Yeah, this should work out well. Just about as well as NCR's right to use 'Tower'... sigh
These marketing people might as well start trying to trademark things like 'desk' 'pen' or 'screen'.
Now, if it were about the trademark "Dell NetBook" or "Dellnetbook" or something similar that would be a different matter. Netbook is just too generic and descriptive to even be given a trademark. period. Why do we keep doing this?
We all call them Kleenex, but they are facial tissues. If someone had tried to trademark 'facial tissue' we would be in the same ballpark here.
It is sad that people argue over such things, even more sad that they have the money to waste arguing over it.
ROFL I'm not sure that double vision simultaneously contracted with beer goggles is the same thing as photonic entanglement... though I'm certain that there is room for such a story somewhere
May I also posit that it not only keeps the spread of information flowing, but increases both the available information to each of us and the aggregate total information available to mankind.
Small changes like this change how we see life in the long term. Seeing the sky as if it were so many maps of a foreign country brings with it familiarity that raises awareness and new thinking.
This, and projects like it, are awesome. Spell that with capital letters and boatloads of enthusiasm.
And exactly how did they get that hold? Cuban derided anyone who might want to buy Youtube.com. Google made it work. Google has taken billions of pictures of the planet and shared them with everyone. Google 'mashups' are plentiful and some incredibly useful. Despite Google's very large footprint on the Internet and how it is used, what harm has come from their activities? What good?
Until someone can show that Google has harmed competition with their advantages, there is nothing to argue about. They got that hold by being useful and free (mostly) and helpful. Google has quite literally begun setting the standards for others to follow. That they did not follow quickly enough is not Google's fault.
We, the consumers, share some of the guilt. We should have demanded of our service and content providers that they do what Google has. Wait a minute, scratch that. Our service and content providers should have listened... never mind.
I have only one thing to say: When my spouse was frustrated with OOo because of lack of understanding in how to manipulate headers/footers in OOo, I asked "Do you know how to handle this in MS Word?" When the inevitable reply of "no" came, I asked why blame OOo then?... end of argument. And to you I say that MS Windows and MS products are no easier to learn than anything else. They carry the same complexity as F/OSS software/systems. To argue otherwise is missing the forest for the trees.
What DRM is built into this that prevents people from sharing copyrighted works with their friends, family, and trusted associates? Something tells me that this will reek of DRM excrement from the first double click.
You might also consider that the war on drugs is arguably the single most destructive event on western society since its beginning. Arguably it has caused the impending collapse of the Mexican government. If all monies spent on the war on drugs were available today, we would have no sizable debt from the war in Iraq. Biofuel from hemp as well as many other good products would be available to us. We would spend less for incarceration of basically innocent people. The arguments go on and on.
I don't see it as illegal when the laws are broken and wrong. Take that into account and the argument starts to change. Should the DMCA and copyright laws be what they are? No! Should the RIAA and its members be given the right to collect money for other people's work indefinitely? NO!
In short, TPB is not guilty of anything wrong in view of the fact that the laws at issue are broken and unjust. The laws at issue and the people trying to enforce them on TPB are wrong. Perhaps not 110% wrong, but wrong just the same.
The western world needs to get honest and admit a few things: pot is not a terrible drug and hemp is a valuable crop. Copyright (as used today) stifles free and innovative sharing of ideas. There is a disparity between the sneaker-net and the Internet and how laws are enforced. Efforts to expand copyright terms/length assist nobody but those who make money from them, and this does not encourage them to create more works, only to hold on and sue others over and over. This is not a positive use of such laws.
TPB and Napster et al are filling a void which the industry refused to fill. The governments of the world are being used to prop up a broken business model indefinitely at the expense of citizens, creativity, and progress of both. Blind adherence to 'the way it has always been done' is called dogmatic. There is nothing good in dogmatic approaches to society.
Enough ranting... sigh... It's not a case of all or nothing. We must consider in our debates that the laws are broken and not representative of the people any longer, and so need to be changed.
