This one time, me and my buds wrote a worm like they did in Superman 3 that rounded off a fraction of a cent and put it in an account we owned. Unfortunately, I misplaced the decimal point and it ended up taking a lot more than a fraction of a cent. My buddy Peter got totally pissed off, especially because this threatened his relationship with Jennifer Aniston. Anyways, we decided to just give all the money back and say "our bad" and hopefully just go to white collar resort prison.
Luckily it didn't turn out so bad. Peter put a check for all the money under our bosses door and I'll be damned if the building didn't burn down the very next day. What luck, huh?
Anyways point of the story is the devil's in the details. When are malware writers going to learn this? Don't they have quality control?
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
On the contrary, I was told that MS actually sold the xbox console at a loss hoping to make up lost revenues with licensing fees for games.
And just for the record, this is exactly what they did. The amount of pirating that goes on with console games is FAR lower than the amount that goes on with PC games, yet PC game giants like Blizzard and Valve are still going strong. Why? Because they sell the software for such a huge profit (you pay $40 for something it costs them less than a cent to make) that even if 90% of their games are pirated, they still come out ahead. (Yes, I know development costs a lot but making the physical copies costs next to nothing)
...think this is a good move on the part of ISPs to quit doing the government's dirty work for tracking down criminals. It's not a company's job to keep tabs on their customers for the sole purpose of turning them over to law enforcement.
On the minus side, it is very likely some kind of political backlash will occur and a law will be passed requiring ISPs to keep much more detailed records than they do even now...
...you slashdotters just can't help making desperate attempts to cynically imply the US government is trying to overstep its boundaries and turn into some fascist regime. Sorry, but companies based in the US CAN be regulated by the US government. Many European countries will likely follow with similar laws and thus most major companies will be stopped from displaying billboards in space. Note this is NOT a violation of anyone's rights, simply a reasonable use of regulatory power.
Just wondering, what country do you live in exactly? As far as I know we Americans have to put up with the _least_ government intervention in business of most first world countries.
...is going to patch their system so they _can't_ get music without Apple's DRM? Why would a user knowingly restrict his capabilities to avoid copy protection?
Again, there are a LOT of things the government does with your money that you don't get to see, and for good reason. Military research, CIA/FBI operations, undercover cops, etc. You don't get the _details_ about all these things, you just know that your money is going to them. In this case, you know the money is going to research but as for the details of that research, you are kept in the dark, and possibly for good reason.
Excuse me, but I have patented the process of posting individualized comments based on past reading of a slashdot article. Please cease and desist all posting activity until we can work out a licensing arrangement.
The Atacama desert is thought to be similar to Mars; instruments similar to those used on the 1970s Viking missions have previously failed to detect life there.
Let me get this straight, these robots failed to detect life on earth, yet we spend billions of dollars to send them to Mars where they would, once again, fail to find life? Hurrah for the federal bureaucracy!
You realize about half of the comments on this story are either "Linus runs OSX?" or "No, RTFA he runs Linux on a G5". Today we see how few people actually read more than the headline;)
The people who write long definitions on Wikipedia are the same types of people who write long slashdot posts: people who must keep looking busy so their boss thinks they're working.
From my limited understanding of the interstate commerce clause, the law is intended to prevent states from hindering businesses outside of that state.
First of all, the interstate commerce clause is not a law it is part of the constitution. Second of all, the law is in no way to prevent states from infringing on other states' territory but rather to prevent state's from infringing on the federal government's territory.
It's simple: If buyer and seller are within the same state, it's intrastate commerce. If buyer and seller are in different states, it's interstate commerce (and thus regulations come from the federal government and the federal government only).
In this case, buyer and seller will often be in separate states, and thus it is interstate commerce and the state of Ohio cannot regulate it.
Case closed.
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I know how you feel.
This one time, me and my buds wrote a worm like they did in Superman 3 that rounded off a fraction of a cent and put it in an account we owned. Unfortunately, I misplaced the decimal point and it ended up taking a lot more than a fraction of a cent. My buddy Peter got totally pissed off, especially because this threatened his relationship with Jennifer Aniston. Anyways, we decided to just give all the money back and say "our bad" and hopefully just go to white collar resort prison.
Luckily it didn't turn out so bad. Peter put a check for all the money under our bosses door and I'll be damned if the building didn't burn down the very next day. What luck, huh?
Anyways point of the story is the devil's in the details. When are malware writers going to learn this? Don't they have quality control?
