Just because your distant relatives were involved with the German Nazi occupation nobody can use the term in any other way?
BTW, aunts, uncles and cousins aren't 'distant relatives'. They may have died before I was born but I am old enough that they would have shared a significant portion of my life.
Just because your distant relatives were involved with the German Nazi occupation nobody can use the term in any other way? Take your butthurt ass home and go fuck yourself sideways with a swastika.
Now come on - that's not what I said. Anyone can use the term 'Nazi' anyway they'd like - including pnewhook - because that's what free speech is all about (just like I can voice my offense of the trivialization of the term when someone uses it in a fashion that equates the acts of DDoS'ers to that of, say, a murder - let alone millions of them).
There are several types of governments or regimes that are "anti-capitalist" (as pnewhook later associated with Anonymous' actions) that may not allow the same free speech that affords people the right to use the term Nazi any way they'd like, such as Fascists and Communists. Calling someone's actions Stalinist when they actually mean communist can create the impression that they are equating the person's actions with those of Stalin (which is quite different even though Stalin was a communist).
And it's none of the state's business to collect taxes on something I bought from another state, which is Amazon's completely valid argument. One could argue that they should be collecting taxes on the state from which the item is shipping since there's the obvious physical presence (this would more closely mimic what happens when I buy an item at retail), but I think sales tax is bullshit to begin with since the state is providing no value to either the buyer or the seller, other than merely existing.
Actually, Use Tax is applicable to products purchased out of state when no sales tax was collected (in states that have sales and/or use taxes).
At some point, we have to figure out how e-tailers can and should responsibly collect sales taxes. Amazon could be helping that process, instead of fighting it tooth and nail.
One of Amazon's advantages is that they don't require sales taxes, which can often result in the product costing less even with shipping charges. Once they are required to collect sales taxes they'll lose that price advantage and will likely lose sales because of it. It is not in their corporate interest to 'help' in the process.
They dont like the way a company behaves due to their own set of morals so they punish that company. This is a small group of people forcing others to their will. Bunch of freakin Nazis.
Anonymous is acting like a vigilante group, not Nazis. Enacting their revenge on Sony because they believe - and rightly so - that Sony will not be brought to task for their actions by any authority. Not enough people know about Sony's shenanigans to make a difference to their bottom line so Anonymous wants to let Sony know they are not willing to just "take it" or stand idly by as Sony persecutes GeoHot for what he did to his own hardware.
Your definition of 'Nazi' can easily be applied to local police in small communities, political groups on a national scale and even Sony's board of directors (they are punishing GeoHot because they don't like the way he behaved due to their own set of greedy, rat bastard morals). I have extended family that were killed by the Nazis - in their homes, in the war and even some in concentration camps. I must say that I am offended by your casual and ignorant use of the term 'Nazi'.
I bet you trust physicists don't you?
Just like you trust priests?
And doctors?
But why? Why trust them? They could manipulate or twist the facts to promote any kind of perspective they wish.
When a doctor says I'm fine, I don't believe him. When a priest tells me I'm not catholic, I believe him. When a physicist tells me not to cross the streams, I don't know what to believe. Which one is lying and why?
Reigning in the lunacy surrounding software patents appeals to most/. readers. It's comforting to know that some are so narrow minded they cannot see how this eventually affects most end users and not just a single manufacturer.
I bet they can raise money by selling all their books on eBay (or some such site) and they won't have to worry about this shit anymore. That'll show those kids!
I disagree. I think it's:
* good news that the government may finally be taking a serious interest in protecting user data.
* bad news that the government may try to start regulating personal data or application developers because let's face it, they rarely get it right (if ever).
The story I read about this yesterday indicated that another company had modified the code and loaded it into alternate app stores. This story says it was the authors of the software who had posted the altered version that contained the SMS crap.
If the original authors made their software available for 'free' and then pulled this shit just because people chose a free version over their 'paid' version then they deserve a Cleavland Steamer.
Because eating food and not paying for it is comparable to downloading software and not paying for it. Yeah.
Taking something that has value to you, and not paying for it (when it hasn't been made free by the author/developer/producer/etc), is stealing. It may not deprive the source from selling another copy, but not paying for your copy is stealing. There are costs associated to producing and distributing the software and you are depriving the author/developer/producer/etc from compensation for the copy you didn't pay for.
