Actually this is worrisome for the open source community not because they ended up in court but because Appwork accepted code without reviewing it and actually without even knowing what it does. How can they assure users that installing the application they don't become part of a 15 million users botnet?
I'm betting that they knew exactly what the code did and this is a legal excuse to try to get them off the hook because they know they can't pay the fine. I know nothing about the German legal system, so I can't comment on how likely this ruling is to stand, but I am sure that they are just trying to get out from under the ruling by claiming ignorance. That excuse wouldn't work in the USA, but again, I don't know how the German legal system works. By the way, we have a rather infamous court here in the USA in Texas where patent infringement cases like to be filed because they have a very high degree of success.
Is this another name for.Net? I've never heard of "MS Stack". Maybe it's too arcane to have much demand for it. Keep in mind that LA is the 2nd biggest metro area in the USA so finding work there using some little in demand technology is a lot different than going to a smaller area and trying to find a job using it. If it's.Net, well, that does have its users, but if anything it seems to me that.Net is dying not thriving.
I've been to the Pacific Northwest in the lengthy rainy season, several times in fact, and all I can say is it's not for everybody. If you've never really experienced it for a week or more at a time, you can't just assume that you'll be OK with it. Having said that, if you can actually put up with it, I do understand why this part of the country appeals to some people.
The objective here isn't to punish anyone proportionally to the crimes they committed. The whole point of online activists having the book thrown at them is to deter future activists.
You are right that this is a deterrence. I posted yesterday a much longer comment about this in the thread about the guy who got a huge fine and 2 years probation for participating for a very short time in the DOS. Basically US law allows for punitive damages in some cases and the system allows them to be exorbitant and perhaps even illogical. Sometimes these get reduced on appeal, but not always. The point is indeed to provide a deterrent against others doing the same thing in the future. It's not at all about fairness. If you are American and don't like it, work to change the system (probably not possible though) or complain all you want, but it's not going away. If you're not American, you can complain all you want about it but you can't change it.
I mentioned this in my post yesterday too, but some of it is that jury members in general know little about technology and some are almost Luddites. Judges and lawyers in general also know little about technology. This leads to prosecutors and judges overreacting against things they don't understand very well and juries overreacting to punish people due to not really understanding what they did.
XP is not "dying" I have servers running Windows NT 3.51 that still make more money an hour than 100% of the people here on slashdot. and they are 100% secure because they are on a segregated and airgapped lan.
Wow. You sure are full of yourself. So you really believe that there is not one person here in all of Slashdot who makes more in an hour than your customized servers do? Anyway, congratulations I guess on finding the only way possible to use NT and make it work, but I bet you have to reboot everything every couple of months or earlier anyway because NT sucks. And anyway, the fact that your one specialized set of circumstances make you or your company company a lot of money (assuming you are telling the truth) does not prove that XP is not dying.
I'm American, so I speak from experience. The US legal system allows punitive damages. Eric Rosol didn't have to actually go to jail - that was the fair part of the sentence. But US verdicts with insane monetary awards are not unusual. There's the infamous "McDonald's coffee" case which eventually got settled out of court for a never disclosed amount after a jury awarded what almost everybody in the US considered an unreasonable and probably insane amount of money in punitive damages. Jammie Thomas, the last person you'd ever want to fight the RIAA, has gotten a series of shocking judgements against her, far in excess of any real damage that was done by her. I served on a jury once that awarded punitive damages and they're meant to send a lesson to the guilty party and others (this part is key) that there are very real financial costs to certain actions. In this case, the message is clear that people should not do DOS activities or they too may be facing ruinous financial penalties. I haven't followed this case at all, so for all I know like Jammie Thomas, Rosol may be his own worst enemy and perhaps his demeanor in court led to this outcome. Juries really don't like arrogant defendants who insist that they did nothing wrong when the jury feels otherwise. I can tell you from experience that the vast majority of jurors are non-techies and some are actually tech hostile. These kinds of people also get easily swayed by prosecutor arguments that some great evil just happened that must be prevented in the future because they don't really understand what happened. Juries also sometimes get this subgroup of people (roughly 10% of the population by my estimation) who see the entire world in black and white and are obsessed with punishing rule breakers as they see them. These are the people who want draconian punishments for trivial offenses (ie. they'd support the death penalty for people who let a parking meter expire as "That will teach them not do that again!"). Sometimes on juries they are adamant that the "evil doer" has to get a very harsh sentence and if the other jurors really don't care, want to go home, and agree at least that the defendant really is guilty, the other jurors will just agree to large punitive damages so they can get on with their lives. It's difficult to get punitive damages reduced and there's no incentive in the US system for juries to really find a fair verdict. The system just wants them to all agree on the verdict and if 11 people give in to 1 stubborn crazy person, the US system accepts this as the cost for how the system works. The prevailing dogma that gets drilled into all law students and the American public in general is that the US jury system is the greatest of all possible systems and is the cornerstone of our democracy, so nobody on the legal side dares to question whether it really works as it is supposed to or not.
