Now, if you ask "do I think an organization dedicated to smearing and embarrassing people and organizations it doesn't like would do that", then my answer would be yes. And I would also expect them to make up documents to suit their purposes.
Strange that there are an unusually large number many negative posts made by Anonymous Cowards.
"In the same vein, should the local government, the builder company and the maker of a cardboard box be responsible for anything I shout while standing on said box on a street corner?"
Whilst lying on the ground as a result of trying to stand on the cardbox box, will you think someone other than yourself responsible for your fall ?
Giving "freedom" to the proprietary developer almost always means taking it from the user.
Unless the users never had any freedom to start with.
The average proprietary game costs 20 million to develop and is only useful for a few years, do you think the Free software community could or should compete with that ?
Just like in real life, closing the door and locking it helps make sure that your money remains yours
Simple analogy, but it fails, or is android getting into you bank account and withdrawing money people have already paid you ?
Commercial copyright infringement (aka "Piracy") does not take "your" money, perhaps it reduces any future money you might get. But its not your money until they give it you.
Dont complain about other people taking your stuff when you are trying to do the same thing to them (you think their stuff is yours).
He said that the NSA respects protection of privacy, he didnt says whos privacy. Obviously they dont respect the protection of other peoples privacy, that would defeat their purpose for existing. They certainly care about other people respecting the NSA's privacy.
Media cartels judging if their 3-strikes approach is successful based on how many people they punish. Someone needs to remind them that their job is to promote the sale of music/movies.
If they paired their research on punishment, with data on legal sales then it might be meaningful, as it stands its just a scare story.
If Hulu blocks you for whatever reason, it's just them refusing to serve you.
Yea, thats fair enough, but thats not really the issue here, the issue is when GeoIP is being used to introduce discrimatory buisness practices.
Companies are refusing to serve you at the front desk like everyone else, but is willing to serve you "out the back" if you beg them.
Take an example of the top line visual studio, its cheaper for people in Australia to pay someone to fly to the US to buy it, give them a few weeks in vegas, and fly them home rather than buy it from Australia via the internet.
Really its nothing new, just companies taking as much as they can, because they can, Australia have been pretty active at weedng out this sort of thing in the past, having banned region encoded DVD's.
And what is the Internet? The best definition I know is: "The largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP packet from'" by Seth Breidbart. Which is somewhat of a mouthful.
There is nothing inherently dishonorable or unethical about espionage
Espionage/Spying is amoungst the worst crimes on any countries books, usually punishable by death in countries that have the death penalty, but only when people do it to them, when they do it is ok.
State run agencies that do this often have their own set of laws, allowing them to do things nobody else can, they operate in world of secrecy with minimal accountability or oversight. They exist to lie and decieve the general public.
Its very nature is to violate the trust society places in authority, by what objective measure could it not be considered unethical ?
Bradley Manning was incredibly stupid. He was trying to get street cred in the Hax0r scene by bragging to a known Government Informant.
He certainly got global "street cred" for what he alegedly did for transparency.
I think a lot of honerable people would rather go down fighting the good fight, "lound and proud", rather then hiding in the shadows sinking to tactics of the enemy.
Whether ensconced in the Ecuador Embassy or in jail in the US he is an object lesson to those who would follow in his footsteps.
And that, my friends, is the whole point of the exercise.
The lesson is that the US wants to Assange;
- They have one of the most powerfull militaries in the world
- A widespread global intelligence gathering network.
- The most expensive intelligence analysis that has ever existied.
- A president that can order assinations without involving the courts.
- Torture camps and illegal renditions that are politically acceptable to his countrymen.
- Mighty US global corporations (Mastercard, Visa) willing to bow to their will and blockade finances.
- Control of the internet DNS to delist their website.
With all this money and power the US government has, it still cant make the leader of this group go quietly.
Slashdot Mirror
Cost the company half a bil, the rest of the market says Thanks :)
Now, if you ask "do I think an organization dedicated to smearing and embarrassing people and organizations it doesn't like would do that", then my answer would be yes. And I would also expect them to make up documents to suit their purposes.
Strange that there are an unusually large number many negative posts made by Anonymous Cowards.
You think an organsation dedicated to public disclosure would censor themselves by disabling their own servers.
Thats a lot of tinfoil.
Thats a lot torrents to seed, i assume they arent just running a tracker.
What sort of setup do they have, what bittorrent software do they use ?
"In the same vein, should the local government, the builder company and the maker of a cardboard box be responsible for anything I shout while standing on said box on a street corner?"
Whilst lying on the ground as a result of trying to stand on the cardbox box, will you think someone other than yourself responsible for your fall ?
Q. What do you get when a fool becomes a billionaire ?
Giving "freedom" to the proprietary developer almost always means taking it from the user.
Unless the users never had any freedom to start with.
The average proprietary game costs 20 million to develop and is only useful for a few years, do you think the Free software community could or should compete with that ?