What exactly is wrong with that? I'm sure that someone can write a script for FF that will detect the error and automatically add the 's' and resend. People had to get used to typing http://www/ in the first place. It's not such a huge jump to add the 's'.
This is the same argument that I see with switching to Linux: oh, users will have to relearn things, it's different than Windows. Yet those same users have to relearn when they get a new cable box and remote. They have to relearn when they get a new microwave. They have to relearn when they get a new television. They have to relearn when they change banks, and on and on and on. It's a lame argument.
In the end, users in general are uninformed, lazy, and lack the drive to become well versed in computer security. SSL encryption issues are hardly the biggest security flaw in computing today. The biggest security flaw is between the ears of the end user. SSL issues hardly register on the list of problems behind the spread of the most devastating malware we know about today.
That is not exactly true. It's like saying if people can't afford health care or just don't want to pay for health care and catch bird flu they are getting what they deserve. Whether they deserve it or not the rest of us are suffering from the spread of the flu virus.
How is TPB different from those people that sell maps to the stars' homes? As pointed out, they are not doing anything with the content, merely telling people where they might find it... if they were looking for it that is.
How is it different from someone seeing a pile of DVDs in a trash can and telling people where to find the trash can? How is it any different than Google helping people find content on the Internet, even if it is content from copyrighted works? These questions can go on and on. The point is that they have done nothing with the content, nor told anyone what they should do. They simply provide the method for people who are interested in doing so, to find files on the Internet. Remember, TPB and BT are not used exclusively for downloading copyrighted works without permission. The way you are talking, all major ISPs are guilty of facilitating copyright infringement by not preventing users from connecting to TPB. You're heading towards a nanny state when it's the law's responsibility to prevent crime rather than find and prosecute those who commit crimes. In this case, those who actually download or share copyrighted material without permission are the one's who broke the law... and I won't even talk about what I think of these laws. Prosecuting anyone else for the "crime" is ludicrous.
The only thing that TPB is guilty of is helping people to share files. Note, not actually sharing the files, but simply assisting people with the process of sharing files with other people. This is not a crime. If it was, all CEOs of ISPs would also be guilty. The Internet is truly redefining what is a crime and what is not. We've seen more unintended consequences in the past 15 years than we should have because of this, IMO.
Whether you personally like it or not, TPB is not acting criminally. Do you think radar detectors for vehicles are illegal? The makers of such are aiding people in criminal activities. Are those people in jail?
I thought that too. Huge testicular fortitude by Childs. I think the interviewer noticed something when he mentioned that at the end Childs stopped and said "it's a different world in here" in reference to prison. That is perhaps the point of the blog entry, to show that Childs really isn't a whacko control fr34k with an attitude problem. I'm not saying network admins are that way, just that he was sort of painted that way in the original news headlines. I hope that he gets exonerated. Everyday I have to deal with people that have no clue how computers work, let alone databases or networks.
I also have hopes that Childs being exonerated would reinforce the value of IT staff in general. That is to say that hey, you hired people who know what they are doing. Let them do it and don't mess them around.
Car analogy: Don't micromanage your NASCAR driver or even the engineering staff who build the car.
I guess what I mean is I hope the PHBs get it rough with no reach around on this one.
What's that you say? Oh, yes, of course, yes he had a name. The young boy from California? Oh, the christo-fascist DNA artist was called Joe. I think he was a plumber by trade, and the boy king from California; his name was Bob. Bob Paulson. His NAME is Bob Paulson. I understand that he own the entire western seaboard now.
The famous "Monsanto owns the world" trial at the Hague left no doubt that potatoes would soon be a world food staple. The increased value of potatoes vaults Ireland to primacy in the EU. They had previously been too poor to buy Monsanto seeds.
With much of the world economy in tatters, people turned to faith: also in tatters when the Pope admitted publicly that evolution, not creation, is the truth, as evidenced by the change to global population due to those with genetic immunity to E. Coli.