Let me be blunt here. So an indie band that nobody has heard of (Grizzly Bear) and a different indie band that nobody has heard of and which broke up over 20 years ago (Galaxie 500) are complaining that they aren't getting enough money via Spotify. Gee, I don't know, is there any chance that maybe not enough people give a crap about their music to actually listen to it? Grizzly Bear and Galaxie 500 have their supporters, but the truth is that they just aren't all that big. They were mentioned earlier, so I'll use them as an example. If Iron Maiden wants to complain about what Spotify pays them, I'll listen, but if two no name indie bands, one of whom has been disbanded for over 20 years, want to cry about their payments, well, I'm not so interested. Groups like Grizzly Bear and Galaxie 500 are going to starve if they have only royalties to survive on. It's harsh but true.
I work in IT for a US based Fortune 500 company. I am internal support but sometimes I have to talk to customers when they issues related to one specific product I support. I deal with your type of company all the time. Too much actually. When you have to ask here how to convince the top dog that ONE person is insufficient for a company your size, the war is over before you began and you have lost. Even if by some miracle you do convince the CEO to hire one more guy, I can promise you that your CEO places zero value on your work and it's just a matter of time before you are looking for another job anyway. If your CEO valued your work or was smart enough to at least somewhat understand it, he would already have thought of the "What if I get hit by a bus?" scenario and would long ago have gotten a backup to work with you and learn the job. You'll either be outsourced (yes, your CEO may be stupid enough to try that) or replaced by some work visa holder who will be half the worker you are but he'll work for half the money you get too. You're done here, buddy. If your company placed any value on its IT staff, you would already have the help you need. Let me guess this too because I've seen this too many times as well - you love (well, you did when you started at least) working for a smaller company because they have made you some pie in the sky promises about future stock options (they probably won't pan out) and you have nothing good to say about large companies because you can't take the bureaucracy. Honestly, most small companies aren't all that great to work for. Some are for sure. But I see your type of company all the time in my work because we sell our software to companies like yours. The odds are about 90% that things are never going to get better or that if you do get another person and your company grows, two of you won't be enough to handle the growth and you won't get a third person.
5: Of course, the bad guys will have this technology sooner or later. Now, watch stretches of I-10 become nice kill zones for thieves who are desiring either pickup trucks for Mexican drug runs, or just to pop caps in people once their car is stopped to get soldier status in their gang.
I was thinking this too. Also, I shudder at the thought of some, say, 14 year old kids getting their hands on a cheap device that can do this and thinking it's "fun" to stop random cars while hiding behind a bush with no thought given to the consequences. I've read about kids throwing heavy and dangerous objects from heights onto unsuspecting people/cars below them. I'm sure this will appeal to the same people.
They should proof read these posts. It's been bad lately. Good subjects, just makes it hard to read. the malware that "rocket" -> "rocked"
You have a good point, but at least it's better than all those people who can't read properly and post articles in a panic saying "This article says X!" when in fact the article says "not X". We can figure out that "rocket" is a bad word choice and get around that but it really sucks when people claim and article says the exact opposite of what it really says because then we get tons of comments about how bad X is and how they can't believe that someone would actually do that and then a few posts follow up (and mostly get ignored) telling people to actually read the article where it is actually against X, so the submitter blew it. It seems to me that quite often about 90% of the posters never read the article in the links, so when the idiot submitter misrepresents what he submitted, that becomes what the article is about in the minds of most people here.
Given how unstable this "currency" has been in the recent past, how can anyone set price points without needing hourly updates to make sure they get a consistent payment?
Right now it's valued at $730, 2 weeks ago it was $200 and a few months ago it crashed.
You cannot run a business with currencies this volatile.
This.
What amazes me is that even after the recent stolen Bitcoin news, the prices have actually gone up. I'm still predicting that there will be a really major theft or attack against Bitcoin that will absolutely devastate it. It will be something stupid involving trust where nobody thought that another party would do something, but they will do it, and it will be devastating. Then everybody will cry and moan saying "Why didn't we protect against that?". Of course, I could be wrong, but I have no skin in this game so either way I'm not losing or gaining whether I'm right or wrong.
There's a somewhat lengthy and hard to find (too lazy to look now) article on the Internet where some magazine did essentially a minute by minute recap of what the black box told about the infamous Air France crash. That happened basically because (inexplicably) the captain put the most junior of his 2 co-pilots in charge when flying through some very bad weather. After the crash it was determined that the co-pilot was not properly trained for the conditions he encountered and Air France has made changes to pilot training in simulators as a result. It was a jaw dropping series of events where a quick decision had to be made and in every case, the wrong decision was made. Had just one such decision been different (ie. the captain took a later break, the more senior of the 2 co-pilots was put in charge, the plane avoided the storm it flew into, etc.) we wouldn't be talking about this as a crash. The plane would have safely reached its destination. So I'm not sure that mentioning this particular flight is a good example. It was an amazing perfect storm of bad decisions all of which had to be wrong for the plane to crash and unfortunately they were all wrong. Another good thing that came out of it (besides training changes) was that it was quickly realized before the black box was found that likely the infamous defective air speed tubes were to blame (indeed, they started the sequence of events that led to the crash) and those began to be replaced. I believe that all Airbus planes have had those tubes replaced with better models from another company. The co-pilot basically panicked and misunderstood (due to inadequate training) the situation he was in and he put the plane into a stall, causing it to crash. Neither the other co-pilot nor the captain (he re-entered the cockpit about 1-2 minutes before it crashed) realized the plane was in a stall until it was too late to correct it.
