Yeah... that's what pretty much every industry tries to do. This isn't any more blatant than a lot of other monopolizing decisions, I don't know why everybody's acting so surprised.
Or maybe it's someone he worked with previously and enjoyed the quality of work they provided. People don't have to go in a new direction every time they do something.
n. A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.
That doesn't really sound like what's going on here. Maybe Dell relinquished a little more choice in the matter than they should have, but Michael Dell isn't sitting behind a curtain wringing his hands over this one. Try "cooperates", it's much less FUD-filled.
It's an ISP, and for a long time back in the 90's it was a major player. Their software bundled a browser, email client, chat rooms, games, MUDs, and a lot of other features. Unfortunately, they've always been known for annoying marketing techniques (especially their infamous "mail everybody 500,000,000 CDs a week" campaign), their poor customer service, high prices, and -with the advent of broadband- poor speeds, as they're mainly a dialup provider.
They provided some interesting services back in the day, but I think their time has come and gone.
I didn't think uploading copyrighted material was even considered illegal as long as you complied with a DMCA takedown notice, but I'm really really not up on copyright case law. If that were the case, I don't think Viacom would even have a reason to go through these logs since Google's complying with the DMCA.
Texas law is the worst in the nation. A man who kills two escaping burglars (who didn't even rob his house, it was his neighbor's stuff being taken) in cold blood by shooting them in the back gets off scot free (even after telling the police dispatcher he was going to kill them, and being ordered to stay inside), patent trolls rule the courts (most of these companies file suit solely in Texas because it's so friendly to them), and now you can't even fix a computer without yet another layer of certification, this time for a completely unrelated subject.
Texas needs to stop being so backwards and making our whole country look bad. Texas: You're the reason I can't talk to a European without some disparaging comment being made about my nationality. Stop it, you bastards.
They're probably not any different, but that doesn't make them legal. Charging people for a service you don't provide is, the last time I checked, fraud.
CCTV on every corner, groups of street toughs viciously beating and killing random passersby, the incredibly fractured English running rampant on the internet (I'm starting to think American English is the more proper form), football riots, George Michael, and now this.
Why haven't we been nuked into the ground yet?
I think some of you people go a little too far in your support of F/OSS. Why shouldn't the scouts just have a "coding" merit badge, or better, just stick with the "computer" badge?
I haven't played a good cell phone game in a hell of a long time, and anything that was fun was from Japan, where they consider the cell phone gaming market viable. Hopefully either the iPhone kills off the market or they get their shit together and start programming stuff that's fun.
My Lenovo ideapad has had face recognition for a few months now. It's actually kind of a nuisance having to line my face up with the camera every time, so I uninstalled it and went with a plain old password.
What makes this controversial? It's a company saying their product is better than somebody else's. It happens all the time and the only reason this story made it onto/. in the first place is because somebody at Microsoft said it.
You know who else is constantly claiming their product to be superior? Linux users. It might be true, and I'm not criticizing anybody for it, but if a product claiming to be better than another makes it a bad product, then that would make Linux one and you're going to have to stop using it. If that's the criteria, you're going to be running out of things to use really, really quickly, because everybody does it.
But an article I read on the subject quoted one of the main proponents saying that there's an increasing trend of child pornographers digitally editing or tracing real photos in order to get around the laws already in place. That being the case, I'm all for the legislation (though I don't even live in the UK).
It's not the Government doing it, it's a well-known busybody Senator making a request. At least it was just a personal request this time and not a bill, as he's done before when it comes to rap and video games.
...was what percentage of computers are running Vista, and what percentage of attacks are specifically targeted at Windows in general, it being the most common OS by a long shot. Besides the already-mentioned fact that this company is overinflating their results to sell their product, people should be aware that malware is, these days, mainly spy- and adware. The entire goal of these programs is to deliver advertising to -or information on- the largest audience possible, i.e. the most used OS.
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Why would they be raiding your house? Even in Iraq, usually you have to do something like kill a bunch of people before they do that.
Yeah... that's what pretty much every industry tries to do. This isn't any more blatant than a lot of other monopolizing decisions, I don't know why everybody's acting so surprised.
Corporations trying to stay ahead of their competitors? Unheard of!
