1. in your weed scenario, you don't know what the sentence will be until the verdict is issued. It could be six months community service for all you know. All you're doing is allowing someone to break the law without repurcussions. 2. in your piracy example, they don't go to jury trials. And if they do, the jury actually sets the award. If there is evidence (real evidence, not the flim flam shit we hear about) then you really have no choice but to declare for the plaintiff, but then you can always argue for a minimum fine (you can't find them not guilty, it's a civil case).
Actually declaring not guilty when someone clearly is should be considered contempt of court.
Having seen the impact of drug dealers on the lower socio-economic echelons of society (by which I mean my entire family) I thank the gods that you do not have the power to write laws, and I pray that if you ever got onto a jury and performed the action you describe (knowing he's guilty but letting him off anyway) that you personally are prosecuted for perjury or something. Drug dealers are criminal scum.
My understanding is that only the Supreme Court can set a binding precedent... being not from the US, I am not 100% certain of the veracity of that, is it not the case?
Not complying with a DMCA notice waives safe harbour and opens you to liability along with the uploader. I'm sure you can see why Google isn't willing to do that.
You do of course realise my point was not that Apple should help you for free, not at all. My point was that your statement that Apple's technical support is equivalent to them helping upgrade your apps to their latest mandate is completely false, and your followup post proved my point most spectacularly. And by the way, having experienced DTS, it's not all it's cracked up to be. A quite frequent response is "It shouldn't be doing that. Our engineers have asked if you can please log a bug" (and I've reported stuff three years ago that still hasn't even been acknowledged). At work, we have an off-the-shelf product and some customisations done to it by a third party. Somewhere, buried deep in the contract, is a rider clause saying that if we ever upgrade that off-the-shelf product, the third party must upgrade all of our customisations for free. And I'm told this is fairly common.
I'd love to read an article on the facts of that case, actually. Can you go find me one written by someone who doesn't have their head so far up Apple's collective arses that they haven't seen daylight in years?
The worst possible thing you can do if you want to make a credible argument is link to Roughly Drafted or anything by Paul Thurott (depending on which side of the debate you stand).
Because half those "innovations" consisted of shit like "performing an action in response to a gesture... on a smartphone". Apple is the new "...on a computer!" patent troll, except with "...on a smartphone!" instead.
Not if you pay them. I'm not talking about Rapidshare Premium or anything, I mean you can actually legitimately pay them for distribution of your legitimate files. No wait screens, no slow downloads, it's like everyone who downloads your file is premium from their perspective. You just pay for hosting.
If you're on Brothersoft as well, you'd best contact them to "unwrap" your software too - unlike download.com they won't charge you to do that though, and will do it for you.
Incorrect..com,.net, and.org are called gTLDs - it stands for "Global Top Level Domains" and they are managed by Verisign under contract to ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The US TLDs are.us and through grandfathering.mil,.edu, and.gov.
Not always true - where I work, HR and Payroll are two separate departments. Recruitment is a third yet again. Then again, this is for a 15,000 strong company (which I guess is small in multi-national terms, but it's gigantic for a company with only two buildings).
Nowhere did I say it was easy and you know it. The real point (once you get past my hyperbole) is that decent sysadmins and equipment can make any solution work. And crappy sysadmins and equipment can make any solution suck. I'll agree with you on your bit about config pages being buried 5 levels deep in some MMC console though - you can play six degrees of separation with Microsoft server settings...
However your assertion that you "can't do it with Microsoft tech" is flat out bullshit. And you still failed to address how overly convoluted it is to set up client devices with your hodge-podge of disconnected systems.
(Also, I'll say it again: noone pays list price. There's not a hope in hell NYC paid $1m for the Exchange solution).
I've discovered through personal experience than the media is all to happy to hand over contact details of people who contact them in relation to a story. I once contacted the reporter on a story about a vulnerability in a pizza company's web site which allowed uncontrolled data download from their databases (billing not included) and I received a phone call later in the day - not from the police, but from the director of the company whose database was compromised. Way to protect sources.
So yeah, don't bother with the media, they'll hand you over on a silver platter. Unless you send it from a throwaway email while using Tor from a VPN in France or something.
Underrated and Overrated do not add the text to the score, FYI. They commonly are used as the "+1, I Agree" and "-1, I Disagree and wish to Censor Your Dissenting Opinion" moderations. It used to be counterable back before/. fucked up metamoderation and turned it into a herp-derp free + or - for random comments. Which incidentally is the other reason a post may be moderated + or - with no history - it was metamoderated up or down instead.
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Two problems there,
1. in your weed scenario, you don't know what the sentence will be until the verdict is issued. It could be six months community service for all you know. All you're doing is allowing someone to break the law without repurcussions.
2. in your piracy example, they don't go to jury trials. And if they do, the jury actually sets the award. If there is evidence (real evidence, not the flim flam shit we hear about) then you really have no choice but to declare for the plaintiff, but then you can always argue for a minimum fine (you can't find them not guilty, it's a civil case).
Actually declaring not guilty when someone clearly is should be considered contempt of court.