I mean if some random shit "security blog" posts a trumped up story to try and get traffic, it is Slashdot's DUTY to repeat it here, with no checking or verification! After all, better everyone is scared of their own shadow than informed about security.
Well, around here there is a massive reading comprehension fail in submitters so that may be a big part of this submission. For example, if someone somewhere writes an article that says basically "Not X. Definitely not X. It may be A-W, Y or Z but it's definitely not X. Anything but X." then the submitter will post and scream "X! They said it was X! The sky is falling! It's X!!!". It does get old.
as it implies a few things for starters.
1. Britain, having exhausted all other methods of corrective action against pedophilia and child exploitation that may prove fruitful given its nature in the UK, now relies on a clandestine american spy program that hasnt been proven to catch a single pedophile, let alone terrorist.
You have no way to know whether the program has or has not caught anyone. You may be right or you may be wrong. But your argument is weak because you believe that your guess cannot be wrong and it certainly can.
While I disagree with the guy's views, I wonder about the zealotry against him. Did you to see Midnight in Paris? How about The Piano? If you are that concerned with the character of those who benefit from your entertainment consumption, should I take your choice to watch those as an endorsement of child molestation? And if you haven't seen those, give me any list of 20 movies you like, I'm sure I could find others.
Midnight In Paris is a horrible example. First of all, like it or not, Soon Yi Previn was legally an adult when her relationship with Woody Allen (now her husband) started. Secondly, the charges of "child molestation" leveled by Mia Farrow were not taken seriously by any court and were merely the product of an angry woman who continues to try to stick it to her ex-boyfriend to this day, most recently by claiming that his biological son with her might not really be his.
And moreover, since Judit Polgar was capable of becoming a world championship candidate, it's proven that women can compete with men at the top..
I can tell you aren't really a player, at least not anyone who's ever played in tournaments. You're actually quite wrong in that statement, unfortunately. All Judit Polgar proved was that she could compete at the top levels with male players, but she never even came close to being a world championship candidate. What she did is roughly akin to a woman competing in the men's tennis tournament in Wimbledon and getting past the first round but losing handily in the second. Judit is really good and lots of men wish they were as good as she is, but she's never been a serious world championship candidate. Earlier this year she was ranked something like 52nd in the world, which doesn't even put her within a light year of being a serious candidate for the world championship. Anand, who I agree is clearly on the decline, would easily defeat her in a tournament. I'd be shocked if she won more than 1 game in such a mythical tournament.
Why should all three locations be in Eurasia? Fuck that.
Why should the US baseball finals be called "the world series"? Why should the US rugby-ripoff-for-sissies-in-padding-who-need-a-rest-every-twenty-seconds be called the same name the rest of the planet had long been using for a completely different game? Fuck that, in the wrong'un.
Ah yes. I love when British or Aussie wankers like you post that. Allow me to educate you out of your ignorance.
Imagine, if you will, that the MLS (Major League Soccer - the top US professional league of what the rest of the world calls "football") announced that it was the greatest team in the world and that the EPL champion was a bunch of chumps who it could easily defeat. You would laugh. Rightly so. What European league do you think MLS is probably equivalent to? Maybe the French league?
The fact that you don't know due to your ignorance is that the best players in the world in baseball play in the USA in MLB. The gap between MLB and the best other league, which is Japan, is probably akin to the gap between MLS and the EPL. So there actually are no other leagues/teams that can realistically claim to be world's champions. That's why it's called the World Series - it truly is the best of the best. There are players in MLB right now from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Asia. The cream of the cream play in MLB. They don't toil in the other leagues. Again, the only other professional league that has a decent number of MLB quality players, and it's probably only 1-2 per team, is the league in Japan. I'm deliberately ignoring the top minor professional leagues in the USA as the best of those players will be in MLB eventually, but explaining how that system works would take more time than really necessary.
If you don't like American football and prefer rugby, that's your business, but rugby is actually a pretty crappy sport. If the US cared about it at all, and we do not, we would own the entire world in the sport. I have zero doubt about that. In fact, I wish that someone would field a team out of our best professional football rejects and compete internationally.
Terry Childs did not want to divulge the passwords to an entity that didn't have the right to said passwords.
That was his legal excuse for the trial, a variation on the old "I was just following orders!" claim. I'd state that this provided him with what he hoped would be plausible deniability for refusing to cooperate and turn over the passwords, but the court had none of that. I am sure that the real reason he did not turn over the passwords was that he hoped he could be re-hired. He never cooperated with the city in an attempt to force them to re-hire him and he tried to hide behind the rules to justify his actions. He gambled and lost.
More likely its that the AC OP has a reading comprehension issue. I have lost track of how many times someone submits an article here that says basically "not X" and the submitter starts screaming "They said X! They said X!". Since Fairfax is willingly buying some debt, I'm guessing that Fairfax is telling the truth that there was no financing problem.
The IT world article explains that the fake account was an attractive woman. The victims who exposed their organizations to attack were men who were trying to "help" this attractive woman in her new position.