Not to be forgotten are the attempts by big food corps trying to cash in on the new medical food craze which was much more insipid than the health food craze. The antibiotic and vitamin wars between Cocacola and Pepsico led to further pruning of the human species through super-virus strains that are immune to antibiotics, despite the number of people jumping on the LiveAmish bandwagon fad. Nobody is quite sure about the far east. China and the far east have gone isolationist shortly after admonishing the "evil west" for creating something that makes H5N1 looks like a kindergarten recess gone wrong. Their satellite communications went dark several years ago. Well, their firewall stopped responding to pings anyway.
Now, dear reader, what is the point of this telling? When the world narrowly avoided establishing a single world government (too much arguing over IP for medicated foods) the human race was given a gift. The gift of peace through effective firepower. Now we are free to medicate our own foods, download from iTunes all day, tell as many ethinic jokes as we want (as long as they are about Russian immigrants) and do anything we want. The robots do all our work for us. Germans make the best robots! Oh, remember to pay your BMW bill on time. I'll leave you with those thoughts as I have some 'work' to attend to. Some months ago, while exploring abandoned towns in the former Colorado, I found a farm store. It looks like I'm going to be able to actually grow some broccoli. If the seeds are good, I'll be rich! RICH BI-ATCH!
Damn, I thought the *AA, DOJ, and bad US lawyers were doing enough to stop US content from making it to EVERYONE's Internet, Canada included!
If the original intent was to ensure that Canadian artists and industry were given a fair shake at fame and stardom and riches, isn't the Internet the wrong place to be mandating content? Content on Internet sites that have nothing to do with entertainment is not helping that particular group of artists. How can you mandate such content? Doesn't the.ca TLD do enough? I'm reasonably certain that even newfies know the difference between.com and.ca
When I get the Vancouver club scene newsletter email or whistlerblackcomb newsletter email... well, I'm not confused about the content and where it came from. You seem to have the same kind of problem that the *AA has... loss of control. Perhaps if you mandated that Canadian companies worked harder to produce content that Canadians wanted to download AND made it reasonably cost effective to do so from within Canada by making Shaw et al discount for Canadian content downloaded... well, you're problem would be solved or on its way to being solved.
Are you kidding? This will revolutionize the world. Your neighbor (not mine), in an attempt to show that you can't even FORCE nature to make a crocoduck will inadvertently create an airborne strain of E. coli that is resistant to any cheap form of treatment: resulting in a solution to rising unemployment and illegal immigration in less than 38 hours. The resulting global changes will be heralded as Allah's revenge against the great satan and simultaneously on the GLBT communities for their crimes against god. In less than a week, big pharmaceutical industry will collapse with the announcement that a 15 year old Korean kid in S.California has created an antidote that can be distributed in the flavor coating on potato chips. Frito Lay purchases several Pharma companies and hires the kid to work on gene therapies to be distributed via Corn Chips. Monsanto sues to block genetically modified material being added to their corn........ sigh
My poorly stated point is that those pirated copies are not being patched appropriately and thus represent a larger target for malicious software authors, making Windows a little bit less desirable from that point of view.
I tried to make it a choice by the end user as to which is less vulnerable. MS products have/had similar issues by length and criticality. So if any and all of your choices can and will have such vulnerabilities, use other criteria for your choice.
On a side note: Worse than having a vulnerability in the code base for several months or years is having it left there intentionally, and marginally worse is when users ignore the patch when it is provided. With Linux patches are free. With Windows products you need to be a legal registered user and/or have paid for updated anti-malware software. Consequently it costs you more to apply fixes for some OSes compared to Linux.
So, in the end it is still down to the user to do their part. No matter what efforts the coders put in, if the user fails the malware will spread.
I'm not apologizing for bugs/problems in Gnome/KDE code. I'm simply saying that such an event only makes it software. When those packages continue to have such errors on a regular schedule and with end effects that MS has tortured the world with, then it's reason to complain.
