This is going to bring down the karma-o-meter but my hatred of eBay and Paypal is absolute. Paypal is not even a real bank. I am surprised also at the attitude of Meg Whitman and eBay in their reluctance..err..outright REFUSAL to assist authorities in NUMEROUS fraud investigations. What paypal charges in fees is also rape.
I am truly AMAZED Gonzales and his crew have not used the Patriot Act against Paypal. Paypal/eBay is whom the Patriot Act as designed for.
Paypal/eBay has destroyed lives and they are not being held accountable for it.
A couple of days ago, I put forth how DRM was just a waste of money and mostly defeatable by those who want to try enough. What DRM is really for is to increase cost.
(*) M$ would love it if you had to pay to open Word or PowerPoint each time you needed it, maybe even renting your computer back to you after you shelled out the money on the hardware.
(*) Music companies would also like to charge you each time you play a song on your mp3 player
Now is really the time for M$ and other organizations to start thinking about how they plan to implement DRM before they start to do stupid things and Linux and open source really becomes a desktop standard.
On a side note, I have no problem paying for things. I do not think most people do either. But there is a difference when a song is not worth buying but worth enough to waste the time to download.
What I was trying to point out is the reason people buy music, DVDs, or whatever is the content that people are shelling money they do have have to buy it.
Saying that DRM will increase sales since it makes piracy too difficult is a load and the RIAA knows it (so does the government). What the RIAA does suing 12 year old kids is the same as the NSA sending out National Security Letters to threaten people. Scare and intimidation tactics to get what the want. DRM is just one more pain in the ass we have to deal with. And if someone wants to dedicate the time to defeat it, they will, regardless. Every protection/encryption system is defeatable, with time.
Now IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, modern pop culture and shows like American Idol sicken me. Good music stopped being made in the late 90s.
Remember the guy who beat the CD copying by using a black magic marker or macrovision's using the same video scrambler technology they developed in the 80s that can be defeated with a $30 video enhancer unit on eBay?
Why is the industry wasting time and money to be encrypting systems that seems to be defeated before they are deployed in the market. DVD Jon has busted DVD's and other alleged "secure" media. Some of these hacks are 20 to 30 lines of code! So much for the millions of dollars invested.
Even Legislation has done nothing. What has come from the RIAA suing 12 year old's for downloading music. Limewire and other P2P engines are active now more than ever. The funniest part is watching these music artists bitching about how record companies steal their money and giving a press conference with their million dollar mansion in the background, or coming out of a restaurant most people could not afford to eat at.
The reality is modern music sucks, so does most of the content they are trying to protect. That is the real reason why the media companies are losing money, not because of piracy. They want to blame other people instead of the trash they are peddling as entertainment.
I work at a pretty large multi-national and I have talked with the lawyers about honeypots from time to time and basically they are divided amongst themselves of if the honeypots are even legal to begin with. One of them is convinced that a honeypot is entrapment.
That is likely because you are a manager with little or no IT experience. Every company has had a bad hire. Some bad hires screw up small and just get shown the door. Others screw up big and cost companies money or worse. You are trying to determine who are the bad candidates before you can hire them. This is same as BushCo locking up people in Gitmo because they might be terrorists.
Apple always has been and always will be a hardware company and doing things like suing employees to keep secrets is just a way of doing business.
Let's be realistic. If some person acutally set up a web site with all of the iPhones pictures, features, and whatever else. What would happen? Yeah they can sue but a typical employee today has nothing. I rent and have no savings, so threatening to sue me is a pretty shallow threat. Fear is what keeps most people in line and Apple understands that.
By the way, Cingular blows and that is why I will never own an iPhone.
...there also is no bill in congress to stop internet radio and outsourcing does not take away jobs in the US.
Now get back to watching TV and obeying the government you chattle!
If ANY law enforcement agency shows up and asks for anything, they had better have a warrant from a court in hand. These National Security Letters are bullshit and I wipe my ass with it after I scan and post it right here on slashdot.org, infowars.com, rense.com or whomever else would take it. Here that facist aggressor of the state. Fuck you.
Yes this will drop the karma points, but I am damn tired of seeing facist police scum jackboots trying to set up a police state using secrecy and fear. I ain't scared of you people.