Executive summary:
Fake Facebook and Linkedin accounts created for a non-existent attractive 28 year old female who was supposedly a new employee. Apparently the account sent out a lot of friend invitations which were accepted by (seemingly mostly) men who never questioned the invitation or why they had never met this person in real life. The men fell all over themselves to "help" this new employee with some even offering to bypass official channels to get her working sooner. So basically lonely nerds take a shot that friending and helping a hot new chick at work might get them something down the road. The fact that she got job offers means nothing as everybody I know who uses Linkedin (for the record I do not use it) gets job offers all the time. One more thing - they made some fake postings from her so that an internet search would seem to indicate she was a real person. And her Facebook account had a link to an external site with a Java security attack that got some suckers to click on it.
Both the government of the People's Republic of China (which controls the mainland) and the government of the Republic of China (which controls Taiwan) believe that Taiwan is a part of China. The two just disagree about who China's rightful government is. I realize that over the past 60 years Taiwan has grown more and more self-contained and has become a de facto state independent of China, but in theory there's nothing either side should object to in portraying Taiwan as part of China.
This is quite simplistic and as a result a little inaccurate. Taiwan has two major political camps, just like the US. They hate each other. The "pan blue" group is the KMT (currently in the majority and holding the presidency) and some aligned smaller parties. The "pan green" group is the DPP and some aligned smaller parties. The previous president was DPP. The problem is that the DPP in general are crazy, independence fanatics who want to announce at every opportunity that Taiwan is its own nation, even if they die as a result (they are not smart enough to realize this might happen). The KMT is more realistic, and reunification is truly their goal, yes, but not now. They look towards maybe 100 years or more in the future for that. China has to change a lot for them to agree to rejoin it. The KMT interprets "one China" in a very different way from China (they define "one China" basically as "Taiwan"). The problem is that the DPP dummies keep trying to say and do things that might get Taiwan invaded and the KMT is much better at playing the "Whatever you say, boss!" game. The DPP fails to recognize that some of what the KMT does (again, they are currently in charge of the government) is not sincere but just designed to placate China. So the DPP constantly accuses the KMT of "selling out" Taiwan to China and trying to secretly reunify them and the KMT fears that if the DPP ever got control of the government again (this is a very realistic possibility in the next presidential elections), their impatience would lead them to do something stupid and get Taiwan invaded. Given the recent posturing by China in the South China Sea, this is not a groundless fear.
The article says they have no plans to end support for XP, how in the world did the summary end up saying exactly the opposite?
Or is now even blatant lying ok as long as it might work as clickbait?
It happens all the time around here, unfortunately. Reading comprehension is rather poor for some of our article submitters.
It's pretty clear to me that IBM only care about a small number of things:
1) Protecting management, particularly US based management, no matter what.
2) Getting rid of costly first world employees (except in France, where lucky them, the law prevents this) and replacing them with much cheaper employees in India.
3) Driving up the stock price by doing #2 repeatedly until there are no more first world employees left to cut who aren't management.
I worked for a company who tried tactic #1 and #2. The company wasn't publicly traded, so they weren't doing those 2 things for the benefit of the stock price. But #1 in particular is a sure sign of a company that DOES... NOT.... GET... IT... and is going nowhere quickly. IBM won't try to dethrone Google, even if they could, because it doesn't fit in with the agenda above.
Will the government try to redeem these bitcoins? Wouldn't that be like saying that they accept that bitcoin is valid? (Of course they could be hypocrites and say that bitcoin is completely invalid and redeem them anyways.)
It would be neat if all the seized bitcoins could be identified and recorded as being worthless now.
You can take off your tin foil hat and turn off Rush and Sean from the radio. Yes, of course the government will try to redeem these and keep the money. That's how drug related seizures work. The government will not likely make any statement about bitcoin. It's just your paranoia that attaches some significance to what the government thinks of bitcoin. Let me guess - you're a "Let's go back on the gold standard" guy too, right?
As Foghorn Leghorn said "That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. " The point was that the Japanese don't need to be forced to eat the deadly pufferfish or whale (most people think the meat sucks and it's only a small group of nut jobs who actually like it),and if it takes effort to make them eat something, yeah, you don't want to go near it. It was just a joke.
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I simply don't understand why it's such a big deal for America to fix something that is so obviously broken, your a superpower and your people are sneaking into Canada.
Americans aren't really sneaking into Canada, but as a born and bred American, I have in the past year or two completely given up hope of any major problems ever getting fixed here. I have to explain to one of my foreign friends that everything in America is political. Basically the country is split down the middle between the two major parties and neither side will listen to the others, although to be fair, as a former Republican I have to say that Republicans are much worse. The Republican Party itself has about 1/4 of its members as Tea Party fanatics and they are holding their own party hostage. The problem is that nobody in Congress wants to lose their job and the House of Representatives members have to please their constituents to stay in power, and many of the House members are in highly partisan districts. I've got a co-worker who is a paranoid right win nut job who apparently believes that everything that he doesn't like is either done deliberately by Obama or "the government" to deliberately mess with him. Maybe 20% of Americans right now are like him. So without any clear majorities and a public that actually chose to elect a split government (Senate and President to the Democrats, House to the Republicans) nothing will ever get done.