The answer is the same one that has been valid for.. well, since the advent of computers. There will always be vulnerabilities. The best you can do is be aware, vigilant, and choose software that has less vulnerabilities and whose writers work hardest to correct the problems fastest. Arguments can be made for or against Linux based on those criteria but it remains a very strong choice over Windows or Apple. The more popular Linux becomes on the desktop, the more chances there will be vulnerabilities. Now is the time for F/OSS coders to start working extra to ensure there are as few as possible.
If you write code, you know that you've left open areas where an exception will cause a problem for any number of reasons. it happens. period. So far, GNU/Linux has cleaned up quickly and well on most things. The struggle continues. That is the answer.
Actually, I believe that if you consult with a lawyer for information or advice, about the courts or the law, it is a legal service. This is just and right. If you consult with a doctor for information about medicine, diseases, or other such, it is medical services.
lawyers are meant to know the law, not be ambidextrous with writing HTML. In respect of a technical lawyer Beckerman's site is a great reference to legal issues regarding the RIAA and lawyers who know their stuff in court.
In terms of a car analogy: You want a car driver that can not only not be confused by a mechanic, but can hold discourse with a mechanic at a level far beyond your own capabilities. It does not matter if the driver can rebuild an engine or not. His job is not building engines, but driving cars.
So, in defense of RB's website, it's not as good as it could be but it still performs the intended purpose, and in doing so exposes you and I and everyone to great legal information. Most of us call this a legal service.
....It's just incredible that the companies that are bringing TPB to court, with all their money and power couldn't find a more technical prepared lawyer (if there is such a thing)
Of course there are technically prepared lawyers! Ye gods man! See my sig
It somehow just makes me feel better about the world when the "bully" gets a face-full of 'take that' from the underdog. I hope that the rest are dropped or mitigated to a wrist slap size judgment that allows TPB to continue operations as normal.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, this should work out well. Just about as well as NCR's right to use 'Tower' ... sigh
These marketing people might as well start trying to trademark things like 'desk' 'pen' or 'screen'.
Now, if it were about the trademark "Dell NetBook" or "Dellnetbook" or something similar that would be a different matter. Netbook is just too generic and descriptive to even be given a trademark. period. Why do we keep doing this?
We all call them Kleenex, but they are facial tissues. If someone had tried to trademark 'facial tissue' we would be in the same ballpark here.
It is sad that people argue over such things, even more sad that they have the money to waste arguing over it.
Damn, it's already there
ROFL I'm not sure that double vision simultaneously contracted with beer goggles is the same thing as photonic entanglement... though I'm certain that there is room for such a story somewhere
so we could have the first humans to experience entanglement within months
I'm guessing the avalanche of crazy whacked out girlfriend stories is about to start...
ROFL... ok, spell awesome with capital letters and boatloads of enthusiasm
May I also posit that it not only keeps the spread of information flowing, but increases both the available information to each of us and the aggregate total information available to mankind.
Small changes like this change how we see life in the long term. Seeing the sky as if it were so many maps of a foreign country brings with it familiarity that raises awareness and new thinking.
This, and projects like it, are awesome. Spell that with capital letters and boatloads of enthusiasm.
And exactly how did they get that hold? Cuban derided anyone who might want to buy Youtube.com. Google made it work. Google has taken billions of pictures of the planet and shared them with everyone. Google 'mashups' are plentiful and some incredibly useful. Despite Google's very large footprint on the Internet and how it is used, what harm has come from their activities? What good?
Until someone can show that Google has harmed competition with their advantages, there is nothing to argue about. They got that hold by being useful and free (mostly) and helpful. Google has quite literally begun setting the standards for others to follow. That they did not follow quickly enough is not Google's fault.
We, the consumers, share some of the guilt. We should have demanded of our service and content providers that they do what Google has. Wait a minute, scratch that. Our service and content providers should have listened... never mind.
