"Anthrax spores were sent in envelopes and inhaled and resulted in the death of 5 people in the USA." with numbers like that I think the problem will die off before a control plan is formulated:)
In the real world no huge company is going to launch a moral crusade against a country like China, I mean come on, yahoo could withhold information, google could not play along with the firewall and help dissidents, but it's not going to happen, because most shareholders will spew at the idea of such a huge and emerging market being boycotted.
Sensationalist Journalism?
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A Flu Pandemic?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Whilst this sort of thing has happened before saying it's definitely going to mutate is an overstatement. The same kind of sensationalist journalism not to long ago likened mad cow disease to a new sort of plague with predictions of obscene death rates when in reality it was statistically low. It could end up the same for this with a few hundred people dieing over several years... nothing huge is definitely going to happen.
2 million $ if it's as clear cut as it seems to be and they lose this case eventually... if companies can get away with this sort of thing it wont stop, if there's a financial deterrence then they'd stop doing it unless there was a real case.
While you are right about some of that, EULA's that say the company is faultless still get sued and a lot of EULA stuff is just plane ignored because it's so ridiculous.
I mean have you ever met anyone that deleted all their music after being burgled or didn't use their music for their latest family slide-show out of fear of offending sony:)
That rootkit was technically legal if you go by Sony's EULA but that didn't stop them getting absolutely fried by it from everyone so in many ways the EULA was irrelevant and now you'll probably see class-action suits against Sony despite their EULA.
EULA's are just things nobody reads or pays any attention to that basically say the company isn't responsible for anything but that hasn't stopped them from being sued in the past so who cares about it.
Rootkits on the otherhand are dangerous to your computer and in this Sony case even caused conflicts with other problems and could disable your drive. So it's hard to compare, the rootkit seems infinitely worse to me.
p2p cant be stopped because there's to many people using it and using it anyway and you cant arrest everyone and most people haven't stopped because a few people get arrested every now and then with a "it's unlikely to happen to me mentality". now as a natural consequence the same programmers who've made open source p2p programs in the past are still around and will just focus their future efforts on cloaking and de-centralized networks.
Not to optismitic about being commercialized yet
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Wind-powered Wi-Fi Sensors
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"Dr. Priya foresees piezoelectric bimorphs being utilized to power a variety of small devices" but I foresee nothing practical unless the efficiency is as high as enviromentally unfriendly stuff known as batteries. People just aren't going to go for this sort of thing anymore than other alternate energies unless it's going to work just as well sitting alone with no vibrations... I mean he mentions a discman but is it still going to be fine if your lying down with it on a table playing for hours on end lacking vibrations , indoors with no wind in sight... if not it's not ready to be commercialized.
That's the problem with alternate energies, they're cool and great for the environment but lack of efficiency means you usually have to suffer to be a good citizen.
North Korea has the ability to do advanced technological stuff, just only a few things due to their perpetually screwed workers paradise. Stem cell stuff would serve no purpose to them unlike weapons technology and satellites where the technology can be resold to Axis of Evil (TM) countries earning them cash $$$ .
This sort of thing is common, you can make a lot of money with it. Take for instance the "Professor Searl" @ http://www.searleffect.com/ . Similar bogus anti-gravity technology, tragic tales of lost sisters, claims it was stolen by the government (and in several decades hasn't been able to make enother !?) , lots of other BS but I'm sure he's making some money with his junk physics books http://www.searleffect.com/free/store/store.html "The Law of the Squares" Series .
that a lot of bored people in the supposed privacy of their own home will search for a lot of crazy things that in 99.99% of cases they have no intention of carrying out.
Things like the capability to launch two at once will help bring down costs assosicated with space that prevent commercilization. With science not being considered important lately with NASA's financial problems and the lack of anybody giving a damm commercialization of space will become more improtant than ever.
Most people are lazy and if they are required to watch a series of training videos to get the hang of it widespread adoption of Open Office will never happen. It's more important that the program itself is made in such a commonsense way that there's no reading/videos required for the majority of stuff. Though personally I find version 2 pretty easy and straight forward to use anyway.
"but Google could charge users fees for premium services." and what would these consist of... I mean you either have free web access or not, hard to see what their going to charge for unless they cut off basic services that people need (ie: browsing off google related sites) . their going to have to start finding ways to profit from other things to justify their share price, they cant stay fully reliant on adsense so it should be interesting to see how they profit from this.
that the governments broken patent system has come back to bite them. probably better they get the least desirable outcome in this case which may highlight the need for patent reform better when it's hurting them.
It's going to look bad marketing a machine with backwards compatability when the backwards compatability consists of the emulation of *some* games assuming you have the more expensive xbox and the *hope* of more support in future.
Yeah, I guess he created humans to kill each other for his entertainment for all eternity he had to settle for watching this croczilla pulverise sea creatures lacking the benefits of jagged teeth.
With all the news articles and coverage this got it might've been good for them anyway financially and a lot of people wont see the retraction so it may seem their ahead of the curve
and have nothing to do so why not just make it up. Why not wait until it's released in its final form before deciding whether to ignore it up until exzactly 2008 or not.
