IMO the biggest WTF here is that you even need a lawyer to win such a case. If I was a judge, I'd surely rule that job is like any other good. The guy, the seller of his job, has the right to refuse to work for somebody unless his contract says otherwise.
In other words, if I loose a great night because the nearest shop is closing and the shopper refuses to sell me a condom, whose problem is that? [hint: I play the role of the company here]
If they are going to lose money because he is quitting and they didn't protect themselves by an appropriate clause in the contract - it's their problem.
If they are not going to lose anything, there's no case and the suit IMO should be dismissed outright.
If he won't/wouldn't win without a lawyer, that means US courts lack absolutely basic common sense and are just plain fucked up.
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And to save you that one click: Here's what happens (more or less). When a playback application wishes to render high quality content, it asks the system what the capabilities of the output rendering path are. The OS tells it things like "All the drivers on the system are signed", or "The video is going over an HDMI connection", "All the code running in the rendering path is running in the protected environment (and thus contains no unsigned 3rd party code)", etc. The playback application than uses that information to make decisions on how to play back the content. It might decide it's ok to play the content. It might refuse to play the content. It might decide to downgrade the content.
All these choices are up to the PLAYBACK APPLICATION. They're NOT built into the OS. All the OS does is to provide services to the playback application that it can use to make decisions.
and: A) Vista implements Protected Video Path (PVP). PVP ensures that images are encrypted end to end.
B) Vista does not implement Protected Audio Path (PAP) which would do the same for audio.
C) PVP and PAP only apply to hi-def content that is specifically marked as protected. Currently nothing is available in this format.
So... no degrading audio, no degrading quality of other (say medical) images by having a protected HD disc in the drive, not even by playing that disk, and, finally, it's not Vista that downgrades the content, but the player application. And, guess what.., the application is not forced to downgrade the quality, it does it on its sole discretion.
Methane (CH4) found for example in vast quantities on the most outer planet, Plutonium, is also an organic compound.
But it does not mean that there is, or has ever been, life.
First, we need to know when compound it was. Otherwise there's really nothing to talk about.
They're going to measure one particle 50us before the other.. But upon the measurement of the first photon the state of the other is already known so we're talking about action going forward in time, not backwards.
And besides, they aren't sending any information at all as many people have already pointed out.
So actually I'd say that since there's no information being sent we can't talk about which direction through time it goes.
So what? I mean what's the problem with wasting resources? Why are they valuable?
IMO the only important thing is human satisfaction*. And we value resources ONLY because they can be used to increase human satisfaction.
Having 10 apples I prefer to eat one and waste the other 9 than leave all 10 in the ground... Same for energy.
Regarding your ideas: how do you think you can enforce the temperature levels in people's homes? Whatever you do they'll be seriously pissed. Or will not follow the law. But then you've just wasted a lot of resources to pass the law.
And what happens when we run out of oil or whatever? Well... first of all it's not gonna happen overnight. Secondly, as the prices will be going up, at some point it will be cheaper to use something else than oil. And by the way, there'll always be some people who will get pissed by higher prices and/or seeing the opportunity to make some money by inventing a cheaper source of energy. It's not all that bad, really.
BTW If you, for example, forbid people to install in-windows AC units they'll start drilling holes in their walls or installing air conditioners wherever it's legal and putting pipes to their homes. In both cases wasting energy, time and getting pissed off. Same for most of your other ideas.
And if ever there comes a day when you can't get to the cinema , because there's no more fuel to power your car and there's no other convenient way to get there (except by walking) or when the average temperature at your place becomes so much hotter or colder that you can no longer live there... I owe you a beer:)
*) Note that most people would not be very satisfied by having to leave in a hot place. Just to let you know I did think about global warming and things like that when I wrote this word.
"The Company, Clarity1, sent 280 million unsolicited emails of which 74 million hit mailboxes between 4/2004 and 4/2006."
WTF? I bet they were sending that much in less than one day:
10k zombie hosts * average 0.1 successful sents per sec * 3600 * 24 = 86.4 million emails sent in 24h.