I have only one thing to say: When my spouse was frustrated with OOo because of lack of understanding in how to manipulate headers/footers in OOo, I asked "Do you know how to handle this in MS Word?" When the inevitable reply of "no" came, I asked why blame OOo then?... end of argument. And to you I say that MS Windows and MS products are no easier to learn than anything else. They carry the same complexity as F/OSS software/systems. To argue otherwise is missing the forest for the trees.
What DRM is built into this that prevents people from sharing copyrighted works with their friends, family, and trusted associates? Something tells me that this will reek of DRM excrement from the first double click.
You might also consider that the war on drugs is arguably the single most destructive event on western society since its beginning. Arguably it has caused the impending collapse of the Mexican government. If all monies spent on the war on drugs were available today, we would have no sizable debt from the war in Iraq. Biofuel from hemp as well as many other good products would be available to us. We would spend less for incarceration of basically innocent people. The arguments go on and on.
I don't see it as illegal when the laws are broken and wrong. Take that into account and the argument starts to change. Should the DMCA and copyright laws be what they are? No! Should the RIAA and its members be given the right to collect money for other people's work indefinitely? NO!
In short, TPB is not guilty of anything wrong in view of the fact that the laws at issue are broken and unjust. The laws at issue and the people trying to enforce them on TPB are wrong. Perhaps not 110% wrong, but wrong just the same.
The western world needs to get honest and admit a few things: pot is not a terrible drug and hemp is a valuable crop. Copyright (as used today) stifles free and innovative sharing of ideas. There is a disparity between the sneaker-net and the Internet and how laws are enforced. Efforts to expand copyright terms/length assist nobody but those who make money from them, and this does not encourage them to create more works, only to hold on and sue others over and over. This is not a positive use of such laws.
TPB and Napster et al are filling a void which the industry refused to fill. The governments of the world are being used to prop up a broken business model indefinitely at the expense of citizens, creativity, and progress of both. Blind adherence to 'the way it has always been done' is called dogmatic. There is nothing good in dogmatic approaches to society.
Enough ranting... sigh... It's not a case of all or nothing. We must consider in our debates that the laws are broken and not representative of the people any longer, and so need to be changed.
What exactly is wrong with that? I'm sure that someone can write a script for FF that will detect the error and automatically add the 's' and resend. People had to get used to typing http://www/ in the first place. It's not such a huge jump to add the 's'.
This is the same argument that I see with switching to Linux: oh, users will have to relearn things, it's different than Windows. Yet those same users have to relearn when they get a new cable box and remote. They have to relearn when they get a new microwave. They have to relearn when they get a new television. They have to relearn when they change banks, and on and on and on. It's a lame argument.
In the end, users in general are uninformed, lazy, and lack the drive to become well versed in computer security. SSL encryption issues are hardly the biggest security flaw in computing today. The biggest security flaw is between the ears of the end user. SSL issues hardly register on the list of problems behind the spread of the most devastating malware we know about today.
meh
That is not exactly true. It's like saying if people can't afford health care or just don't want to pay for health care and catch bird flu they are getting what they deserve. Whether they deserve it or not the rest of us are suffering from the spread of the flu virus.
How is TPB different from those people that sell maps to the stars' homes? As pointed out, they are not doing anything with the content, merely telling people where they might find it... if they were looking for it that is.
How is it different from someone seeing a pile of DVDs in a trash can and telling people where to find the trash can? How is it any different than Google helping people find content on the Internet, even if it is content from copyrighted works? These questions can go on and on. The point is that they have done nothing with the content, nor told anyone what they should do. They simply provide the method for people who are interested in doing so, to find files on the Internet. Remember, TPB and BT are not used exclusively for downloading copyrighted works without permission. The way you are talking, all major ISPs are guilty of facilitating copyright infringement by not preventing users from connecting to TPB. You're heading towards a nanny state when it's the law's responsibility to prevent crime rather than find and prosecute those who commit crimes. In this case, those who actually download or share copyrighted material without permission are the one's who broke the law... and I won't even talk about what I think of these laws. Prosecuting anyone else for the "crime" is ludicrous.
