (Generally less then 5-10% of the people who will see it if they market it to idiots). and 2. Half of them are going to pay to see it anyway even if it is awful.
You are absolutely right, I can't think of any movement that gained any traction ever by staying past when they allow you to be there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
OWS has made dozens of good points, if you actually read the signs, blogs, notes or anything of their movements they have quite a few things that are very specifically called for. End of corporates being considered persons, end to lobyism, allowing taxing on the wealthy, regulation of banks etc... If you look at the actual movement and the actual protestors, you see more or less a 50/50 of people carrying messages, and people trying to draw attention. The problem is the media likes to focus purely on the attention grabbers, and cut out the people with a message, and then make the statement "It seems like they don't have a message to give".
Actually that could lead to the most ironic possible turn of events... Diaspora's failure was not so much the product, as a failure to have a working product for the public at a time when the general media was paying attention... I don't know about anyone else but I actually got my diaspora invite yesterday (that I signed up for a year back). Before I get flamed, no I do not think this was planned for such, but I do think there is a 1/100 chance that his death may draw the media, that may possibly draw the public to check out his work. 10 years from now we may be looking at the digital equivalent of Van Gogh.
I cannot believe I had to scroll down this far to find the first post that wasn't a brazen insensitive mockery or a joking jab at an assassination. Not that they normally bother me, but really even the announcement of Steve Jobs' death was at least 50/50. Maybe the project that he had didn't take off, but his ideals and his heart were in the right place, and if he did indeed take his own life, that makes it even more tragic.
Depends whether you are talking about indians in america or indians in india. There are quite a few places in india that hire rock bottom horrible coders, with little education, and then set them up for hire for american companies looking for the cheapest labor possible, that isn't racism, that is around a system where people are putting themselves into a job that they don't have the qualifications or experience for (Note not every company that can be outsourced in india do this, but there are enough out there to draw attention). Now an indian person living in america with legitimate schooling and experience I doubt there would be a significant level of racism towards.
Apple TV is an apple product. It dosn't have to be better then the competition, nor does it need to be cheaper, or functional. They just have to say "Steve jobs thought of this before he died", and it will sell millions.
The headers are non-copywritable, the plaintiff is a lawyer with too much free time on his hands and no client. If you are worried about setting a bad precedent, I would be more concerned with the idea of lawyers suing for issues that even the supposedly wronged are upset with. Ambulance chaser style lawyers that convince people they are wronged before they think so themselves are bad enough, now we are going to get a bunch of lawyers suing without consent of the clients? What happens next, woman trips in store, says everything is OK, lawyer sues store for unsafe floors? Current problem we have, despite the stupid high number of frivelous lawsuits, even if we pretend they aren't a huge problem, all lawyers except patent lawyers are currently overpopulated to the point where there are more of them then jobs to do. Larger problem, now they are starting to make lawsuits without needing to be hired?
Agreed. You get netflix, you use their DVDs, not one of them has DRM that is strong enough to thwart 95% of the free programs out there to copy them and redistribute them online. It's like the content providers are endlessly antagonizing over making sure there are enough bars, doors, security keycards etc... on the front door to the bank, and forgetting the detail that one side of the building doesn't have a wall.
What does watching silverlight streams on a regular basis prove towards a lack of motivation to crack it? The quality is comparable and you are already subscribed, so you have no motivation to do so. Hulu has horrible level of DRM right?, how many taken from hulu streams are on TPB, answer few to none, why? because by the time anyone copies it off of hulu, someone has already recorded the live airing of the show and it is already well seeded, why bother, that would be like cracking an empty safe, sure someone can do it but nobody's going to invest any time or energy into it. Live shows... well obviously once it is pirated and uploaded it would no longer be live, and the pre-recorded airing from TV in the state it broadcasted is equally good.
Which I have to consider the greatest idiocy ever IMO. Considering you know what is easier to download in the highest possible quality. The darn TV and DVD sources, that are available for download within an hour of the initial airing or DVD release at the latest, a few weeks to a month earlier if there is a leak. I will never understand the compulsion to need DRM and require the release to be weeks after the fact for most services, Why DRM something that already is available unDRMed on every torrent site known to man. Do they still think the main method of piracy is people copying the movies onto floppy-disks and handing them out to friends?