Well...living in America is sucking more and more everyday. Most people think we are going to get a government change in November. We ain't. As long as the Neocon corporation keep rigging the elections, we are going to be stuck with corporations running America.
What this will cause is sites like infowars.com and other sites critical of the government to be difficult to get to or outright banned altogether by carriers. This goes beyond money. 60% of the fiber in the ground right now is dark. The idea of limited bandwidth is total bullshit and total lie from the telecoms.
It would also help of computerworlds web site worked so I can read the damn article. They must be running IIS. Sorry bastards. Just like Screw..err..C-NET.
What I have noticed, and this has held true for everyplace I have ever worked or been to, is that in any given organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work.
That is ANY company, NGO, government, or organization on this planet.
This means that the other 80% are slackers, screw offs, or just stupid. In other words, filler. The is right. 80% of the human race is nothing but filler.
Oh...my coworker did accomplish something today...she learned how to convert decimal to hexadecimal. I mean damn! Tada!
If I pulled her crap for just one week, I would be bounced out of here fast. She was hired has an Unix administrator with 5 to 7 years experence. She goes around the office asking people how to do her fucking job...daily.
Be on the lookout for incompentance among the ranks at your job!
I agree. Anytime I walk through a Walmart and see some 45 year old fat slob of a human being in a scooter, it makes me sick. You know damn well he or she could get that weight off if they put forth the effort.
As for the workplace, we have a Unix Admin here who is a woman and all she does is 2 or 3 tickets a day and she spends most of her day writing emails, IM'ing her friends and writing some novel. Oh and she takes 3 to 4 hour lunches as well and this person manages to get a 6 day vacation to Georgia while spending time managing two (alleged) lawsuits and a criminal case against another person and going to physical theropy for her "bad back".
This woman needs to be on the cover of "Lazy American Illustrated" and needs to write a book "Lying your ass off to get a job for Dummies".
I have always believe most Linux distros are too heavy as it is. I like OpenBSD and others that are light where I download and build the applications I want. The idea of sendmail, apache, and openldap prebuilt or in RPM packages sucks, at least in my opinion.
I usually spent 2 or 3 hours pulling packages off the SLES 9 "minimum" install before I can make it usable for whatever we need the server to do so it will pass the nmap, nessus, and security network scan.
This is a good question. Why are hate sites like Fox News, Worldnetdaily, Newsmax.com, and dennisprager.com (a jew who hates his fellow jews) allowed to be on the internet?
Joseph Farah-fuck, neocon tool and republican party agent, has no business being a "journalist" when he is a bought and paid for yellow journalist hack.
Who does this guy thinks he is when his web site is nothing BUT propaganda while bitching about google. Google and the Chinese communists are saints compared to this assorted trash.
Yes that was a rant and karma killer but it needed to be said.
Fuck the NWO/Republican Party.
Hey...when you see that little orange bastard from Cingular, that is the grim reaper of cellular phones. Run away before he can touch you. I touched it and now it over for me...but it is not too late for you!
Mark Klein and all others who expose these attacks against American's civil liberties are true heros to the Republic. These neocon scumbugs know their days are number and will have to go all out on police state in order to continue against the American people, who are the REAL suspect and criminals behind 911, not some fantasy outfit called al Qaeda/make believe war on terror.
To be honest, I am starting not to care about all of the this post-911/coup attempt to takeover the US government that failed.
I will surf where I want, say what a want, and if the government is truly stupid and sends me one of those National Security Letters (NSLs), I will post it right here on slashdot.org as well as rense.com, infowars.com, and anyone else who will post it on their site because I just do not care.
Those pentagon photos of "flight 77" was just more smoke and mirrors to keep people distracted from the real problems. Just say it was a shoulder fire missle and the plane is at the bottom of the Atlantic so we can all move on with our lives.
The Leo Straussion Neocon facists (Republicans) can come kiss my ass, it's not like anyone can do anything about what they are doing anyway.
Does the federal government remember how to kill a men (or group of men). It is time to start getting Gitmo bay on these bastards and podcast the video out to others...this is how the US deals with terrorist spammers. HAHAHA.
Nothing is wrong with murder and torture as long its intentions are good.
