Rebuttal: Ok so not all cd's have seen the inside of a PC, but equally some cd's have seen the inside of more than one PC. Plus there is a good chance some of these infected CDs may have been pirated at least on a small scale. So its absolutely impossible to reliably determine the true number of infections, and whether the true number is greater than or less than the number of CDs that Sony mentioned. Hence original get out clause.
"Allowing users to run as root is like sticking drivers with a class 5 license in the pilot seat of a 747 - phorm" Counter-attack: Why are you quoting one of your own comments in your sig!!! That's L.A.M.E.!!!!!
From the article: "I don't see the federal government suing a big company like Sony," she said. "The fact that military networks have likely been affected by this won't change that."
I think this is a larger problem - that Sony can do what is clearly an unauthorised incursion into the core of someone's computer without being sued. 2.1 million cds have been sold. So something of the order of magnitude of 2.1 million computers have been infected by this rogue code. Many viruses don't achieve this level of penetration!!!! I doubt the combined force of slashdot readers has achieved this level of penetration either! hehe
If an individual had perpetrated this, whether or not he had the best intentions he would be arrested immediately. But Sony because it has such a strong brand, has only been sued in a few US states by a few Attourney Generals. Despite this being without any doubt prosecutable at the highest level.
I hate to whinge on about this but why on earth are coporations less obliged to follow the law of the land than individuals!! Its a joke.
I dont see why I have to disable bluetooth to stop these pesky advertisers, when I am perfectly happy for random people on buses etc to send me whatever they see fit.
I accept your argument with the reservation "It remains to be seen whether it too will eventually come to be regarded as useful and unexceptionable.":-)
since she appears in the photographs, she has a copyright interest in them
err no - copyright belongs to the photographer I believe. He created the photos.
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Companies advertise on TV to sell more products. The more products they sell, the less they have to make per product due to economies of scale. I could argue that products being advertised on TV actually effectively lower prices overall.
I take issue with this - if products are advertised on T.V. and that influences a purchase, as the consumer only has a limited wage this purchase is displacing other purchases that the consumer would have made that perhaps haven't been promoted as effectively.
If some people conduct a conversation by shouting in a busy room, everybody else must shout louder in order to be heard.
I would argue that paying to shout louder ultimately INCREASES the price of goods for the consumer as there is (theoretically at least) no upper bound on how loud one can shout. If every competitor is shouting at roughly the same volume to ensure that they are heard, the louder any one person shouts then the louder everybody else must shout; similarly the more any one individual spends on promotion, then the higher the cost of promotion for all competitors that wish to stay in the game.
Simply, I will not accept that the costs of advertising are not passed onto the consumer. My beliefs reduce to the statement that money spent on advertising can only increase your standing relative to your competitors but will not generate new sales in any way.
IMHO, the goodness of open source code comes more from people trying to port the code to other platorms than from the "millions of eyeballs" looking over the code.
That's actually quite insightful. Its certainly going to be true for the Linux Kernel, if not for every app out there
From the MS Firewall page: The number of ports that the process uses may affect how this issue is resolved:
If the process uses more than 1024 ports, the number of ports probably will not change.
If the process uses less than 1024 ports, the program may be using a range of ports. Therefore, opening individual ports may not reliably resolve the issue.
This makes no sense to me. Do you think the author was thinking of high vs low ports?
they have not detected any form of frozen sea, they have merely found some peculiar formations that they hyopthesise may be blocks of ice covered in volcanic ash (which has prevented it subliming into the atmosphere). Another hypothesis is that these formations may have been caused by lava flows.
I was just pointing out that you're intentionally overlooking the legitimate derogatory usage of the word "cunt"! (probably cos you're after +1, Funny)
Brilliant - I just had a look at Piquepaille's posting history and about 80% of his comments are moderated -1. slashdot moderation in action! now if only we could moderate stories or authors. permanently.
Perhaps Piquepaille should have his own slashdot section so I can just remove his stories from the front page.
"yyyy-mm-dd is the right way to write dates. And it's an ISO standard. Sync yourself with the rest of the planet, will ya?"
but if you are saying the date to someone they are most interested in which day it is, perhaps which month it is and you almost certainly know what year it is. So it makes no sense to put the most important information at the end of the sentence. If we did that all the time we'd be German...
"A quick epistomological sidenote: what's the opposite of time-continuous media?! All media records an instance of time, whether it's 1 ms or 10 seconds."
An openoffice document does not record an instance of time, yet it is media. There is no specificity in time of an OO document and neither does it change over time.
Yes there is the instant the document was saved/created but this applies to all media, even video clips but has nothing to do with the media itself ("How longs the DVD? 24th April 2004 10:56:13" makes no sense).
Slashdot Mirror
*yawns*
Disclaimer: I said "order of magnitude".
Rebuttal: Ok so not all cd's have seen the inside of a PC, but equally some cd's have seen the inside of more than one PC. Plus there is a good chance some of these infected CDs may have been pirated at least on a small scale. So its absolutely impossible to reliably determine the true number of infections, and whether the true number is greater than or less than the number of CDs that Sony mentioned. Hence original get out clause.
"Allowing users to run as root is like sticking drivers with a class 5 license in the pilot seat of a 747 - phorm"
Counter-attack: Why are you quoting one of your own comments in your sig!!! That's L.A.M.E.!!!!!
From the article: "I don't see the federal government suing a big company like Sony," she said. "The fact that military networks have likely been affected by this won't change that."
