Frankly when you are talking about something that can cost over 100 million if you are a big company and get hacked? hell you might as well use the monthly premiums for blackjack because you KNOW they'll just file bankruptcy if you try to cash it in.
The simple fact of the matter is the ONLY way insurance works is if there are enough buyers to 1.- pay out any losses and 2.- if its a publicly traded company pay for the ever higher profits they have to show to keep the stocks from tanking. When you are talking about a niche THIS teeny tiny? I'm sorry but insurance just won't work, there won't be enough paying into the pool to cover losses, instead they'll just file bankruptcy if you try to make a claim large enough to make the insurance worth having.
Because you might as well just make a 1980s style brick phone buddy?
Since you seem to be trying to make a legitimate point and not...well be a FOSSie and treat this like a religion I'll answer you...because without hardware acceleration? Your phone is gonna be made of ass and fail, okay? This isn't the 1980s, people won't put up with a laggy UI, no ability to run apps, it just won't fly. if you want to go that route again just make a brick phone as i'm sure the patents have run out on those.
You see this is why i put "top tier" in the statement because you have to at least compare favorably to the other phones on the shelf or people just won't fricking buy it hoss. You don't realize just how weak ARM cores are dude, we are talking a 2.2Ghz P4 from 2004 will curbstomp the latest ARM core on every test except for a few that are hand tailored for the ARM and then it BARELY inches ahead, without the GPU helping with the heavy lifting? yeah I don't see too many buying phones that feel like a Palm PDA from 03 in 2013, do you?
At the end of the day friend its really simple, if they want this to have even a snowball's chance in hell on the shelves? It HAS to have performance at LEAST high enough it can compare favorably with the other phones on the shelves or they are gonna get a warehouse full of them, just ask the OpenMoko guys about how much being "pure FOSS" helped their bottom line.
What does that have to do with not being able to find a non proprietary BIOS and wireless that would work? This isn't about what the OLPC could or could not do, its about the fact that even a project built around FOSS and with plenty of backing couldn't make a 100% FOSS mobile device because too much of the tech used in mobile devices is patented up the ying yang and is proprietary as hell.
So like it or not unless they design their own chips from scratch, and even then somehow manage to avoid running into the patent minefields that are wireless and graphics, the odds of them making a 100% FOSS device using top tier chips? Pretty much non existent. Most of the GPUs being used are PowerVR, proprietary as hell, and I haven't seen a 100% FOSS phone wireless chip, hell I don't think its even possible to make one as mobile wireless tech is some of the most heavily licensed and patented tech on the planet.
The FSF can want all day long, if it can't be built it can't be built and that is that and I don't see how they could build a 100% FOSS phone and still use chips anybody would want, maybe if they used a phone design from the 80s they could build one that the patents have expired on, but nothing that goes into a modern smartphone is gonna be 100% license and patent free, that is just how that business works.
So in other words "colleges exploit students while taking their money"...why am i not surprised? I have been saying for awhile now that colleges have become rackets, with costs jumping several times the rate of inflation while at the same time piling on the bullshit prereqs so they can bleed 'em for every class they can. The whole thing has become both a massive scam and a supporter of classism by letting the uber-rich buy their way into a permanent upper class simply by having the cash to go to an elite school, the thing is a scam.
And as my grandpa used to say "Girls want ponies, people in hell want ice water, I want a million dollars...that don't mean any of us are gonna get it".
Unless they are gonna kickstarter the chips in the thing it'll be DAMN hard to make it FOSS, simply because the ones making the GPUs, wireless, etc, are about the most proprietary lot on the planet. Hell I don't even think you CAN make a FOSS GPU as everything from texture compression on up is patented up the ass, I know there was a project to make one using an FPGA but I never heard any more about it, probably ran into the legal minefield and ran aground.
So while it'd be nice with so few players in the top tier mobile chip business and with anything and everything patented and licensed from somebody the FSF can say "make it free" all they want, its gonna be damned hard if not impossible to make it truly FOSS and still get decent chips in the thing. Remember even the OLPC 1 couldn't get 100% free because they couldn't find a BIOS and wireless chipset at the time that wasn't proprietary and that was with X86, with ARM its even worse.
Hey nice straw man you built there, be a shame if i threw this match by it...WHOOSH! Comparing LGPL to vanilla GPL is like saying "Well if you can do it with BSD you MUST be able to do it with GPL, since they are all FOSS licenses, right?" even RMS has come out against LGPL because it doesn't promote his agenda like the GPL does, so comparing the two is pointless, other than the name they really have little in common.
And I think its funny as hell that the so called "enlightened" FOSSie faction can ONLY throw insults, know why that is? Because otherwise all you get is the same old excuses, which just FYI they have been used so many times there is a joke site that lists them and the one I linked to I think is VERY apropos as most of the FOSSie faction are notorious for using circcular logic. Oh and last time I showed up with a link from TM Repo one FOSSie had the brass balls to compare a joke site to Stormfront, which just shows that FOSSie is a good choice of name, like Moonie one can't question their beliefs.
I apologize, I didn't make myself clear...I did NOT mean to infer that each student should have to negotiate with a game manufacturer directly, what I was trying to say is this conversation is low overdo because when you look at how much everybody from the colleges to the NCAA to the guys selling popcorn at the game hundreds of millions are being made off of these kids and they ain't getting shit and that is FUCKED UP, no matter how you slice it.
These kids suffer and bleed for the game, hell some of them end up with brain damage that will cause them problems the rest of their lives, yet everybody else can make money off of them but they can't get a cent? That is bullshit, just because they are young does NOT give the schools and groups like the NCAA the right to exploit them for hundreds of millions in profits!
Name any other situation besides student athletes where corps can make tens of millions but get away with no giving the one doing the work a penny because i can't think of one. What they ought to do is have some sort of student union,whether per school or over the whole shebang to be decided later, but they need somebody negotiating to get them a fair slice, what we have now is rigged and broken.
So again my bad if I didn't make myself clear, if this ruling starts the conversation going that ultimately ends with students being treated like individuals with the right to be paid for their work instead of disposable players? Then I'm ALL for it, 100%.
I just don't see why so many are the EFF on this one when it means supporting EA a company notorious for screwing EVERYBODY from the employees on up.
