Are we just swallowing these stats, like politicians automatically buy made-up industry dollar losses?
How can this even be measured? Think about it.
One site may be able to show a number of download attempts, but probably can't confirm success, nor begin to measure stats from other sites.
No argument about the prurient attraction of the piece. I do object to Google being singled out as if they were the only organization with the problem. As if all corporations, government agencies, and NGOs didn't have similar problems. I'd be a bit more worried about who is running the airport T-ray scanners, e.g.
I'm not "going too far" in just trying to determine who this applies to!
I wasn't complaining that they haven't solved IP "problems". I was pointing out that they've made a deal with the devil to get tough, criminal enforcement.
Which organizations? How will Microsoft define "journalist"? Will bloggers qualify? Does the journalist, the publication, and/or the group need to be outside the US?
Will they get a license key and support?
"Whatever the circumstances of the particular cases the New York Times described, we want to be clear that we unequivocally abhor any attempt to leverage intellectual property rights to stifle political advocacy or pursue improper personal gain."
So very naive. Do they think they are getting IP enforcement externalities for free?
The Wikipedia intelligentsia won't even carry spoiler alerts, because that could lead to "censorship", and is somehow "hard to define" (seems like the word "reveal" would be the main tip to me, in the same way as "like" or "as" denotes similes).
But then again, they were able to censor the journalist kidnapping stuff, since the ends justify the means. So, who knows?
It's an UMPC (ultra-mobile PC). It's incredibly portable, and a complete system for getting email, updating podcasts, checking websites, Skype calling, OpenArena playing, etc.
It isn't uncommon for server admins to have to drive to perform installs. Some Microsoft technologies also require certain Office products to be installed. So, if an admin isn't aware of this, drives to slap Visio onto his web server, and only later finds it's hosed up his ability to generate charts through COM or something, it's going to generate many sour stories to everyone he knows.
Sure, this is a corner case, but so is someone using a legit Office and a "pirated" Visio.
Oh well, just more evidence that business models based on artificial scarcity are doomed.
Whenever I reinstall Windows, the network drivers--the ONLY drivers I need to download the rest--NEVER WORK.
I'm not talking marginal hardware here, either. Most recently: my 6-month old Dell.
Whenever I install Ubuntu (e.g.), the network and everything else works, no problem. I can be using Ubuntu before I'd be done trying to determine the model number of my DVD drive to get the right driver from support.dell.com.
Text? XML? Source code? Executable code? GIF? PNG? AAC? Flash SWF? JAR files? Actual E-Books (MS LIT, eReader, Plucker)?
Which version of Office docs are those? Are they XML? Quality level of JPEGs?
Could the ratios of HTML and Office documents be any more arbitrary?
Who travels from FL to AK or WA to ME by foot, bike, or boat? Even bus, car, or motorcycle aren't particularly realistic. Train? Maybe. Remember that we are Americans, and as such, are not allowed to take extended vacations; very few of us can swing a boat trip to HI.
Making the distinction between "laws" and "directives" is just semantics. In practice, these are invisible requirements people are forced to comply with, without the benefit of knowing what to expect, or how to prepare, before they get to the airport. How do we know that the rules we are told to obey are even real?
Assuming a punitive search (and make no mistake, this is a punitive search) is an acceptable alternative to ID is terribly optimistic. People abuse power.
This is the most justified period in history to be paranoid ("tinfoil-hat"). Innocent people are getting "disappeared" into secret CIA prisons, spies and whistleblowers are identified because they have questioned authority, federal programs are combing through vast data repositories looking for potential enemies, foreign nuclear scientists are being identified using Google (with a margin of error around ±100%), and the government claims it can hold and torture people without even saying why.
I'm not sure I'd call it horribly slow, but yes, noticably slower than the non-Java stuff developed by some guy in his garage.
Plus, have you ever written regular expressions to match Windows file paths in Java? "^C:\\\\Windows\\\\system32\\\\.*\\.dll$" Sheesh! I haven't seen so many backslashes since The Hills Have Eyes.
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Are we just swallowing these stats, like politicians automatically buy made-up industry dollar losses? How can this even be measured? Think about it. One site may be able to show a number of download attempts, but probably can't confirm success, nor begin to measure stats from other sites.
As long as Steam doesn't enact a policy of disabling accounts based on reputation or accusations by other entities, such as the forum mentioned, that's good. However, I'm not sure we can rule that out. And Steam can be capricious: http://consumerist.com/2011/03/valve-disables-steam-account-wont-explain-why.html
It's cute when people believe unauthorized copy detection is 100% accurate.