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Actually this is worrisome for the open source community not because they ended up in court but because Appwork accepted code without reviewing it and actually without even knowing what it does. How can they assure users that installing the application they don't become part of a 15 million users botnet?
I'm betting that they knew exactly what the code did and this is a legal excuse to try to get them off the hook because they know they can't pay the fine. I know nothing about the German legal system, so I can't comment on how likely this ruling is to stand, but I am sure that they are just trying to get out from under the ruling by claiming ignorance. That excuse wouldn't work in the USA, but again, I don't know how the German legal system works. By the way, we have a rather infamous court here in the USA in Texas where patent infringement cases like to be filed because they have a very high degree of success.
Is this another name for .Net? I've never heard of "MS Stack". Maybe it's too arcane to have much demand for it. Keep in mind that LA is the 2nd biggest metro area in the USA so finding work there using some little in demand technology is a lot different than going to a smaller area and trying to find a job using it. If it's .Net, well, that does have its users, but if anything it seems to me that .Net is dying not thriving.
I've been to the Pacific Northwest in the lengthy rainy season, several times in fact, and all I can say is it's not for everybody. If you've never really experienced it for a week or more at a time, you can't just assume that you'll be OK with it. Having said that, if you can actually put up with it, I do understand why this part of the country appeals to some people.
The objective here isn't to punish anyone proportionally to the crimes they committed. The whole point of online activists having the book thrown at them is to deter future activists.
You are right that this is a deterrence. I posted yesterday a much longer comment about this in the thread about the guy who got a huge fine and 2 years probation for participating for a very short time in the DOS. Basically US law allows for punitive damages in some cases and the system allows them to be exorbitant and perhaps even illogical. Sometimes these get reduced on appeal, but not always. The point is indeed to provide a deterrent against others doing the same thing in the future. It's not at all about fairness. If you are American and don't like it, work to change the system (probably not possible though) or complain all you want, but it's not going away. If you're not American, you can complain all you want about it but you can't change it.
I mentioned this in my post yesterday too, but some of it is that jury members in general know little about technology and some are almost Luddites. Judges and lawyers in general also know little about technology. This leads to prosecutors and judges overreacting against things they don't understand very well and juries overreacting to punish people due to not really understanding what they did.
XP is not "dying" I have servers running Windows NT 3.51 that still make more money an hour than 100% of the people here on slashdot. and they are 100% secure because they are on a segregated and airgapped lan.
Wow. You sure are full of yourself. So you really believe that there is not one person here in all of Slashdot who makes more in an hour than your customized servers do? Anyway, congratulations I guess on finding the only way possible to use NT and make it work, but I bet you have to reboot everything every couple of months or earlier anyway because NT sucks. And anyway, the fact that your one specialized set of circumstances make you or your company company a lot of money (assuming you are telling the truth) does not prove that XP is not dying.
I'm American, so I speak from experience. The US legal system allows punitive damages. Eric Rosol didn't have to actually go to jail - that was the fair part of the sentence. But US verdicts with insane monetary awards are not unusual. There's the infamous "McDonald's coffee" case which eventually got settled out of court for a never disclosed amount after a jury awarded what almost everybody in the US considered an unreasonable and probably insane amount of money in punitive damages. Jammie Thomas, the last person you'd ever want to fight the RIAA, has gotten a series of shocking judgements against her, far in excess of any real damage that was done by her. I served on a jury once that awarded punitive damages and they're meant to send a lesson to the guilty party and others (this part is key) that there are very real financial costs to certain actions. In this case, the message is clear that people should not do DOS activities or they too may be facing ruinous financial penalties. I haven't followed this case at all, so for all I know like Jammie Thomas, Rosol may be his own worst enemy and perhaps his demeanor in court led to this outcome. Juries really don't like arrogant defendants who insist that they did nothing wrong when the jury feels otherwise. I can tell you from experience that the vast majority of jurors are non-techies and some are actually tech hostile. These kinds of people also get easily swayed by prosecutor arguments that some great evil just happened that must be prevented in the future because they don't really understand what happened. Juries also sometimes get this subgroup of people (roughly 10% of the population by my estimation) who see the entire world in black and white and are obsessed with punishing rule breakers as they see them. These are the people who want draconian punishments for trivial offenses (ie. they'd support the death penalty for people who let a parking meter expire as "That will teach them not do that again!"). Sometimes on juries they are adamant that the "evil doer" has to get a very harsh sentence and if the other jurors really don't care, want to go home, and agree at least that the defendant really is guilty, the other jurors will just agree to large punitive damages so they can get on with their lives. It's difficult to get punitive damages reduced and there's no incentive in the US system for juries to really find a fair verdict. The system just wants them to all agree on the verdict and if 11 people give in to 1 stubborn crazy person, the US system accepts this as the cost for how the system works. The prevailing dogma that gets drilled into all law students and the American public in general is that the US jury system is the greatest of all possible systems and is the cornerstone of our democracy, so nobody on the legal side dares to question whether it really works as it is supposed to or not.
