Indeed if I bought a lybian slaughter house and turned it into a homeless shelter, would that make me evil? There are ways the music industry can be both profitable and beneficial, if Google teamed up with or made their own spotify for instance, There are countless good services that were making money for the music industry, but were shut down becuase the labels considered them a threat to the current procedures that are dying anyway. Unfortuantely I doubt it will work that way, the labels will claim their price as 50x what it is worth, offer it to google for say, 10 billion dollars per artist.
it is true, in the event that everything is free and ad supported, we'd run out of things to advertise. Obviously it can't go to infiniti, Free music paid for by an ad for free e-mail, the e-mail can be paid for by a free antivirus, that is paid for by it's free _____ etc etc... Only so many levels before it becomes infinant, of course sooner or later that chain can reach actual physical items that people are willing to pay for and can't duplicate, but more likely the chain tends to get broken by trojan horses identity thieves etc...
Well as much as part of that is true, for the most part it is terrible advice. "Don't open anything given to you by people you don't know" is solid advice, but it is half the time interpreted as something is safe if it is from someone you know and trust. Virus's don't work that way, most infections I run into these days were given to the person by their grandmothers who wouldn't hurt a fly. Second part is unexpected, this is also true, getting "hahafunny.doc" out of the blue is almost a guaranteed virus, but opening your bosses quarterly financial is also a risk if there is even a possibility he has used it on a compromised machine and the virus rather then forcing the computer to spread it out, just implants itself into everything silently.
This may be one of the few times 0 day was actually used right. 0-day hits without warning, and it has to be patched after the fact, assuming of course there was no warnings by white hats beforehand that were ignored/covered up. That being said, as much as I hate adobe and the ridiculous amounts of security flaws that actually allow these issues to occur, Seriously who the heck would want the ability to use flash in a word document, so they can print animations? That being said, 4 days is actually decent response time. compared to say word itself that will probably have the patch for this itself in a few months.
Masks are certainly an option, this isn't the first action of anon in the real world, there were quite a few gatherings outside the church of scientology, most wore masks, usually also blasting Rick Astley or Fresh prince music from the outside.
Ah but if it drives them to Jitsi or any alternatives, then that is a quick easy way to know who to flag as a terrorist. After all 90% of people won't be educated enough to know the difference if encryption is lost, so the 10% that switch, are the ones with something to hide.
No they will have to do it as partners in good standings as a previous post stated, Low cost police won't accomplish anything, it would 1. Be abused in the wrong way (feeds of opposing political/religious views would be censored). Secondly the stakes are far higher for youtube then the smaller streaming sites. 500 little guys spread out across multiple countries that may or may not have any respect for copyright law is one thing. Youtube/google on the other hand, that's a big red bulls eye for lawsuits. Heck at this point in time suing google is sort of becoming the national past time. Your company isn't on the map if you don't have a lawsuit against google.
Many markets don't have credit cards as easily accessible. Lesser developed countries don't all have credit cards, teenagers are still a large market, and not everyone's mom and dad will give them a CC to play a game, but will give them a weekly allowance in cash. 20+ Americans mostly have credit cards, that is a fact. While I can't link straight to a study on it, from what I have seen piracy rates are far higher in the teenage group, and it goes without saying that countries such as china are known for their piracy industry to the point where people will BUY pirate games in a local store (direct evidence of people willing to spend money, just not as much as the developers are asking)
Well I think the main reason is simple, google themselves declared the gmail anouncement date a bad marketing decision. The problem is everyone has taken the jokes too far and now it is a waste of time for anyone to anounce anything on april fools day because nobody will believe it.
True, but playing devils advocate here, Google is conveniently kind in allowing you to walk away from them, IE you can easily export your g mail contacts and even e-mails, NOW. If they turned evil they could simultaneously turn off exporting functions with say data selling and leave you in a similar position to where facebook holds its users. That is all unlikely to happen the way I see it, but not entirely imposible. So far there is nothing I have seen google do that falls into the realm of confirmed evil, only things that can be harmful if they changed. It's the equivelent of a nice guy, with a tank, a nuclear missile and an army of 500 people armed with AK47's. They have the potential to be extremely dangerous and level new york city, but have never fired a shot.