You may not like the terms associated to it, such as "freeloaders", "theft" or "stealing", but those aren't just 'technically' accurate, they are apt. Claiming that anyone who disagrees with your view is not applying critical thought to the issue at hand is hogwash. Taking something that isn't 'free' without paying for it is stealing whether it's a digital item or food at a restaurant.
Although this is a novel and some what interesting approach to pirates, i think this approach itself depending on the implementation etc.. might effectively count as breaking the law, unless the user who install the pirated software agree to a Terms of Use Agreement that explicitly mentions such actions might be possible or as a consequence if software thinks its pirated.
They are pirating software, inserting malicious code and selling it as their own. They are obviously not concerned about breaking the law, a ToS or much else.
You might think a 60+ mile per gallon Kawasaki Ninja 250 with a 4.8 gallon fuel tank will have a range of over 200 miles but it seems if I drive around in circles in my driveway it only has a range of a few hundred feet.
Based on my analysis, the problem is that you need a bigger driveway. Clearly a larger driveway results in better gas mileage and should be included with any new vehicle purchase to allow for optimal MPG.
The internet says that it also promotes christianity, using the same arguments. Within minutes you can research churches, bible groups and also contact them...
You can also research and contact support groups & class action law suits for the many reported cases of abuse that the Catholic Church has been charged with. Ooops, the internet is bad.
They appear to be using "the Internet" as a scapegoat (not to be confused with goatse, but an understandable mistake considering where they often lodge their noggins). People are doing the same shit that they always have but now they can:
* find it easier on the internet
* find others who are doing it on the internet
* blame the internet when they get caught
In hindsight their emergency diesel generators should not have been at such a low level. If they had been out of reach of the tsunami they would have been able to continue running to keep the cooling water flowing. And yes, I realize that it's very easy to sit at my desk and point this out now that everything has gone to hell in Fukushima. Let's hope this is as bad as it gets and that things don't get worse for them.
... and dammed if they don't. Google needs to get a better grip on the Android market to help keep things consistent and keep quality& security high. By doing so they are affecting some aspects of application development.
First to market is great and all, but that horse is already out of the barn (and named Apple). Yes, Apple didn't have the first tablet but they had the first successful tablet. Now Android needs to run a smart race and not just try to chase Apple.
EVERYONE in Congress gets $174,000, people. Whatever your opinion is about the video, his salary is irrelevant.
It is relevant, but we're missing the point. To paraphrase what he said "money is tight right now because I've only received one paycheck. It may get better once I get a few more checks, but until then money is tight." He's not saying he's not getting paid enough, and he's not saying he's going to have to get a 2nd job because he's only making $174k. I don't know if he was collecting a paycheck while he was campaigning, but chances are he wasn't working a full time job and running for Congress.
Keep that part out of it, unless you want to start asking why Chris Dodd needed a super deal on a Countrywide mortgage with his $174,000 salary, or Charlie Rangel needed to omit his properties and stock holdings from his tax returns,
Neither should have done those things. Dodd tried to take advantage of a personal or business relationship (in this case with CW), an act that many R's & D's are guilty of. Rangel simply tried to cheat on his taxes (though I can't say he's the first politician to do that either).
or why VP Biden doesn't donate anything to charity when he makes even more than Congress.
As much as I admire those who give to charity, Biden has no obligation to do so. It would be nice if he did, but I can't fault the man for keeping what he has.
lizamoon -- hah, you also had a customer affected by it?
No, it was in the article so I tried to go to the site to see what it was actually doing. Knowing what it looks like will help me spot it in case one of my client's computers (or websites) gets affected.
Are you implying that a website or social networking site would, um, exaggerate their number of subscribers to appear more relevant or extract higher revenues from their advertisers? Why, I've never;-)
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Electronic tax returns will be processed but paper ones won't? Don't they need the money whether it shows up electronically or as a check?
Just because your distant relatives were involved with the German Nazi occupation nobody can use the term in any other way?
BTW, aunts, uncles and cousins aren't 'distant relatives'. They may have died before I was born but I am old enough that they would have shared a significant portion of my life.