Kids have ages where they mature, ages where they repeat everything they see whether they are old enough to understand it or not at the location where it is least appropriate. When my son was 3 he heard me mutter ah shit. He didn't repeat it, I thought I was in the clear, until the next time he saw his grandma and repeated it 40 times. Now ready to imagine what the end result would be if say a 2-3 year old were to pull off his diaper and attempt to re-enact something he'd seen at a pre-school. If the parent is lucky the child will just get thrown out of the school, if not DSS can have the power to assume the parent is unfit. All because some other jerk that the parent has no control over, couldn't wait for the plane to land?
Well 2 huge flaws, 1. The intent of porn tends to cause a physical change in male viewers that other passengers would rather not witness. 2. I'm as much against censoring of porn and such as anyone else, but when someone is going to play it in visible view of my 5 year old without my consent, that is where the line has to be drawn.
24/7 Surveillance on both public and private property perhaps? Traditional surveillance has limits of where and when they can monitor you. A GPS on the other hand is monitoring you 24/7 regardless of district, private/public property etc...
The bigger issue I think is the increase of absentminded voters. The main 2 parties are nothing but shills for businesses, and any other party or viewpoint will never actually be known by 90% of the voters, who know little more about the candidates then the 3 minute political bashing that they have done on each-other. Most candidates can win on a pure "well the democrat smoked crack in highschool" based campaign rivaling against "oh yeah the republican has a gay son" without even having to focus on their viewpoints. I would say under 10% of the voters have any idea of anything they are voting on, and the 90% that go to the voting booths drown out the 10% that actually can make an informed decision. The problem with the "You must vote whether you know anything about either candidate or not", changes from a legitimate system to a cointoss.
How will this solve anything. Candidate approaches, gets donations from ____ corporation to help him win, makes changes beneficial to ____ corporation, finishes his term, goes to work for ____ corporation with a huge sign on bonus.
Oh I agree, the concept was fantastic. If they had released something half way up to the hype, something that didn't have so many security vulnerabilities to the point that they couldn't find something in your profile that couldn't be hacked, on the first demo, and had it actually launched back when there was hype. G+'s biggest criticism is that they don't have the API's up to strike while the iron is as hot as it's going to get. Diaspora was weak because... well the time for it to strike it big and move up was back when it got media coverage and people were still talking about it... I believe that was 2009 was it's peak of publicity.
Microsoft has never been the direction apple is. While shutting out competition was always a strong stance of theirs. Preventing competition from running on their OS or any devices they run has never been a high priority. I do have to admit, Xbox is probably the most independent developer friendly console (out of the top 3 competitors of course), Microsoft has never attempted to discourage people from using any software on windows. That is kinda how MS kicked apples ass back in the day. (Macs were strongly against allowing competition to design hardware, Microsoft encoraged a huge compeating pricewar to drive down hardware prices and boost software sales.)
Diaspora has more or less no hope of even making it into half recognition. Screwing up at 10x the significance google did. Step 1. Generate tons of starter funds donations etc..., 2, Generate hype, more hype, ask for more donations. 3. Launch a prototype, so full of security holes, bugs etc... that 3/4ths of tinfoil hats realized it was in their best interest to steer clear of the product. 4. Make no more anouncements for a year and a half, let whatever remaining sparks of hype that weren't crushed by step 3, smoulder and fade away. Step 5. Send another donation request and wonder why nobody takes it seriously anymore.
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Well that case, it even is still directly doing damage (crashing the server, downtime = lost sales/productivity). Compared to several other hackers that get in comparable trouble for literally just connecting and reading the content. Companies/government tend to want to hold the hackers liable when they connect/access, without actually causing any downtime. Time spent applying security updates for a flaw that should have been fixed before, is not downtime caused by the hacker that is downtime caused by the security team not having done it right the first time. Unless trade secretes were sold to a competitor, or downtime/data loss was caused, there are no "damages". In the same way that trespassing is not by definition theft.
I agree that the OWS movement should find a spokesperson. I guess they are most likely afraid of repeating the tea party's actions by starting out with a half decent idea, and then the leaders getting bought out. Really if they could find someone with a hint of pollitical background but not having been in pollitics long enough to have been flooded, they may get a viable independent candidate. John stewart 2012!!
Would I like companies to be double taxed, yes that is how it is done in every other first world country in the world. But hey that makes us the best country in the world for a business to set up up here and sell too, while sending any income to other countries. Our economy is perfect for siphoning money out of itself, why would anyone want to risk these companies moving elsewhere.
