IMHO, it would be in Sony's best interest to offer something beyond just replacing the defective rootkit'd product...
Yes, and some heads should roll very publicly as well. Right now it looks like they are reacting to getting caught and doing the bare minimum in response. Those at the top should at least pretend to be appalled, axe those responsible, and promise that we will never again see anything so heinous from Sony BMG.
About the time they were using their monopoly power to fight Netscape I realized these guys were evil. Ok, perhaps I was slower than others who realized it earlier. Point is, that's why I switched to Linux. I learned that it was a superior operating system only after switching. The important thing at the time was that it was not a Microsoft product. Had I been wealthier I might have switched to a Mac.
In the absence of an ethics filter, perhaps legal should at least run stuff by PR to do a cost/benefit analysis on the overall effects of asshole behaviour. It wouldn't have killed them to throw a few bucks to the Windows Defender creator.
not because it's a weird theory but because children in school have learned to believe everything they are taught (I know I was) and don't have the critical thinking required to question those things and decide on their own (that comes later, about at the end of highschool/beginning of college).
That's the problem. Elementary scientific method, simply hypothesis formation and testing, can be introduced in elementary school, with more formal instruction continuing in jr. high. That's what should be taught in science classes. Otherwise it's just a turf war over which authority is to be believed.
By high school students should have the skills to assess for themselves whether ID even rates the term 'theory'. Might make for an interesting exercise in a science class.
HELL, if they havent abused teir power by now, why would they start?
Hopefully those with controlling interest currently will maintain it for a long time. Because when the good king dies, the heirs are typically less good. When the good king happens to be that rare creature the good vampire, and the heirs are all typical, blood thirsty vampires, then the chance of going evil is even greater. In the case of Google it's increasingly looking as though eventually the blood thirsty vampires will have vast quantities of personal information on hundreds of millions of people.
I think the guys in charge of Google now are ok, but how can they guarantee the 'do no evil' policy in perpetuity? Even those who think Google is currently trustworthy have cause for concern.
AFAIK, "Do No Evil" is an informal slogan around Google. Google would go a long way to alleviating concern if they added that to their corporate mission statement and bylaws.
It is a part of the 'owner's manual' included with their SEC filing.
Perhaps not so much 'buyer beware' as 'buyer be advised'. Investors know up front what the company is about and Google is not obligated to aggressively pursue short term profits by whatever means for its share holders. It has explicitly told them it will not do that.
The firefox referral option isn't showing up in my adsense account, there is only the tab for referring to the adsense program. Is this a US only thing?
For servers I can install a minimalist FreeBSD setup very quickly and administer it from the command line. The main OSS server stuff installs on FreeBSD with little if any problem. Perhaps there is a 'Lean Linux' distro that would be similarly suitable. I prefer a popular linux distro like Fedora or Mandriva for the desktop.
Or if you have to have something on a Sony label, buy it 2nd hand so they don't profit. It's not as positive as buying from an indy label, but it does meet the ethical minimum of 'do no evil'.
And if you haven't already, check out magnatune . Their motto: "We're a record label. But we're not evil." Too bad Sony can't say the same.
If I don't buy one of these subscriptions, my software doesn't get bug fixes, security updates, which means it is unfit for further use.
If you want free info on bugs subscribe to bugtraq. I don't know about Redhat or SuSe, but if there's a security bug in mysql is will be reported on bugtraq with work arounds if any or recommendation to upgrade to more recent version. Since moving from Mandriva to Fedora, I don't have any subscriptions or 'club memberships', and don't feel as though I'm missing anything.
They'll have a hard time trying to prove intent as well. Simply by placing a file in a directory does not assume intent or conspiracy to commit infringement any more than leaving a Harry Potter book you own lying around so someone can steal it and scan the pages.
Actually, having an application that acts like a file server responding to requests for things would be more like sitting in a booth where people can come up and say "Do you have Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?" then you say, "Yes, I do", then they say "Give me a copy", then you give them a copy.
But providing a communications channel without professional guidance as to content and application could just as easily cause more harm then good.
Why does this statement make my blood run cold?
I dunno, possibly because the FCC granted temporary licences and the project was backed by mayor and governor yet FEMA thinks it should trump those entities. This isn't a case of some wackos whipping up a quick illegal pirate radio station to promote revolution. It borders on a kind of assumed martial law without actual martial having been declared to override civil authority. IANAL, perhaps someone who knows the legal ins and outs can explain how this is legal.
Yet another reason not to upgrade from windows 2000 or XP. I read a post suggesting that the hardware requirements won't be that bad by the time it's released. Hardware requirements certainly won't be an issue by the time people are actually interested in upgrading which could be some ways down the road from the initial release.
I use and love linux, but if it gains market share it will be for reasons other than hardware requirements.
Somewhat stronger versions exist in Atlas Shrugged and Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Robert Stadler attends and sanctions a demonstration of the government's previously top secret Project X. The project, housed in rural Iowa, is a new weapon that employs sound waves and is capable of mass destruction. Floyd Ferris convinces Stadler that the weapon is a necessary instrument of control at a time when hysteria and rebelliousness grip the American people.
Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
What I find most troubling about the devastation, however, is that some of it was preventable. In February of this year, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers announced it had "identified millions of dollars in flood and hurricane protection projects in the New Orleans district." Projects that would strengthen infrastructure for storms such as the one bearing down on the United States right now. Projects that would bolster New Orleans from hurricanes and flooding.
Projects that were never enacted because of President Bush's budget cuts.
I suppose the city could be relocated, but that wouldn't exactly be cheap. Probably cheaper to develop a real commitment to investing in infrastructure and protecting that infrastructure.
Those who like to have unprotected sex can restrict themselves to crocodiles with some assurance of safety. Crocs are unlikely to have AIDS or to contract it.
Is everyone here paranoid, or do I have any fellow compatriots in the nation of apathy?
I rarely delete cookies. I decline/accept from the firefox dialogue that pops up, often selecting 'allow for session'. That's a very nice compromise value.
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In an unrelated story, a young white woman who lived near the hospital is still missing.
Yes, and some heads should roll very publicly as well. Right now it looks like they are reacting to getting caught and doing the bare minimum in response. Those at the top should at least pretend to be appalled, axe those responsible, and promise that we will never again see anything so heinous from Sony BMG.
In the absence of an ethics filter, perhaps legal should at least run stuff by PR to do a cost/benefit analysis on the overall effects of asshole behaviour. It wouldn't have killed them to throw a few bucks to the Windows Defender creator.
That's the problem. Elementary scientific method, simply hypothesis formation and testing, can be introduced in elementary school, with more formal instruction continuing in jr. high. That's what should be taught in science classes. Otherwise it's just a turf war over which authority is to be believed.
By high school students should have the skills to assess for themselves whether ID even rates the term 'theory'. Might make for an interesting exercise in a science class.
Hopefully those with controlling interest currently will maintain it for a long time. Because when the good king dies, the heirs are typically less good. When the good king happens to be that rare creature the good vampire, and the heirs are all typical, blood thirsty vampires, then the chance of going evil is even greater. In the case of Google it's increasingly looking as though eventually the blood thirsty vampires will have vast quantities of personal information on hundreds of millions of people.
I think the guys in charge of Google now are ok, but how can they guarantee the 'do no evil' policy in perpetuity? Even those who think Google is currently trustworthy have cause for concern.
It is a part of the 'owner's manual' included with their SEC filing.
Co-founders release Google 'owner's manual'
Perhaps not so much 'buyer beware' as 'buyer be advised'. Investors know up front what the company is about and Google is not obligated to aggressively pursue short term profits by whatever means for its share holders. It has explicitly told them it will not do that.
The firefox referral option isn't showing up in my adsense account, there is only the tab for referring to the adsense program. Is this a US only thing?
For servers I can install a minimalist FreeBSD setup very quickly and administer it from the command line. The main OSS server stuff installs on FreeBSD with little if any problem. Perhaps there is a 'Lean Linux' distro that would be similarly suitable. I prefer a popular linux distro like Fedora or Mandriva for the desktop.
And if you haven't already, check out magnatune . Their motto: "We're a record label. But we're not evil." Too bad Sony can't say the same.
If you want free info on bugs subscribe to bugtraq. I don't know about Redhat or SuSe, but if there's a security bug in mysql is will be reported on bugtraq with work arounds if any or recommendation to upgrade to more recent version. Since moving from Mandriva to Fedora, I don't have any subscriptions or 'club memberships', and don't feel as though I'm missing anything.
Actually, having an application that acts like a file server responding to requests for things would be more like sitting in a booth where people can come up and say "Do you have Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?" then you say, "Yes, I do", then they say "Give me a copy", then you give them a copy.
So hack it. It's not a huge hack to replace the splash screen and all instances of "gimp" with "GNU IMP".
entry for waldo at wikipedia
It sounded even funnier back when Intel sued a yoga group for using 'Yoga Inside'.
Intel forces yoga group to fight for its name
Yet another reason not to upgrade from windows 2000 or XP. I read a post suggesting that the hardware requirements won't be that bad by the time it's released. Hardware requirements certainly won't be an issue by the time people are actually interested in upgrading which could be some ways down the road from the initial release.
I use and love linux, but if it gains market share it will be for reasons other than hardware requirements.
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Seriously. If all manuals were that expensive there would have been no 'RTFM'. It would have been 'STFM'.
Actually, a lot could have been done with existing technology. But it wasn't. It's not that the people of New Orleans are stupid. But it takes money.
From thesimon.com.
I suppose the city could be relocated, but that wouldn't exactly be cheap. Probably cheaper to develop a real commitment to investing in infrastructure and protecting that infrastructure.
Some may have stopped already. Those of you who have stopped using technology altogether please reply to this post so we can count you.
Only if you're looking for a sepia effect.
Those who like to have unprotected sex can restrict themselves to crocodiles with some assurance of safety. Crocs are unlikely to have AIDS or to contract it.
I rarely delete cookies. I decline/accept from the firefox dialogue that pops up, often selecting 'allow for session'. That's a very nice compromise value.
99 little problems to fix,
99 little problems,
EVA, AOK,
98 little problems to fix
No problem, just download the source and compile it. ;-)