Personally I'm all for this rule because i'm hoping it will open debates i think are long due, which is why are college athletes not allowed to get paid for what they do but everyone can make money off of them just like in TFA? Most of these kids will NEVER make it to the majors and if they blow out a knee on their last year their life usually ends up shit, meanwhile everybody else, the school, the groups in charge of licensing like the NCAA, even game companies like EA THEY can all make money but the kid can't? I'm sorry but that is severely fucked up.
And let me just head those that will say "but they get paid with an education" off at the pass because I went to a "football school" and I can say pretty much all a LOT of those players are learning is how to play a better game, we've seen enough examples of players that couldn't even read the diploma they were handed to know that is a bunch off bull. So just pay the kids alright? Put it in a trust for the guy or whatever and that way if something bad happens to them and they can't play at least they'll have some money to start over, but it just ain't right that these kids are not allowed to make shit while everybody else cashes checks based on their work, its not right, its not fair, and if this ruling kills the blanket licenses the NCAA is allowed to SELL based on these kids without giving them shit in return? Then I'm damned glad the judges ruled this way, I just don't get why the EFF are for a status quo that enriches these large corps while not giving a cent to the kids whose labor is being sold.
Not really as I like educating those below me but what IS tiresome is flag waving douchebags, which remind me of the ancient Mel Brooks joke "all go to hell except cave 76!". I mean do you HONESTLY think that CCP gives a fuck about anything other than your wallet?
Now is that automatically a bad thing? No not at all, as long as they give you good value for your dollars and if you'd like an example I'd point out Gearbox with their Borderlands series or Volition with their Saints Row series, both just love to play the DLC tango but when my boys and I are playing co-op in some massive free for all in Borderlands 1 or 2 or Saints Row 3? I honestly couldn't care less about their trying to squeeze that last nickel by appealing to completionists.
But for an example of where you are NOT getting good value see Eve Online where a LOT of the appeal, hell its even all over the ads CCP have to entice newcomers, is the "huge epic space battles" so the sci/fi fans can recreate some of the excitement of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica only to find the engine simply can't keep up, which of course i called them out on. If you are gonna advertise huge space battles at least be capable of having epic space battles in real time, otherwise it might as well be a turn based RTS.
A FOSS company is one whose products and/or services are primarily based around FOSS software, everyone from non profits like the Document Foundation to Red Hat would be considered a FOSS company. why its a BAD IDEA for a company that is NOT a FOSS company to use FOSS in their products is plainly illustrated in TFA and also by TiVo.
As for the "unwanted freedom" as you put it, way to choose words for maximum propaganda value BTW, nice touch, I don't care if FOSS offers me blackjack and hookers if it doesn't fit my use case it would be fucking stupid to use it, now wouldn't it? I work primarily with home users and SMBs, 2 places where FOSS OSes suck a big hairy nut thanks to 1.- Shitty driver model breaking drivers so that hardware that works in foo doesn't work in foo + 1, 2.- Shitty half baked software that doesn't come even close to the proprietary solutions, see pretty much every bookkeeping software on Linux VS Quicken and Quickbooks, and 3.- Nothing that comes even close to the length of support that MSFT offers without paying tens of thousands of dollars, for an example show me ANY Linux OS that gives you 10 years of updates WITHOUT having to do the upgrade deathmarch and deal with #1 that doesn't cost several thousand dollars, see Red Hat and their $300 a year just to get updates.
So while many "true believers" such as yourself think FOSS is the answer to everything in reality? Its actually only good for a few niches and the low adoption numbers reflect that. Its good for servers, its good for embedded, oh and before you mention Android which is the rallying cry of the FOSS crowd let me cut you off at the pass, android is a proprietary spinoff of an embedded Linux product, its 100% controlled by Google which is why handset makers can lock down the OS with impunity, because Google uses the "TiVo trick" by making sure ONLY GPL V2 is allowed.
But since I'm not a programmer free lawyers mean jack and squat, and as a user and retailer I've found FOSS software leaves a LOT to be desired, so much so in fact that thanks to all the headaches FOSS software brings with it (Google "Linux busted shitter problem" to see a deeper explanation) it is actually cheaper for me to use proprietary than to use FOSS because of the better support and frankly just better written software.
Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.
Dude nobody is gonna buy a $350 console for a single game, nobody. with the Wii Nintendo burnt too many bridges by letting an assload of shovelware get dumped for it so you ended up with game after game that did the "Wii Waggle" and that was it. You could count the really good Wii games on 2 hands and have fingers left over and they were nearly ALL made by Nintendo.
So while i'm sure you'll get a few hardcore fanboys that buy it, the kind that sleep on Mario sheets and have gone to a party dressed as a Nintendo character but how many of those do you REALLY think are out there? Not enough to entice third parties and not enough to get Nintendo out of dead last that's for sure.
The problem is twofold, 1.- The system is INSANELY weak, more of an upgrade to the Wii than a new system and frankly tech has progressed a hell of a lot farther since the Wii. If you look up the specs the GPU is equal to an HD4650, that is a GPU that wasn't even high middle when released and has been in legacy for over 2 years. This will make it hard for Nintendo to get third parties, the other 2 use AMD APUs and can be easily ported between each other, Wii U uses an older PPC chip so it just won't run the Xbox next and PS4 games.
The second problem is related to the first, 2.- The reason Nintendo went so weak was they bet the farm on the casual market they had targeted for the Wii, problem? they have all moved on. doing home theater and HTPC installs i get to go in a lot of folks homes and you don't know how many times I've been told when asked if they want this Wii hooked back into the system "Nah just hand it here and I'll put it in the closet, i don't use it anymore". The casual market has ZERO brand loyalty and the same ones that I saw playing Wii units and Nintendo handhelds are now playing angry Birds on their tablets and have replaced their handhelds with a smartphone and of course the hardcore aren't gonna spend $350 on a Wii U when for $50 more they can get the PS4 and from what I read at $350 they are losing money per unit so dropping it into the crucial $150-$200 casual range won't be easy.
So I have a feeling the big N is gonna be hurting this round, too weak to appeal to the hardcore, and the casuals have moved on to mobile devices.
Wow check out the FOSSies above you, if you dare say ANYTHING other than "Gee isn't GPL great? why it sure is Skip and RMS' farts cure global warning" they literally foam at the mouth like rabid dogs...too bad they can't seem to parse a sentence or understand basic language.