Indeed it's quite simple, Signing away their own rights is stupid, but legitimate. Say my friend Sue writes books for a living, I can trick her into signing away rights to the novel she wrote and publishing it in my own name, it's a jackass move but technically legal. Now if I had sue sign over the rights to everything she had, and I took her copy of lord of the rings, and tried to publish it in my name, could I?, That is what Microsoft is doing, the user can sign away the rights to what they search for, but not what they get back from it.
indeed, an unexpected empty folder it is reasonable enough to send a flag assuming the conditions of the antivirus are set reasonably high, removing an unnecessary and easily replaceable part of a windows install isn't really a huge deal, well giving it a name is kinda silly though, you'd think the AV would just give a heuristic "suspicious" warning instead of pretending it knows what it is. I have seen vipre at a few companies I've worked for and can't say much bad about it. I've never seen or heard of a major virus issue on its watch in any of the companies and I've never seen critical components killed, and that's more then I can say for most AV's with central management capability.
Agreed that the educated buyer would not chose staples, but the mindless masses see staples best buy and other ripoff locations as "as good as anywhere else", and want to see what they are getting before buying it (most don't realize they could simply take down the model number and buy it online for 100 or more less). As far as the prices, maybe there is a niche market for the 300 and up netbooks, it's just a less commonly needed niche. Tablets, laptops and high and low end netbooks will most likely all be around for some time. I just feel like the netbook makers are killing themselves by targeting the smallest niche, people who want a powerful computer and a small form-factor, as opposed to the largest niche, people who want the cheapest thing they can find that will get the job done.
IMO netbooks weren't killed by the IPad directly, they died because they went the same route as the IPad. I'm no expert on the subject beyond that I happened to be working at staples durring the rise and fall of netbooks, and I can tell you why they stopped selling at the store I worked in. Durring the peak, the store carried 3 netbooks, acer 1 which depending on the sale of the week was between $150 and $200 weak processor 1gb ram if I recall, then a HP and a dell netbook that were $350-$400. The acer ones sold like hotcakes because for the most part people wanted a weak cheap PC for taking notes, ultra portability was a side effect. The $300+ netbooks, I never saw one sell, primarally because any application that extra speed and power would be wanted, is an application that you should spend those 300+ on a laptop and see it on a screen larger then 10". Eventually the acer 1 stopped being carried and all netbooks that were in the store were the same price as the laptops. I never saw another one get sold, then a month later the IPad came out and everyone attributed that to the death of netbooks. Honestly I think netbooks killed themselves by failing to see their own selling point, then trying to compeat on the wrong selling point.
Already succesful and fully profitable are 2 completely seperate things. It isn't unheard of for a software package to pick up enough of a following to draw the guns before making enough to simply pay off the authors past due mortgage payments, and even profitable dosn't mean a lawyer is going to do you much good. Lets say somehow microsoft had a patent for something blatently obvious that was used in a game that say made 100k in a year, after expenses cost of living etc, this start up has 25k left to pay a lawyer to deffend himself, from microsofts 2.5 million they decided would be worth investing into eliminating a threat before it was big enough to fight back.
The problem is that won't do anything to reduce DRM, rather that will increase it. The companies making games by definition call every downloaded crack and copy of the game "a lost sale" IE if 60 people download the crack, 40 people buy legitimate copies. Even if 40 of the cracks went to legitimate purchasers and only 20 were pirates, the companies would write a report saying "more people pirated our game then purchased it, our sales would be doubled if we had more effective DRM, and thus more money is syphoned from the actually making a good game fund for the next game and more is put into making more intrusive DRM that will inevitably be cracked.
A lovely thought and perfectly logical, unfortunately US companies don't see any point to making actual goods here because some reason our workers actually think the people who actually do work are worth almost 1% of those who manage and market. Thus we have to export manufacturing to the countries that will pay their workers $5 a week or less.
