some pirates are upset that somebody tried to hack them?
Sounds to me like actual paying customers are upset, not Somalis trying to eke a living.
only EXECUTED on systems running stolen software
That would explain all the AV flags it caused.
Do not run to the police for somebody trespassing on your lawn when you are a serial killer/robber.
But do run to the police if, while trespassing, you see a murder.
STOP PIRATING OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. Become a civilized human being.
These are not connected.
The only reason normal users of tech are continually facing DRM and other garbage is that people like these whining crybaby jerks are stealing stuff.
That's not the case. If nothing else, normal users of tech historically paid a certain amount for software and used a certain amount of software and those amounts were never the same.
But apart from that, software copyright infringement does not justify rootkits, system damaging DRM or indeed, hacking peoples passwords.
There's no excuse for spending enormous amouts of time and energy cracking software and hacking passwords
It's fun!
and then distributing the hacks/passwords.
..and you get major kudos.
Most of the people doing this can easily afford to buy the software they are stealing, but they just prefer to spend a thousand dollars on a new iPhone
Wait. Either they can afford it, and buy an iPhone, or they can not in fact afford it, on account of their limited resources being otherwise allocated.
Get your story straight here, please.
As a rule of thumb: if you can afford a gaming rig, you can afford to buy your games.
My commiserations on the chainsaw accident that must've taken both of your thumbs.
I've written software for a living. I've also had people infringe on my copyright for that software. They're still alive; some things just aren't worth giving a shit about.
It's 3am, why haven't my cats already murdered those bastard songbirds? It's 4am, will someone strangle that fucking chicken. It's 5am, who's going to shoot those bloody sheep. It's 6am, can you milk those shitty cows already.
So.. Lets say some bloke called Bob starts a company.
He puts $100k of his own money into it, and uses that money to employ people for 10% higher than market rate to create something his new company sells.
Bob takes no salary, just works 80 hour weeks to assure the success of the company. All the time he's making sure suppliers are paid, customers are happy and the staff are receiving 10% above market rate for their time. 100% of the spare cash is reinvested in the company, so it never makes a profit.
Eight years later Big Corporation offer to buy Bob's company from him for $610m. Bob is the sole shareholder and decides this is a fair offer.
You're saying that Bob didn't do enough to warrant $600m? How much was Bob's work worth, and who does the rest of that cash go to?
Advertising is about selling you shit you don't need. Selling you shit you do need is easy
I need toilet paper. Advertising has raised my awareness of the brands available and the attributes of their product. It does influence my purchasing decision, thus advertising is helping sell something I do need, disproving your first point.
So someone trying to sell me shit that I need without advertising is not succeeding, thus disproving your second point.
As someone that considers indenture slavery, and retains the right to use lethal force to escape slavery, your 'best solution' would lead to people dying.
Note that despite losing the retrial (see http://www.independent.co.uk/n... ) it's still relevant because his conviction was overturned on the grounds his sexual emergency outweighed the right of a 10 year old to not be fucked by an adult.
Hair stylists use large quantities of bleach and even nastier chemicals on peoples heads and near their eyes.
Just google for 'hair stylist scalp burning' to see why some people would prefer to assure that their hair is being styled by someone with half a clue.
The comedy thing is that this code of conduct itself reinforces systemic oppression of neurodiverse (autistic) people by putting in place rules they can not possibly follow.
So step one for the FreeBSD committee is throwing out the person that created the code of conduct, and anybody that supports it.
As someone with Asperger's I am now excluded from the FreeBSD community because it's literally fucking impossible to avoid accidentally offending people.
Concrete instructions? Those instructions are basically saying, "Don't engage with our community or you'll get thrown out." Their implementation will not be in that form, and lots of people will transgress the code of conduxt with no issues, but I have no fucking idea when that's going to be acceptable or not. So fuck the lot of them, and they can live without my contribution.
"Be nice to people" I can cope with. Anything more complex than that invariably results in differentiated enforcement and that's where it becomes incomprehensible to me, and that's why this is a fucking stupid thing for them to have done.