What pisses me off is that the company which created this ad is not being punished (at least it seems so). Ordinary people are raided, have their property literalily stolen for breaking into servers (which is right) or sharing hashes of some copyrighted material (which, at least in the cast of The Pirates Bay, *wasn't* illegal). Now some company breaks into a million computers (using whatever means) and even though they make a lot more damage pretty much nothing happens to is. [Hint: you may also try substituting "Sony" for "some company".] In Poland we have a law that states something like (IANAL) "accessing or modifying information stored on a computer system without authorization is illegal". I bet it's similar in most highly developed countries. IMO, if anyone, the company who created this ad and Sony (for their rootkit) should have their servers raided and execs(?) arrested/prisoned.*)
On the other hand, it's amazing how powerful some governments are when a small company (often only allegedly!) doesn't pay all the taxes it "should" - often leading them to bankrupcy..**)
*) I know I'm talking about different countries, different jurisdictions, there's that damned "lobby", etc.. But from a common sense point of view that's exactly how things are. **) There have been a couple of well known cases of this kind in Poland. But I'm guessing that althougt this country is a WTF on it's own, it's not alone when it comes to this sort of things.
I could say "This is my knife and I will stab whoever I want with it".
No, because unlike the knife, someone else's life/health is not yours.
MS did not hack into someone else's box and changed their code to work unproperly. Instead MS made their own code hard to work with without touching anyone else. I don't appreciate it, but respect their right to do so nevertheless. MS didn't force anyone to buy their code either.
What if someone died (indirectly) because someone else invested in MS products?
Well then the one who made the decision to use Microsoft's software should be held liable (Unless he/she made an agreement with MS that the software will not fail/be interoperable, etc.. - in this case Miscrosoft would be at fault by not complying with the agreement.)
You already are free to do that - that's what Copyright gives you, and it's why you get the copyright on your work the moment you create it.
True, but that's not the whole point.
"Because I want to be free to write whatever code I want. And be free to do with my code whatever I want."
Now if I'm a big company and want to sell my code and not sell the documentation (if it exists - it's mine as well) I get fined.
Which means I can't do that.
And, in my opinion, that sucks.
That is my point:)
It's kind of like you were making pictures and one day a commision comes to you and tells you that if you still want to sell them you must publish a description of what they present. WTF?!
If they (the commision) or someone else (the people) want a fully documented OS they can write it themselves, get a third party to write it for them or use an already available one...
Alternatively you can reverse engineer Windows (which should be legal in the first place - it's funny to see how once They try to pretect the so called "intellectual property" and at other times They order people to give it away - which proves that such decisions are by no means a matter of rightness but a matter of lobby and/or money!)
I'm totally for the Free Software. Because I want to be free to write whatever code I want. And be free to do with my code whateverI want. So I also want others to be free to write code they want. And be free to do with their code whatever they want. Including selling for a buck or for a credit (assuming there's someone who wants to buy/use it).
This judgement is just plain robbery. Remeber when MS was ordered to prepare a version of Windows without WMP? What for? Show me at lease ONE person who bought it...
It's not a troll.. I just hate governments punishing people for writing e.g. dvd decryption code or an os.
Watch out.. as RMS pointed out in one of his essays, you may soon be fined for using a debugger.
Note that this is exactly like banning guns because "someone can use them to commit a crime".
And yes, that's INSANE!
Whatever you say - 150-200 years ago people were as used to having a gun or being able to shoot their own bottles as we are to being able run perl or test an exploit on our own machines. Arguable the former was even more common!
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Too much time is wasted re-implementing code that someone else has already done, for the sole reason it's faster than finding the other code.
I thought that if you take the *faster* route you are *saving*, not wasting time...
IMO the biggest WTF here is that you even need a lawyer to win such a case. If I was a judge, I'd surely rule that job is like any other good. The guy, the seller of his job, has the right to refuse to work for somebody unless his contract says otherwise.