Quite true the person dosn't even have to be abnormal for this to be a problem. Lets say a mother is calling about her 4 year olds broken leg, and another woman is calling about her waitress with a gunshot wound to the chest. While the 2nd one is going to be startled, she will be far calmer getting help for a stranger, then the woman who's child is hurt.
No idea of the feasibility of the concept, but he isn't saying to "stop" the plates from moving but to force them to move when they jam. In other words causing an earthquake to occur when the pressure has been building up for 1 year, rather then waiting 25 years for the pressure to grow enough to release itself
There is actually a pretty big difference in MS's security model vs linux and possibly macos. Now this issue has died down significantly in 7, but vista's horrible implimentation of UAC completely diluted the thought of it, and the mindset carried over greatly towards windows. I have little experience with macos so I won't use this in comparison. SUDO would prompt a user for a password when doing large dramatic system changes, IE installing programs etc... Vista's UAC would prompt when, running firefox, running most games, normal running of just about any program, it got people to the point where normal daily routines involved saying yes to UAC, and taught people not to question it just give it. A linux system in a house with say, 1 user with computer sense, and 3 users that don't know more then facebook tells them to do, that one smart user can keep admin privilages and not give them to the other 3, this would actually give a fully usable system to everyone as opposed to windows where most likely there will be one or more situations a day needing admin privilages.
Supposedly that was the intention of the extension, the question I have though, everything else in their systems have been abused by malicious spammers, link farms etc... What happens when spammers, MAFIAA's etc start writing scripts, virus's botnets etc to submit downvotes on legitimate pages?
Refusal of service is one thing, however it is generally required to refuse service, to do it before collecting the money. I mean if this were a physical store, someone walks in and asks to buy a game after ticking off the manager, the manager can send him out of the store immidiately that is perfectly find, or the resteraunt can kick the TSA agents out of the resteraunt that is perfectly legal. However in this case it's like the resteraunt seated the TSA, took their order, took their money and then kicked them out of the resteraunt without delivering anything.
Actually the bigger difference is we have backups in place for most of those things. We expect the power to go out, if it does most systems that lives depend on kick over to battery backups and generators. Cars, well we generally have more then one vehicle for anything that depends on transportation, in life and death situations. Secondly they aren't talking about someone blowing up the GPS satilites, but maybe designing a high powered jamming device, knowing the location of the GPS recievers for a city grid combined with the ability to jam signals within a 500 yard radius, strategically placed someone could take out power to several cities and possibly keep it down for a long time, or park the same thing in a truck in an airport parking lot. Sure hypothetically the same could be accomplished by driving a truck through the plant or something to an extent, but generally even terrorists haven't been known to sacrifice thier lives for attacks that don't directly kill (that or they just don't make the papers, much easier to keep something under wraps without dead bodies you have to explain).
I think it's pretty clear, microsoft is afraid of the longterm survivability of the windows platform. As the cloud and open software starts to take off, say in 15 years time or so, Windows has alot to fear in the home market. With 3-D acceleration and full programing languages for the internet coming into play, microsoft has a very serious risk of the OS market becoming irrelevent, why program for windows when you can program for windows/IOS/android/linux at the same time via HTML5 or other universal technologies, and without the spiral of protection for windows (spiral meaning developers will code for windows becuase that is where the customers are, customers will stick with windows because that's where the devlopers are coding for), when that chain is broken any OS has a prayer of grabbing a good share of the OS market. While microsoft still has billions of dollars to throw around, this is their timing to continue to toss money into projects that may take 10 years to actually pay for themselves. It is a simple matter of adapt at all costs, or risk being the leader of a dead industry.
a few other explanations for that besides just the crackers translating it, picking a language at random lets say spanish. Game releases in english, spanish version 2 months later
Game isn't in stores in spain. Spanish player who knows some wants the game but it isn't availible in stores, pirates the game to guess his way through the menus to play the game 2 months early. Possibly justifying it by saying he will buy the spanish version when it comes out, but has already tired of the game by then and forgets. Or hell maybe he even does buy it, the way piracy statistics are tracked every pirated game is counted as a lost sale, and every purchase is considered a new customer.