Thanks to you, I promise to rip even more DVDs this year. I will expand into movies I do not even like.
There is no way in hell this is even legal. Notice they did it in the UK and not the US. Screwing with the mail in US is a jailable felony.
Since when did the MPAA become a law enforcement agency? MPAA are a pack of fucktards.
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This is going to bring down the karma-o-meter but my hatred of eBay and Paypal is absolute. Paypal is not even a real bank. I am surprised also at the attitude of Meg Whitman and eBay in their reluctance..err..outright REFUSAL to assist authorities in NUMEROUS fraud investigations. What paypal charges in fees is also rape. I am truly AMAZED Gonzales and his crew have not used the Patriot Act against Paypal. Paypal/eBay is whom the Patriot Act as designed for. Paypal/eBay has destroyed lives and they are not being held accountable for it.
(*) M$ would love it if you had to pay to open Word or PowerPoint each time you needed it, maybe even renting your computer back to you after you shelled out the money on the hardware. (*) Music companies would also like to charge you each time you play a song on your mp3 player
Now is really the time for M$ and other organizations to start thinking about how they plan to implement DRM before they start to do stupid things and Linux and open source really becomes a desktop standard.
On a side note, I have no problem paying for things. I do not think most people do either. But there is a difference when a song is not worth buying but worth enough to waste the time to download.
Saying that DRM will increase sales since it makes piracy too difficult is a load and the RIAA knows it (so does the government). What the RIAA does suing 12 year old kids is the same as the NSA sending out National Security Letters to threaten people. Scare and intimidation tactics to get what the want. DRM is just one more pain in the ass we have to deal with. And if someone wants to dedicate the time to defeat it, they will, regardless. Every protection/encryption system is defeatable, with time.
Now IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, modern pop culture and shows like American Idol sicken me. Good music stopped being made in the late 90s.
Remember the guy who beat the CD copying by using a black magic marker or macrovision's using the same video scrambler technology they developed in the 80s that can be defeated with a $30 video enhancer unit on eBay? Why is the industry wasting time and money to be encrypting systems that seems to be defeated before they are deployed in the market. DVD Jon has busted DVD's and other alleged "secure" media. Some of these hacks are 20 to 30 lines of code! So much for the millions of dollars invested. Even Legislation has done nothing. What has come from the RIAA suing 12 year old's for downloading music. Limewire and other P2P engines are active now more than ever. The funniest part is watching these music artists bitching about how record companies steal their money and giving a press conference with their million dollar mansion in the background, or coming out of a restaurant most people could not afford to eat at. The reality is modern music sucks, so does most of the content they are trying to protect. That is the real reason why the media companies are losing money, not because of piracy. They want to blame other people instead of the trash they are peddling as entertainment.
I work at a pretty large multi-national and I have talked with the lawyers about honeypots from time to time and basically they are divided amongst themselves of if the honeypots are even legal to begin with. One of them is convinced that a honeypot is entrapment.
That is likely because you are a manager with little or no IT experience. Every company has had a bad hire. Some bad hires screw up small and just get shown the door. Others screw up big and cost companies money or worse. You are trying to determine who are the bad candidates before you can hire them. This is same as BushCo locking up people in Gitmo because they might be terrorists.
Apple always has been and always will be a hardware company and doing things like suing employees to keep secrets is just a way of doing business. Let's be realistic. If some person acutally set up a web site with all of the iPhones pictures, features, and whatever else. What would happen? Yeah they can sue but a typical employee today has nothing. I rent and have no savings, so threatening to sue me is a pretty shallow threat. Fear is what keeps most people in line and Apple understands that. By the way, Cingular blows and that is why I will never own an iPhone.
...there also is no bill in congress to stop internet radio and outsourcing does not take away jobs in the US. Now get back to watching TV and obeying the government you chattle!
If ANY law enforcement agency shows up and asks for anything, they had better have a warrant from a court in hand. These National Security Letters are bullshit and I wipe my ass with it after I scan and post it right here on slashdot.org, infowars.com, rense.com or whomever else would take it. Here that facist aggressor of the state. Fuck you. Yes this will drop the karma points, but I am damn tired of seeing facist police scum jackboots trying to set up a police state using secrecy and fear. I ain't scared of you people.