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In other words, if I loose a great night because the nearest shop is closing and the shopper refuses to sell me a condom, whose problem is that? [hint: I play the role of the company here]
If they are going to lose money because he is quitting and they didn't protect themselves by an appropriate clause in the contract - it's their problem.
If they are not going to lose anything, there's no case and the suit IMO should be dismissed outright.
If he won't/wouldn't win without a lawyer, that means US courts lack absolutely basic common sense and are just plain fucked up.
Sadly, that's probably the case
Bullshit.
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The Windows Research Kernel contains the sources for the core Windows (NTOS) kernel. NTOS implements the basic OS functions for processes, threads, virtual memory and cache managers, I/O management, the registry, executive functions such as the kernel heap and synchronization, the object manager, the local procedure call mechanism, the security reference monitor, and low-level CPU management (thread scheduling, Asynchronous and Deferred Procedure calls, interrupt/trap handling, exceptions). The NT Hardware Abstraction Layer, file systems, network stacks, and device drivers are implemented separately from NTOS and loaded into kernel mode as dynamic libraries. Sources for these dynamic components are not included in the WRK. However, some are available in various development kits published by Microsoft, such as the Installable File System (IFS) Kit and the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK).
Damn guys, do some research first!
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2693 69#269369
And to save you that one click:
Here's what happens (more or less). When a playback application wishes to render high quality content, it asks the system what the capabilities of the output rendering path are. The OS tells it things like "All the drivers on the system are signed", or "The video is going over an HDMI connection", "All the code running in the rendering path is running in the protected environment (and thus contains no unsigned 3rd party code)", etc. The playback application than uses that information to make decisions on how to play back the content. It might decide it's ok to play the content. It might refuse to play the content. It might decide to downgrade the content. All these choices are up to the PLAYBACK APPLICATION. They're NOT built into the OS. All the OS does is to provide services to the playback application that it can use to make decisions.
and:
A) Vista implements Protected Video Path (PVP). PVP ensures that images are encrypted end to end.
B) Vista does not implement Protected Audio Path (PAP) which would do the same for audio.
C) PVP and PAP only apply to hi-def content that is specifically marked as protected. Currently nothing is available in this format.
So... no degrading audio, no degrading quality of other (say medical) images by having a protected HD disc in the drive, not even by playing that disk, and, finally, it's not Vista that downgrades the content, but the player application. And, guess what.., the application is not forced to downgrade the quality, it does it on its sole discretion.
Methane (CH4) found for example in vast quantities on the most outer planet, Plutonium, is also an organic compound. But it does not mean that there is, or has ever been, life. First, we need to know when compound it was. Otherwise there's really nothing to talk about.
IANAP, but
They're going to measure one particle 50us before the other..
But upon the measurement of the first photon the state of the other is already known so we're talking about action going forward in time, not backwards.
And besides, they aren't sending any information at all as many people have already pointed out.
So actually I'd say that since there's no information being sent we can't talk about which direction through time it goes.
So what? I mean what's the problem with wasting resources? Why are they valuable?
:)
IMO the only important thing is human satisfaction*. And we value resources ONLY because they can be used to increase human satisfaction.
Having 10 apples I prefer to eat one and waste the other 9 than leave all 10 in the ground... Same for energy.
Regarding your ideas: how do you think you can enforce the temperature levels in people's homes? Whatever you do they'll be seriously pissed. Or will not follow the law. But then you've just wasted a lot of resources to pass the law.
And what happens when we run out of oil or whatever? Well... first of all it's not gonna happen overnight. Secondly, as the prices will be going up, at some point it will be cheaper to use something else than oil. And by the way, there'll always be some people who will get pissed by higher prices and/or seeing the opportunity to make some money by inventing a cheaper source of energy. It's not all that bad, really.
BTW If you, for example, forbid people to install in-windows AC units they'll start drilling holes in their walls or installing air conditioners wherever it's legal and putting pipes to their homes. In both cases wasting energy, time and getting pissed off.
Same for most of your other ideas.
