I would normally applaud this because it opens the door for teachings about His Noodley Appendage, but of course, do you really think those right-wing nut jobs are going to let the FSM be taught along-side ID?
Why would they? FSM was designed as a PARODY of a religion. I'm all for kicking this ID crap to the wayside, but the FSM-zealots piss me off, too. Yeah, I know you're trying to make a point, but at least stop pretending that it was designed as anything other than a parody.
Really? That seems amazingly odd. The plaintiff attorney was/on the stand/? I wouldn't have even thought that was allowed. Conflict of interest, etc. Who would object on the attorney's behalf?
Were it even possible and my attorney did as you described, I'd come after him with a malpractice suit Really Rather Quickly. There's that whole other minor concept of "Attorney Client Privilege". What in the name of blue fuck was the attorney doing answering anything about the case he was defending?
The good news is this is a really strange situation where the fix does not immediate reveal the vulnerability and reverse engineering isn't directly possible.
The other big problem with this is that there is no US carrier where a "$70 unlimited plan" means that your monthly bill will be anything less than $90+, what with "taxes, fees, service charges, taxes on fees, taxes on service charges, service charge for collecting tax on service charge, etc, ad infinitum). My wife and I are on a "$90" plan. Our monthly bill is usually $130 (with no 'overages').
But in Australia, Apple fans are used to being bent over by Apple:
MBP, 17"
US: $2,799
AU: $3,799 (US$3,660 - 31% markup)
2GB memory upgrade for same
US: $200
AU: $300 (US$289 - 45% markup)
Apple 30" Cinema Display
US: $1,799
AU: $2,798 (US$2,696 - 50% markup)
Blame it on shipping? No. Shipping from Asia to Australia is cheaper than to the US. Tariffs and taxes? Fifty per cent tariffs on this stuff? I think not. Apple just is quite happy to gouge the holy hell out of anything it can.
Good luck using it when they blacklist the IMEI from their network (and then publish it to the other networks).
Can't say I wouldn't laugh, either - entering into an agreement with every intention of breaking it, and being willing to file a fraudulent police report just to save yourself some money? What a world class fucking citizen you are.
So the B&MGF offers to support a charity - and because there are corrupt people who see an opportunity to steal money, the B&MGF is therefore bad?
Your logic confounds me.
The same organization was looking to use Open Source stuff. Does that mean if they had gone ahead with that, HP, IBM, Sun etc would have been evil for their role in the corruption that plagued that project.
Of course not, that's, somehow, magically different.
What I'm trying to figure out why it's acceptable in Slashdot eyes to fake your user agent to get to a web site that otherwise won't let you in (a la many Opera users and online banking) for completely arbitrary reasons, but somehow when a company is doing it, it becomes unacceptable? The two aren't perfect parallels, I grant you, but still, it's laughable watching the anger here on this.
One of the biggest problems that I'm yet to see anyone mention is this: of course you can buy your own memory / drive upgrades at the time of purchase, but doing so, you are still stuck with the minimum memory and drive that comes with the system, now obsolete, because of course you can't buy a system empty of either.
Windows, Mac OS X and most Linux distros support using USB keyboards and mice out of the box.
True, but to be fair, I was pleasantly surprised after replacing a CPU and motherboard to find that I could access the BIOS with my Bluetooth keyboard.
I think you underestimate this guy's desire to be able to download Linux ISOs all night long. Seriously, "torrents, and the ability to switch to a different ISP if I'm getting slow speeds"???
You'd likely be disappointed, as I'd expect the number to be higher than 150mil, in between warez kiddies and VLKs. I see exceptionally few people even positing the idea of blowing away Vista for XP on their new machine.
Except there's not. There's data centers in Europe and Asia, too, including one at some Yahoo facilities - at least on this note, the article (or summary) is utterly wrong. Single datacenter? No.
"a legal distribution copy designed for reviews" - wait, so you're saying a copy designated as being for review came from Atari, and then Atari sued them for using it, saying it was pirated? That's gonna be a funny lawsuit. "Your Honor, we'd like to introduce Exhibit 1, a waybill from FedEx for a copy of the game being delivered from Atari Marketing"...
I'll give you one very valid example. "Proceeds of criminal activity". In this case, revenue to the site is page views and ads, provided by viewers coming to read articles about things that were illegally obtained. Tenuous link, and you can debate the merits, but it's similar in theory (if not severity) to seizing a drug dealer's mansion.