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Indeed if I bought a lybian slaughter house and turned it into a homeless shelter, would that make me evil? There are ways the music industry can be both profitable and beneficial, if Google teamed up with or made their own spotify for instance, There are countless good services that were making money for the music industry, but were shut down becuase the labels considered them a threat to the current procedures that are dying anyway. Unfortuantely I doubt it will work that way, the labels will claim their price as 50x what it is worth, offer it to google for say, 10 billion dollars per artist.
it is true, in the event that everything is free and ad supported, we'd run out of things to advertise. Obviously it can't go to infiniti, Free music paid for by an ad for free e-mail, the e-mail can be paid for by a free antivirus, that is paid for by it's free _____ etc etc... Only so many levels before it becomes infinant, of course sooner or later that chain can reach actual physical items that people are willing to pay for and can't duplicate, but more likely the chain tends to get broken by trojan horses identity thieves etc...
Well as much as part of that is true, for the most part it is terrible advice. "Don't open anything given to you by people you don't know" is solid advice, but it is half the time interpreted as something is safe if it is from someone you know and trust. Virus's don't work that way, most infections I run into these days were given to the person by their grandmothers who wouldn't hurt a fly. Second part is unexpected, this is also true, getting "hahafunny.doc" out of the blue is almost a guaranteed virus, but opening your bosses quarterly financial is also a risk if there is even a possibility he has used it on a compromised machine and the virus rather then forcing the computer to spread it out, just implants itself into everything silently.
This may be one of the few times 0 day was actually used right. 0-day hits without warning, and it has to be patched after the fact, assuming of course there was no warnings by white hats beforehand that were ignored/covered up. That being said, as much as I hate adobe and the ridiculous amounts of security flaws that actually allow these issues to occur, Seriously who the heck would want the ability to use flash in a word document, so they can print animations? That being said, 4 days is actually decent response time. compared to say word itself that will probably have the patch for this itself in a few months.
Masks are certainly an option, this isn't the first action of anon in the real world, there were quite a few gatherings outside the church of scientology, most wore masks, usually also blasting Rick Astley or Fresh prince music from the outside.
Ah but if it drives them to Jitsi or any alternatives, then that is a quick easy way to know who to flag as a terrorist. After all 90% of people won't be educated enough to know the difference if encryption is lost, so the 10% that switch, are the ones with something to hide.
No they will have to do it as partners in good standings as a previous post stated, Low cost police won't accomplish anything, it would 1. Be abused in the wrong way (feeds of opposing political/religious views would be censored). Secondly the stakes are far higher for youtube then the smaller streaming sites. 500 little guys spread out across multiple countries that may or may not have any respect for copyright law is one thing. Youtube/google on the other hand, that's a big red bulls eye for lawsuits. Heck at this point in time suing google is sort of becoming the national past time. Your company isn't on the map if you don't have a lawsuit against google.
Many markets don't have credit cards as easily accessible. Lesser developed countries don't all have credit cards, teenagers are still a large market, and not everyone's mom and dad will give them a CC to play a game, but will give them a weekly allowance in cash. 20+ Americans mostly have credit cards, that is a fact. While I can't link straight to a study on it, from what I have seen piracy rates are far higher in the teenage group, and it goes without saying that countries such as china are known for their piracy industry to the point where people will BUY pirate games in a local store (direct evidence of people willing to spend money, just not as much as the developers are asking)
Well I think the main reason is simple, google themselves declared the gmail anouncement date a bad marketing decision. The problem is everyone has taken the jokes too far and now it is a waste of time for anyone to anounce anything on april fools day because nobody will believe it.
True, but playing devils advocate here, Google is conveniently kind in allowing you to walk away from them, IE you can easily export your g mail contacts and even e-mails, NOW. If they turned evil they could simultaneously turn off exporting functions with say data selling and leave you in a similar position to where facebook holds its users. That is all unlikely to happen the way I see it, but not entirely imposible. So far there is nothing I have seen google do that falls into the realm of confirmed evil, only things that can be harmful if they changed. It's the equivelent of a nice guy, with a tank, a nuclear missile and an army of 500 people armed with AK47's. They have the potential to be extremely dangerous and level new york city, but have never fired a shot.