Just because your distant relatives were involved with the German Nazi occupation nobody can use the term in any other way? Take your butthurt ass home and go fuck yourself sideways with a swastika.
Now come on - that's not what I said. Anyone can use the term 'Nazi' anyway they'd like - including pnewhook - because that's what free speech is all about (just like I can voice my offense of the trivialization of the term when someone uses it in a fashion that equates the acts of DDoS'ers to that of, say, a murder - let alone millions of them).
There are several types of governments or regimes that are "anti-capitalist" (as pnewhook later associated with Anonymous' actions) that may not allow the same free speech that affords people the right to use the term Nazi any way they'd like, such as Fascists and Communists. Calling someone's actions Stalinist when they actually mean communist can create the impression that they are equating the person's actions with those of Stalin (which is quite different even though Stalin was a communist).
And it's none of the state's business to collect taxes on something I bought from another state, which is Amazon's completely valid argument. One could argue that they should be collecting taxes on the state from which the item is shipping since there's the obvious physical presence (this would more closely mimic what happens when I buy an item at retail), but I think sales tax is bullshit to begin with since the state is providing no value to either the buyer or the seller, other than merely existing.
Actually, Use Tax is applicable to products purchased out of state when no sales tax was collected (in states that have sales and/or use taxes).
At some point, we have to figure out how e-tailers can and should responsibly collect sales taxes. Amazon could be helping that process, instead of fighting it tooth and nail.
One of Amazon's advantages is that they don't require sales taxes, which can often result in the product costing less even with shipping charges. Once they are required to collect sales taxes they'll lose that price advantage and will likely lose sales because of it. It is not in their corporate interest to 'help' in the process.
How exactly is this Nazi?
They dont like the way a company behaves due to their own set of morals so they punish that company. This is a small group of people forcing others to their will. Bunch of freakin Nazis.
Anonymous is acting like a vigilante group, not Nazis. Enacting their revenge on Sony because they believe - and rightly so - that Sony will not be brought to task for their actions by any authority. Not enough people know about Sony's shenanigans to make a difference to their bottom line so Anonymous wants to let Sony know they are not willing to just "take it" or stand idly by as Sony persecutes GeoHot for what he did to his own hardware.
Your definition of 'Nazi' can easily be applied to local police in small communities, political groups on a national scale and even Sony's board of directors (they are punishing GeoHot because they don't like the way he behaved due to their own set of greedy, rat bastard morals). I have extended family that were killed by the Nazis - in their homes, in the war and even some in concentration camps. I must say that I am offended by your casual and ignorant use of the term 'Nazi'.
I hear that the cleaning people already use iRobot Roombas ... so I guess these are smaller?
I bet you trust physicists don't you?
Just like you trust priests?
And doctors?
But why? Why trust them? They could manipulate or twist the facts to promote any kind of perspective they wish.
When a doctor says I'm fine, I don't believe him. When a priest tells me I'm not catholic, I believe him. When a physicist tells me not to cross the streams, I don't know what to believe. Which one is lying and why?
This doesn't mean shit to me.
Reigning in the lunacy surrounding software patents appeals to most /. readers. It's comforting to know that some are so narrow minded they cannot see how this eventually affects most end users and not just a single manufacturer.
Is this a step in the right direction or will this (and others) keep aiming for the SCOTUS?
I bet they can raise money by selling all their books on eBay (or some such site) and they won't have to worry about this shit anymore. That'll show those kids!
This shouldn't even be on here.
I disagree. I think it's:
* good news that the government may finally be taking a serious interest in protecting user data.
* bad news that the government may try to start regulating personal data or application developers because let's face it, they rarely get it right (if ever).
$4 million? A pittance! Apparently a paid registration system costs ten times that.
So did the NYTime pay wall.
$4 million is pocket change for the Federal Government. It'll be pocket change for all of us if we keep collecting wars like they were action figures.
Unfortunately we take the out of the box so they aren't worth what we spent on them anymore.
Who is this "they" that you speak of?
The story I read about this yesterday indicated that another company had modified the code and loaded it into alternate app stores. This story says it was the authors of the software who had posted the altered version that contained the SMS crap.
If the original authors made their software available for 'free' and then pulled this shit just because people chose a free version over their 'paid' version then they deserve a Cleavland Steamer.