Let me be blunt here. So an indie band that nobody has heard of (Grizzly Bear) and a different indie band that nobody has heard of and which broke up over 20 years ago (Galaxie 500) are complaining that they aren't getting enough money via Spotify. Gee, I don't know, is there any chance that maybe not enough people give a crap about their music to actually listen to it? Grizzly Bear and Galaxie 500 have their supporters, but the truth is that they just aren't all that big. They were mentioned earlier, so I'll use them as an example. If Iron Maiden wants to complain about what Spotify pays them, I'll listen, but if two no name indie bands, one of whom has been disbanded for over 20 years, want to cry about their payments, well, I'm not so interested. Groups like Grizzly Bear and Galaxie 500 are going to starve if they have only royalties to survive on. It's harsh but true.
I work in IT for a US based Fortune 500 company. I am internal support but sometimes I have to talk to customers when they issues related to one specific product I support. I deal with your type of company all the time. Too much actually. When you have to ask here how to convince the top dog that ONE person is insufficient for a company your size, the war is over before you began and you have lost. Even if by some miracle you do convince the CEO to hire one more guy, I can promise you that your CEO places zero value on your work and it's just a matter of time before you are looking for another job anyway. If your CEO valued your work or was smart enough to at least somewhat understand it, he would already have thought of the "What if I get hit by a bus?" scenario and would long ago have gotten a backup to work with you and learn the job. You'll either be outsourced (yes, your CEO may be stupid enough to try that) or replaced by some work visa holder who will be half the worker you are but he'll work for half the money you get too. You're done here, buddy. If your company placed any value on its IT staff, you would already have the help you need. Let me guess this too because I've seen this too many times as well - you love (well, you did when you started at least) working for a smaller company because they have made you some pie in the sky promises about future stock options (they probably won't pan out) and you have nothing good to say about large companies because you can't take the bureaucracy. Honestly, most small companies aren't all that great to work for. Some are for sure. But I see your type of company all the time in my work because we sell our software to companies like yours. The odds are about 90% that things are never going to get better or that if you do get another person and your company grows, two of you won't be enough to handle the growth and you won't get a third person.
5: Of course, the bad guys will have this technology sooner or later. Now, watch stretches of I-10 become nice kill zones for thieves who are desiring either pickup trucks for Mexican drug runs, or just to pop caps in people once their car is stopped to get soldier status in their gang.
I was thinking this too. Also, I shudder at the thought of some, say, 14 year old kids getting their hands on a cheap device that can do this and thinking it's "fun" to stop random cars while hiding behind a bush with no thought given to the consequences. I've read about kids throwing heavy and dangerous objects from heights onto unsuspecting people/cars below them. I'm sure this will appeal to the same people.
They should proof read these posts. It's been bad lately. Good subjects, just makes it hard to read. the malware that "rocket" -> "rocked"
You have a good point, but at least it's better than all those people who can't read properly and post articles in a panic saying "This article says X!" when in fact the article says "not X". We can figure out that "rocket" is a bad word choice and get around that but it really sucks when people claim and article says the exact opposite of what it really says because then we get tons of comments about how bad X is and how they can't believe that someone would actually do that and then a few posts follow up (and mostly get ignored) telling people to actually read the article where it is actually against X, so the submitter blew it. It seems to me that quite often about 90% of the posters never read the article in the links, so when the idiot submitter misrepresents what he submitted, that becomes what the article is about in the minds of most people here.
Given how unstable this "currency" has been in the recent past, how can anyone set price points without needing hourly updates to make sure they get a consistent payment?
Right now it's valued at $730, 2 weeks ago it was $200 and a few months ago it crashed.
You cannot run a business with currencies this volatile.
This.
What amazes me is that even after the recent stolen Bitcoin news, the prices have actually gone up. I'm still predicting that there will be a really major theft or attack against Bitcoin that will absolutely devastate it. It will be something stupid involving trust where nobody thought that another party would do something, but they will do it, and it will be devastating. Then everybody will cry and moan saying "Why didn't we protect against that?". Of course, I could be wrong, but I have no skin in this game so either way I'm not losing or gaining whether I'm right or wrong.
There's a somewhat lengthy and hard to find (too lazy to look now) article on the Internet where some magazine did essentially a minute by minute recap of what the black box told about the infamous Air France crash. That happened basically because (inexplicably) the captain put the most junior of his 2 co-pilots in charge when flying through some very bad weather. After the crash it was determined that the co-pilot was not properly trained for the conditions he encountered and Air France has made changes to pilot training in simulators as a result. It was a jaw dropping series of events where a quick decision had to be made and in every case, the wrong decision was made. Had just one such decision been different (ie. the captain took a later break, the more senior of the 2 co-pilots was put in charge, the plane avoided the storm it flew into, etc.) we wouldn't be talking about this as a crash. The plane would have safely reached its destination. So I'm not sure that mentioning this particular flight is a good example. It was an amazing perfect storm of bad decisions all of which had to be wrong for the plane to crash and unfortunately they were all wrong. Another good thing that came out of it (besides training changes) was that it was quickly realized before the black box was found that likely the infamous defective air speed tubes were to blame (indeed, they started the sequence of events that led to the crash) and those began to be replaced. I believe that all Airbus planes have had those tubes replaced with better models from another company. The co-pilot basically panicked and misunderstood (due to inadequate training) the situation he was in and he put the plane into a stall, causing it to crash. Neither the other co-pilot nor the captain (he re-entered the cockpit about 1-2 minutes before it crashed) realized the plane was in a stall until it was too late to correct it.