Since yours seems to be the least batshit reply let me spell it out...okay? if a company is NOT a FOSS company and are building proprietary devices its fucking STUPID to use GPL, why? Because GPL and proprietary don't play nice with each other, again that is by design as it was designed to further RMS political agenda, just look at how TiVo was named in GPL V3 because by following the license to the letter they still pissed off RMS because they didn't follow his agenda.
Now is the GPL bad? Not really, like any other license it depends on its usage as just like languages it can be abused, but if the license works for you? Fine and dandy but what everyone here seems incapable of grasping is that not every company wants to be a FOSS company, in fact the majority do NOT want to be FOSS companies because if your business doesn't fall under the "blessed three" you are screwed (which is why a FOSS game with the quality of the Bioshock or even the GTA series, because games don't fall under the blessed three and thus they can't survive) and its pretty damned obvious since this was NOT THEIR FIRST OFFENSE that this company does NOT want to be a FOSS company so...why? Why do these coders keep risking the companies they work for by taking GPL code when there is no need?
THIS is what I am having trouble understanding because if you aren't a FOSS company and in fact make proprietary stuff as this company does its not only dumb to use a software licensed to be as anti-proprietary as it possibly can but its pointless as some of the biggest names on the planet are running on BSD so its not like BSD has crap code dude, the whole thing makes no fucking sense.
But if FOSS OSes and software make you happy? Its a free country and I support your right to choose, just as I hope everyone would support my right to choose proprietary OSes and software for my customers as I find it has more polish and works better for the particular niche my business occupies. Where FOSS makes sense I have NO problem employing it, if a company needs a webserver there isn't any point in using anything but a premade LAMP stack, and I used to hand out Libre office to my home users until i found Google Docs works even better for that use case, but unlike the dumbass company in TFA I do NOT try to build proprietary solutions using FOSS software and THAT was what I was trying to point out, you have these coders that insist on sticking a square peg into a round hole and it makes no God damned sense!
All I can figure is its one of 3 things, 1.- The coders are in China where IP means jack shit so they don';t care about no steenkin licenses, 2.- They are lazy and grab the first thing they find, again with disregard for the licenses, or 3.- they are "fellow travelers" that are trying to force their company to become FOSS by tying major projects to FOSS code to try to force their hand, in which case they should be fired. But it just makes no damned sense otherwise, if you aren't a FOSS company trying to mix FOSS and proprietary is just asking for shit, just ask TiVo.
It probably wouldn't have cost them as much as most likely it would have been settled out of court without the need for lawyers and court fees, the BSA just wants to get paid after all and will negotiate,whereas with the GPL there is NO negotiation nor compromise because like it or not that is the way RMS designed the license.
What I personally don't get when it comes to these cases is...why? Why would you bother taking the risk of using GPL code when you aren't a FOSS company and risk possible lawsuits like this? If you don't want to be a FOSS company there is BSD and there is plenty of proprietary solutions so there is really no damned point in taking the risk when your company isn't a FOSS based company. After all BSD is good enough for fricking Apple and the PS4 so its not like its not got plenty of support, so seriously they should get an extra 40% tacked on to the verdict as a "You're a dumbass" penalty for wasting all that money when there was no damned need to take the risk.
Does this make GPL bad? Nope, but one would have to be blind not to see you really need to base a company around FOSS if you are gonna be using it as it doesn't play nice with proprietary, again by design, but as long as your business makes its money by using one of what I call the "blessed three" models by which pretty much all GPL businesses are based, selling support/services, selling hardware (like this company) or holding out the tin cup? Then there is no problem with you handing out the source and thus no issues with GPL. Its when these companies try to mix GPL and proprietary that it bites them in the ass.
So the moral of the story is thus...if you are gonna use GPL make sure its no problem for your company to abide by the terms, otherwise choose something else. These cases show that stealing GPL code will end up costing you no different than if you stole proprietary code because as far as the courts are concerned its one and the same. Just because its "free as in beer" doesn't mean its "free as in do what you will", that is what the BSD license is for.
Nice to see I'm not alone in the "WTF people" attitude, if GMO is fine and dandy why not let the free market decide? the free market is supposed to be the end all of the right wing, yes? then why is it ONLY when the free market gives an advantage to a megacorp is it good, when it gives choice to the consumer its bad?
As far as "selective breeding" bullshit? I have an easy answer for that one friend, feel free to use it...show me ONE TIME, just once, in the entire history of the planet that farmer bill managed to mix INSECT DNA into his corn crop through selective breeding like Monsanto did with their corn? then i'll be happy to STFU, but until you can show me that one case i'm throwing a flag, shilling on the field.
Thanks I KNEW something funny was going on because unlike my little stalker, who ALWAYS follows his modding down with a round of "die you fat fucker die" AC posts these seem to be VERY "corporate yay!" including corps that traditionally are fricking hated more than the Klan around here, companies like Halliburton, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, these are NOT the kinds of companies that the left libertarian leaning Slashdot tends to favor.
Anyway thanks for confirming it, I smelled something hinky but just figured i had a new stalker but browsing at -2 I see that a LOT of rational informed posts that aren't "corporate yay!" are getting modded down and you are right, they are all followed by VERY high UID posts spouting bullshit, like the one here that compared GMO to selective breeding...yeah, you show me a single case of farmer bill selectively breeding INSECTS into his corn? Then I'll buy it, otherwise its bullshit.This would be like saying since we have had transplants in the past chopping up prisoners to make Frankenstein monsters would just be an extension...no, its really NOT, really not anything alike at all.
Dude read what the woman said, not like you have to "guess" at anything, she prattled on at length. again you are talking about a couple where the guy at 16 is driving a car that costs $60K+ in today's dollars as his FIRST CAR (look it up, he had a brand new AMC top o' the line luxury sedan) and she made it clear he got "a few thou" every year on his BDay, this was in 1962 which was about $20-$40 THOUSAND a BDay today, and again they act like they were really struggling when his "play money" was more than the average worker made it a year ($3000 a year was average at that time).
but nobody is saying they were assholes dude, which is why the left always got pissed off as well as the right when I got everybody calling Romney "Thurston Howell The Third" on the forums. remember the show? thrston and Lovey were NOT bad people, they had just lived a sheltered life of money and had no clue anybody lived differently.
