I always love it when anything, anywhere is called "unhackable" because in the real world, absolutely nothing is. Microsoft (of all companies) should have seen this coming, having been founded by a bunch of hackers, having tons of highly-paid hackers on staff, and having many of the arguably most-pirated apps out there.
I could see how it'd be difficult for him to invest the time it takes to set up, since I'd bet the clock on his VCR has been blinking "12:00" for 20 years.
Then you can always give it to a tollbooth panhandler in exchange for his wiping your windshield with some cloudy ammonia spray and a grimy cloth. He gets some more booze money, you receive some extra grime, it's all a fair and even exchange.
Not mine, certainly. I'm just playing devil's advocate, and that's the sort of uproar I believe some outside agency declaring their sites blocked would cause in that industry. (And it is an industry.)
Consider how much crapware is actively installed by users who click through the EULA without a second thought, completely missing the fact that they just provided some entity permission to screw their machine and/or privacy, of the sort that might actually stand up in court. The crapware companies don't have a license agreement expertly crafted by Lawful/Evil characters for nothing, they're passing the blame onto the fool who clicks "OK," and they would probably stand by that fact.
Why we don't have a central organisation that bans spyware/malware sites? Unlike porn, where religious and all kinds of debates open, the worst cases of malware are obvious and good for nothing.
Because there will always be one sucker who is poerfectly willing to give up their spare processor cycles and demographic info in exchange for a taskbar icon that tells them what temperature it is outside. It's a sad argument, but a valid one for the purveyors of crapware.
Wouldn't it seem odd to someone if drug dealers advertised their services in newspaper ads?
Yes, it'd be odd that there's still a drug dealer out there that hasn't discovered Craigslist yet.
SCEI president Ken Kutaragi has defended the PlayStation 3's high price tag once again, declaring that not only will consumers be prepared to pay the cost but that the console is 'probably too cheap.'
This man is a genius! I've got to get me a piece of this...
I hereby announce that not only are the rest of you Slashdotters fully prepared to Paypal me ten bucks every time you get to read one of my fabulous posts, but I'm letting you all off easy by not demanding twenty.
In your example, there is already a perfectly functional system in place for dealing with a murderer in your house - calling the police and getting the blue hell out of there. I doubt hanging around for several hours installing cameras or picking your nose will do much for you, unless perhaps he or she is kind enough to hold the ladder steady, or loan you a handkerchief.
If the murderer isn't there now but the police say one might show up at some point today, are you still as willing to surrender your privacy? How about at some point within the month? Or possibly during the next several years? And just how reliable is their evidence for this hypothesis?
Look at the original Napster. Before it was shut down it had built up a community, people were rating each others' files, they were selling stickers and t-shirts at Hot Topic, they were pissing off Metallica, and people were saying "Napster" in TV shows and movies. You can't go out and buy that sort of brand identity, you just urge the masses to build it up in their own minds. All that is the sole reason the current Napster is doing anything remotely close to the business it does today.
These guys, although apparently not evil (sure, they used to work for Paypal, but on the other hand, they used to work for Paypal) have already built up the user base and mind share to basically ensure that Youtube makes money whatever they end up doing to go "legit."
I think the most ingenius move of theirs so far is the embeddable player. How cool is it to be able to stick that little flash gadget right in your website/blog/myspace/whatever? And, once they do start running ads and things, each one of those embedded files will become a tiny branch of their revenue stream.
That'd be touchy.. IANAL, but since the name "Raiden" comes from Japanese mythology, the name itself isn't copyrightable. It's like naming a character "Mercury" or "Red Riding Hood." I think they'd probably get away with it if the character design was sufficiently different from any of Midway's Raiden designs.
That's it in a nutshell. If I post some renaissance artwork featuring ancient european boobies, tell a dick joke on my blog, or say "fuck" in a podcast, how easy would it be to force me to move my entire site to.xxx to "protect the children?" For that matter, would they have to move Slashdot to.xxx because I did this -> (.)(.)?
