Eh? WTF are you talking about? He's not "letting Sony off the hook" -- just pointing out that they didn't write it, which is a fact and not up for debate. Of course they're not off the hook because of that, and noone said any words to that effect.
I'm still waiting for a worm that uses the Sony rootkit to hide itself, spreads to many computers, and then DDoS sony.com. They'd have a hard time knowing what press release to put out if that ever happened.
Irregardless of the existence of government, the natural rights of an individual cannot be given away (you can't sell yourself into slavery, you can't tell a higher power that it's ok to kill you). One such right is the right to private property, closed to others' prying eyes or presence.
Property rights are hardly on pair with freedom and the right to live. Even the very notion of "property" is problematic.
One great force behind this right is that past acts bear no allowances for future acts. If I let you into my house yesterday, you have no right to be here today. I may contractually allow you to come and go as you please, but I have to willfully sign the contract with witnesses noting the act.
Here you even contradict yourself, seeming unnoticed. The fact that you can contractually give up this "right" demonstrates that it's fundamentally different from the right to live or to be free.
Sony's DRM uses government force (through copyright provisions) to settle its legality. They say that by using their property, you have to permanently give up your natural right to private property (free speech Statists wrongfully call it Right to Privacy). Sony is wrong.
This is nonsense. Sony is wrong here because they install illegal things on your computer without telling you, breaking several laws in the process, not because they are violating some fundamental natural right.
By violating numerous natural rights, Sony has opened itself to a demand for restitution. I wholeheartedly believe that corporate protections are wrong, as is copyright. My solution? Go after Sony through the shareholders directly (they own the business and allowed the breach of a basic human right). Demand restitution for the trojan if you receive it.
This is the kind of high-brow crap that gives Slashdot advocates a bad rep. If you go up to Sony shareholders and tell them they are violating human rights, not only will they laugh you in the face, but so will the media. Let's at least try to keep things in perspective here, shall we? Sony are installing stuff on your computer without your consent, not forcing children into prostitution.
I think Sony made a mess here as well, but post like yours pisses me off even more. You people need to go outside or read the freaking newspaper once in a while. DRM protection gone awry is bad, but it isn't the end of the world either.
If I agreed to help you provide products to a charity, but then told you I was going to keep 40-50% of whatever money you gave me for myself, you'd be perfectly happy with that?
No, I wouldn't use you in the first place, and that's the point. If they don't want to use Amazon, they don't have to. Nobody's forcing anyone, and Amazon is no less obliged to give to charity than any other large faceless corporation. To single them out just because they happen to have such large supply and good shipping policies that PennyArcade wants to use them is absurd.
Now that's paranoia. It would have made sense if you did it to boycott them, but because you're afraid of factory installed rootkits? Just format the freakin' harddrive and install a fresh copy of whatever OS you're using as soon as you get it. Takes 2 hours. Problem solved. Or do you think they'll be rootkitting you at the microcode level? In that case, you better invest in tinfoil rather than a new computer.
Yeah, it's terrible that big bad capitalistic Amazon makes this possible. Clearly, because their store and wishlist system helps structuring this charity work, they are more obliged to give away things for free than any other random large company.
Geez, what the hell is wrong with you?
... to me that sounds like a user not using the software correctly..
Can't it be both? That it is even possibly to draw a "hole" in that manner, not to mention the fact that the same configuration gives incompatible results, is an error on the part of the programmers, no matter how you slice it. And in mission and life critical software, such errors are even less allowed than in "normal" software.
That the physicians screwed up royally doesn't mean the programmers didn't screw up even worse.
If you didn't plan that in advance, and I'm at a loss to see how you could have, you, Sir, are brilliant. And however modded this down -- if you don't get the joke, just ignore it. Don't let your stupidity ruin it for everyone else as well.
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Eh? WTF are you talking about? He's not "letting Sony off the hook" -- just pointing out that they didn't write it, which is a fact and not up for debate. Of course they're not off the hook because of that, and noone said any words to that effect.
I'm still waiting for a worm that uses the Sony rootkit to hide itself, spreads to many computers, and then DDoS sony.com. They'd have a hard time knowing what press release to put out if that ever happened.
Irregardless of the existence of government, the natural rights of an individual cannot be given away (you can't sell yourself into slavery, you can't tell a higher power that it's ok to kill you). One such right is the right to private property, closed to others' prying eyes or presence.
Property rights are hardly on pair with freedom and the right to live. Even the very notion of "property" is problematic.
One great force behind this right is that past acts bear no allowances for future acts. If I let you into my house yesterday, you have no right to be here today. I may contractually allow you to come and go as you please, but I have to willfully sign the contract with witnesses noting the act.
Here you even contradict yourself, seeming unnoticed. The fact that you can contractually give up this "right" demonstrates that it's fundamentally different from the right to live or to be free.
Sony's DRM uses government force (through copyright provisions) to settle its legality. They say that by using their property, you have to permanently give up your natural right to private property (free speech Statists wrongfully call it Right to Privacy). Sony is wrong.
This is nonsense. Sony is wrong here because they install illegal things on your computer without telling you, breaking several laws in the process, not because they are violating some fundamental natural right.
By violating numerous natural rights, Sony has opened itself to a demand for restitution. I wholeheartedly believe that corporate protections are wrong, as is copyright. My solution? Go after Sony through the shareholders directly (they own the business and allowed the breach of a basic human right). Demand restitution for the trojan if you receive it.
This is the kind of high-brow crap that gives Slashdot advocates a bad rep. If you go up to Sony shareholders and tell them they are violating human rights, not only will they laugh you in the face, but so will the media. Let's at least try to keep things in perspective here, shall we? Sony are installing stuff on your computer without your consent, not forcing children into prostitution.
I think Sony made a mess here as well, but post like yours pisses me off even more. You people need to go outside or read the freaking newspaper once in a while. DRM protection gone awry is bad, but it isn't the end of the world either.
If I agreed to help you provide products to a charity, but then told you I was going to keep 40-50% of whatever money you gave me for myself, you'd be perfectly happy with that?
No, I wouldn't use you in the first place, and that's the point. If they don't want to use Amazon, they don't have to. Nobody's forcing anyone, and Amazon is no less obliged to give to charity than any other large faceless corporation. To single them out just because they happen to have such large supply and good shipping policies that PennyArcade wants to use them is absurd.
Now that's paranoia. It would have made sense if you did it to boycott them, but because you're afraid of factory installed rootkits? Just format the freakin' harddrive and install a fresh copy of whatever OS you're using as soon as you get it. Takes 2 hours. Problem solved. Or do you think they'll be rootkitting you at the microcode level? In that case, you better invest in tinfoil rather than a new computer.
The "proof" of which has "better" "security" will be how widespread this worm is compared to slammer or code red or nimda.
That's not a valid metric, as it depends also on the number of systems in use with the respective OS.
Yeah, it's terrible that big bad capitalistic Amazon makes this possible. Clearly, because their store and wishlist system helps structuring this charity work, they are more obliged to give away things for free than any other random large company. Geez, what the hell is wrong with you?
If you didn't plan that in advance, and I'm at a loss to see how you could have, you, Sir, are brilliant. And however modded this down -- if you don't get the joke, just ignore it. Don't let your stupidity ruin it for everyone else as well.
Uh, sorry about that one.
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