Well...living in America is sucking more and more everyday. Most people think we are going to get a government change in November. We ain't. As long as the Neocon corporation keep rigging the elections, we are going to be stuck with corporations running America.
What this will cause is sites like infowars.com and other sites critical of the government to be difficult to get to or outright banned altogether by carriers. This goes beyond money. 60% of the fiber in the ground right now is dark. The idea of limited bandwidth is total bullshit and total lie from the telecoms.
It would also help of computerworlds web site worked so I can read the damn article. They must be running IIS. Sorry bastards. Just like Screw..err..C-NET.
What I have noticed, and this has held true for everyplace I have ever worked or been to, is that in any given organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. That is ANY company, NGO, government, or organization on this planet. This means that the other 80% are slackers, screw offs, or just stupid. In other words, filler. The is right. 80% of the human race is nothing but filler.
If I pulled her crap for just one week, I would be bounced out of here fast. She was hired has an Unix administrator with 5 to 7 years experence. She goes around the office asking people how to do her fucking job...daily.
Be on the lookout for incompentance among the ranks at your job!
As for the workplace, we have a Unix Admin here who is a woman and all she does is 2 or 3 tickets a day and she spends most of her day writing emails, IM'ing her friends and writing some novel. Oh and she takes 3 to 4 hour lunches as well and this person manages to get a 6 day vacation to Georgia while spending time managing two (alleged) lawsuits and a criminal case against another person and going to physical theropy for her "bad back".
This woman needs to be on the cover of "Lazy American Illustrated" and needs to write a book "Lying your ass off to get a job for Dummies".
I have had to strip down BSD as well for my home projects.
I have always believe most Linux distros are too heavy as it is. I like OpenBSD and others that are light where I download and build the applications I want. The idea of sendmail, apache, and openldap prebuilt or in RPM packages sucks, at least in my opinion. I usually spent 2 or 3 hours pulling packages off the SLES 9 "minimum" install before I can make it usable for whatever we need the server to do so it will pass the nmap, nessus, and security network scan.
This is a good question. Why are hate sites like Fox News, Worldnetdaily, Newsmax.com, and dennisprager.com (a jew who hates his fellow jews) allowed to be on the internet?
Joseph Farah-fuck, neocon tool and republican party agent, has no business being a "journalist" when he is a bought and paid for yellow journalist hack. Who does this guy thinks he is when his web site is nothing BUT propaganda while bitching about google. Google and the Chinese communists are saints compared to this assorted trash. Yes that was a rant and karma killer but it needed to be said. Fuck the NWO/Republican Party.
Run my friend! Run like the wind! Stay free!
Mark Klein and all others who expose these attacks against American's civil liberties are true heros to the Republic. These neocon scumbugs know their days are number and will have to go all out on police state in order to continue against the American people, who are the REAL suspect and criminals behind 911, not some fantasy outfit called al Qaeda/make believe war on terror.
The UK govt can come over here and kiss my American ass. Harsh yes...but the appropraite response for such a stupid demand.
To be honest, I am starting not to care about all of the this post-911/coup attempt to takeover the US government that failed. I will surf where I want, say what a want, and if the government is truly stupid and sends me one of those National Security Letters (NSLs), I will post it right here on slashdot.org as well as rense.com, infowars.com, and anyone else who will post it on their site because I just do not care. Those pentagon photos of "flight 77" was just more smoke and mirrors to keep people distracted from the real problems. Just say it was a shoulder fire missle and the plane is at the bottom of the Atlantic so we can all move on with our lives. The Leo Straussion Neocon facists (Republicans) can come kiss my ass, it's not like anyone can do anything about what they are doing anyway.
Does the federal government remember how to kill a men (or group of men). It is time to start getting Gitmo bay on these bastards and podcast the video out to others...this is how the US deals with terrorist spammers. HAHAHA. Nothing is wrong with murder and torture as long its intentions are good.
Thanks to you, I promise to rip even more DVDs this year. I will expand into movies I do not even like. There is no way in hell this is even legal. Notice they did it in the UK and not the US. Screwing with the mail in US is a jailable felony. Since when did the MPAA become a law enforcement agency? MPAA are a pack of fucktards.