PETA is corrupt throughout the core of it. More then just the stupid stunts for publicity, they also greatly harm far more then they help in protests. Peta "Rescues" dogs and cats. In 2009 of the animals "rescued" by peta 2,301 were euthanized and a total of 8 were adopted out.
Yes and no, it is a mythical creature, and it is also a term used to refer to a Japanese raccoon dog or sometimes badgers, it depends on the location. The fictional ones have balls the size of watermelons.
1. Loading icon in the content window of a browser
2. Compatibility of file names with current and outmoded operating systems
3. Storing input/output in a shared file system
4. Simulating mouse inputs on a device without a mouse
5. A browser that recognizes background images and displays them after the text is loaded
6. Using handles to change the size of selected text
Wait you think Hollywood producers actually care what the fans of the original think when they remake? How many people who liked Douglas Adam's books thought positive things about the movie? How many DBZ fans were happy with the movie? Heck even when it's the same creator of the original they don't care about what the fans of the original think, just ask George Lucas. Hollywood is about taking an idea, dumbing it down low enough that the fans of jersey shore can follow it, and targetting it towards the largest possible group of people with money. They know that the fans of the origional are 1. an inconsequential number (Generally less then 5-10% of the people who will see it if they market it to idiots). and 2. Half of them are going to pay to see it anyway even if it is awful.
You are absolutely right, I can't think of any movement that gained any traction ever by staying past when they allow you to be there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
OWS has made dozens of good points, if you actually read the signs, blogs, notes or anything of their movements they have quite a few things that are very specifically called for. End of corporates being considered persons, end to lobyism, allowing taxing on the wealthy, regulation of banks etc... If you look at the actual movement and the actual protestors, you see more or less a 50/50 of people carrying messages, and people trying to draw attention. The problem is the media likes to focus purely on the attention grabbers, and cut out the people with a message, and then make the statement "It seems like they don't have a message to give".
Actually that could lead to the most ironic possible turn of events... Diaspora's failure was not so much the product, as a failure to have a working product for the public at a time when the general media was paying attention... I don't know about anyone else but I actually got my diaspora invite yesterday (that I signed up for a year back). Before I get flamed, no I do not think this was planned for such, but I do think there is a 1/100 chance that his death may draw the media, that may possibly draw the public to check out his work. 10 years from now we may be looking at the digital equivalent of Van Gogh.
I cannot believe I had to scroll down this far to find the first post that wasn't a brazen insensitive mockery or a joking jab at an assassination. Not that they normally bother me, but really even the announcement of Steve Jobs' death was at least 50/50. Maybe the project that he had didn't take off, but his ideals and his heart were in the right place, and if he did indeed take his own life, that makes it even more tragic.
Depends whether you are talking about indians in america or indians in india. There are quite a few places in india that hire rock bottom horrible coders, with little education, and then set them up for hire for american companies looking for the cheapest labor possible, that isn't racism, that is around a system where people are putting themselves into a job that they don't have the qualifications or experience for (Note not every company that can be outsourced in india do this, but there are enough out there to draw attention). Now an indian person living in america with legitimate schooling and experience I doubt there would be a significant level of racism towards.
Apple TV is an apple product. It dosn't have to be better then the competition, nor does it need to be cheaper, or functional. They just have to say "Steve jobs thought of this before he died", and it will sell millions.
The headers are non-copywritable, the plaintiff is a lawyer with too much free time on his hands and no client. If you are worried about setting a bad precedent, I would be more concerned with the idea of lawyers suing for issues that even the supposedly wronged are upset with. Ambulance chaser style lawyers that convince people they are wronged before they think so themselves are bad enough, now we are going to get a bunch of lawyers suing without consent of the clients? What happens next, woman trips in store, says everything is OK, lawyer sues store for unsafe floors? Current problem we have, despite the stupid high number of frivelous lawsuits, even if we pretend they aren't a huge problem, all lawyers except patent lawyers are currently overpopulated to the point where there are more of them then jobs to do. Larger problem, now they are starting to make lawsuits without needing to be hired?
Agreed. You get netflix, you use their DVDs, not one of them has DRM that is strong enough to thwart 95% of the free programs out there to copy them and redistribute them online. It's like the content providers are endlessly antagonizing over making sure there are enough bars, doors, security keycards etc... on the front door to the bank, and forgetting the detail that one side of the building doesn't have a wall.