Or maybe it's someone he worked with previously and enjoyed the quality of work they provided. People don't have to go in a new direction every time they do something.
n. A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.
That doesn't really sound like what's going on here. Maybe Dell relinquished a little more choice in the matter than they should have, but Michael Dell isn't sitting behind a curtain wringing his hands over this one. Try "cooperates", it's much less FUD-filled.
I don't care what anyone says, I laughed.
It's an ISP, and for a long time back in the 90's it was a major player. Their software bundled a browser, email client, chat rooms, games, MUDs, and a lot of other features. Unfortunately, they've always been known for annoying marketing techniques (especially their infamous "mail everybody 500,000,000 CDs a week" campaign), their poor customer service, high prices, and -with the advent of broadband- poor speeds, as they're mainly a dialup provider. They provided some interesting services back in the day, but I think their time has come and gone.
I didn't think uploading copyrighted material was even considered illegal as long as you complied with a DMCA takedown notice, but I'm really really not up on copyright case law. If that were the case, I don't think Viacom would even have a reason to go through these logs since Google's complying with the DMCA.
Texas law is the worst in the nation. A man who kills two escaping burglars (who didn't even rob his house, it was his neighbor's stuff being taken) in cold blood by shooting them in the back gets off scot free (even after telling the police dispatcher he was going to kill them, and being ordered to stay inside), patent trolls rule the courts (most of these companies file suit solely in Texas because it's so friendly to them), and now you can't even fix a computer without yet another layer of certification, this time for a completely unrelated subject. Texas needs to stop being so backwards and making our whole country look bad. Texas: You're the reason I can't talk to a European without some disparaging comment being made about my nationality. Stop it, you bastards.
Or, and here's a new idea, maybe people don't program viruses for those platforms since comparatively nobody uses them.
I remember looking at one back in high school, and I'm close to graduating from college. So I'm not really sure why this is news, I guess.
Yeah, no, stealing is cool. Using other people's work and turning a profit off of it is fine.
They're probably not any different, but that doesn't make them legal. Charging people for a service you don't provide is, the last time I checked, fraud.
I'll put them to the best use there is: porn.
How can I be modded a troll when I'm talking about myself. >:(
CCTV on every corner, groups of street toughs viciously beating and killing random passersby, the incredibly fractured English running rampant on the internet (I'm starting to think American English is the more proper form), football riots, George Michael, and now this. Why haven't we been nuked into the ground yet?
I think some of you people go a little too far in your support of F/OSS. Why shouldn't the scouts just have a "coding" merit badge, or better, just stick with the "computer" badge?
I haven't played a good cell phone game in a hell of a long time, and anything that was fun was from Japan, where they consider the cell phone gaming market viable. Hopefully either the iPhone kills off the market or they get their shit together and start programming stuff that's fun.
My Lenovo ideapad has had face recognition for a few months now. It's actually kind of a nuisance having to line my face up with the camera every time, so I uninstalled it and went with a plain old password.
Disregard that, I'm a dumbass.
It's, uh... it's not a Prince recording. It's a Radiohead recording, and why Prince had it taken down is beyond anyone to explain.
What makes this controversial? It's a company saying their product is better than somebody else's. It happens all the time and the only reason this story made it onto /. in the first place is because somebody at Microsoft said it.
You know who else is constantly claiming their product to be superior? Linux users. It might be true, and I'm not criticizing anybody for it, but if a product claiming to be better than another makes it a bad product, then that would make Linux one and you're going to have to stop using it. If that's the criteria, you're going to be running out of things to use really, really quickly, because everybody does it.
But an article I read on the subject quoted one of the main proponents saying that there's an increasing trend of child pornographers digitally editing or tracing real photos in order to get around the laws already in place. That being the case, I'm all for the legislation (though I don't even live in the UK).
It's not the Government doing it, it's a well-known busybody Senator making a request. At least it was just a personal request this time and not a bill, as he's done before when it comes to rap and video games.
...was what percentage of computers are running Vista, and what percentage of attacks are specifically targeted at Windows in general, it being the most common OS by a long shot. Besides the already-mentioned fact that this company is overinflating their results to sell their product, people should be aware that malware is, these days, mainly spy- and adware. The entire goal of these programs is to deliver advertising to -or information on- the largest audience possible, i.e. the most used OS.