How many owners keep proof-of-purchase beyond maybe the CD and the little plastic thing it came in? I mean, most of these people could have paid cash, and not kept the receipet.
How about graphics cards or other on-board goodies? Doesn't a VM knock out your graphics card? Hard to discover on a server, but you ought to notice on Vista or Tiger/Leopard if your desktop doesn't draw right.
I'm not sure that theatre is a plus to everyone. I'm fine watching movies on my 15 inch laptop, with my Logitech USB headset, at least for some movies. With people talking or being loud and annoying, and the inconvienence of having to be at the theatre at a certain time and watch 30 minutes of commercials pre-movie, I'd say that a 27 inch TV, even at DVD quality, with even relatively inexpensive speakers beats the theater, because it's not with idiots, and it's not $9 a ticket.
Well, you have to take Steve Job's titles into account. We can't have duplication. Lord Steven P. Jobs, High Priest of the Cult of Mac, Commander of the Fan-boy legions, King of One Infinite Loop, and Master of Keynotes. Yes, I use Macs, and I like Jobs.
Not sure it'd matter even then. Geeks like me who use OS X would be sure to get to the bottom of these security "scares" in the interest of self-security. And MS geeks prolly wouldn't think of recommending a Mac in the first place. So I suppose the only people affected are Linux geeks, who might have been inclined to mention the Mac. Yes, that was major generalization, but at least mostly true.
Can we define click fraud? I mean, I think the problem is that ads don't do much. I've long felt that all ads can do is say "Hey, I'm here!" I feel like people don't notice the google ads anymore, and I discriminate against ads I hate. If someone telemarkets me, I wouldn't buy if they were selling computers for dimes. If I get pop-upped to death, I'm not going to look at the products. So I wonder how effective all these net-ads are, esp. with people blocking them with FireFox's AdBlock, etc.
And the libel claim isn't bankrupting? I mean, unless you have a dedicated lawyer already or a pile of money, you'll easily lose a lawsuit to any company, because if they spend $10,000 on lawyers, then (at $200 an hour, which is prolly high-ish), that's 250 hours of lawyering you have to counter. Let's pretend that you're twice as efficient as they are (which I doubt). That's 125 hours you have to spend to counter that. While putting food on the table for you and potentially a family. You're forced to settle by attrition.
How can GPL (or using GPL'ed software) violate the SOX, if GPL'ed software is used as the license permits? Reading the article didn't give me any insight about this issue.
You can not get in trouble for using software you have a license to use. Period. If you follow the GPL, you have a license to use OSS. Break the GPL, and well, you don't have that license anymore. Ditto with normal software. If you violate an EULA, or steal software, you don't have a license anymore. Using software you don't have a license to is a SOx violation, regardless of whether the software is free or not.
So if I committed murder/theft/assault/, would it not be "news" on the grounds of it having been in a law that was passed a long time ago? Legal issues often arise from laws several years down the stretch. This is making news now because S-Ox is only now clashing with GPL issues (if it is)
In "Bringing Down the House", that MIT blackjack book (which is admitted partly fictionized), they have major worries about moving the cash through the airport. That was early 90s. And they had a letter from an attorney, and they were moving their cash, on a domestic flight (Boston -> Vegas)
Technically, this story is not a dupe, because the previous story is in the related stories section. Also, I love the identical misspellings. "marred"? While, that's one way to describe having a wife...
Problem: there's nothing that says if I buy a mini, I have to buy an Apple keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The Xbox is different in that all products that want to work with it have to pay liscense fees, so even if I buy a 3rd party Xbox controller, MS still gets some of the money.
Well, for those of us who don't have a few thousand dollars to spend on video games, we need to pick and choose. And noone wants to confess to having made a bad choice. So they advocate for the one they want or bought.
What if they move it physically out of China? I mean, pack up a few dozen 250GB HDDs, drive to a port, get on a boat to Japan. Then fly back or use bandwidth.
The annoying part of this free lunch thing is consumers are already paying, and so are content providers. They pay for bandwidth. I cost Apple 4 MBs of bandwidth everytime I get a song on iTMS, and Google must buy bandwidth by the truckload. So it's not like anyone is getting a free ride in the current system. And I'd love to see how well an ISP that cuts out the top 50 sites will do. I'm sure Joe Average will need Internet at home when he can't use Google, MSN, theWashingtonPost.com, Yahoo, Apple, Ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, and CNN.com
I wonder when the ISPs will get the memo: WITHOUT CONTENT, THEY ARE USELESS!!