I mean if some random shit "security blog" posts a trumped up story to try and get traffic, it is Slashdot's DUTY to repeat it here, with no checking or verification! After all, better everyone is scared of their own shadow than informed about security.
Well, around here there is a massive reading comprehension fail in submitters so that may be a big part of this submission. For example, if someone somewhere writes an article that says basically "Not X. Definitely not X. It may be A-W, Y or Z but it's definitely not X. Anything but X." then the submitter will post and scream "X! They said it was X! The sky is falling! It's X!!!". It does get old.
as it implies a few things for starters. 1. Britain, having exhausted all other methods of corrective action against pedophilia and child exploitation that may prove fruitful given its nature in the UK, now relies on a clandestine american spy program that hasnt been proven to catch a single pedophile, let alone terrorist.
You have no way to know whether the program has or has not caught anyone. You may be right or you may be wrong. But your argument is weak because you believe that your guess cannot be wrong and it certainly can.
While I disagree with the guy's views, I wonder about the zealotry against him. Did you to see Midnight in Paris? How about The Piano? If you are that concerned with the character of those who benefit from your entertainment consumption, should I take your choice to watch those as an endorsement of child molestation? And if you haven't seen those, give me any list of 20 movies you like, I'm sure I could find others.
Midnight In Paris is a horrible example. First of all, like it or not, Soon Yi Previn was legally an adult when her relationship with Woody Allen (now her husband) started. Secondly, the charges of "child molestation" leveled by Mia Farrow were not taken seriously by any court and were merely the product of an angry woman who continues to try to stick it to her ex-boyfriend to this day, most recently by claiming that his biological son with her might not really be his.
And moreover, since Judit Polgar was capable of becoming a world championship candidate, it's proven that women can compete with men at the top..
I can tell you aren't really a player, at least not anyone who's ever played in tournaments. You're actually quite wrong in that statement, unfortunately. All Judit Polgar proved was that she could compete at the top levels with male players, but she never even came close to being a world championship candidate. What she did is roughly akin to a woman competing in the men's tennis tournament in Wimbledon and getting past the first round but losing handily in the second. Judit is really good and lots of men wish they were as good as she is, but she's never been a serious world championship candidate. Earlier this year she was ranked something like 52nd in the world, which doesn't even put her within a light year of being a serious candidate for the world championship. Anand, who I agree is clearly on the decline, would easily defeat her in a tournament. I'd be shocked if she won more than 1 game in such a mythical tournament.
Why should all three locations be in Eurasia? Fuck that.
Why should the US baseball finals be called "the world series"? Why should the US rugby-ripoff-for-sissies-in-padding-who-need-a-rest-every-twenty-seconds be called the same name the rest of the planet had long been using for a completely different game? Fuck that, in the wrong'un.
Ah yes. I love when British or Aussie wankers like you post that. Allow me to educate you out of your ignorance.
Imagine, if you will, that the MLS (Major League Soccer - the top US professional league of what the rest of the world calls "football") announced that it was the greatest team in the world and that the EPL champion was a bunch of chumps who it could easily defeat. You would laugh. Rightly so. What European league do you think MLS is probably equivalent to? Maybe the French league?
The fact that you don't know due to your ignorance is that the best players in the world in baseball play in the USA in MLB. The gap between MLB and the best other league, which is Japan, is probably akin to the gap between MLS and the EPL. So there actually are no other leagues/teams that can realistically claim to be world's champions. That's why it's called the World Series - it truly is the best of the best. There are players in MLB right now from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Asia. The cream of the cream play in MLB. They don't toil in the other leagues. Again, the only other professional league that has a decent number of MLB quality players, and it's probably only 1-2 per team, is the league in Japan. I'm deliberately ignoring the top minor professional leagues in the USA as the best of those players will be in MLB eventually, but explaining how that system works would take more time than really necessary.
If you don't like American football and prefer rugby, that's your business, but rugby is actually a pretty crappy sport. If the US cared about it at all, and we do not, we would own the entire world in the sport. I have zero doubt about that. In fact, I wish that someone would field a team out of our best professional football rejects and compete internationally.
Terry Childs did not want to divulge the passwords to an entity that didn't have the right to said passwords.
That was his legal excuse for the trial, a variation on the old "I was just following orders!" claim. I'd state that this provided him with what he hoped would be plausible deniability for refusing to cooperate and turn over the passwords, but the court had none of that. I am sure that the real reason he did not turn over the passwords was that he hoped he could be re-hired. He never cooperated with the city in an attempt to force them to re-hire him and he tried to hide behind the rules to justify his actions. He gambled and lost.
Maybe the AC knows something it's not sharing?
More likely its that the AC OP has a reading comprehension issue. I have lost track of how many times someone submits an article here that says basically "not X" and the submitter starts screaming "They said X! They said X!". Since Fairfax is willingly buying some debt, I'm guessing that Fairfax is telling the truth that there was no financing problem.
The IT world article explains that the fake account was an attractive woman. The victims who exposed their organizations to attack were men who were trying to "help" this attractive woman in her new position.