Having seen the impact of drug dealers on the lower socio-economic echelons of society (by which I mean my entire family) I thank the gods that you do not have the power to write laws, and I pray that if you ever got onto a jury and performed the action you describe (knowing he's guilty but letting him off anyway) that you personally are prosecuted for perjury or something. Drug dealers are criminal scum.
My understanding is that only the Supreme Court can set a binding precedent... being not from the US, I am not 100% certain of the veracity of that, is it not the case?
It's called Incognito mode. Every browser has one now (even IE)
Perhaps you should follow the links on his page, specifically this one: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html
Not so gung-ho on supporting Iron after reading that, huh?
IE's extension site is http://www.ieaddons.com/en/
Not complying with a DMCA notice waives safe harbour and opens you to liability along with the uploader. I'm sure you can see why Google isn't willing to do that.
You do of course realise my point was not that Apple should help you for free, not at all. My point was that your statement that Apple's technical support is equivalent to them helping upgrade your apps to their latest mandate is completely false, and your followup post proved my point most spectacularly. And by the way, having experienced DTS, it's not all it's cracked up to be. A quite frequent response is "It shouldn't be doing that. Our engineers have asked if you can please log a bug" (and I've reported stuff three years ago that still hasn't even been acknowledged). At work, we have an off-the-shelf product and some customisations done to it by a third party. Somewhere, buried deep in the contract, is a rider clause saying that if we ever upgrade that off-the-shelf product, the third party must upgrade all of our customisations for free. And I'm told this is fairly common.
Or RoughlyDrafted. That guy would actually spin it as patent trolling being a good thing if Apple does it (and spawn of Satan if Microsoft does).
Probably because you can't sue your parent company (except under some seriously fucked up circumstances).
I'd love to read an article on the facts of that case, actually. Can you go find me one written by someone who doesn't have their head so far up Apple's collective arses that they haven't seen daylight in years?
The worst possible thing you can do if you want to make a credible argument is link to Roughly Drafted or anything by Paul Thurott (depending on which side of the debate you stand).
Because half those "innovations" consisted of shit like "performing an action in response to a gesture... on a smartphone". Apple is the new "...on a computer!" patent troll, except with "...on a smartphone!" instead.
You get two DTS calls. That's it. After that, it's incredibly expensive. I don't call that "help".
It's not Verisign any more - it's Symantec. And in the near future all those "Verisign Secure" badges on the internet are changing to "Norton Secure".
So... job done I guess.
PAD. It's actually required by Tucows.
Not if you pay them. I'm not talking about Rapidshare Premium or anything, I mean you can actually legitimately pay them for distribution of your legitimate files. No wait screens, no slow downloads, it's like everyone who downloads your file is premium from their perspective. You just pay for hosting.
Incorrect. I had software there that was uploaded prior to their bundling, and eventually they wrapped it anyway. I'd watch them if I were you.
If you're on Brothersoft as well, you'd best contact them to "unwrap" your software too - unlike download.com they won't charge you to do that though, and will do it for you.
Incorrect. .com, .net, and .org are called gTLDs - it stands for "Global Top Level Domains" and they are managed by Verisign under contract to ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The US TLDs are .us and through grandfathering .mil, .edu, and .gov.
But.. but... how could you NOT want your Weekly TicketAlert?!? It's Yours!
You could always file a Class Action Lawsuit against the Class Action Lawyers?
Not always true - where I work, HR and Payroll are two separate departments. Recruitment is a third yet again. Then again, this is for a 15,000 strong company (which I guess is small in multi-national terms, but it's gigantic for a company with only two buildings).
Nowhere did I say it was easy and you know it. The real point (once you get past my hyperbole) is that decent sysadmins and equipment can make any solution work. And crappy sysadmins and equipment can make any solution suck. I'll agree with you on your bit about config pages being buried 5 levels deep in some MMC console though - you can play six degrees of separation with Microsoft server settings...
However your assertion that you "can't do it with Microsoft tech" is flat out bullshit. And you still failed to address how overly convoluted it is to set up client devices with your hodge-podge of disconnected systems.
(Also, I'll say it again: noone pays list price. There's not a hope in hell NYC paid $1m for the Exchange solution).
I've discovered through personal experience than the media is all to happy to hand over contact details of people who contact them in relation to a story. I once contacted the reporter on a story about a vulnerability in a pizza company's web site which allowed uncontrolled data download from their databases (billing not included) and I received a phone call later in the day - not from the police, but from the director of the company whose database was compromised. Way to protect sources.
So yeah, don't bother with the media, they'll hand you over on a silver platter. Unless you send it from a throwaway email while using Tor from a VPN in France or something.
Underrated and Overrated do not add the text to the score, FYI. They commonly are used as the "+1, I Agree" and "-1, I Disagree and wish to Censor Your Dissenting Opinion" moderations. It used to be counterable back before /. fucked up metamoderation and turned it into a herp-derp free + or - for random comments. Which incidentally is the other reason a post may be moderated + or - with no history - it was metamoderated up or down instead.
Mumble mumble stagnated or something.