Moral arguments don't play in. Capitalism is amoral by nature and the people involved are, for the most part, nothing more than components of the system.
A corporation exists to make money, and it will do anything to achieve that goal unless someone or something forces restraint. The law won't. Do you think the Microsoft brass will?
Yeah, that's pretty shitty, but I wouldn't say it's Microsoft's fault. If they want to do business in China they have to comply with Chinese law. Chinese law's kinda oppressive. News at 11.
Check back in twelve hours. Whoever feeds the script-kiddies is working on it I'm sure.
Side question: who feeds the script kiddies their "1337 h4x0ring t00ls" anyway? What's in it for them to give weapons to the little bastards? I assume it isn't for the money since I would think that an unknown exploit technique would be immensly valuable in that regard. Is it for the sheer destruction of the thing without the fingerprints?
Correct me if I'm wrong but "Tabled" != "Implimented". What are the chances of this actually getting passed? Didn't something similar get shot down rather recently?
In my experience you don't even need to do that much. They have a mini version that they hand out once in awhile, and if they don't actually get to hand it to you they jam one under one of your windshiled wipers.
Exactly. The cpu won't even get hot. All that'll happen is that the network stack will get annihilated, the kernel will go tits-up and the server will simply crash.
Now, the fundie mods, they'll set some things of fire.;)
For the last time: if it will play in a CD player the disc has uncompressed, unencrypted PCM audio and a valid table of contents. What this means is that you can rip any CD, regardless of some cute new DRM technology, with maybe a few trivial modifications to the ripper software.
Hey, do we have to throw nationalism into this? To be properly cynical one must realize something: a huge number of people, wherever they're from, are idiots.
(Where national generalizations come into place is what the rest do with the idiots. Yes, we in the USA, make them our leaders.)
The text is in Norwegian but the numerous graphs are self explanatory.
Maybe if you read Norwegian or are, y'know, smart it makes sense. Me however, I can't tell what the hell is going on. Will somebody please think of the idiots?!
And this somebody can go to hell. If we're gonna be a bunch of luddites in the US then technological innovation will lust continue elsewhere, probably with the involvement of all the American scientists who'll be frustrated or well-paid enough to move.
And as far as the whole "Axis of Evil" thing, we have too much economic and military interest in South Korea to safely piss them off.
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Moral arguments don't play in. Capitalism is amoral by nature and the people involved are, for the most part, nothing more than components of the system.
A corporation exists to make money, and it will do anything to achieve that goal unless someone or something forces restraint. The law won't. Do you think the Microsoft brass will?
Yeah, that's pretty shitty, but I wouldn't say it's Microsoft's fault. If they want to do business in China they have to comply with Chinese law. Chinese law's kinda oppressive. News at 11.
Whiny bastard Californians . . . .
I repeat my assertion that since 31 Octobher, 1995 (the last Oingo Boingo show) the state has had no redeeming value.
The people who post shockingly-offtopic stuff as AC . . . . I've never understood them.
Check back in twelve hours. Whoever feeds the script-kiddies is working on it I'm sure.
Side question: who feeds the script kiddies their "1337 h4x0ring t00ls" anyway? What's in it for them to give weapons to the little bastards? I assume it isn't for the money since I would think that an unknown exploit technique would be immensly valuable in that regard. Is it for the sheer destruction of the thing without the fingerprints?
Woo! I'm a nerd and ambidexterous. I've gotta be the absolute best around.
;)
Hey Slashdot ladies: I'm perfectly willing to make my email public.
* crickets *
Aw man.
If Microsoft's for it they can surely afford to buy it through, athough whether it benefits anyone else remains to be seen.
Correct me if I'm wrong but "Tabled" != "Implimented". What are the chances of this actually getting passed? Didn't something similar get shot down rather recently?
Another incredibly powerful weapon for world's largest loose cannon to be playing with. Go America!
Couldn't one of these readers just "miss" a leak by someone they're working with?
I wonder if somebody beat me to my favorite bar concept, what with the unwritten rule about free drinks for stolen bibles and jesus fishen . . . . . .
In my experience you don't even need to do that much. They have a mini version that they hand out once in awhile, and if they don't actually get to hand it to you they jam one under one of your windshiled wipers.
Wouldn't it be easier to, I don't know, use a modern book version that would be too cheap for anyone to bother stealing? Sheesh, dogmatists . . . . .
Exactly. The cpu won't even get hot. All that'll happen is that the network stack will get annihilated, the kernel will go tits-up and the server will simply crash.
;)
Now, the fundie mods, they'll set some things of fire.
But wouldn't that take like, all the earth's money?
We're not trying to move stars around, just hold some stupid air to a dippy little planet. A weak-ass gravity pump would probably suffice.
For the last time: if it will play in a CD player the disc has uncompressed, unencrypted PCM audio and a valid table of contents. What this means is that you can rip any CD, regardless of some cute new DRM technology, with maybe a few trivial modifications to the ripper software.
Can it build a map for a /.ing?
Also, it's nice to see that, for once, a story on Slashdot uses "its" correctly.
Yes, but would the courts put up with that indefinately?
Uh, you've been able to download the beta for months.
Hey, do we have to throw nationalism into this? To be properly cynical one must realize something: a huge number of people, wherever they're from, are idiots.
(Where national generalizations come into place is what the rest do with the idiots. Yes, we in the USA, make them our leaders.)
Because, if the RSS feed is any indication, it's only been available in this form since yesterday.
The text is in Norwegian but the numerous graphs are self explanatory.
Maybe if you read Norwegian or are, y'know, smart it makes sense. Me however, I can't tell what the hell is going on. Will somebody please think of the idiots?!
Where's the petition for him to, y'know, not?
And this somebody can go to hell. If we're gonna be a bunch of luddites in the US then technological innovation will lust continue elsewhere, probably with the involvement of all the American scientists who'll be frustrated or well-paid enough to move.
And as far as the whole "Axis of Evil" thing, we have too much economic and military interest in South Korea to safely piss them off.