I really pissed off both the left AND right wing with that comparison during the election but its a simple fact, Romney IS Thurston Howell The Third. Remember the show? Thurston was NOT a bad guy, he honestly just had no damned clue that everybody didn't live like him!
And THAT is a 100% perfect description of Romney, he was a HS kid driving a brand new luxury car to a private school surrounded by those driving the same, he went to an ivy league college and married a woman just as sheltered by money as he is, got as you pointed out a good $35-$50 THOUSAND as "birthday money" when most are lucky to get triple digits, that man simply has never struggled nor suffered a day in his life...and THAT is what made him dangerous, the simple fact that he had no clue how it was to be poor so he had a real "Well let them eat cake!" attitude and wouldn't have thought a thing about cutting what little safety nets folks have because....well they can live on the stock dividends...right?
Notice I get modded down for daring to point out that there is no way in hell for "selective breeding" to mix fricking insect and plant? Man this place is becoming more of an elitist circlejerk by the fricking day, I swear you better kiss the groupthink around here, buy the corporate bullshit or the asskissers have a royal damned shitfit.
What I find ironic is its the right wing "corporate yay!" types which are the ones AGAINST the free market because like you I would have ZERO problem with GMOs if it was labeled so I could CHOOSE what I did and did not eat but that would hurt their profits don't ya know, can't have an informed populace making informed choice, why that is how a free market works instead of a corporatocracy, it can't be allowed!
Well to me it shows that 1.- Either the massive part of MMO isn't accurate or 2.- CCP can't code for shit. I haven't played the game so I don't know how well they code but it wouldn't be the first time I've seen a big name game with shitty code...Crysis 1 carrier level anyone?
If you think its a good movie then do me a favor, cut out ALL the parts where there is NO dialog, plot development character development, or story progression and then get back to me, okay? i think you'll find you have a movie that is 30, maybe 40 minutes tops. yes you can have character and plot development visually but that is NOT what you get in 2001, you get crap floating in space to music PERIOD. Just look at how long that simple flight to the moon takes, fuck look at how long that damned stewedardess takes just bringing a fricking tray! Is that tray integral to the story? Does it move the plot forward? NOPE, its just Kubrick being in love with the idea of space travel so he has to show us every.boring.tiny.bit. of space travel.
As Nicholas Meyer once said "A scene should never last for longer than it can justify itself" and Good Lord is that rule ever broken in 2001! BTW did you know that what you are watching is the SECOND release? The ORIGINAL theatrical release had another hour and ten minutes of crap floating in space to music and he had so many people walking out and bad reactions to screenings he cut it down, so why do you think X amount of crap floating in space is good but everyone thought Y amount of crap floating in space is bad?
So I'm sorry but for me there is one simple little test,how much of the movie can you HONESTLY describe the plot, not guess and make up shit like so many of the Kubrickians do, which just FYI look up what Kubrick has said on the movie and you'll see it wasn't SUPPOSED to have any kind of defined meaning...well if your fricking director says something doesn't have meaning then guess what? It doesn't have a fricking script because THAT IS WHAT THE SCRIPT IS FOR, it lays out what the fricking film is about, but how much of the ACTUAL plot can you honestly describe that isn't gonna end up EXACTLY like what Matthew was doing, "the ship is going, the ship is going, the ship is going" a billion times over?
And just FYI I don't agree with everything matthew says its just damned hard to find any critic that doesn't suck Kubrick's dick, no different than how Terrence Malick can make the most pretentious POS in the history of film and the critics will trip over themselves to kiss his ass, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find a director whose behind got kissed more than Kubrick, he could have filmed a guy eating a pickle and won an Oscar. But again look at Kubrick's own work, ALL of his movies have rich plot, characters, narrative...except one. Hell you could remove the fricking sound from a good 60% of the movie and not miss a damned thing because its just SFX put to music!
BTW if you want to see a GOOD movie with no CGI booms, no SFX put to music, just a deep rich story that makes you think? Try "The Man From Earth" sometime, or hell pretty much anything Kubrick did OTHER than 2001. Even Clarke said there weren't any definitive answers to be found on screen....really? I mean for fucks sake the guy is admitting that even the writer doesn't have an answer which means there IS no answer, and he STILL gets a pass?
Uhhh...what do you call selling plants that won't seed to the third world and suing if they do somehow manage to get any seed? Fucking evil is what I'd call it. Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt,Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store.
I'm sorry but you want to see the closest thing this world has to pure evil its Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, and Halliburton. If I walked into their lobbies and saw demons in 3 piece suits making deals like on Angel? Honestly wouldn't surprise me.
There is a BIG fucking difference between looking at a row of plants and choosing which one looks the best or tastes the best and growing that next year versus making a frankenstein monster of starfish, grasshopper, and tomato.
You show me ONE, just one, case where selective breeding mixed fish or insect into a fricking plant and I'll buy your bullshit, otherwise its exactly that, bullshit. Hell I feel sorry for those with religious dietary laws and those who are vegans, pretty damned soon the plants won't even qualify as being plants anymore, instead being some fucked up fish/insect/mammal monstrosity.
I hate to say it but this kind of crap is why its stupid to be a white hat. you just watch the car manufacturers won't do a damned thing about this weakness and if he says shit, hell even if he doesn't they will probably sue him for "giving those black hats ideas" which of course they would NEVER have had if it weren't for this guy.
Too many times we have seen those that try to do the right thing in this field told to muzzle it or even having companies go for the classic shoot the messenger, from companies sitting on vulnerabilities long past any reasonable grace period to threats of lawsuits and have you seen ANY of the white hats thanked? Nope they are ALWAYS treated like a douchebag threatening to throw shit at their customers, you always have this "its really your fault you know" kind of vibe to any responses from the corps.
Meanwhile the black hats pay cash, last i heard for a good zero day they'll pay a LOT of cash, so given the choice of muzzling, being told to STFU and sit in a corner for..well whenever the corps get around to fixing it, if at all, and generally being treated like an unwelcome pest or getting paid? Yeah I'm sorry guys but until the bad attitudes and shoot the messenger vibe goes away I'd say you'd have to be nuts to be a white hat. As my grandfather used to say "You say welcome and they'll say mat and walk right over you".