And if ever there comes a day when you can't get to the cinema , because there's no more fuel to power your car and there's no other convenient way to get there (except by walking) or when the average temperature at your place becomes so much hotter or colder that you can no longer live there... I owe you a beer
*) Note that most people would not be very satisfied by having to leave in a hot place. Just to let you know I did think about global warming and things like that when I wrote this word.
You know the word "totalitarian"?
WTF? I bet they were sending that much in less than one day:
10k zombie hosts * average 0.1 successful sents per sec * 3600 * 24 = 86.4 million emails sent in 24h.
When this happens on slashdot?
What pisses me off is that the company which created this ad is not being punished (at least it seems so). Ordinary people are raided, have their property literalily stolen for breaking into servers (which is right) or sharing hashes of some copyrighted material (which, at least in the cast of The Pirates Bay, *wasn't* illegal).
Now some company breaks into a million computers (using whatever means) and even though they make a lot more damage pretty much nothing happens to is. [Hint: you may also try substituting "Sony" for "some company".]
In Poland we have a law that states something like (IANAL) "accessing or modifying information stored on a computer system without authorization is illegal". I bet it's similar in most highly developed countries.
IMO, if anyone, the company who created this ad and Sony (for their rootkit) should have their servers raided and execs(?) arrested/prisoned.*)
On the other hand, it's amazing how powerful some governments are when a small company (often only allegedly!) doesn't pay all the taxes it "should" - often leading them to bankrupcy..**)
*) I know I'm talking about different countries, different jurisdictions, there's that damned "lobby", etc.. But from a common sense point of view that's exactly how things are.
**) There have been a couple of well known cases of this kind in Poland. But I'm guessing that althougt this country is a WTF on it's own, it's not alone when it comes to this sort of things.
I could say "This is my knife and I will stab whoever I want with it".
No, because unlike the knife, someone else's life/health is not yours.
MS did not hack into someone else's box and changed their code to work unproperly. Instead MS made their own code hard to work with without touching anyone else. I don't appreciate it, but respect their right to do so nevertheless. MS didn't force anyone to buy their code either.
What if someone died (indirectly) because someone else invested in MS products?
Well then the one who made the decision to use Microsoft's software should be held liable (Unless he/she made an agreement with MS that the software will not fail/be interoperable, etc.. - in this case Miscrosoft would be at fault by not complying with the agreement.)
Simple as that.
You already are free to do that - that's what Copyright gives you, and it's why you get the copyright on your work the moment you create it.
True, but that's not the whole point.
"Because I want to be free to write whatever code I want. And be free to do with my code whatever I want."
Now if I'm a big company and want to sell my code and not sell the documentation (if it exists - it's mine as well) I get fined. :)
Which means I can't do that.
And, in my opinion, that sucks.
That is my point
It's kind of like you were making pictures and one day a commision comes to you and tells you that if you still want to sell them you must publish a description of what they present. WTF?!
If they (the commision) or someone else (the people) want a fully documented OS they can write it themselves, get a third party to write it for them or use an already available one...
Alternatively you can reverse engineer Windows (which should be legal in the first place - it's funny to see how once They try to pretect the so called "intellectual property" and at other times They order people to give it away - which proves that such decisions are by no means a matter of rightness but a matter of lobby and/or money!)
I'm totally for the Free Software.
Because I want to be free to write whatever code I want. And be free to do with my code whatever I want.
So I also want others to be free to write code they want. And be free to do with their code whatever they want.
Including selling for a buck or for a credit (assuming there's someone who wants to buy/use it).
This judgement is just plain robbery. Remeber when MS was ordered to prepare a version of Windows without WMP? What for? Show me at lease ONE person who bought it...
It's not a troll.. I just hate governments punishing people for writing e.g. dvd decryption code or an os.
Watch out.. as RMS pointed out in one of his essays, you may soon be fined for using a debugger.
Note that this is exactly like banning guns because "someone can use them to commit a crime".
And yes, that's INSANE!
Whatever you say - 150-200 years ago people were as used to having a gun or being able to shoot their own bottles as we are to being able run perl or test an exploit on our own machines. Arguable the former was even more common!