What does watching silverlight streams on a regular basis prove towards a lack of motivation to crack it? The quality is comparable and you are already subscribed, so you have no motivation to do so. Hulu has horrible level of DRM right?, how many taken from hulu streams are on TPB, answer few to none, why? because by the time anyone copies it off of hulu, someone has already recorded the live airing of the show and it is already well seeded, why bother, that would be like cracking an empty safe, sure someone can do it but nobody's going to invest any time or energy into it. Live shows... well obviously once it is pirated and uploaded it would no longer be live, and the pre-recorded airing from TV in the state it broadcasted is equally good.
Which I have to consider the greatest idiocy ever IMO. Considering you know what is easier to download in the highest possible quality. The darn TV and DVD sources, that are available for download within an hour of the initial airing or DVD release at the latest, a few weeks to a month earlier if there is a leak. I will never understand the compulsion to need DRM and require the release to be weeks after the fact for most services, Why DRM something that already is available unDRMed on every torrent site known to man. Do they still think the main method of piracy is people copying the movies onto floppy-disks and handing them out to friends?
Kids have ages where they mature, ages where they repeat everything they see whether they are old enough to understand it or not at the location where it is least appropriate. When my son was 3 he heard me mutter ah shit. He didn't repeat it, I thought I was in the clear, until the next time he saw his grandma and repeated it 40 times. Now ready to imagine what the end result would be if say a 2-3 year old were to pull off his diaper and attempt to re-enact something he'd seen at a pre-school. If the parent is lucky the child will just get thrown out of the school, if not DSS can have the power to assume the parent is unfit. All because some other jerk that the parent has no control over, couldn't wait for the plane to land?
Well 2 huge flaws, 1. The intent of porn tends to cause a physical change in male viewers that other passengers would rather not witness. 2. I'm as much against censoring of porn and such as anyone else, but when someone is going to play it in visible view of my 5 year old without my consent, that is where the line has to be drawn.
24/7 Surveillance on both public and private property perhaps? Traditional surveillance has limits of where and when they can monitor you. A GPS on the other hand is monitoring you 24/7 regardless of district, private/public property etc...
The bigger issue I think is the increase of absentminded voters. The main 2 parties are nothing but shills for businesses, and any other party or viewpoint will never actually be known by 90% of the voters, who know little more about the candidates then the 3 minute political bashing that they have done on each-other. Most candidates can win on a pure "well the democrat smoked crack in highschool" based campaign rivaling against "oh yeah the republican has a gay son" without even having to focus on their viewpoints. I would say under 10% of the voters have any idea of anything they are voting on, and the 90% that go to the voting booths drown out the 10% that actually can make an informed decision. The problem with the "You must vote whether you know anything about either candidate or not", changes from a legitimate system to a cointoss.
How will this solve anything. Candidate approaches, gets donations from ____ corporation to help him win, makes changes beneficial to ____ corporation, finishes his term, goes to work for ____ corporation with a huge sign on bonus.
Oh I agree, the concept was fantastic. If they had released something half way up to the hype, something that didn't have so many security vulnerabilities to the point that they couldn't find something in your profile that couldn't be hacked, on the first demo, and had it actually launched back when there was hype. G+'s biggest criticism is that they don't have the API's up to strike while the iron is as hot as it's going to get. Diaspora was weak because... well the time for it to strike it big and move up was back when it got media coverage and people were still talking about it... I believe that was 2009 was it's peak of publicity.
Microsoft has never been the direction apple is. While shutting out competition was always a strong stance of theirs. Preventing competition from running on their OS or any devices they run has never been a high priority. I do have to admit, Xbox is probably the most independent developer friendly console (out of the top 3 competitors of course), Microsoft has never attempted to discourage people from using any software on windows. That is kinda how MS kicked apples ass back in the day. (Macs were strongly against allowing competition to design hardware, Microsoft encoraged a huge compeating pricewar to drive down hardware prices and boost software sales.)
Diaspora has more or less no hope of even making it into half recognition. Screwing up at 10x the significance google did. Step 1. Generate tons of starter funds donations etc..., 2, Generate hype, more hype, ask for more donations. 3. Launch a prototype, so full of security holes, bugs etc... that 3/4ths of tinfoil hats realized it was in their best interest to steer clear of the product. 4. Make no more anouncements for a year and a half, let whatever remaining sparks of hype that weren't crushed by step 3, smoulder and fade away. Step 5. Send another donation request and wonder why nobody takes it seriously anymore.