I think this is a larger problem - that Sony can do what is clearly an unauthorised incursion into the core of someone's computer without being sued.
2.1 million cds have been sold. So something of the order of magnitude of 2.1 million computers have been infected by this rogue code. Many viruses don't achieve this level of penetration!!!! I doubt the combined force of slashdot readers has achieved this level of penetration either! hehe
If an individual had perpetrated this, whether or not he had the best intentions he would be arrested immediately. But Sony because it has such a strong brand, has only been sued in a few US states by a few Attourney Generals. Despite this being without any doubt prosecutable at the highest level.
I hate to whinge on about this but why on earth are coporations less obliged to follow the law of the land than individuals!! Its a joke.
Maybe once we've resolved the battle of realism vs style, we can approach the problem of duplication.
its funny you say that - I was browsing myspace and randomly found a dj's profile, of who's records I own several! he only signed up last month.
I dont see why I have to disable bluetooth to stop these pesky advertisers, when I am perfectly happy for random people on buses etc to send me whatever they see fit.
What a completely shite idea. What kind of idiot would come up with something like this?
If the teacher's shite and doesn't engage the pupils, having some stupid clicker won't make a blind bit of difference to the attention they pay.
next.
I accept your argument with the reservation "It remains to be seen whether it too will eventually come to be regarded as useful and unexceptionable." :-)
For the love of god and language there is no such word as surveil. Try SURVEY.
Thank you and good night.
server seems to be slashdotted and this doesn't get it yet (for me)... anyone got a mirror?
The originality is in the performance - for example at what tempo is the piece conducted? how does the conductor play with the dynamics? etc.
One performers wrong note could constitute originality!!
what a joke!
s p?pg=chapter1_download
try http://impstherelentless.com.nyud.net:8090/tek9.a
since she appears in the photographs, she has a copyright interest in them
err no - copyright belongs to the photographer I believe. He created the photos.
Companies advertise on TV to sell more products. The more products they sell, the less they have to make per product due to economies of scale. I could argue that products being advertised on TV actually effectively lower prices overall.
I take issue with this - if products are advertised on T.V. and that influences a purchase, as the consumer only has a limited wage this purchase is displacing other purchases that the consumer would have made that perhaps haven't been promoted as effectively.
If some people conduct a conversation by shouting in a busy room, everybody else must shout louder in order to be heard.
I would argue that paying to shout louder ultimately INCREASES the price of goods for the consumer as there is (theoretically at least) no upper bound on how loud one can shout. If every competitor is shouting at roughly the same volume to ensure that they are heard, the louder any one person shouts then the louder everybody else must shout; similarly the more any one individual spends on promotion, then the higher the cost of promotion for all competitors that wish to stay in the game.
Simply, I will not accept that the costs of advertising are not passed onto the consumer. My beliefs reduce to the statement that money spent on advertising can only increase your standing relative to your competitors but will not generate new sales in any way.
IMHO, the goodness of open source code comes more from people trying to port the code to other platorms than from the "millions of eyeballs" looking over the code.
That's actually quite insightful. Its certainly going to be true for the Linux Kernel, if not for every app out there
From the MS Firewall page:
The number of ports that the process uses may affect how this issue is resolved:
If the process uses more than 1024 ports, the number of ports probably will not change.
If the process uses less than 1024 ports, the program may be using a range of ports. Therefore, opening individual ports may not reliably resolve the issue.
This makes no sense to me. Do you think the author was thinking of high vs low ports?
they have not detected any form of frozen sea, they have merely found some peculiar formations that they hyopthesise may be blocks of ice covered in volcanic ash (which has prevented it subliming into the atmosphere). Another hypothesis is that these formations may have been caused by lava flows.
I was just pointing out that you're intentionally overlooking the legitimate derogatory usage of the word "cunt"! (probably cos you're after +1, Funny)
Brilliant - I just had a look at Piquepaille's posting history and about 80% of his comments are moderated -1. slashdot moderation in action! now if only we could moderate stories or authors. permanently.
Perhaps Piquepaille should have his own slashdot section so I can just remove his stories from the front page.
>>Cunt" is a perfectly good word to describe this piece of shit.
>You mean you have a strong desire to look at, kiss and do other things which can't be mentioned with young nerds present to this guy?
And if you say "fuck you" that means you want to fuck someone doesn't it.
"So if the date is more important than the month, why put the month first?"
as an englishman I dont!
"yyyy-mm-dd is the right way to write dates. And it's an ISO standard. Sync yourself with the rest of the planet, will ya?"
but if you are saying the date to someone they are most interested in which day it is, perhaps which month it is and you almost certainly know what year it is. So it makes no sense to put the most important information at the end of the sentence. If we did that all the time we'd be German...
"A quick epistomological sidenote: what's the opposite of time-continuous media?! All media records an instance of time, whether it's 1 ms or 10 seconds."
An openoffice document does not record an instance of time, yet it is media. There is no specificity in time of an OO document and neither does it change over time.
Yes there is the instant the document was saved/created but this applies to all media, even video clips but has nothing to do with the media itself ("How longs the DVD? 24th April 2004 10:56:13" makes no sense).
And yes you are a pedant!
(restricting game sales) to minors
vs
restricting (game sales to minors)
ok I now see that you have addressed my main point word for word in your comment. :-P
Java != JavaScript
Sun's Java settlement has zero impact on M$'s implementation of ECMAScript.