Likely to be a cash flow thing. A profit on paper doesn't necessarily mean the cash is in your bank account, but you still need to pay suppliers and staff. So you can go out of business through a shortage of cash, even if you're profitable.
It's unusual, although less so if you're not accounting properly: If I sell you a widget for $10 and it costs me $2 then I have $8 in profit. If you don't pay me for a month (pretty standard terms) then for that month I have a loss of $2. So am I profitable or not?
I'm trading profitably, but I have a cash flow shortage and can't pay the $2 I owe, so I'm insolvent. In strict accounting terms I have zero revenue and thus no profits, because I can't realise the revenue until its received.
Every decent person in America should be down at their local NRA office and riding the people inside out of town
You're advocating violence against people because of their political views, and yet also want to remove their ability to defend themselves against you?
Nice way to justify their entire fucking position.
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So I was also thinking the other day, since I just recently rewatched Blade, how Wesley Snipes was fucking cool.
I didn't worry what fucking skin colour everybody was because I'm not an insufferable cunt.
The special effects are questionable in some parts
To be fair that was the case when it was first released too.
I'm not a fencer but yes, the swordplay in The Princess Bride is a visual feast accompanied by quality acting and a truly great script.
It's not fencing, and it doesn't look terribly realistic as sword fighting.
as an adult you wouldn't get the same sense of humor or feel just how unfair it is (based on movie rules)
Nah, I still laugh at it.
it was long, boring and hard-work
Umm. Fucking hell.
See there are great films and there are watchable films
The great films are great because so many people found them watchable - and more. Pretentious arthouse shite doesn't get into the IMDB top 250.
You may have bounced off Reservoir Dogs but that doesn't mean it isn't watchable. It means you didn't like it.
Learn the difference, and don't go telling me some CGI fest is 'fun' and 'drama', or that 'happy-ending' is in any way fucking desirable.
some pirates are upset that somebody tried to hack them?
Sounds to me like actual paying customers are upset, not Somalis trying to eke a living.
only EXECUTED on systems running stolen software
That would explain all the AV flags it caused.
Do not run to the police for somebody trespassing on your lawn when you are a serial killer/robber.
But do run to the police if, while trespassing, you see a murder.
STOP PIRATING OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. Become a civilized human being.
These are not connected.
The only reason normal users of tech are continually facing DRM and other garbage is that people like these whining crybaby jerks are stealing stuff.
That's not the case. If nothing else, normal users of tech historically paid a certain amount for software and used a certain amount of software and those amounts were never the same.
But apart from that, software copyright infringement does not justify rootkits, system damaging DRM or indeed, hacking peoples passwords.
There's no excuse for spending enormous amouts of time and energy cracking software and hacking passwords
It's fun!
and then distributing the hacks/passwords.
..and you get major kudos.
Most of the people doing this can easily afford to buy the software they are stealing, but they just prefer to spend a thousand dollars on a new iPhone
Wait. Either they can afford it, and buy an iPhone, or they can not in fact afford it, on account of their limited resources being otherwise allocated.
Get your story straight here, please.
As a rule of thumb: if you can afford a gaming rig, you can afford to buy your games.
My commiserations on the chainsaw accident that must've taken both of your thumbs.
I've written software for a living. I've also had people infringe on my copyright for that software. They're still alive; some things just aren't worth giving a shit about.
Are you shitting me?
It's 3am, why haven't my cats already murdered those bastard songbirds?
It's 4am, will someone strangle that fucking chicken.
It's 5am, who's going to shoot those bloody sheep.
It's 6am, can you milk those shitty cows already.
Disclaimer: I live in the countryside.
You should maybe pay more attention while walking through carparks.
So.. Lets say some bloke called Bob starts a company.
He puts $100k of his own money into it, and uses that money to employ people for 10% higher than market rate to create something his new company sells.
Bob takes no salary, just works 80 hour weeks to assure the success of the company. All the time he's making sure suppliers are paid, customers are happy and the staff are receiving 10% above market rate for their time. 100% of the spare cash is reinvested in the company, so it never makes a profit.