Indeed it's quite simple, Signing away their own rights is stupid, but legitimate. Say my friend Sue writes books for a living, I can trick her into signing away rights to the novel she wrote and publishing it in my own name, it's a jackass move but technically legal. Now if I had sue sign over the rights to everything she had, and I took her copy of lord of the rings, and tried to publish it in my name, could I?, That is what Microsoft is doing, the user can sign away the rights to what they search for, but not what they get back from it.
indeed, an unexpected empty folder it is reasonable enough to send a flag assuming the conditions of the antivirus are set reasonably high, removing an unnecessary and easily replaceable part of a windows install isn't really a huge deal, well giving it a name is kinda silly though, you'd think the AV would just give a heuristic "suspicious" warning instead of pretending it knows what it is. I have seen vipre at a few companies I've worked for and can't say much bad about it. I've never seen or heard of a major virus issue on its watch in any of the companies and I've never seen critical components killed, and that's more then I can say for most AV's with central management capability.
Agreed that the educated buyer would not chose staples, but the mindless masses see staples best buy and other ripoff locations as "as good as anywhere else", and want to see what they are getting before buying it (most don't realize they could simply take down the model number and buy it online for 100 or more less). As far as the prices, maybe there is a niche market for the 300 and up netbooks, it's just a less commonly needed niche. Tablets, laptops and high and low end netbooks will most likely all be around for some time. I just feel like the netbook makers are killing themselves by targeting the smallest niche, people who want a powerful computer and a small form-factor, as opposed to the largest niche, people who want the cheapest thing they can find that will get the job done.
IMO netbooks weren't killed by the IPad directly, they died because they went the same route as the IPad. I'm no expert on the subject beyond that I happened to be working at staples durring the rise and fall of netbooks, and I can tell you why they stopped selling at the store I worked in. Durring the peak, the store carried 3 netbooks, acer 1 which depending on the sale of the week was between $150 and $200 weak processor 1gb ram if I recall, then a HP and a dell netbook that were $350-$400. The acer ones sold like hotcakes because for the most part people wanted a weak cheap PC for taking notes, ultra portability was a side effect. The $300+ netbooks, I never saw one sell, primarally because any application that extra speed and power would be wanted, is an application that you should spend those 300+ on a laptop and see it on a screen larger then 10". Eventually the acer 1 stopped being carried and all netbooks that were in the store were the same price as the laptops. I never saw another one get sold, then a month later the IPad came out and everyone attributed that to the death of netbooks. Honestly I think netbooks killed themselves by failing to see their own selling point, then trying to compeat on the wrong selling point.
Already succesful and fully profitable are 2 completely seperate things. It isn't unheard of for a software package to pick up enough of a following to draw the guns before making enough to simply pay off the authors past due mortgage payments, and even profitable dosn't mean a lawyer is going to do you much good. Lets say somehow microsoft had a patent for something blatently obvious that was used in a game that say made 100k in a year, after expenses cost of living etc, this start up has 25k left to pay a lawyer to deffend himself, from microsofts 2.5 million they decided would be worth investing into eliminating a threat before it was big enough to fight back.
The problem is that won't do anything to reduce DRM, rather that will increase it. The companies making games by definition call every downloaded crack and copy of the game "a lost sale" IE if 60 people download the crack, 40 people buy legitimate copies. Even if 40 of the cracks went to legitimate purchasers and only 20 were pirates, the companies would write a report saying "more people pirated our game then purchased it, our sales would be doubled if we had more effective DRM, and thus more money is syphoned from the actually making a good game fund for the next game and more is put into making more intrusive DRM that will inevitably be cracked.
A lovely thought and perfectly logical, unfortunately US companies don't see any point to making actual goods here because some reason our workers actually think the people who actually do work are worth almost 1% of those who manage and market. Thus we have to export manufacturing to the countries that will pay their workers $5 a week or less.