Well said. The more the back office stuff is integrated with the client stuff, the easier it would seem to be for some random cubicle farmer to download a worm or trojan that can screw up the whole system, resulting in sysadmins having to do even more locking down of user privledges.
The simple answer is to only open legitimate emails, but if you block images, on Thunderbird at least you can selectively re-enable them, meaning that if you want the legit images, you can re-enable them.
There are like 4 steps to protecting yourself against viruses on Macs:
1) Leave your firewall on as many ports as possible. Only open it on non-major ports when you're actually using them (it's so easy to change if you want to) 2) Block images in email and don't open DLed crap. 3)Don't run as Admin. make a new account, check the admin box, and uncheck yours. 4)If you're super-paranoid, change the privledges to Terminal to take away everyone's access except root.
Submitter was created for the sole purpose of commenting on this article. His link leads back to the PC Doctor website, which I don't think most of us have heard of. It sells tech books and support.
On topic, this is pretty serious if true. We really do need a P2P content distribution system, but having it on the sly doesn't really work. I'd like a system whereby it's cheaper if you agree to seed for a bit voluntarily.
Well if your business model depends on people copying, then managed copy sort of blows. What if you're a band, and want to give away music videos and songs in the hopes that this will lure people to concerts?
Piracy is tough to stop, but really, do you need to? You can make it free with ads in it. Sure, the ads may be worth less, but prolly enough to cover costs. And you can track it, and charge advertisers by download or torrent success.
And hackers want to be counted. Honestly, they'd try harder, because we watch stuff like Firefly that we love and want to do well, but doesn't pull in numbers. So I'd be worried about the opposite effect: People downloading 2-3 times in order to boost a show's numbers.
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How many owners keep proof-of-purchase beyond maybe the CD and the little plastic thing it came in? I mean, most of these people could have paid cash, and not kept the receipet.
How about graphics cards or other on-board goodies? Doesn't a VM knock out your graphics card? Hard to discover on a server, but you ought to notice on Vista or Tiger/Leopard if your desktop doesn't draw right.
I'm not sure that theatre is a plus to everyone. I'm fine watching movies on my 15 inch laptop, with my Logitech USB headset, at least for some movies. With people talking or being loud and annoying, and the inconvienence of having to be at the theatre at a certain time and watch 30 minutes of commercials pre-movie, I'd say that a 27 inch TV, even at DVD quality, with even relatively inexpensive speakers beats the theater, because it's not with idiots, and it's not $9 a ticket.
If you took someone under the age of two to a feature length movie, then I hate you.
Dear Mods: That's not funny. It's very, very true. I'm an usher, I know.
Well, you have to take Steve Job's titles into account. We can't have duplication.
Lord Steven P. Jobs, High Priest of the Cult of Mac, Commander of the Fan-boy legions, King of One Infinite Loop, and Master of Keynotes.
Yes, I use Macs, and I like Jobs.
Not sure it'd matter even then. Geeks like me who use OS X would be sure to get to the bottom of these security "scares" in the interest of self-security. And MS geeks prolly wouldn't think of recommending a Mac in the first place. So I suppose the only people affected are Linux geeks, who might have been inclined to mention the Mac. Yes, that was major generalization, but at least mostly true.
Can we define click fraud? I mean, I think the problem is that ads don't do much. I've long felt that all ads can do is say "Hey, I'm here!" I feel like people don't notice the google ads anymore, and I discriminate against ads I hate. If someone telemarkets me, I wouldn't buy if they were selling computers for dimes. If I get pop-upped to death, I'm not going to look at the products. So I wonder how effective all these net-ads are, esp. with people blocking them with FireFox's AdBlock, etc.
And the libel claim isn't bankrupting? I mean, unless you have a dedicated lawyer already or a pile of money, you'll easily lose a lawsuit to any company, because if they spend $10,000 on lawyers, then (at $200 an hour, which is prolly high-ish), that's 250 hours of lawyering you have to counter. Let's pretend that you're twice as efficient as they are (which I doubt). That's 125 hours you have to spend to counter that. While putting food on the table for you and potentially a family. You're forced to settle by attrition.