Eight years later Big Corporation offer to buy Bob's company from him for $610m. Bob is the sole shareholder and decides this is a fair offer.
You're saying that Bob didn't do enough to warrant $600m? How much was Bob's work worth, and who does the rest of that cash go to?
everybody would put their best tactics forward for everyone to use
The problem here is that IBM's tactic is 'identify the competent people that represent demographics we find hard to recruit and target those'.
The lady in question knows who those targeted individuals are, and IBM probably fear Microsoft recruiting them first.
Advertising is about selling you shit you don't need. Selling you shit you do need is easy
I need toilet paper. Advertising has raised my awareness of the brands available and the attributes of their product. It does influence my purchasing decision, thus advertising is helping sell something I do need, disproving your first point.
So someone trying to sell me shit that I need without advertising is not succeeding, thus disproving your second point.
Marketing is not sales.
As someone that considers indenture slavery, and retains the right to use lethal force to escape slavery, your 'best solution' would lead to people dying.
A sexual emergency is the defence for raping children.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Note that despite losing the retrial (see http://www.independent.co.uk/n... ) it's still relevant because his conviction was overturned on the grounds his sexual emergency outweighed the right of a 10 year old to not be fucked by an adult.
Hair stylists use large quantities of bleach and even nastier chemicals on peoples heads and near their eyes.
Just google for 'hair stylist scalp burning' to see why some people would prefer to assure that their hair is being styled by someone with half a clue.
Yet I'd fight any attempt to mandate ITIL qualifications for people working in an IT role.
They're applicable to some IT roles, but not mandatory for those, and potentially damaging in some cases.
That's even with ITIL being one of the better options available.
I interpreted him as suggesting that non-repudiation of video footage is now fucking hard to achieve and needs building into the initial capture.
There is also a statistically significant surplus of single women 55-65.
Yeah, and they all make googly eyes at me when I'm dancing with them.
The welfare system severely punishes the poor for being married
The legal system severely punishes men for being married, which is one reason so many fewer are risking it.
The comedy thing is that this code of conduct itself reinforces systemic oppression of neurodiverse (autistic) people by putting in place rules they can not possibly follow.
So step one for the FreeBSD committee is throwing out the person that created the code of conduct, and anybody that supports it.
As someone with Asperger's I am now excluded from the FreeBSD community because it's literally fucking impossible to avoid accidentally offending people.
Concrete instructions? Those instructions are basically saying, "Don't engage with our community or you'll get thrown out." Their implementation will not be in that form, and lots of people will transgress the code of conduxt with no issues, but I have no fucking idea when that's going to be acceptable or not. So fuck the lot of them, and they can live without my contribution.
"Be nice to people" I can cope with. Anything more complex than that invariably results in differentiated enforcement and that's where it becomes incomprehensible to me, and that's why this is a fucking stupid thing for them to have done.
Likely to be a cash flow thing. A profit on paper doesn't necessarily mean the cash is in your bank account, but you still need to pay suppliers and staff. So you can go out of business through a shortage of cash, even if you're profitable.
It's unusual, although less so if you're not accounting properly: If I sell you a widget for $10 and it costs me $2 then I have $8 in profit. If you don't pay me for a month (pretty standard terms) then for that month I have a loss of $2. So am I profitable or not?
I'm trading profitably, but I have a cash flow shortage and can't pay the $2 I owe, so I'm insolvent. In strict accounting terms I have zero revenue and thus no profits, because I can't realise the revenue until its received.
The appeal court agreed with you, which is why he's currently not in prison.
What makes you think Microsoft wouldn't have still sued for "lost sales"?
Well, mainly the fact that they wouldn't be silly enough.
After all, this lawsuit does not seem to be about merit, as much as about ruining the guy.
I'm not sure Microsoft give a shit about the guy, they just want illegal sales of their software to be stopped.
By law, Obama had to appoint a Republican.
Wait, your fucked up two party state is enforced by law?
Every decent person in America should be down at their local NRA office and riding the people inside out of town
You're advocating violence against people because of their political views, and yet also want to remove their ability to defend themselves against you?
Nice way to justify their entire fucking position.