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Frankly when you are talking about something that can cost over 100 million if you are a big company and get hacked? hell you might as well use the monthly premiums for blackjack because you KNOW they'll just file bankruptcy if you try to cash it in.
The simple fact of the matter is the ONLY way insurance works is if there are enough buyers to 1.- pay out any losses and 2.- if its a publicly traded company pay for the ever higher profits they have to show to keep the stocks from tanking. When you are talking about a niche THIS teeny tiny? I'm sorry but insurance just won't work, there won't be enough paying into the pool to cover losses, instead they'll just file bankruptcy if you try to make a claim large enough to make the insurance worth having.
Because you might as well just make a 1980s style brick phone buddy?
Since you seem to be trying to make a legitimate point and not...well be a FOSSie and treat this like a religion I'll answer you...because without hardware acceleration? Your phone is gonna be made of ass and fail, okay? This isn't the 1980s, people won't put up with a laggy UI, no ability to run apps, it just won't fly. if you want to go that route again just make a brick phone as i'm sure the patents have run out on those.
You see this is why i put "top tier" in the statement because you have to at least compare favorably to the other phones on the shelf or people just won't fricking buy it hoss. You don't realize just how weak ARM cores are dude, we are talking a 2.2Ghz P4 from 2004 will curbstomp the latest ARM core on every test except for a few that are hand tailored for the ARM and then it BARELY inches ahead, without the GPU helping with the heavy lifting? yeah I don't see too many buying phones that feel like a Palm PDA from 03 in 2013, do you?
At the end of the day friend its really simple, if they want this to have even a snowball's chance in hell on the shelves? It HAS to have performance at LEAST high enough it can compare favorably with the other phones on the shelves or they are gonna get a warehouse full of them, just ask the OpenMoko guys about how much being "pure FOSS" helped their bottom line.
What does that have to do with not being able to find a non proprietary BIOS and wireless that would work? This isn't about what the OLPC could or could not do, its about the fact that even a project built around FOSS and with plenty of backing couldn't make a 100% FOSS mobile device because too much of the tech used in mobile devices is patented up the ying yang and is proprietary as hell.
So like it or not unless they design their own chips from scratch, and even then somehow manage to avoid running into the patent minefields that are wireless and graphics, the odds of them making a 100% FOSS device using top tier chips? Pretty much non existent. Most of the GPUs being used are PowerVR, proprietary as hell, and I haven't seen a 100% FOSS phone wireless chip, hell I don't think its even possible to make one as mobile wireless tech is some of the most heavily licensed and patented tech on the planet.
The FSF can want all day long, if it can't be built it can't be built and that is that and I don't see how they could build a 100% FOSS phone and still use chips anybody would want, maybe if they used a phone design from the 80s they could build one that the patents have expired on, but nothing that goes into a modern smartphone is gonna be 100% license and patent free, that is just how that business works.
So in other words "colleges exploit students while taking their money"...why am i not surprised? I have been saying for awhile now that colleges have become rackets, with costs jumping several times the rate of inflation while at the same time piling on the bullshit prereqs so they can bleed 'em for every class they can. The whole thing has become both a massive scam and a supporter of classism by letting the uber-rich buy their way into a permanent upper class simply by having the cash to go to an elite school, the thing is a scam.
And as my grandpa used to say "Girls want ponies, people in hell want ice water, I want a million dollars...that don't mean any of us are gonna get it".
Unless they are gonna kickstarter the chips in the thing it'll be DAMN hard to make it FOSS, simply because the ones making the GPUs, wireless, etc, are about the most proprietary lot on the planet. Hell I don't even think you CAN make a FOSS GPU as everything from texture compression on up is patented up the ass, I know there was a project to make one using an FPGA but I never heard any more about it, probably ran into the legal minefield and ran aground.
So while it'd be nice with so few players in the top tier mobile chip business and with anything and everything patented and licensed from somebody the FSF can say "make it free" all they want, its gonna be damned hard if not impossible to make it truly FOSS and still get decent chips in the thing. Remember even the OLPC 1 couldn't get 100% free because they couldn't find a BIOS and wireless chipset at the time that wasn't proprietary and that was with X86, with ARM its even worse.
Hey nice straw man you built there, be a shame if i threw this match by it...WHOOSH! Comparing LGPL to vanilla GPL is like saying "Well if you can do it with BSD you MUST be able to do it with GPL, since they are all FOSS licenses, right?" even RMS has come out against LGPL because it doesn't promote his agenda like the GPL does, so comparing the two is pointless, other than the name they really have little in common.
And I think its funny as hell that the so called "enlightened" FOSSie faction can ONLY throw insults, know why that is? Because otherwise all you get is the same old excuses, which just FYI they have been used so many times there is a joke site that lists them and the one I linked to I think is VERY apropos as most of the FOSSie faction are notorious for using circcular logic. Oh and last time I showed up with a link from TM Repo one FOSSie had the brass balls to compare a joke site to Stormfront, which just shows that FOSSie is a good choice of name, like Moonie one can't question their beliefs.
I apologize, I didn't make myself clear...I did NOT mean to infer that each student should have to negotiate with a game manufacturer directly, what I was trying to say is this conversation is low overdo because when you look at how much everybody from the colleges to the NCAA to the guys selling popcorn at the game hundreds of millions are being made off of these kids and they ain't getting shit and that is FUCKED UP, no matter how you slice it.
These kids suffer and bleed for the game, hell some of them end up with brain damage that will cause them problems the rest of their lives, yet everybody else can make money off of them but they can't get a cent? That is bullshit, just because they are young does NOT give the schools and groups like the NCAA the right to exploit them for hundreds of millions in profits!
Name any other situation besides student athletes where corps can make tens of millions but get away with no giving the one doing the work a penny because i can't think of one. What they ought to do is have some sort of student union,whether per school or over the whole shebang to be decided later, but they need somebody negotiating to get them a fair slice, what we have now is rigged and broken.
So again my bad if I didn't make myself clear, if this ruling starts the conversation going that ultimately ends with students being treated like individuals with the right to be paid for their work instead of disposable players? Then I'm ALL for it, 100%.
I just don't see why so many are the EFF on this one when it means supporting EA a company notorious for screwing EVERYBODY from the employees on up.