Quite true the person dosn't even have to be abnormal for this to be a problem. Lets say a mother is calling about her 4 year olds broken leg, and another woman is calling about her waitress with a gunshot wound to the chest. While the 2nd one is going to be startled, she will be far calmer getting help for a stranger, then the woman who's child is hurt.
No idea of the feasibility of the concept, but he isn't saying to "stop" the plates from moving but to force them to move when they jam. In other words causing an earthquake to occur when the pressure has been building up for 1 year, rather then waiting 25 years for the pressure to grow enough to release itself
There is actually a pretty big difference in MS's security model vs linux and possibly macos. Now this issue has died down significantly in 7, but vista's horrible implimentation of UAC completely diluted the thought of it, and the mindset carried over greatly towards windows. I have little experience with macos so I won't use this in comparison. SUDO would prompt a user for a password when doing large dramatic system changes, IE installing programs etc... Vista's UAC would prompt when, running firefox, running most games, normal running of just about any program, it got people to the point where normal daily routines involved saying yes to UAC, and taught people not to question it just give it. A linux system in a house with say, 1 user with computer sense, and 3 users that don't know more then facebook tells them to do, that one smart user can keep admin privilages and not give them to the other 3, this would actually give a fully usable system to everyone as opposed to windows where most likely there will be one or more situations a day needing admin privilages.
Supposedly that was the intention of the extension, the question I have though, everything else in their systems have been abused by malicious spammers, link farms etc... What happens when spammers, MAFIAA's etc start writing scripts, virus's botnets etc to submit downvotes on legitimate pages?
Refusal of service is one thing, however it is generally required to refuse service, to do it before collecting the money. I mean if this were a physical store, someone walks in and asks to buy a game after ticking off the manager, the manager can send him out of the store immidiately that is perfectly find, or the resteraunt can kick the TSA agents out of the resteraunt that is perfectly legal. However in this case it's like the resteraunt seated the TSA, took their order, took their money and then kicked them out of the resteraunt without delivering anything.
Actually the bigger difference is we have backups in place for most of those things. We expect the power to go out, if it does most systems that lives depend on kick over to battery backups and generators. Cars, well we generally have more then one vehicle for anything that depends on transportation, in life and death situations. Secondly they aren't talking about someone blowing up the GPS satilites, but maybe designing a high powered jamming device, knowing the location of the GPS recievers for a city grid combined with the ability to jam signals within a 500 yard radius, strategically placed someone could take out power to several cities and possibly keep it down for a long time, or park the same thing in a truck in an airport parking lot. Sure hypothetically the same could be accomplished by driving a truck through the plant or something to an extent, but generally even terrorists haven't been known to sacrifice thier lives for attacks that don't directly kill (that or they just don't make the papers, much easier to keep something under wraps without dead bodies you have to explain).
I think it's pretty clear, microsoft is afraid of the longterm survivability of the windows platform. As the cloud and open software starts to take off, say in 15 years time or so, Windows has alot to fear in the home market. With 3-D acceleration and full programing languages for the internet coming into play, microsoft has a very serious risk of the OS market becoming irrelevent, why program for windows when you can program for windows/IOS/android/linux at the same time via HTML5 or other universal technologies, and without the spiral of protection for windows (spiral meaning developers will code for windows becuase that is where the customers are, customers will stick with windows because that's where the devlopers are coding for), when that chain is broken any OS has a prayer of grabbing a good share of the OS market. While microsoft still has billions of dollars to throw around, this is their timing to continue to toss money into projects that may take 10 years to actually pay for themselves. It is a simple matter of adapt at all costs, or risk being the leader of a dead industry.
a few other explanations for that besides just the crackers translating it, picking a language at random lets say spanish. Game releases in english, spanish version 2 months later Game isn't in stores in spain. Spanish player who knows some wants the game but it isn't availible in stores, pirates the game to guess his way through the menus to play the game 2 months early. Possibly justifying it by saying he will buy the spanish version when it comes out, but has already tired of the game by then and forgets. Or hell maybe he even does buy it, the way piracy statistics are tracked every pirated game is counted as a lost sale, and every purchase is considered a new customer.