Slashdot Mirror
"Anthrax spores were sent in envelopes and inhaled and resulted in the death of 5 people in the USA." with numbers like that I think the problem will die off before a control plan is formulated :)
In the real world no huge company is going to launch a moral crusade against a country like China, I mean come on, yahoo could withhold information, google could not play along with the firewall and help dissidents, but it's not going to happen, because most shareholders will spew at the idea of such a huge and emerging market being boycotted.
Whilst this sort of thing has happened before saying it's definitely going to mutate is an overstatement. The same kind of sensationalist journalism not to long ago likened mad cow disease to a new sort of plague with predictions of obscene death rates when in reality it was statistically low. It could end up the same for this with a few hundred people dieing over several years ... nothing huge is definitely going to happen.
2 million $ if it's as clear cut as it seems to be and they lose this case eventually ... if companies can get away with this sort of thing it wont stop, if there's a financial deterrence then they'd stop doing it unless there was a real case.
While you are right about some of that, EULA's that say the company is faultless still get sued and a lot of EULA stuff is just plane ignored because it's so ridiculous.
:)
I mean have you ever met anyone that deleted all their music after being burgled or didn't use their music for their latest family slide-show out of fear of offending sony
That rootkit was technically legal if you go by Sony's EULA but that didn't stop them getting absolutely fried by it from everyone so in many ways the EULA was irrelevant and now you'll probably see class-action suits against Sony despite their EULA.
It's some guy who hates me that mods all my topics troll whenever he happens to be around.
EULA's are just things nobody reads or pays any attention to that basically say the company isn't responsible for anything but that hasn't stopped them from being sued in the past so who cares about it.
Rootkits on the otherhand are dangerous to your computer and in this Sony case even caused conflicts with other problems and could disable your drive. So it's hard to compare, the rootkit seems infinitely worse to me.
p2p cant be stopped because there's to many people using it and using it anyway and you cant arrest everyone and most people haven't stopped because a few people get arrested every now and then with a "it's unlikely to happen to me mentality". now as a natural consequence the same programmers who've made open source p2p programs in the past are still around and will just focus their future efforts on cloaking and de-centralized networks.
"Dr. Priya foresees piezoelectric bimorphs being utilized to power a variety of small devices" but I foresee nothing practical unless the efficiency is as high as enviromentally unfriendly stuff known as batteries. People just aren't going to go for this sort of thing anymore than other alternate energies unless it's going to work just as well sitting alone with no vibrations ... I mean he mentions a discman but is it still going to be fine if your lying down with it on a table playing for hours on end lacking vibrations , indoors with no wind in sight... if not it's not ready to be commercialized.
That's the problem with alternate energies, they're cool and great for the environment but lack of efficiency means you usually have to suffer to be a good citizen.
North Korea has the ability to do advanced technological stuff, just only a few things due to their perpetually screwed workers paradise. Stem cell stuff would serve no purpose to them unlike weapons technology and satellites where the technology can be resold to Axis of Evil (TM) countries earning them cash $$$ .
This sort of thing is common, you can make a lot of money with it. Take for instance the "Professor Searl" @ http://www.searleffect.com/ . Similar bogus anti-gravity technology, tragic tales of lost sisters, claims it was stolen by the government (and in several decades hasn't been able to make enother !?) , lots of other BS but I'm sure he's making some money with his junk physics books http://www.searleffect.com/free/store/store.html "The Law of the Squares" Series .
that a lot of bored people in the supposed privacy of their own home will search for a lot of crazy things that in 99.99% of cases they have no intention of carrying out.
Things like the capability to launch two at once will help bring down costs assosicated with space that prevent commercilization. With science not being considered important lately with NASA's financial problems and the lack of anybody giving a damm commercialization of space will become more improtant than ever.
Most people are lazy and if they are required to watch a series of training videos to get the hang of it widespread adoption of Open Office will never happen. It's more important that the program itself is made in such a commonsense way that there's no reading/videos required for the majority of stuff. Though personally I find version 2 pretty easy and straight forward to use anyway.
Visiting Marine battalion jailed for life after found with chewing gum.
"but Google could charge users fees for premium services." and what would these consist of ... I mean you either have free web access or not, hard to see what their going to charge for unless they cut off basic services that people need (ie: browsing off google related sites) . their going to have to start finding ways to profit from other things to justify their share price, they cant stay fully reliant on adsense so it should be interesting to see how they profit from this.
that the governments broken patent system has come back to bite them. probably better they get the least desirable outcome in this case which may highlight the need for patent reform better when it's hurting them.
It's going to look bad marketing a machine with backwards compatability when the backwards compatability consists of the emulation of *some* games assuming you have the more expensive xbox and the *hope* of more support in future.
he=before
Yeah, I guess he created humans to kill each other for his entertainment for all eternity he had to settle for watching this croczilla pulverise sea creatures lacking the benefits of jagged teeth.
" massive jaws and jagged teeth "
:)
"The crocodile, nicknamed Godzilla"
my idea of intelligent design
Do everything, focus on nothing.
But i assume his left eye went blind from episodes 1,2,3 being played simultaneously?
With all the news articles and coverage this got it might've been good for them anyway financially and a lot of people wont see the retraction so it may seem their ahead of the curve
and have nothing to do so why not just make it up. Why not wait until it's released in its final form before deciding whether to ignore it up until exzactly 2008 or not.