Personally I'm all for this rule because i'm hoping it will open debates i think are long due, which is why are college athletes not allowed to get paid for what they do but everyone can make money off of them just like in TFA? Most of these kids will NEVER make it to the majors and if they blow out a knee on their last year their life usually ends up shit, meanwhile everybody else, the school, the groups in charge of licensing like the NCAA, even game companies like EA THEY can all make money but the kid can't? I'm sorry but that is severely fucked up.
And let me just head those that will say "but they get paid with an education" off at the pass because I went to a "football school" and I can say pretty much all a LOT of those players are learning is how to play a better game, we've seen enough examples of players that couldn't even read the diploma they were handed to know that is a bunch off bull. So just pay the kids alright? Put it in a trust for the guy or whatever and that way if something bad happens to them and they can't play at least they'll have some money to start over, but it just ain't right that these kids are not allowed to make shit while everybody else cashes checks based on their work, its not right, its not fair, and if this ruling kills the blanket licenses the NCAA is allowed to SELL based on these kids without giving them shit in return? Then I'm damned glad the judges ruled this way, I just don't get why the EFF are for a status quo that enriches these large corps while not giving a cent to the kids whose labor is being sold.
Not really as I like educating those below me but what IS tiresome is flag waving douchebags, which remind me of the ancient Mel Brooks joke "all go to hell except cave 76!". I mean do you HONESTLY think that CCP gives a fuck about anything other than your wallet?
Now is that automatically a bad thing? No not at all, as long as they give you good value for your dollars and if you'd like an example I'd point out Gearbox with their Borderlands series or Volition with their Saints Row series, both just love to play the DLC tango but when my boys and I are playing co-op in some massive free for all in Borderlands 1 or 2 or Saints Row 3? I honestly couldn't care less about their trying to squeeze that last nickel by appealing to completionists.
But for an example of where you are NOT getting good value see Eve Online where a LOT of the appeal, hell its even all over the ads CCP have to entice newcomers, is the "huge epic space battles" so the sci/fi fans can recreate some of the excitement of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica only to find the engine simply can't keep up, which of course i called them out on. If you are gonna advertise huge space battles at least be capable of having epic space battles in real time, otherwise it might as well be a turn based RTS.
A FOSS company is one whose products and/or services are primarily based around FOSS software, everyone from non profits like the Document Foundation to Red Hat would be considered a FOSS company. why its a BAD IDEA for a company that is NOT a FOSS company to use FOSS in their products is plainly illustrated in TFA and also by TiVo.
As for the "unwanted freedom" as you put it, way to choose words for maximum propaganda value BTW, nice touch, I don't care if FOSS offers me blackjack and hookers if it doesn't fit my use case it would be fucking stupid to use it, now wouldn't it? I work primarily with home users and SMBs, 2 places where FOSS OSes suck a big hairy nut thanks to 1.- Shitty driver model breaking drivers so that hardware that works in foo doesn't work in foo + 1, 2.- Shitty half baked software that doesn't come even close to the proprietary solutions, see pretty much every bookkeeping software on Linux VS Quicken and Quickbooks, and 3.- Nothing that comes even close to the length of support that MSFT offers without paying tens of thousands of dollars, for an example show me ANY Linux OS that gives you 10 years of updates WITHOUT having to do the upgrade deathmarch and deal with #1 that doesn't cost several thousand dollars, see Red Hat and their $300 a year just to get updates.
So while many "true believers" such as yourself think FOSS is the answer to everything in reality? Its actually only good for a few niches and the low adoption numbers reflect that. Its good for servers, its good for embedded, oh and before you mention Android which is the rallying cry of the FOSS crowd let me cut you off at the pass, android is a proprietary spinoff of an embedded Linux product, its 100% controlled by Google which is why handset makers can lock down the OS with impunity, because Google uses the "TiVo trick" by making sure ONLY GPL V2 is allowed.
But since I'm not a programmer free lawyers mean jack and squat, and as a user and retailer I've found FOSS software leaves a LOT to be desired, so much so in fact that thanks to all the headaches FOSS software brings with it (Google "Linux busted shitter problem" to see a deeper explanation) it is actually cheaper for me to use proprietary than to use FOSS because of the better support and frankly just better written software.
Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.
Dude nobody is gonna buy a $350 console for a single game, nobody. with the Wii Nintendo burnt too many bridges by letting an assload of shovelware get dumped for it so you ended up with game after game that did the "Wii Waggle" and that was it. You could count the really good Wii games on 2 hands and have fingers left over and they were nearly ALL made by Nintendo.
So while i'm sure you'll get a few hardcore fanboys that buy it, the kind that sleep on Mario sheets and have gone to a party dressed as a Nintendo character but how many of those do you REALLY think are out there? Not enough to entice third parties and not enough to get Nintendo out of dead last that's for sure.
The problem is twofold, 1.- The system is INSANELY weak, more of an upgrade to the Wii than a new system and frankly tech has progressed a hell of a lot farther since the Wii. If you look up the specs the GPU is equal to an HD4650, that is a GPU that wasn't even high middle when released and has been in legacy for over 2 years. This will make it hard for Nintendo to get third parties, the other 2 use AMD APUs and can be easily ported between each other, Wii U uses an older PPC chip so it just won't run the Xbox next and PS4 games.
The second problem is related to the first, 2.- The reason Nintendo went so weak was they bet the farm on the casual market they had targeted for the Wii, problem? they have all moved on. doing home theater and HTPC installs i get to go in a lot of folks homes and you don't know how many times I've been told when asked if they want this Wii hooked back into the system "Nah just hand it here and I'll put it in the closet, i don't use it anymore". The casual market has ZERO brand loyalty and the same ones that I saw playing Wii units and Nintendo handhelds are now playing angry Birds on their tablets and have replaced their handhelds with a smartphone and of course the hardcore aren't gonna spend $350 on a Wii U when for $50 more they can get the PS4 and from what I read at $350 they are losing money per unit so dropping it into the crucial $150-$200 casual range won't be easy.
So I have a feeling the big N is gonna be hurting this round, too weak to appeal to the hardcore, and the casuals have moved on to mobile devices.
Wow check out the FOSSies above you, if you dare say ANYTHING other than "Gee isn't GPL great? why it sure is Skip and RMS' farts cure global warning" they literally foam at the mouth like rabid dogs...too bad they can't seem to parse a sentence or understand basic language.