Ummm...excuse me but how is that a troll?
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
On the contrary, I was told that MS actually sold the xbox console at a loss hoping to make up lost revenues with licensing fees for games.
And just for the record, this is exactly what they did. The amount of pirating that goes on with console games is FAR lower than the amount that goes on with PC games, yet PC game giants like Blizzard and Valve are still going strong. Why? Because they sell the software for such a huge profit (you pay $40 for something it costs them less than a cent to make) that even if 90% of their games are pirated, they still come out ahead. (Yes, I know development costs a lot but making the physical copies costs next to nothing)
Nope...I am too...very confusing...Slashdot please fix this, it's almost impossible to read comments this way.
...think this is a good move on the part of ISPs to quit doing the government's dirty work for tracking down criminals. It's not a company's job to keep tabs on their customers for the sole purpose of turning them over to law enforcement.
On the minus side, it is very likely some kind of political backlash will occur and a law will be passed requiring ISPs to keep much more detailed records than they do even now...
...you slashdotters just can't help making desperate attempts to cynically imply the US government is trying to overstep its boundaries and turn into some fascist regime. Sorry, but companies based in the US CAN be regulated by the US government. Many European countries will likely follow with similar laws and thus most major companies will be stopped from displaying billboards in space. Note this is NOT a violation of anyone's rights, simply a reasonable use of regulatory power.
Good try, though.
You modded down my anti-Canadian comment? Terrorist.
Dude it's DMCA, not DMC. It's the Canadian version of the YMCA. DMCA = Dirty Men's Christian Association.
As for the popularity of hip-hop in Canada, it is actually very popular with the African Canadian community...all 1 of them.
...to be a freedom hating communist. =P
Just wondering, what country do you live in exactly? As far as I know we Americans have to put up with the _least_ government intervention in business of most first world countries.
It's funny because Communism CANNOT COEXIST with competition.
...is going to patch their system so they _can't_ get music without Apple's DRM? Why would a user knowingly restrict his capabilities to avoid copy protection?
Again, there are a LOT of things the government does with your money that you don't get to see, and for good reason. Military research, CIA/FBI operations, undercover cops, etc. You don't get the _details_ about all these things, you just know that your money is going to them. In this case, you know the money is going to research but as for the details of that research, you are kept in the dark, and possibly for good reason.
Should taxpayers be able to see information on secret military projects as well?
Excuse me, but I have patented the process of posting individualized comments based on past reading of a slashdot article. Please cease and desist all posting activity until we can work out a licensing arrangement.
...you might be addicted.
Good thing this device doesn't have anything to do with _intelligent_ life either...
The Atacama desert is thought to be similar to Mars; instruments similar to those used on the 1970s Viking missions have previously failed to detect life there.
Let me get this straight, these robots failed to detect life on earth, yet we spend billions of dollars to send them to Mars where they would, once again, fail to find life? Hurrah for the federal bureaucracy!
Indeed, if, as some other poster astutely pointed out, it hasn't rained in this desert for 100s of years, how could life be sustained?
You realize about half of the comments on this story are either "Linus runs OSX?" or "No, RTFA he runs Linux on a G5". Today we see how few people actually read more than the headline ;)
The people who write long definitions on Wikipedia are the same types of people who write long slashdot posts: people who must keep looking busy so their boss thinks they're working.
Quite the innovative way to get some free pen testing, huh?
Actually Gibbens vs. Ogden was an example of an industry which was already regulated by the federal government.
Actually, the fact that it was already regulated is immaterial, because the Constitution clearly states in Section 8 of Article I:
"The Congress shall have power...To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
Notice there is no mention of "but it must already be federally regulated" in there. Nope, if it goes between the states, it's federal territory.
-py
Sadly enough I'm not really sure if you're being sarcastic or not. What is our country coming to?
-py
From my limited understanding of the interstate commerce clause, the law is intended to prevent states from hindering businesses outside of that state.
First of all, the interstate commerce clause is not a law it is part of the constitution. Second of all, the law is in no way to prevent states from infringing on other states' territory but rather to prevent state's from infringing on the federal government's territory.
It's simple: If buyer and seller are within the same state, it's intrastate commerce. If buyer and seller are in different states, it's interstate commerce (and thus regulations come from the federal government and the federal government only).
In this case, buyer and seller will often be in separate states, and thus it is interstate commerce and the state of Ohio cannot regulate it. Case closed.
-py