Because eating food and not paying for it is comparable to downloading software and not paying for it. Yeah.
Taking something that has value to you, and not paying for it (when it hasn't been made free by the author/developer/producer/etc), is stealing. It may not deprive the source from selling another copy, but not paying for your copy is stealing. There are costs associated to producing and distributing the software and you are depriving the author/developer/producer/etc from compensation for the copy you didn't pay for.
You may not like the terms associated to it, such as "freeloaders", "theft" or "stealing", but those aren't just 'technically' accurate, they are apt. Claiming that anyone who disagrees with your view is not applying critical thought to the issue at hand is hogwash. Taking something that isn't 'free' without paying for it is stealing whether it's a digital item or food at a restaurant.
Although this is a novel and some what interesting approach to pirates, i think this approach itself depending on the implementation etc.. might effectively count as breaking the law, unless the user who install the pirated software agree to a Terms of Use Agreement that explicitly mentions such actions might be possible or as a consequence if software thinks its pirated.
They are pirating software, inserting malicious code and selling it as their own. They are obviously not concerned about breaking the law, a ToS or much else.
You might think a 60+ mile per gallon Kawasaki Ninja 250 with a 4.8 gallon fuel tank will have a range of over 200 miles but it seems if I drive around in circles in my driveway it only has a range of a few hundred feet.
Based on my analysis, the problem is that you need a bigger driveway. Clearly a larger driveway results in better gas mileage and should be included with any new vehicle purchase to allow for optimal MPG.
The internet says that it also promotes christianity, using the same arguments. Within minutes you can research churches, bible groups and also contact them...
You can also research and contact support groups & class action law suits for the many reported cases of abuse that the Catholic Church has been charged with. Ooops, the internet is bad.
They appear to be using "the Internet" as a scapegoat (not to be confused with goatse, but an understandable mistake considering where they often lodge their noggins). People are doing the same shit that they always have but now they can:
* find it easier on the internet
* find others who are doing it on the internet
* blame the internet when they get caught
Meet the new boogeyman, same s the old boogeyman.
In hindsight their emergency diesel generators should not have been at such a low level. If they had been out of reach of the tsunami they would have been able to continue running to keep the cooling water flowing. And yes, I realize that it's very easy to sit at my desk and point this out now that everything has gone to hell in Fukushima. Let's hope this is as bad as it gets and that things don't get worse for them.
... and dammed if they don't. Google needs to get a better grip on the Android market to help keep things consistent and keep quality& security high. By doing so they are affecting some aspects of application development.
First to market is great and all, but that horse is already out of the barn (and named Apple). Yes, Apple didn't have the first tablet but they had the first successful tablet. Now Android needs to run a smart race and not just try to chase Apple.
EVERYONE in Congress gets $174,000, people. Whatever your opinion is about the video, his salary is irrelevant.
It is relevant, but we're missing the point. To paraphrase what he said "money is tight right now because I've only received one paycheck. It may get better once I get a few more checks, but until then money is tight." He's not saying he's not getting paid enough, and he's not saying he's going to have to get a 2nd job because he's only making $174k. I don't know if he was collecting a paycheck while he was campaigning, but chances are he wasn't working a full time job and running for Congress.
Keep that part out of it, unless you want to start asking why Chris Dodd needed a super deal on a Countrywide mortgage with his $174,000 salary, or Charlie Rangel needed to omit his properties and stock holdings from his tax returns,
Neither should have done those things. Dodd tried to take advantage of a personal or business relationship (in this case with CW), an act that many R's & D's are guilty of. Rangel simply tried to cheat on his taxes (though I can't say he's the first politician to do that either).
or why VP Biden doesn't donate anything to charity when he makes even more than Congress.
As much as I admire those who give to charity, Biden has no obligation to do so. It would be nice if he did, but I can't fault the man for keeping what he has.
lizamoon -- hah, you also had a customer affected by it?
No, it was in the article so I tried to go to the site to see what it was actually doing. Knowing what it looks like will help me spot it in case one of my client's computers (or websites) gets affected.
Are you implying that a website or social networking site would, um, exaggerate their number of subscribers to appear more relevant or extract higher revenues from their advertisers? Why, I've never ;-)