Just like in real life, closing the door and locking it helps make sure that your money remains yours
Simple analogy, but it fails, or is android getting into you bank account and withdrawing money people have already paid you ?
Commercial copyright infringement (aka "Piracy") does not take "your" money, perhaps it reduces any future money you might get. But its not your money until they give it you.
Dont complain about other people taking your stuff when you are trying to do the same thing to them (you think their stuff is yours).
Since when does the NSA respect privacy?
He said that the NSA respects protection of privacy, he didnt says whos privacy.
Obviously they dont respect the protection of other peoples privacy, that would defeat their purpose for existing. They certainly care about other people respecting the NSA's privacy.
I've always just called it "confirmation bias."
Ive always called it trust, people dont trust an oppenent to tell the truth, they judge it subjectively rather than objectively.
Media cartels judging if their 3-strikes approach is successful based on how many people they punish. Someone needs to remind them that their job is to promote the sale of music/movies.
If they paired their research on punishment, with data on legal sales then it might be meaningful, as it stands its just a scare story.
I tried to join diaspora, but couldnt work it out !
I emailed the support team at the address required, no response.
They have every right to ...
Have you ever stopped to consider what that means, and how ridiculous it is if taken literally.
It implies that google has no legal obligations to government, shareholders, or customers. Its not true.
Oh, and if you work in advertising: kill yourself.
-1 Offensive (and i dont work in advertising)
Does it bother
anyone else
how google+
puts all its
content on the
left two thirds
of the display
and doesnt
use thr right
side of the
display ?
I guess they
care more
about mobile
users than us
old fashioned
desktop users.
HATE THE MOBILE !
If Hulu blocks you for whatever reason, it's just them refusing to serve you.
Yea, thats fair enough, but thats not really the issue here, the issue is when GeoIP is being used to introduce discrimatory buisness practices.
Companies are refusing to serve you at the front desk like everyone else, but is willing to serve you "out the back" if you beg them.
Take an example of the top line visual studio, its cheaper for people in Australia to pay someone to fly to the US to buy it, give them a few weeks in vegas, and fly them home rather than buy it from Australia via the internet.
Really its nothing new, just companies taking as much as they can, because they can, Australia have been pretty active at weedng out this sort of thing in the past, having banned region encoded DVD's.
And what is the Internet? The best definition I know is: "The largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP packet from'" by Seth Breidbart. Which is somewhat of a mouthful.
The internet is a network of networks.
There is nothing inherently dishonorable or unethical about espionage
Espionage/Spying is amoungst the worst crimes on any countries books, usually punishable by death in countries that have the death penalty, but only when people do it to them, when they do it is ok.
State run agencies that do this often have their own set of laws, allowing them to do things nobody else can, they operate in world of secrecy with minimal accountability or oversight. They exist to lie and decieve the general public.
Its very nature is to violate the trust society places in authority, by what objective measure could it not be considered unethical ?
Bradley Manning was incredibly stupid. He was trying to get street cred in the Hax0r scene by bragging to a known Government Informant.
He certainly got global "street cred" for what he alegedly did for transparency.
I think a lot of honerable people would rather go down fighting the good fight, "lound and proud", rather then hiding in the shadows sinking to tactics of the enemy.
eg. a "new release" shooter from ebgames (gamestop) $68AU, which is about $70 US.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/pc-150873-Spec-Ops-The-Line-PC
In other news, US companies overcharge foreigners.
There was a story a few months ago about how Australia banned Huawei from involvment in a big project, they didnt say why.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/24/0424215/australian-govt-bans-huawei-from-national-network-bids
People ofter preface the IP (Intellectual Property) acronym with the word "valuable", like they are on some propaganda mission.
Is all IP valuable, or only some of it, or is it invaluable (and is it really property) ?
In any case, this guy goes to the next level, hes not saying the IP is valuable, he is saying its the RIGHTS that are valuable.
Hes not concerned about reality, just its effect.
Whether ensconced in the Ecuador Embassy or in jail in the US he is an object lesson to those who would follow in his footsteps.
And that, my friends, is the whole point of the exercise.
The lesson is that the US wants to Assange;
- They have one of the most powerfull militaries in the world
- A widespread global intelligence gathering network.
- The most expensive intelligence analysis that has ever existied.
- A president that can order assinations without involving the courts.
- Torture camps and illegal renditions that are politically acceptable to his countrymen.
- Mighty US global corporations (Mastercard, Visa) willing to bow to their will and blockade finances.
- Control of the internet DNS to delist their website.
With all this money and power the US government has, it still cant make the leader of this group go quietly.
Y3k bug strikes again, he meant C3011
Am I the only one who doesn't care how hard a company tries but how well they succeed?
No, lots of people, lots of people care about practical measures, rather than an ideology. But without ideology Free Software wouldnt even exist.
ATI have succeeded in releasing the specs, NVIDIA havent even done that.
The problems i have had with graphics under linux have been more to do with the whole stack, i dont blame ATI for whole thing.