Since yours seems to be the least batshit reply let me spell it out...okay? if a company is NOT a FOSS company and are building proprietary devices its fucking STUPID to use GPL, why? Because GPL and proprietary don't play nice with each other, again that is by design as it was designed to further RMS political agenda, just look at how TiVo was named in GPL V3 because by following the license to the letter they still pissed off RMS because they didn't follow his agenda.
Now is the GPL bad? Not really, like any other license it depends on its usage as just like languages it can be abused, but if the license works for you? Fine and dandy but what everyone here seems incapable of grasping is that not every company wants to be a FOSS company, in fact the majority do NOT want to be FOSS companies because if your business doesn't fall under the "blessed three" you are screwed (which is why a FOSS game with the quality of the Bioshock or even the GTA series, because games don't fall under the blessed three and thus they can't survive) and its pretty damned obvious since this was NOT THEIR FIRST OFFENSE that this company does NOT want to be a FOSS company so...why? Why do these coders keep risking the companies they work for by taking GPL code when there is no need?
THIS is what I am having trouble understanding because if you aren't a FOSS company and in fact make proprietary stuff as this company does its not only dumb to use a software licensed to be as anti-proprietary as it possibly can but its pointless as some of the biggest names on the planet are running on BSD so its not like BSD has crap code dude, the whole thing makes no fucking sense.
But if FOSS OSes and software make you happy? Its a free country and I support your right to choose, just as I hope everyone would support my right to choose proprietary OSes and software for my customers as I find it has more polish and works better for the particular niche my business occupies. Where FOSS makes sense I have NO problem employing it, if a company needs a webserver there isn't any point in using anything but a premade LAMP stack, and I used to hand out Libre office to my home users until i found Google Docs works even better for that use case, but unlike the dumbass company in TFA I do NOT try to build proprietary solutions using FOSS software and THAT was what I was trying to point out, you have these coders that insist on sticking a square peg into a round hole and it makes no God damned sense!
All I can figure is its one of 3 things, 1.- The coders are in China where IP means jack shit so they don';t care about no steenkin licenses, 2.- They are lazy and grab the first thing they find, again with disregard for the licenses, or 3.- they are "fellow travelers" that are trying to force their company to become FOSS by tying major projects to FOSS code to try to force their hand, in which case they should be fired. But it just makes no damned sense otherwise, if you aren't a FOSS company trying to mix FOSS and proprietary is just asking for shit, just ask TiVo.
It probably wouldn't have cost them as much as most likely it would have been settled out of court without the need for lawyers and court fees, the BSA just wants to get paid after all and will negotiate,whereas with the GPL there is NO negotiation nor compromise because like it or not that is the way RMS designed the license.
What I personally don't get when it comes to these cases is...why? Why would you bother taking the risk of using GPL code when you aren't a FOSS company and risk possible lawsuits like this? If you don't want to be a FOSS company there is BSD and there is plenty of proprietary solutions so there is really no damned point in taking the risk when your company isn't a FOSS based company. After all BSD is good enough for fricking Apple and the PS4 so its not like its not got plenty of support, so seriously they should get an extra 40% tacked on to the verdict as a "You're a dumbass" penalty for wasting all that money when there was no damned need to take the risk.
Does this make GPL bad? Nope, but one would have to be blind not to see you really need to base a company around FOSS if you are gonna be using it as it doesn't play nice with proprietary, again by design, but as long as your business makes its money by using one of what I call the "blessed three" models by which pretty much all GPL businesses are based, selling support/services, selling hardware (like this company) or holding out the tin cup? Then there is no problem with you handing out the source and thus no issues with GPL. Its when these companies try to mix GPL and proprietary that it bites them in the ass.
So the moral of the story is thus...if you are gonna use GPL make sure its no problem for your company to abide by the terms, otherwise choose something else. These cases show that stealing GPL code will end up costing you no different than if you stole proprietary code because as far as the courts are concerned its one and the same. Just because its "free as in beer" doesn't mean its "free as in do what you will", that is what the BSD license is for.
Nice to see I'm not alone in the "WTF people" attitude, if GMO is fine and dandy why not let the free market decide? the free market is supposed to be the end all of the right wing, yes? then why is it ONLY when the free market gives an advantage to a megacorp is it good, when it gives choice to the consumer its bad?
As far as "selective breeding" bullshit? I have an easy answer for that one friend, feel free to use it...show me ONE TIME, just once, in the entire history of the planet that farmer bill managed to mix INSECT DNA into his corn crop through selective breeding like Monsanto did with their corn? then i'll be happy to STFU, but until you can show me that one case i'm throwing a flag, shilling on the field.
Thanks I KNEW something funny was going on because unlike my little stalker, who ALWAYS follows his modding down with a round of "die you fat fucker die" AC posts these seem to be VERY "corporate yay!" including corps that traditionally are fricking hated more than the Klan around here, companies like Halliburton, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, these are NOT the kinds of companies that the left libertarian leaning Slashdot tends to favor.
Anyway thanks for confirming it, I smelled something hinky but just figured i had a new stalker but browsing at -2 I see that a LOT of rational informed posts that aren't "corporate yay!" are getting modded down and you are right, they are all followed by VERY high UID posts spouting bullshit, like the one here that compared GMO to selective breeding...yeah, you show me a single case of farmer bill selectively breeding INSECTS into his corn? Then I'll buy it, otherwise its bullshit.This would be like saying since we have had transplants in the past chopping up prisoners to make Frankenstein monsters would just be an extension...no, its really NOT, really not anything alike at all.
Dude read what the woman said, not like you have to "guess" at anything, she prattled on at length. again you are talking about a couple where the guy at 16 is driving a car that costs $60K+ in today's dollars as his FIRST CAR (look it up, he had a brand new AMC top o' the line luxury sedan) and she made it clear he got "a few thou" every year on his BDay, this was in 1962 which was about $20-$40 THOUSAND a BDay today, and again they act like they were really struggling when his "play money" was more than the average worker made it a year ($3000 a year was average at that time).
but nobody is saying they were assholes dude, which is why the left always got pissed off as well as the right when I got everybody calling Romney "Thurston Howell The Third" on the forums. remember the show? thrston and Lovey were NOT bad people, they had just lived a sheltered life of money and had no clue anybody lived differently.