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"Rob T Firefly is a really cool guy with snappy dress sense whose posts smell like fresh spearmint." - flooey
Wow, an entire mapping scheme just for the little ammo clips Doomguy picks up for his guns! Talk about attention to detail.
I always love it when anything, anywhere is called "unhackable" because in the real world, absolutely nothing is. Microsoft (of all companies) should have seen this coming, having been founded by a bunch of hackers, having tons of highly-paid hackers on staff, and having many of the arguably most-pirated apps out there.
I could see how it'd be difficult for him to invest the time it takes to set up, since I'd bet the clock on his VCR has been blinking "12:00" for 20 years.
Then you can always give it to a tollbooth panhandler in exchange for his wiping your windshield with some cloudy ammonia spray and a grimy cloth. He gets some more booze money, you receive some extra grime, it's all a fair and even exchange.
Maybe that'd be better formed as an anti-del.icio.us. Is y.uc.ky a valid domain?
Not mine, certainly. I'm just playing devil's advocate, and that's the sort of uproar I believe some outside agency declaring their sites blocked would cause in that industry. (And it is an industry.)
Consider how much crapware is actively installed by users who click through the EULA without a second thought, completely missing the fact that they just provided some entity permission to screw their machine and/or privacy, of the sort that might actually stand up in court. The crapware companies don't have a license agreement expertly crafted by Lawful/Evil characters for nothing, they're passing the blame onto the fool who clicks "OK," and they would probably stand by that fact.
Because there will always be one sucker who is poerfectly willing to give up their spare processor cycles and demographic info in exchange for a taskbar icon that tells them what temperature it is outside. It's a sad argument, but a valid one for the purveyors of crapware.
Wouldn't it seem odd to someone if drug dealers advertised their services in newspaper ads?
Yes, it'd be odd that there's still a drug dealer out there that hasn't discovered Craigslist yet.
(Note to self - possibility of financial reward for snarkiness discovered, sign up for Paypal.)
I guess all these years of automatically ignoring and scrolling past the "sponsored" results has paid off.
A buttered snack left over from breakfast, perfect for eating with your newly-free hand.
This man is a genius! I've got to get me a piece of this...
I hereby announce that not only are the rest of you Slashdotters fully prepared to Paypal me ten bucks every time you get to read one of my fabulous posts, but I'm letting you all off easy by not demanding twenty.
If the murderer isn't there now but the police say one might show up at some point today, are you still as willing to surrender your privacy? How about at some point within the month? Or possibly during the next several years? And just how reliable is their evidence for this hypothesis?
Then they'll have neither.
These guys, although apparently not evil (sure, they used to work for Paypal, but on the other hand, they used to work for Paypal) have already built up the user base and mind share to basically ensure that Youtube makes money whatever they end up doing to go "legit."
I think the most ingenius move of theirs so far is the embeddable player. How cool is it to be able to stick that little flash gadget right in your website/blog/myspace/whatever? And, once they do start running ads and things, each one of those embedded files will become a tiny branch of their revenue stream.
That'd be touchy.. IANAL, but since the name "Raiden" comes from Japanese mythology, the name itself isn't copyrightable. It's like naming a character "Mercury" or "Red Riding Hood." I think they'd probably get away with it if the character design was sufficiently different from any of Midway's Raiden designs.
Do you like his hat? It's made of money!
I like playing GTA even though it's nothing like stealing a real car.
If they showed up in a crowd of US military commandos, they might raise a few eyebrows.
That's it in a nutshell. If I post some renaissance artwork featuring ancient european boobies, tell a dick joke on my blog, or say "fuck" in a podcast, how easy would it be to force me to move my entire site to .xxx to "protect the children?" For that matter, would they have to move Slashdot to .xxx because I did this -> (.)(.)?
On the other hand, finally! An opportunity to sneak up behind Pikachu and snap his damn neck!
I was all excited about buying an xxx domain and putting no porn on it, thereby breaking the system.
For the last few remaining humans who still haven't seen the peeing chimpanzee, the "Numa Numa" dance, or "Yatta!."
Call twenty or more random numbers a day.
Because no government-funded device labelled with an "H-" prefix could ever turn out badly.. oh, wait.