What a pathetic joke. Why should anyone take the reviews of a site that is obviously willing to break the law to do what it wants. I can't believe there are actually people defending the review site. "Oh, this is only cause they said it sucked".
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Record video? Record audio? Rip CDs? Rip DVDs? Rip Blu-Ray? Wait, you can do all of this.
Can't watch HDCP through a non protected path? Wait, you mean the same way you can't do that on OS X or Linux now, either?
Trolling blowhard. And even worse, you're "informative", my ass.
Allow really simple, integrated, accessible access for end users to do reporting on data?
Apropos of the seriousness of the situation, the heart would be beating or not beating. It's just a monitor, not a defibrillator...
He didn't say he worked in genetics, he said he worked in a genetic facility. I wouldn't expect the janitor to know what BLAST was. ;)
Why would they? FSM was designed as a PARODY of a religion. I'm all for kicking this ID crap to the wayside, but the FSM-zealots piss me off, too. Yeah, I know you're trying to make a point, but at least stop pretending that it was designed as anything other than a parody.
Where's Oolon Coloophid when you need him?
Were it even possible and my attorney did as you described, I'd come after him with a malpractice suit Really Rather Quickly. There's that whole other minor concept of "Attorney Client Privilege". What in the name of blue fuck was the attorney doing answering anything about the case he was defending?
So, uhh, why the secrecy in planning the fixes?
The other big problem with this is that there is no US carrier where a "$70 unlimited plan" means that your monthly bill will be anything less than $90+, what with "taxes, fees, service charges, taxes on fees, taxes on service charges, service charge for collecting tax on service charge, etc, ad infinitum). My wife and I are on a "$90" plan. Our monthly bill is usually $130 (with no 'overages').
Big "days" in history:
Great moments in time. Well, if you believe the Apple faithful, anyway.
But in Australia, Apple fans are used to being bent over by Apple:
Blame it on shipping? No. Shipping from Asia to Australia is cheaper than to the US. Tariffs and taxes? Fifty per cent tariffs on this stuff? I think not. Apple just is quite happy to gouge the holy hell out of anything it can.
Can't say I wouldn't laugh, either - entering into an agreement with every intention of breaking it, and being willing to file a fraudulent police report just to save yourself some money? What a world class fucking citizen you are.
So the B&MGF offers to support a charity - and because there are corrupt people who see an opportunity to steal money, the B&MGF is therefore bad?
Your logic confounds me.
The same organization was looking to use Open Source stuff. Does that mean if they had gone ahead with that, HP, IBM, Sun etc would have been evil for their role in the corruption that plagued that project.
Of course not, that's, somehow, magically different.
What a joke.
What I'm trying to figure out why it's acceptable in Slashdot eyes to fake your user agent to get to a web site that otherwise won't let you in (a la many Opera users and online banking) for completely arbitrary reasons, but somehow when a company is doing it, it becomes unacceptable? The two aren't perfect parallels, I grant you, but still, it's laughable watching the anger here on this.
One of the biggest problems that I'm yet to see anyone mention is this: of course you can buy your own memory / drive upgrades at the time of purchase, but doing so, you are still stuck with the minimum memory and drive that comes with the system, now obsolete, because of course you can't buy a system empty of either.
True, but to be fair, I was pleasantly surprised after replacing a CPU and motherboard to find that I could access the BIOS with my Bluetooth keyboard.
I think you underestimate this guy's desire to be able to download Linux ISOs all night long. Seriously, "torrents, and the ability to switch to a different ISP if I'm getting slow speeds"???
You'd likely be disappointed, as I'd expect the number to be higher than 150mil, in between warez kiddies and VLKs. I see exceptionally few people even positing the idea of blowing away Vista for XP on their new machine.
Except there's not. There's data centers in Europe and Asia, too, including one at some Yahoo facilities - at least on this note, the article (or summary) is utterly wrong. Single datacenter? No.
The fuck has that to do with anything? "Hey look, people who WORK AT GOOGLE are involved in it, it must be good!"
Look at almost every security advisory issued out there. "Remedy: Do not/restrict usage of X until bug is resolved".
Making this a stab at MSFT just shows you up as an Apple fanboy.
Yeah.
Or did they not go after those sites because they /KNEW/ /THEY/ had supplied those sites with copies?
I'll give you one very valid example. "Proceeds of criminal activity". In this case, revenue to the site is page views and ads, provided by viewers coming to read articles about things that were illegally obtained. Tenuous link, and you can debate the merits, but it's similar in theory (if not severity) to seizing a drug dealer's mansion.
God I love Slashdot's fluid moral code.