I really pissed off both the left AND right wing with that comparison during the election but its a simple fact, Romney IS Thurston Howell The Third. Remember the show? Thurston was NOT a bad guy, he honestly just had no damned clue that everybody didn't live like him!
And THAT is a 100% perfect description of Romney, he was a HS kid driving a brand new luxury car to a private school surrounded by those driving the same, he went to an ivy league college and married a woman just as sheltered by money as he is, got as you pointed out a good $35-$50 THOUSAND as "birthday money" when most are lucky to get triple digits, that man simply has never struggled nor suffered a day in his life...and THAT is what made him dangerous, the simple fact that he had no clue how it was to be poor so he had a real "Well let them eat cake!" attitude and wouldn't have thought a thing about cutting what little safety nets folks have because....well they can live on the stock dividends...right?
Notice I get modded down for daring to point out that there is no way in hell for "selective breeding" to mix fricking insect and plant? Man this place is becoming more of an elitist circlejerk by the fricking day, I swear you better kiss the groupthink around here, buy the corporate bullshit or the asskissers have a royal damned shitfit.
What I find ironic is its the right wing "corporate yay!" types which are the ones AGAINST the free market because like you I would have ZERO problem with GMOs if it was labeled so I could CHOOSE what I did and did not eat but that would hurt their profits don't ya know, can't have an informed populace making informed choice, why that is how a free market works instead of a corporatocracy, it can't be allowed!
Well to me it shows that 1.- Either the massive part of MMO isn't accurate or 2.- CCP can't code for shit. I haven't played the game so I don't know how well they code but it wouldn't be the first time I've seen a big name game with shitty code...Crysis 1 carrier level anyone?
If you think its a good movie then do me a favor, cut out ALL the parts where there is NO dialog, plot development character development, or story progression and then get back to me, okay? i think you'll find you have a movie that is 30, maybe 40 minutes tops. yes you can have character and plot development visually but that is NOT what you get in 2001, you get crap floating in space to music PERIOD. Just look at how long that simple flight to the moon takes, fuck look at how long that damned stewedardess takes just bringing a fricking tray! Is that tray integral to the story? Does it move the plot forward? NOPE, its just Kubrick being in love with the idea of space travel so he has to show us every.boring.tiny.bit. of space travel.
As Nicholas Meyer once said "A scene should never last for longer than it can justify itself" and Good Lord is that rule ever broken in 2001! BTW did you know that what you are watching is the SECOND release? The ORIGINAL theatrical release had another hour and ten minutes of crap floating in space to music and he had so many people walking out and bad reactions to screenings he cut it down, so why do you think X amount of crap floating in space is good but everyone thought Y amount of crap floating in space is bad?
So I'm sorry but for me there is one simple little test,how much of the movie can you HONESTLY describe the plot, not guess and make up shit like so many of the Kubrickians do, which just FYI look up what Kubrick has said on the movie and you'll see it wasn't SUPPOSED to have any kind of defined meaning...well if your fricking director says something doesn't have meaning then guess what? It doesn't have a fricking script because THAT IS WHAT THE SCRIPT IS FOR, it lays out what the fricking film is about, but how much of the ACTUAL plot can you honestly describe that isn't gonna end up EXACTLY like what Matthew was doing, "the ship is going, the ship is going, the ship is going" a billion times over?
And just FYI I don't agree with everything matthew says its just damned hard to find any critic that doesn't suck Kubrick's dick, no different than how Terrence Malick can make the most pretentious POS in the history of film and the critics will trip over themselves to kiss his ass, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find a director whose behind got kissed more than Kubrick, he could have filmed a guy eating a pickle and won an Oscar. But again look at Kubrick's own work, ALL of his movies have rich plot, characters, narrative...except one. Hell you could remove the fricking sound from a good 60% of the movie and not miss a damned thing because its just SFX put to music!
BTW if you want to see a GOOD movie with no CGI booms, no SFX put to music, just a deep rich story that makes you think? Try "The Man From Earth" sometime, or hell pretty much anything Kubrick did OTHER than 2001. Even Clarke said there weren't any definitive answers to be found on screen....really? I mean for fucks sake the guy is admitting that even the writer doesn't have an answer which means there IS no answer, and he STILL gets a pass?
Uhhh...what do you call selling plants that won't seed to the third world and suing if they do somehow manage to get any seed? Fucking evil is what I'd call it. Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt,Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store.
I'm sorry but you want to see the closest thing this world has to pure evil its Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, and Halliburton. If I walked into their lobbies and saw demons in 3 piece suits making deals like on Angel? Honestly wouldn't surprise me.
There is a BIG fucking difference between looking at a row of plants and choosing which one looks the best or tastes the best and growing that next year versus making a frankenstein monster of starfish, grasshopper, and tomato.
You show me ONE, just one, case where selective breeding mixed fish or insect into a fricking plant and I'll buy your bullshit, otherwise its exactly that, bullshit. Hell I feel sorry for those with religious dietary laws and those who are vegans, pretty damned soon the plants won't even qualify as being plants anymore, instead being some fucked up fish/insect/mammal monstrosity.
I hate to say it but this kind of crap is why its stupid to be a white hat. you just watch the car manufacturers won't do a damned thing about this weakness and if he says shit, hell even if he doesn't they will probably sue him for "giving those black hats ideas" which of course they would NEVER have had if it weren't for this guy.
Too many times we have seen those that try to do the right thing in this field told to muzzle it or even having companies go for the classic shoot the messenger, from companies sitting on vulnerabilities long past any reasonable grace period to threats of lawsuits and have you seen ANY of the white hats thanked? Nope they are ALWAYS treated like a douchebag threatening to throw shit at their customers, you always have this "its really your fault you know" kind of vibe to any responses from the corps.
Meanwhile the black hats pay cash, last i heard for a good zero day they'll pay a LOT of cash, so given the choice of muzzling, being told to STFU and sit in a corner for..well whenever the corps get around to fixing it, if at all, and generally being treated like an unwelcome pest or getting paid? Yeah I'm sorry guys but until the bad attitudes and shoot the messenger vibe goes away I'd say you'd have to be nuts to be a white hat. As my grandfather used to say "You say welcome and they'll say mat and walk right over you".