Yeah, because Steam has proven itself to have a *much* cooler head about these accusations, right?
Like all copy detection, I'm sure this is 100% accurate, so losing hundreds of dollars worth of games without appeal seems like a great idea.
No argument about the prurient attraction of the piece. I do object to Google being singled out as if they were the only organization with the problem. As if all corporations, government agencies, and NGOs didn't have similar problems. I'd be a bit more worried about who is running the airport T-ray scanners, e.g.
Brought to you by Microsoft. Or Apple. Or Comcast. Anyway, the Google is BAD!
I'm not "going too far" in just trying to determine who this applies to!
I wasn't complaining that they haven't solved IP "problems". I was pointing out that they've made a deal with the devil to get tough, criminal enforcement.
Which organizations? How will Microsoft define "journalist"? Will bloggers qualify? Does the journalist, the publication, and/or the group need to be outside the US?
Will they get a license key and support?
So very naive. Do they think they are getting IP enforcement externalities for free?
The Wikipedia intelligentsia won't even carry spoiler alerts, because that could lead to "censorship", and is somehow "hard to define" (seems like the word "reveal" would be the main tip to me, in the same way as "like" or "as" denotes similes). But then again, they were able to censor the journalist kidnapping stuff, since the ends justify the means. So, who knows?
It's an UMPC (ultra-mobile PC). It's incredibly portable, and a complete system for getting email, updating podcasts, checking websites, Skype calling, OpenArena playing, etc.
Lightweight is a feature.
Actually, it was in his left armpit, people. Sheesh, doesn't anyone watch the classics anymore?
A copyright defender thinks that copyright filtering software shouldn't be copyrighted?
HAAAAAA-ha-ha-ha-ha! The fight to keep Artificial Scarcity on life support goes open source!
It isn't uncommon for server admins to have to drive to perform installs. Some Microsoft technologies also require certain Office products to be installed. So, if an admin isn't aware of this, drives to slap Visio onto his web server, and only later finds it's hosed up his ability to generate charts through COM or something, it's going to generate many sour stories to everyone he knows. Sure, this is a corner case, but so is someone using a legit Office and a "pirated" Visio. Oh well, just more evidence that business models based on artificial scarcity are doomed.
Hey, if Microsoft wants to keep pissing off users with stupid overreactions, that's fine by me.
What problem?
Whenever I reinstall Windows, the network drivers--the ONLY drivers I need to download the rest--NEVER WORK.
I'm not talking marginal hardware here, either. Most recently: my 6-month old Dell.
Whenever I install Ubuntu (e.g.), the network and everything else works, no problem. I can be using Ubuntu before I'd be done trying to determine the model number of my DVD drive to get the right driver from support.dell.com.
Text? XML? Source code? Executable code? GIF? PNG? AAC? Flash SWF? JAR files? Actual E-Books (MS LIT, eReader, Plucker)? Which version of Office docs are those? Are they XML? Quality level of JPEGs? Could the ratios of HTML and Office documents be any more arbitrary?
Who travels from FL to AK or WA to ME by foot, bike, or boat? Even bus, car, or motorcycle aren't particularly realistic. Train? Maybe. Remember that we are Americans, and as such, are not allowed to take extended vacations; very few of us can swing a boat trip to HI.
Making the distinction between "laws" and "directives" is just semantics. In practice, these are invisible requirements people are forced to comply with, without the benefit of knowing what to expect, or how to prepare, before they get to the airport. How do we know that the rules we are told to obey are even real?
Assuming a punitive search (and make no mistake, this is a punitive search) is an acceptable alternative to ID is terribly optimistic. People abuse power.
This is the most justified period in history to be paranoid ("tinfoil-hat"). Innocent people are getting "disappeared" into secret CIA prisons, spies and whistleblowers are identified because they have questioned authority, federal programs are combing through vast data repositories looking for potential enemies, foreign nuclear scientists are being identified using Google (with a margin of error around ±100%), and the government claims it can hold and torture people without even saying why.
I'm not sure I'd call it horribly slow, but yes, noticably slower than the non-Java stuff developed by some guy in his garage.
Plus, have you ever written regular expressions to match Windows file paths in Java? "^C:\\\\Windows\\\\system32\\\\.*\\.dll$" Sheesh! I haven't seen so many backslashes since The Hills Have Eyes.