Executive summary:
Fake Facebook and Linkedin accounts created for a non-existent attractive 28 year old female who was supposedly a new employee. Apparently the account sent out a lot of friend invitations which were accepted by (seemingly mostly) men who never questioned the invitation or why they had never met this person in real life. The men fell all over themselves to "help" this new employee with some even offering to bypass official channels to get her working sooner. So basically lonely nerds take a shot that friending and helping a hot new chick at work might get them something down the road. The fact that she got job offers means nothing as everybody I know who uses Linkedin (for the record I do not use it) gets job offers all the time. One more thing - they made some fake postings from her so that an internet search would seem to indicate she was a real person. And her Facebook account had a link to an external site with a Java security attack that got some suckers to click on it.
Both the government of the People's Republic of China (which controls the mainland) and the government of the Republic of China (which controls Taiwan) believe that Taiwan is a part of China. The two just disagree about who China's rightful government is. I realize that over the past 60 years Taiwan has grown more and more self-contained and has become a de facto state independent of China, but in theory there's nothing either side should object to in portraying Taiwan as part of China.
This is quite simplistic and as a result a little inaccurate. Taiwan has two major political camps, just like the US. They hate each other. The "pan blue" group is the KMT (currently in the majority and holding the presidency) and some aligned smaller parties. The "pan green" group is the DPP and some aligned smaller parties. The previous president was DPP. The problem is that the DPP in general are crazy, independence fanatics who want to announce at every opportunity that Taiwan is its own nation, even if they die as a result (they are not smart enough to realize this might happen). The KMT is more realistic, and reunification is truly their goal, yes, but not now. They look towards maybe 100 years or more in the future for that. China has to change a lot for them to agree to rejoin it. The KMT interprets "one China" in a very different way from China (they define "one China" basically as "Taiwan"). The problem is that the DPP dummies keep trying to say and do things that might get Taiwan invaded and the KMT is much better at playing the "Whatever you say, boss!" game. The DPP fails to recognize that some of what the KMT does (again, they are currently in charge of the government) is not sincere but just designed to placate China. So the DPP constantly accuses the KMT of "selling out" Taiwan to China and trying to secretly reunify them and the KMT fears that if the DPP ever got control of the government again (this is a very realistic possibility in the next presidential elections), their impatience would lead them to do something stupid and get Taiwan invaded. Given the recent posturing by China in the South China Sea, this is not a groundless fear.
The article says they have no plans to end support for XP, how in the world did the summary end up saying exactly the opposite? Or is now even blatant lying ok as long as it might work as clickbait?
It happens all the time around here, unfortunately. Reading comprehension is rather poor for some of our article submitters.
It's pretty clear to me that IBM only care about a small number of things:
... NOT .... GET ... IT ... and is going nowhere quickly. IBM won't try to dethrone Google, even if they could, because it doesn't fit in with the agenda above.
1) Protecting management, particularly US based management, no matter what.
2) Getting rid of costly first world employees (except in France, where lucky them, the law prevents this) and replacing them with much cheaper employees in India.
3) Driving up the stock price by doing #2 repeatedly until there are no more first world employees left to cut who aren't management.
I worked for a company who tried tactic #1 and #2. The company wasn't publicly traded, so they weren't doing those 2 things for the benefit of the stock price. But #1 in particular is a sure sign of a company that DOES
Will the government try to redeem these bitcoins? Wouldn't that be like saying that they accept that bitcoin is valid? (Of course they could be hypocrites and say that bitcoin is completely invalid and redeem them anyways.)
It would be neat if all the seized bitcoins could be identified and recorded as being worthless now.
You can take off your tin foil hat and turn off Rush and Sean from the radio. Yes, of course the government will try to redeem these and keep the money. That's how drug related seizures work. The government will not likely make any statement about bitcoin. It's just your paranoia that attaches some significance to what the government thinks of bitcoin. Let me guess - you're a "Let's go back on the gold standard" guy too, right?
As Foghorn Leghorn said "That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. " The point was that the Japanese don't need to be forced to eat the deadly pufferfish or whale (most people think the meat sucks and it's only a small group of nut jobs who actually like it),and if it takes effort to make them eat something, yeah, you don't want to go near it. It was just a joke.
p> I simply don't understand why it's such a big deal for America to fix something that is so obviously broken, your a superpower and your people are sneaking into Canada.
Americans aren't really sneaking into Canada, but as a born and bred American, I have in the past year or two completely given up hope of any major problems ever getting fixed here. I have to explain to one of my foreign friends that everything in America is political. Basically the country is split down the middle between the two major parties and neither side will listen to the others, although to be fair, as a former Republican I have to say that Republicans are much worse. The Republican Party itself has about 1/4 of its members as Tea Party fanatics and they are holding their own party hostage. The problem is that nobody in Congress wants to lose their job and the House of Representatives members have to please their constituents to stay in power, and many of the House members are in highly partisan districts. I've got a co-worker who is a paranoid right win nut job who apparently believes that everything that he doesn't like is either done deliberately by Obama or "the government" to deliberately mess with him. Maybe 20% of Americans right now are like him. So without any clear majorities and a public that actually chose to elect a split government (Senate and President to the Democrats, House to the Republicans) nothing will ever get done.