It means more painful calls at the Help Desk at the campus I work on.... on an OS we don't yet support... which means more headaches. Thanks M$ for forcing so many college students into buying a crappy done OS before the market was ready to handle it.
You apparently use a supercomputer to generate a problem to a hole that sucks everything in. To me, this seems contradictory. But it's a huge achievement, go NASA!
DRMs are hackable. Even if the FCC can find a good DRM, someone will eventually crack it. If they want true copy protection, find something new, invest some money.
But it's time for the three-way between the FCC, MPAA, and RIAA to break up. The people are sick of the overpriced fines and insane amount of jail time for such a bogus crime. Copying material hurts few people unless massly distributed which most people don't do. It should become a misdemeanor and enforced locally.
FCC and FBI, time to start some new governing. We can't live in a society focused on reeping the benefits off the poor who can't afford your expensive media rights and copyright violation repercussions.
Our safety and rights as American people have been undermined by the even the thought of this story being true. If it does turn out to be true the American people affected by this have been gravely lied to and betrayed by their government and telecom company.
And this is why the RIAA should be a bunch of college dropouts. If they recommend that us, the students in college, dropout to pay them back for what should be free materials (art)... then they have their degrees revolked by their respective colleges.
The US is made of thousands upon thousands of immigrant. Very few of us are native. The current political and powers that be want everyone watched 24x7. It's scary to think that we'd spy on our own citizens just to protect them. But if we allow such things as domestic USVs, what's next? Tracking chips implanted in everyone?
I don't know where this is all headed, but there are some crazy politicians and military forces out there that think they should play god to their own citizens. In times like these, we need to consider the repercussions of our actions. I hate to see this ever happen on American soil.
This incident only goes to show that any file manipulation program (even the essentials like anti-virus and spy-ware/ad-ware removers) can have a profound effect on one's personal files. ALWAYS BACKUP. Even if you trust your media, you'll probably get attacked from within (hackers and now your own software).
Anyone remember Microsoft Anti-Spyware removing Norton? Anyone remember IRC commands such as "startkeylogger" booting systems from the internet running Symantec?
No one's perfect, even the software programmers. And as he laid down in a vicous wrath... the software they trusted most deleted their most precious files. Welcome to Monday everyone.
Looks awesome, but won't load my library. Perhaps because it's the preview version. I like the fact that I'll be able to connect to lastfm and such. I'd love for it to sync with my iPod as well.
Please people... this is just politics at it's worst. Apparently having more then 3 or 4 people now hitting F5 while on a website is now a felony? Maybe it should be a felony to charge students with technological knowlegde. If a server can be crashed that easily, it wasn't well maintain, didn't have enough bandwidth, and shouldn't have been running in the first place.
As for this kid or adult, whatever he is, it'll be pitiful if he's convicted of a felony. I think the IT guy who maintains the server should be fired for not completing his duties. This kid didn't spread a virus, or a worm. He didn't hack anything. He just refreshed a freeking website. Perhaps Yahoo will come after me if I refresh their website too many times saying that I'm tying up bandwidth and trying to crash their server.
Nothing malicious was done, just a vulnerabilty exposed in crappy hardware. Move on and drop the charges.
The world is coming to companies being legally able to install spyware and adware on your computer without your knowing and then you cannot remove it because it's a violation of the EULA. I bet even if you reformatted, it would somehow violate the stupid EULA. There are days I hate private enterprises.
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It means more painful calls at the Help Desk at the campus I work on.... on an OS we don't yet support... which means more headaches. Thanks M$ for forcing so many college students into buying a crappy done OS before the market was ready to handle it.
You apparently use a supercomputer to generate a problem to a hole that sucks everything in. To me, this seems contradictory. But it's a huge achievement, go NASA!
This is a bad idea. A really bad idea. IPTV on a network that can't handle WoW.... This is a really bad idea.
DRMs are hackable. Even if the FCC can find a good DRM, someone will eventually crack it. If they want true copy protection, find something new, invest some money. But it's time for the three-way between the FCC, MPAA, and RIAA to break up. The people are sick of the overpriced fines and insane amount of jail time for such a bogus crime. Copying material hurts few people unless massly distributed which most people don't do. It should become a misdemeanor and enforced locally. FCC and FBI, time to start some new governing. We can't live in a society focused on reeping the benefits off the poor who can't afford your expensive media rights and copyright violation repercussions.
True gamers build their machines. And there's days we wonder why "gamers" buy their overpriced machines from AlienWare and Dell...
Our safety and rights as American people have been undermined by the even the thought of this story being true. If it does turn out to be true the American people affected by this have been gravely lied to and betrayed by their government and telecom company.
And this is why the RIAA should be a bunch of college dropouts. If they recommend that us, the students in college, dropout to pay them back for what should be free materials (art)... then they have their degrees revolked by their respective colleges.
The US is made of thousands upon thousands of immigrant. Very few of us are native. The current political and powers that be want everyone watched 24x7. It's scary to think that we'd spy on our own citizens just to protect them. But if we allow such things as domestic USVs, what's next? Tracking chips implanted in everyone? I don't know where this is all headed, but there are some crazy politicians and military forces out there that think they should play god to their own citizens. In times like these, we need to consider the repercussions of our actions. I hate to see this ever happen on American soil.
This incident only goes to show that any file manipulation program (even the essentials like anti-virus and spy-ware/ad-ware removers) can have a profound effect on one's personal files. ALWAYS BACKUP. Even if you trust your media, you'll probably get attacked from within (hackers and now your own software).
Anyone remember Microsoft Anti-Spyware removing Norton? Anyone remember IRC commands such as "startkeylogger" booting systems from the internet running Symantec?
No one's perfect, even the software programmers. And as he laid down in a vicous wrath... the software they trusted most deleted their most precious files. Welcome to Monday everyone.
If Coaxil cables can deliver 270 Mbps... why the crap am I living with 5Mbps with TimeWarner!?!!?!?! Someone like Verizon should stick it to the man.
And somehow, I see the animal rights activists having a field day over this one...
Looks awesome, but won't load my library. Perhaps because it's the preview version. I like the fact that I'll be able to connect to lastfm and such. I'd love for it to sync with my iPod as well.
Please people... this is just politics at it's worst. Apparently having more then 3 or 4 people now hitting F5 while on a website is now a felony? Maybe it should be a felony to charge students with technological knowlegde. If a server can be crashed that easily, it wasn't well maintain, didn't have enough bandwidth, and shouldn't have been running in the first place. As for this kid or adult, whatever he is, it'll be pitiful if he's convicted of a felony. I think the IT guy who maintains the server should be fired for not completing his duties. This kid didn't spread a virus, or a worm. He didn't hack anything. He just refreshed a freeking website. Perhaps Yahoo will come after me if I refresh their website too many times saying that I'm tying up bandwidth and trying to crash their server. Nothing malicious was done, just a vulnerabilty exposed in crappy hardware. Move on and drop the charges.
The world is coming to companies being legally able to install spyware and adware on your computer without your knowing and then you cannot remove it because it's a violation of the EULA. I bet even if you reformatted, it would somehow violate the stupid EULA. There are days I hate private enterprises.