How can GPL (or using GPL'ed software) violate the SOX, if GPL'ed software is used as the license permits? Reading the article didn't give me any insight about this issue.
You can not get in trouble for using software you have a license to use. Period. If you follow the GPL, you have a license to use OSS. Break the GPL, and well, you don't have that license anymore. Ditto with normal software. If you violate an EULA, or steal software, you don't have a license anymore. Using software you don't have a license to is a SOx violation, regardless of whether the software is free or not.
So if I committed murder/theft/assault/, would it not be "news" on the grounds of it having been in a law that was passed a long time ago? Legal issues often arise from laws several years down the stretch. This is making news now because S-Ox is only now clashing with GPL issues (if it is)
In "Bringing Down the House", that MIT blackjack book (which is admitted partly fictionized), they have major worries about moving the cash through the airport. That was early 90s. And they had a letter from an attorney, and they were moving their cash, on a domestic flight (Boston -> Vegas)
Put your mailing address on Slashdot. I dare you.
Technically, this story is not a dupe, because the previous story is in the related stories section. Also, I love the identical misspellings. "marred"? While, that's one way to describe having a wife...
Problem: there's nothing that says if I buy a mini, I have to buy an Apple keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The Xbox is different in that all products that want to work with it have to pay liscense fees, so even if I buy a 3rd party Xbox controller, MS still gets some of the money.
Well, for those of us who don't have a few thousand dollars to spend on video games, we need to pick and choose. And noone wants to confess to having made a bad choice. So they advocate for the one they want or bought.
What if they move it physically out of China? I mean, pack up a few dozen 250GB HDDs, drive to a port, get on a boat to Japan. Then fly back or use bandwidth.
The annoying part of this free lunch thing is consumers are already paying, and so are content providers. They pay for bandwidth. I cost Apple 4 MBs of bandwidth everytime I get a song on iTMS, and Google must buy bandwidth by the truckload. So it's not like anyone is getting a free ride in the current system. And I'd love to see how well an ISP that cuts out the top 50 sites will do. I'm sure Joe Average will need Internet at home when he can't use Google, MSN, theWashingtonPost.com, Yahoo, Apple, Ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, and CNN.com
I wonder when the ISPs will get the memo: WITHOUT CONTENT, THEY ARE USELESS!!
Trolling is STILL for fags
Fixed that for you.
I've noticed the same thing. there seem to be a lot of down-mods burning the mod-points. I've seen stories out for hours with all of 0 Score: 4s or 5s
Well said. The more the back office stuff is integrated with the client stuff, the easier it would seem to be for some random cubicle farmer to download a worm or trojan that can screw up the whole system, resulting in sysadmins having to do even more locking down of user privledges.
The simple answer is to only open legitimate emails, but if you block images, on Thunderbird at least you can selectively re-enable them, meaning that if you want the legit images, you can re-enable them.
There are like 4 steps to protecting yourself against viruses on Macs:
1) Leave your firewall on as many ports as possible. Only open it on non-major ports when you're actually using them (it's so easy to change if you want to)
2) Block images in email and don't open DLed crap.
3)Don't run as Admin. make a new account, check the admin box, and uncheck yours.
4)If you're super-paranoid, change the privledges to Terminal to take away everyone's access except root.
These steps literally took 3 minutes on Tiger.
Submitter was created for the sole purpose of commenting on this article. His link leads back to the PC Doctor website, which I don't think most of us have heard of. It sells tech books and support.
On topic, this is pretty serious if true. We really do need a P2P content distribution system, but having it on the sly doesn't really work. I'd like a system whereby it's cheaper if you agree to seed for a bit voluntarily.
Well if your business model depends on people copying, then managed copy sort of blows. What if you're a band, and want to give away music videos and songs in the hopes that this will lure people to concerts?
Piracy is tough to stop, but really, do you need to? You can make it free with ads in it. Sure, the ads may be worth less, but prolly enough to cover costs. And you can track it, and charge advertisers by download or torrent success.
And hackers want to be counted. Honestly, they'd try harder, because we watch stuff like Firefly that we love and want to do well, but doesn't pull in numbers. So I'd be worried about the opposite effect: People downloading 2-3 times in order to boost a show's numbers.