The only thing that TPB is guilty of is helping people to share files. Note, not actually sharing the files, but simply assisting people with the process of sharing files with other people. This is not a crime. If it was, all CEOs of ISPs would also be guilty. The Internet is truly redefining what is a crime and what is not. We've seen more unintended consequences in the past 15 years than we should have because of this, IMO.
Whether you personally like it or not, TPB is not acting criminally. Do you think radar detectors for vehicles are illegal? The makers of such are aiding people in criminal activities. Are those people in jail?
I thought that too. Huge testicular fortitude by Childs. I think the interviewer noticed something when he mentioned that at the end Childs stopped and said "it's a different world in here" in reference to prison. That is perhaps the point of the blog entry, to show that Childs really isn't a whacko control fr34k with an attitude problem. I'm not saying network admins are that way, just that he was sort of painted that way in the original news headlines. I hope that he gets exonerated. Everyday I have to deal with people that have no clue how computers work, let alone databases or networks.
I also have hopes that Childs being exonerated would reinforce the value of IT staff in general. That is to say that hey, you hired people who know what they are doing. Let them do it and don't mess them around.
Car analogy: Don't micromanage your NASCAR driver or even the engineering staff who build the car.
I guess what I mean is I hope the PHBs get it rough with no reach around on this one.
What's that you say? Oh, yes, of course, yes he had a name. The young boy from California? Oh, the christo-fascist DNA artist was called Joe. I think he was a plumber by trade, and the boy king from California; his name was Bob. Bob Paulson. His NAME is Bob Paulson. I understand that he own the entire western seaboard now.
The famous "Monsanto owns the world" trial at the Hague left no doubt that potatoes would soon be a world food staple. The increased value of potatoes vaults Ireland to primacy in the EU. They had previously been too poor to buy Monsanto seeds.
With much of the world economy in tatters, people turned to faith: also in tatters when the Pope admitted publicly that evolution, not creation, is the truth, as evidenced by the change to global population due to those with genetic immunity to E. Coli.
Not to be forgotten are the attempts by big food corps trying to cash in on the new medical food craze which was much more insipid than the health food craze. The antibiotic and vitamin wars between Cocacola and Pepsico led to further pruning of the human species through super-virus strains that are immune to antibiotics, despite the number of people jumping on the LiveAmish bandwagon fad. Nobody is quite sure about the far east. China and the far east have gone isolationist shortly after admonishing the "evil west" for creating something that makes H5N1 looks like a kindergarten recess gone wrong. Their satellite communications went dark several years ago. Well, their firewall stopped responding to pings anyway.
Now, dear reader, what is the point of this telling? When the world narrowly avoided establishing a single world government (too much arguing over IP for medicated foods) the human race was given a gift. The gift of peace through effective firepower. Now we are free to medicate our own foods, download from iTunes all day, tell as many ethinic jokes as we want (as long as they are about Russian immigrants) and do anything we want. The robots do all our work for us. Germans make the best robots! Oh, remember to pay your BMW bill on time. I'll leave you with those thoughts as I have some 'work' to attend to. Some months ago, while exploring abandoned towns in the former Colorado, I found a farm store. It looks like I'm going to be able to actually grow some broccoli. If the seeds are good, I'll be rich! RICH BI-ATCH!
Damn, I thought the *AA, DOJ, and bad US lawyers were doing enough to stop US content from making it to EVERYONE's Internet, Canada included!
If the original intent was to ensure that Canadian artists and industry were given a fair shake at fame and stardom and riches, isn't the Internet the wrong place to be mandating content? Content on Internet sites that have nothing to do with entertainment is not helping that particular group of artists. How can you mandate such content? Doesn't the .ca TLD do enough? I'm reasonably certain that even newfies know the difference between .com and .ca
When I get the Vancouver club scene newsletter email or whistlerblackcomb newsletter email... well, I'm not confused about the content and where it came from. You seem to have the same kind of problem that the *AA has... loss of control. Perhaps if you mandated that Canadian companies worked harder to produce content that Canadians wanted to download AND made it reasonably cost effective to do so from within Canada by making Shaw et al discount for Canadian content downloaded... well, you're problem would be solved or on its way to being solved.
Are you kidding? This will revolutionize the world. Your neighbor (not mine), in an attempt to show that you can't even FORCE nature to make a crocoduck will inadvertently create an airborne strain of E. coli that is resistant to any cheap form of treatment: resulting in a solution to rising unemployment and illegal immigration in less than 38 hours. The resulting global changes will be heralded as Allah's revenge against the great satan and simultaneously on the GLBT communities for their crimes against god. In less than a week, big pharmaceutical industry will collapse with the announcement that a 15 year old Korean kid in S.California has created an antidote that can be distributed in the flavor coating on potato chips. Frito Lay purchases several Pharma companies and hires the kid to work on gene therapies to be distributed via Corn Chips. Monsanto sues to block genetically modified material being added to their corn........ sigh
My poorly stated point is that those pirated copies are not being patched appropriately and thus represent a larger target for malicious software authors, making Windows a little bit less desirable from that point of view.
I tried to make it a choice by the end user as to which is less vulnerable. MS products have/had similar issues by length and criticality. So if any and all of your choices can and will have such vulnerabilities, use other criteria for your choice.
On a side note: Worse than having a vulnerability in the code base for several months or years is having it left there intentionally, and marginally worse is when users ignore the patch when it is provided. With Linux patches are free. With Windows products you need to be a legal registered user and/or have paid for updated anti-malware software. Consequently it costs you more to apply fixes for some OSes compared to Linux.
So, in the end it is still down to the user to do their part. No matter what efforts the coders put in, if the user fails the malware will spread.
I'm not apologizing for bugs/problems in Gnome/KDE code. I'm simply saying that such an event only makes it software. When those packages continue to have such errors on a regular schedule and with end effects that MS has tortured the world with, then it's reason to complain.
The answer is the same one that has been valid for .. well, since the advent of computers. There will always be vulnerabilities. The best you can do is be aware, vigilant, and choose software that has less vulnerabilities and whose writers work hardest to correct the problems fastest. Arguments can be made for or against Linux based on those criteria but it remains a very strong choice over Windows or Apple. The more popular Linux becomes on the desktop, the more chances there will be vulnerabilities. Now is the time for F/OSS coders to start working extra to ensure there are as few as possible.
If you write code, you know that you've left open areas where an exception will cause a problem for any number of reasons. it happens. period. So far, GNU/Linux has cleaned up quickly and well on most things. The struggle continues. That is the answer.
Actually, I believe that if you consult with a lawyer for information or advice, about the courts or the law, it is a legal service. This is just and right. If you consult with a doctor for information about medicine, diseases, or other such, it is medical services.
lawyers are meant to know the law, not be ambidextrous with writing HTML. In respect of a technical lawyer Beckerman's site is a great reference to legal issues regarding the RIAA and lawyers who know their stuff in court.
In terms of a car analogy: You want a car driver that can not only not be confused by a mechanic, but can hold discourse with a mechanic at a level far beyond your own capabilities. It does not matter if the driver can rebuild an engine or not. His job is not building engines, but driving cars.
So, in defense of RB's website, it's not as good as it could be but it still performs the intended purpose, and in doing so exposes you and I and everyone to great legal information. Most of us call this a legal service.
Leaving them outside Home Depot at 7 a.m. with a hungry look on their face?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of 1U servers.....
Can you donate them to schools?
The @home projects are quite worthy
....It's just incredible that the companies that are bringing TPB to court, with all their money and power couldn't find a more technical prepared lawyer (if there is such a thing)
Of course there are technically prepared lawyers! Ye gods man! See my sig
It somehow just makes me feel better about the world when the "bully" gets a face-full of 'take that' from the underdog. I hope that the rest are dropped or mitigated to a wrist slap size judgment that allows TPB to continue operations as normal.